Published: February 25, 2025
“Yizhong, why are you in such a hurry to find me?”
Hao Kong laughed heartily in the grand hall.
After a great victory against the enemy army, he seemed quite cheerful, but in reality, he was not.
This time, the enemy forces, whether their generals or immortal soldiers, seemed rather weak.
Because this time, alongside General Xuanyuan, there were also eight other great generals, and the nine routes of the immortal army all achieved great victories!
At this moment, Xuan Yuan Hao Kong felt a hint of unease—was it that the enemy's strength was too weak, or was there some other plot?
However, he could not find any clues.
Zhang Yizhong respectfully said, “Reporting to the Master, Tan Yun has encountered an incident; he is probably dead.”
“Tan Yun?” Xuan Yuan Hao Kong raised his eyebrows in surprise, “Isn’t he the little guy I let into the city over a year ago?”
“Yes, Master.” Zhang Yizhong sighed and then relayed how Tan Yun had established the Four Arts Heavenly Pavilion and astonishingly refined the supreme Punishment Immortal Pill, as well as how he had defeated Duan Tiande, who was in the fourth level of the refining immortal realm, on the Life and Death Immortal Platform.
Xuan Yuan Hao Kong shook his head and sighed, “A once-in-a-millennium genius, it’s truly a shame he’s dead!”
“If he had listened to my advice and come to my military camp, he wouldn’t have met such a tragic end!”
“Moreover, this matter ends here. We cannot splinter our relationship with Sima Yongzheng just to investigate who killed Tan Yun.”
“You must understand, Sima Yongzheng’s subordinates are brave and skilled in battle; they are the golden army of our Xuan Yuan Immortal City.”
“Furthermore, one-third of Xuan Yuan Immortal City belongs to the Sima family.”
“We will investigate the mastermind behind Tan Yun’s death, but not now. Even though we have achieved continuous victories, I feel there is trickery involved. If there is a split within our military camp, Xuan Yuan Immortal City will fall apart, and the enemy will collapse without a fight!”
Hearing this, Zhang Yizhong nodded, then his expression turned unwilling as he said, “Master, there’s one thing I must mention; please don’t be angry.”
“Speak,” Xuan Yuan Hao Kong replied, puzzled.
“Actually…” Zhang Yizhong hesitated, “If Tan Yun had not died, the strength of your subordinates’ immortal soldiers, the Major General, and Vice General would have significantly increased. Overall, their strength could easily surpass that of Sima’s general’s subordinates!”
“What do you mean by that?” Xuan Yuan Hao Kong asked curiously.
“Master, you may not know,” Zhang Yizhong explained, “Tan Yun had agreed to provide your subordinates with the supreme Punishment Immortal Pill for free.”
“Tan Yun can not only refine the supreme Punishment Immortal Pill that the Alchemical Refinement Guild cannot produce, but he can also refine the supreme Immortal Elixir!”
“Just think, if we can persuade Tan Yun to provide the supreme Immortal Elixir for the Major General and Vice General of your team, your Xuan Yuan army would undoubtedly become a true golden immortal army!”
Upon hearing this, Xuan Yuan Hao Kong suddenly stood up from his chair. His wrinkled fists clenched tightly, creaking as he thought about how the overall strength of his subordinates would vanish into thin air. His rage was palpable!
“I’m furious!” Xuan Yuan Hao Kong shouted, “When the City Lord finishes his seclusion, I will definitely have the City Lord take charge and thoroughly investigate Tan Yun’s death!”
“I, Xuan Yuan Hao Kong, will not rest until the murderer and the mastermind behind this are brought to justice!”
At the same time, in the outer city, within the forest's cave dwelling.
Inside the cave stood the supreme Temporal-Spatial Holy Tower.
In the sixty-sixth layer of the tower, Tan Yun had spent over three thousand five hundred years.
Every hundred years, Tan Yun refined ten thousand furnaces of supreme Punishment Immortal Pills, each furnace containing sixty-four types of alchemical techniques, resulting in sixty-four pills per furnace.