Chapter 1013 - 310: Yellow Heaven Dao Envoy_5

Xu Yan hurriedly cupped his hands: "I neglected my duties, please follow me, emissaries."

Leading the two through the winding corridors of the rear courtyard, they passed several array barriers and finally arrived at an underground secret chamber.

"Emissaries, this place is absolutely safe; even a cultivator in the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm wouldn’t be able to discover it."

The handsome male cultivator surveyed the surroundings without speaking.

The female cultivator beside him, wearing a dark golden mask, gently waved the jade flute in her hand.

A green light swept across the surroundings, forming a flowing light barrier, before she spoke: "We have come for the cultivator carrying the Thunder Department Celestial Venerable’s aura."

Xu Yan nodded repeatedly: "I know, I know."

"I have already established causality with him. If the two emissaries search through my causality, they can find his approximate current location."

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator said nothing further and slowly brought the jade flute to her lips.

The melodious sound of the flute slowly began to play.

Within a few breaths of time, Xu Yan, whose cultivation had reached the Purple Mansion stage, suddenly became dazed, as if drunk.

Then, a strange scene occurred.

Although Xu Yan’s physical body had collapsed, a phantom silhouette remained quietly standing in place.

This figure was none other than Xu Yan’s divine spirit.

The pleasant flute music continued to echo around, as threads began to appear all over Xu Yan’s divine spirit, crisscrossing and penetrating into the surrounding void.

As these threads appeared, the handsome male cultivator finally moved.

He strolled leisurely towards Xu Yan’s divine spirit, extending his fair, jade-like fingers to lightly pluck the threads of causality.

It seemed he was searching for something.

Moments later, his gaze fixed upon a slender thread of causality, and after touching it, his face showed a hint of a smile.

Immediately, a flash of light appeared in the handsome male cultivator’s hand, as he retrieved a jade ball emitting an eye-piercing glow from his storage bag.

Once extracted, the jade ball hovered in the void before him.

The handsome male cultivator brought his two fingers together, and a mysterious sword aura flashed at his fingertips, gently swiping at the thread of causality, instantly severing it.

Buzz!

As the severed thread of causality showed signs of rapidly dissipating.

The jade ball suspended before him suddenly vibrated violently.

Next, a red light shot out from the jade ball, reconnecting the dissipating thread of causality back to the jade ball.

"Erosion Moon, it is done."

Confirming the transfer of causality to the jade ball, the handsome male cultivator spoke softly.

The female cultivator named Erosion Moon slowly ceased her actions.

Her beautiful eyes glanced at Xu Yan’s dazed divine spirit and the physical body lying on the ground. Erosion Moon raised her palm, forming a triangular pentagonal spirit pattern in the void before her.

"Go."

With a soft command from Erosion Moon, the triangular pentagonal spirit pattern instantly enveloped Xu Yan’s divine spirit and fused it into his physical body.

His divine spirit returned to his body, and Xu Yan slowly woke up.

Struggling to get up, he weakly cupped his hands: "Emissaries, everything went smoothly, right?"

Erosion Moon nodded slightly: "You have endured much in this endeavor."

"This is your reward."

As she spoke, a seven-leaf spirit plant, emitting a strange sacred aura, mysteriously appeared in her raised palm.

The spirit plant, only about a foot tall, had seven delicate green leaves adorned with intricate golden patterns.

Atop the plant was a small, date-sized earth-yellow fruit.

The fruit’s weight caused the plant to droop slightly, and it exuded a highly concentrated earth attribute aura.

"You possess an Earth Attribute Spirit Root, correct?"

Erosion Moon gently waved her hand, causing the spirit plant to float from her palm towards Xu Yan.

Gazing at the spirit plant, Xu Yan was visibly moved, repeatedly cupping his hands:

"Thank you, Emissary Erosion Moon!"

"Thank you, Emissaries!"

Erosion Moon remained expressionless: "This is your rightful reward; it has nothing to do with me."

"Consume the fruit and continue serving the Daoist Lord diligently; more benefits await in the future."

Xu Yan again bowed respectfully, then extended his hands, respectfully receiving the wilting spirit plant. Once all seven leaves had withered away, leaving only the earth-yellow fruit, he carefully placed it in his mouth, sat cross-legged, and began its refinement and absorption.

Seeing this, the handsome male cultivator said indifferently: "This lower grade Dao fruit should be enough to allow him to easily break through to the Nascent Soul Realm. Let’s go and verify which Thunder Department Celestial Venerable’s legacy he’s inherited."

"The remnants of the Old Celestial Court must be completely cleansed for the Daoist Lord’s great plan to proceed."

"Just a bunch of pawns, yet they manage to cause quite a stir..."

Erosion Moon smiled slightly: "The instinct of life is such; even ants cherish their lives, and so much more humans, the leaders of all living beings?"

"Star Envoy, do not be careless; this place presents variables even the Daoist Lord cannot see through."

The handsome male cultivator did not speak further as their figures slowly faded, eventually disappearing completely.

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At the same time, far away at Return Sea Cliff, on a Nameless Island, Shen Chongming was in secluded cultivation when he suddenly felt a gaze upon him.

He slowly halted the circulation within his body and gradually opened his eyes.

Only to discover a horrifying face, dark and withered like a skeleton, perilously close to his own!

Those gray-white eyes were fixedly staring at him!

His spiritual power surged internally, and just as Shen Chongming was about to dodge away, a dry, ghastly hand grasped his shoulder directly!