Chapter 119: Waiting for the Rabbit, Liu Ruyan

Lu Jin’s voice was not loud, yet it was deafening!

As the words fell, a muffled boom echoed. The shouting disciple’s body instantly exploded, then vanished on the spot!

Ever since the Heaven Burial Coffin gained the ability to devour corpses, Lu Jin stopped wasting cultivation resources.

Even a corpse was a resource for cultivation.

As the body was refined by the Heaven Burial Coffin, a surge of pure Spiritual Energy fed back into his body. His 7th Layer Jindan strength was once again consolidated and enhanced.

He remained calm and composed, acting as if killing these three people was as ordinary as breathing.

However.

The entire scene fell into a bizarre, suffocating atmosphere.

The new disciples were scared witless.

Some even feared that Lu Jin’s actions would bring trouble down upon them!

The Holy Land disciples were also stunned.

They didn’t know what to do; terror began to surface in their eyes!

Hu Qing, the strongest among them, was at the 5th Layer Jindan!

In the outside world, someone with such cultivation could establish their own sect. Even within the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, disciples of this level were rare and could easily become Elders!

Yet before Lu Jin, such cultivation didn’t even have the chance to resist!

They didn’t even see how Lu Jin moved before the lives of those three were completely harvested!

“You… saw nothing. Understand?”

Lu Jin looked at the group of frozen disciples. His words were nonchalant, yet they carried a majesty that brooked no defiance!

“Understood… we understand, we understand…”

One disciple stammered out a response, though the terror in his eyes had not yet dissipated.

“Continue. Don’t waste time.”

Lu Jin glanced around, looking every bit the overlord among this group of disciples!

If he was unhappy, people really would die!

They had never felt this way before, trembling with fear, their courage shattered by a single new disciple!

“Senior Brother Lu Jin, I am from the 9th Grade Hall. Why don’t you join us?”

After doing some mental preparation, one disciple finally gathered his courage and asked while shivering.

“9th Grade Hall? Is it powerful? It shouldn’t be as good as the Inner Sect, right? I want to go to the Inner Sect.”

Lu Jin went straight to the point and stated his requirement.

“This… I don’t have the final say. That requires the Inner Sect Elders to deliberate together.”

The disciple did not dare to hide anything. “If Senior Brother Lu Jin truly wants to go, then why not try challenging the Sanctuary Tower!”

“As long as you can enter the fifth floor of the nine-story Sanctuary Tower, you will be qualified to enter the Inner Sect!”

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin said, “Sanctuary Tower? Lead the way.”

“Yes!”

With that, the disciple led Lu Jin toward the location of the Sanctuary Tower.

After Lu Jin left, the other disciples also began to move, joining their respective halls according to the rules.

Because of their good relationship with Lu Jin, Yan Mo and Tang Liu actually benefited from his reputation and joined the 7th Grade Hall.

Once the disciples had chosen their halls, a group of them immediately rushed toward the Sanctuary Tower.

However.

The Sanctuary Tower was not a place just anyone could enter. The reason that disciple led Lu Jin there was as a stalling tactic, giving the other disciples time to go and fetch reinforcements!

In their view, if an Elder-level figure did not step in, they would never be able to suppress Lu Jin on their own!

Lu Jin was naturally well aware of his thoughts.

It was just that those few disciples had been swallowed by the Heaven Burial Coffin; dead men tell no tales!

Even those five Elders had been swallowed, so he had nothing to fear regarding this matter.

If he successfully challenged the Sanctuary Tower and entered the Inner Sect, his status would instantly rise. The Holy Land likely wouldn’t bother too much over the deaths of a few Outer Sect disciples.

No matter the time or place, strong power was the only absolute truth!

If one was weak, even living was a sin!

As Yan Mo headed toward the Sanctuary Tower, she did not forget to send out a transmission talisman.

As the little princess of the Tianxuan Empire, although she had been rejecting the Guardian Dragon Guard while traveling, she understood her noble status. Once she encountered danger, the Guardian Dragon Guard would definitely rush in immediately.

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A secluded location within the Inner Sect.

“What? He broke into the Sanctuary Tower?”

A surprised voice rang out; it was Liu Ruyan.

“Correct!”

A disciple walked over. “Senior Sister Liu, Shifu wants you to enter the Sanctuary Tower as well!”

The disciple held a secret key in his hand.

“This is the key to the Sanctuary Tower. It can activate the arrays on the fifth floor to increase your combat power!”

As the disciple spoke, Liu Ruyan’s gaze shifted.

The reason Elder Chi Yu gave her the key was definitely so she could kill Lu Jin within the Sanctuary Tower!

She grabbed the key. “Let’s go!”

In the next second, she vanished from the spot.

When she reappeared, she was already in front of the Sanctuary Tower.

“Liu Ruyan?”

At that moment, when they saw Liu Ruyan, the expressions of Yan Mo and Tang Liu changed!

Before this, Lu Jin had used some unknown method to enter the Sanctuary Tower. Now that a disciple had brought Liu Ruyan here, the two of them seemed to understand something instantly.

While the two were still surprised, Liu Ruyan’s figure blurred and entered the Sanctuary Tower, quickly disappearing from sight.

“That woman is definitely going in to deal with Senior Brother Lu Jin!”

Yan Mo spoke with a frown, feeling a sense of helplessness.

“Her aura is so powerful. That woman’s current cultivation is definitely not lower than the 7th Layer Jindan!”

Tang Liu also spoke with a sigh of admiration.

“How did her cultivation progress so rapidly? I wonder if Senior Brother Lu Jin can defeat her.”

Yan Mo spoke worriedly.

“I’m going in too!”

After some thought, Yan Mo rushed directly toward the Sanctuary Tower.

Unfortunately, her 5th Layer Jindan strength was simply unable to enter!

The entrance to the Sanctuary Tower had a defensive array. As long as this array existed, anyone below the required realm was not qualified to enter.

When Yang Dianfeng came here to cultivate previously, it was only after his cultivation had crossed the threshold of the 5th Layer Jindan, and with Elder Scarlet Moon leading him, that he was qualified to enter.

Yan Mo’s gaze was complex. Ultimately, she felt a bit helpless due to the massive scene Lu Jin had caused.

Even as a princess, she felt powerless; she truly couldn’t help with whatever danger Lu Jin might face inside the Sanctuary Tower.

However, she had already sent the transmission talisman to inform the Guardian Dragon Guard.

The Guardian Dragon Guard had been following her in secret, forbidden from appearing without her command. Now that Lu Jin had entered the Sanctuary Tower and would likely be targeted, she summoned them in advance to lie in ambush. If Lu Jin was in danger, she could rescue him immediately.

Liu Ruyan had been inside the Sanctuary Tower before, so she moved rapidly through the various arrays of the tower. She reached the fifth floor and waited for Lu Jin’s arrival.

To her surprise, she waited for a long time, yet there was no sign of Lu Jin!

Just as she was wondering and about to investigate, a violent tremor suddenly erupted from the upper levels!

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Footnotes:

TN1: Waiting for the Rabbit (守株待兔): A Chinese idiom referring to someone who waits for a lucky break or an easy target without putting in effort, based on a story of a farmer waiting for another rabbit to run into a tree stump. Here, Liu Ruyan is setting an ambush.