Longevity Martial Arts: Grinding Experience in the Chaotic World Chapter 1672 - 849: Peak of Heaven King Realm

"Hey, kid, here’s the captive you wanted. This is as much as this old man can help you. The power of this incarnation is almost depleted."

Xia Wuyou yawned and his tone returned to its previous laziness.

"Causing such a commotion, the local old folks of the Southern Border are sure to have been alerted and are probably on their way here. You two kids, hurry up and get out of here. Don’t stay to die."

With that, his figure began to swiftly fade away, like smoke, and finally vanished completely in the room, as if he had never appeared.

The terrifying pressure in the room disappeared along with him.

Only then did Situ Qingfeng feel a weight lifted off him, gasping for air, and he got up with lingering fear, looking at the spot where Xia Wuyou disappeared, eyes filled with awe and dread.

Gu Sheng bent over to check the state of the substitute, confirming it was only sealed in cultivation and consciousness, and not dead.

He stood up, gazed at the blood-red sky that was gradually dissipating outside the window, with a hint of depth in his eyes.

"With a wave of his hand, he slaughtered tens of thousands, three strikes broke through the Void... Xia Wuyou’s strength is probably approaching the level of the Eighth Transformation Venerable."

Gu Sheng pondered to himself.

"However, though his aura is strong, there’s a faint sense of exhaustion, likely from having overdrawn his potential excessively in his earlier years, damaging his foundation, making it impossible for his body to withstand higher breakthroughs. He will probably never reach the Nine Transformation Supreme Realm in his lifetime... What a pity."

He shook his head, suppressing these thoughts as it’s not the time to lament over them.

He turned to the still-shocked Situ Qingfeng.

"Pack up, we’re leaving here immediately."

He finished speaking and his gaze fell on the dull-eyed, puppet-like substitute of "Xiao Beixuan" on the ground. Gu Sheng’s eyes were cold, without the slightest pity, directly exposing his identity.

"No need to pretend, I know you’re not the real Xiao Beixuan, just a poor scapegoat."

The "Xiao Beixuan" substitute trembled slightly, the hollow eyes seemed to regain a hint of spirit, but were replaced by deeper despair and inexplicable heaviness.

He opened his mouth, his voice hoarse and dry.

"You... you can kill me. I won’t say anything..."

"I don’t have time for your nonsense."

Gu Sheng interrupted him directly, his eyes suddenly bursting with a dazzling golden light, an unparalleled strong spiritual power instantly condensed, like two invisible golden needles, piercing into the eyes of the "Xiao Beixuan" substitute, directly stabbing into the depths of his Sea of Consciousness! He intended to use the most direct and brutal method—Soul Search, to obtain intelligence about Xiao Beixuan and the Seventy-two Divine Sects!

However, just as Gu Sheng’s spiritual power entered the opponent’s Sea of Consciousness, touching the core memory area in an instant—

"Ugh!"

That "Xiao Beixuan" substitute let out a short and shrill scream, his entire body suddenly stiffened, then fell forward, as if all bones had been removed.

But just at the moment his head was about to touch the ground!

Boom!!!

A dull sound, his head suddenly exploded like a ripe watermelon, without any warning!

Red blood, white brain matter, mixed with shattered bones, splashed violently in all directions like fireworks, instantly staining the nearby floor and walls with mess, and the pungent smell of blood spread again.

Gu Sheng had already sensed something amiss at the moment of the head’s abnormality, quickly retreated to avoid most of the filth, but was still stained by a few blood spots on the hem of his robe.

His face turned slightly pale, not because of injury, but due to the backlash of the restriction and a trace of spiritual shock from the interrupted Soul Search.

"Gu, what’s going on?!"

Situ Qingfeng, who had just climbed up, was startled by the sudden explosion, hurried forward and nervously asked, looking at the headless corpse on the ground, his stomach churned again.

Gu Sheng frowned tightly, looking at the corpse on the ground with a heavy tone.

"He had an extremely malicious soul restriction planted in his body, once any external force attempts a Soul Search or he tries to actively leak critical information, the restriction would trigger immediately, directly blasting his Sea of Consciousness and skull. I wanted to forcefully break through, not expecting the restriction to be so domineering and decisive... It’s not a big issue, but I didn’t get much useful information."

He paused, his tone urgent.

"The situation is urgent, we must leave immediately, there must be no delay!"

Situ Qingfeng still seemed puzzled.

"Gu, although the commotion was big, we’re in the wilderness, the Seventy-two Divine Sects shouldn’t react that quickly, right?"

"You don’t understand the methods of a grand sect."

Gu Sheng quickly cleaned the bloodstains on himself while explaining in a deep voice.

"The core members of the Seventy-two Divine Sects, especially elders of the King Realm and above, often leave behind a ’Soul Lamp’ in the sect. The Soul Lamp is connected to the person’s soul, extinguishing when they die. Just now, Senior Xia struck down tens of thousands of martial artists, among them not lacking those of the King Realm and even the Heavenly King Realm, which means at this moment, within the sects belonging to those Divine Sects in the surrounding area, there are probably thousands of Soul Lamps extinguishing simultaneously! Such a shocking change is enough to alarm those closed-door cultivation Old Ancestors!"

His gaze was sharp as he looked at Situ Qingfeng.

"What do you think those Old Ancestors, at least of the Sect Realm, maybe even of the Venerable Realm, will do if they sense their elite disciple elders have perished in an instant? They will go mad! They will use all means, at the fastest speed, to rush here to uncover the truth! I dare say, within an hour at most, or even sooner, there will definitely be Divine Sect Old Ancestor level figures arriving! At that time, if we are blocked here, unless the real Senior Xia is present, you and I will not escape even with wings!"