At this moment, choosing not to immediately unleash the Black Lotus Dharma Aspect for a killing strike was also motivated by his desire to preserve the Immortal Strangling Silk.

These are all valuable magical treasures, and while they may need to be discarded at times, he would never surrender them easily if preservation was an option.

Considering the treasures he'd encountered since entering the Divine Fire Domain, was any of them things he could casually come across in the outside world?

Let alone own—ordinary people rarely even get the chance to see such treasures. Most monks live their entire lives without ever possessing half of one.

This scenario, where treasures from the Artifact Refining World were gathered in one place, was a rare occurrence. Only under such extraordinary circumstances could one witness such a grand assembly of magical artifacts.

To put it bluntly, simply obtaining one of these treasures would be enough to alter most people's fate, even serving as a sect's defining treasure.

Owning just one would ordinarily be sufficient to dominate an entire region.

Having already obtained these treasures, letting them be destroyed would indeed be a pity—he would do everything he could to preserve them.

Of course, the power of the Black Lotus Dharma Aspect was already unleashed, and when it was time for action, he wouldn't let it sit idle; those tangling nuisances had to be dealt with.

One thing he was now certain of was that the weakness of the Black Lotus artifact wasn't easily exploitable by just anyone in the Forget Love Valley; otherwise, someone would have acted already.

If he had known this earlier, he might have approached the matter in a different way altogether.

As he faced Wu Shanshan in a stalemate, his cold gaze swept toward Lin Yuefang, who had been struck down.

Unlike the Black Tiger, who had broken free from the immobilization skill before being killed, Lin Yuefang remained rigid in place even after being struck down. However, at that moment, she suddenly vanished as though erased from existence.

But Shi Chun's abnormal right eye clearly perceived the situation of her disappearance—it was the work of whoever was manipulating the invisibility treasure.

"Hmm... Hmm..."

Wu Shanshan, still immobilized by the Immortal Strangling Silk, let out muffled sounds, faintly articulating the name 'Shi Chun.'

At this moment, she confirmed that her opponent was indeed Shi Chun, and the overwhelming strength he displayed far exceeded her expectations. Even with the entirety of Forget Love Valley's accumulated magical treasures bearing down on him, they still couldn't subdue this man; it was like wielding a bunch of useless scrap metal.

Despite her cultivation level and strength being far superior to his, he had effortlessly taken out two of her allies in quick succession.

How had he managed this?

She couldn't comprehend the situation. The skills Shi Chun had cultivated seemed to carry an unsettling potential capable of overturning the heavens.

Only now did she recall the events of the Sky Rain Meteor Conference, where Shi Chun, at a Small Success Realm in High Martial, had crossed realms to defeat an Upper Realm cultivator.

She had originally thought anything below the Great Achievement Realm amounted to petty squabbles. Only now did she realize how shallow her understanding had been.

Now that she knew the masked man was Shi Chun, she naturally understood the reason for her immobility. How could she not associate this with Wukang Mountain and the immobilization charm, even though she hadn't seen him use such a charm?

Nevertheless, it was undoubtedly linked to the immobilization charm.

She wasn't afraid of such immobilization skills since she had techniques to break free from them, but doing so would expose her Demon Skill.

Should she save herself and risk revealing her Demon Skill, or preserve her life for now?

Exposing the Demon Skill would undoubtedly lead to a dead end, and possibly a worse fate, with far-reaching consequences.

But now she faced a choice: die now or die later.

She was both shocked at Shi Chun's audacity for daring to act alone in such a setting and furious at Yin Tianlu and the others for standing by and refusing to intervene. She cursed herself for foolishly cooperating with those bastards.

The Forget Love Valley disciple wielding the invisibility blanket attempted to use her magical treasure to encapsulate Lin Yuefang, who remained immobilized, with the intent of quickly evacuating her. Upon trying to move her, however, she found Lin Yuefang completely immovable—not even a single finger could be budged. A touch of her hand revealed that Lin Yuefang's lower half was smeared in blood.

The woman was no longer breathing, yet she remained rigidly fixed in place.

The female disciple was utterly panicked. Jin Hao, whom she'd been carrying under her arm, had also died. He too had already stopped breathing.

She had tried to save both of them, but failed to rescue even one. In the blink of an eye, the masked man had killed the two of them. How could she not be overwhelmed with fear?

Meanwhile, Wu Shanshan, still trapped in the Immortal Strangling Silk, began to emit increasingly urgent muffled sounds.

She noticed Shi Chun making another seemingly harmless gesture with his fingers—this time directed at someone behind him.

The junior sister wielding the Three Corpses Mirror had already drawn her sword and was charging forward to rescue Wu Shanshan.

Wu Shanshan's frantic muffled sounds were directed at the junior sister coming to save her. She was desperately trying to warn her to be careful, to avoid the encounter, for the immobilization skill that rendered people rigid and motionless was genuinely terrifying—a true silent killer.

Indeed, its horrifying effects were undeniable. Without such dreadful power, how could Shi Chun have invested so much into Wukang Mountain and gone so far as to use one of Shengzhou Domain Master Wei Mo's promises on Bian Weiyin?

That promise could be considered a stepping stone to great opportunities or even a life-preserving talisman, yet Shi Chun had willingly used it to exchange for the immobilization skill. Its value was beyond imagination.

Yet Wu Shanshan's indistinct muffled sounds couldn't effectively convey her warning.

The lethal, swiftly thrusting sword stopped abruptly just a short half-zhang away from Shi Chun.

The sword-wielding woman paused in shock, her eyes wide with disbelief. Only then did she understand what Wu Shanshan's muffled sounds had meant and why Wu Shanshan had been reduced to making such noises.

After flicking his fingers, Shi Chun immediately swung his sleeve in a backward motion. From its folds, a concealed short blade, intended for surprise attacks, shot out.

With a sharp sound, the gleaming blade pierced straight through the woman's heart with unerring accuracy.

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