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Volume Ten Chapter Twenty-One: The Grand Celebration Banquet

  A mighty and majestic group of immortals came along the winding path to a magnificent grand hall.

  Inside the grand hall, there are rows and rows of benches, and on the sides of the hall, there is also a row of musical instruments.

  "This must be the place where Wu Jiang Xian held banquets when he was still around. He and his subordinates, the demon tribe, would gather here to have fun." Shao Yan Nong laughed, "These carvings on the pillars and beams are truly exquisite, each one is a masterpiece."

  Ji Ning and others nodded in unison, they could fully imagine the scene of a group of powerful demons sitting at the counter drinking and having fun countless years ago.

  "And that is where Wu Jiang Xian first sat." Shao Yan Nong pointed towards the grand hall.

  On the grand hall there is a most magnificent long table, the screen behind it is also very exquisite, and on both sides of the screen there are bronze lamps.

  "That bronze lamp is the key to this Wujiang Hall." Shao Yan Nong pointed at a purple-robed cultivator, "You, go and pass by that bronze lamp."

  "Yes."

  These Zifu monks are all dead men, their white-robed minds have long been trained to only listen to the master's orders, and if the master tells them to die, they will not hesitate in the slightest.

  As the Zi Fu cultivator walked towards the Grand Hall — "Boom!"

  The entire hall suddenly changed, and Ji Ning and others found that the surroundings had turned into a beautiful peach blossom garden, with peach blossoms all around, and petals all over the ground.

  "Be careful, it's an illusion." Xiang Liu Fang shouted.

  "I knew it wouldn't be easy to get my hands on this Wu Jiang Temple..." Shao Yan Nong sneered, with Fang Shu present, he wasn't flustered in the slightest. An array that had existed for who knows how many years, and didn't have a true master controlling it. If the array's power could be unleashed even just a little, that would be good enough.

  "Form an array."

  Ji Ning, Mu Zishuo, Jiu Lian, Yu Wei, and Cangjiang Zhenru formed the Five Elements Formation immediately.

  Everyone is on high alert.

  "This illusion array is very powerful, and even divine sense cannot probe it." Jiang Zhen said, "Moreover, I vaguely feel that this illusion array is stronger than the one we encountered in the Treasure Hall back then."

  "This illusion array seems to be gathering the Qingmu Divine Thunder." Ji Ning said with a frown.

  "It seems you also understand some formation techniques." Xiang Liu Fang, standing beside Shao Yan Nong, glanced at Ji Ning and said calmly, "This large formation mobilizes the power of Taiyang, using wood to induce the birth of Qingmu Divine Thunder... Although this formation has not reached the level of mastery, the power of Qingmu Divine Thunder is still not to be underestimated. I will need some time to break this formation technique, so during this period, you can only rely on yourselves."

  Ji Ning and the other five drew close together, ready to respond to Qing Mu's Thunder at any moment. They didn't dare to run wildly either; running wildly in the Illusory Realm was a way of seeking death.

  "What can I do?" Xue Hongyi's heart was racing with anxiety, but on the surface she still gritted her teeth and waited.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Suddenly, three cyan-colored lightning bolts descended at the same time, and the thunderbolt directly struck Shao Yan Nong.

  "Is there an entry into the main array?" Xiang Liu Fang was greatly shocked.

  "How can there be a master of the formation?" The nearby Shao Yan Nong also panicked.

  Wow!

  Xiang Liu Fang stretched out his huge hand, and the huge hand seemed to cover the dark clouds, directly meeting the three lightning bolts. Boom! The lightning struck the giant palm, although it sank slightly, the skin burst open, and electric snakes swarmed on its surface, but it completely withstood the attack.

  "Haha, young master can rest assured." Xiang Liu Fang immediately grasped the lightning and burst out laughing. "This Wu Jiang Xian has been dead for over a billion years, so this Wu Jiang Palace must not have any living spirits. What's alive should be puppets, and ordinary puppets only possess simple intelligence, at most they can trigger arrays, but they don't have the ability to control. After all, such large arrays are still very complex, and without Wu Jiang Xian's transmission method, they also can't control."

  "If I'm not mistaken, this Wu Jiang Palace should have a powerful puppet, and this puppet has the soul of a living being in its body. Therefore, this puppet is extremely intelligent and also excels at controlling arrays. Even Wu Jiang Xian trusts him very much and taught him the art of array control." Xiang Liu Fang smiled and said, "Unfortunately, it's just a puppet after all, with no yuan force inside, so it can only exert about 20-30% of its true power in a large array."

  As Xiang Liu Fang spoke loudly, a bolt of lightning struck down.

  Xiang Liu Fang alone took him in as soon as he entered.

  Ji Ning and the others let out a sigh of relief, Xiang Liu's guess was probably correct. To truly control the formation would require consumption of yuan force. A single Immortal's yuan force controlling the formation, the formation's power naturally greatly increased. But the puppet didn't have any yuan force, even if it could take control of the formation, at most it could only slightly increase its might.

  "You dare to trespass on the Witch's Temple, it is a capital offense!" A loud shout echoed through the Peach Garden.

  "A capital offense? You? If I'm not mistaken, your strength is at most barely comparable to that of an ordinary loose immortal." Xiang Liu Fang sneered, "Your strength is probably far from being my match."

  The words had just fallen.

  "Give me a breakthrough!"

  In an instant, a pair of large hands shot out to both sides, and the fingers of the big hands all turned into giant snakes. Only ten giant snakes were seen grasping at a certain place in the void, and with a fierce grip, the entire illusion array seemed to be "pinched" to a halt. The Peach Garden suddenly shook and blurred, and then completely dissipated.

  "How is this possible!" an exclamation of surprise.

  The Peach Garden disappeared, and Ji Ning and others entered again to see the Grand Hall, where they saw row upon row of tables.

  "It's all right, I've managed to save my life. Luckily that puppet was extremely intelligent and knew it had to kill Shao Yan Nong, so it went all out to deal with him. If those lightning bolts had struck us instead, the five of Hei Bai Xue Gong might have been able to withstand them, but I would have been in danger." Xue Hong Yi also felt as if he had a great aura surrounding his body.

  He previously faced a puppet attack with Shuyou Shin'ei and was lucky to survive after Shuyou Shin'ei died.

  He can also discover Xianji Fa Bao.

  He narrowly escaped again just now.

  Escaping calamity multiple times and obtaining a Xian-grade treasure, isn't this just good fortune?

  "The formation has been broken." Xiang Liu swept his gaze across the grand hall, saying calmly, "There's no need for you all to panic. Wu Jiangxian is just a young immortal who barely managed to create a puppet that can somewhat rival the power of a loose immortal. If that puppet doesn't appear, then so be it; if it does, I'll capture it."

  Shao Yenong also nodded with a smile, and instructed: "Those puppets are lurking in the Wujiang Temple, everyone must not rush around, if you encounter those puppets, Fang Shu can't save you."

  "How can we possibly run around and look for death?" Xue Hongyi said in a row.

  Ji Ning and others entered, looking at each other... Wu Jiang's palace was obviously hiding a powerful puppet, they weren't stupid, naturally wouldn't run around wildly.

  Xiang Liu Fang and Shao Yan Nong walked up to the great hall and directly began refining that bronze lamp.

  "Haha, this is the last piece of the puzzle." Shao Yan's eyes gleamed with excitement, "As long as we refine this piece, the entire immortal mansion will be under my control. The Witch River Temple must still have some dangers, but we don't need to take risks, just refining the immortal mansion, those puppets will naturally lose."

  Ji Ning and others entered the capital nodding their heads.

  "You'd better be careful too, those puppets won't just sit back and watch me successfully refine the elixir, they might even launch a sneak attack." Shao Yan Nong said.

  Eighteen ferocious and eerie puppets were staring at the burly man wearing black armor, who said in a low voice: "The one who broke the formation just now should be a divine demon. His palm can become that big, and his fingers can turn into giant snakes. Only a true divine demon can do this. From this move, I can see that his strength is greater than mine."

  "Leader, what should we do then?"

  "They might be refining at Wujiang Temple."

  The poor and strange puppets are all anxious.

  "They want to completely refine the Wujiang Hall, it's estimated that it will take an hour." The black armored man said in a low voice, "We have to think of a way... must kill the tribe protected by the demon god with one blow. From their conversation when they just came in, the invading tribe has already refined the other four sub-halls of the Xianfu, this is the last one."

  "Get ready for my plan." The black armored man's eyes gleamed with a cold intent.

  A large group of Zifu disciples dispersed around, Ji Ning, Jiu Lian, Cangjiang Zhenru, Xue Hongyi and others all looked nervous. They were all worried that the puppet would suddenly come to attack.

  Sitting high up in the grand hall, Shaoyan Nong, who was refining the bronze lamp, saw that the atmosphere in the grand hall was so tense and said with a straight face, "There's no need to be so tense, it's just those puppets. One comes, and Fang Shu grabs one. They're bound to lose."

  Ji Ning and others entered, including Xue Hong who secretly curled her lip.

  Yes, Shang Liu Fang is able to come and kill one by one.

  But those puppets are as strong as ordinary loose immortals, and if they suddenly launch a surprise attack, they might lose their lives if they're not careful. After all, they don't have Xiang Liu protecting them up close.

  "Come in." Seeing Ji Ning and others enter with a solemn expression, Shao Yan Nong didn't bat an eyelid and ordered, "Prepare the celebratory feast."

  The two female Zifu Palace cultivators who were standing by the side of Shao Yan's farm, immediately took out fine wine and delicacies, and began to set them up. In fact, during the two days they spent traveling from Yanshan Winged Snake Lake to Xianfu on a large ship, they often drank and made merry, so many fine wines and delicacies had been prepared early on.

  Soon, each table was filled with fine wines, spiritual fruits and delicious dishes.

  Shao Yan sat cross-legged, laughing and holding a wine cup. He only needed to devote a little thought to refining the bronze lamp: "Everyone, don't be tense. The outermost layer has my Purple Mansion's dead soldiers forming an array to respond at any time. Even if there are puppets rushing in, the Purple Mansion's dead soldiers will respond first, giving you enough time to resist."

  "Sit down, all of you." Shao Yan Nong shouted, seeing that Ji Ning and the others were still hesitating, he ordered, "I'm telling you to sit!"

  Ji Ning and others entered one by one, and could only sit down one by one.

  "That's right."

  Shao Yan Nong smiled and said, "This time you all followed me into the Wu Jiang Xian Fu, experiencing many dangers several times, your contributions are not small. Now it's already the final moment, just wait for me to refine this bronze lamp, everything will be accomplished. Although there are still some puppets left, those puppets don't count as anything. Come, let us obtain many treasures this time and after refining the Wu Jiang Xian Fu, first drink from this cup." After finishing speaking, he raised his hand holding a bronze wine cup with flame patterns.

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