139: Chapter 139 The Formation is Activated, Trapping a Turtle in a Jar

With a flick of Zhao Ruoan's finger, the archaic stone Pill Furnace seemed to come alive.

The runes on the furnace body, which had long been blurred, all lit up at this moment, blooming with dazzling brilliance.

A vast and majestic power, centered on the Pill Furnace, instantly swept through the entire underground cave!

"Rumble!"

At the entrance of the cave, a huge stone gate crashed down, completely sealing off the only retreat.

On the stone walls, those ancient runes that were originally just decorations also lit up one after another, interweaving into a huge light net that enveloped the entire space.

The star-like crystals on the dome shone brightly, shooting down beams of peerless sharpness, like a rain of swords, indiscriminately covering Elder Liu Changfeng and the others.

"Not good! It's a Formation! We've fallen into a trap!"

Elder Liu Changfeng's expression changed drastically; never in his wildest dreams did he expect that such a terrifying killing Formation was hidden inside this Immortal Cave!

And this Formation was actually controlled by that Foundation Establishment Stage brat, Zhao Ruoan!

The giant spiritual Qi hand he used to grab Zhao Ruoan, the moment it touched the light net, was easily dissolved like melting snow.

"Quick! Defend!" Elder Liu Changfeng cried out in a mixture of shock and anger, shouting fiercely.

He could no longer care about dealing with Zhao Ruoan, and immediately propped up a thick earth-yellow light shield to firmly protect himself.

Wang Kun and the other three, along with Black Crow, were also scared out of their wits, each employing their strongest defensive means to pathetically fend off the beams raining down from the sky.

"Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!"

The power of the light beams was unimaginably strong, with each beam comparable to a full-strength strike from a Golden Core Late Stage Cultivator.

The two Disciplinary Hall Disciples brought by Wang Kun had the weakest cultivation, being only Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

Under the barrage of light beams, their protective Magic Treasures lasted for less than three breaths before shattering with a "crack" sound.

"Ah—!"

Accompanied by two miserable screams, their bodies were instantly pierced through by countless light beams, turning into two balls of blood mist, and not even their Divine Souls managed to escape.

"Junior Brother!" Wang Kun watched with eyes split open, his heart filled with fear.

His own situation was not much better; a Golden Core grade shield Magic Treasure was already covered in cracks under the attacks of the light beams, on the verge of collapsing.

Black Crow was even more pathetic; the spiritual light on the black robe Magic Treasure on his body flickered wildly, and it obviously could not hold on for much longer.

Only Elder Liu Changfeng, who was at the Golden Core Peak, relied on his profound cultivation to temporarily withstand it.

But his heart at this moment had already sunk to the bottom of the valley.

He stared fixedly at the youth standing with his hands behind his back and an indifferent expression on the high platform, his eyes filled with unbelievable shock and anger.

"Zhao Ruoan! You... exactly what kind of person are you?!" He roared at the top of his lungs.

Everything happening before his eyes had completely exceeded his cognition.

How could a Foundation Establishment Disciple control such a powerful ancient killing Formation?

This simply defied common sense!

"What kind of person am I?" Zhao Ruoan looked down at him from above, a mocking smile lingering on the corner of his mouth, "I am precisely the 'newcomer with dog-luck' in your mouth, that 'petty person' who could be manipulated by you at will."

"You... You've been acting all along! Everything is a trap you set up!" Elder Liu Changfeng finally reacted.

From beginning to end, there was no ancient Pill God Immortal Cave at all; this whole matter was a heaven-defying scam targeting him!

"Only figuring it out now? It's too late." Zhao Ruoan shook his head, his gaze looking just like he was looking at a pitiful fool.

"Why?!" Elder Liu Changfeng could not accept this fact, "This old man has no enmity or grudge against you, why did you rack your brains to harm me?!"

"No enmity or grudge?" The smile on Zhao Ruoan's face gradually subsided, replaced by a patch of icy killing intent, "Elder Liu, you really have a noble's forgetfulness."

He slowly raised his hand, and an ice-blue jade talisman suffused with cold Qi appeared in his palm.

"You shouldn't be unfamiliar with this thing, right?"

The moment he saw that Ice Marrow Jade transmission talisman, Elder Liu Changfeng's pupils suddenly contracted to the extreme!

The blood color on his face instantly drained away, turning as pale as paper, and his whole body stood frozen in place as if struck by lightning.

"I... Ice Marrow Jade... You... How do you have this?!" His voice was trembling, filled with endless fear.

This jade talisman was the only token for his single-line contact with the Blood Fiend Sect, and it was his deepest hidden secret!

He thought it was flawless, yet he never expected it to appear in Zhao Ruoan's hands!

It's over!

Everything is over!

At this moment, he understood everything.

Zhao Ruoan was not aiming for any Treasure Trove at all, but came specifically for him! His identity as an inside mole had been exposed!

"What? Can't remember?" Zhao Ruoan's voice was like the cold wind from Hell, bone-chillingly cold, "Then let me remind you. In the Black Wind Mountain Range, five fellow Senior Brothers died tragically at the hands of the Blood Fiend Sect. Whose whereabouts were leaked out?"

"Codename 'Shadow', using the Ice Marrow Jade to contact the higher-ups of the Blood Fiend Sect... Elder Liu Changfeng, now, do you have anything else to say?"

Every word of Zhao Ruoan was like a heavy hammer, fiercely smashing onto Elder Liu Changfeng's heart.

Elder Liu Changfeng's psychological defense line was completely shattered at this moment.

The shock and anger on his face were gradually replaced by a kind of despair and madness.

"It was you! You killed Li Jiuyou! You used the Soul Searching Technique on him!" He shrieked, pointing at Zhao Ruoan as if he had gone mad.

Other than this explanation, he could not figure out how Zhao Ruoan came to know all of this.

"It seems you aren't too stupid after all." Zhao Ruoan candidly admitted.

"Ahahaha! Zhao Ruoan! I'm going to kill you!"

With his identity exposed and no way out, Elder Liu Changfeng completely fell into madness. He no longer defended, but drove his entire body's spiritual Qi to the extreme, transforming himself into an earth-yellow stream of light, recklessly charging towards Zhao Ruoan!

He wanted to perish together with this brat who had destroyed everything he had!

"A cornered beast's struggle is completely meaningless."

Zhao Ruoan looked at the crazed Elder Liu Changfeng and merely shook his head gently.

He couldn't even be bothered to do it himself.

With a thought, the stone Pill Furnace on the high platform glowed brilliantly once more.

A golden beam of light, several times thicker than all the previous light beams combined, soared into the sky from the Pill Furnace, and then smashed down with the momentum of a thunderbolt!

"No—!"

Feeling the destructive power contained within that light beam, Elder Liu Changfeng let out a despairing roar.

This power had far exceeded the scope of the Golden Core Stage, and even... was comparable to a full-strength strike of a Nascent Soul almighty!

He wanted to dodge, only to find that the surrounding space had been completely imprisoned by the Formation's power, unable to move at all.

He could only watch helplessly as that golden beam of light completely engulfed him.

"Boom—!"

With an earth-shattering loud noise, the entire cave trembled.

As the smoke and dust dissipated, a bottomless giant pit had been blasted out beneath the high platform.

And Elder Liu Changfeng was nowhere to be seen.

No, not completely gone.

At the edge of the giant pit, there remained a charred humanoid remains, surrounded by electric light, having completely lost all vitality.

But he wasn't completely dead.

An illusory Primordial Spirit figure was floating out from that charred corpse, its face filled with terror, attempting to escape.

It was precisely Elder Liu Changfeng's Primordial Spirit!

"Want to leave?"

Zhao Ruoan snorted coldly, raised his hand and grabbed, and an invisible suction force was generated out of thin air, directly sucking Elder Liu Changfeng's Primordial Spirit into his hand.

"Zhao Ruoan! You cannot kill me! I am a Disciplinary Hall Elder! If you kill me, the Sect Master will not let you go!" Elder Liu Changfeng's Primordial Spirit struggled violently in Zhao Ruoan's hand, screaming shrilly while putting up a bold front.

"Elder?" Zhao Ruoan pinched his Primordial Spirit as if pinching a little chick, "Colluding with the Demonic Path and harming fellow Disciples, you are also worthy of being called an Elder?"

"Spare my life! Junior Brother Zhao—no, Master Zhao! Spare my life! I was wrong! I will never dare to do it again! I beg you, let me go..."

Seeing that threats were ineffective, Elder Liu Changfeng immediately began to beg for mercy, making a thoroughly ugly spectacle of himself.

Zhao Ruoan couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense with him, directly sealing his Primordial Spirit and tossing it into a jade box.

This traitor was still useful. He needed to dig out more secrets regarding the Blood Fiend Sect and other potential inside moles within the Sect from Elder Liu Changfeng's mouth.

At this point, Elder Liu Changfeng, this high-ranking Disciplinary Hall Elder in the Qingxuan Sect, had completely fallen.

On the other side, the remaining Wang Kun and Black Crow had long been scared into Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering by this swift and shocking scene, collapsing softly to the ground.

They looked at Zhao Ruoan as if looking at a demon god crawling out from Hell.