Chapter 1353: Cuckoo in the Nest

Thunderfire Immortal Soldier—Seven Killing Formation.

These six magma giants were likely the so-called Immortal Soldiers. Based on Little Immortal Honglian's understanding, there should be at least one more Immortal Soldier still hidden.

Judging by their auras, these six Immortal Soldiers were at the Dao Union Realm's perfection. Although they hadn't yet reached the realm of a Half Step Tribulation Realm cultivator, they weren't far from it.

Facing such opponents, Little Immortal Honglian knew that even if she revealed all her trump cards, she could at most delay the inevitable. Winning was almost impossible.

The six molten giants launched a fierce assault on the two of them, splitting into two groups of three.

Fang Chen was handling his side with relative ease.

Little Immortal Honglian, however, was already struggling, and fresh wounds had started piling up on her body.

Fang Chen looked up. "There should be one more Immortal Soldier."

Sure enough, he saw that the lightning in the sky had coalesced into a giant that was now looking down at them.

This Thunder Giant was the core of the Seven Killing Formation, the leader of the seven Immortal Soldiers, and the strongest one in terms of abilities.

"There's a Tribulation Realm aura. It should be comparable to a newly ascended Tribulation Realm cultivator. Counting these six magma giants, this Thunderfire Seven Immortal Soldier Kill Formation can actually trap and kill a newly ascended Tribulation Realm cultivator. "

The Thunder Giant moved, its target clearly Fang Chen.

It was obvious that someone was controlling the formation and understood that Little Immortal Honglian was already in a losing situation. Once Fang Chen was subdued, the battle would be virtually over.

In the void, eighteen figures silently observed the scene.

Their spiritual energy surged wildly, maintaining the Thunderfire Immortal Soldier Seven Killing Formation. They were the energy source of the formation and its secondary core.

If the trapped people could pinpoint their exact positions, there was a chance they could break the formation. But their positions shifted constantly, and with the seven Thunderfire Immortal Soldiers attacking from all sides, the average cultivator couldn't spare the time to find them.

"Daoist Meng, that one is quite skilled. These three Magma Immortal Soldiers can't seem to handle him."

"Do you know which immortal sect he comes from?"

"When did the Langgui Constellation have such a Dao Union Realm cultivator?"

"I'm afraid he'll be even harder to deal with than the one from the Great Expansion Dao Sect."

"It doesn't matter how tough he is; in the face of the Thunderfire Seven Immortal Soldier Kill Formation, he will be chewed to pieces."

Meng Qingling's lips curled up slightly.

In their eyes, Little Immortal Honglian had already fallen completely into disadvantage. As for Fang Chen, his suppression was only a matter of time. Once the two felt they could not resist, they would naturally surrender their jade tokens.

As for killing them, that had never been their intention. Their goal in the assessment was only to gather strands of spiritual energy for the jade tokens, not to kill people.

Besides, if they killed wantonly, who would gather spiritual energy for them to plunder later?

Someone suddenly exclaimed, "Wait a minute, where did they go?"

Everyone immediately realized that Little Immortal Honglian and Fang Chen, who had been surrounded, had somehow disappeared without a trace. Having lost their targets, the Thunderfire Immortal Soldiers stood motionless.

At that moment, Meng Qingling felt a tremendous force from behind. By the time she realized what was happening, she had already been kicked out of the core of the Thunderfire Seven Immortal Soldier Kill Formation. Soon, her seventeen fellow cultivators were all kicked out of the core.

One person stared blankly around him. "What just happened?"

He had never encountered a situation where they had been kicked out of the core, yet the formation remained intact.

Someone pointed behind Meng Qingling. "Daoist Meng, y-your... back...."

She turned her head and saw a very clear footprint on her waist.

Meng Qingling's face slightly changed, and a flicker of anger passed through her eyes. She then gasped, an unbelievable thought rising uncontrollably in her mind.

The opponent not only found their formation's core, but even replaced them in controlling the Thunderfire Seven Immortal Soldier Kill Formation!

How could this be possible?!

Before she could even deny the thought, the seven Thunderfire Immortal Soldiers, wrapped in overwhelming divine power, charged toward them. At this point, disbelief was no longer an option. Without anyone to control the core, how could the seven Immortal Soldiers continue to function?

Suppressing the shock in her heart, she snapped. "Let's work together! As long as we hold them off for a while, they won't have enough spiritual energy to maintain the formation!"

At that moment, Little Immortal Honglian stood in the void, calmly adjusting her breath as she fed spiritual energy into the formation. She couldn't help but cast a stunned glance at Fang Chen.

Fang Chen casually explained, "I've dabbled in a few fields before, like alchemy and formations."

"Is that so..."

Little Immortal Honglian didn't understand formations and was only half convinced.

Half an hour passed.

Although Meng Qingling's group had eighteen people, they were slowly being overwhelmed by the seven powerful and endlessly resurrecting Immortal Soldiers.

Meng Qingling glared hatefully at the void. "They're using high-grade spirit stones to fuel the formation. Otherwise, they would have run out of energy long ago!"

She suddenly threw her jade token toward the sky.

"We surrender!"

Seeing that, the others had no choice but to reluctantly toss their jade tokens. Fang Chen took the jade tokens and divided the share with Little Immortal Honglian seventy-thirty.

She received 1500 strands, while Fang Chen took 3500. His jade token now held more than 8000 strands of spiritual energy. Little Immortal Honglian had nearly 5000 stands.

And this was only the first month. They had five more months to go.

Meanwhile, Qin Zhen and the others, who had been watching from outside, were dumbfounded. They had witnessed with their own eyes Fang Chen and Little Immortal Honglian vanish, trapping Meng Qingling and her inside their own formation and forcing them to fight the very Thunderfire Immortal Soldiers they had unleashed.

Someone whispered, "Daoist Qin, Daoist Fang seems... even stronger than Little Immortal Honglian. Look at how calm he was as the Thunderfire Immortal Soldiers besieged him...."

Qin Zhen reacted immediately, wanting to leave before the formation dispersed. "Let's go!"

Since Meng Qingling and the others had already handed over their jade token, the formation would disperse soon.

The next moment, the formation dissolved.

Meng Qingling and the others fell to the ground in disarray, staggering back a few steps before collapsing. Their spiritual power had almost been completely drained. Otherwise, they would never have surrendered their spiritual energy strands.

Qin Zhen and the others, ready to flee, froze at the scene.

Fang Chen smiled at Meng Qingling and the others. "Thank you, fellow Daoists. You may leave now."

Meng Qingling didn't leave. She instead asked the question gnawing at her mind. "How did you do it?"

Fang Chen casually replied, "Do what? Oh, you mean the formation? Your method was too crude. It was easy to find the flaws. Don't do it like that next time."

Too crude?

Meng Qingling was momentarily stunned.

𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Her companions wanted to quickly leave lest Qin Zhen and the others take advantage of their weakened state, so they dragged Meng Qingling away and fled.

Meng Qingling had no choice but to follow, but her confidence had already started to falter at Fang Chen's confident words.

With them gone, Fang Chen looked at Qin Zhen and said, "Daoist Qin, we were interrupted earlier. Okay, Daoist Qin, here is my jade token. Come and take it."