374: Holy Temple

Inside the cocoon of light, Su Linger huddled, doing her best to conceal her aura…

At this moment, she was in her true form, with ten pure white fox tails completely enveloping her graceful fox body, leaving only a pair of sapphire-like eyes exposed.

Although Su Linger had tried her best to hide her aura, she knew that this state would not last long; the terrifying halo had already realized that she had awakened…

Inside the cocoon of light, Su Linger exhaled a weak breath.

Even though she had now broken through to the Demon Venerable Realm, and was even much stronger than an ordinary Supreme, she still felt a deep sense of powerlessness when facing that halo…

Recalling her experiences over the past few centuries, Su Linger had a somewhat surreal feeling…

After diligent cultivation, she had, by chance, grown a ninth fox tail, but this ninth tail, unprecedented in the Heavenly Spirit Fox Clan, was an immature tail, its power far inferior to her other eight tails…

Therefore, she had gone into seclusion, firstly to break through to the Demon Venerable Realm, and secondly to ponder a solution to the insufficient power of her ninth tail…

With accumulated experience, breaking through to the Demon Venerable Realm would not have been difficult for her, but if the problem of the ninth tail could not be resolved, her upper limit would likely be the same as countless Heavenly Spirit Fox ancestors, stopping at the Demon Venerable Realm and unable to take that final step…

After all, the Heavenly Spirit Fox Clan's maxim was: Seven tails become a King, eight tails become a Venerable, nine tails become an Emperor…

Throughout the entire history of the Heavenly Spirit Fox Clan, not a single one had been an exception.

If the ninth tail was merely an immature tail with a false appearance, it would likely be far from enough!

Therefore, she had never chosen to break through.

However, just a century ago, Su Linger, in seclusion, suddenly felt a powerful surge of energy from a homologous bloodline, which directly elevated her physique by a significant margin, reaching an unprecedented ten tails!

After reaching the Demon Emperor Realm, powerful individuals with special physiques can enhance the bloodline of their close relatives, and the closer the blood relationship, the greater the benefits received…

The improvement Su Linger experienced at that time was as if someone from her direct lineage had broken through to the Emperor Realm!

Could it be that her mother was still alive?

…

However, before Su Linger could figure out the reason, disaster arrived upon her along with this immense fortune!

Her fortune attracted a celestial phenomenon between heaven and earth; although she tried her best to conceal it, the person behind that halo still locked onto her and has held her captive ever since…

She did not know the purpose of the person behind that halo, nor could she even discern their strength.

But she had heard of the strength of the Holy God Hall Master, who was a top-tier expert at the peak of the Supreme Realm, and it was no exaggeration to say that he was the strongest person in the entire Qianyan Immortal Domain!

Yet, such a powerful individual actually referred to the person behind that halo as “My Lord”…

To be addressed in such a way by a peak Supreme and the strongest person in the Qianyan Immortal Domain, the power of the person behind this halo was likely at the Emperor Realm, or not far from it…

Thinking of this, a rare sense of powerlessness flickered in Su Linger's sapphire eyes…

…

Within the Ice and Snow Heavenly Appearance, beneath the seemingly calm ice and snow, undercurrents surged, and squads of cultivators from different forces interwove, arriving one after another.

These people came from different forces, cultivated different techniques, and even the number of people in each small squad varied; some had only a few members, while others had several hundred…

Some of these people used talismans to dispel the power within the ice and snow; some exhaled bright flames, seemingly wanting to melt the ice and snow; some set up formations to destroy glaciers, and even more, summoned various different exotic beasts, as if searching for something…

These people seemed to be both searching and experimenting, trying different methods to break through the Water Moon Immortal Palace's protective formation, the Ice and Snow Heavenly Appearance.

However, the Water Moon Immortal Palace truly lived up to its reputation as a top-tier force with countless generations of heritage; the ice and snow here were extremely peculiar, not only far exceeding ordinary ice and snow in power, but also seeming to be inexhaustible, as soon as they melted, they would immediately be replenished…

Within the ice and snow, Luo Shuihan followed closely behind Mu Wuchen with a solemn expression.

During this time, they had already sensed several power fluctuations, and Mu Wuchen had even captured several people, attempting to search their souls, but these individuals seemed to be controlled by some force and, without exception, chose to self-detonate their divine souls…

The matter of the Water Moon Immortal Palace seemed to be more complicated than imagined.

Among the top-tier forces in the Qianyan Immortal Domain, the Youying Immortal Palace, the Nine Underworld Immortal Palace, and the Flame Prison Immortal Palace did not possess the absolute power to crush the Water Moon Immortal Palace, so the mastermind behind this incident could only be a powerful individual from the One Hall, Two Pavilions…

While deep in thought, Mu Wuchen's expression suddenly shifted, as if he sensed something; with a flash, he led the two women and vanished!

In the endless ice and snow, a woman's surprised cry rang out.

Immediately, a solid ice formation deep within the endless ice shattered with a roar, and in the next second, a graceful figure fled desperately into the distance!

However, she did not notice that a golden stream of light, like a maggot attached to bone, was closely following her…

“Ah—”

The next second, the woman's pained scream rang out.

A bizarre, dragon-like and snake-like creature had caught up to her, its sharp long tail like a sharp blade directly piercing her Dantian, crippling her cultivation, and its twisted serpentine body coiled around her like a chain, wrapping around the woman's neck…

With a soft sound, the woman fell from a high altitude.

Her cultivation crippled, the woman's body was still trembling uncontrollably, her eyes filled with despair…

A figure in golden long robes slowly descended in front of the woman, picking up the other end of the golden chain wrapped around the woman's neck…

Beside the golden figure was another man dressed similarly to him; at this moment, that man looked up at the sky with a devout expression, bowing his head and whispering reverently…

“Praise the Holy God…”

“Thanks to the divine artifact bestowed by you, your people were able to capture your betrayer…”

…

“Cough, cough, cough…”

The woman, with the chain wrapped around her neck, suddenly let out a weak sound, enduring the severe pain in her lower abdomen.

“Saint… Holy God Hall…”

“You… you lunatics…”

However, the two men in golden robes seemed not to have heard the woman's words, merely tightening the chain wrapped around her fair neck.

The woman groaned again…

“Ignorant betrayer, the merciful Holy God will forgive your mistakes, cleanse your defiled soul, and make you his most loyal subject…”

Having captured a member of the Water Moon Immortal Palace, the two golden-robed men were clearly satisfied and intended to retract the chain and return to report their success…

However, in the very next second, an unexpected change occurred; the figure of a White-Robed Man appeared like a ghost behind the two golden-robed men…

Sensing the wind behind them, the two golden-robed men were just about to turn their heads when a colossal force appeared out of thin air, directly crushing their heads!