We have clearly entered the White Cloud Abyss and are only just a distance away from Chang’an… Chen Chaoyan felt helpless.
But at this moment, their opponents caught up with them.
Mister Black Cloud’s Dharmic powers left on the Cloud Net Canopy had dissipated.
Seeing the lightning surrounding them, the young girl could only use the giant umbrella with all her might.
As the Cloud Net Canopy rotated, clouds drifted away.
The formed clouds expanded abruptly.
The clouds came into contact with the lightning, leading to a series of explosions.
Amid the thunder and lightning, the clouds were constantly shattered by thunderclaps.
Turbulent electric snakes flickered and swam in the air before finally tearing apart the clouds formed by the Cloud Net Canopy.
Chen Chaoyan’s figure shook. She felt as though the lightning had exploded in her soul.
Her mind went blank, and the giant umbrella involuntarily slipped from her hand.
The clouds shattered, and everyone immediately fell.
Chen Jiezhi, Guo Zi, and the others barely managed to keep their balance and hover in the air.
But the terrifying sea of lightning still surrounded them from all directions.
At this moment, a palm suddenly appeared and grabbed the fallen Cloud Net Canopy.
The Cloud Net Canopy spun violently in this hand.
Clouds hanging down from the edge of the umbrella suddenly became harder and sharper than steel.
From silk sashes hanging down, they suddenly turned into sharp blades.
Countless sharp blades spiraled up.
Wherever the blades reached, the azure lightning in the sky was cut into pieces!
The tyrannical lightning could not even explode but silently shattered and dissipated just like bubbles.
The entire Yin-Yang Lightning Sea suddenly seemed to turn into a picture on canvas as the Cloud Net Canopy’s blades cut it apart.
The terrifying sea of lightning disintegrated and crumbled without a sound.
Chen Chaoyan’s mind cleared. She opened her eyes and looked along the umbrella handle of the Cloud Net Canopy.
An old but strong hand was holding the umbrella handle.
His palm was facing upward, with black sleeves on his hand.
The hand belonged to a calm-looking old man in black.
It was Mister Black Cloud.
“Senior!” Chen Chaoyan was delighted.
Mister Black Cloud said indifferently, “There’s still some way to go before reaching the fortress, but you’ve managed to bring them up to the mountain, so you’ve barely passed the test.”
Although chased by the azure thundercloud, Chen Chaoyan, the old bloody shadow demon, and the others finally made it to within the system’s coverage area.
That azure thundercloud caught up as well.
“Is Your Excellency the lord of Chang’an Fortress?” a voice came from the azure thundercloud.
Zhang Dongyun, who had incarnated into Mister Black Cloud, smiled. “Is there room for you to speak?”
Without waiting for a reply, he flicked his hand.
The Cloud Net Canopy spun around and rushed toward the azure thundercloud as though it were a sharp blade flying in the sky.
The man in the azure thundercloud was already on full alert when he spoke.
At this moment, he directed lightning at the Cloud Net Canopy.
Unfortunately, the current Cloud Net Canopy was completely different from before when it was in Chen Chaoyan’s hands.
The giant umbrella spun, and wherever it passed, the violent lightning dissipated.
The next instant, the Cloud Net Canopy smashed the azure thundercloud into pieces.
A young man fell from it.
There was a muffled grunt, and his torso was directly cut in two by the edge of the giant umbrella.
However, there was a flash of light, and a bolt of azure lightning flew out from his broken body.
Chen Chaoyan, who was beside Mister Black Cloud, fixed her eyes on it and saw that there was an infant in the lightning.
The infant’s appearance was rather similar to the man who had just been cut in two at the waist. It was his childhood appearance.
“Nascent soul!” Chen Chaoyan blurted out.
The seventh realm of Daoist cultivation was called Nascent Soul.
It was the foundation of cultivation, the seed of the primordial spirit, and the change that further combined and merged a cultivator’s golden core and soul with their life.
Upon completion of this realm, a Daoist cultivator could theoretically give up their physical body.
Having a nascent soul out of the body was more powerful than having the soul out of the body.
Since it was called nascent, the nascent soul was rather weak and could easily be injured by external enemies while casting spells, so a cultivator would not thoughtlessly allow their nascent soul to leave their body.
When the nascent soul formed, a Daoist cultivator could retain their memories and be reborn.
However, when the nascent soul returned to a connate life, the cultivator would experience the natal fog.
If they got past it, they would then be reborn with their memories retained. Otherwise, they would have the same fate as an ordinary person being reborn.
Right now, this man’s body was cut in half by the Cloud Net Canopy, and he was forced to escape with his nascent soul.
But at that moment, the infant’s mature and calm demeanor suddenly changed drastically.
A crack appeared on the waist of his tiny, shimmering body!
Mister Black Cloud’s strike earlier had cut his nascent soul!
The infant screamed but could only watch as his nascent soul gradually split into two like his physical body.
“What a bully!” Amid the infant’s scream, he summoned the last of his strength and launched a strike.
Azure light covered his body, forming sparkling balls of lightning.
As the lightning flashed, the sky above the forest flickered.
Under the infant’s control, many lightning balls changed their trajectories and danced in the air, seemingly having minds of their own.
Some lightning balls crashed into the Cloud Net Canopy, while others crashed into Mister Black Cloud.
Mister Black Cloud sneered and gestured with his fingers in the air.
Thunder suddenly rumbled on the Cloud Net Canopy as well.
Then streaks of purple lightning shot out.
The purple lightning actually turned into sharp, tangible swords in the air and pierced the azure lightning balls with precision.
There was no suspense at all.
There was one more streak of purple lightning than the azure lightning.
This one pierced the infant’s chest.
Flabbergasted, the infant looked down to see the lightning that pierced his tiny body before he looked around him.
The deafening sound of thunder fell silent at this moment.
The azure lightning that the purple thunder pierced crumbled silently and dissipated into thin air.
The infant felt paralyzed, and his mind went blank.
The purple lightning that had pierced through his body seemed to turn into a tangible rope at that moment.
The purple light wrapped around the infant’s body, which had been cut in two, and brought it back under the Cloud Net Canopy.
The infant disappeared as soon as the giant umbrella closed.
Mister Black Cloud waved his hand, and the closed umbrella returned to his palm.
He handed the giant umbrella to Chen Chaoyan, who was beside him.
Chen Chaoyan was dumbfounded for a moment before she took it.
Next to her, Chen Jiezhi and the others looked equally shocked.
Mister Black Cloud captured a seventh-realm Daoist cultivator just like that?
The entire process happened so easily that the opponent did not even have room to fight back.
On another side, the blood river stopped in midair.
The old bloody shadow demon’s figure emerged from it.
It appeared more solemn than ever as it looked at Mister Black Cloud’s back and remained silent for a long time.
In the distance, the people of the Fortune Celebration Temple and the Mirror Moon Tower, who were a little late in catching up, all turned pale with fear.
The people in front hurriedly stopped, and the people behind them almost knocked them down.
Zhang Dongyun could not help but smile at this scene.
At the same time, a system notification echoed in his mind.
[Random Guarding Quest 2.5—Kill or capture Gu Hechuan, a traitor of the Azure Cloud Temple who has entered the fortress.]
[You have captured the Gu Hechuan and completed Random Guarding Quest 2.5. Rewarded 500 Guarding EXP.]
[You have 2,100 Construction EXP and 2,000 Guarding EXP. You have fulfilled the requirements for the second fortress expansion. Do you want to expand it immediately?]