Life span plundered, I became a detective and achieved immortality

Chapter 1044 Time-Space Immortal Seal

Qingxuan True Immortal's heart skipped a beat, as if he had fallen into an ice cave. He and Qingyao True Immortal quickly exchanged a glance, and saw a heavy solemnity in each other's eyes, which almost turned into solid ice and froze the Nirvana Fire around them.

The name of the Fire Crow Immortal Clan was already legendary to them—it was one of the twelve top immortal clans of the Burning Heaven Immortal Domain, second only to the Burning Heaven Immortal Clan, the immortal clan whose ruler resided there. The clan not only had more than one half-step Golden Immortal, but also legendary ancient beings who had supposedly touched the threshold of immortality. Their power was so formidable that many ninth-rank True Immortal forces were filled with dread, and even veteran ninth-rank Perfect True Immortals of the Profound True Immortal Domain treated them with utmost respect.

Even a true half-step Golden Immortal would never easily offend the Fire Crow Clan unless absolutely necessary. Senior Qingxu, despite his formidable strength, would likely be no exception.

It seems that the duck that was about to be eaten is destined to fly away. Qingxuan and Qingyao sighed inwardly. The ecstasy of 50 billion battle merits in their hearts was instantly replaced by a deep sense of loss, as if a newly lit flame had been extinguished by a bucket of ice water, and even the Nirvana Fire around them seemed to have lost its temperature.

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Ironarm Mountains, Fortress 507, hidden cave.

Su Mo sat cross-legged on the twenty-fourth grade Yuanxu Purple Lotus, the lotus petals shimmering with a warm glow, enveloping him like a crystal world. He slightly raised his eyes, his deep gaze seemingly piercing through the barriers of the cave heaven, and glanced indifferently towards the True Extreme Domain, a cold smile curving his lips: "The Fire Crow Clan, huh? Too bad, they can't intimidate me."

If it were an immortal clan like the Burning Heaven Immortal Clan, he might have to weigh the matter carefully and let it go—he truly couldn't afford to provoke an immortal golden immortal now. If he were targeted by such an existence, let alone resist, even escaping safely would be as difficult as ascending to heaven. But a mere half-step immortal immortal clan was not worthy of his backing down.

He even vaguely felt that the opportunity for him to quickly break through to the ninth rank of perfection might lie within the Fire Crow Clan. Like those quasi-Golden Immortal artifacts, the exchange price for half-step Golden Immortal puppets was astonishingly high. The weakest early-stage half-step Golden Immortal puppet was priced at over twenty trillion battle merits, while a perfect-stage half-step Golden Immortal puppet was worth hundreds of trillions—far beyond what could be accumulated in a short time.

If we can capture this late-stage ninth-rank True Immortal of the Fire Crow Clan, and then use that opportunity to lure out the several half-step Golden Immortals behind him...

In the blink of an eye, a condensed divine thought, as solid as a physical object, traversed thousands of eons of time and space, entering the consciousness of the Pure Void Moral True Lord with the precision of a shooting star chasing the moon.

next second...

Above Falling Phoenix Valley, the ferocious monster with the Four Symbols Unified suddenly shone with a fierce light in its eyes. Its tiger claws, covered with jade scales, suddenly rose, and the chaotic divine light gathered at the tips of its claws tore through the void. With the power to crush all things and annihilate everything, it grabbed at the golden-robed True Immortal head-on!

"No...how dare you?"

The golden-robed immortal stared wide-eyed, his eyes filled with disbelief and terror. He never expected that this mysterious half-step Golden Immortal hiding in the shadows would dare to kill him after he revealed his identity. Wasn't he afraid that the Fire Crow clan would use all their strength to fight him to the death?

When the tiger's claw was less than ten thousand feet away from him, the shadow of death engulfed him like a tidal wave, and he finally came to his senses. He roared and tried to detonate his innate immortal energy for a final desperate attempt. But to his despair, under the monster's terrifying and suffocating pressure, he couldn't even mobilize a trace of true immortal power, let alone fight back with his life on the line. He could only watch helplessly as the tiger's claw, carrying the power to destroy the world, fell and mercilessly suppressed him.

"You...you will regret this! My Fire Crow Clan will never let you go!" The golden-robed True Immortal's voice was filled with resentment and hatred, each word dripping with blood, as if he wanted to engrave this curse into the depths of the other's soul, to haunt him for generations to come.

The Four Divine Beasts paid no heed to this; their power surged into their bodies like a rushing river, suppressing and sealing the Golden-Robed True Immortal's body and soul.

Immediately afterwards, Qingxu Daode Zhenjun raised his hand and waved his hand. A beam of azure light flew out from his green robe and sleeves, carrying an irresistible suction force. It pulled the sealed golden-robed immortal into it and temporarily imprisoned him in his natal sea of ​​time, to be handed over to his true self for disposal at a later time.

Now is not the time to strike decisively. With his current strength, even if he joins forces with the other twelve fellow Daoists and sets up the Thousand Gods Formation, his combat power will only barely reach the threshold of the peak half-step Golden Immortal. If he were to attract the Fire Crow Clan's half-step Golden Immortal, it would be hard to say who would win or lose. Even if they could win, the possibility of completely eliminating them would not be very high.

Compared to these old guys, they lacked a quasi-Golden Immortal artifact, ultimately falling short of some fundamental strength.

It would be best to wait until I reach the eighth-grade perfect True Immortal realm before luring the Fire Crow Clan's half-step Golden Immortal over.

At that time, as long as the Fire Crow Clan does not possess a truly immortal Golden Immortal artifact, they will all be unable to escape being suppressed by him and become the resources for his breakthrough.

In the heart of Fallen Phoenix Valley, within the flames of Nirvana.

The two eighth-rank True Immortals, Qingxuan and Qingyao, stared in disbelief. The azure-gold flames surrounding them trembled slightly due to their dazed state, and a few even leaped up uncontrollably. It wasn't until the golden-robed True Immortal had been completely suppressed for more than ten breaths that the two of them seemed to break free from an icy cave, gasping for breath, their chests heaving violently as if they were sucking up all the air from Falling Phoenix Valley.

Senior Qingxu... actually made a move!

Is this a fight to the death between the Fire Crow Clan and the Fire Crow Clan?

The two exchanged a glance, both seeing deep shock in each other's eyes. A ninth-grade True Immortal was no ordinary person; even within a half-step immortal clan like the Fire Crow Clan, they were among the highest echelons, a vital component of the clan's foundation. To be publicly suppressed like this, given the Fire Crow Clan's domineering nature, would be an absolute disservice.

Immediately afterward, as if suddenly remembering something, Qingxuan Zhenxian felt a sudden panic, his face turned ashen, and an unconcealable fear quickly crept into his eyes, even his lips began to tremble slightly.

If today's events were to reach the ears of the Fire Crow Clan, given their vengeful nature, they would never let them go, and it would also implicate the entire Azure Phoenix Clan! Compared to the Fire Crow Clan, the Azure Phoenix Clan's meager strength is like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, or an egg striking a rock—not to mention the half-step Golden Immortals of the Fire Crow Clan who could crush them with a mere flick of their wrists, even the ninth-rank True Immortals within the clan could easily annihilate their entire clan without leaving a trace.

I thought following this senior Qingxu was a great opportunity to accumulate massive battle merits without lifting a finger. I never expected it to be such a disaster that would bring me to my doom!

This time, we've really been tricked by Senior Qingxu!

Qingxuan Zhenxian opened his mouth, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty, trying to persuade Qingxu Daode Zhenjun to release the ninth-rank Zhenxian of the Fire Crow Clan before he truly committed a grave mistake. Perhaps this could quell the Fire Crow Clan's anger and save them from annihilation.

Before he could finish speaking, the Pure Void Moral True Lord, who was not far away, turned around and said in a calm voice, "Fellow Daoists, you can focus on healing your injuries. I will handle everything else."

His voice remained clear and melodious, like jade striking each other, yet it carried an undeniable certainty, as if the threat of the Fire Crow Clan was nothing more than a gentle breeze, utterly insignificant, and not even worthy of his further explanation.

Before the words were finished, the figure in the green robe disappeared silently into Falling Phoenix Valley, like an ink droplet merging into water, leaving only the crackling sound of the Nirvana Fire echoing in the valley.

"Senior Qingxu..."

Qingxuan True Immortal stared blankly in the direction he disappeared, swallowing the words that were on the tip of his tongue. Judging from Senior Qingxu's posture, he was clearly determined to keep that ninth-grade True Immortal of the Fire Crow Clan. Even if he talked until his lips were sore, he probably wouldn't be able to change anything, and might even displease the other party.

Hey……

Qingxuan Zhenxian sighed heavily, his eyes catching a glimpse of Qingyao's equally pale face, his heart growing heavier. He could only hope that Senior Qingxu wasn't bluffing, but truly had the confidence to deal with the Fire Crow Clan's thunderous retaliation; otherwise, let alone accumulating battle merits, their Qingfeng Clan might not even survive this calamity.

Ugh! How did I end up on this pirate ship...?

Qingxuan Zhenxian closed his eyes, his heart filled with regret, wishing he could slap himself twice. But now, even if he wanted to go back on his word, there was no turning back—from the moment they chose to cooperate with Senior Qingxu in his act, they had been bound together with this cause and effect, inseparable, like grasshoppers on the same rope.

The flames of rebirth continued to flow gently into their bodies, repairing their "injuries," but they could not warm their cold hearts. Their brows were filled with unyielding worries, as if shrouded in a gloom, and even the cyan-gold flames seemed to be tinged with gray.

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Time flies, and 50 billion years have passed quickly. For the Nine Realms Immortal War, it is just a brief stroke in a long scroll, but it is enough for countless forces to rise and fall.

Ironarm Mountains, Fortress 507, hidden cave.

As Su Mo sat cross-legged on the twenty-fourth-grade Yuanxu Purple Lotus, layers of rosy light suddenly emanated from his body. The rosy light was composed of seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple, which converged above his head like a flowing galaxy, and finally condensed into an ancient divine seal.

The divine seal was about ten feet tall, its entire body flowing with seven-colored light, as if it were condensed from the seven most fundamental laws of the world; the seal surface was engraved with twisted and changing spacetime runes, each rune seemingly interpreting the past, present and future, as if containing the birth and death trajectory of the entire universe, each line autonomously absorbing and exhaling chaotic energy, emitting a vast pressure far exceeding that of a ninth-grade true immortal artifact, causing the entire cave heaven to tremble slightly, and even the Nine-fold Spacetime Tower seemed to hum in submission.

"Om..."

As soon as the Seven-Colored Divine Seal appeared, the surrounding Nine Extremes Returning to One Array suddenly hummed, and the array patterns seemed to come alive and flow again. It directly used this divine seal as the array eye, and the nine Nine-Layer Spacetime Towers transformed into the fulcrum supporting the heaven and earth, instantly reorganizing into an even more magnificent array - the Ten Directions Limitless Array.

As soon as the formation was complete, the river of time within the cave world surged with enormous waves. The time flow rate, which had been stable at over two billion times, increased rapidly like a volcanic eruption. Three billion times, three billion billion times, three billion and five billion times… The numbers jumped so fast that even Su Mo's divine sense had to concentrate to catch them. In the blink of an eye, the flow rate had already broken through the four billion times mark and was still surging towards even greater heights.

When the flow of time reached 4.5 billion times, the entire cave trembled slightly, and the spacetime runes on the Seven-Colored Divine Seal lit up with dazzling light, echoing the nine spacetime towers and forming a perfect closed loop, finally stabilizing this terrifying flow and preventing it from changing again.

Su Mo slowly opened his eyes, his gaze reflecting the ripples of the river of time, and a satisfied smile curved his lips.

Five hundred billion years have passed. Through the relentless "struggle" of the thirteen illusory spirit bodies, he finally amassed an astronomical sum of fifty trillion battle merits and obtained the quasi-golden immortal artifact—the Time-Space Immortal Seal.

"4.5 billion times the speed of time acceleration..." Su Mo raised his hand and gently stroked the void, feeling the spacetime power within the cave that was several times denser than before, and softly praised, "As expected of a quasi-Golden Immortal artifact, it is indeed incomparable to a ninth-grade True Immortal artifact."

"In a maximum of 10 billion years, I will be able to forge the seventh level of the Primordial Boundless True Immortal Body and break through to the eighth level of the Perfect True Immortal."

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