Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 532 The Plan is Complete [Please Subscribe]

The assassins from the Ice Prison Sect were unaware that Zhou Chun's ability to detect their sneak attack beforehand was not due to his own skill, but rather to the warning given by a magical artifact.

The [Moon Toad Pearl] is a very powerful spiritual treasure. In addition, the assassin's natal flying sword is made of the top-grade ice-attribute material [Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal]. The extreme cold contained in it can be easily captured by the [Moon Toad Pearl].

But Zhou Chun certainly wouldn't tell him these things.

Faced with his astonished and suspicious questioning, Zhou Chun merely sneered, "As expected, I knew you scoundrel wouldn't obediently wait in the Nine Ridges Snow Mountain!"

An assassin challenging someone to a duel—this whole thing seems incredibly absurd.

Therefore, Zhou Chun did not believe from the beginning that this person would really fight him in the Nine Ridges Snow Mountain, even though the environment there was indeed more favorable to him.

However, Zhou Chun was also secretly alarmed at this moment.

Throughout the journey, he dared not relax his mind in the slightest, maintaining his divine sense to probe a radius of twenty miles around.

However, until the Moon Toad Pearl warned him, he was unable to find any trace of the assassin.

The opponent's ability to hide and conceal themselves is beyond description; it can only be described as divine!

No wonder the cultivators of the Ice Prison Sect choose to become assassins to earn resources.

However, this ability to become invisible is clearly only effective when no action is taken.

Once you engage in combat and your aura is leaked and detected, it becomes impossible to re-enter stealth mode and launch a sneak attack.

Otherwise, the other cultivators would have no chance to fight back at all!

Faced with Zhou Chun's sarcasm, the assassin sneered, "Hmph, last time you escaped because you had a Nascent Soul cultivator's talisman. Let's see what tricks you have up your sleeve this time!"

Before the words had even faded, he activated his invisible flying sword and the white mirror magic weapon to launch a fierce attack on Zhou Chun.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun, just like last time, first activated his two magic treasures with all his might to defend himself and observe the situation of his opponent.

Last time, he lacked experience, so he seemed a bit disorganized.

This time, he had already devised a way to deal with the assassin's attack, so he was no longer so easily controlled.

Moreover, Zhou Chun knew that the assassin definitely didn't want to fight him for long, otherwise things might change over time.

Therefore, he only needs to adopt a defensive stance and wait for the opponent to make a move.

Everything went as Zhou Chun had predicted. After using the same trick to fight him for a while, and seeing that he couldn't gain much advantage, the assassin used his ultimate move.

The man raised his hand and patted the storage bag at his waist, and a white jade talisman appeared in his hand.

He held the white jade talisman in his hand, infusing it with his own ice-attribute magic power, and soon activated the talisman, throwing it out with a flick of his wrist.

Instantly, a powerful white icy light spread out in a ring from the jade talisman, heading towards Zhou Chun's location at an extremely fast speed.

Wherever this white icy light passed, the water vapor in the sky condensed directly into tiny ice crystals, taking on various shapes. Even the clouds condensed into frost, falling to the ground in large chunks!

What's terrifying is that this phenomenon covered a very wide area, encompassing a region of dozens of miles in radius. Even the ground quickly cooled to freezing temperatures, changing the color of the mountains and rivers in the blink of an eye, turning the world into a frosty white expanse!

Such earth-shattering methods, capable of changing the world in an instant, are truly awe-inspiring.

Without a doubt, this must be the effect of a Nascent Soul cultivator's supernatural power. That white jade talisman must be a supernatural jade talisman made by a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Ice Prison Sect!

Generally speaking, Nascent Soul stage cultivators rarely create offensive supernatural power jade talismans because the power of such supernatural powers is more difficult to restrain and seal. Furthermore, it is very dangerous for Golden Core stage cultivators to use such jade talismans, as they may injure themselves if they lose control.

However, the magical jade talisman used by the Ice Prison Gate assassins is clearly an offensive magical jade talisman.

At that moment, Zhou Chun, who was directly facing the impact of the white ice light, had his several layers of protection easily frozen and broken, and even the golden shield magic weapon transformed from his natal magic weapon [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron] was frozen in an instant.

However, there was one exception to his protection: the silver-white fairy robe draped close to his body.

The defensive divine power "Taiyin Protective Immortal Robe" is limited by Zhou Chun's own cultivation level, and can only exert a fraction of its normal power. In theory, it should not be able to withstand an attack from a divine power talisman.

However, ice-attribute supernatural powers are an exception!

The [Moon Toad Treasure Pearl] has an extremely strong ability to absorb and devour ice-attribute power, even ice-attribute power that has reached the fifth level in quality.

As a close-fitting protective divine power, the "Taiyin Protective Immortal Robe" naturally inherits this ability from the original spirit treasure.

Therefore, when the white ice light touched it, its power was immediately swallowed up and dissolved, making it difficult to cause any real harm to Zhou Chun.

However, the white ice light was only the assassin's first attack.

After activating the supernatural talisman in his hand, the assassin then used a sword technique, controlling an invisible flying sword to transform into a white sword rainbow that shot towards Zhou Chun.

Before the sword rainbow even arrived, the bone-chilling coldness already made Zhou Chun's hair stand on end, and he felt a strong sense of crisis.

Without thinking twice, he hurriedly activated the magical talisman he had been hiding in his sleeve.

In an instant, a silver-white light shield condensed and appeared in front of Zhou Chun, just in time to block the white sword rainbow that shot through the air!

After all, it was a divine power used by a Nascent Soul stage cultivator. Even if it was only a fraction of the power of a normal divine power, it was not something that a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator could break through with a single blow.

After the white sword rainbow landed on the silver-white light shield, it caused the light shield to shine brightly and formed a powerful clash wave, but it quickly ended with the invisible flying sword itself being bounced away.

In contrast, although the silver light shield had dimmed somewhat, it still firmly protected Zhou Chun within it.

No wonder Master Baiyue was so confident back then, saying that the supernatural talisman could allow Zhou Chun to withstand the attack of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator for half an hour.

The assassin seemed surprised to find that he possessed such a defensive magical talisman.

Seeing his long-planned offensive completely fail, a look of shock and disbelief appeared on his usually unreadable face.

Their offensive suddenly ceased.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun calmly looked at the assassin and said, "Why have you stopped attacking? Are you perhaps preparing to give up?"

"I've heard that your Ice Prison Sect's assassin rules state that if an assassin fails to kill the target, the mission is considered a failure. The employer can then either increase the reward or forgo the deposit and cancel the mission!"

"What are your plans now?"

As he finished speaking, a hint of mockery appeared in his eyes, seemingly a sarcastic remark directed at the assassin.

Hearing his words, the assassin was not angered. He simply said in a low voice, "You, a cultivator from a small family in a remote place, actually know the reputation and rules of our sect. It seems you have received guidance from a master of the Moon Wheel Sect!"

His tone turned icy, and he continued, "But do you think you can make me back down with just a magical talisman?"

As if to prove himself, he immediately launched a new offensive against Zhou Chun, activating the invisible flying sword and the white mirror magic weapon.

In fact, the assassin is now in a difficult position.

After his previous assassination attempt failed, although he managed to get the sect to increase the reward by exploiting the information asymmetry and obtained a magical talisman, he also signed a pledge.

If he returns empty-handed again, not only will he not receive any reward, but he will also have to compensate the sect with a large sum of money and resources for using that supernatural talisman, and his status as a top assassin will be downgraded!

This enormous loss was something he was unwilling to accept.

Therefore, as long as there was even a sliver of a chance, he would not give up on this assassination attempt.

Zhou Chun, of course, knew nothing of these inside details.

Seeing that the assassin opposite him was still unwilling to give up, he was not angry but amused.

Now that he has used his supernatural powers and secret talismans, he is actually afraid that the other party will turn around and leave, completely giving up on assassinating him.

Then he might have to face assassins at the late stage of the Golden Core realm.

But now that the other party is still unwilling to give up, he can find a way to carry out his plan.

Relying on the shield formed by his supernatural talismans, he abandoned all other defenses and focused all his energy on using the [Taibai Dragon-Slaying Sword] and [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron] to launch a counterattack against the assassin.

However, although the assassin could not break through the silver-white light shield for a while, it was not difficult for him to defend against and dodge his attacks.

Especially now that the world is covered in frost and ice, it directly provides the assassins with a home-field advantage.

He even used the Ice Escape Technique to dodge attacks right in front of Zhou Chun.

Judging from how easily he used the Ice Escape Technique, he has reached a high level of mastery over this technique and can now use it in actual combat.

This made Zhou Chun cautious, and he dared not use his trump card easily, lest the opponent dodge it with his escape technique.

Time passed slowly, and soon nearly half an hour had gone by.

The battle between the two Golden Core cultivators had already attracted many nearby cultivators to watch from a distance.

Zhou Chun's silver-white light shield had dimmed considerably and was clearly not going to last much longer.

At this moment, Zhou Chun seemed to have lost his nerve, and directly abandoned his counterattack against the assassin, fleeing the area while shielded.

Upon seeing this, the assassin was overjoyed and hurriedly gave chase.

The two Golden Core stage cultivators chased and fled, quickly disappearing from the sight of the low- to mid-level cultivators watching from the shadows.

After chasing him for hundreds of miles, Zhou Chun was intercepted over a desolate mountain.

"Kid, your turtle shell is about to crack. Let's see how arrogant you are now!"

In the sky, the Ice Prison Gate assassins, while wielding their flying swords to fiercely attack Zhou Chun, couldn't help but taunt him.

In the previous battles, this assassin had been verbally attacked by Zhou Chun quite a bit and had long since had enough.

But Zhou Chun, showing no sign of admitting defeat, scoffed, "Hmph, haven't you also exhausted most of your magic power? Who wins and who loses is still uncertain!"

After saying that, he suddenly raised his hand and patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, releasing the Thunder Dragon Bai Bai.

Ok?

The assassin was slightly taken aback when he saw Zhou Chun suddenly release a mid-grade third-tier demonic beast.

He wasn't unaware that Zhou Chun possessed a spirit pet.

In fact, the intelligence provided by Qinglian Temple was very comprehensive, with detailed information on Zhou Chun's other spirit pets besides the Wood Spirit.

However, because Zhou Chun never revealed to outsiders that he had learned the secret technique of "Beast Spirit Fusion Technique", there was no record of this in the intelligence of Qinglian Temple.

Therefore, when the assassin saw Zhou Chun release the Thunder Dragon Bai Bai during the battle, he couldn't understand the meaning behind it.

However, his cautious nature as an assassin prompted him to quickly raise his hand and unleash a blast of icy sword energy towards Lei Jiao Bai Bai.

With a flash of lightning, Lei Jiao easily dodged the attack of the icy sword energy using his lightning escape technique.

Zhou Chun then used the "Beast Spirit Fusion Technique" to merge with it, forming a human-faced thunder dragon.

What kind of supernatural power is this?!

Seeing the human-faced thunder dragon suddenly appear in the sky, the assassin's gaze sharpened, and he was deeply shocked.

He was quite knowledgeable, and the Ice Prison Sect had a rich collection of books, containing records of many famous supernatural powers and secret techniques from various countries.

This was the first time he had ever heard of or seen such a secret technique that combined human and pet powers.

For a moment, I was at a loss as to how to deal with it.

But he was a veteran of countless battles, and after a brief moment of shock, he quickly drew his sword and slashed at the human-faced thunder dragon.

No matter how things change, I will cut them down with a single sword stroke.

However, after transforming into a human-faced thunder dragon, Zhou Chun not only gained the ability to use thunder escape techniques, but his senses were also enhanced.

Now he not only possesses the divine sense of a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, but also the bloodline sensitivity and powerful spiritual perception of a demon beast.

The attack of that invisible flying sword was no longer as elusive and difficult to detect as it had been before.

Using his lightning escape technique, he dodged left and right, frequently avoiding the attacks of the flying swords, and even wielded the [Taibai Dragon-Slaying Sword] to clash with them several times.

He also repeatedly used lightning techniques to get close to the assassins, attempting to take advantage of his dragon body in close combat.

However, the assassin was extremely well-protected, and the invisible flying sword made it difficult for Zhou Chun to dodge when it attacked at close range. For a while, it was also difficult for him to find an opportunity to unleash the "Taiyin Extinction Divine Light" to attack the opponent.

He knew very well that he only had one chance, so he had to be sure that he could break through the opponent's defenses in one strike before he could really unleash his killing move.

After Zhou Chun, disguised as a human-faced thunder dragon, fought the assassin for nearly fifteen minutes, he had several sword wounds on his human-faced thunder dragon body, all left when he tried to attack his opponent in close combat.

Fortunately, the freezing cold released by the invisible flying sword was neutralized by the Moon Toad Pearl; otherwise, these sword wounds would have crippled Zhou Chun's Thunder Dragon body.

However, this situation has already aroused the killer's attention and suspicion.

Can't drag it any longer!

Seeing that the assassin was beginning to have doubts, Zhou Chun finally made a decision.

He reappeared behind the assassin using lightning techniques, then opened his mouth and spat out an enormous silver lightning ball.

Rumble!

As the silver lightning ball exploded on the assassin's protective barrier, a white pearl followed, spewing from the mouth of the human-faced lightning dragon, unleashing a pure white icy light that pierced through the lightning and shot towards the assassin.

At the same time, the "God-Slaying Technique" was also activated.

Perhaps the target itself had also cultivated a secret technique for defending against divine sense, or perhaps the opponent's divine sense was too powerful. After Zhou Chun unleashed the "God-Slaying Technique," his own divine sense suffered a partial backlash, forcing him to break free from the fusion state.

Fortunately, once the "God-Slaying Sword" hits its target, even if the opponent can resist the strike, their consciousness will be shaken, affecting their reaction speed in other aspects.

Zhou Chun only needed that the opponent could not dodge the attack of "Taiyin Extinction Divine Light"; whether it could damage the opponent's consciousness was not important.

When the lightning subsided, a scene that surprised Zhou Chun appeared.

The assassin, who had been shrouded in a hazy white light, was now frozen into an ice sculpture.

However, because the white robe he was wearing covered all parts of his body except his eyes and hands, it was still impossible to see what he looked like.

Meanwhile, the Moon Toad Pearl rested on his head, continuously providing power to maintain his frozen state.

As a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator who practices ice-attribute techniques, this assassin would certainly not have his soul annihilated by the greatly weakened "Taiyin Extinction Divine Light". Therefore, in order to prevent him from dissolving the power that freezes himself, the spirit treasure itself must personally maintain the frozen state.

Once Zhou Chun confirmed that the other party was indeed frozen and unable to fight back, he immediately raised his hand and patted the storage bag at his waist, taking out a black stone coffin.

This black stone coffin is the Soul-Suppressing Coffin, which is a mid-grade third-tier magic artifact. For the cultivators of the Corpse Demon Sect, it is more valuable than an ordinary high-grade third-tier magic artifact.

Zhou Chun made a hand seal to open the coffin lid and put the assassin, who had turned into an ice sculpture, inside. The Moon Toad Pearl was not taken back and remained in front of the assassin's chest to continue providing freezing power.

Zhou Chun then closed the coffin lid again, suppressed the invisible flying sword magic weapon left by the assassin, and left after a quick cleanup of the battlefield.

Not long after, the Zhou family cultivators suddenly saw Zhou Chun fly back to the Tu Yunling Mountain Gate with a pale face, and then announce that he was going into seclusion.

This incident immediately caused widespread panic within the family, and many Zhou family cultivators began to try every means to find out who had injured the patriarch.

In reality, Zhou Chun only made a brief appearance, using a smokescreen.

In fact, he quickly and quietly left Tuyun Ridge through the Golden Armored Mountain Tortoise Stone and headed straight for Longyuan Marsh.

After arriving in the wilderness, Zhou Chun soon came to the former gate of the Blood Dragon branch altar.

At that time, the demonic cultivators built a mountain gate here and massacred the scaled frog race, attempting to artificially create a Yin Sha spiritual vein.

Although the attack by the Heavenly Spirit Alliance ultimately failed and the sacred land was completely abandoned, it also turned the place into a place of yin and evil.

Now, it is haunted by wandering spirits and corpses year-round, and even demonic beasts are unwilling to enter this place.

For Zhou Chun, this place was undoubtedly the best place to unleash the "Soul Sealing and Corpse Suppression Technique".

He had already tried it before, and it was indeed not feasible to seal the assassin simply by using the Soul-Sealing Coffin in conjunction with the "Soul-Sealing Corpse-Suppressing Technique".

The opponent's will is too strong!

Now Zhou Chun can only draw the corpse energy into the opponent's body to corrode their consciousness, and then reseal it.

Fortunately, he had killed many Purple Mansion stage cultivators of the Corpse Demon Sect in the past, so it was not difficult for him to gather and activate the Corpse Fiend Qi now.

After clearing out a section of land within the Blood Dragon branch's territory, Zhou Chun immediately inscribed array patterns, using the Soul-Sealing Coffin as the array's core, to gather the corpse energy of this place and bring it into the coffin.

Countless corpses of the Scaled Frog alien race and human cultivators were buried here in the past, so the accumulated corpse aura underground is naturally very strong.

At this moment, activated by Zhou Chun's formation, they immediately converged on the Soul-Sealing Coffin from all directions.

Zhou Chun was still worried that the quality of these corpse-evil energies was not high enough to transform the assassin with the mid-stage Golden Core cultivation into a half-corpse body.

He even took out the mutated corpse bead he had obtained from killing the fourth-tier spiritual zombie, General Jiang Zhong, and forcibly shattered it, allowing the pure corpse energy inside to surge into the Soul-Sealing Coffin.

After seven days of this ritual, Zhou Chun reopened the lid of the Soul-Sealing Coffin.

The ice that had sealed the assassin was now slightly tinged with gray-black, and the assassin's skin was bluish-black, his fingernails had grown to half a foot long, and his body hair had become much thicker.

These symptoms undoubtedly indicate that Zhou Chun's plan has succeeded.

At this moment, the assassin has been transformed into a half-corpse!

In this situation, even if Zhou Chun releases him, it will be extremely difficult for him to change his body back, and his future path to cultivation will be virtually cut off.

However, Zhou Chun would naturally not let the tiger return to the mountain.

After a careful examination, he drove seven "corpse-suppressing nails" into the assassin's limbs, head, chest, and dantian. Then he sat cross-legged on the ground and once again used the secret technique of "Soul Sealing and Corpse Suppressing Art" on him.

As the secret technique was performed, beads of sweat immediately appeared on Zhou Chun's forehead. This was because his consciousness was under immense pressure while suppressing the assassin's will.

However, compared to the previous failed spellcasting attempts, this time, although it was still somewhat difficult, Zhou Chun eventually succeeded in completing the spell after a battle of spiritual consciousness.

After the lid of the Soul-Sealing Coffin was closed again, Zhou Chun suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood essence. His hands quickly formed hand seals, controlling the blood essence to transform into blood-red runes that were imprinted on the coffin lid, eventually forming a special blood rune.

Once this blood talisman is completed, it not only signifies that the "Soul Sealing and Corpse Suppression Technique" has been successfully executed, but also means that if the assassin sealed inside is about to break free, or if someone releases him from the outside, Zhou Chun will immediately sense it.

But the second method is hard to say, while Zhou Chun would definitely not allow the first one to happen.

He will come every ten years or so to reinforce the seal. After a hundred years or so, when the Ice Prison Gate has completely given up on finding this assassin, he will kill him to prevent future troubles!

After confirming that the seal was secure, Zhou Chun didn't dare to rest for long and hurriedly took the Soul-Sealing Coffin to the Scaled Frog Tribe.

He dared not go deep into the Dragon Abyss Swamp himself, otherwise, if he were exposed, the danger would be no less than attracting a late-stage Golden Core assassin to kill him.

Therefore, this matter could only be entrusted to the high priest of the Scaled Frog tribe, Ukuru.

(End of this chapter)