Star Sky Professional
Chapter 277 - 230: Refine the Ghost Infant (Extra - for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 277: Chapter 230: Refine the Ghost Infant (Extra Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

Less than a hundred miles from Three Python Mountain, in a sunken part of the hills.

Within the valley, the eel of death soared towards the sky, with countless runes flashing chaotically.

The rocky canyon walls were crisscrossed and jagged, and the ground was pitted, every crevice a testament to the scars left by the strikes of magic treasures.

The fierce clash of mana from two cultivators at the Core Formation Late Stage resounded, and yet all was obscured by an array guarding the mouth of the valley and above the Sky Dome, preventing anything from spreading outward.

"Huo Moqing! The Xuantian Sect will not let you go!"

Alongside a scream filled with bitter anguish, a middle-aged cultivator with a golden crown lay fallen on the ground, his chest pierced with a large hole, as if his True Core had been gouged out, dying with his eyes wide open.

"Heh heh... Had I not needed to stop you from sending out even the slightest bit of a message, why would I go to all this trouble... In a real fight, you wouldn’t last ten moves against me..."

Huo Moqing gazed at the golden-crowned middle-aged man, smirking several times: "However, slaying a Core Formation Late Stage cultivator of the Righteous Path will earn me a bountiful reward when I return."

This Core Formation Late Stage cultivator not only hailed from the Xuantian Sect but had even condensed an Upper Sect True Core.

Even amidst the ranks of Nascent Soul Sects, he was a figure of considerable standing. This time, he had come on a mission from his sect to recruit that Immortal Golden Core cultivator.

Little did he expect to fall into an ambush and meet his end here.

Huo Moqing did not delay; with a flick of his hands, a streak of bluish light appeared behind his head, transforming into a jade-green pearl.

Within the green spirit pearl, a nine-headed creature faintly manifested, with six of its heads now shining brightly.

Holding the jade-green pearl in one hand and forming a spell with the other, he uttered indiscernible incantations.

A soul was then pulled from the body of the golden-crowned middle-aged man, his face filled with terror, attempting to flee.

Suddenly, a wail like that of a baby’s cry echoed from the void.

The creature within the spirit pearl—the Nine Infant—materialized, one of its heads descended, and with a gentle breath,

The formidable Divine Soul of the middle-aged man who had attained the Core Formation Late Stage was unable to resist, and was devoured by a head resembling both a dragon and a serpent, with his screams vanishing into nothingness.

The illusion of the Nine Infant retreated into the jade-green pearl, with seven of its heads now illuminated, each as vivid as the next.

At this sight, a trace of a smile emerged on Huo Moqing’s face. Afterward, he activated the Nine Infant Pearl to drain all of the essence blood from the body of the golden-crowned middle-aged man.

The Nine Infant Pearl momentarily took on a deep red color like blood but quickly returned to normal.

With a touch to his Heavenly Spirit, a streak of bluish light appeared, and with one smooth motion, he withdrew the Nine Infant Pearl.

Huo Moqing fell into contemplation, then suddenly, his form began to change.

Whether it was the fluctuation of mana or the aura of the divine soul, everything matched the golden-crowned middle-aged man lying on the ground!

Additionally, he opened the slain man’s storage bag and retrieved the fallen cultivator’s Xuantian Sect Elder Token.

With a slight infusion of mana, the token shone brightly, revealing two ancient characters—Xuantian!

The Elder Tokens of major Nascent Soul Sects are protected against counterfeiting by incorporating specific conditions during their creation, making them impossible to refine unless the bloodline, divine soul, and mana aura all match.

But now, this ’security feature’ had been compromised.

Huo Moqing refined each of the golden-crowned middle-aged man’s magic treasures, and speaking in a voice indistinguishable from the other, he said, "I need to act quickly... Otherwise, once the Xuantian Sect realizes the Life Plate is shattered, they will soon send someone to investigate..."

He retracted the Array, tidied up the scene, and then slapped his storage bag.

A carriage, magnificent to the extreme and seemingly forged from pure gold, appeared. Huo Moqing seated himself inside it and infused it with a thread of mana.

A cluster of golden light flickered on the frame of the carriage, which then sped off towards Three Python Mountain at an incredible speed.

...

Three Python Mountain.

Snake Head Peak.

"Who’s there?"

An elder of the Yun Family looked up to see a golden carriage approaching, atop which sat a middle-aged cultivator with a golden crown, whose mana seemed unfathomably deep, causing the elder to gasp in shock.

"Hmph! Seems like the Yun Family is becoming more and more unruly, I am... Jin Liu of the Xuantian Sect!"

Huo Moqing stood with his hands behind his back, his Divine Sense sweeping over: "Members of the Yun Family, will you not come out to greet me?"

"So it’s an Elder from the Upper Sect, Yun Qingmiao pays her respects to my senior!"

A short female cultivator from the third branch of the family flew out, and upon seeing Huo Moqing, immediately performed a salute: "Thirty years ago, at the ’Golden City Immortal Conference’, I was fortunate enough to have seen the Elder once..."

"Enough with the nonsense."

Huo Moqing entered the grand hall of the Yun Family: "Where is that Immortal Golden Core cultivator?"

"Reporting to the Elder, that individual is still in seclusion at Snake Tail Peak..."

A Foundation Establishment Elder from the Yun Family replied promptly, his face smeared with an ingratiating smile.

"In seclusion, is he? Perfect, call over all the nearby high-level cultivators."

Huo Moqing seated himself in the main seat, his face expressionless.

His guise as a messenger from the Xuantian Sect had been a spur-of-the-moment act.

Now, it seemed things were going well; at least no one had discovered his anomaly.

But even if they did, what of it? In the end, it would all be nothing more than a slaughter.

Before long, Luo Tian, the ancestral head of the Guo Family, the ancestral head of the Li Family, and a number of cultivators from the Daluo Alliance all gathered.

As they looked at the members of the Yun Family, helplessness tinted their thoughts.

They hadn’t expected to be prepared for anything, only to end up facing complications at every turn.

The Yun Family... could it be they truly held some sort of favorable destiny?

"Reporting to the Elder, aside from that Immortal Core cultivator and his senior, everyone is present..."

The leading Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Yun Family scanned the room before speaking.

"Their absence is perfect!"

Huo Moqing casually cast out a strand of golden mana, sealing the entire grand hall: "I have been ordered by the Xuantian Sect. This emerging Immortal Core is a spy from the Demon Path, and must be killed on sight!"

These words fell like a thunderbolt from the blue!

"What? A spy from the Demon Path?"

Luo Tian was dumbfounded, inherently feeling that Fang Xing did not seem like one from the Demon Path.

However, at this point, he naturally wouldn’t foolishly object and merely exchanged glances with the ancestral heads of the Guo and Li families.