Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 1389 - 1385: Countermeasures

Chu Zhiyuan smiled.

This Heart Inquiry Needle is somewhat similar to my Heart Inquiry Blade, but its power far surpasses it. Ten Heart Inquiry Blades wouldn’t match a single Heart Inquiry Needle.

If not for the Divine Flower, the only option would have been to flee back to the Heaven-Reaching Sect’s main hall and rely on their forces to resist.

Fortunately, with the Divine Flower, it could be said to return their own strategy against them.

The power of this Heart Inquiry Needle is far greater than the Heart Inquiry Blade, but it is inferior to the Divine Flower.

Moreover, the Heart Inquiry Needle consumes immense spiritual power, and the Sect Hierarch of the Flower God Sect is lacking in spiritual power.

With such consumption, the Heart Inquiry Needle is destined to retreat.

Suddenly, he concentrated on the Divine Flower.

The Divine Flower shone brightly, suddenly wrapping around the Heart Inquiry Needle, with a continuous "ding ding ding ding."

In a moment, it had already collided dozens of times.

Chu Zhiyuan had a smile on the corner of his mouth.

He already saw that the power of the Heart Inquiry Needle was rebounding back to the old man with the purple face.

The old man’s purple face grew paler, his eyes somewhat dazed, barely able to withstand it.

"Ding ding ding ding..."

The collisions between the Divine Flower and the Heart Inquiry Needle grew more rapid, far surpassing before.

The old man’s eyes were completely glazed over.

In the next moment, Chu Zhiyuan suddenly stepped forward and reached out.

The Divine Flower and the Heart Inquiry Needle disappeared simultaneously.

The next moment, they appeared in the Jade Sea and Sky within the Lao Gong Acupoint.

The Heart Inquiry Needle trembled suddenly, froze in place, suspended in midair.

At the same time, the old man with the purple face trembled, and his complexion changed drastically.

"Sect Hierarch?"

The old man’s face was ashen with a stormy expression.

He had already lost connection with the Heart Inquiry Needle, an invisible power severing the connection of heart and spirit.

This was akin to losing the Heart Inquiry Needle, just like losing the Divine Flower before.

"Sect Hierarch, are you alright?" an Elder asked gently.

The others stared at him.

The old man with the purple face slowly said, "It’s fine; he must be injured, and won’t come again for a while."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sect Hierarch, have you killed him?" a middle-aged man asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, Sect Hierarch, have you killed him?"

The old man with the purple face shook his head.

Everyone was immediately disappointed.

"Sect Hierarch, even such a Divine Artifact as the Heart Inquiry Needle can’t kill him?"

"Impossible?"

"Well, if you think about it, even the previous Sect Hierarch couldn’t kill him with the Divine Flower!"

"If we can’t kill him, what should we do?"

"The next time he comes back, we’ll use the final move, and he’ll be dead for sure!" the old man with the purple face said sternly.

"What move?" everyone was curious.

The old man with the purple face looked up into the void.

Everyone instantly perked up.

"Right, with this move, he’ll undoubtedly die!"

"So, everyone, don’t worry. Cultivate well, and don’t let him disrupt your hearts!"

"Yes!"

The old man with the purple face said sternly, "The stronger your cultivation, the more powerful the Divine Flower becomes."

"Sect Hierarch, rest assured, we will not slack off," a young man gritted his teeth: "We won’t let him off!"

"I wish he’d come again!" another middle-aged man said in a deep voice: "Avenge our brothers!"

"Yes, avenge our seniors and juniors!"

"Revenge!"

"Revenge!"

...

"Then cultivate well, off you go now." The old man with the purple face waved his hand.

His voice was calm and leisurely, clearly reaching everyone’s ears.

Everyone gritted their teeth as they turned and returned to their courtyards to begin diligently cultivating.

The old man with the purple face let out a long breath.

Only a few Elders remained around him.

They were silent.

They were not so easily placated, knowing that using the final move wasn’t so easy.

Besides, if the final move failed to kill that guy, the Flower God Sect would cease to exist.

"Let’s go inside and talk." The old man with the purple face turned and walked toward the central great hall.

Once inside, he invited the others to sit down.

He himself sat in the central Taishi Chair, and slowly said: "Tell me, how should we deal with him?"

The Elders and upper management sat solemnly in their Taishi Chairs.

The atmosphere in the bright and gentle great hall was as if frozen, silent enough to hear a pin drop, and not even the sound of breath could be heard.

The old man with the purple face slowly asked: "Through these two secret attacks, can we discern who he really is?"

A middle-aged man looked around and, seeing no one speaking, lightly coughed: "Sect Hierarch, I have a suspicion."

"Junior Brother Yang, let’s hear it." The old man with the purple face nodded gently.

"I suspect that this guy is likely the previous Zhu Lingyun!"

"The Zhu Lingyun sent by the Green Bamboo Sect? The Green Bamboo Sect has no grudge against us, right?"

"The Green Bamboo Sect certainly bears no grudge, but don’t forget, where is that guy from!"

"Zhu Lingyun... Biyuan Heaven..."

"I think, perhaps he knows what we did in Biyuan Heaven."

"Impossible!"

Several middle-aged men and Elders shook their heads.

What the Flower God Sect did in Biyuan Heaven is almost impossible for anyone to know.

Those who witnessed it have already been wiped out.

There were never any survivors, so it was naturally impossible for the information to leak.

The disciples of the Flower God Sect wouldn’t leak either.

The middle-aged man said solemnly: "It’s also impossible for us to be ambushed but fail to kill the assailant; what in this world is truly impossible?"

"Then how did he find out?"

"It might just be a coincidence; there are no walls without cracks in this world."

"Still seems impossible..."

The crowd debated, while the old man with the purple face pondered.

He closed his eyes and said nothing.

The debates gradually quieted down.

Everyone looked at the old man with the purple face.

"Junior Brother Yang’s judgment is reasonable." He finally said slowly: "Junior Brother Yang, continue."

The middle-aged man said: "Think about where he started his attacks, with Brother Zhou and Brother Mo, the ones who were transmitting."

Everyone frowned.

"And this time, the attack started with the junior brothers repairing the array." The middle-aged man said coldly: "Clearly, he doesn’t want us to go to Biyuan Heaven."

"If we don’t go to Biyuan Heaven..." an elder with a round face said slowly: "Will there be no more attacks on us?"

The middle-aged man said: "When we didn’t plan on repairing the array, he didn’t act."

The elder with the round face said: "If we don’t repair the array again, won’t it prevent his attacks?"

"Master Hu, wouldn’t that be too weak?"

"Indeed, too weak."

"Weak? This isn’t weakness but considering the bigger picture," the round-faced elder shook his head: "The key now isn’t to indulge in temporary bravado, but to gather strength...once our strength is strong enough, there will be a chance to kill him!"

Everyone fell silent.

They lacked confidence.

Even at their strongest, they were ambushed and assassinated; now, much weaker than before, how could they fend him off?

"No need to worry too much," the old man with the purple face said: "He secretly attacked us, but the Divine Flower and Heart Inquiry Needle didn’t leave him unscathed, plus we have the final kill move!"

Everyone slowly nodded.

The old man with the purple face said: "If he was truly unscathed, he wouldn’t wait for us to try to repair the array, he would have struck while we were at our weakest, to eradicate us!"

Everyone’s spirits were lifted.

"So, he has concerns and doesn’t dare act rashly, let’s not provoke him," the old man with the purple face said: "I believe it will be peaceful."

"Sect Hierarch, when can we seek revenge then?!" a square-faced middle-aged man asked, gritting his teeth.

His eyes burned with intent to kill.

The old man with the purple face said: "That depends on when we can find the right spiritual artifacts and surpass our past cultivation."

The square-faced middle-aged man said solemnly: "I believe this time the disciples will strive to cultivate rapidly."

"Those twice instigations ensure they won’t slack like before."

"I also believe our sect will soon recover to its peak, but the key now is to find means to counter his movement technique and Miracle Technique."

"For spiritual artifacts to counter such ambushes, Yellow Leaf Valley and Nanyang Peak have them."

"Then find a way to acquire them."