Chapter 628: Extermination of Immortals Sword Formation

“Oh no, I got it wrong,” Lu Yang finally understood. For the past three days, he hadn’t been communicating with the Seven-Star Sword Group, but with the Sword Cleansing Pond!

“Junior Brother, you…”

With her eyes closed, Senior Sister realized what Lu Yang had done only after perceiving the external movements through her five senses.

He had absconded with the Sword Cleansing Pond!

“Wait, this is an accident, I can explain!” Lu Yang shouted, quickly trying to sever his connection with the Sword Cleansing Pond in secret.

But the bond he had formed with the Sword Cleansing Pond over three days wasn’t something that could be broken so easily.

After several unsuccessful attempts, he had to admit one thing: the Sword Cleansing Pond had latched onto him.

“Brother, really? Can’t you follow someone else? I’m too insignificant and weak to take you in.”

Blatantly appropriating sectarian property was inexcusable, no matter where it happened.

Senior Sister’s expression suggested, “You don’t need to explain further.” “Senior Sister often said you were extraordinarily gifted, Junior Brother, but also a bit unorthodox. Seeing it now, she was absolutely right.”

She hadn’t had the chance to see it in the demon realm, but now she finally had.

“…” Senior Sister, could you possibly say something positive about me?

“There was just an unexpected twist during the communication; I didn’t practice it incorrectly,” Lu Yang said earnestly, correcting Senior Sister’s misunderstanding.

“Fairy, why didn’t you remind me that I had been communicating with the Sword Cleansing Pond all along?” If Senior Sister couldn’t detect the anomaly, surely the Immortal Fairy could?

“Huh? I thought you wanted to control the Sword Cleansing Pond first and then use it to control the Seven-Star Sword Group.”

“…That actually might work.”

Following the Immortal Fairy’s line of thought, Lu Yang realized he could indeed control the Seven-Star Sword Group by first controlling the Sword Cleansing Pond.

The Seven-Star Sword Group genuinely felt comfortable in the Sword Cleansing Pond, and having experienced it once, they would surely want to experience it again.

To experience it a second time, they would have to obey!

“Fine, I’ll just inform Senior Sister then.”

Since things had come to this, he couldn’t forcibly separate himself from the Sword Cleansing Pond.

Lu Yang returned the water he had poured out back into the Sword Cleansing Pond, then skillfully put the pond and the Seven-Star Sword Group into his identity jade token, as if tidying up a crime scene.

The two returned the way they came. As they passed through the great grassland, they took out their identity jade tokens, and indeed, the demon beasts no longer attacked.

By now, Senior Sister and Jiang Lianyi had finished touring Prison Peak, and the ancient cultivators imprisoned there were trembling.

What was the origin of Dao Seeking Sect? How did they manage to unearth the Phoenix Ancestor, who had been missing for hundreds of thousands of years?

If they had previously looked down on Dao Seeking Sect due to their ancient status, now that last shred of pride was gone.

In terms of ancient history, who could surpass the Phoenix Ancestor?

Even if the Four Ancient Immortals were brought here, they were contemporaries of the Phoenix Ancestor, with no hierarchy among them.

As for Grandmaster, his reaction was no better than Elder Tao’s, especially when he heard Senior Sister explain that Lu Yang had unearthed the Phoenix Ancestor; his expression was incredibly dramatic.

The student surpassed the teacher; Lu Yang was far more capable of stirring up trouble than his master.

Grandmaster was grateful that he had retired. If he were still in the Sect Master’s position, he wouldn’t be able to handle the messes Lu Yang created.

“You mean, you refined the sect’s Sword Cleansing Pond?”

Senior Sister was momentarily stunned upon hearing her Junior Brother’s report.

If she remembered correctly, she had told him to refine the Seven-Star Sword Group in the Sword Cleansing Pond, not to refine the pond itself.

“It was an accident,” Lu Yang repeatedly emphasized that there was a reason for it.

However, even if there was a reason, Lu Yang was still in the wrong in this matter. Appropriating sectarian property, no matter how one looked at it, required disciplinary action.

“I remember, Cult Leader, you promised me that I could take anything from this sect?” Jiang Lianyi stepped forward to help her Senior Brother out of trouble.

“If that’s the case, how about I take the Sword Cleansing Pond?”

“Certainly.”

With that, the matter was settled.

Senior Sister’s original intention was to find an excuse to legitimately give the Sword Cleansing Pond to Lu Yang.

The Sword Cleansing Pond was dispensable to the Dao Seeking Sect; only two sword cultivators had emerged in two thousand years, and the pond had been used incredibly rarely.

However, it couldn’t be given directly to Junior Brother, as that would be seen as disregarding the sect’s rules and regulations, which was detrimental to sect unity.

“Very well, since you have acquired the Sword Cleansing Pond, you should be able to master the Seven-Star Sword Group within a few days and reach the foundation for practicing sword formations.”

Senior Sister pulled a small booklet from her embrace.

“This is loot I acquired after encountering an enemy. It happens to contain a sword formation, this is the first layer. Take it and study it first.”

Lu Yang took the booklet and, upon seeing the name of the sword formation, his hand trembled, almost dropping it.

“Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.”

“Can this sword formation really slay immortals?” Lu Yang’s voice trembled as he asked the question.

This was a rhetorical question; if it couldn’t slay immortals, why would it be named as such?

“No, it probably just has an impressive name to boost morale.”

Lu Yang: “…”

Which lunatic came up with that name?

“I don’t know who the opponent was.”

Senior Sister recalled the incident: “I discovered him by chance. He was secretly plotting a major move that, if successful, would have turned the Great Xia upside down. The situation was tense, and there was no time to find helpers, so I was forced to act and then I killed him.”

“He was undoubtedly an ancient cultivator, but it’s uncertain if he was from Great Yu or Great Qian.”

“This sword formation, and your Azure Edge Sword, both belonged to that person.”

“I’ve tested the power of the sword formation; it can’t slay immortals, but its power is still considerable. You have the first layer; I’ll give you the subsequent layers once your cultivation realm improves.”

“Was the opponent a sword cultivator?”

“No, he just knew how to use a sword. It felt like he knew a bit of everything—talismans, formations, and so on—but his mastery wasn’t very precise. He could bully Half-Immortals with his realm, but he couldn’t handle someone of his own level.”

“…Wait, he was an Immortal?!”

Senior Sister didn’t understand why Lu Yang reacted so strongly: “Of course he was an Immortal. A Half-Immortal wouldn’t dare to name their sword formation this.”

“He was the weakest Immortal I’ve ever encountered, even weaker than the one I met at the Immortal Suppression Sect.”

Not to mention Lu Yang, even Jiang Lianyi was unsettled.

Senior Sister spoke lightly, saying the opponent was the weakest Immortal, but the weakest Immortal was still an Immortal, and he was actually killed by her!

The Immortal Fairy recalled the aura of a Dao Fruit she had sensed deep within the Dao Seeking Sect’s treasury; it must have belonged to this person.

“Hmph, it’s just killing an Immortal, as if no one else can do it. It’s just that I haven’t had the chance, otherwise I could kill one too.”

Just as Lu Yang was about to thank Senior Sister, begin cultivating his relationship with the Seven-Star Sword Group, and start practicing the sword formation to become a qualified sword cultivator, he noticed a disturbance in his Nine Nether Token. Someone from the Nine Nether Sect was contacting him.

He read the text on the Nine Nether Token, and his expression turned strange.

“What’s wrong? Did the Nine Nether Sect contact you?” Senior Sister asked.

“The Nine Nether Sect told me that the Cult Leader of the Blazing Sun Sect wants to meet me.”