Chapter 712: The Golden Immortal Bandit

Yuan Yuan officially became a priestess at Tianxuan Treasure Shop. Within the vast store space, her temporary residence was located on a quiet and beautiful island in a lake, less than 10,000 miles away from Su Che’s dwelling. With her cultivation level, she could reach there in an instant.

Su Che and Zhuo Feng surely had limited trust in this Golden Immortal priestess. However, Su Che intuited that she had no ill intentions toward him, so there was no need for extreme caution—just maintaining a basic level of vigilance was sufficient.

Recently, Su Che’s only source of concern came from Zong Yi of the Wanxiang Refining Sect. He always felt that this old man would surely cause some trouble. He must avoid having too much contact with him and under no circumstances leave Haoyuan Heavenly Market due to any reasons or temptations he might present.

Therefore, in addition to Uncle Zhuo Feng’s close protection, the Qianyuan Dual-Pole Mysterious Array was also always at hand, ready to be fully activated at any time. Su Che would not slack off in protecting his own safety.

Yet, there’s no such thing as being a thief for a thousand days without ever needing to guard against thieves. Moreover, as a store that welcomed customers, there were many aspects that were difficult to guard against.

One day, a Mysterious Immortal dressed in blue came to the store to buy magical artifacts. After being led into the artifact appraisal room, it temporarily became his private space, where he could stay as long as he wished.

A few hours later, the Mysterious Immortal in blue seemingly casually shook the hem of his robe, sending a speck of dust into a corner of the appraisal room.

It was just a speck of dust, invisible to the naked eye. In fact, even after he sent it flying, his spiritual sense could no longer detect its presence.

This speck of dust had an extremely powerful concealment effect. Without meticulous inspection, even Zhuo Feng and Yuan Yuan would not have been able to detect it.

Worse still, the treasure shop was a space for magical artifacts, where dust hardly settled, so there was no need to clean the rooms for a long time. Thus, after the Mysterious Immortal in blue casually bought a mid-tier magical artifact and left, no one in the store paid attention to that appraisal room anymore.

With over 500 such appraisal rooms, who would care about just one of them?

As a result, Su Che and the others were completely unaware of this change.

Twenty minutes later, the Mysterious Immortal in blue left Haoyuan Heavenly Market and flew tens of thousands of miles away, landing in a deep canyon.

Click!

A hole appeared on what seemed to be a smooth stone wall—revealing a temporary cave dwelling with concealment effects.

“Reporting to the master, it’s completed successfully,” said the blue-robed Xuanxian, bowing as he reported from within the cave dwelling.
“Return to the sect; you have nothing more to do here.”
A deep voice came from inside the cave. If Su Che had heard it, he would have recognized it as that old ghost Zong Yi, whom he feared greatly.
The blue-robed Xuanxian obeyed and left, and the cave entrance slowly closed. The people inside continued to whisper among themselves.
Inside this small cave dwelling, there were actually five Golden Immortals!
“Brother Zong, are you sure there are no other oversights?” asked one of the burly, bearded Golden Immortals in a deep voice.
Zong Yi smiled slightly and nodded. “This isn’t the first time I’ve done this; there won’t be any mistakes. The Mother-Child Void-Transmitting Array will surely not disappoint us.”
As one of the core elders of the Wanxiang Refinement Sect, Zong Yi was undoubtedly a master-level refiner. The Mother-Child Void-Transmitting Array was his masterpiece—though it was also a closely guarded secret known only to his close allies.
This array could not only enable precise long-distance transmission but also penetrate others’ magic artifact spaces to directly access their core areas.
Just now, Zong Yi’s top disciple, the blue-robed Xuanxian who had just left, had already dropped the “child array” in dust form into the Tianxuan Treasures Shop. Thus, even from hundreds of millions of miles away, the five of them could use the “mother array” to teleport directly into that treasure appraisal room.
In other words, they bypassed the strict surveillance of the Haoyuan Heaven Market and reached their target directly.
After completing their task, the five of them could return to the mother array together with the child array. The child array would rejoin the mother array, leaving no trace and remaining completely hidden.
The child array itself could return with the transmitter—this was the most extraordinary feature of the Mother-Child Void-Transmitting Array. If this achievement were made public, it would bring Zong Yi immense honor and greatly elevate his status within the sect.
Zong Yi was very proud of it, but he kept it hidden, using it merely as a tool for long-term operations.
Honors and status were what he desired, but he would wait until he had accumulated sufficient practical benefits before pursuing them.
At that moment, the only female among the five Golden Immortals chuckled softly. “Brother Zong, you’re breaking the rule this time. Usually, you avoid hunting in the territory of the Phoenix.”
“The circumstances are special.”

Zong Yi said in a low voice, “I’ve already investigated thoroughly. Tianxuan Treasure Shop needs to stock at least tens of thousands of items to sustain supply to the hundreds of magic weapon stores in Haoyuan Heaven Market in the long term. In fact, tens of thousands is even an underestimation!”
His tone grew grave as he continued, “If it’s over a hundred thousand items, it’s a deal worth hundreds of millions. If we land this order, each of us five will make around twenty million. Maybe we can stop here and avoid further risks.”
The other four nodded silently, sharing nearly identical thoughts.
Operating in the territories of various Immortal Emperors was like constantly seeking blood—after too many attempts, failure was inevitable. Thus, they all hoped to luckily stumble upon a huge target and become rich overnight before quitting.
And now, Tianxuan Treasure Shop was that once-in-a-million-year huge target.
“I’m sure all the treasures are kept with the shop owner, that little Human Immortal.”
Zong Yi added, “Capture him and leave immediately. There’s no need to fight those two Golden Immortal guards.”
“Understood,” the others replied in unison.
Having cooperated for so long, they knew exactly what to do without needing to discuss details verbally.
Moreover, they had no doubts about Zong Yi’s judgment. If he said all the wealth was with the shop owner, it must be true.
Even ordinary thieves in the mortal world could tell at a glance who was poor and who was a rich target.
After a brief silence, Zong Yi continued, “My second disciple has been lurking in the market. According to him, the male Golden Immortal from Tianxuan Treasure Shop spends an hour or two every day by the bulletin board in the central square, trying to recruit elite guards… Such a large store clearly lacks adequate defenses.”
The bearded Golden Immortal interjected, “Brother Zong means we should take advantage of this gap to strike quickly?”
“That would be ideal,” Zong Yi nodded, then added proudly, “Even if not, it doesn’t matter. It’s just two Golden Immortals.”
Five against two—clearly an advantage. Besides, the real target was just a Human Immortal, easily captured.
The female immortal subtly warned, “Brother Zong’s two disciples…”
“Yes,” Zong Yi nodded, a murderous intent flashing in his eyes. The closer it got to the final deal, the more necessary it was to get rid of such obstacles.

The two trusted disciples who had followed him for millions of years could be killed at his command without the slightest hesitation…
Inside the temporary cave dwelling, the five Golden Immortals waited patiently for several hours. Finally, the communication talisman that Zong Yi had been holding lit up.
Receiving the message through the talisman, Zong Yi looked up at his companions and said, “That male Golden Immortal has already gone to the central square. Inside the store, there’s only one newly hired Golden Immortal as a servant. I guess she won’t really fight to the death against us.”
A servant hired for money merely bears a temporary responsibility; they’re not true fighters willing to risk their lives.
“Attack!”
The other four shouted in unison.
Swish!
Zong Yi waved his hand, and the teleportation matrix already set up in the cave dwelling immediately lit up, forming a blue portal over ten feet in diameter.
At the same time, in the appraisal room of Tianxuan Treasure Shop, the tiny sub-matrix instantly expanded, lying close to the ground and forming a flat matrix disc over twenty feet in diameter.
Whoosh!
A blue teleportation portal also appeared on the matrix disc.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh…
The five Golden Immortals passed through the portal.
Inside the store, Yuan Yuan, who was resting with her eyes closed on an island in the lake, suddenly opened her eyes and exclaimed softly, “Spatial disturbance! It seems to be the power of teleportation…”
In the hall, Fei Yun and three Heavenly Immortal servants were still serving customers. At this stage, the treasure shop was bustling with customers, and its retail business was doing quite well.
As for Su Che, he was always very cautious. Whenever Zhuo Feng wasn’t around, he would fully activate the Qianyuan Dual-Pole Mysterious Matrix and hide inside it to practice quietly.
Of course, Su Che knew that under his control, the Qianyuan Dual-Pole Mysterious Matrix could barely kill a Mysterious Immortal, let alone a Golden Immortal. It could only provide some degree of resistance.
Still, Su Che believed that as long as he stayed inside his own store, he should be relatively safe—no madman would dare to come and cause trouble openly.
The security in Haoyuan Heavenly Market was quite good. It could be said that Supervisor Shao was indeed a capable official. Under his governance, although minor conflicts and disputes between buyers and sellers occurred from time to time, which were inevitable, true “crimes” might only happen once every few tens of thousands of years.
Therefore, even though he was highly wary of that Zong Yi, Su Che wasn’t so paranoid as to cling to Uncle Zhuo Feng and not dare leave his side.
That said, even if Uncle Zhuo Feng didn’t exist, he still had to do what needed to be done.

At that very moment, Su Che, who was in a meditative state, suddenly woke up and stood up from his sitting position. Although Su Che did not possess the Golden Immortal strength like Yuan Yuan to detect those extremely subtle spatial disturbances, as the owner of this store, he had control over the entire magic artifact space. Any abnormal change would immediately alert him. “What’s going on?” Su Che reached out and summoned the control core of the magic artifact space, namely the Divine Stele of Governance, and in an instant, he located the magic artifact appraisal room.