The Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Captured the Villainous Demon Venerable - Chapter 72

Chapter 72: It’s a Ghost Immortal!

After Mo Xun broke through to the Tribulation stage, she constantly felt her body become unstable, as if she would float upwards if she wasn’t careful, almost as if the air had turned into water.

Yun Wushang’s body, in contrast, felt much heavier, and she would accidentally drop downwards when flying in mid-air.

Both clearly sensed that they were not far from true ascension.

But they were about to head to different worlds.

After helping Yun Wushang pass her Heavenly Tribulation, Mo Xun immediately perfected the formula for the Virtual Refinement Pill. She rushed to refine two bottles, each containing 20 Virtual Refinement Pills, before the last month’s deadline.

Creating a brand new pill was not much different from customizing an artifact for her. Knowing the pill’s effect, knowing which herbs could achieve that effect, the rest of the work involved gathering, proportioning, refining, testing, adjusting proportions, re-refining, and re-testing until the refined pill was both effective and wouldn’t cause too much harm to the body.

After successfully refining the two bottles of Virtual Refinement Pills, Mo Xun first went to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, giving the formula and one bottle of pills to Pavilion Master Lin Xuan’er.

Lin Xuan’er took them and simply said, “Not bad.”

Mo Xun was thoroughly assured that the pills were fine and set off for the Water Moon Immortal Gate.

But the moment she left the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, the Pavilion was attacked!

Although it was broad daylight, the sky turned a dark, unsettling blue, and black mist filled the air.

Suddenly, a black shadow lunged at them. Mo Xun was about to dodge, but Eighteen and Black Feather attacked simultaneously.

However, Eighteen’s cat claws passed right through the shadow without causing any harm. Black Feather flapped its wings, releasing black flames. The flames landed on the shadow, successfully clinging to it, and burning it to ashes.

“It’s a Ghost Immortal!” Mo Xun judged. “Black Feather, protect us. Eighteen, take your original form.”

“Yes, Master!” the two artifact spirits shouted in unison. Black Feather flew above Mo Xun’s head, using the Hellish Dark Fire to repel all approaching shadows. Eighteen’s body transformed into eighteen beast-claw-like blades and a white jade bracelet, hovering beside Mo Xun.

Mo Xun turned to Yun Wushang: “Can you coat the Eighteen Blades with a layer of ice without damaging the artifact?”

“Isn’t that easy?” Yun Wushang said, raising her hand to release a blast of cold air, coating the Eighteen Blades with a layer of ice.

“Eighteen, commence the slaughter!” Mo Xun commanded.

“Kill!” The bracelet shimmered, emitting an adorable loli voice. The eighteen ice-coated blades flew in eighteen different directions, piercing through the chests of several black shadows, striking them all down!

Mo Xun confirmed that Ice-element magic could indeed harm Ghost Immortals. Although the principle was unclear, only Ice, Fire, and Lightning attributes could harm Ghost Immortals.

Just then, a red glowing barrier was activated, enveloping the entire Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

Immediately after, Pavilion Master Lin Xuan’er’s voice rang out, echoing throughout the space: “Everyone, the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion is now safe, but the City of Shadows has incited chaos. Ghost Immortals are running rampant, and all immortal sects have sustained damage. Cultivators with Ice, Fire, or Lightning spiritual roots, and realms above Great Ascension, please return to defend your sects quickly.”

Mo Xun grabbed Yun Wushang’s hand, intending to take her into the Dual-Polarity Nest and immediately teleport to the Water Moon Immortal Gate. However, she recalled the scene she foresaw where Yun Wushang fought alongside Yun Qianchong…

She couldn’t help but ask Yun Wushang: “Do you want to go to the Water Moon Immortal Gate or the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate?”

Yun Wushang looked at her in surprise: “Why would I go to the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate?”

Mo Xun: I suppose so… So what exactly did the scene I foresaw mean…?

Mo Xun hesitated no longer. She retracted her artifacts and took Yun Wushang into the Dual-Polarity Nest, teleporting to the Water Moon Immortal Gate with one spatial folding technique.

The immortal sects were not attacked at the same time. The Ghost Immortals first attacked the three Great Immortal Gates.

Nearly half of the cultivators at the World-Saving Immortal Gate possessed Fire Spiritual Roots. Upon discovering the Ghost Immortal attack, Sect Master Wen Yuchan immediately organized her people to raise a Fire-attribute protective barrier to shield the entire sect, and quickly formed rescue teams to go and treat injured cultivators at other sects.

The Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate’s defensive array already had a Fire attribute, as the artifact that activated the barrier was refined by Luo Baozhu, a Heavenly Spiritual Root of the Fire element. Sect Master Yun Qianchong discovered the array under attack and immediately ordered people to guard the array core, while she led people out of the sect to rescue others elsewhere.

The Spiritual Sword Immortal Gate’s defensive array was virtually useless under the Ghost Immortals’ attack. The Sect Master was in seclusion, and the two Great Ascension stage elders adopted an offense-is-the-best-defense strategy, deploying the Heaven-Slicing Primordial Sword, attempting to repel the invading Ghost Immortals with sword energy mixed with the Fire attribute.

However, the Ghost Immortals’ realm was no lower than theirs. They actually withstood the attack, then counterattacked. An invisible sword energy flew past, severing one of the elders’ arms at the root!

“Damn it! Where are the disciples with Fire Spiritual Roots!” the elder roared.

“Here, Master!” one disciple stepped forward.

“Lend me your spiritual root!” the elder said, immediately seizing his spiritual root, then declared self-righteously, “This is all for the sect!”

Other Spiritual Sword cultivators were horrified!

A female cultivator with a Metal Heavenly Spiritual Root tightly pursed her lips, thinking secretly, Someday, she would kill these hypocritical elders, become the Sect Master herself, and completely change the culture of the Spiritual Sword Immortal Gate!

Following the three Great Immortal Gates, the next targets were the Water Moon Immortal Gate, the Red Refinement Immortal Gate, and the Artifact Refining Immortal Gate—the medium and small sects located near the three Great Immortal Gates.

The Artifact Refining Immortal Gate, for the first time, opened its inner sect tower to outer sect cultivators.

Elder Dongguo Zixi, who had successfully broken through to the Integration stage, brought out her newly refined eighth-grade artifact, the Heaven and Earth Smelting Furnace, to burn any Ghost Immortals daring to approach the tower.

All cultivators at the Red Refinement Immortal Gate had Fire Spiritual Roots. Low-level cultivators were responsible for powering the defensive array, while high-level cultivators fought the Ghost Immortals under the protection of the array.

At the Water Moon Immortal Gate, only Chu Jiuqu had the strength to fight. Sect Master Bai Muqing distributed the Thousand Miles Swift Travel Talismans gifted by Yun Wushang to all the sect’s cultivators. However, talismans had a time limit, and this was not a long-term solution.

“When will Mo Xun and Wushang arrive?” Bai Muqing, relying on the Infinite Dodge Bracelet to evade the Ghost Immortals’ attacks, called out helplessly, completely lacking her usual composure.

“Don’t worry, Master, stay near me,” Chu Jiuqu responded calmly, spreading her three pairs of Dark Phoenix Wings and releasing Hellish Dark Fire, continuously repelling the approaching Ghost Immortals, protecting everyone in the sect as much as possible.

However, her power alone was ultimately limited. Just as she was about to be overwhelmed, two groups of people suddenly arrived from the horizon.

One group, wearing half-white, half-green robes, was led by Wen Yuchan, the Sect Master of the World-Saving Immortal Gate. Her first words upon landing were: “Has anyone been injured?”

The other group, draped in light gold robes, was led by Yun Qianchong, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate. She hovered in the air, explaining her purpose expressionlessly: “I have a promise with someone, to ensure your sect remains safe.”

Bai Muqing and Chu Jiuqu were both momentarily stunned. Then Chu Jiuqu asked: “Can anyone set up a Fire-attribute defensive array?”

Yun Qianchong: “No.”

Wen Yuchan: “The number of people we could bring is limited. Even if an array could be set up, we wouldn’t have the power to maintain it. I can protect you all to temporarily take refuge at the World-Saving Immortal Gate. Is the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate willing to assist us?”

Wen Yuchan looked up, meeting Yun Qianchong’s gaze. Yun Qianchong expressionlessly raised a hand. A sword scraped across her palm, drawing a streak of crimson, instantly piercing a nearby Ghost Immortal.

Besides Ice, Fire, and Lightning, there was one other way to harm a Ghost Immortal: coating the sword with one’s own blood.

After slaying the Ghost Immortal, she finally spoke six words: “If you’re moving, do it quickly.”

She had intended to bring the Water Moon cultivators to the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate, but bringing them to the World-Saving Immortal Gate was the same now.

However, in just a few breaths, the number of Ghost Immortals increased several times over. Even the two Great Immortal Gates combined felt somewhat overwhelmed.

After all, most Ghost Immortals were at the Great Ascension stage or above, and the Water Moon Immortal Gate, including Wen Yuchan, a Wood Spiritual Root who couldn’t fight Ghost Immortals, only had three Great Ascension stage cultivators.

The group attempted to move a distance away but were forced back to Water Moon Peak.

The longer they lingered, the less hope there was of escaping alive.

One Heavenly Mountain cultivator attempted to flee but had his leg severed by Yun Qianchong’s sword. After that, no one dared to retreat from the battle.

Wen Yuchan inwardly sighed, “What a harsh hand,” while wondering, “Why haven’t Mo Xun and Yun Wushang arrived yet?”

The moment this thought surfaced, the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion was attacked. Immediately after, the spatial artifact Mo Xun refined, named the “Dual-Polarity Nest,” appeared in the sky above the Water Moon Immortal Gate.

Mo Xun and Yun Wushang appeared hand-in-hand at Water Moon Peak.

When Mo Xun saw the cultivators from the World-Saving Immortal Gate and the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate from within the Dual-Polarity Nest, she was greatly surprised. Realizing the Ghost Immortals’ attack on the Water Moon Immortal Gate had been ongoing for some time, she didn’t dwell on it. Her first action upon leaving the Dual-Polarity Nest was to say to Yun Wushang: “True Demon Art.”

Yun Wushang: “Okay.”

Yun Wushang immediately circulated her demonic energy, activating the True Demon Art to transfer her demonic energy, transformed into spiritual energy, to Mo Xun. Mo Xun released her spiritual sense, locked onto various points of the Water Moon Immortal Gate, erected wooden stakes, cleared the spiritual veins, and activated the grand array.

“Black Tortoise Sect Protection Array, Ice-Coated Version, activate!”

As her words fell, a protective barrier opened, enveloping the entire Water Moon Immortal Gate. The barrier was covered in a layer of ice, blocking all Ghost Immortals outside.

Wen Yuchan: “…”

Wen Yuchan: Ice-Coated Version…

Mo Xun used her spiritual energy to levitate large quantities of spirit stones and demonic crystals, transferring them to the various nodes of the defensive array to continuously power it.

Having done all this, she finally had the capacity to check on the situation of everyone at the Water Moon Immortal Gate.

Master Bai Muqing looked a bit unsettled but was unharmed.

Senior Sister Chu Jiuqu was also unharmed, but her face was pale, likely due to excessive spiritual energy consumption.

Wen Yuchan was pristine and relaxed, as if she were in another dimension.

Yun Qianchong had multiple minor injuries, but she couldn’t be called disheveled. At least her expression was calm, her eyes cold, as always.

Mo Xun first flew to her Master and Senior Sister, giving her Master a bottle of Virtual Refinement Pills and her Senior Sister a bottle of Qi Nourishment Pills.

Qi Nourishment Pills could both increase cultivation and replenish spiritual power.

After breaking through to the Great Ascension stage, the improvement to cultivation from Qi Nourishment Pills was negligible, but they could still accelerate the recovery of spiritual energy within the body.

Chu Jiuqu thanked Mo Xun, and Mo Xun replied: “You’re too kind, Senior Sister. Mo Xun is the one who arrived late.”

She hadn’t expected the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master to mean exactly three months, not a day more.

Wen Yuchan flew to Yun Qianchong’s side and gave her a Restoration Pill.

Yun Qianchong took it, swallowed it, and briefly thanked her: “Thank you.”

Wen Yuchan: “Yun Wushang will probably be pleased to see you kept your promise.”

Yun Qianchong: “What she thinks is none of my business.”

Wen Yuchan: “…I now know who Yun Wushang learned her contradictory behavior from.”

Yun Qianchong turned to leave: “Since the danger here is over, we shall take our leave. Heavenly Mountain cultivators…”

Just as she was about to give orders to her sect’s cultivators, one Heavenly Mountain cultivator suddenly flew in from the horizon, narrowly dodging two Ghost Immortal attacks. Seeing him about to be hit by the next attack, Yun Qianchong quickly flew over to rescue him but didn’t have time to coat her sword with blood.

She used spiritual energy to grab the person, positioning her body in front of him, intending to use her flesh to withstand the Ghost Immortal’s attack!

“Yun Qianchong!” Wen Yuchan gasped.

Mo Xun heard the sound, turned, and saw the scene. Without thinking, she used a spatial folding technique to appear in front of Yun Qianchong.

However, before Black Feather, which had traveled with her, could strike, a sharp ice blade shot from a distance, cleanly piercing the Ghost Immortal’s body!

Mo Xun looked surprised, following the direction the ice blade came from, and met Yun Wushang’s cold eyes.

Yun Wushang flew to Mo Xun’s side, coldly glancing at Yun Qianchong, then grabbed Mo Xun’s hand right in front of her: “Who permitted you to save her?”

Mo Xun: …I hadn’t even struck yet?

Yun Wushang pulled Mo Xun’s hand and flew towards the array. Mo Xun did not resist.

Meanwhile, the cultivator protected by Yun Qianchong weakly spoke: “Sect Master… the array… it’s broken…”

Yun Qianchong asked in disbelief: “You mean, the sect protection array? How is that possible?”

“Yes… among the Ghost Immortals… there is one who can break arrays…”

In an instant, Yun Qianchong’s expression became incredibly complex.

The Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate’s defensive array was activated by nine eighth-grade artifacts working together. Its strength should have been impossible for a Ghost Immortal to breach.

But these nine eighth-grade artifacts were all crafted by Luo Baozhu and would react to Luo Baozhu’s spiritual power…

“You stay here.” Yun Qianchong grabbed the newcomer’s collar and tossed him towards Yun Wushang.

Yun Wushang instinctively moved aside to dodge. Mo Xun exclaimed “Hey,” quickly caught the person with spiritual energy, and healed him briefly.

Before she could entrust the person to the Water Moon Immortal Gate, she saw Yun Qianchong flying off towards the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate.

Mo Xun tentatively looked at Yun Wushang: “What do you say?”

Yun Wushang was silent for a long time before saying: “…Say what?”

Mo Xun: “The Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate kept their promise to protect the Water Moon Immortal Gate. Now, the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate is in trouble…”

“Troublesome,” Yun Wushang frowned. But in the next moment, she grabbed Mo Xun’s wrist. “I have no attachment to the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate, only revulsion. However, all Ghost Immortals must die!”

Mo Xun smiled and acknowledged with an “Mm,” taking her into the Dual-Polarity Nest.

Indeed, all sects’ defensive arrays would eventually run out of power. Pure defense was not enough. They had to take the initiative to attack and kill all Ghost Immortals, especially the “old acquaintance” who incited the Immortal-Demon War.

This time, she must be utterly destroyed, body and soul!