Chapter 464: Painfully Losing an Opportunity

Daoist Buyu had already calculated everything upon receiving his good disciple's letter.

A battle was unavoidable; while he could briefly hold his own against a Tribulation Passage cultivator of Great Yu, he would certainly be the one to suffer in a prolonged fight.

The letter had stated that the powerhouses of the imperial court and the five great immortal sects had already been dispatched, and what he needed to do was unleash a grand, thunderous battle to attract attention and hold out until they arrived to help.

"Senior Chen Tao," Daoist Buyu muttered, looking up at the sky, his mind completely at ease.

The Luoshui Guards were the imperial court’s specialized agency for dealing with rogue cultivators and ancient cultivators, and the nine most powerful among them were known as the "Nine Palaces." As the head of the Nine Palaces, Chen Tao possessed unfathomable strength and cultivation.

In terms of seniority, Chen Tao was half a generation higher than Daoist Buyu’s own master, a true, genuine old monster.

Dispatching Chen Tao showed just how much importance the court attached to the Great Yu cultivators.

"Pah!" Daoist Buyu spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, grimacing in pain as he felt like his body was falling apart.

During the fight just now, he had used sword qi to sustain his body and temporarily boost his physical strength; now that the sword qi had dispersed, his injuries erupted violently, every single acupoint bleeding. Within a few breaths, his clothes were soaked through with blood, turning him into a bloody figure.

"They really hit hard," Daoist Buyu muttered, fishing several supreme-grade grand pills with pill cloud patterns and a nose-piercing fragrance out of his sleeve, swallowing them all in one gulp.

His wounds gradually healed, and he felt much more comfortable.

"Cleanse body, cleanse clothes."

Daoist Buyu cast the Body Cleansing Technique and the Clothes Cleansing Technique; the bloodstains vanished, his clothes became as clean as new, and his body felt light.

"Seventh Senior Brother's pills are truly effective."

The grand pills he had just consumed were rare elixirs refined by the Seventh Elder using the roots of the Minor Medicine King, something that could not be exchanged for a thousand pieces of gold and could serve as the grand finale at a Body Integration level auction, exceedingly precious.

Daoist Buyu traveled all year round, and encountering danger was inevitable, so he always carried life-saving pills with him.

"Luoshui Guard Chen Tao?" Venerable Dawn stared intently at the elderly man who had appeared out of nowhere, not daring to be the least bit careless.

He felt a dense, oppressive threat emanating from Chen Tao.

"Run!"

This place was not suitable for a long stay; he had to flee immediately!

"I'll see just where you can run to!" Another voice materialized behind Venerable Dawn.

Venerable Dawn whipped his head around, only to discover that another Tribulation Passage cultivator had actually arrived!

Below, Daoist Buyu recognized the newcomer, who was also one of the Nine Palaces of the Luoshui Guards.

"The Luoshui Guards have three Tribulation Passage cultivators in total, and the court sent out two in one go; they really went all out." The more people arrived, the happier Daoist Buyu became, as it meant the probability of Venerable Dawn escaping grew smaller.

The newcomer gave Venerable Dawn no time to react; a grand river of talismanic dao flowed out from the void, converging into chains of law, intending to capture Venerable Dawn alive!

Seeing that things were going south, Venerable Dawn noticed that the talismans were naturally formed like a trickling, endless river, which meant his opponent had achieved great mastery as a talisman cultivator. Being bound by chains woven by a talisman master, he feared he would not be able to break free in a short time.

He soared into the sky, attempting to break through the encirclement of the two Tribulation Passage cultivators.

"Want to run? Have you asked our Wendao Sect yet!" Master Ba's voice boomed above Venerable Dawn's head as he stepped down right into Venerable Dawn's face.

Master Ba stood at the formation eye, forming a lockdown at the highest point above Dingxin City, while the Third Elder and others occupied the positions of the Seven Stars.

The Seven Stars guarding the center, the Polaris Formation!

Venerable Dawn did not entangle himself with Master Ba and the others; he manifested his Asura Body, the Asura raging and shattering space.

Just as he was about to dive into the spatial rift, a voice echoed from within it.

"Do you think my Zhenyu Sect is absent?"

Numerous ancient ferocious beasts crawled out of the spatial rift—Dijiang, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, Chaos, and more—their faces hideous, teeth bared, their bodies as massive as mountains, emitting a terrifying primordial aura!

Eight powerhouse figures walked out from the spatial rift, their bodies adorned with tattoos of these ancient ferocious beasts.

The Battle Tattoo Cultivation Method of the Zhenyu Sect!

"My Wuxing Sect..."

"My Laurel Immortal Palace..."

"The Hanging Temple..."

The Hanging Temple had only sent one person, the supervisor of the temple, whose combat prowess was not inferior to Qiu Jin'an!

There were also civil officials and military generals sent by the imperial court, all of them high-spirited and raring for a fight.

The two from the Nine Palaces of the Luoshui Guards had the highest cultivation and arrived the fastest; soon, the Body Integration cultivators of the five great immortal sects arrived one after another above Dingxin City, surrounding it so tightly that not even water could trickle through.

Counting them all up, there were actually over forty Body Integration cultivators who had arrived here.

Moreover, these Body Integration stage experts were all from the five great immortal sects, and any one of them pulled out at random was more capable of fighting than an ordinary Body Integration cultivator.

With two of the Nine Palaces plus the immortal sect Body Integration cultivators, if this lineup were to fight, even if Wu Youdao and his two companions came, they would only have to take a beating submissively.

Even if Wu Youdao and the other two obtained the power of the Barren State's national destiny and Wu Youdao's Dragon-Tiger Qi underwent a transformation, they still wouldn't be able to beat these people!

To prevent another Hanshui City incident from happening, the imperial court and the immortal sects had deliberately mobilized a large number of personnel to completely sweep away the potential dangers in Jizhou!

It could be said that as long as a Great Yu cultivator dared to show their face, they would face a unified strike from the righteous path!

By the same token, Daoist Buyu did not dare to show his face either.

The people of Dingxin City had never seen such a scene; they could not distinguish who was at the Tribulation Passage stage or who was at the Body Integration stage, and they didn't even know that any random person here was stronger than the City Lord of Dingxin City.

The City Lord of Dingxin City was only at the Void Refinement stage.

But this did not stop them from becoming excited, cheering and jumping for joy; they had been tortured by the rules set by Venerable Dawn for too long, and a slight violation of a rule would mean the threat of death, making them live each day with absolute caution.

"Boss, I'll take my leave first, until we meet again." Daoist Buyu bid farewell to the already dumbfounded teahouse owner.

The teahouse owner was actually a cultivator, just with low cultivation, who had opened a tavern in Dingxin City to pass the time.

He could vaguely judge that the cultivation of these cultivators was even higher than the City Lord's, making them the top powerhouses of the cultivation world.

In nearly a hundred years, such a number of supreme cultivation masters had not actioned together; even now, he could not believe the scene he was witnessing.

"Ah, you are leaving?" The teahouse owner wanted to urge Daoist Buyu to stay. Just now, Daoist Buyu had spoken with a resolve to face death, looking like he was going to fight desperately against Venerable Dawn, so why was he leaving now that Hanshui City was saved?

"If I don't leave now, I won't be able to leave at all." Daoist Buyu did not explain too much to the teahouse owner, slipping away while everyone's attention was focused on Venerable Dawn.

"Capture him alive!" Chen Tao gave the order, being the first to strike instead.

He bit his fingertip, and drops of golden blood flew out, transforming into divine weapons and sharp instruments, flying toward Venerable Dawn like a curtain of rain.

"It's been a long time since I've seen Senior Chen Tao's Hundred Refined Divine Weapons!" The people of the immortal sects lamented while striking along with Chen Tao, their chaotic variety of attack styles leaving Venerable Dawn with absolutely no power to fight back.

Despair grew in Venerable Dawn's heart, and he was ultimately bound by the rule chains transformed from talismans, unable to mobilize a single bit of his cultivation.

"We finally caught one!" Chen Tao sneered. Up until now, the Great Yu cultivators had all been caught by the Wendao Sect, and now it was finally the court's turn.

"By the way, where did the cultivator who fought evenly with Dawn just now go?"

When he arrived, Chen Tao's attention had been entirely on Venerable Dawn, and he hadn't noticed who was fighting against him.

"Ask the City Lord, he must have seen it," Master Ba suggested.

Being stared at by a group of powerhouses whose cultivation far exceeded his own, the City Lord trembled all over, drawing a face that everyone was extremely familiar with.

"Damn it, we let that brat Buyu escape!"

Everyone slapped their thighs in frustration, looking as if they had missed out on a heavenly opportunity.

If Daoist Buyu were here, what a wonderful opportunity for revenge it would have been!

"Subject Dawn to harsh torture and interrogation, if it weren't for him, the silent brat would have escaped by now!"

Venerable Dawn: "..."

Wasn't it said that the cultivators of the Great Xia lived together in peace? It certainly did not look that way.

The second update will be at eleven o'clock.

(End of this chapter)