Immortal of the Ages - Chapter 767: Who's the One Actually Trapped?

The War Princess hadn’t grasped the meaning behind Zhao Menglin’s words at all. She knew Zhao Menglin was out to get her but hadn’t figured out why, perhaps thinking she found out they had stolen the Six-Hearted Serpent.

The War Princess didn’t understand, but Yun Xiao did.

With a snort, he couldn’t hold back his laughter. He had thought these celestial maidens of the Extreme Yin Celestial Realm harbored only desires for cultivation and strife, procreating by drinking from Divine Springs, living otherwise without wants or needs!

It turned out they were so desperate that even the War Princess was seen as a strong recruit.

If the War Princess ever came to realize this, she’d likely have a fit.

“You wretched slave…” Zhao Menglin knew the War Princess was quite dim-witted and naive. Even though most people would get the meaning behind her words, what was with this slave?

He understood and laughed? That was odd!

The slaves of the Extreme Yin Celestial Realm had mostly lost their wills and spines. Their lives, marked by obedience, numbness, and compliance, were akin to that of dogs.

How could a dog laugh? Did it suddenly become enlightened?

Zhao Menglin’s expression turned speechless in an instant. Fortunately, just then, the moment she had been waiting for arrived!

BOOM! Her entire Menglin Pavilion suddenly trembled. Then, a series of clanging sounds echoed, and the whole dark shop shook violently.

Soon, inscriptions surged across the shop’s floors, tiles, walls, pillars, and ceiling, forming dense celestial arrays!

Even a potted plant was shielded within these dark, eerie celestial arrays!

As for the explicitly priced treasures, they too were instantly enveloped by the celestial arrays, isolating them from Yun Xiao and the War Princess!

BOOM! Even the last chamber’s ice sarcophagus slammed shut, its surface covered with a dark wave-like celestial formation that emitted a bone-chilling coldness, hiding the Sword Hearts from view!

All these sudden changes trapped Yun Xiao and the War Princess, who were just out browsing, within the prison of celestial arrays. They couldn’t touch the treasures, much less think of escape.

“Well, this shady shop sure plays rough!” the War Princess said exasperatedly.

No wonder Zhao Menglin feared neither theft nor robbery of her possessions. And it was no surprise she displayed the Sword Hearts so openly.

What was there to fear? Her entire shop was a cage; others merely entered her prison to shop. What concern could she possibly have?

She was the very same who, in a fit of rage from losing the Six-Hearted Beast, had doubled the torment on her junior sisters!

BOOM! The celestial array activated and clamped down like a prison lid.

Zhao Menglin relaxed her posture, nonchalantly covering her mouth to laugh, “Alright, the shop’s closed, the array’s active, it’s time you listened.”

“Listen to what?” the War Princess sneered coldly.

“Still playing the fool, you dumb little chick,” Zhao Menglin snapped impatiently.

“You’re the dumb chick, you old broiler!” the War Princess retorted.

At this, Zhao Menglin’s temper slowly flared.

“Are you truly this brash? Why?” Even someone as seasoned as her was losing her patience.

“Because I’m your senior,” the War Princess chuckled. How was she not afraid despite such dire straits? She wasn’t entirely sure herself! Mainly because Yun Xiao seemed unafraid, so she continued to play tough.

At that moment, Yun Xiao suddenly said, “Zhao Menglin, did you ever consider that my mistress, being such a rare gem, already belongs to another, well beyond your reach?”

At his words, Zhao Menglin was visibly shaken, her brows furrowing deeply. Because Yun Xiao made a solid point! Such a prize surely already enjoyed the favor of another…

“Hah, good joke!” Zhao Menglin, momentarily fearful, quickly caught herself. Her gaze piercingly cold, she hissed at Yun Xiao, “If she truly had a backer, they’d never show their face in a humble shop like this. Their existence would be a guarded secret, never flaunted openly.”

Her reasoning was crystal clear, and Yun Xiao knew he couldn’t deceive her.

“Furthermore!” Zhao Menglin glared at Yun Xiao, snarling, “You little mutt, dare to speak over your betters? Haven’t you already been stripped clean of your essence?”

She had no patience to hear anything more from Yun Xiao! And just as she finished speaking, a black Flying Sword, one with 300 Sword Prisons, suddenly shot towards Yun Xiao’s chest!

The Flying Sword did not pierce Yun Xiao, but instead seemed to be clamped down by something. With a loud blast, shards of teeth were sent scattering through the air.

“My baby teeth are shattered, dang it!” Red Moon howled.

BOOM! Yun Xiao was hurled backward, crashing into the ice sarcophagus behind him. The black celestial array on the coffin trembled violently, and dark serpents unfurled, binding him as securely as ropes on a bound bull.

PUFF! The fierce impact forced blood from Yun Xiao’s mouth.

Even with the protection of Blue Star and Red Moon, he was injured, a rarity that highlighted his shallow foundations.

The instantaneous assault of a 300 Sword Prison Flying Sword demonstrated Zhao Menglin’s profound mastery, acquired during the Fourth Dao Tribulation—a level of prowess not shared by the likes of the Divine Imperial Son or the goose-yellow girl.

Her sword was a brutal weapon of slaughter, quick to kill without negotiation.

“He’s not dead?!” Zhao Menglin was genuinely surprised; her strike, intended to kill, had failed to finish a mere Third Dao Tribulation slave. Ordinarily, one blow could slaughter 100…

Her interest piqued! This slave’s oddities had truly caught her attention.

“You’ve got some nerve, boy. I’ll flay you myself to see what’s hidden underneath.” Zhao Menglin drew her Flying Sword, transforming it suddenly into a black Palm Sword.

The sword’s aura surged like a dark, chilling river, sweeping cold across the shop, turning it into a cavernous abyss of shadow.

“Cough, cough.” Yun Xiao coughed a few times, clearing the blood from his mouth.

“Are you alright…” The War Princess looked at him with concern, instinctively pulling at the dark serpents and grasping Yun Xiao’s arm.

This caused Zhao Menglin’s pupils to shrink!

“Something’s very wrong with these two!”

Such closeness between a mistress and slave was absolutely forbidden in the Extreme Yin Celestial Realm!

“You are in deep trouble.” Zhao Menglin sneered darkly, a crushing force sweeping towards them, her presence like a cold tidal wave covering the skies.

At that moment, Yun Xiao suddenly looked up, his stern face breaking into a cold laugh as murderous intent flashed across his features!

“It’s you who’s in deep trouble!”

In his hand, Yun Xiao suddenly brandished a three-foot azure blade. Compared to the abyssal darkness of her Sword Soul, this azure blade seemed as frail as a leaf. But, as he raised the sword, the ice sarcophagus behind him shook violently as if coming back to life.

“What is that?!” Zhao Menglin gasped.

BOOM! The ice sarcophagus exploded suddenly, ripping a gap in the dark shop’s celestial arrays. A hundred Sword Hearts, like pilgrims possessed, crashed into the Heaven Burial Sword Soul, seeking what seemed like their greatest liberation in life.

With the power of 100 Sword Hearts converging, the Heaven Burial Sword Soul transformed into a fierce azure-black dragon, spiraling above Yun Xiao’s head and unleashing a devastating force.

The cold murderous intent on the young man’s face mirrored the destructive fury of the dark azure dragon.

“My Sword Hearts!!” Zhao Menglin felt as if her heart was bleeding. Her treasured possessions, how could they vanish, how could they become someone else’s power!

She knew the force of these 100 Sword Hearts if unleashed normally! Now, absorbed simultaneously under inexplicable circumstances, their power was magnified…

What she didn’t realize was that these Sword Hearts were no longer just hearts; they had become part of the Heaven Burial Sword Soul, which now held the true power.

“Indeed, they are your Sword Hearts, returned to you! Everything else in your shop is mine now!” Yun Xiao declared abruptly.

Freshly arrived, he was in dire need of his first true fortune.

“What?” Zhao Menglin, her long dress swirling in the tempest, her face marked with cold fury and rising anger, snapped, “To hell with you!”

She transformed into a dark blur, charging furiously at Yun Xiao!

“Go!” Expressionless, Yun Xiao unleashed the full destructive force of the Heaven Burial Soul Sword, commanding his Buddha’s Treasure Spirit to steer the Flying Sword. The dark azure dragon opened its maw in the cramped space, colliding violently with Zhao Menglin.

ROAR! The dark azure dragon swept through destructively!

“AGH!” Zhao Menglin screamed agonizingly as her head was obliterated into dust, her headless corpse collapsing onto the ice coffin beside Yun Xiao!

“How can those Sword Hearts be this strong…” Her spirit, emerging dazed from the corpse, cried miserably.

Yun Xiao, with the Buddha’s Treasure Spirit guiding the Flying Sword, approached Zhao Menglin’s spirit. As he delivered her spirit to the beyond, he said, “I’ll take your shop, no thanks needed. Oh, and just so you know, I took the Six-Hearted Serpent too.”

“Ahh!” In a mix of despair and unwillingness, Zhao Menglin dissipated into nothingness.