Chapter 1296: Chapter 792: Before the Sky Punishment Platform, the Evil Demon Finally Appears!

In the Heavenly Prison, the Five Treasure Taoist had chains of magical treasure hooked to his shoulders, his appearance withered.

His aura was incredibly weak, barely maintaining a thread of Vitality.

Hearing footsteps from outside, the Five Treasure Taoist slightly lifted his head.

He knew that it should be the time of execution as mentioned by that person yesterday.

Thinking of the terrifying figure from yesterday that had implanted a restriction in his body, the Five Treasure Taoist felt even more despair.

"Finding life in a desperate situation, surviving a great disaster...do I really have a chance to last until that moment?"

He recalled the divination he performed on himself before being captured.

The hexagram showed then was precisely finding life in a desperate situation, surviving a great disaster.

It was that reading that had allowed him to endure in this sunless and dayless Holy Alliance Heavenly Prison for so many years.

But soon his execution time would come, and in his body was the restriction from that terrifying figure.

He couldn’t see where his vitality lay.

Could it be, his hexagram was wrong?

In despair, the Five Treasure Taoist felt himself grabbed by the iron chains and lifted, sharp pain coming from his shoulders, yet his face showed little change, and he didn’t struggle at all.

This pain, he had long grown numb to it.

The chains on his shoulders were a pernicious type of magical treasure that not only sealed all his mana but also emitted a sinister energy from time to time, tormenting his Physical Body and Heart and Spirit.

Compared to the torment endured over these years, the pain in his shoulders was virtually negligible.

After being taken out of the cell, he felt darkness before his eyes, surrounded by emptiness, unable to sense anything.

He understood that he was probably placed inside some kind of Space Treasure.

There was nothing he could do about it, only the despair in his heart grew larger.

"Is it about to start?"

In an inn, Lu Qing, sitting cross-legged on the bed concentrating, opened his eyes.

He had sensed the noise swelling outside, many cultivators starting to head outside the city.

Estimating the time, it was close, so he left the room, following the crowd to the outskirts of the city.

According to the notice, the execution site was called the Sky Punishment Platform.

It was a platform the Holy Alliance used specifically to execute and punish heinous criminals beyond forgiveness.

It was located on a protruding cliff of the Heavenly Saint Peak, surrounded by a blackened layer.

Rumors claimed it was stained by the blood of these evil criminals.

Lu Qing followed the crowd to the base of the Sky Punishment Platform, looking up.

The platform was several miles away, but those who came to watch the spectacle were at least in the Golden Core Realm.

Such a distance was no problem for them; they could see everything clearly.

There were already many gathered below, although the time had not yet arrived.

Just the number of those in the Golden Core Realm was in the thousands, and there were quite a few in the Primordial Spirit Realm, not to mention the cultivators still on their way.

This Great World, with its legacy spanning unknown millennia, was indeed profoundly resilient.

The numbers of those in the Golden Core and Primordial Spirit Realms far surpassed those in medium and small worlds.

Lu Qing, keeping a low profile, hid among the crowd.

He could sense numerous powerful auras within the Heavenly Saint Peak.

Around him, as well, many formidable presences lay hidden in ambush.

Just those above the Primordial Spirit Five Tribulations numbered in the dozens.

And those above the Five Tribulations were not few.

He even vaguely sensed two elusive, unfathomable auras.

Auras so elusive even for someone like him, at the Primordial Spirit Eight Tribulations, surely could only belong to the Nine Tribulations of Primordial Spirit.

"They’ve summoned the top cultivators of the Human Race back, truly giving me quite a lot of importance."

Lu Qing was acutely aware of his surroundings.

Although he had just entered the Primordial Spirit Eight Tribulations, what he refined was the Perfect Primordial Spirit, fundamentally on a different level from ordinary Primordial Spirits.

His Primordial Spirit had already evolved into a mysteriously unfathomable state.

Thus, although the auras of those in the Primordial Spirit Realm were well-concealed, they could not evade his perception.

Nevertheless, Lu Qing did not raise an alarm but instead quietly awaited noon.

"Elder Ce, how about it, can you discern if that Evil Demon is hiding among them?"

On Heavenly Saint Peak, Lei Tian asked an elderly man dressed in an Eight Diagrams Taoist Robe.

The Eight Diagrams Elder held a Treasure Mirror showing the various assembled cultivators at the foot of the mountain.

Among them was Lu Qing’s figure prominently displayed.

Yet after deducing with his Heart and Spirit in the Treasure Mirror, the Eight Diagrams Robe Elder called Elder Ce shook his head.

"The cultivators below, although some have used treasures to change their aura, the Heaven Patrol Mirror did not detect the presence of the Evil Demon."

"According to our information, that Evil Demon is extremely good at changing their aura; it’s normal not to detect anything, Elder Ce, don’t be discouraged."

Although Lei Tian felt some disappointment upon hearing this, he didn’t show it but instead comforted the other.

"Master Lei, theoretically, even the disguise of a Supreme Demon Venerable at the Nine Tribulations of Primordial Spirit wouldn’t escape the Heaven Patrol Mirror’s detection; perhaps the Evil Demon really isn’t below."

Elder Ce thought a moment, choosing to caution nonetheless.

"In any case, we must not be careless," Lei Tian said sternly. "The Evil Demon is an anomaly, possessing skills beyond our prediction is also normal."

Elder Ce shivered inwardly and quickly agreed.

These days, through various means, Lei Tian was increasingly gaining influence within the Holy Alliance, his authority growing stronger.

Even his words exuded a sense of majesty.

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