The Long Journey to Immortality

Accompanied by a cloud of smoke, the three East Sea cultivators fled in three different directions.

"White-bearded Hermit", "Thousand-browed Taoist" and "Red-haired" all fly on swords.

The situation differs from the previous three cases in terms of strength.

Despite having the worst cultivation level, Thousand-Eyebrow Daoist was the fastest flyer.

Seeing this, the three spectators temporarily ended their "stand-by" life.

Meanwhile, Wen Erya and Yi Qiyan, who were engaged in a magical battle, did not hesitate at all and were about to use their methods to hunt down the three pieces of meat that were already within their grasp.

The incident happened suddenly, without prior discussion, and everyone chose their targets based on their immediate judgment.

Yi Qiyan and Fan Anxiang chose to pursue "White Beard".

Wen Erya pursued the insolent "Red Hair".

Only "Thousand Eyebrows" was left unchallenged, suggesting that the chief culprit would be executed first, while the accomplice would be spared.

Seeing this scene that resembled a shower of flowers from the heavens, Han Lu shook her head slightly and sighed, "You're overthinking it. This isn't a place you can just run away from as you please."

Immediately afterwards, she activated the True Phoenix Manual and quickly transformed into her true form as a phoenix, launching a pursuit at a speed five or six times faster than others.

Unlike the other three Golden Core cultivators present, who chose to focus on a single target.

Relying on his flying speed, which far surpassed that of the three cultivators from the East Sea.

Han Lu's current behavior can only be summarized in one sentence.

I want it all.

Chapter 823 Sweep Them All

If it were a battle against other Golden Core cultivators, the White-Bearded Hermit, who had betrayed his "brothers" with a little trick and was skilled in escape techniques, might actually have been able to escape and save his life.

Unfortunately, Han Lu was among the five cultivators fighting him at that moment.

Han Lu, who can transform into a phoenix and fly at several times the speed of an ordinary cultivator, would not sit idly by and watch the spirit stones and good fortune delivered to her slip away.

Although she intended to capture them all at once, she still arranged an order of arrest based on their importance.

First came the White-Bearded Hermit, then the Red Dharma, and finally the Thousand-Eyebrowed One.

On the question of which of the three from the East Sea was the most hated and the most "deserving of death," the opinions of the cultivators from both sides were surprisingly consistent.

"It's strange, though, that bald cultivator with the lowest cultivation level is the fastest flying."

The thought only flashed through Han Lu's mind and did not linger for long.

After all, every coin has two sides. Perhaps the reason this cultivator with a large bald patch on his head has such a terrible hairstyle is because he flies too fast.

It was precisely because of their lack of strength that they diligently practiced flying skills and made escaping their primary occupation that they were able to survive in the harsh environment of the East China Sea.

The "White-bearded Hermit" who had fled early had already flown nearly two miles away.

What seemed like a distant, "safe" distance to other Golden Core cultivators was, in Han Lu's eyes, like a stone's throw away.

With a flap of her wings, Han Lu's speed exploded to its limit in a short period of time.

In the next instant, Han Lu, who had transformed into a phoenix, arrived behind "White-bearded Hermit".

It was fortunate that Han Lu thought of giving the goodwill to Yi Qiyan; otherwise, she could have easily used the impact of high-speed flight to easily rip out the "White-Bearded Hermit" from behind, killing him on the spot, by simply extending her claws forward.

Showing mercy, Han Lu adjusted her angle and flew around "White-Bearded Hermit" at lightning speed, while simultaneously spitting out frost and using her Ice Phoenix Divine Power to quickly freeze "White-Bearded Hermit" completely, who had no idea what was happening.

Having completed her capture mission, Han Lu executed a graceful tail flick, casually flapping her wings to send the ice block, which was about to fall, hurtling towards Yi Qiyan and Fan Anxiang, who were still three or four hundred meters away.

Regardless of whether the two understood each other or not, and helped to temporarily guard the spoils, Han Lu flapped her wings again, adjusted her direction, and chased after the "red-haired cultivator" who was already three miles away.

This distance was slightly greater than when he was chasing "White-bearded Hermit," but Han Lu still arrived in an instant.

There was no way around it; there were no obstructions in the air.

The speed difference between them was too great. As long as Han Lu could lock onto the target, all the escape attempts made by these three East Sea cultivators would be in vain.

Everything Han Lu did to capture "White-bearded Hermit" happened in the blink of an eye. The "Red-haired Cultivator," focused on escaping, didn't even notice that Han Lu had transformed into a phoenix.

Naturally, he had no idea that in just five breaths, someone had already caught up with him.

Caught off guard, he suffered the same treatment as the White-bearded Hermit.

Another block of ice appeared out of thin air, and the red-haired cultivator who had just been fighting Wen Erya and Yi Qiyan with great skill was now a caged bird in the blink of an eye.

Using the same trick again, Han Lu threw the ice block at the late-arriving Wen Erya, and then changed direction once more to chase after the last East Sea cultivator who had offended several people.

Unlike his two brothers, "Thousand Eyebrows" noticed everything that happened in that instant.

The rapid change in the situation made him gasp in surprise.

"What? This True Phoenix Fairy is actually a phoenix?"

"Flying so fast? I'm afraid even a top-tier spiritual weapon can't match the speed of this phoenix."

"It's over, it's over, my life is over, my life is over."

His heart was filled with despair, but his will to survive led him to make a desperate fight when faced with the enormous phoenix that was chasing him and was now right in front of him.

He forcibly spat out a golden pill.

The turbulence stirred up by Han Lu's flight was like a knife cutting into the golden core that had not yet formed a single dan pattern.

With only the cultivation level of the early stage of the Golden Core realm, it is still somewhat difficult and limited to do things that can only be done after advancing to the middle stage of the Golden Core realm.

Clearly, "Thousand Eyebrows" intends to use his own golden core as a catalyst to employ some extraordinary methods, putting himself in a life-or-death situation, abandoning his future with a costly approach, and attempting to grasp at that almost invisible chance of survival.

The fact that Qianmei, who had been so timid before the battle and hadn't shown any outstanding skills during it, suddenly had such awareness in this matter was completely unexpected by Han Lu.

However, being unexpected does not mean that "Thousand Eyebrows'" actions can be described as "winning by surprise".

The gap in strength is obvious.

Seeing Qianmei's seemingly desperate actions, Han Lu immediately used new methods to prevent this cultivator who was using a beast core to cultivate from damaging the golden core that had been transformed into a human cultivator, thus affecting the harvest of this "punishing evil and promoting good" campaign.

With the use of the Illusionary Phoenix Divine Power, the four-winged true phoenix that Han Lu transformed into seemed to become a small sun, radiating countless rays of light.

Upon seeing the dazzling light, "Thousand Eyebrows'" eyes became lifeless, clearly indicating that he had been bewitched and temporarily lost his sense of self.

Han Lu hadn't expected to disarm the other party so easily.

"Perhaps he was not good at dealing with illusions to begin with, and he had used up too much spiritual power and energy in the battle with his senior sister and Yi Qiyan just now."

Han Lu made a casual guess and didn't think about it any further.

After playing the good guy and helping "Thousand Eyebrows" put the hard-won golden elixir back into his dantian, Han Lu then used the same method to freeze the other party into an ice block and capture him.

All were captured. As soon as the phoenix turned around, Han Lu returned to her usual self.

Using her magical artifact manipulation skills to control the ice blocks to follow her, she leisurely reunited with her companions with her last piece of spoils.

Having just reunited, Fan Anxiang couldn't help but shout, "The True Phoenix Fairy's magic is boundless!" praising Han Lu's displayed strength.

Fan Anxiang's junior brother, Mo Yang, had higher emotional intelligence. While praising Han Lu along with his senior brother, he didn't forget about Yi Qiyan and Wen Erya.

Having escaped death, the two cultivators from the Three Immortals Mountain were overjoyed, enjoying the victory in the victor's ranks.

With a wave of her hand, Han Lu unveiled the three ice blocks formed by the Ice Phoenix Divine Power, intending to discuss cleaning up the mess with her friend and Fan Anxiang.

Unexpectedly, an accident occurred as soon as the ice thawed.

The disguise spells the three had applied while escaping naturally dissipated, revealing their true identities as cultivators.

"This……"

Seeing the cultivator who had just been a white-bearded hermit transform into a red-haired cultivator, Wen Erya's mouth gaped open, her face full of surprise.

Upon realizing that the "Thousand Eyebrows" she had captured was actually the White-Bearded Hermit, and that the true form of the Red-Haired Cultivator was Thousand Eyebrows, Han Lu's doubts during the pursuit were immediately dispelled.

She shook her head, said calmly, and said, "I see, they really are a pair of good brothers."

Chapter 824 Profit Sharing, Torture

Han Lu wasn't the only one who noticed the difference in flight speed and combat strength between the three cultivators from the East Sea and those they had demonstrated in previous battles.

Therefore, when the disguise magic on the three people dissipated, revealing their true identities...

After a brief comparison, when they learned that Bai Hu Sanren had transformed into a bald man with "thousand eyebrows" and was trying to escape, everyone roughly guessed Bai Hu Sanren's plan and sighed that the relationship between these three "good brothers" was as fragile as a piece of paper.

Originally, Wen Erya and Yi Qiyan still harbored a sliver of hope for these three cultivators from the East Sea, believing that they were simply forced to act and live in this way because they were born in the East Sea.

He assumed that the three of them shared a deep bond, just like the three of them.

But now it seems they were naive.

These three cultivators from the East Sea, while not entirely evil, were not far off.

The warrant for his arrest is well-founded and justified.

They took him down under the pretext of "punishing evil and promoting good," and even if he was executed on the spot, it would still be just.

It can be said that the infighting among the three during their escape allowed Wen Erya and Yi Qiyan, who were leaving the Central Plains cultural sphere for the first time, to shed their last mental burdens and view the East Sea cultivators with a more developed and progressive perspective.

They were temporarily freed from the ice, but the three East Sea cultivators remained unconscious.

This was Han Lu's deliberate act, to avoid any unexpected incidents.

"Fellow Daoist Fox and Sheep," Han Lu addressed Fan Anxiang by his Daoist title, "This matter is now considered settled. Do you have any thoughts on the distribution of the spoils?"

The spoils Han Lu mentioned were not just the storage bags on the three East Sea cultivators.

The head of the White-Bearded Hermit and the golden cores from the dantian of the three cultivators were also part of the spoils of war.

The latter two things, if spoken aloud, would be somewhat "unpleasant to hear" for cultivators from the Central Plains, so she only hinted at them and did not state the matter explicitly.

Fan Anxiang understood Han Lu's subtext.

Because it was Han Lu and the other two who saved him and his junior brother, they were indebted to him.

He also greatly admired Han Lu's abilities.

Naturally, when Han Lu was being polite and formal, symbolically seeking his opinion...

He didn't take advantage of the situation and obediently relinquished the initiative, secretly hoping that Han Lu would share some leftovers with him.

If not, he wouldn't complain; he would consider it a life-saving ordeal and an eye-opening experience, a gain from the battle.