Chapter 265: Chapter 263: Extreme Perfect Realm
Nangong Jinjie was about to lose his mind!
The remaining four Nangong Family Descendants were even more panicked and uneasy, afraid they would be the next to be attacked by the Forbidden Force.
Their faces were pale, and they desperately wanted to retreat. But without an order from Nangong Jinjie, they didn’t dare leave on their own.
The way everyone looked at the Nangong Family Descendants was incredibly strange.
Moreover, they consciously distanced themselves from the Nangong Family group, afraid of getting caught in the crossfire.
"What is the meaning of this? The ones dying are from my Nangong Family! Aren’t you going to do anything? We will be taking a larger share of the Divine Treasures from the Holy Spirit Land later!"
Nangong Jinjie said, gritting his teeth.
"I have no problem with that. Whoever has more people die gets a bigger share. It’s only right!"
Ling Dong’s voice rang out, full of schadenfreude.
"Alright, that’s enough. Let’s keep moving. It seems this Forbidden Array is unexpectedly powerful and not as calm as we imagined. Everyone, be careful!"
In the end, it was the second senior brother of the Flowing Cloud Sect who spoke up, and only then did the descendants of the Noble Families and Sects continue forward. But every one of them felt a heavy weight on their hearts.
Back at the Holy Spirit Land, Jiang Jichen once again rushed out of the Forbidden Array and ducked into the Ancient Medicine Cauldron.
This time, he was still covered in blood, his skin split and flesh torn open, his body riddled with Blood Caves, and his white bones exposed!
He looked incredibly miserable, but relatively speaking, he was in better shape than last time.
By the time he emerged from the Ancient Medicine Cauldron again, he was completely healed. He could even feel his physical body had grown stronger, as if wisps of golden lightning were coursing over his skin.
"Again!"
Feeling his body grow stronger and seeing the obvious effects of tempering it in the Forbidden Array, Jiang Jichen now completely immersed himself in his Body Refining.
Killing those Noble Family Descendants had become almost an afterthought.
PFFT!
Another descendant from the Nangong Family fell, decapitated by the Forbidden Force.
Nangong Jinjie wanted to cry. He had no idea why this Forbidden Array was only targeting people from the Nangong Family.
Meanwhile, the descendants from the other Noble Families were completely unharmed.
"It looks like this Forbidden Array only targets people with the Nangong surname. We have nothing to worry about, haha..."
They had seen three members of the Nangong Family die in a row, while they themselves remained unscathed.
Aside from the few remaining members of the Nangong Family, who wore sullen expressions with terror in their eyes, the descendants from the other families began to relax again.
"As long as there are disciples with the Nangong surname around, they’ll take the brunt of the danger for us. We’ll be fine, don’t worry!"
Ling Dong spoke gleefully, looking completely at ease.
He felt great seeing Nangong Jinjie suffer.
Inside the Exquisite Treasure Tower, the person Ling Dong loathed most was obviously Jiang Jichen, with Nangong Jinjie being a close second.
’The only reason I didn’t manage to kill Jiang Jichen before was because of that dumbass Nangong Jinjie,’ he thought.
However, if Ling Dong knew that in Nangong Jinjie’s heart, he was also a dumbass, one wonders how he would feel.
Nangong Jinjie was trembling with rage, but there was nothing he could do.
The Forbidden Force struck without warning, making it impossible to defend against.
But he had noticed a pattern. The Forbidden Force seemed to appear about once every quarter-hour to kill one of the family disciples by his side.
They had now reached the middle section of the Forbidden Array, and he was unwilling to give up now.
So, gritting his teeth, Nangong Jinjie led the three remaining family disciples forward.
PFFT!
But in less than a quarter-hour, another blast of the Forbidden Force appeared without warning. A Nangong Family disciple was sliced in half, and the might of the Forbidden Force seemed to have... grown stronger!
Many people couldn’t help but gasp, their faces flashing with alarm and their eyes filled with dread.
Nangong Jinjie’s face was ashen. He no longer even had the strength to go berserk with anger.
He could only give a helpless command, "You two, get out of the Forbidden Array as fast as you can!"
The two remaining Nangong Family Descendants hesitated for a moment and asked, "What about you, Young Master?"
"That last attack was powerful, but it wasn’t enough to break through the defense of my Secret Artifact. I must get the Divine Treasure of the Holy Spirit Land and the treasures on Jiang Jichen this time. Otherwise, there’s no way to make up for our losses!"
Nangong Jinjie snarled, his eyes bloodshot as he gritted his teeth.
In the end, the two Nangong Family Descendants fled back the way they came, leaving Nangong Jinjie as the sole remaining member of the Nangong Family group.
Many people looked at Nangong Jinjie with pity, which made his expression turn ugly. He felt it was a profound humiliation.
A stifling frustration brewed within him, with no outlet, so he could only continue forward in silence.
’Hmph, there are no more Nangong Family Descendants besides me. It should be your turn to get attacked now, right?’ he thought, fuming at the injustice.
PFFT!
However, this time, less than ten minutes passed before someone was decapitated.
This time, the one who died was a disciple from Lingxu Temple!
"Haha... So satisfying!"
In that instant, Nangong Jinjie suddenly burst into wild laughter. The gloom in his heart was swept away as he shouted in delight.
Conversely, Ling Dong’s expression instantly turned grim to the extreme.
By this point, they had reached the final stretch of the Forbidden Array. Just a little further and they would reach the Holy Spirit Land.
Retreating now would be a huge waste.
They were actually very puzzled. Logically, the passage they had constructed with the Array-Avoidance Pearl should have been very stable. Why was the Forbidden Force piercing through it?
Furthermore, the Forbidden Force seemed to be sentient, targeting only disciples from the Nangong Family and Lingxu Temple, and it specifically picked targets it could kill in a single strike.
But they could never have imagined that Jiang Jichen was orchestrating all of this from the shadows.
By now, Jiang Jichen had gone in and out of the Forbidden Array five times.
The Spiritual Liquid in the Ancient Medicine Cauldron had been dyed blood-red, and its Spiritual Power was almost depleted.
Meanwhile, Jiang Jichen’s physical body had grown terrifyingly strong. Within his Body’s Innate Acupoints, a seven-colored light was already swirling. He was just a hair’s breadth away from truly reaching the limit of the Innate Body Refining Tenth Realm.
If he could also temper his Mortal Body Acupoints until they swirled with seven colors, then it would be truly perfect.
However, his body had already developed an immunity to this Forbidden Array, and he could no longer use it for tempering.
Only by finding a higher-level Forbidden Array next time and tempering his body more thoroughly could he step into the... Extreme Hatred Perfect Realm!
Now, he could come and go as he pleased within this Forbidden Array, sustaining only minuscule damage. For Jiang Jichen, who had endured the agony of having his bones scraped and flesh flayed, it was less than a scratch.
’My training is complete. It’s time to go meet those treacherous little villains who plotted against me. They actually want to take my treasures? Hmph, I’ll let them see just how formidable I, Jiang Jichen, can be!’
Jiang Jichen smiled arrogantly. With a flick of his sleeve, he put away the Ancient Medicine Cauldron and strode confidently into the Forbidden Array.
From a distance, he spotted Ling Dong and Nangong Jinjie. He smiled faintly and called out, "Brother Ling Dong, good to see you! We must be fated to meet. And, uh... you’re here too, little bitch Nangong Jinjie? What a coincidence!"
Instantly, the advancing disciples from the various Family Sects froze as if they had been struck by a hundred thousand bolts of heavenly lightning, their faces a mask of utter disbelief...
