The white light came too swiftly—one moment just a flash of cold radiance, the next instant suspended before Elder Dong Mu and Qi Yuan.

The highest cultivation among that squad of Celestial Soldiers was merely True Immortal realm. At this moment, they were completely unable to mount any response.

Elder Dong Mu’s expression changed dramatically. He instinctively grabbed Elder Qi Yuan’s arm and violently threw him backward…

Elder Qi Yuan let out a yelp, nearly being thrown apart.

Simultaneously, golden light erupted around Elder Dong Mu’s body. A half-suit of treasure armor appeared outside his Daoist robe. His left hand had no time to grab a magical treasure, so he directly struck out with a palm toward the front!

The Celestial Court’s Elder Dong Mu, engaging in magical combat!

A cyan whirlwind burst forth from his palm, blooming into a cyan light screen. Elder Dong Mu’s hair and beard fluttered, his eyes full of majesty.

But before this light screen could fully expand, that suspended white light suddenly erupted. Beams of light penetrated heaven and earth, illuminating hundreds of miles in radius with brilliant radiance!

Li Longshou’s paper clone, which had transformed into a flying bird, was still injured by this white light despite being some distance away. His vision turned completely white, and the power of his Primordial Spirit nearly shattered.

He instinctively made this paper clone retreat, while two streams of consciousness had already descended upon the paper clone in his Master’s sleeve!

Save Master first!

In magical combat of this level, his Master would be injured by a graze and killed by direct contact—even a single breath of immortal qi could dissolve him…

Thus, amid this urgently erupting white light, two streaks of light flew out from Qi Yuan’s sleeve—two True Immortal realm paper clones transformed into Celestial Generals with middle-aged appearances!

Paper Clone One grabbed Elder Qi Yuan’s shoulder, surging immortal power enveloping Elder Qi Yuan. In hand was a familiar beast skin bag, his form about to swiftly retreat…

Paper Clone Two directly charged toward Elder Dong Mu, immortal power condensing into a rope that lashed forward, intending to pull Elder Dong Mu out from where the white light was most concentrated.

Li Longshou’s reaction was already extremely swift, but the interval of the white light’s eruption was truly too brief!

So brief that Li Longshou couldn’t even deploy his most accomplished escape technique.

The opponent had deliberately calculated against the unprepared, and perhaps due to the influence of calamitous fate, Li Longshou’s usual premonition of danger had no effect this time.

Paper Clone One still couldn’t carry Master away, Paper Clone Two’s left fingertips hadn’t yet touched Elder Dong Mu’s flowing gray hair…

The all-encompassing white light suddenly converged in an instant. Heaven and earth reversed for hundreds of miles in radius, yin and yang switched positions, extreme brightness transformed into extreme darkness!

Even immortal consciousness was suppressed within a several-hundred feet radius as if imprisoned in a dark dungeon.

This wasn’t even the end…

Just at the moment when light and darkness transformed extremely quickly, through that paper clone slightly further away, Li Longshou barely glimpsed a silver-white shuttle suspended before Elder Dong Mu, rippling with waves upon its surface…

The waves drifted far away.

Silently, that squad of Celestial Soldiers couldn’t make even half a sound before their bodies went limp, Primordial Spirits shattered, falling downward like dumplings into soup, without the slightest trace of life force…

Poison.

As a professional poison-using cultivator himself, how could Li Longshou not recognize what these waves were?

The attacker was a master of poison, and this shuttle-shaped spiritual treasure was also quite formidable. From the sneak attack to the poison release, it gave the ordinary Golden Immortal ‘expert’ Elder Dong Mu not even half a chance to escape!

Of course, this matter couldn’t be blamed on Elder Dong Mu. Even Li Longshou couldn’t have mounted many countermeasures. He only transmitted a voice saying ‘Excuse me,’ knocked his Master unconscious, casually took out a beast skin treasure bag, put Elder Qi Yuan inside, and stored it in his sleeve.

Elder Dong Mu let out a muffled groan, his eyes trembling, his whole body unexpectedly flashing with black light…

His protective immortal light couldn’t persist even for a moment before being directly defeated by those waves.

Li Longshou: …

“Elder Dong Mu!”

Paper Clone Two called out in a low voice, hurriedly reaching forward to support Elder Dong Mu’s arm.

But with a sizzling sound, the paper clone’s hand was corroded by the black light, exposing the white paper surface, the wound appearing as if burned.

Li Longshou took out several antidote pills that every True Immortal realm paper clone was equipped with, stuffing them into the already unconscious Elder Dong Mu’s mouth, helping him fight against the invasion of the violent poison…

From Elder Dong Mu’s cultivation level, one could judge that this nominal second-in-command of the Celestial Court was truly busy with court affairs in his daily life.

Meanwhile, through Paper Clone Three’s eyes outside, he observed this area of ‘pitch darkness.’

The Celestial Soldiers who had just been poisoned to death hung suspended in the air after falling about a hundred feet, clearly encountering an obstacle…

With the aid of the antidote pills, Elder Dong Mu barely roused his spirits, breathing heavily.

Li Longshou’s two paper clones, apart from being directly ‘burned,’ were unaffected by this violent poison. Their eyes were currently quite round…

“Heh, paper people?”

A voice neither male nor female, somewhat cold and gloomy, came from outside this darkness:

“Unexpected that the Water God would have avatars here. Today truly brings unexpected joy.”

Water God?

Elder Dong Mu looked somewhat bewildered at the two middle-aged Celestial Generals beside him;

Li Longshou slowly nodded, lowering his head to look at the two now-corroded paper clone hands.

This was the greatest weakness of paper clones—after the protective immortal power was broken, they were truly as fragile as paper.

From the paper clones’ reaction, Li Longshou could also judge that the opponent’s poison wasn’t directly targeting the Primordial Spirit…

Master had been safe if rudely, protected. The two paper clones transformed into Celestial Generals stood to Elder Dong Mu’s left and right, building up momentum for the coming offensive.

A hundred dangers lurked in the surroundings. The opponent had yet to truly appear, instead giving their side enormous pressure.

To buy time, Li Longshou also brought out a small trump card—the two paper clones’ auras interlinked, their expressions completely identical.

The opponent hesitated.

Two Golden Core pills gently vibrated within. Li Longshou’s two paper clones actively dispersed pressure, their expressions completely calm.

Now they must buy time.

Just when the opponent first struck, Li Longshou’s true body was already bringing along his family, including the yet-unreturned Tower Lord and Heaven-Earth Ruler, rushing urgently toward this location.

The ambush site was at the edge of East Victory Divine Continent, not too far from the Degree Immortal Gate. With Li Longshou’s escape techniques, he only needed the two True Immortal realm paper clones to delay for a moment, and then he could…

ROAR!

Suddenly a heaven-shaking tiger’s roar was heard. The surrounding heaven and earth trembled slightly. Above and below Li Longshou and Elder Dong Mu, something huge was rapidly approaching!

That seemed to be a giant tiger’s mouth.

However perilous the surroundings were now, they couldn’t just wait for death!

Li Longshou’s two paper clones erupted with golden light, immortal power seemed about to surge directly ahead…

In the darkness, a tall figure flashed past and immediately retreated, clearly unwilling to directly receive Li Longshou’s fierce strike!

Time waits for no one.

Li Longshou let out a low shout, changing his offensive. Left and right simultaneously grabbed the already severely wounded Elder Dong Mu. Their figures transformed into a ball of golden light, choosing a random direction to shoot forth…

If not escape now, when?

But just as Li Longshou had traversed several hundred feet, he felt the heaven and earth ahead sealed off. The golden light was blocked for an instant.

Just this fatal instant—Li Longshou was empty-handed without spiritual treasures, unable to break through. He tried to urge the Heaven-Earth Escape Technique, but the Dao rhyme couldn’t unfold. The two huge shadows above and below directly closed, encompassing them within.

Heaven and Earth are completely sealed off. Li Longshou’s connection with his two paper clones was almost completely severed!

Through Paper Clone Three, Li Longshou could see from afar:

A two-winged three-headed white tiger, several thousand feet long in body, its left head swallowing his two paper clones, Elder Dong Mu, plus Master in the bag in one bite!

Vast, violent pressure spread from around this two-winged three-headed white tiger. This white tiger was like the ruler of this part of heaven and earth. Its right head raised and let out a tiger’s roar that killed the fighting spirit for ten thousand miles.

Truly entered the tiger’s mouth.

Just then!

Whoosh—

That streak of silver-white light appeared again.

Li Longshou’s paper clone that had followed Master only had strength equivalent to the late-stage Heavenly Immortal realm.

Now, facing that silver shuttle with this paper clone, Li Longshou didn’t entertain any delusions of successfully escaping. Instead, taking advantage of the instant the silver shuttle attacked, his form fully deployed escape techniques to retreat, giving himself time to…

Say one sentence.

“If you harm those two, I’ll exterminate your descendants for nine generations!”

With a soft puff sound, this paper clone was directly pierced by the silver shuttle, breaking its connection with Li Longshou’s consciousness.

…

‘Master.’

In the earth, Li Longshou’s true body was like a stream of quicksand, rapidly traversing.

Li Longshou’s consciousness still maintained weak sensing with those two True Immortal realm paper clones. He could hear Elder Dong Mu’s painful light groans after the poison took effect, could feel his Master’s slight movements in that bag…

Their current position was to the northwest, and the distance was constantly closing, but that two-winged three-headed tiger’s cultivation realm was quite profound. Even going all out in flight, Li Longshou couldn’t immediately catch up.

The Heaven-Earth Ruler in his hand emitted burst after burst of thunderous sound. Earth escape and Heaven-Earth escape techniques alternated as he frantically pursued through the ground.

In his eyes, streaks of water-blue light bloomed…

The demon tribe’s target today was Elder Dong Mu!

There must be traitors in the Celestial Court who exposed Elder Dong Mu’s whereabouts.

Now with the great calamity’s influence descending, divination methods were ineffective. If not for traitors leaking information…

But the Celestial Court was so vast, that even a Celestial Soldier could do these things.

Li Longshou now understood where today’s events originated. Just like the rumors that appeared in the Celestial Court several years ago, the demon tribe had taken Elder Dong Mu as the Celestial Court’s breakthrough point…

Elder Dong Mu was a second-rank proper deity, titled ‘Leader of Male Immortals.’ When placed in this position, he was treated as the Celestial Court’s second-in-command.

If the demon tribe coerced Elder Dong Mu and forced the Celestial Court to bow its head, the Celestial Court would fall into a dilemma.

Whether disregarding Elder Dong Mu and deploying troops with full force, or considering Elder Dong Mu and agreeing to the demon tribe’s conditions, both would fulfill the demon tribe’s wishes.

If Elder Dong Mu became the opponent’s bargaining chip, the Celestial Court’s prestige would be completely lost. The Celestial Court would have to deploy troops even if it didn’t want to…

But deploying troops from the Celestial Court now was useless. Not to mention that most Celestial Court troops were merely True Immortal realm in cultivation. Facing such great demons, the opponent could swallow tens of thousands of Celestial Soldiers and Generals in one bite.

There wasn’t enough time to mobilize troops from the Celestial Court, Dragon Palace, and other places!

They must rescue Master and Elder Dong Mu in the shortest time!

Ask others for help.

The first person Li Longshou thought of was Grand Magus, but Grand Magus wasn’t in the Five Continents right now!

Zhao Gongming, Fairy Yunxiao…

With calamitous fate right overhead, did he want to let them charge into the calamity and be stained with great calamity karma that they might have been able to avoid?

Chase after them—as long as he could catch up, he could rescue Master and Elder Dong Mu.

Escape techniques, full power!

Li Longshou’s whole body shone with water-blue light. Immortal power frantically surged forth, leaving dragon veins behind one after another…

Demon!

Lu Ya!

Western Religion!

Calm down, now he must maintain calm.

Master being caught up in Elder Dong Mu’s matter was purely accidental. The opponent wanted to use Elder Dong Mu as a bargaining chip and definitely wouldn’t directly kill Elder Dong Mu;

By the same logic, Master was temporarily safe too.

Li Longshou resisted the urge to curse, raised his hand, and slapped himself across the face, forcing himself to calm down, constantly pondering rescue methods.

Though urgent now, he still didn’t forget to disguise himself, simply transforming into his commonly used young magus appearance.

In the underground secret chamber of Little Qiong Peak, one of Li Longshou’s paper clones knelt before the Sage’s portrait, but the Sage’s portrait did not react…

Was the Sage Lord’s meaning that Elder Dong Mu must enter calamity like this?

Li Longshou naturally wouldn’t forget that Elder Dong Mu was destined to have a death calamity—otherwise, where would the future Pure Yang Sword Immortal Lu Dongbin come from?

But Elder Dong Mu’s calamity collided with the Great Canonization Calamity and even pulled his Master into the calamity.

Master was…

Just a Turbid Immortal who relied on Peach of Immortality to reach the True Immortal realm, with real strength too miserable to look at!

It would be good enough to properly enjoy his remaining lifespan, why must he bear such weight that a Turbid Immortal couldn’t bear…

Today’s demon tribe expert made their move—even blowing a breath could leave Master’s bones in pieces!

Also because of this, the rescue difficulty was extraordinarily huge.

At Black Pool Peak, Baize, who received the voice transmission, immediately deployed divine abilities, transforming into a streak of black light charging out of Black Pool Peak’s great formation and Degree Immortal Gate’s mountain-protecting formation, pursuing toward the location Li Longshou provided…

Baize’s escape divine abilities were also quite limited. Although flying in true form was quite beautiful, the aesthetic component was high but speed was barely satisfactory.

On the other side, Li Longshou charged through who knows how far underground…

His consciousness suddenly shook—he had already charged underground ahead of his two paper clones!

Li Longshou’s eyes flashed with divine light. His figure shot up from underground, the Heaven-Earth Ruler in hand flashing with light, swishing and disappearing from the ground surface, charging into the vast dense fog…

This was…

North Continent’s Miasma Clouds!

This whole chase had unknowingly already charged into North Uttarakuru Continent’s heartland.

What made Li Longshou’s heart sink was…

Before when he was going all out with escape techniques, his immortal consciousness couldn’t extend too far;

Now as his immortal consciousness spread out, he actually detected over ten auras perched at various places in the clouds, some near some far, from thousands to tens of thousands of miles away from this location.

Very clearly, this time he had crashed into the demon tribe experts’ old lair.

But now was not the time to hesitate. Elder Dong Mu and Master’s lives were in that demon tiger’s mouth. Li Longshou’s figure flashed rapidly, charging toward the increasingly heavy massive shadow in the dense gray-green clouds ahead.

Urgent whistling sounds, thunderous explosions!

Heaven and earth shook, clouds scattered!

First came a cold snort, then strong light erupted, transforming into a pitch-black prison. Tiger roars shook the heavens as burst after burst of scattered clouds were swept into the high sky by fierce winds!

In a flash, beside that massive three-headed two-winged demon tiger, two figures engaged in extremely rapid combat, leaving streak after streak of afterimages…

That demon tiger’s left head remained tightly closed, while two heads spat out vast ice-blue flames. Golden light slashed out from all four tiger eyes, yet couldn’t catch up to Li Longshou’s constantly flashing figure.