Translator: CinderTL
Under the barrage of silver-white thunderlight, Peach Blossom True Immortal's mana shield shattered instantly, and he was sent flying into the sky by the thunderous impact.
Song Wen's Thunder Kui Wings fluttered slightly behind him, a flicker of surprise crossing his eyes.
Since enhancing his Thunder Art Talent at the Imperial Thunder God's Sacrifice Platform, he hadn't had a proper opportunity to test the true power of his thunder magic. His previous opponents had either been too weak or too strong, leaving little room for his thunder magic to shine.
Today, facing Peach Blossom True Immortal, whose cultivation level was only slightly higher than his own, a casual strike from his Thunder Kui Wings had shattered the opponent's fully activated mana shield. Only then did Song Wen gain a rough understanding of the devastating power of his thunder magic.
Despite his racing thoughts, Song Wen didn't relent.
Peach Blossom True Immortal, hurled into the sky, desperately circulated his cultivation technique, attempting to mobilize his spiritual power and seize a sliver of hope.
However, the thunderous energy had already invaded his body, rampaging through his meridians and crippling his spiritual power flow.
At that moment, a cold glint flashed, piercing through his abdomen.
"No—!"
Peach Blossom True Immortal's eyes filled with despair.
The icy blade had shattered his dantian and nascent soul!
Song Wen unleashed two streams of spiritual power, sweeping Peach Blossom True Immortal and Rong Shu toward him and tossing them onto the ground before him.
The guards stationed at Peach Blossom Valley's Mountain Gate had all perished, victims of the stray thunderlight unleashed during Song Wen's battle with Peach Blossom True Immortal.
Yet the True Immortal's phoenix carriage had miraculously survived, revealing itself to be a low-grade spirit treasure.
Song Wen stood tall, gazing down at the two figures sprawled on the ground, his eyes glacial.
"I merely sought to cultivate in Peach Blossom Valley, but you courted death yourselves. Now I can't even seclude myself here."
Peach Blossom True Immortal, having lost all his cultivation in an instant, stared blankly ahead, his eyes filled with despair. He showed no reaction to Song Wen's words.
Rong Shu, meanwhile, gradually emerged from the agony of her divine soul injury. Though still in excruciating pain, her consciousness had finally cleared.
She tilted her head back, staring up at Song Wen in terror.
"You can't kill me! I'm a member of the Rong Clan and an Outer Sect Elder of the Divine Blood Gate. If you kill me, neither the Rong Clan nor the Divine Blood Gate will ever forgive you. If you spare my life, I'll pretend today never happened and never breathe a word of it to anyone..."
Song Wen had no patience for her pleas. He raised his hand and slashed through the air.
A palm print materialized in mid-air and struck Rong Shu's right cheek.
Slap!
Rong Shu's right cheek instantly became a bloody mess, teeth flying out, and even her right eyeball was knocked from its socket.
"D-don't... don't kill me," she stammered, her words slurred from missing teeth. "No one knows I came to Peach Blossom Valley. If you spare me, you can continue your secluded cultivation here undisturbed..."
Song Wen narrowed his eyes.
Rong Shu's proposal... wasn't entirely without merit.
"Senior Gu Que, how long would it take to enhance one's innate talent?" Song Wen asked in his sea of consciousness.
"In the immortal realm, I personally witnessed someone using a Spirit Herb to enhance their innate talent. It took them about a month and a half," Gu Que replied.
Song Wen pondered for a moment, then made his decision.
He turned his gaze to the Peach Blossom True Immortal lying on the ground.
"Tell me, how do I disable the restriction formation protecting your Mountain Gate?"
The Peach Blossom True Immortal glared fiercely at Song Wen.
"I've cultivated diligently for thousands of years, only to have my entire cultivation destroyed by you today! And now you dare to covet my cultivation cave? You're delusional!"
"Heh! Quite the stubborn one," Song Wen chuckled.
A surge of blood sea seeped from beneath his feet, engulfing the Peach Blossom True Immortal. When the blood sea receded, the True Immortal had vanished without a trace.
After interrogating Peach Blossom True Immortal's divine soul within his sea of consciousness, Song Wen retrieved an array disk from the immortal's storage ring.
This array disk controlled the defensive formation of Peach Blossom Valley.
According to Peach Blossom True Immortal, the thousands of miles of peach blossom forest surrounding the valley were also part of the defensive formation. If personally controlled by him, no one in the Body Integration Stage could breach it.
However, Song Wen had not yet refined the array disk or the formation flags used to deploy the formation, so he couldn't unleash its true power. Only because Peach Blossom True Immortal was dead, causing the divine soul imprint on the array disk to dissipate, and because Song Wen had obtained the control methods from the immortal, could he barely operate the formation.
As Song Wen channeled several magic seals into the array disk, the barrier before the Mountain Gate vanished abruptly.
He strode toward the gate, Rong Shu trailing behind him, dragged by spiritual power.
Entering the Mountain Gate, the scene before them opened up dramatically.
Surrounded by verdant peaks, the valley formed a natural basin.
Spiritual Qi permeated the air, and the flat terrain had been cultivated into neat Spirit Fields, where various exotic flowers and spirit grasses flourished.
At the foot of the distant mountains, wooden pavilions dotted the landscape.
At the heart of these pavilions stood a White Jade Palace.
Within the palace and pavilions, the figures of cultivators could be seen—over a thousand in total, all of them women of exceptional beauty.
The women had clearly noticed the commotion outside the Mountain Gate. Some nervously peered toward the entrance, while others cowered in their rooms, trembling with fear.
Song Wen paid them no mind. The strongest among them was only at the mid-void refinement stage, posing no threat.
His gaze settled on the rare flowers and spirit grass thriving in the Spirit Field.
But after a moment, a faint flicker of disappointment crossed his eyes.
Rumor had it that Peach Blossom Valley cultivated a variety of rare Spirit Herbs.
Yet what lay before him were merely ordinary Spirit Herbs, hardly deserving the label "precious and rare."
Dragging Rong Shu along, Song Wen's figure flickered, and he materialized before the entrance to the White Jade Palace.
The already terrified women surrounding him scattered like startled birds, trembling and barely daring to breathe, their eyes wide with fear and panic as they stared at Song Wen.
"S-Senior..."
A female cultivator in the Divine Transformation Stage, forcing herself to remain calm, mustered the courage to speak.
But before she could utter a word, an overwhelming, abyss-like aura swept over her, as if a mountain had crashed into her.
The cultivator gasped, her eyes instantly losing their light. Her delicate body went limp, and she collapsed silently to the ground.
As if triggered by a chain reaction, one female cultivator after another fell unconscious.
In an instant, only Song Wen remained standing alone in the mountain valley.
Next, Song Wen channeled his divine sense power to unleash the God-Slaying Thorn, further crippling Rong Shu's divine soul and rendering her unconscious.
Song Wen collected the storage rings from Rong Shu and all the other women, then tossed them into the White Jade Palace.
After setting up concealment and defensive formations in the valley, Song Wen retrieved a meditation cushion, sat cross-legged on the flat ground outside the palace, and closed his eyes to meditate.
(End of the Chapter)
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