I Can Accumulate Proficiency, Starting from Alchemy-Chapter 944 - 396: Stone Altar, Three Half-immortals_2

Chapter 944 -396: Stone Altar, Three Half-immortals_2

“In other words, the spiritual items useful to us cultivators have already been scavenged, which is why we felt so disappointed.”

“As for the undead beings still in the True Immortal Spirit World, they must be separated from the Western Void by too great a distance to maintain contact with their masters, those wizards. Without their connection, these undead merely act on instinct, which greatly reduces their combat abilities.”

“Furthermore, there’s no need to worry about any wizards appearing here. If they discovered us penetrating deep into the Immortal Realm, they would flee immediately, instead of lingering. After all, if discovered, the immortals of the Daluo Immortal Realm would certainly unite to kill them, since each wizard is a walking treasure trove.”

As he said this, a flash of envy shone in Zhu Sui’s eyes, and he added a few more comments.

“By the way, although the Ancient World has split into nine, forming nine Immortal Realms, this nomenclature of the Nine Great Immortal Realms is mainly used within our Daluo Immortal Realm. Other realms have their own terms for themselves.”

“For example, the Eternal Life Immortal Realm. In that world, wizards call themselves the Life Wizard World.”

“Moreover, the nine Immortal Realms are far from harmonious with continual conflicts and confrontations. Hmph, had this not been the case, the combined strength of the Nine Realms would have long since driven out the Wisdom Realm. There wouldn’t be an ongoing Ancient Wisdom War that has lasted for endless eons.”

Zhu Sui, after all, is a Spirit Transformation cultivator from the Town Demon Immortal Sect, and one who has step by step ascended to the peak of incarnations. His knowledge far exceeds that of Han Yi, the product of his time within the Immortal Sect. Unlike Han, his path of cultivation had been fraught with twists and turns, and in this area, he was severely lacking.

The discussion paused as Zhu Sui sighed, clearly not wishing to elaborate. Han Yi walked away, seizing the last bit of time to explore the main hall. Moments later, he stopped in his tracks.

Three meters ahead, in the corner of the wall, a stone caught his attention. Instinctively, he swept his divine consciousness over it, intending to draw the stone closer for inspection, but was mildly startled.

As his divine consciousness neared the stone, it was absorbed and vanished without a trace.

The ability to absorb his divine consciousness silently and without reaction was rare among the spiritual items Han Yi had encountered; the last occasion was with the fragment of the Heavenly Demon Halberd he obtained in the Heavenly Demon Tao Realm.

This stone was definitely a spiritual item.

No, it was not a stone.

From three meters away, Han Yi now took a closer look.

Greyish-white in color, about the size of a palm, resembling a trapezoidal block, narrower at the top and wider at the bottom.

If one were to scale it up, it should be a stone platform, or perhaps an altar.

An altar?

Han Yi’s eyebrows lifted. He had seen some ancient texts within Xuanzang Palace that contained diagrams vaguely resembling this stone platform, and those diagrams bore a special name—altar.

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Could this also be an altar?

At this moment, the other Spirit Transformation cultivators were gradually returning to the main hall. Han Yi didn’t continue to speculate but took out the Xuanhuang Taiji Plate, channeling mana into it. A gravitational force appeared, trying to pull the stone in the corner of the wall towards it.

This time, it was surprisingly successful. The stone block, suspected to be an altar, offered no resistance and flew up, landing on his Xuanhuang Taiji Plate.

Han Yi didn’t examine it closely; a flash of spirit light on the plate, and the altar stone dropped into the space within the Spiritual Treasure. He put the treasure away.

Then, he returned to Zhu Sui’s vicinity. Half an incense stick’s time later, all the cultivators returned to the main hall. Han Yi saw the same look of disappointment in their eyes, without exception.

Zhu Sui did not speak but silently flew outside, and the cultivators followed.

Next, they descended from the Immortal Peak, crossed over the mountains, passed through the grey mist, and used the Soul-breaking Sky Shuttle to pierce the barrier of the Spirit Realm, returning to the Void within the Sin Trace Ancient Abyss without further incident.

Du Juan, who sat cross-legged in the Void, opened her eyes upon seeing everyone’s expressions, her face puzzled. Zhu Sui explained, and she sighed in resignation.

Under these circumstances, the promised tenth of the harvest for her had lost significance, and the exploration was declared a failure.

Just then.

Han Yi, standing among the cultivators, suddenly raised his eyebrows as he sensed a faint fluctuation of spiritual energy surrounding them. If he had been alone, without a doubt he would have utilized his Mind Realm Divine Technique and left immediately. But as he was with other Spirit Transformation cultivators, to avoid any misunderstanding, he remained still.

In the next instant, spirit light surged around them and swiftly coalesced into an enclosed space of spiritual energy.

“Array?”

The muscular middle-aged man wielding a knife flashed a fierce glint in his eyes, his combat instincts kindled, he slashed down with his blade, and the sword light, like a column, boomed against the spirit light a hundred meters away.

There was a loud rumbling sound, but his facial expression suddenly changed, and he exclaimed, “Damn it, it’s a fifth-stage peak array.”

Just at that moment, a figure abruptly materialized hundreds of meters away from the crowd. All cultivators instinctively turned to look, their expressions instantly becoming grave.

“Half-Immortal.”

Among the people, three peak Spirit Transformation cultivators and Han Yi hastily looked in another direction beside them, where another figure was revealing itself.

The other cultivators noticed as well and turned to look, a middle-stage Spirit Transformation individual cultivator turned deathly pale with sheer horror and cried out, “Two half-immortals!”

Indeed.

At this moment, within the array, two half-immortals stood at two different positions, encircling everyone. Beyond them was a colossal fifth-stage peak array, one that not even the strike of a peak Spirit Transformation could shake under the supervision of the half-immortals.

A deadly trap.

In such a situation, most Spirit Transformation cultivators, like the one who was utterly horrified, had already despaired.

The youngest among them was Du Juan, a mid-stage Nascent Soul practitioner who was over one hundred and fifty years old. Having endured countless hardships and battles over the years, she was not naive enough to think under these circumstances that the two half-immortals would spare them.

Regardless of whether they were Robbing cultivators or not, within the Sin Trace Ancient Abyss, they wouldn’t mind changing their identities. After all, they had seen these Spirit Transformation cultivators come out of a True Immortal Spirit World. If they took action, they could divide an Immortal Spirit Realm among themselves. Such a temptation was hard for ordinary half-immortals to resist.

“Honored ones, we are cultivators from the Town Demon Immortal Sect. Our sect once paid tribute to the Sect Master, who now stands as a Taiyi Realm Golden Immortal, ranked amongst the venerated seats of the Daluo Taiyi. If you esteemed ones would show leniency, we are willing to offer… fifty percent of the spiritual items on us voluntarily… would this be acceptable?”

Zhu Sui stepped forward, positioning himself in front of everyone, facing one half-immortal with a sincere expression, hesitating slightly when mentioning the fifty percent.

Meanwhile, his divine consciousness spread quietly, communicating to the other cultivators behind him, “Act in one breath’s time. I will invoke the Soul-breaking Sky Shuttle, shattering this fifth-stage peak array. Everyone escape on your own, and whether you survive will depend on your luck.”

Also, he transmitted an additional message to Han Yi, “Han, if you have the strength to spare, I earnestly request, for my sake, that you do your best to protect Du Juan’s life.”

However.

Zhu Sui and the others were unlucky, for the two half-immortals they encountered were not half-immortals who occasionally acted as ‘Robbing cultivators’; they were indeed Robbing cultivators, engaging in acts of killing and looting.

The two half-immortals activated the array hidden around them, encircling the cultivators. They were clearly experienced, for as soon as Zhu Sui finished communicating, ready to invoke the Soul-breaking Sky Shuttle, the half-immortals remained silent, striking preemptively. They chose the moment when Zhu Sui believed they were hesitating and their mana was about to be mobilized. It was the instant when Zhu Sui’s defenses were most vulnerable.

Slash!

Sword Light leaped from the Spirit Sword in the hands of the half-immortal at the forefront of the cultivators, striking like lightning.

The half-immortal on the side moved his hand, and a huge Spirit Demon appeared before him—a ten-meter-long, snow-white wolf demon. The aura of the wolf demon surged to the half-immortal realm in an instant.

The wolf demon opened its vast mouth, and a white beam of light shot out. Where the beam passed, even the void seemed to be frozen.

In that instant.

Despair filled all the cultivators, including Zhu Sui, whose eyes flashed with the acceptance of death.

Because what they faced was not two half-immortals, but… three.

Three half-immortals, two human cultivators and one demon, with one half-immortal being a Sword Cultivator. Even employing a fifth-stage peak array to seal the space, using such methods against ten Spirit Transformed cultivators and one Nascent Soul was like using an ox-cleaver to kill a chicken.

Under such circumstances, not even a half-immortal could escape death, let alone them.

However.

Just as the killing intent neared, a flash of silver-white light passed by.