Majestic East Sea, endless azure waves.

Waves surge tirelessly, mist billows roll.

Amidst the sea lies an Immortal Island, surrounded by water on all sides, with nine mountaintops resembling dragon heads, ridges like dragon bodies, tails stretching into the water, looking very much like nine dragons gathered together; hence it is called Nine Dragons Island.

The island is shrouded all year round in clouds and mist, with rosy light shining like an Immortal Realm.

Immortal Cranes soar above the peaks, Spiritual Beasts stroll through the valleys.

Countless exotic flowers and rare herbs, ancient trees and strange vines twining around the stems.

Waterfalls cascade straight from the heavens, plunging into the dark emerald depths.

On the water's surface, there are blooming Golden Lotuses; on the shore, ancient trees tower.

Beside the palaces and pavilions among the mountaintop forests, numerous figures can be seen sitting in meditation, inhaling and exhaling, flying and dancing leisurely, like a painting of a mountain view on the Immortal Island.

As twilight darkens, several figures hurriedly converge from all directions into a palace on the mountaintop.

At this moment inside the palace, several Daoists in grey robes are discussing matters, and seated on the foremost cushion is a person in a bright red Daoist robe, hunched over, emaciated as if made of wood, his pale face covered in wrinkles.

To look at him, he's as ghastly as a malevolent spirit.

He is none other than Lv Yue, an elite Jie Sect disciple, famous for his fearsome mastery over the Plague Poison Skill.

Right now, he's frowning intensely, looking at the Daoists who have just entered.

"What is it, any new news?"

"None at the moment."

A gaunt gray-robed Daoist shook his head, "Currently, nobody knows who the person that self-detonated their Primordial Spirit today is... and no one has seen Yu Yuan and his brothers since then."

"Could it be that the one who self-detonated was Yu Yuan?"

Someone in the hall expressed their anxious concern.

"Hard to say."

The gray-robed Daoist spoke solemnly, "I used the Sound Transmission Treasure Pearl to ask those young members of the Dragon Clan. After they were injured by Yu Yuan, someone else attacked Yu Yuan, and then Yu Yuan rushed towards the attacker... and then... someone's Primordial Spirit exploded..."

"It seems that it was either Yu Yuan or the attacker."

Lv Yue nodded at the gray-robed Daoist, "You've worked hard, Brother Li Ping."

Li Ping shook his head, a hint of worry flashing in his eyes, he spoke gravely, "Our initial plot was merely to incite enmity between Yu Yuan and the Dragon Clan, not expecting someone to use the opportunity to attack Yu Yuan...

If something really happened to Yu Yuan, I'm afraid the blame will eventually fall on us!"

"We didn't do it, what is there to be afraid of!"

Lv Yue first let out a cold snort, then turned his gaze to another person, "Brother Zhou Xin, do you have any news?"

Zhou Xin shook his head, speaking with difficulty, "Together with Brother Li Qi, we visited many fellow Daoists. We heard that some unfamiliar faces have recently come to the East Sea, possessing profound Dao Xing, acting mysteriously, and they were also present in the area where we set the trap...

Brother, could they possibly be allies invited by our Long-Eared Brother?

I heard he went to the Heavenly Court for the Peach Banquet more than ten days ago.

Most of our Sect's disciples are waiting to take the Curved Realm Ark tomorrow, but he set off so many days in advance. Could he be intentionally clearing himself of suspicion?"

"Do not make wild guesses and disrupt our own formation."

Lv Yue frowned and said, "This should not be the scheme of our Brother Long Ears. Besides, if it really was his calculation and someone assassinated Yu Yuan, although we might be at fault, it would be unintentional..."

Before he could finish, someone curiously interrupted: "Do you really not wish to kill that Yu Yuan?"

"Of course I want to kill him!"

Lv Yue answered without hesitation: "I can't wait to make him experience all the Plague Poison Skills, turning his entire body into pus and blood, and then use the Soul-devouring Poison to slowly consume his Primordial Spirit... Wait, who was talking just now?"

"Bang!"

With a loud noise, the tall and heavy palace doors shattered, flying into the room.

A towering figure then walked in, with a grey-brown straw stick emitting blue smoke clenched in his mouth, shouting loudly: "Who was it just now that wanted to kill me?"

The immortals in the hall: (｡ŏ_ŏ)(ŎдŎ;)

(ﾟДﾟ#)(;꒪ꈊ꒪;)Σ(ﾟдﾟlll)(╯°Д°)╯∑(O_O;)

Yu Yuan exhaled a puff of smoke, his gaze sweeping over the faces of Lv Yue, Zhou Xin, and others indifferently, "Why are you all silent? Weren't you just chatting so happily?"

"You... How did you get here?"

Lv Yue was the first to recover, interrogating Yu Yuan with an outwardly fierce yet inwardly timorous tone while standing up, a shiny white bone staff appearing in his hand.

With a treasure in hand, he suddenly grew bolder and shouted: "What do you think this place is, that you can just barge in as you please? Fellow apprentices, quickly set up the Plague Huang Formation, let him taste the power of our Plague Technique today!"

Saying that, he slammed the bone staff downward, and circles of faint green light immediately flickered on the ground.

The surrounding Zhou Xin, Li Qi, and six other Daoists also displayed their Divine Skills, each throwing a command flag onto the ground.

In a flash, a great formation spontaneously arose.

Billows of black fog spurted from the ground, enclosing the area tightly in an instant.

Simultaneously, streams of multicolored poisonous gases scrambled out of the formation, infiltrating every crevice as they attacked Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan frowned slightly, watching the single-digit increase on his information panel, and said discontentedly: "Don't you always boast that your Plague Technique has the strongest lethality in the world? Can't you bring out something more powerful?"

Lv Yue and the rest, originally seeing him trapped yet seemingly unaffected, couldn't help feeling secretly alarmed.

But upon hearing his comment, their surprise instantaneously turned into towering rage.

They were all determined to promote the glory of the Plague Technique, how could they allow Yu Yuan to belittle it?

"He's asking for it, we don't need to be polite with him!"

Lv Yue bellowed, his originally small and frail body suddenly swelling several times in size, and manifesting a Divine Skill of becoming Three-headed and Six-armed, one hand holding the Heaven-sealing Seal, another grasping the Plague Bell, one holding the Fixed Form Plague Banner, another wielding the Plague Stopping Sword...

Multiple Spiritual Treasures were activated at once, and various kinds of Plague Poisons swarmed towards Yu Yuan.

Zhou Xin, Li Qi, and the others also each brought out their Spiritual Treasures, their eyes shining fiercely, looking rather vicious.

One took out a constant headache bell and kept striking it; another wielded the Plague Banner, waving it from side to side...

Yet Yu Yuan remained motionless, letting the various Plague Poisons attack him head-on.

But his physical resistance to poison was so high that it was ridiculous, and although the Plague Poisons seemed mighty, they inflicted only negligible damage on Yu Yuan.

He curled his lips, sighing with some disappointment: "It seems you really aren't up to the mark."

"What treasure are you using to protect your body?!"

Being repeatedly told that it was impossible, and coupled with the unexpected failure of his proud Plague Technique, Lv Yue couldn't hold back his boiling rage. All three heads yelled out in unison, while his six arms each grasped a Spiritual Treasure and charged towards Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan didn't indulge him; a Mixed Gold Hammer materialized in his hand and swung directly at him.

"Bang!"

The moment Lv Yue charged forward, he was sent flying into the air, and when he fell back down, he couldn't maintain his three-headed and six-armed form, reverting back to his short and hunched figure.

He curled up on the ground, stuffing Pills into his mouth, filled with regret.

His initial judgment was not wrong at all—

This guy was never someone he could afford to provoke!

And now, the man had come knocking at his door... What was he to do!

On the other side, Yu Yuan threw out the Mixed Gold Hammer, allowing this treasured weapon to smash Zhou Xin, Li Qi, and the others into rolling gourds on the ground, with broken bones and tendons, collapsing and wailing in pain.

With the Array Master no longer in control, the Plague Huang Formation also broke apart on its own.

Yu Yuan exhaled a puff of thick white smoke tinged with a ghostly blue hue, grabbed the Mixed Gold Hammer that returned to his side, and gently weighed it in his hand. His expression was hesitant, as if pondering what to do with these people who had plotted against him.

Lv Yue swallowed hard, his voice trembling.

"You... don't act rashly! Even if we were wrong first, our crimes don't deserve death!"

"Whether you deserve death or not...your word doesn't count..."

Yu Yuan spat out the nearly burnt-out stalk of grass from his mouth onto the ground, then reached out and pulled out the Qiankun Ruyi Bag, covering Lv Yue and the others with it, while grumpily saying:

"I still have a banquet to attend in the Heavenly Court. You guys just stay inside quietly. After the Peach Banquet is over, we can settle our accounts!"

Lv Yue and the others had no power to resist. Once captured in the Qiankun Ruyi Bag, they felt the world spinning and their Primordial Spirits felt drowsy.

It was unknown how long it took before they gradually regained their senses.

Inside the Qiankun Ruyi Bag was a small world, spanning thousands of miles, but it was divided into two utterly different areas.

One for storing items, and the other for imprisoning people.

The former was spacious and bright, while the latter narrow and dark.

Naturally, Lv Yue and the others were in the area meant for imprisoning people.

Fortunately, their Primordial Spirits were not sealed, so they could use their Divine Thoughts to inspect their surroundings.

Thus, they quickly understood the environment around them.

This was a cage-like area, approximately ten miles in circumference.

In all directions there seemed to be invisible barriers, firmly trapping them inside.

The group had also tried to break through this barrier, but as soon as they made a move, a large hand threw a hammer inside, frightening them from daring to make any further moves.

"What do we do?"

"It seems that Yu Yuan really plans to kill us!"

"If we had known, we would not have provoked him... Alas, when he killed Ma Yuan, I said we couldn't afford to provoke him, and you would not listen!"

"What's the use of saying this now, we need to find a way to escape!"

"Easier said than done, with that big hammer watching over us, how can we escape?"

"..."

The group argued back and forth, and it wasn't long before they dispersed.

At that moment, Zhou Xin, who was planning to explore the boundaries of the cage, suddenly noticed a pile of stuff.

"Look, what is that?"

"It looks like a pile of random things."

The rest also sent out their Divine Thoughts to "look", seeing that it was indeed a bunch of miscellaneous items.

There were dusty armors, palm-sized straw dolls, and battered weapons...

"Hey, there's a scroll here…" Lv Yue reached out, and the scroll flew into his hands.

He quickly "looked" at it and suddenly his face changed, excitedly saying: "This is the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book! This records a very powerful Curse Killing Technique!"

"Let me see... To perform this technique, you need the Sangzhi Bow, peach wood arrows, and a straw doll..."

"The straw doll, there was one just now! And it has 'Qi Zhongjun' written on it... This is Yu Yuan's straw doll!"

"Here are the Sangzhi Bow and peach wood arrows as well!"

"I understand now!"

Lv Yue's eyes lit up as he transmitted to the others: "I heard that when Yu Yuan fought for the Chaos Bell in Eastern Emperor Heaven, he was ambushed by the Golden Crow Crown Prince with the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book and was almost killed on the spot. It was only because Yun Zhongzi gave him a Nine Revolutions Golden Pill that he was saved!"

Zhou Qi also transmitted excitedly: "Who would have thought he'd throw such a treasure here as ordinary rubbish? Now, we are saved!"

"That's right!"

Lv Yue transmitted: "As long as we build an Altar, and then light an oil lamp above and below the straw doll's head, according to the method written in the book, we seal with hand gestures and traverse the Big Dipper, three times a day, burning incense and bowing... In a few days, he will be weakened, restless in thoughts…

By then, his life will be in our hands, and he will surely comply with us!

Not only will he let us out, but if we want him to bow his head and apologize to us, it won't be difficult either!"

"That's true, however..." Li Ping said hesitantly: "If we use this Curse Killing Technique against him, wouldn't it be like plotting to murder a fellow sect member?"

"We are just scaring him, not really trying to kill him!"

"He's trying to kill us, we are just defending ourselves!"

"At a time like this and you're still so timid!"

"..."

Seeing that all his senior brothers supported using the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book, Li Ping could only nod his head.

With their mana still intact, they quickly built an Altar, lit the oil lamps, and began to seal with hand gestures and traverse the Big Dipper according to the method in the Nail-Head Book...

Meanwhile, Yu Yuan, who was rushing towards the Heavenly Court, had a thought.

The next instant, the transparent interface in front of him suddenly started rapidly flashing with rows of numbers.

"Very good."

Yu Yuan couldn't help but grin from ear to ear.

"The Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book is finally being put to good use."

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