Sun Yang manipulated the fiery lotus platform to press down slowly. The fiery aura filling the sky grew denser, causing the temperature of the entire area to skyrocket, and the surrounding grass withered and smoked from the heat.
Wen Jingshu quickly pulled out two bottles of supreme-grade Rejuvenation Pills and swallowed them. Seeing her eat pills like they were jellybeans, Sun Yang’s brow twitched violently.
With her meager cultivation, eating three Rejuvenation Pills would have been more than enough. Did she really need to eat twenty?
Was she just showing off how many pills the Pill Sect had?
Facing a Void Refinement Stage Daoist Lord, Wen Jingshu still had the energy to reply:
“I’m afraid you won’t get the chance to see just how many treasures this young lady has!”
Wen Jingshu’s spiritual power recovered rapidly. With another wave of her hand, three defensive talismans floated above her head. The defensive hairpin on her head and the defensive robe on her body simultaneously shimmered with spiritual light, wrapping her in a secure layer of protection.
At the same time, the fiery lotus platform was held at bay in midair by the talismans, unable to descend any further.
Taking advantage of this moment, Wen Jingshu unleashed the first stance of the Xianguan Sword Art, Following One's Heart. Over thirty sword qi strikes only caused the fiery lotus platform to shudder slightly.
Next, she cast a wood-attribute spell, Lotus Miasma. Her wood immortal qi condensed into a lotus flower, striking the fiery lotus platform once more, only to make it shudder a second time.
Seeing this, Wen Jingshu clicked her tongue inwardly.
A higher cultivation level really was overwhelmingly dominant. She had displayed all her moves, yet to him, it was like a mere tickle—completely harmless.
Although Sun Yang saw that Wen Jingshu was injured and at a disadvantage, he couldn’t bring himself to be happy.
Because he knew that she still hadn’t used her offensive trump cards!
Sun Yang pinched a hand seal again, determined to end this quickly. Raising his hand, his lotus magical treasure gathered power once more. The exotic fire at the center of the lotus condensed into a pillar of flame nearly five meters wide. Carrying a world-destroying momentum, it surged directly toward Wen Jingshu as he roared:
“Ignorant brat, die!”
A terrifying aura instantly enveloped Wen Jingshu, and the pillar of flame swallowed her whole. For a moment, Sun Yang actually had the illusion that he had killed her.
By the time the pillar of fire vanished, the grass within a two-meter radius around Wen Jingshu’s feet remained completely unscathed, while the ground beyond that radius had been scorched black.
The area struck by the pillar of fire was utterly lifeless; no plants would sprout there for the next hundred years.
Sun Yang’s triple-strike sure-kill attack had actually failed to take Wen Jingshu’s life!
Sun Yang’s expression shifted drastically. Casting aside the pride of a high-level cultivator, he said, “Y-Young friend, how about we talk?”
Talk? Like hell she would.
She had nothing to say to someone who wanted her dead.
Wen Jingshu remained silent. She simply took out a barrier formation plate, and a transparent barrier instantly enveloped the area where they stood.
Seeing that Wen Jingshu had no intention of letting him off, Sun Yang snorted coldly and said, “Since that’s the case, this lord won’t be polite either.”
High-level cultivators enjoyed long lifespans, and those at the Void Refinement Stage were thousand-year-old monsters. Having lived for so long, how could they not have a few life-saving treasures?
Wen Jingshu watched Sun Yang warily, her fingers instinctively tightening around an eighth-grade defensive spiritual treasure.
Waiting around to die was not Wen Jingshu’s style. Gripping her sword, she dashed toward Sun Yang and said:
“Then let’s see if your treasures, old Daoist, are better, or if this young lady’s are superior!”
Sun Yang activated his magical treasure, and a blinding white light flared. Wen Jingshu instinctively locked her divine sense onto her surroundings.
She had prepared herself to be attacked, but in that single instant, Sun Yang’s aura vanished entirely from the space.
Did he escape?
Wen Jingshu was extremely confident in her barrier formation plate. Moreover, there were very few treasures in the entire cultivation world that could break through one. Even with his Void Refinement Stage cultivation, it was impossible for Sun Yang to silently breach a seventh-grade formation plate with raw strength.
That left only one possibility: Sun Yang was still here, but he had hidden himself.
She just didn’t know whether he had hidden inside a portable space or simply concealed his physical form.
Wen Jingshu scanned the area inch by inch, but she couldn’t find any trace of him.
Watching Wen Jingshu run around like a headless chicken, Sun Yang couldn’t help but feel a smug sense of satisfaction.
His stealth movement technique was a Heaven-grade cultivation method. Even Mahayana Stage cultivators couldn’t catch him, let alone a mere Foundation Establishment Stage brat.
Once he survived this ordeal, he would use his stealth movement technique and his connections with the Sun family to board the Aoyou Ferry and head to the mainland.
The Eastern Azure Continent was vast. With his movement technique, he truly didn’t believe Wen Jingshu could ever catch him.
After he hid for a hundred years, Wen Jingshu would surely give up when she couldn’t find him.
This wasn’t the first time he had used this trick. None of the so-called big shots he had offended in the past had ever managed to catch him either.
After searching several times without finding any clues, Wen Jingshu couldn’t help but feel a bit annoyed.
She didn’t even need to think to know that Sun Yang was currently hiding in the dark, laughing at her.
The young female cultivator simply made a sweeping gesture with her hand, transferring everything inside the barrier into the Shengsheng Bead, including the air, dust, and soil.
Unless he resisted the moment she swept him up, he would have no choice but to enter.
And if he did resist, that would be even better—she would just use her secret treasure containing sword qi to finish him off.
The Shengsheng Bead was her domain. Even if Sun Yang possessed a mustard seed space of his own, he would inevitably expose himself under her absolute control.
Unless his mustard seed space was of a higher grade than her Shengsheng Bead.
Sure enough, the moment Sun Yang entered the Shengsheng Bead, his figure was instantly revealed.
Sensing the dense immortal qi all around him, he was thoroughly shocked.
What was this place? And what was this spiritual aura surrounding him?
Why was it a hundred times denser than spiritual qi, yet he couldn’t absorb it?
A storage space that could hold living things... could it be a portable herb garden?
But wasn’t Wen Jingshu a lightning spiritual root cultivator? Since she wasn’t an alchemy cultivator, how could she have contracted a portable herb garden?
Sun Yang had too many questions swirling in his mind, but before he could voice them or beg for mercy, Wen Jingshu directly ended his life with a single swing of her sword.
Whether he had been dispatched by someone to assassinate her or had simply tried to rob and kill her on a whim, she had never had anything to say to those who sought her life.
Sun Yang died with his eyes wide open. Wen Jingshu took the storage ring from his body and casually flicked a wisp of Ziwei Starfire.
The Ziwei Starfire latched onto Sun Yang’s corpse, instantly enveloping and consuming it. Within a few breaths, Sun Yang vanished completely from the world, leaving behind only a single azure-blue exotic fire.
The Ziwei Starfire did not hold back, swallowing it whole in a single gulp.
Merging exotic fires required some time, so Wen Jingshu drew the Ziwei Starfire back into her dantian and broke the restriction on Sun Yang’s storage ring.
Immediately, a massive pile of resources tumbled out before her.
Looking at the mountain of items, Wen Jingshu couldn’t help but marvel. As expected of a Void Refinement Stage cultivator, his wealth was indeed substantial.
After putting away the countless spirit stones, talismans, and low-grade magical tools, Wen Jingshu first sorted through the spiritual plants and artifact refining materials.
Sorting through them carefully, she actually managed to find several excellent materials for forging a lifebound sword.
By now, Wen Jingshu had no fewer than twenty premium materials for forging a lifebound sword in her possession. She only needed to find the Ten-Thousand-Year Ziyao Spirit Bamboo to formally forge her lifebound sword!
Wen Jingshu also found several highly offensive magical treasures.
It was a pity Sun Yang had been too confident in his stealth movement technique and hadn’t used these treasures. If he had, Wen Jingshu couldn’t guarantee she wouldn’t have been severely injured.
But now, she had benefited from them for free.
After putting away the previous items, Wen Jingshu spotted a few jade slips among the remaining things.
They were likely cultivation methods or heart mantras.
Recalling how Sun Yang had completely hidden his presence, Wen Jingshu eagerly searched through them.
If she could learn this technique, she would have an excuse in the future when she entered her mustard seed space, claiming she had simply hidden herself!
No wonder so many evil cultivators loved to kill and plunder.
Because killing and plundering really did yield incredible treasures and allow one to strike it rich overnight!
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