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Chapter 329 A Slight Move

Chapter 329 A Slight Move

Watching that fleeing figure, Lin Yunsheng's sense of pleasure reached its peak.

happy!

That was so satisfying!

But he came out today not just to vent his frustrations.

He wouldn't be able to sleep soundly unless he completely sealed the grudge between Jingang Temple and Qingfeng Ridge.

Lin Yunsheng took a deep breath, his magical power surged, and his energy settled in his dantian.

The next moment, he channeled all his mid-stage fourth-tier mana, and his voice boomed like thunder, instantly echoing across thousands of miles of land and sky.

"Hahaha!"

"The dignified Abbot of the Dharma Hall of Vajra Temple actually disregarded the rules of the cultivation world and provoked Qingfeng Ridge, only to be severely injured by the late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch of Qingfeng Ridge!"

"We'll have to come up with a huge amount of compensation after we get back!"

"Attempting to steal a chicken but losing the rice instead, the behavior of the Vajra Temple is truly despicable!"

The roaring sound echoed through the mountains, startling countless birds and monsters.

Cultivators within a radius of thousands of miles, whether they were passing rogue cultivators or old monsters in seclusion, all clearly heard these words at this moment.

Combined with the shockwaves from the previous earth-shattering battle, everyone immediately formed a plan.

It seems the rumors were true; Vajra Temple has really suffered a major setback this time.

After doing all this, Lin Yunsheng clapped his hands, a sinister and triumphant smile appearing on his face.

Only by stirring up the water can this fish thrive.

Now, the Vajra Temple has lost face and will surely hate Qingfeng Ridge to the core.

With the two families locked in a blood feud, who would have time to care about this little Qingyun Cave Heaven?

"Let's go home and have a drink!"

Lin Yunsheng hummed a little tune happily, then rode his escape light and flew towards the direction of Qingyun Cave.

For a Nascent Soul cultivator, a journey of ten thousand miles is merely a matter of an hour or two.

Lin Yunsheng's trip today went well, and he was completely relaxed.

however.

He was in the sky above a desolate plain, 30,000 miles away from the grotto.

A sudden change occurred.

The once azure sky was now tinged with a faint golden light.

At first, there were only a few scattered spots, like dust particles under the afternoon sun.

In the blink of an eye, these golden lights fell upon the earth like countless stars, covering the entire area within a hundred miles.

Brilliant and beautiful.

Yet it exuded a suffocating sense of dread.

Lin Yunsheng's heart skipped a beat, and he instinctively wanted to speed up and rush over.

"Bang!"

The beam of light seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall, causing a violent tremor.

His expression changed drastically, and he immediately changed direction, attempting to break through to the left.

There was another "bang".

No matter which direction he fled in, the golden stars scattered across the sky would instantly solidify, transforming into an indestructible barrier.

Seal off the heavens and lock down the earth!

"Who?!"

Lin Yunsheng shouted sharply, his divine sense sweeping wildly around him like a tidal wave.

However, his mid-stage fourth-order divine sense was like a mud ox sinking into the sea; he couldn't find a single person in the golden light that filled the sky.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, with only the faint humming sound of golden light swirling around them.

This unknown fear caused his back to be instantly soaked with cold sweat.

Just then.

A loud shout suddenly rang out from the horizon, like the sound of an ancient temple bell being struck, making Lin Yunsheng's eardrums ache and his soul shake.

"Sowing discord, spreading false information, and ruining the honor of our temple."

"Lin Yunsheng, are you not going to die!"

The voice was majestic and powerful, carrying an unquestionable aura of a Vajra Buddha.

Before he could finish speaking...

The countless golden specks in front of them suddenly converged towards the center.

Countless golden rays were compressed, collapsed, and condensed.

Finally, a giant golden finger formed above Lin Yunsheng's head.

The finger was a hundred feet long, with clearly visible fingerprints, and its entire body was filled with golden Sanskrit light, exuding a terrifying aura that suppressed all ages.

It did not fall; it merely hovered in mid-air, thus locking onto Lin Yunsheng's spatial location.

Lin Yunsheng felt the space around him freeze instantly, and he felt like a fly trapped in amber for thousands of years, making it extremely difficult to even move a finger.

A terrifying pressure, almost reaching the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, suddenly descended.

"Vajra Imprisoning Heaven Finger!!"

Lin Yunsheng's pupils contracted sharply, and he exclaimed in shock, "And it's the Vajra Imprisoning Heaven Finger, with power reaching the late stage of the fourth tier?!"

This aura is much stronger than the one Xuan Hui used when attacking Qingfeng Ridge!

But the first thought that flashed through his mind was still the old monk he had just humiliated.

Aside from the high-ranking members of the Vajra Temple, who else could wield such a pure Vajra Imprisoning Heaven Finger?

"That old bald monk Xuan Hui! He didn't dare to attack us to our face, but he dared to sneak up on us from behind!"

Lin Yunsheng's eyes were bloodshot, and he cursed loudly.

He never expected that Xuan Hui, who seemed to be fleeing in a sorry state, would actually have such a killing move hidden in his hands, and even went so far as to use a secret technique to forcibly raise his cultivation to the late stage of the fourth rank in order to intercept and kill him!

despair.

If it were during his prime more than a decade ago, he might have been able to use his natal magic weapon to resist this attack and find an opportunity to escape.

However, ever since the Xuan Yin Fairy burned away half of his cultivation, he has suffered a severe injury and has not yet recovered.

Faced with this deadly attack that locked down the space, he had no way to dodge or block it.

"You old bald monk! You'll die a horrible death!!"

Lin Yunsheng could only use the most vicious language to curse, trying to ruin the old man's reputation before he died.

However, the only response he received was the slowly descending giant golden finger.

Rumble—

It was as if a piece of the sky had collapsed.

The giant finger fell, compressing the air and creating a popping sound.

The magical cloud artifact that Lin Yunsheng had summoned, which was originally extraordinary, let out a mournful cry as soon as it touched the golden light at his fingertips. It lost all its light and was directly pressed back into his body.

Followed by.

His proud mid-stage fourth-tier mana shield was as fragile as a thin sheet of paper in front of this finger.

boo.

The protective shield is broken.

The terrifying pressure acted directly on the physical body.

"ah-!!"

Lin Yunsheng let out an extremely shrill scream.

His body twisted and deformed rapidly under the giant finger, the sound of bones shattering echoing through the air.

It only lasted for half a breath.

His entire body was crushed into a lump of flesh by the enormous Imprisoning Heaven Finger.

A panicked nascent soul escaped from the corpse, its face deathly pale, and tried to teleport away.

But this space has already been completely locked down.

The nascent soul had just separated from the body by three inches when it collided with the omnipresent golden force field.

puff.

Like popping a bubble.

The nascent soul exploded instantly under the enormous Vajra Imprisoning Heaven Finger, turning into specks of spiritual light and dissipating.

boom-!!

Only at this moment did that finger finally touch the ground completely.

A gigantic mushroom cloud rose into the sky, and a violent shockwave of magical power swept in all directions, shearing off three feet of the ground within a ten-mile radius.

Dust filled the air.

At the epicenter of the explosion, space was slightly distorted.

A long, slender, fair hand suddenly emerged from the void.

The hand moved nimbly, gently plucking a blood-stained storage bracelet from the pile of mangled remains.

There was no pause, no unnecessary movement.

The hand withdrew into the void, and together with the golden light that filled the sky, it quietly departed.

It was as if it had never existed.

All that remained was the huge, deep crater of a fingerprint on the ground, and the faint scent of sandalwood and blood lingering in the air, lingering for a long time in the wind.

Above the sky, the phantom of the giant golden finger that stretched for thousands of miles had dissipated, but the remaining pressure was still as heavy as a physical force, causing all the clouds within a radius of 20,000 miles to collapse.

A powerful, domineering metallic tremor filled the air, lingering for a long time.

Several streaks of light cautiously stopped at a great distance, revealing a few rogue cultivators with terrified expressions.

They dared not approach the center of the battlefield, but only dared to use their divine sense to probe the mountain range that had been reduced to dust from a great distance.

"Such a powerful Vajra Imprisoning Heaven Finger technique, I haven't heard of any abbot from Vajra Temple coming out of seclusion?"

"It should be Master Xuanhui, the head of the Bodhidharma Academy. If he pays a certain price, he should be able to use such a powerful Vajra Imprisoning Heaven Finger."

"Hmm, it seems to be him," an elderly man in a gray robe swallowed hard, his fingertips still trembling slightly. "This Elder Lin Yunsheng has angered Master Xuanhui of the Vajra Temple!"

A middle-aged cultivator beside him, pale-faced, felt the lingering terrifying fluctuations of near-late Nascent Soul stage in the air and said with lingering fear, "Even from this distance, the battle fluctuations of this level cause our souls to ache. It's all Lin Yunsheng's fault for mocking Master Xuanhui to his face earlier. Those words were truly harsh; anyone would be anxious in his place."

"It's one thing to provoke someone, but this time things are serious."

The gray-robed elder shook his head, a glint of light flashing in his cloudy eyes. "Xuan Hui actually made a move, killing Lin Yunsheng with a single finger. A powerful elder of Qingyun Cave Heaven has fallen just like that."

"Now this is going to be interesting."

A younger cultivator licked his chapped lips, his eyes filled with both fear and excitement. "The two behemoths, Vajra Temple and Azure Cloud Cave Heaven, have now completely broken ties. I wonder how we're going to handle this."

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"Stop talking!" The middle-aged cultivator glared at him. "If a real war breaks out up there, even gods fighting will bring disaster to mortals. We lowly cultivators will be the most miserable. The entire area for tens of thousands of miles will be in turmoil. How will we cultivate then?"

"It's unlikely that a fight will break out."

The gray-robed elder stroked his beard and analyzed, "Qingyun Cave Heaven is a bit weak right now. Since the Qingyun Ancestor was injured, he hasn't shown his face for decades. Beset by internal and external troubles, how can the sect possibly deal with the ever-powerful Vajra Temple?"

"Then you shouldn't underestimate the Lin Yunsheng family."

The young cultivator retorted, "He has two close friends who are at the late Nascent Soul stage."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the people around him all changed.

"You mean True Lord Flame and True Lord Stubborn Stone?"

The gray-robed old man frowned, pondered for a moment, and said, "If those two are willing to step forward, along with Ancestor Qingyun—then Vajra Temple might really be in trouble."

These two True Lords are also quite capable; it all depends on whether they are willing to seek justice for Lin Yunsheng.

The murmurs of the crowd drifted away with the wind, gradually swallowed up by the fierce winds high in the sky.

High in the sky, the clouds had long been dispersed by the supernatural power, leaving only a clear void.

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In this seemingly empty void, a nearly transparent human figure floats silently.

There was not a trace of spiritual energy fluctuation around him. His entire being blended perfectly with the surrounding light and airflow. Even a powerful cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage would find it difficult to detect anything unless he deliberately investigated.

Chen Yi closed his eyes slightly, his divine sense discreetly searching for information within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, like tentacles.

He heard every word of the conversations between those independent cultivators.

Everyone believes that Lin Yunsheng was killed by Xuan Hui.

A very faint smile appeared on Chen Yi's lips.

that's enough.

"The Vajra Imprisoning Heaven Finger Divine Power, which is close to the late Nascent Soul stage, is an authentic divine power that only the true high-ranking members of the Vajra Temple can use."

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Chen Yi silently reviewed the layout he had just laid out in his mind.

Lin Yunsheng and Xuan Hui had a public argument that was extremely unpleasant, a fact that everyone could see.

The motive for murder has been established.

The method of killing was the Vajra Imprisoning Heaven Finger, a closely guarded secret of the Vajra Temple. Apart from figures like Xuan Hui, the head of the Bodhidharma Institute, no outsider could imitate it so perfectly.

Both the supernatural powers and the people who can use them have been locked down.

"Surely no one would guess that I'm a minor cultivator who claims to be in the early Nascent Soul stage and has just been seriously injured and is recuperating?"

Chen Yi looked down at his hands, where a faint golden light still lingered in his palms.

"I can't unleash such powerful Vajra Temple's protective supernatural abilities either."

He silently mocked himself.

Although the result was satisfactory, Chen Yi still felt a little regretful.

The timing of this move wasn't perfect.

He flipped his hand, and a golden object the size of a finger bone appeared in his palm. This was the spine of a near-fifth-tier Vajra Ape.

The reason why that finger strike could unleash power close to that of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and even deceive everyone's eyes, was entirely due to burning one-thousandth of the original power within this spine.

"That's a bit of a waste."

Chen Yi gently stroked the piece of golden bone with his thumb.

If he could wait another ten or twenty years, until he had fully digested the resources at hand and improved his cultivation to another level, he could completely kill Lin Yunsheng and Xuan Hui, those two old bastards, without relying on external aids, using only his own strength.

Moreover, it can be done so completely without anyone noticing, leaving not a trace.

However, Lin Yunsheng, that old dog, was too cautious and remained holed up in the protective formation of Qingyun Cave, refusing to come out.

We finally caught him alone this time. If we don't make a move now, who knows when we'll get another chance.

Opportunities are fleeting, and wasting some resources is unavoidable.

As for Xuan Hui—

Chen Yi raised his head and shone the light in the direction Xuan Hui had fled.

The golden light was faintly visible in that direction, indicating that the old monk was not walking steadily and was on guard against something.

Countless subtle runes flashed in Chen Yi's eyes as he made calculations.

After a moment, the glint in his eyes faded, and he came to several conclusions.

First, even if we go all out now, we might not be able to save Xuan Hui's life.

As the head of the Dharma Hall of the Vajra Temple, Xuan Hui possessed far more life-saving trump cards than a true disciple like Yuan Zhen.

This old man seemed to have expended a great deal of energy just now, but if you really kill him, the backlash would probably be too much for even Aunt Xuan Yin to bear.

More importantly, the historical significance of Vajra Temple is terrifying.

Killing Yuanzhen might only invite pursuit, but if Xuanhui were killed, even the old monsters of the Vajra Temple who have been in seclusion for years would likely be alarmed.

With Chen Yi's current strength, he is not yet able to directly face an existence of that level.

If one fails to kill silently and instantly, and is targeted by the top monks of Vajra Temple, the consequences will be unimaginable.

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