If he could find the enemy’s weakness in time, perhaps it wouldn’t even take one-fifth…

Li Changshou exhaled softly, circulating immortal power within his body, strands of Dao resonance swirling around him;

Effortless and unrestrained, naturally refined.

The surrounding seawater seemed to suddenly vanish, Li Changshou’s long robe sleeves floating gently, his hair bound by a Daoist band swaying slightly.

Just as he was about to step forward, he turned his head and asked:

“Great Master, may this disciple borrow your title?”

“Of course,” Great Master Xuandu smiled with narrowed eyes, “use it as you wish.”

Li Changshou made a Daoist bow, not daring to delay further.

Over there, the three miniature binding formations [Heaven-Earth Shackles] were inherently lacking in spiritual power and would soon be broken by that Golden Immortal; and if his three paper avatars could be preserved undamaged, he didn’t want to damage them.

Making new versions of paper avatars… was quite costly in Trees.

His form merely trembled once, transforming into a stream of water and vanishing.

Great Master Xuandu casually pointed behind him, a chair appearing from nowhere. He lifted his long robe’s hem and sat down, clearly taking the posture of one watching a good show.

The Heaven Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Tower, a pagoda condensed from the primordial world’s Xuan Huang primal qi, was obtained by Laozi of the Three Pure Ones;

When Laozi became a Sage, because he only lacked that final strand of opportunity for Sagehood and established the merit of founding the Human Dao Sect, the Heavenly Dao Lord gave too much, and Laozi didn’t wish to be tainted by merit, so he infused most of his Sage-achieving merit into this treasure pagoda.

With this tower placed above one’s head, one stands in an invincible position, truly a treasure on par with the ‘Three Primordial Items’—Pangu Banner, Yin-Yang Diagram, and East Imperial Bell!

With the phantom of Xuanhuang Linglong Tower protecting him, Great Master Xuandu had no concerns for Li Changshou’s safety, nor feared that he would lose through a moment’s carelessness this…

Little junior brother seedling he had waited many kalpas for.

However, Li Changshou still maintained nine-tenths of his vigilance.

Because in the Great Master’s words, there were prerequisites like ‘Innate Spirit Treasure’ and ‘Daluo Golden Immortal’.

Although the Great Master was nearby, what if that ferocious mosquito who could [steal three levels of merit lotus just by kissing a twelve-level golden merit lotus] suddenly struck? How should he respond?

Thus, as Li Changshou rushed toward Ao Yi, he had already devised several combat strategies in his mind, striving for quick victory…

Step One:

[Show false strength, lay deceptive formations, display weakness to the enemy, use truth to confuse falsehood]

Li Changshou split his attention to control four paper avatars, his true body quickly rushing to Ao Yi’s front, revealing his form.

He slightly turned his head, glancing at Ao Yi who was pinned down by the elderly woman’s paper avatar, his calm voice spreading everywhere, yet saying:

“This poor Daoist is Little Master Xuandu, coming by His Majesty’s command to aid the Second Prince.

Ha!

What kind of demon dares not to surrender immediately!”

Xu-Xuandu… Little Master?

The Great Master hiding in the shadows watching the show laughed so hard he nearly fell backward with his chair.

But that sea tribe ‘false’ Golden Immortal expert who was charging over fiercely instantly halted, his gaze full of shock and doubt as he looked Li Changshou up and down…

This sea tribe expert could see through illusion techniques and transformation arts, but what he finally saw was just the face of a middle-aged man.

Then, surges of Dao resonance erupted around Li Changshou, some shocking aura rushing up through the sea, but instantly returning to calm…

True Immortal realm?

And just the early stage?

Ao Yi immediately noticed the power difference between enemy and ally, hurriedly saying: “Daoist friend, please retreat with me!”

Li Changshou smiled faintly, completely ignoring his hot-blooded Second Master, continuing to speak, his voice spreading in all directions.

“Four Guardians, withdraw quickly.”

That elderly woman, and the three paper avatars who had just barely stopped that Golden Immortal expert with miniature formations, all made Daoist bows to Li Changshou, saying:

“Yes.”

These four paper avatars employed water escape techniques, quickly scattering in two directions, and vanishing in an instant.

At this moment, that sea tribe rebel ‘false’ Golden Immortal also reacted, those eyes fixed on Li Changshou, Golden Immortal pressure pressing down.

This fellow’s Golden Immortal pressure actually couldn’t have much effect on Li Changshou;

But once Li Changshou had established a combat strategy, unless something unexpected occurred, he would naturally see it through to the end.

His aura was suppressed, slightly frowning, his performance indistinguishable from an early-stage True Immortal realm cultivator.

Ao Yi immediately… became more worried…

And at this time, Li Changshou had already attached those two golden talismans to his arms on both sides…

[Immortal Surge Talisman]: When activated, can instantly surge one’s immortal power outward, condensing into an extremely powerful strike, greatly enhancing technique power.

Not just this, Li Changshou secretly gripped several never-before-used [Ultimate] character paper avatars.

[Ultimate]: Meaning ultimate technique.

The sea tribe rebel’s false Golden Immortal sneered, cursing: “Mere True Immortal realm, seeking death!”

“Haha! Ignorant demon!”

Li Changshou threw back his head and laughed, pushing Ao Yi toward the bottom, secretly activating the restrictions on the consciousness poison pill Heart Fire Burn, his left hand scattering a patch of white powder, shouting:

“One Qi!

Transform Three Turbid!”

With a puff, white mist filled the area around Li Changshou.

Once this white mist appeared, the strands of divine consciousness probing from around were immediately blocked out.

The next instant, four figures walked out of the white mist, all employing illusion techniques, all with the same appearance, uniformly early-stage True Immortal realm cultivation, each holding a miniature formation disc!

In the courtyard, the Great Master was now laughing so hard he raised his hand to cover his eyes, truly unable to bear watching.

Little Master Xuandu, One Qi Transform Three Turbid…

This was truly a talented person, a pillar of the Human Dao Sect!

The paper-cutting people’s divine ability had almost been played to an art by this fellow!

At this moment, Ao Yi’s gaze was full of shock…

Supreme Pure One’s One Qi Transform Three Pure was said to be the world’s strongest divine ability, where the Sage Lord directly transformed into three Sage Lords, naturally having no problem sweeping across the primordial world!

This ‘One Qi Transform Three Turbid’, could it be… a Human Dao Sect secret technique?

The most surprised was naturally Li Changshou’s opponent, that sea tribe false Golden Immortal;

At this moment, this false Golden Immortal glared at Li Changshou’s four figures, waves of doubt rising in his heart…

But his thoughts were influenced by blood-killing intent, naturally not retreating due to shock and doubt.

Moreover, Li Changshou didn’t wait for this person to erupt, those four figures had already charged up together!

Step Two:

[Return void to substance, seize initiative, dazzle with chaos, seek enemy weakness!]

“One who plays mysterious tricks, you think I fear you?”

This sea tribe false Golden Immortal, for some unknown reason, had some chaotic thoughts appear in his mind… constantly surfacing scenes of his own unspeakable moments of pleasure-seeking.

Though strange, while his spirit couldn’t quite settle, he appeared even more fierce, opening his blood-filled mouth to spew out streams of rainbow light!

The rainbow light condensed into arrow after arrow, transforming into clusters of ‘arrow rain’ in the seawater, shooting toward Li Changshou’s four figures!

Li Changshou smiled slightly, the leftmost paper avatar throwing its formation disc high, shooting out dozens of flowing lights, instantly spreading open a protective formation, steadily blocking the incoming arrows.

The other three figures instantly threw out their formation discs, three discs taking positions high, middle, and low, transforming into three miniature formations!

Though miniature formations, they only lacked sustained spiritual power;

In an instant burst, they still had at least sixty percent of the original formation’s power!

The first binding formation, Heaven-Earth Shackles, locks down space-time!

The second killing formation, Ten Thousand Swords Destroy Soul, formation of spiritual power transforming into a sky-full sword qi, condensing into a giant sword slashing forward!

Third poison formation, Sunflower Water Yin Thunder, a pool of black water appearing under that hideous-faced false Golden Immortal’s feet…

This false Golden Immortal didn’t expect Li Changshou’s attack to be so fierce, with space-time briefly locked around him, temporarily unable to dodge.

But how could he sit and wait for death, and why would he need to dodge?

Mere True Immortal!

The sea tribe’s false Golden Immortal deployed three treasure pearls, directly smashing the pearls forward; around him surged streams of blood light, easily blocking the black water below!

The pearls howled forward, directly shattering the incoming giant sword!

Golden Immortal realm’s might, momentarily unmatched!

Li Changshou remained unhurried;

Four figures each took out a brush, their forms flying through the seawater without hindrance, already standing firmly in four positions, vaguely resembling a Four Symbols formation…

Four figures simultaneously raised their brushes, leaving strings of bubbles in the seawater, drawing four ‘one-stroke dragons’.

The four dragons instantly came alive, crashing toward this false Golden Immortal.

Following this, four brushes simultaneously wrote line after line of scripture, these scriptures instantly condensing into various weapons and hundred kinds of flying birds, from all directions, endlessly rushing toward this sea tribe’s false Golden Immortal.

The formation locking space-time suddenly exhausted its spiritual power, this false Golden Immortal leaped up, immortal power surging through his body, dodging the black water, shattering the painted dragons, but was instantly submerged by the sky full of flying birds…

This attack…

Hm? Neither pain nor itch?

Moreover, among the attacks coming from four sides, one side was stronger than the other three.

One person used a spirit treasure brush, while the others used superior immortal treasures.

This false Golden Immortal’s mind was already chaotic, immediately grasping this weakness; imperceptibly resisting several waves, suddenly his form flashed, charging fiercely toward the direction with the strongest attack!

Just at this moment!

Li Changshou’s face showed a trace of panic, calling out:

“You think I fear you!”

The spirit treasure Judge’s Brush in his hand moved quickly as a phantom, rapidly writing a large [Swift] character.

Suddenly, beyond all observers’ expectations, Li Changshou didn’t dodge backward, his form suddenly lunging forward, directly dispersing this large character, his figure flashing, mysteriously disappearing!

When he reappeared, he was already behind this sea tribe false Golden Immortal, back to back, separated by less than two feet!

This was the true [Writing Scripture Becomes Law]!

Li Changshou whirled around, striking this false Golden Immortal’s back with all his might, making the false Golden Immortal stagger slightly.

Almost simultaneously, the three surrounding figures each wrote a [Swift] character, all crashing into the written large characters, flashing to surround this sea tribe expert!

Where had this sea tribe expert seen such a formation?

But having extensive experience in sea battles and noble ladies’ bedchambers, though his spirit was chaotic, his reactions weren’t slow, a powerful surge of immortal power erupting around him to push everyone away.

Just at this instant, without warning, around the sea tribe’s false Golden Immortal, the space-time locking situation appeared again, forcibly cutting off that surge of immortal power!

The four surrounding figures were naturally all paper avatars!

At this moment, these paper avatars resolutely charged forward, one slapping this sea tribe false Golden Immortal’s face, then all spreading their arms!

Four streams of same-source immortal power interconnected, condensing into chain after chain, instantly wrapping this false Golden Immortal like a zongzi…

The false Golden Immortal couldn’t move, knew he had fallen into a trap, and raised his head with effort to look!

A hundred zhang up in the seawater, Li Changshou stood quietly, casually dropping chessboard-sized miniature formation bases one after another.

Binding formation, killing formation, binding formation, killing formation, killing formation…

At this moment, dozens of miniature formations had been thrown out by Li Changshou.

Though the effect was good, it truly hurt…

Flowing lights flashed endlessly in the sky, space-time lockdown breaking then reconnecting;

Below, that false Golden Immortal could only look up in anger, his cultivation completely unable to be exercised.

Four paper avatars restraining this false Golden Immortal had immortal power circulating through their bodies, spewing streams of True Samadhi Flame from their mouths, this false Golden Immortal instantly submerged in true flame, struggling constantly there, burned beyond recognition…

The assault from above continued unceasing, the true flame below burning more and more fiercely.

After a while, this false Golden Immortal had no more breath, like a burned piece of dead wood, motionless there, the four figures locking him having been burned to ash by their own released true flame.

These four paper avatars’ immortal power wasn’t wasted in the slightest, all transforming into True Samadhi Flame…

In the air, Li Changshou dusted his sleeves, shaking his head slightly, just about to step away.

Sudden change!

Below, that chunk of dead wood suddenly split open, a blood light flying out from within, actually a flying blood blade, appearing with lightning speed at Li Changshou’s feet, slicing ‘Li Changshou’ from bottom to top, straight into two halves!

That chunk of dead wood shook gently, slowly standing up, its aura gradually recovering, horrific wounds on its body rapidly healing, a blood lotus constantly flashing in its chest…

“Haha, hahahaha!”

This sea tribe false Golden Immortal threw back his head and laughed, his smile full of mockery, full of relief, the excitement of a victor…

But halfway through his laughter, the sound abruptly stopped.

In the seawater above, that figure sliced in two and transformed into two paper sheets, gently floating in immortal light.

Puff…

A simple soft sound, a jade flute pierced through from behind this sea tribe expert, easily penetrating that blood lotus.

Behind the jade flute, a figure slowly solidified, golden light flashing inside his sleeve, two Immortal Surge Talismans already activated, late-stage True Immortal realm immortal power instantly erupting along the jade flute!

The blood lotus directly exploded, this sea tribe false Golden Immortal with a completely altered face swaying unsteadily, streams of poison mist already enveloping his previously heavily damaged primordial spirit…

When quality isn’t enough, quantity must make up for it.

Li Changshou released the jade flute, this spirit treasure already decided to be sacrificed, using the Immortal Surge Talismans’ remaining instant, his internal immortal power transforming into True Samadhi Flame.

Firelight erupted, instantly consuming this person’s primordial spirit and remaining body…

A ‘false’ Golden Immortal, though still of the Golden Immortal realm, when turned to ash, wasn’t necessarily much more than True or Real Immortals.

Throughout this sea tribe’s great city, divine consciousness after divine consciousness captured this scene, even sea tribe, and Dragon Tribe experts at the Golden Immortal realm felt their hearts grow cold…

Somehow, they too began to feel inexplicably irritated, inexplicably having all sorts of indescribable images appear.

“Mere rebels, dare to show ferocity before me, Little Master Xuandu!

Today with me here, no one can harm Prince Ao Yi.”

Li Changshou snorted, then added in a manner imitating proper form:

“Four Guardians, where are you? Come process these remnant souls.”

After speaking, his form transformed into a stream of water, employing water escape techniques, quickly vanishing.

The previous four paper avatars returned, this time the ash-sweeping work was done by True Immortal realm paper avatars ‘personally’, considered a small show of respect to a Golden Immortal.

That elderly woman held a wooden fish, the old man held clappers, the young maiden held a soul-capturing bell, and that handsome youth smiled, taking out a suona horn magical tool…

While flowing mournful music, Li Changshou’s true body had already rushed toward the courtyard where a certain Great Master was located.

Golden Immortals were truly hard to kill…

Fifty-six miniature formation bases, four [Ultimate] character paper avatars, one [Divine] character paper avatar;

Two [Immortal Surge Talismans], three brush-type superior immortal treasures, twelve of the highest quality primordial spirit poisons he could currently refine…

Uh, that might not even be all of it.

Those two spirit pill level [Heart Fire Burn] pills of his, perhaps due to issues with the refinement technique, had… broken again…