Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil in the Cultivation World

Chapter 1612: Chapter 749: Surviving Tribulation, Obtaining Upper Immortal Fate

”The superior has ordered me to become the City Lord of Luoning City.”

”However, the superior also has a task for me, which is to uncover the truth behind the death of the previous City Lord, for his death is quite suspicious.”

”Based on my investigation, there is a traitor among you.”

Jiang Fan spoke, his gaze faintly sweeping over the many Immortals present.

His voice was like the sound of Dao, clearly echoing through the consciousness of each Immortal.

An invisible pressure of the Dao spread in all directions, causing these Immortals to feel a terrifying stress.

”This.”

The pupils of the many Immortals contracted; they hadn’t anticipated that the new City Lord would start making demands so soon.

Of course, they knew the death of the previous City Lord wasn’t straightforward, but no one knew what the truth actually was.

Even Golden Immortals had come to investigate before, but could not find anything either.

Yet this new City Lord comes and immediately intimidates them; could it be he’s discovered something?

”Hmph, it’s nothing but empty threats.”

”Even Golden Immortals couldn’t find anything, what can a mere Heavenly Immortal do?”

”Perhaps he plans to exploit the situation, taking the opportunity to extort money. I’ve seen plenty of City Lords like this.”

”Indeed, this is true. It’s not easy to become a City Lord, wouldn’t you take as much advantage as you can?”

Lei Qingcang, Zhao Xuanzhen, and Fu Xuance, the three Heavenly Immortals, kept a poker face. Countless thoughts flashed in their minds, but none showed panic; rather, they were extremely calm.

Because if they were truly exposed, Golden Immortals would have acted long before, not leaving it to this newly ascended Heavenly Immortal.

He surely spoke these words just to exploit the situation and extort money.

This sort of wealth-gathering tactic by young Immortals is something they’ve encountered far too often.

They wondered how greedy the opponent was.

If he was very greedy, they might bleed heavily in the end.

But it’s not a problem; problems that can be solved with money aren’t too big.

”Die.”

At that moment, Jiang Fan immediately acted without any nonsense, rapidly invoking his Lifebound Immortal Technique—the Erosion of Time Saber.

In an instant, a layer of gray, aged ripple arose in the void around him.

A long saber, gray, unadorned, without a sharp edge, slowly condensed from the void; its blade flowed with mottled, aged patterns, carrying not a heaven-shaking power, but imbued with a deadly Dao Rhyme that devoured time and obliterated destiny.

It was precisely the fusion of the Path of Destiny and Time Law, his Lifebound Immortal Technique—the Erosion of Time Saber.

The moment the saber formed, the winds and clouds in heaven and earth abruptly halted, the vitality of all things withered, grass and trees within a thousand miles instantly decayed into ash, even the flowing Immortal Yuan and drifting Spiritual Qi became listless and faded.

”Did you think your actions would go unnoticed?”

”The instant I set foot in the City Lord’s Mansion, I saw that you were not human.”

Jiang Fan murmured softly, his wrist lightly waving, and the Erosion of Time Saber slowly slashed out.

No sharp sound of slicing through air, no explosive divine might, only a thin, gray saber light crossing the sky, silently falling upon the three Heavenly Immortals.

This technique was a dual-polar forbidden killing technique of the Temporal Sequence Dao and Destiny Law, completely transcending the conventional offense and defense system of Immortal Techniques; it does not slice flesh, does not shatter bones, does not break Immortal Armor, does not blast through barriers, targeting the most primordial roots of existence—the Temporal Foundation, Life Orbit, Lifespan Source, and Divine Soul Spirit Core, using the erosive power of countless eras as a blade, and the extinguishing Dao Principles of fate as a lock, meant for slaughtering ancient strongholds and exhausted lifebodies, hitting those struck without defense, resolution, or a method to extend their life.

”How could it be? This guy is actually trying to kill us?”

”How dare this kid? How is he so daring?”

”Could it be he truly discovered our betrayal and is not merely bluffing?”

The faces of the three Heavenly Immortals drastically changed, and extreme fear rose in their hearts.

They were already nearing the end of their lifespan, their soul filled with the cracks of time, their Dao Foundation in decline; common slaughter techniques might be defendable, but this Erosion of Time Saber happens to be their most deadly nemesis.

The three hurriedly poured their remaining Immortal Yuan, erecting three layers of heavy Immortal Light Barrier, their Lifebound Dao Patterns bursting forth, attempting to resist this uncanny saber force. But the power of erosion, bypassing all barriers and defenses, fluidly penetrated their Sea of Destiny Origin like piercing thin paper.

First stroke—Temporal Decay—Terminal Physical Decay.

The already aged Heavenly Immortals found their bodies confronting extreme senescence in an instant.

Their dark hair turned inch by inch into snow-white, their taut Immortal Flesh shriveling with wrinkles, their radiant Immortal Bone quickly gray and fragile, the Immortal Light enveloping them visibly dimmed and dispersed.

The deep reserves accumulated over countless years in their Immortal Body collapsed under the ruthless cascade of eons.

As the saber intent touched upon their bodies, the personal temporal speed belonging to the three Heavenly Immortals was forcibly altered with a thousandfold acceleration, forming an absolute domain of temporal collapse.

Unlike natural aging, this was irreversible decay forcibly induced by the Dao, precisely acting upon every inch of musculoskeletal tissue, blood vessels, Immortal Bone, and meridians.

The three, already drained of lifespan, with bodies nearing exhaustion, under the mad torrent of chronology, found their lifetime of Immortal Body reserves instantly exhausted. Their full head of Immortal hair broke into white and brittle fragments, their tight Immortal Flesh shriveled rapidly, the previously smooth and flawless Immortal Bone gray and cracking away, the Lifebound Immortal Light around them dimming, shattering, dissipating.

The wall of the Immortal Body, painstakingly cultivated, completely crumbled, their physical functions stopped entirely, their blood shattered, unable to support any Immortal Yuan operation, fundamentally ruining their body’s core, turning the Heavenly Immortal’s sacred body into a withered shell.

Second stroke—Stealing Life—Extracting Life Orbit.