This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable-Chapter 670 - 16 The Fire Thief_2

Chapter 670: Chapter 16 The Fire Thief_2

The villagers immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time they started to worry again.

It must really be Netherfire, right?

“Where is this volcano where you discovered traces of Netherfire?” Senior Cultivator asked Mixiu in a gentle tone.

Mixiu quickly became flustered, gesticulating wildly, and in his agitation, his face turned beet red.

The Senior Cultivators of the Pan Sect, on the other hand, were in no rush, listening patiently and calmly to Mixiu’s words.

…..

Upon learning the specific location where the Netherfire appeared, the three Senior Cultivators of the Pan Sect set off once again.

What was half a day’s journey for Mixiu was but a moment for the three Cultivators.

When they arrived near the small volcano, the leader among the three Cultivators, a practitioner of the Five Fires, felt moved, “Indeed, there are remnants of Netherfire here; it seems those foolish commoners haven’t spoken nonsense after all.”

The Five Fires practitioner was one of the Deputy Sect Masters of the Pan Sect, a two-patterned Void Refining Cultivator with a profound understanding of Netherfire. Since he had sensed the aura of Netherfire, it became certain that Netherfire existed here.

Another one-patterned Void Refining Cultivator of the Pan Sect, the Three Fires practitioner, also showed joy, “If we bring this Red Lotus Fire back to the sect and integrate it with the Holy Fire, the power of the Holy Fire will surely reach a new level.”

Netherfire is a ferocious thing, not something that just anyone could capture easily.

Therefore, the Cultivators sent by the Pan Sect this time were all skilled fighters, uniformly Void Refining Cultivators.

The last Cultivator of the Pan Sect, the Four Fires practitioner, suddenly pointed to the top of the volcano and shouted, “Look there!”

Everyone followed where the Four Fires practitioner pointed and saw a flash of red light at the summit.

They hadn’t seen its shape clearly, but what else could it be if not Netherfire in such a place?

Excitement surged in their hearts, and they couldn’t wait to rush up to the summit.

After a short while, at a turn, they saw a cluster of red, high-temperature flames entering their vision.

“Found you, my precious treasure!” the Five Fires practitioner exclaimed excitedly.

No sooner had he spoken than he felt an intense, piercing pain in his head, as if something had slashed his spirit with a sword out of thin air.

Before he could recover from the searing pain in his mind, his physical body also felt a heart-wrenching pain.

An unimaginable sharpness easily broke through his Protective Magical Artifact and penetrated his body.

As his consciousness was fading away, the Five Fires practitioner vaguely saw three figures appearing not far from him.

“A trap?” This was his last thought.

On the other hand, the Four Fires practitioner and the Three Fires practitioner were in similarly dire straits.

Two streaks of Thunder-Fire almost simultaneously passed through the center of their brows.

“What a skillful move, Brother Lu!” Mo Yan, who had just appeared, watched as three Flying Swords and one Heart Sword transformed into four streams of rainbow light and returned to Lu Qingshan’s body, unconsciously voicing his approval.

It was impressive not because he killed three Void Refining Cultivators but because he did it instantly.

Dantai Qingrun, however, was calm and even felt a strange sense of superiority—Is this a skillful move? You haven’t seen his best moves…

Lu Qingshan remained silent with a smile.

For him, killing these Dharma Cultivators, who were mediocre in strength and had most of their attention captured by the Netherfire, was too easy to be considered praiseworthy.

“What do we do next?” After Mo Yan burned the three corpses to ashes with Netherfire, Dantai Qingrun asked with furrowed brows.

“We keep waiting. They will bring the treasures to us on their own,” Lu Qingshan said with confidence.

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Pan Sect.

The junior Sect Cultivator responsible for watching over the Soul Lamps entered the Soul Lamp Hall as usual, his gaze sweeping over the hanging Soul Lamps during the routine check.

The Pan Sect wasn’t like the Sword Sect and other big Sects, which could light a Soul Lamp for every disciple.

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So the Soul Lamps hanging in this hall belonged to the Cultivators with the highest Cultivation in the Sect.

These Cultivators were all wise and old, not like the hot-blooded young disciples who caused troubles everywhere. Therefore, the junior watching over the Soul Lamp Hall for over a decade had never experienced any incidents and had grown somewhat numb to it.

But today, his numb routine was injected with spirit and his life brightened by a sliver of excitement.

In the hall where a total of nine Soul Lamps hung, shockingly three of them extinguished all at once…

The junior was at first stunned, disbelieving, and after a moment, having realized what had happened, he stumbled over himself, crying to report the situation to the higher-ups of the Sect.

Such is human nature, always complaining about life being too mundane, yet when excitement strikes, they often can’t handle it.

…

Half an hour later.

The central hall of the Pan Sect was now full of Void Refining Senior Cultivators in charge of the Sect.

They were discussing the extinguishing of the Soul Lamps of the Three Fires practitioner, Four Fires practitioner, and Five Fires practitioner.

“Did you get to the bottom of it?” the Sect Master of the Pan Sect, the Nine Fires practitioner, asked in a raspy and irritable voice.

“We did. The three junior brothers got the message from below that someone had discovered traces of Netherfire, so they went themselves to capture it.

Shortly thereafter the Soul Lamps flickered out, which clearly indicates an accident occurred while they were trying to capture the Netherfire.” Six Fires practitioner said solemnly.

“Is it a natural disaster or man-made mischief?” muttered the Nine Fires practitioner.

“So far, we cannot be completely certain,” Six Fires practitioner frowned tightly, speaking in a low tone, “But Sect Leader, if this is a natural disaster, it means that the newly discovered Netherfire is unimaginably powerful, so much so that even the combinations of Five Fires’ strength could not withstand it and they perished under its power!”