Chapter 669: Annihilation

The silver light vanished, the Boundary-Piercing Talisman turned to nothingness, and his last means of survival was completely ineffective. Lin Jiu stood frozen in place, his expression filled with obvious disbelief and helplessness.

In truth, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to move—it was that he couldn’t. Another deadly formation within the Qianyuan Xuan Formation had already enveloped him, its power taking effect on him.

The Seven-Death Immortal-Slaying Formation!
The most powerful lethal formation within the Qianyuan Dual-Pole Xuan Formation.

“Normally, once the Seven-Death Immortal-Slaying Formation is activated, even a Great Luo Golden Immortal would perish on the spot. Eliminating a Xuan Immortal like Lin Jiu should be no problem…”

Su Che, relying on information obtained from the Crystal Giant, thought to himself, “It’s a pity that for this formation to unleash its full power, it requires one immortal artifact representing each of the seven elements—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder. While killing the true immortal, these seven artifacts will explode as magical treasures, channeling all their power into the formation…”

“To kill a Great Luo Golden Immortal, at least seven top-tier immortal artifacts are needed; to kill an ordinary Golden Immortal, seven high-tier artifacts are required; and to kill a Xuan Immortal like Lin Jiu, seven mid-tier artifacts of different elements are necessary.”

“I don’t even have a single low-tier immortal artifact. How could I possibly afford seven mid-tier ones to waste?”

“That’s why this Seven-Death Immortal-Slaying Formation only has 30% of its killing power. Other factors must be added to replace those seven mid-tier artifacts if we’re to truly eliminate Lin Jiu.”

With Su Che’s human-immortal strength, even with the help of the formation, crossing three major realms to kill a Xuan Immortal was extremely difficult.

Only now did Su Che truly understand that the previous Huangfeng Soul-Annihilation Formation seemed capable of slowly wearing Lin Jiu down, but that was because Lin Jiu was calculating and scheming, unwilling to unleash his full strength.

“Anyway, we must use every possible method and spare no effort to kill this bastard!”

Lao He’s sharp teeth clicked together as he growled viciously, “If nothing else works, bring in that Meng Luo… If he refuses to help, we’ll rather pay a high price to buy those seven mid-tier immortal artifacts from him just to ensure Lin Jiu dies in the Immortal-Slaying Formation.”

Su Che nodded silently, also convinced: No matter what, Lin Jiu must die!

The Seven Deadly Arrays has been activated, and its inherent lethal forces of the seven elements—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder—began attacking Lin Jiu. However, due to the low cultivation level of the array controller, Su Che, these lethal forces posed little threat to Lin Jiu. They might be effective against Earth Immortals or Heaven Immortals, but they were insufficient against Mysterious Immortals.

Lin Jiu was truly fighting desperately, pushing his Great Defense Technique to its extreme limit. Five light shields surrounded him, thicker and brighter than ever before. This could be considered his strongest defensive stance.

Since the array’s own power was not enough, Su Che added his own destructive forces to the wind-based lethal forces and the Chaos Demon-Annihilating Flames to the fire-based lethal forces. Yet, after nearly twenty minutes, they still failed to shatter Lin Jiu’s defensive shields.

“This guy is really good at pretending!” Old Black cursed in a deep voice. “Earlier, in the Yellow Wind Killing Array, I thought his three light shields represented the strongest defense possible. I never expected him to come up with five. Damn, he’s too cunning, this bastard…”

Su Che also regretted it inwardly. “If I had known, I should have gathered all the Chaos Demon-Annihilating Flames in the Immortal Prison and created a sea of chaotic fire within the Seven Deadly Arrays to completely erase Lin Jiu’s soul.”

The Chaos Demon-Annihilating Flames could indeed harm a Mysterious Immortal’s soul, but that required a vast sea of fire spanning tens of thousands of feet to force them into a situation where they had nowhere to escape and could be trapped to death in the flames.

At this moment, with just a few hundred flames, Lin Jiu could wave his hand and send those weightless flames flying far away, causing minimal damage to his soul.

It was a pity that when crossing the Chaos Fire Region, to avoid arousing Lin Jiu and Guang Qi’s suspicion, Su Che had only quietly recalled the Sacred Flame Guardians and Old Black, without absorbing too much of the Chaos Sacred Flames. His plan was to gather all that fire in the Immortal Prison once he returned victorious with the right opportunity…

Another half hour passed, yet Lin Jiu’s five light shields remained unbroken. Although maintaining the Great Defense Technique at full strength caused immense strain on his soul, immortal essence, and mental energy, his personal space seemed to contain an endless supply of nourishing items like immortal pills and crystals.

As he consumed pill after pill and transformed top-quality crystals into his immortal essence, it seemed he could continue like this indefinitely.

A Xuanxian who had lived for millions of years—his wealth and savings were unimaginably vast, far beyond Su Che’s comprehension. Who knew how much longer he could sustain himself like this? Not to mention a hundred years; even three or five years would be enough to exhaust Su Che! Nothing in the world can arise out of nothing. To keep the Qi Jue Lu Xian Formation functioning, Su Che also had to expend resources, including the power of Destruction and the Chaos Demon-Slaying Flame. Just dozens of days ago, Su Che was still an ordinary person; no matter how wealthy, he was merely a local tycoon. How could he compete with a Xuanxian in terms of endurance? “No!” Su Che slowly shook his head. “This won’t work. It’s too disadvantageous! Even if I manage to kill him, I’ll be completely exhausted. Besides, there’s not enough time to keep going like this…” At that moment, Lin Jiu inside the killing formation laughed arrogantly, “Young Tian Yu, is that all you can do? I’ve always said that such a top-tier Xuan formation in your hands is a waste of its potential. I feel sorry for it! Hahaha! A top-tier formation, yet it can’t even exert even one percent of its power in your hands—what a waste! What a pity! Young Tian Yu, what a worthless person…” Lin Jiu had completely given up. With things having reached this point, worrying or fearing was useless. For him, it was all about fighting as long as he could and surviving as long as he could. In short, he couldn’t let Su Che get his way. “A dying man only knows how to scream frantically!” Su Che’s expression turned cold, and he grew annoyed inwardly, leading him to make a decision. So, he temporarily handed control of the Qi Jue Lu Xian Formation to the crystal giant, then turned and left. Moving around inside the formation, he soon exited its spatial realm and returned to the valley where the giant furnace stood. Sure enough, Monro, who resembled a wooden man, still stood rigidly beneath the furnace, his posture and expression unchanged from when Su Che had said goodbye to him dozens of days ago—not the slightest change. As Su Che approached, a normal person would have asked concerned questions like, “How did it go?” “Is everything okay?” “Are you alright?” But Monro merely had a slight flicker in his eyes and remained silent the whole time. Such a person had taken the terms “stupid,” “cold,” and “rigid” to their extreme.

Facing such a guy, Su Che didn’t waste any polite words or nonsense. He said straight away, “Guangqi is dead. Lin Jiu is trapped in the killing array by me, but it’s quite difficult for me to truly kill him. I think it’s time to get your help.”
“Not bad.”
Monro nodded slightly and said in a low voice, “Reaching this level is already quite good. Much better than my expectations…”
Su Che wasn’t pretending to be humble either. He continued, “If you refuse to help, then sell me seven mid-tier immortal artifacts—one for each of the seven elements: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder.”
“Mid-tier immortal artifacts…”
Monro replied indifferently, “I never pick up such things.”
“Never pick them up?”
Su Che was stunned. Mid-tier immortal artifacts—refused even if they fell at his feet!
Since he wouldn’t pick them up, there were none!
Then he had no choice but to make Monro take action.
However, what Monro did next was even simpler than Su Che had expected—far simpler.
Monro casually took out an unremarkable black ball and held it in front of Su Che. “Use this.”
Huh?
Su Che reached out and took the small, weightless black ball, which was neither hot nor sharp. Without saying another word, he turned and left!
Whether it would work or not didn’t need to be asked—just try it.
If it didn’t work, he could come back and scold Monro!
Back inside the array, Su Che took control of the Seven Absolute Execution Immortal Array from the crystal giant. After a quick thought, he threw the small ball into the array.
The unremarkable black ball immediately transformed into a small shadow once it entered the killing array. Hidden within a pure black water-type deadly mist, it drifted toward Lin Jiu in the center of the array.
“Huh? I can’t find it!”
As the controller of this killing array, Su Che was monitoring everything closely, but in the blink of an eye, he could no longer detect the shadow’s presence, as if it had completely disappeared.
Undoubtedly, its concealment ability was truly terrifying!
To complement it, Su Che shouted loudly through the array, deliberately distracting Lin Jiu’s attention, “Lin Jiu, continuing like this won’t work… How about this? You might as well end your own life. I’ll give you the chance to be reborn. What do you say?”
“Dream on!”
Lin Jiu raised his head and roared, “You brat Tian Yu! Even if I die, I won’t die at your hands!”
As soon as he said that, his eyes bulged, his expression changed drastically, and a black aura suddenly covered his face. Then…
Thud!
He collapsed straight down.
“Is that it?”

Su Che himself was shocked—this was utterly unexpected: it was too simple!
As Lin Jiu fell, his once indestructible five-sided light shield instantly faded and disappeared, turning into mere specks, completely shattered by the power of Qi Jue into utter nothingness.
Su Che quickly stopped the operation of the killing formation to prevent Qi Jue’s power from crushing Lin Jiu’s body as well.
Yes, Lin Jiu, who had been extremely fierce just moments ago, had in the blink of an eye become a lifeless corpse. Su Che couldn’t figure out how he died.
Anyway, through the detection and amplification function of the formation, Su Che could be 100% certain: Lin Jiu was dead!
He died so mysteriously…
“You’re only half right…”
Su Che murmured, “Although it’s not me who killed you, you still died at my hands, right in front of me.”