Chapter 421: Chapter 269: Spoils of the Suppression Kill, Wondrous Array-Breaking Talisman

"Thank you, Brother Lin..."

Cheng Suling looked at Lin Changheng, her eyes glistening with a strange emotion.

Her blood-stained hand accepted the Elixir. Her red lips parted to speak, but Lin Changheng cut off her words of thanks. "No need for words right now. This isn’t over. You focus on healing. I’m going to check on Mr. Xu."

"Okay. You be careful too, Brother Lin."

Cheng Suling obediently complied. She swallowed the Elixir and began circulating her Magical Power to refine it.

Lin Changheng, meanwhile, walked to one side. He sent out waves of his Magical Power, sweeping across the ground and pulling all the ownerless Spiritual Artifacts toward him.

He collected them one by one.

He made sure to retrieve and stow away the Storage Bag from the Late Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

He had killed the man and saved Cheng Suling; naturally, the spoils of war belonged to him.

There was no question about it.

Nor was Lin Changheng the least bit embarrassed about it.

Of course, if the Luo Cultivator’s Storage Bag had been here, Lin Changheng wouldn’t have touched it. The spoils belong to the victor—one had to have a basic awareness of the rules in the Cultivation Realm.

As for why he always used the Cyan Gold Flying Sword, a Tier Two Lower Grade Spiritual Artifact, to finish things, it wasn’t just because he was used to it. It was because of its extreme speed, which allowed him to quickly and reliably clean up once he had the situation under control.

...

While Lin Changheng was gleefully collecting his spoils, the Magical Combat on Rising Sun Island had yet to cease.

"Why is it taking so long?"

The Late Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator with the powerful aura, currently attacking an Array node on Rising Sun Island, wore a silver-white mask that hid his face. The immense commotion from Floating Star Island made him glance over, his brow deeply furrowing.

For one, he was too far from Floating Star Island for his Divine Sense to reach, so he had no way of knowing what was truly happening there.

For another, their initial plan had been to first assault Floating Star Island and kill the weaker Cheng Suling. Then, they were to regroup, break through Rising Sun Island’s defenses to kill Xu Maoling, and finally, wipe out the neighboring Moonrest Island for good measure.

This was to ensure no news of their actions leaked out.

Once they struck, it had to be clean and decisive.

After all, the moment they had encountered Chu Lingyu, the female disciple from the Purple Extreme Sect "stationed" here, they had killed her on the spot, leaving her body pinned in the lake without giving her a chance to utter a single word.

Therefore, it was imperative that they handle this cleanly.

Once finished, they would flee and lay low to avoid the fallout.

"Useless!"

The Silver-White Masked Cultivator couldn’t help but curse. A Late Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator and a Middle Stage one against a single Middle Stage Female Cultivator—and they’d even cleverly broken her Array—yet they still hadn’t finished the job after all this time.

He immediately sent a voice transmission to one of the Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators. "Jia San, go take a look and see what the hell they’re doing! If they’re not dead, tell them to get their asses over here, now."

"Yes."

The Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator codenamed "Jia San," who had been coordinating attacks on the Array from the flank, was momentarily stunned. He immediately ceased his assault, acknowledged the order, and set off.

The Silver-White Masked Cultivator summoned his Spiritual Artifact to block a sickle-like Spiritual Artifact that shot out from within the Array. He then resumed his own bombardment, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

’I’ll let you struggle for a little while longer. Once those two get here and we’ve worn down the Array’s power, we’ll have you completely surrounded. Then I’ll use a genuine Tier Two Array-Breaking Talisman to shatter it instantly. Under our combined assault, you old farmer will be a dead man!’

Array-Breaking Talismans, as the name implies, are specifically designed to counter Arrays and have the effect of breaking them.

They are a special type of Talisman, their importance comparable to unique elixirs in the Alchemy Dao, like the Realm-Breaking Pill.

However, a Tier Two Array-Breaking Talisman cannot instantly destroy just any Tier Two Array.

Certain powerful, multi-layered Arrays are an exception. Their power is stored in separate reserves. When the Array suffers a major blow, these reserves activate to replenish the energy and prevent it from breaking.

This allows them to effectively counter an Array-Breaking Talisman.

Therefore, the most reliable method is to first weaken the Array with conventional attacks before using the talisman.

...

Lin Changheng had just stealthily left the battlefield on Floating Star Island and was about to sneak back toward Rising Sun Island to observe the situation when his Divine Sense sharply detected the aura of a Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator brazenly speeding toward his location.

’Hm? Someone else is coming?’ Lin Changheng’s gaze sharpened. He immediately suppressed his aura and hid, melting into the shadows.

The Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator codenamed "Jia San" grumbled to himself, thinking his leader was making a big deal out of nothing.

’What could possibly go wrong with a Late Stage and a Middle Stage cultivator against a single Middle Stage female cultivator?’ he thought. ’They probably just killed her and are taking their sweet time looting the body.’

He had just arrived a few miles above Floating Star Island when the scene of devastation below and the violent, lingering fluctuations of Magical Power made his heart leap into his throat.

The faint scent of blood in the air and, more importantly, the absence of the two people he was looking for put him on high alert instantly.

’Something’s wrong!’

He immediately slowed down, spreading his Divine Sense to investigate cautiously.

But in the exact moment his Heart and Spirit were fully focused on probing the situation on Floating Star Island—

"WHOOSH!"

A streak of black light shot out from the forest below, expanding in the air until it instantly transformed into a Black Seal Platform the size of a millstone!

The Seal Platform looked ancient and ponderous, its surface seemingly etched with faint patterns of mountains and rivers. It carried a world-shaking momentum, like a small mountain crashing down directly on top of Jia San!

"What?"

The Black Seal Platform descended too quickly; an immense pressure was already bearing down on him.

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