Chapter 635 - 345: Fragrance of Flowers Fills West State
Vast night sky.
The Cloud-Grasping Hand soared with the fierce wind, sweeping over the skyscrapers of the West State, casting endless shadows!
Sitting on the fingernail of the Cloud-Grasping Hand, Yangpeng Lake felt the roaring wind in his ears, his hair blown into disarray! He smelled the fragrance of flowers, looked to the left, looked to the right, and looked up, only to see endless petals wherever he looked, swirling in the wind, emitting a misty green light!
"Is this also the Great Immortal Technique?
"All Immortal Techniques, who’s afraid of whom?!
"Then let’s go head-to-head!"
His face twisted in fierce determination, he made a hand seal, and his whole body shrank instantly into the fingernail of the Cloud-Grasping Hand!
...
Lishui Lake Park.
On the open grassland, the refugees stood or sat, unaware of what had happened.
The protective barrier above them had long been broken!
On the grass around them, flowers bloomed one after another, with a strong fragrance!
Petals swirled and rose with the wind, spiraling upward, heading to the sky!
A mischievous child reached to pinch the petals, only to see them maneuver like agile butterflies, evading his fingers, spinning upward with countless others, flying skyward.
People looked up, seeing in the distant sky a giant hand made of dark clouds, completely submerged by a full sky of flower rain!
"Mom, what is that?"
"I don’t know."
"Are we safe now?"
"We should be safe, right?"
They saw, in the night sky, a sea of faintly glowing flowers drowning the black giant hand.
They saw blood mists burst open like ink splashes.
A rain fell, alternately heavy and light, carrying a pungent, sweet odor, landing on their heads and faces, sticky and gooey!
"Mom, look at that hand, it’s being torn apart, bleeding, shrinking!"
...
In the night sky, petals like butterflies twisted into the black giant hand, either penetrating or emerging, bursting into blood mists, carving blood holes, leaving scars, or tearing flesh!
Yangpeng Lake curled up in the nail, clenched his jaw fiercely, his face contorted, slamming the hand seal, bleeding from seven orifices!
He... could no longer hear the voice of the Ancient Immortal Master.
He muttered strange syllables under his breath, his hand seals changing rapidly, nine fingers weaving, one pointing outwards!
Swish...
He watched as this outward-pointing finger was sliced off by the slicing petals, blood spurting!
"Aow!"
He roared from the depths of his throat, tears of blood streaming from his eyes!
Swish...
A petal drifted past, slicing through his instinctively closed eyelid, cutting his eyeball.
"Ah..."
In the scream, jelly-like crystal flowed out!
...
In the dream, Little Mushroom stood behind Miao Shou Ancient Immortal, watching the scene in the Copper Mirror together with the Ancient Immortal, both with blank expressions.
"Master, is our Immortal Thief Stream in trouble?
"My Third Junior Brother, Fourth Junior Brother, Fifth Junior Sister they..."
The Ancient Immortal pointed at the image in the Copper Mirror, pointing at the vast flower sea.
"Your Third Junior Brother, Fourth Junior Brother, Fifth Junior Sister... they all bloomed, turned into petals, right in this flower sea."
Little Mushroom fell silent for a moment.
"Then... why is our Great Immortal Technique inferior to his..."
The Ancient Immortal gave a bitter smile.
"Great Immortal Techniques have varying levels of power.
"The gap is as vast as the heavens and the earth."
Little Mushroom’s mouth twitched uncontrollably.
"Then... what about my First Senior Brother... Li Chengjing... and that unranked Sequence Six..."
The Ancient Immortal pointed to the pouring blood rain in the sky, which was a bright red blood rain.
He was weak and exhausted.
"Do you see the bone fragments in the blood rain?
"That is your First Senior Brother, Li Chengjing, and the unranked Sequence Six..."
Little Mushroom opened his mouth in shock, inhaling deeply, yet didn’t know what to say.
All the Sequence Seven and Sequence Six of the Immortal Thief Stream were wiped out!
All their accumulated resources, all the early advantages of this era, turned into the filthy blood rain in the sky, falling over the towering buildings of West State, disappearing in Lishui Lake Park.
...
Lishui Lake Park.
The blood rain fell with a pattering sound, ceaselessly.
The people shielded themselves with umbrellas, clothes, or held children in their arms, feeling both agitated and disgusted.
"Why is there blood rain now?"
"What is this, so disgusting."
"Oh my goodness, is it corrosive?"
"Truly ominous!"
Suddenly, beside them, the already turbulent Lishui Lake erupted with a massive sound!
Crash...
Amidst the water sounds, an ancient withered tree burst through the waves, drenched in lake water, soaring into the sky!
Atop the tree crown, the Sword Soul of Chixue Qianshan merged, its blood-red blade, four feet three inches, glittering coldly, swayed lightly in the wind, as if slicing a shallow sword scar in the air, trying to cut through the night curtain!
The people on the grass turned their heads to look, feeling numb.
In this day, they saw the barrier, the Cloud-Grasping Hand, the Qinghua Rain, and then this grotesque tree breaking through the lake surface, and the Immortal Sword on top... a dizzying array of strange phenomena assaulted their nerves repeatedly, leaving them numb.
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Immortal Committee Command Center.
A group of people stared at the screen, gazing at the images transmitted from drones and cameras from different angles, all stunned.
Chairman Chen Shu suddenly realized that at some point, he was drenched in sweat.
"Hahaha."
He suddenly laughed, slumping into his chair, finally relaxing, his whole body loosening, releasing all the tension.
The group in the command center, whether wiping sweat from their foreheads or pulling at their damp clothes, all started laughing.
"This... it’s all right, it’s all right!"
Professor Zhang, sitting beside, woke up from a daze, bursting with a smile, bringing news from the dream.
"Hahaha, Yangpeng Lake and Li Chengjing’s names on the Sharing Stele have been erased!
"They’re dead! Sequence Six is dead!
"The slots are open again!"
The group around had strange expressions.
Wasn’t it only Yangpeng Lake?
How is there also Li Chengjing? When did she come? How did they both die?
Recalling the West State Boss.
"He... He clearly advanced to Sequence Six.
"But he doesn’t put himself on the Sharing Stele.
"Others go up, only to be erased by him!"
As for that sword... the Immortal Committee simply doesn’t care. That thing has nothing to do with the Immortal Committee!
...
Inside the cave at the lake bottom.
Hu Shanjiu sat heavily on the ground, looking at the giant tree that had grown even larger before him and the Immortal Sword on the lake, shimmering with a bloody cold light, his face frozen.
"This... this... has the sword been cast?"
"Ha, hahaha, I... I’m not dead... I’m not dead..."
As he laughed, he started to cry.
"I... I’m still alive, the money is all spent?"
He glanced at the few fake watches on his wrist, immediately pulling a long face, feeling these fake watches were unattractive!
"Ah... right, right...
"Master, should we call our uncle and get out of here immediately?"
Behind him, space ripples emerged.
From the ripples walked out three middle-aged men, the leading one being none other than Feng Kaishan, a low-level field agent from the Secret Brain Office, Feng Kaishan!
None of these three men were involved with immortality; they used an Immortal Technique scroll to teleport here.
They grinned, walking up to Hu Shanjiu.
"Buddy, don’t overthink it, you can’t lift that sword."
"That sword is too important; it attracts too much attention and will bring countless enemies, countless strong assaults and assassinations, countless conspiracies and schemes! Whoever holds that sword is marked by darkness, standing right at the storm’s edge!"
"Without the strongest hand in the world, don’t think about that sword."
"Forget the sword for now. Do you want to join the Human Race Secret Brain Committee?"
"We need Holy Land inheritors who stand on the side of human civilization.
"We need the Ancient Immortal Master behind you to provide information, provide intelligence, provide Immortal Technique support.
"Of course, we need you even more, your cleverness, your tenacity, and your courage to push forward in the face of despair and death!"
Hu Shanjiu was stunned for a long time.
The Ancient Immortal in his mind didn’t know what to say either.
What’s the meaning of this?
Not dead?
The money’s gone.
But... now he’s got a position?
...
Inside a private room in a restaurant.
The dishes were cold, the wine was dry.
A group of people either sat around the table or stood by the window, staring at their phones, all dumbfounded.
The developments had completely exceeded their expectations!
Outside the private room, the hall was filled with cheers!
"Hahaha, it’s safe, my son’s house purchase on Happiness Peninsula is secure!"
"West State is still the safest place, just like before, unchanged!"
"Bring the wine, bring the dishes, order up, waiter, quickly come!"
Cai Xiaozhen was laughing with his mouth wide open.
"Haha, hahaha, hahahaha, Expert Bai Mo, you said not to leave, and you were right!
"West State is still the safest place, that hasn’t changed!"
Wu Qingyun looked at her phone, seeing in the live broadcast the tree bursting out of the water, the sword atop the giant tree.
Her pupils contracted, her heart raced, almost uncontrollably!
At this moment, a stern voice of the Ancient Immortal rang in her mind!
"Qingyun, don’t be confused!
"That sword, you cannot lift it right now.
"It is too heavy.
"Whoever takes it will face endless and relentless pursuit by Fallen Immortals!"
...
In Lishui Park, the refuge-seeking crowd all stood up, looking at the tree in the lake, looking at the sword on the tree top.
Drones flew into the sky above Lishui Park, their cameras aimed at the Sword Casting Immortal Root.
Black-feathered crows circled above, their red eyes also fixed on the Immortal Sword Red Snow Thousand Mountains.
On the ground, mice poked their heads out, dazed and bewildered, also staring intently at the sword.
Even small insects emerged from underground, hiding under leaves, secretly gazing at the tree, at the sword.
Some were the eyes of the Immortal Committee, some were spies of the Dark World, some were from the Red Blood Secret Sect, Giant Food Mountain, or even other Ancient Immortal Sects...
All of them coveted the sword!
However, nobody dared to move!
Because, up in the sky, the gentle Qinghua Rain still fluttered down!
Because, on the tree branches, stood four dazzling white Immortal Beasts!
These four Immortal Beasts were round and heavy, bending the branches.
With their chests out and bellies protruding, heads high, tails up, front paws crossed, amidst countless gazes, they exuded pride and arrogance!
The Immortal Sword at the tree’s top flew down, with a "whoosh", and floated beside an Immortal Beast, gently swaying, seemingly wanting to follow the Immortal Beast back.
Star Belly tilted its head, eyeing the sword cautiously, stepping aside, not wanting the sword to touch it.
The master had said that this thing doesn’t belong to Fox Mountain.
But seeing it acting this way, did it intend to shamelessly follow to Fox Mountain?
Suddenly, its triangular ears twitched slightly, hearing the master’s telepathic message.
"Why not... take it back for now.
"Fox Mountain isn’t lacking in space for it.
"Besides, the Immortal Sword doesn’t eat.
"Later, find a way to make it do some odd jobs, consider it paying rent."
Only then did Star Belly nod, waving its fox paw, signaling the sword to float behind it and wait to go back together later.
Not yet, still need to wait some more.
The matters at Fox Mountain weren’t settled yet.
Boom...
Amidst a loud noise, the Sword Casting Immortal Root slightly shook.
In the cave, dozens of foxes were excitedly waving shovels, digging out the root system of the Immortal Root section by section.
With small shovels and Peach Blossom Eyes spiraling downward around the main root, it didn’t take long for them to dig down nearly a hundred meters, fully separating the main root from the soil.
It’s done!
At its feet rose a fog blending reality and dream, the white mist spreading, enveloping itself, the Immortal Root, and the fellow apprentices, together bringing them back to Fox Mountain.
...
Over Lishui Lake, the hazy mist was blown away by the wind.
The Immortal Root and Immortal Beasts, along with the sword seeking protection behind the Immortal Beasts, had all vanished.
Only the lake water began to crazily pour downward!
Great bubbles gurgled out all around!
A vortex formed at the center, drawing in the huge water flow!
Then, under the gaze of everyone on the grass, under the cameras, under the eyes of Immortal Beasts and gu insects, under the tired laughter of the Immortal Committee members, under the shock and sighs of Ancient Immortals...
The flower sea in the sky descended!
In the night breeze, petals fluttered down, falling on the streets and alleys of West State, falling on high-rise buildings, falling on the roads and parks of West State...
Whoo...
The winds wandering through every corner of West State carried nothing but floral fragrance!