Chapter 61: Mid-Level Immortal Artifact

The eighteen powerful warriors from the eight sects, while chasing Qu Yi, were surprised to find that the puppet human immortals were no longer attacking him.
Yet those puppet human immortals kept appearing and attacking the warriors from the eight sects.
“Why? How is it that Qu Yi isn’t detected by the formation?”
“Is this discrimination? Why don’t the puppet human immortals attack Qu Yi? Why do they only attack us?”
“Has anyone noticed that Qu Yi’s soul fluctuations seem to be constantly changing?”
“I get it. In this area, the formation only detects soul fluctuations, not true energy fluctuations.”
…
Amidst the shouts of the eighteen warriors, they finally discovered the reason why Qu Yi wasn’t detected by the formation.
However, these eighteen warriors couldn’t change their own soul fluctuations either and still had to deal with the onslaught of puppet human immortals. Moreover, more and more puppet human immortals were appearing—now there were as many as ten. If the eighteen warriors continued to chase Qu Yi, those in front would likely join the siege as well, resulting in ten puppet human immortals attacking the eighteen warriors.
“What should we do?”
Suddenly, Tai Ming shouted in anger.
Qu Yi was getting farther away, and the number of puppet human immortals surrounding them was increasing. No matter how hard they tried to chase him, it was useless; instead, they risked falling into danger.
This concern was also shared by the other ten. If things continued like this, they would face even more puppet human immortals blocking their path, making it extremely difficult to catch up with Qu Yi.
“Hmph, let’s put aside our past differences this time. Let’s combine our true energy to create a True Energy Blade and chase after Qu Yi.”
Suddenly, Jin Xiong, the leader of the Jin Yang Sect, shouted loudly, clearly determined to kill Qu Yi.
A True Energy Blade was created by merging everyone’s true energy into a single, blade-shaped form of energy.
Upon Jin Xiong’s words, everyone’s expression changed. Creating such a blade required selfless contribution of true energy, and as this energy flowed through each other’s bodies, it had to circulate smoothly. The slightest mistake could cause severe harm to everyone.
“I disagree!” Tai Ming said outright.
“I disagree too!” Qing Long added.

Joking aside, among these eleven people, there are those who practice cultivation techniques related to metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Their vital energies do not blend together; if they force them to converge into a blade of vital energy, mistakes will still occur. Moreover, everyone knows something about Qu Yi—there are some mysterious elements within his body. If Qu Yi attacks secretly, their own vital energies could backfire, leading to disaster for all of them. The lives of these sect leaders cannot be sacrificed so easily. Naturally, Jin Xiong’s proposal was immediately rejected. During this brief pause, another puppet immortal appeared, bringing the total to eleven on the ground—equal in number to the strongmen from the eight sects. This meant each person now had to face the attack of one puppet immortal. If several puppet immortals attacked one person at once, that strongman would likely die. It was too dangerous. Without hesitation, the eleven strongmen flew back immediately, unwilling to risk their lives in chasing Qu Yi. Soon, they returned to the outer area. “Hmph, since we can’t go deeper, we can still enter the Six Harmonies Hall. If Qu Yi wants to enter other worlds, we still have a chance to strike together and kill him,” Tai Ming declared as soon as he landed. The other ten nodded in agreement, recognizing the logic—after emerging from this world of puppet immortals, Qu Yi must first enter the Six Harmonies Hall before flying through the other five light walls to enter those worlds. “Why don’t we all enter one of the light walls together, set up a killing formation at the landing site, and wait for Qu Yi to come before striking him down together?” Jin Xiong suddenly suggested. Inside the Six Harmonies Hall, spells could not be used for attack; only after entering the worlds within the light walls could they fight each other. Relying on his intuition, Jin Xiong believed that once Qu Yi entered one of the light wall worlds first, it would be difficult for the eleven of them to stop him. Thus, he came up with this strategy of waiting for Qu Yi to enter the formation before attacking together. After hearing Jin Xiong’s idea, the other ten fell silent for a while, considering its feasibility. “But what if Qu Yi goes to another light wall and obtains some magical treasures left by Emperor Hao? Then we might not be able to surround and kill him—we might even be attacked by him. Wouldn’t that put us at a disadvantage?” Suddenly, Qing Long voiced his concern.

This cry also persuaded a few of the powerful warriors. They were worried that if Qu Yi obtained another defensive magic artifact similar to the Star Luo Ding, the eleven of them might not be able to kill him in one strike. After all, they had seen with their own eyes that the bodies of those puppet immortals were equivalent to magic artifacts of the lower-grade immortal artifact level. If Qu Yi acquired a defensive armor of the lower-grade or middle-grade immortal artifact level, it would be very difficult for the eleven of them to kill him in one strike.

Qing Long’s questioning remark immediately reminded the others that these powerful warriors in the later stages of the tribulation phase really didn’t want to take chances; they preferred to kill their enemies with their own strength. The thought of waiting for a long time, only for Qu Yi to emerge, and when everyone attacked, suddenly appear a defensive armor and escape unharmed would drive these eleven people crazy.

Therefore, the eleven of them discussed again and decided to stay inside the Six Harmonies Hall, waiting for Qu Yi to come out from the world of puppet immortals.

……

At this moment, Qu Yi was in the inner area.

“Haha, those eleven bastards still want to chase and kill me? Do they really think I’m afraid of them? Never mind, let them live for now. Once I’ve had my fun with them, I’ll take their lives.” Suddenly, sensing that the eight sects’ powerful warriors had retreated, he laughed out loud.

“Enough. These people in the tribulation phase are no longer worth your attention. Go to the central area calmly and get that middle-grade immortal artifact,” the Artifact God suddenly called out.

Qu Yi immediately became quiet and then left the Star Luo Ding, flying at his own speed.

With the Soul Wave and the Artifact God operating in the shadows, Qu Yi wasn’t worried about being detected by the formation.

Without the pursuit of the eleven of them, Qu Yi slowed down and suddenly arrived beside a puppet immortal. He picked up the Six Harmonies Blade and severed that puppet immortal’s hand with one strike, then seized its lower-grade immortal artifact.

“Hehe, now this entire inner area is my domain. All the lower-grade immortal artifacts belong to me!” Qu Yi shouted happily.

Thinking that no one else was in this inner area to loot, and that only he could easily take the lower-grade immortal artifacts, Qu Yi couldn’t help but get excited.

Suddenly, the Artifact God’s voice sounded indifferently, “Qu Yi, do you want to die or live?”

Qu Yi’s expression froze; he was completely stunned.

Was this the way the Artifact God spoke? Where had I offended the Artifact God? Qu Yi’s mind raced, filled with confusion.

“Artifact God, why would you say that? I just wanted to obtain more lower-grade immortal artifacts,” Qu Yi cried out indignantly.

Was it a crime to take lower-grade immortal artifacts?

The Divine Tool God still spoke calmly, “Kid Qu Yi, you’ve already seized hundreds of low-grade immortal artifacts—enough already. Don’t be too greedy. Powerful magic treasures can certainly make you stronger, but your own cultivation level is what truly matters. Don’t let these external things cloud your mind. Now, fly straight to the central area immediately, or get ready to face the attacks of the Puppet Human Immortals.”

Hearing this, Qu Yi’s expression turned unpleasant, but he couldn’t argue.

Soon, Qu Yi flew straight toward the central area of the Puppet Human Immortals’ realm at his own speed, aiming to obtain the mid-grade immortal artifacts there.

After another million miles, Qu Yi finally passed through the inner zone and entered the central area.

The spiritual energy seemed to have vanished entirely; the entire space was filled with the primordial energy of the metal element—this was the state of the central area.

Qu Yi was still only at the middle stage of the Tribulation Phase and couldn’t directly absorb this primordial metal energy, or his body would be blown apart by it.

If he were at the later stage of the Tribulation Phase, he would be overjoyed, because those at this stage could sense the primordial energy with their spiritual awareness, absorb it into their bodies, refine it, and thus break through to the Mahayana stage.

Qu Yi sighed and had no choice but to re-enter the Star Luo Ding, then activate it to fly deeper into the central area.

The Star Luo Ding could absorb this metal energy and store it in its internal space. In fact, by entering this central area, the Star Luo Ding had accumulated enough primordial metal energy that it could be used by Qu Yi to transform his body into a body of primordial metal energy when he broke through to the Mahayana stage.

Qu Yi was very pleased sensing the operation of the Star Luo Ding. In the future, he could use the stored primordial metal energy to cultivate to the Mahayana stage, and the metal primordial energy stones he had collected could be given to people like Wu Yuan, Qing Wu Gui, and Golden Qilin to help them quickly break through to the Mahayana stage as well.

Just as the Star Luo Ding was flying and Qu Yi was thinking about these joyful things, the space ahead suddenly expanded, and a force that shook the world descended around the Star Luo Ding.

It seemed as though a space had enveloped the Star Luo Ding!

At the same time, a long sword shining with intense golden light appeared and thrust straight at the Star Luo Ding.

With a loud boom, the shockwave caused the primordial metal energy to swirl, creating countless spatial cracks in the surrounding area.

The power of this sword was extremely fierce, yet it still failed to cause even the slightest damage to the Star Luo Ding.

“Qu Yi, this sword is already a mid-grade immortal weapon,” Qu Yi was stunned and silent, when suddenly the Spirit of the Weapon sent a message to him.