133: Chapter 133 Not a Single One Left Behind?

"Don't count on the Yuxu Sect saving you either. Leaving aside whether the Yuxu Sect even understands the situation here, the main point is that Senior Chisongzi of our Anti-Immortal Alliance has also entered the Secret Realm and will arrive in a moment," Zhang Yuanting continued.

"If you don't believe it, you can wait a moment before making your decision."

Everyone was skeptical. A Senior mentioned by a Foundation Establishment Cultivator had to be a Purple Mansion Master, but how could a Cultivator with Purple Mansion cultivation pass through the detection of the Yuxu Sect's Purple Mansion Masters?

After a moment, a terrifying pressure suddenly descended. Fang Yunchen and the other Foundation Establishment Cultivators were all shocked; indeed, a Purple Mansion Master had managed to sneak into the Secret Realm.

"Senior Chisongzi," Zhang Yuanting and the others greeted respectfully.

"Mm. How is it going? Have they chosen to join us?" Chisongzi asked in a deep voice.

"Senior, please forgive this Junior's incompetence; they have not made their decision yet," an old man beside Zhang Yuanting said.

"Hmph, I expected as much." Chisongzi snorted coldly and turned to look at the twenty-plus people opposite him, saying disdainfully, "You may choose not to join my Anti-Immortal Alliance, in which case, you can go die."

As soon as he finished speaking, he prepared to make a move.

"I am willing to join! Please spare my life, Senior!"

Someone immediately begged for mercy, expressing willingness to join, while those like Fang Yunchen who had not spoken yet had ugly expressions.

"Mm, a promising youth! What about you?" Chisongzi stroked his beard and smiled.

"We will join too." The remaining Foundation Establishment Cultivators all agreed. What a joke—the Purple Mansion Master opposite them wasn't being reasonable at all and was about to attack right off the bat. They were merely Foundation Establishment Cultivators, so how could they fight a Purple Mansion Master? Besides, it was just verbal agreement, not true willingness.

"In that case, starting today, all of you young friends are under the banner of my Anti-Immortal Alliance. This old man will give each of you a meeting gift as a bit of encouragement from a Senior."

Upon hearing this, Fang Yunchen and the others felt their hearts sink. They figured this meeting gift was definitely nothing good, not to mention it was from this Anti-Immortal Alliance.

Chisongzi waved his hand, and over twenty porcelain bottles appeared before them. Everyone opened them to look, their hearts skipping a beat—poison?

"What's wrong? Are you young friends dissatisfied with my meeting gift? Or dissatisfied with me?" Chisongzi asked with deep meaning.

Hearing this, as the first person picked it up and swallowed it, the others also picked up the Medicinal Pills and stuffed them into their mouths. At this point, even if they wanted to resist, they couldn't.

Fang Yunchen's expression was bitter. He hadn't expected such a thing to happen. Swallowing this Medicinal Pill meant placing his life in someone else's hands.

"Since everyone is so eager to join my Anti-Immortal Alliance, why not swear an oath as well?" Chisongzi spoke in a kindly tone. Having reached this stage, he wasn't afraid of these people going back on their word. Leaving aside his own presence, just the Foundation Establishment Cultivators behind him plus those responsible for maintaining the grand array added up to nearly twenty people. That alone was enough to slay these twenty-plus Cultivators, giving them no chance to harbor thoughts of resistance.

These twenty-or-so Foundation Establishment Cultivators all swore oaths. Some among them had already accepted their shift in identity, turning around to walk toward Chisongzi to explain the current situation to him.

Seeing this, the others also showed their enthusiasm, striving to leave a good impression in front of the Senior.

However, they all knew in their hearts that this so-called Anti-Immortal Alliance was no benevolent faction and certainly wouldn't just stop at having them join.

Sure enough, Chisongzi had Zhang Yuanting assign the mission: attack the group of Cultivators currently fighting through the Bloodthirsty Locusts, with the criteria being to leave none alive.

"Leave none alive?" someone asked in horror.

"Mm. These Cultivators are one of the threats to our plan to overthrow all Golden Core factions, including the Yuxu Sect. Eliminating them will be equivalent to severing an arm of the Yuxu Sect for years to come," Zhang Yuanting explained.

Overthrow all Golden Core factions, including the Yuxu Sect... Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but gasp. The events of today far exceeded their imagination; they had never even considered how to deal with behemoths like the Yuxu Sect.

"Once they completely clear out that swarm of Bloodthirsty Locusts, that will be the time for our ambush. Those forty-plus people must die here," Zhang Yuanting said with a grim tone.

It wasn't that he didn't want to recruit these people into their service, but having more people would cause more trouble. When the time came to leave the Secret Realm, they wouldn't be able to bring so many people along.

After all, this Secret Realm was extremely close to the Yuxu Sect. Even though they already had people outside ready to receive them, perhaps if they were lucky this time, they might even slay a Golden Core Master.

...

"Changqing, what's wrong?" Li Taixuan asked in confusion.

"Nothing, I just feel like the rear is a bit too quiet," Chen Changqing said. Bai Yuqing had just warned him that a change had occurred in the rear and a Purple Mansion Master had appeared.

"Quiet? Perhaps it's because we've gone too deep," Li Taixuan explained.

"Maternal Grandfather, after we deal with these Bloodthirsty Locusts, let's not linger on the outer perimeter. Let's find a place to rest for a while. I feel like something bad is going to happen; my eyelids were twitching just now," Chen Changqing cautioned. The reason he didn't tell Li Taixuan about the situation behind them was that Bai Yuqing was his ultimate trump card.

"Mm." Hearing this, Li Taixuan said no more. He had also felt his eyelids twitching slightly just now; perhaps something really had happened?

However, he didn't connect it to anything happening in the rear. Firstly, there were no Yao Beasts in the rear, and secondly, something that could make Cultivators at ninth-layer Foundation Establishment Perfection like them feel a sense of crisis would have to be a Tier 3 Yao Beast.

And as for Tier 3 Yao Beasts, there was indeed more than one present in the core area ahead.

After another hour of slaying, the swarm of Bloodthirsty Locusts was drastically reduced, dropping to less than thirty to forty percent of its original size.

They were also close to traversing the valley's passage, having advanced fully two-thirds of the distance.

However, among their group of fifty-plus, several had died by now, all killed in sneak attacks by Tier 2 Bloodthirsty Locusts.

Furthermore, even more Tier 2 Bloodthirsty Locusts would appear next, and the number of Cultivator casualties would increase.

Just like now, he had to face ambushes from Tier 2 Bloodthirsty Locusts every now and then; as soon as he casually killed one, another would appear.

He didn't know how these Tier 3 Bloodthirsty Locusts reproduced. He alone had slain no fewer than ten Bloodthirsty Locusts. Although most of these Tier 2 Bloodthirsty Locusts were only stronger in combat power than Tier 1 Bloodthirsty Locusts, they were not yet strong enough to reach the level of Tier 2 Low Grade Yao Beasts.

It was just that such vast numbers still made their hearts tremble. Fortunately, Tier 3 Bloodthirsty Locusts were generally in their breeding period and would not make a move easily, as long as they didn't threaten their survival.

Moreover, these millions of Bloodthirsty Locusts were only a portion of the entire locust nest, not all of them. If all of them took the field, there would be at least tens of millions.

Of course, a single Tier 3 Bloodthirsty Locust couldn't accomplish this on its own, because there was more than one Tier 3 Bloodthirsty Locust here.