The Modern Martial Immortal

In the distance, Yaoguang was rushing forward at full speed, pushing his technique to its limit.

A robbery target at the Blazing White Golden Core Realm was a huge catch.

A cultivator at that level usually carried at least ten thousand Pure Yang Grand Pills. If the prey were especially wealthy, then it wouldn't be unusual for them to have even more, possibly even over a hundred thousand.

Catching one such big fish was basically equivalent to half a year of income for the Black Dragon Pirates.

Because of that, to make sure the prey could not escape, Tong Yan had not only come personally, but he had also brought several of the chiefs with him.

Yet, as the six of them drew closer to their target, and especially after seeing the combat power value displayed on the Combat Power Detector, Tong Yan suddenly felt that something was wrong.

This big fish looked extremely fierce!

They could still take him down, but paying a price would be unavoidable.

In just a moment, Tong Yan made his decision.

The fiercer the fish, the tastier it was once caught, and the more valuable it became. So what if they had to pay a price?

In a place like Chaotic Sea, as long as the Black Dragon Pirates could reap enough profit, even if all the other chiefs died, he could quickly replenish their ranks.

If they weren't ruthless, they couldn't stand firm.

On the North Sea Star, where every avenue had been monopolized by major sects, where resources were tightly controlled, and where there was virtually no room for advancement, there was never any shortage of cultivators willing to throw everything away in one desperate gamble.

"Be careful later. The instant we clash with him, we must strike with full force and kill him in one blow. Otherwise, his final counterattack before death will definitely cause casualties." Tong Yan looked at the rapidly approaching third chief, as well as the fierce prey pursuing closely behind him, and quickly issued his orders.

"Understood!"

"Chief, leave it to us."

"With strength like this, we naturally have to face him with our full focus!" The others all answered at once.

Tong Yan nodded and was about to say more when he suddenly saw something appear in their prey's hand.

The next moment, that object was hurled forward like a blazing meteor, crossing past the third chief at an inconceivable speed and appearing directly in front of them in an instant.

"This is..." Tong Yan's sharp instincts immediately told him it was nothing good. He instantly tried to send out a psychic thought, warning everyone to retreat.

But in the very next second, a terrifying flash of light erupted from that object, accompanied by flames fierce enough to devour everything.

The destructive force unleashed in that instant made Tong Yan feel as though he were facing the detonation of an Azure Golden Core.

Only then did he finally recognize what it was. "Divine Crimson Refinement Fire Lightning!"

It was a single-use supreme killing weapon refined from a Flaming Fiend Heart, something even an Azure Golden Core cultivator could not withstand.

Tong Yan let out a cry of terror.

The Azure Golden Core within him erupted wildly, forming a powerful energy barrier that tightly shielded his body. At the same time, starlight blazed from all 1080 acupoints within his star god body, complementing that blue barrier in dazzling brilliance.

But even so, he could not escape that torrent of destructive energy, something as violent as an Azure Golden Core's detonation.

In an instant, he and the five Blazing White Golden Core cultivators traveling with him were completely swallowed by the exploding shockwave.

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On the other side, when the third chief saw Tong Yan and the others finally within reach, just about to meet up with him, joy surged uncontrollably into his eyes. He had been desperately fleeing while using forbidden techniques, and he was running out of strength.

"Big Brother..." he shouted loudly, his psychic thought overflowing with the relief of surviving calamity.

But immediately after, something flew past him. Then that thing exploded, releasing an incredible amount of energy.

The explosion instantly formed a destructive torrent that covered hundreds of kilometers, swallowing Tong Yan, the second chief, the fourth chief, and all the other high-ranking members of the Black Dragon Pirates who had come to reinforce him.

That blinding light and raging inferno made the third chief, who had believed his fortunes had turned and that he was finally escaping death, freeze on the spot in utter shock.

Such terrifying explosive power... Even an ordinary Azure Golden Core cultivator likely can't withstand it...

And this time, the chief had brought out every high-ranking member except the sixth chief, who was away. Did that mean that the Black Dragon Pirates were finished?!

Because of his call for help, the Black Dragon Pirates—who almost never acted together—had mobilized in full force, only to be completely wiped out by a Blazing White Golden Core cultivator carrying a supreme killing treasure?!

"No! No! No!" the third chief let out a cry filled with unwillingness and disbelief.

The next moment, the Wandering Dragon Sword suddenly accelerated, splitting space apart as it viciously slashed across his exhausted body.

His agonized and unwilling scream of disbelief stopped abruptly.

Carrying the Two-Realm Ruler, Yaoguang descended into that stretch of void. With a casual sweep of his hand, he collected two spirit treasures and a storage treasure.

He glanced at the leaders of the Black Dragon Pirates, whose bodies had not even been left behind under the bombardment of the Divine Crimson Refinement Fire Lightning, and frowned slightly.

In pursuit of a guaranteed kill, I struck a little too hard. He thought.

But there was no helping it.

Tong Yan's displayed combat power had reached 760,000, and he might have possessed a life-saving secret art. Yaoguang naturally could not afford to leave him even the slightest chance to survive.

Otherwise, if they had fought head-on, he still would have won, but it absolutely would not have been this clean and decisive.

"Forget it. Although the spoils were destroyed, there's still the 300,000 bounty on Tong Yan. On top of that, the bounties on the other chiefs add up to tens of thousands more. That's still a considerable gain. It's just..." Yaoguang looked at the empty battlefield, where not even corpses remained, and shook his head. "I recorded the whole process with a Recording Stone. It shouldn't affect claiming the reward."

A moment later, he thought of something and looked into the distance. "From the moment the third chief discovered me to the moment Tong Yan led his reinforcements here, only this much time passed. Judging by the time, it shouldn't be that far..."

He activated Nine Heavenly Transformations once more, and soon, he had already flown several thousand kilometers away.

"It should be somewhere in this region."

After arriving at the calculated area, Yaoguang spread his psychic thought and began searching carefully.

He swept across a five-hundred-kilometer radius and found nothing unusual.

Unwilling to give up, he searched even more thoroughly, examining the space inch by inch.

While he was searching for the hidden headquarters of the Black Dragon Pirates, Xu Nianhua, who had finished collecting and tallying the spoils, caught up to him.

"Perfected Master, I’ve already gathered the resources from that fleet. Their total value is roughly eight thousand Pure Yang Grand Pills."

Yaoguang nodded but did not respond. He continued searching through the region.

That search lasted a full three days.

Three days later, he finally sensed something.

Even though his psychic thought was powerful enough to rival a Void-Piercing Realm cultivator, what ultimately allowed him to discover the anomaly was still Void Child's keen perception of space.

The spatial fluctuations in one stretch of sea were clearly abnormal.

After noticing that irregularity, Yaoguang spent another ten days. Relying on his exquisite mastery of array arts, he forcefully peeled back the anomaly layer by layer.

Half a month later, at a critical moment when he grasped the key point, Yaoguang suddenly drew his sword.

Using Void Child's precise control over spatial ripples, he unleashed a Space-Splitting Strike with the Wandering Dragon Sword.

Under that strike, the sea below seemed to be forcibly parted by an invisible force, tearing open a massive trench stretching hundreds of kilometers.

But after the trench split open, what appeared before him was not the seabed. It was a hidden six-thousand-meter-long flying vessel concealed beneath the ocean's surface.

"Found it!" A look of surprise flashed across Yaoguang's face.

These Black Dragon Pirates were truly masters at hiding.

Even if a genuine Void-Piercing Realm expert had flown overhead, they likely would not have discovered any irregularity.

Yaoguang had managed to uncover them only because he had been certain they were in this exact location and had searched inch by inch through space itself. Even so, it had still taken him an entire month to drag out the hidden headquarters of the Black Dragon Pirates.

The moment he exposed the flying vessel, the pirates left aboard seemed to realize disaster had arrived. They immediately activated the vessel and attempted to force their way out.

And feeling the spatial ripples stirred up as the vessel started...

"A Dao Artifact?!" Yaoguang was startled.

But very quickly, with the discerning eye of a level 15 artifact refiner, he judged that it was not a true Dao Artifact.

Rather, it was a supreme spirit treasure that had used an enormous amount of precious materials, yet because of the refiner's technical limitations, it had ultimately failed to complete its transformation.

Judging from certain forging methods used in the vessel, the refiner who made it was still far from being a true level 13 refiner capable of forging a Dao Artifact. In fact, that person had likely not even reached the peak of level 12.

At best, they were only halfway through level 12 mastery.

"What a waste of materials." Yaoguang waved his hand, and the Heaven-Sealing Stele was directly summoned forth.

In the next moment, the space around the flying vessel was instantly surrounded by the Heaven-Sealing Stele, as though it had become an insect trapped in amber.

Once the vessel was frozen in place, the Wandering Dragon Sword rose from his hand on its own and shot like a streak of golden light into the sealed space.

Thanks to Yaoguang's precise control over the two supreme treasures, the Wandering Dragon Sword became like a true dragon of sword qi, darting into the vessel at inconceivable speed. Guided by his powerful psychic mind, it slaughtered the cultivators inside, the strongest of whom were only at the Radiant Sun Golden Core Realm.

After only a dozen breaths, the entire flying vessel had become a dead place.

Yaoguang landed directly atop it and, thanks to his mastery in artifact refinement that far surpassed its creator by an unknown margin, swiftly began refining the supreme spirit treasure.

"The creator intended to turn this flying vessel into a doomsday ark, something that could guarantee the survival and escape of a sect's core members whenever catastrophe struck..." Yaoguang muttered.

In that regard, it was somewhat similar to the Void Disk.

But compared to the Void Disk, which excelled at spatial travel, this vessel leaned more toward living leisurely and comfortably.

Though it appeared to be less than six thousand meters long, its interior had been expanded several times over, making its true capacity nearly a hundred times greater.

A vessel of this size could easily house several million people.

If it only provided the most basic living conditions, it could even cram in tens of millions.

If I’d had this flying vessel instead of the Void Disk back then, we could have brought far more people with us.As Yaoguang pondered, he quickly completed the vessel's refinement.

He planned to find time later and see whether he could transform this flying vessel into a true Dao Artifact.

If he succeeded, then—after reaching the Void-Piercing Realm—he could attempt to fuse the Void Disk and this vessel together. By doing that, he might be able to forge a high-grade Dao Artifact starship carrier, a true mobile sect headquarters capable of sailing through the stars.

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