Chapter 596 - 506: Capture
"Wei Yang, what have you done?!"
Jinghua True Monarch was filled with shock and rage. The Magical Power of her Nascent Soul formed a rainbow, intending to suppress Wei Yang.
However, Wei Yang had already burned away all of his essence, energy, and spirit to empower the assassination attempt with the pitch-black dagger.
His own body was now nothing but an empty shell.
CRACKLE.
When the Nascent Soul’s Magical Power crushed down on this empty husk, it instantly fractured and crumbled, turning to dust!
"Dammit!"
Seeing this, Jinghua True Monarch’s expression turned exceedingly grim, and a chill ran through her heart!
To become an Embroidered Robe Envoy and take charge of intelligence, Wei Yang’s background would have naturally undergone rigorous vetting. His history was impeccable, his origins clean—there wasn’t the slightest issue.
The idea of him being a sleeper agent was utterly impossible.
Yet now, a core member of the Sword Sect like him had just assassinated Shishanzi without a moment’s hesitation, at the cost of his own life?!
The implications made Jinghua True Monarch’s blood run cold.
"Huuuh..."
Shishanzi took a deep breath and gripped the pitch-black dagger with his right hand.
Then, with a grimace and the desperate courage of a warrior severing his own arm, he pulled it out!
PSHH.
Fresh blood spurted out!
Blood Pearls dripped to the floor, revealing a foul, blackish-red color.
Green smoke rose from the stone floor with a sizzling, corrosive sound. The high-quality stone slabs of the private room were actually being eaten through by this black blood, forming several holes!
"A potent poison!"
Jinghua True Monarch’s pupils contracted. "Senior Brother Shishanzi, are you..."
Shishanzi shook his head, his face ashen. The poison on the pitch-black dagger contained the power of laws and principles.
It was filled with a vile curse, like a festering sore clinging to his bones, corroding his Magical Power and body.
Shishanzi had no choice but to activate a Secret Technique to forcibly suppress the poison.
But this was only a temporary solution, not a cure.
Shishanzi knew full well that after this brief suppression, the poison would inevitably return with even greater ferocity!
Yet he had to do it!
"Huuuh..."
Shishanzi clutched his chest. "We need to leave! Now!"
’Wei Yang was controlled, and the Drunken Moon Sect here has likely been compromised as well.’
’This Linyue Immortal City is an elaborate trap laid for the Sword Sect!’
’We can’t stay here any longer!’
"Right."
Jinghua knew the situation was urgent. Her Magical Power surged, and the silvery-white Void Power manifested at her fingertips.
She was about to tear open the void and escape a thousand miles away.
But like a candle in a hurricane, the silver glow of the Void Power was abruptly extinguished!
Jinghua True Monarch’s spell failed. She suffered a backlash, let out a muffled grunt, and the taste of iron filled her throat, making her want to vomit blood!
"It’s no use!"
"Someone has sealed the void!"
Jinghua’s brow furrowed.
The void had been anchored and sealed, making teleportation impossible!
𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
"Tunneling Light Flight!"
Shishanzi wasn’t discouraged. If they couldn’t teleport, they would fly out of the city!
However, at that very moment...
VMMM.
As if heaven and earth had been remade, the blazing sun that lit up the sky vanished in an instant!
A deep, dark curtain, like the vast, empty cosmos, descended upon the world!
"It’s gone dark!"
"What’s happening?"
Cries of panic echoed throughout Linyue Immortal City.
As daylight faded and the night curtain fell...
...many cultivators in Linyue Immortal City were horrified to discover an incomparably violent and irrepressible bloodlust surging within their hearts!
All the dark thoughts they had accumulated and hidden deep inside burst forth like a flood from a broken dam!
"That son of a bitch Shopkeeper! All he does is act like the owner’s dog, finding every excuse to dock our pay and beating and cursing us whenever he feels like it! He never treated us workers like human beings!"
"The fat pig deserves to die!"
"That damned whore! I was just passing by, but she lied through her teeth and framed me for using an X-ray Talisman to peep at her! And the City Guard are a bunch of useless, do-nothing freeloaders who just know how to smooth things over!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Malice surged in their hearts!
Crimson veins rapidly spread across their eyes.
Twisted, horrifying physical mutations followed. In just a few moments, nearly half of the cultivators in Linyue Immortal City had transformed into lanky-limbed shadow monsters!
Slaughter, butchery, consumption!
The monsters rampaged, slaughtering and devouring flesh and blood.
The bustling immortal city, once teeming with merchants, had turned into a bloody slaughterhouse in the blink of an eye!
"This is..."
The two Nascent Soul True Monarchs were aghast.
Whether it was the shadow monsters or the city’s cultivators, upon death, their souls and flesh would rise into the sky, becoming fuel for the dark night curtain!
The night curtain was like an iron wall, trapping the two Nascent Soul True Monarchs and making their escape difficult!
"An Orbit..."
"A massive-scale Orbit!"
Shishanzi gritted his teeth!
...
「Meanwhile.」
Outside Linyue Immortal City.
A large number of shadow monsters had also appeared in the Drunken Moon Sect’s spirit lands!
"These monsters..."
Qin Yun panted heavily, retracting a small, jade-green dagger.
Across from him, a pitch-black shadow monster—clad in tattered rags that vaguely resembled the style of a Drunken Moon Sect disciple’s robe—collapsed to the ground!
’Isn’t even the Drunken Moon Sect safe?’ Qin Yun muttered to himself, his face falling into despair as he wolfed down several medicinal pills.
He gazed toward the foot of the mountain, estimated the number of monsters roaming the spirit lands, and felt his hair stand on end. He gave up on the idea of escaping the sect.
’I have to find Mr. Li!’
’He’s an Alchemy Master! The Array protecting his cave abode must be strong. Maybe... maybe it can hold out until this disaster ends and the Golden Core ancestors come to clean up this mess!’
Qin Yun summoned his Escape Light and flew to the Elixir Hall.
Just as he arrived outside the cave abode, he saw ripples spread across the Array as Su Ye stepped out.
Seeing him looking unhurried, as if preparing to head outside, Qin Yun grew anxious and started to dissuade Su Ye, "Mr. Li, don’t! The sect is..."