Chapter 46 The Collapse of the Immortal Alliance

Immortal Alliance.

"The Void Grand Array has been broken! How is this possible?" An elder stared in disbelief at the array disappearing into the sky and the familiar dark shadows flying in one after another. "It's the Heavenly Puppets! How could our Heavenly Puppets turn around and attack us?"

"Quick! Channel the immortal artifacts to control these Heavenly Puppets!" Alliance Leader Luo Ying shouted urgently, his hands continuously casting incantations toward the disc-shaped magical artifact in the center.

More than a dozen other elders also quickly mobilized their spiritual power, jointly casting control spells upon the central artifact.

However, it was of no use!

The Heavenly Puppets in the sky showed not the slightest hesitation. Upon charging into the Immortal Alliance, they began an indiscriminate assault. While previously they merely summoned faint blue light blades on their arms, all twelve Heavenly Puppets were now glowing entirely with a bright blue light, with three pairs of wing-like blue light appendages sprouting from their backs. As these light wings flayed, multiple beams of blue light rained down, blasting vast areas of halls into ruins.

For a time, the thunderous rumbling was endless. Before long, the entire Immortal Alliance would be reduced to a pile of rubble.

"How could this happen?!" The elders of the Immortal Alliance were dumbfounded, and Luo Ying found it even harder to believe everything unfolding before him. "Keep channeling the artifact to control the Heavenly Puppets!" These Heavenly Puppets were clearly their trump card; why had they rebelled? No, he refused to believe the Xuantian Sect possessed such strength.

"Alliance Leader, these Heavenly Puppets are completely out of control. The Xuantian Sect must have used some supreme treasure," an elder said in despair.

"How can this be possible!" Luo Ying still refused to believe it. "For thousands of years, only the artifact in our hands could control the Heavenly Puppets. How could they go out of control?"

Yet, no matter how desperately they channeled the disc, the Heavenly Puppets in the sky showed no intention of stopping. Indeed, due to their frantic channeling, cracks were already spreading across the disc, as if it were about to shatter at any moment.

In truth, that disc could indeed control the spiritual energy robots, but they did not know that all creations from Blue Star had authority levels, and that disc held only the most basic permissions. The order to attack the Immortal Alliance had been issued by Qiu Ci, who possessed the highest authority, so their commands naturally became invalid.

"Alliance Leader, it's too late!" An elder looked up at the Heavenly Puppets flying toward them, stopped pinching his hand seals, and found himself completely devoid of any will to resist.

No one understood how powerful these Heavenly Puppets were better than they did, having always treated them as their trump card. These were entities that even Void Transformation stage cultivators might not be able to defeat, yet now they were launching a full-scale assault against them.

The Immortal Alliance was finished!

"How could it come to this..." Luo Ying's expression was also ashen. Just moments ago, the situation was looking exceptionally favorable; they were about to wipe out the Xuantian Sect and those exotic beasts in one fell swoop. They would soon discover what the Xuantian Sect had obtained from the forbidden area, and they could eliminate the threat of the exotic beasts as well. By then, no one in the Immortal Alliance could have stopped them.

Yet why, in less than half a quarter of an hour, had the tables completely turned?!

Rumble...

When the Xuantian Sect and the exotic beasts flew into the Immortal Alliance, this was the scene that greeted them: billowing smoke and ubiquitous ruins. Those Immortal Alliance disciples who were once so high and mighty, looking down their noses at everyone else, were now scattered everywhere, lying on the ground and wailing, completely stripped of any combat capability.

The members who had prepared to fight to the death: "..."

Was the battle over just like that? How long had it even been? Less than two minutes, right? They had flown in just a fraction slower than those Heavenly Puppets, and the fight was already over?

[Master, master! I detect a massive surge in spiritual energy; there should be a spiritual vein here, but... it seems somewhat incomplete!]

"A spiritual vein!" Qiu Ci frowned slightly. Unless a spiritual vein was deliberately severed, it would not exhibit signs of incompleteness.

She suddenly thought of the missing spiritual vein within Beast City. Could it be...

"Young Master!" Bo Shi, who had been floating along behind them, suddenly widened his eyes, his entire spirit stirring with excitement. "It's the Young Master's aura! Here... the Young Master's aura is everywhere here. He must be around!"

He anxiously spun around in a wide circle, yet failed to discern the exact direction. With no other choice, he looked pleadingly at Qiu Ci, "Immortal..."

"Calm yourself first!" She hurriedly slapped a Soul-Stabilizing Spell onto it, steadying its increasingly faint lingering soul. If it kept spinning like that, its soul truly would scatter into nothingness.

Qiu Ci did not dawdle and directly commanded in her mind, "System, scan the entire Immortal Alliance!"

[Beep. Deep scanning in progress...]

A small ball of light flickered, and a wave of energy instantly rippled across the entire Immortal Alliance, yielding results almost immediately.

[Scan complete. Hidden secret realm space discovered.]

A three-dimensional holographic map instantly appeared before Qiu Ci's eyes, depicting the exact layout of the Immortal Alliance, with an eye-catching red dot thoughtfully marked on the middle-right side.

Without hesitation, she flew directly toward the marked location. Upon arrival, she realized this was the main hall of the Immortal Alliance.

Luo Ying and the other Nascent Soul elders of the Immortal Alliance were lying on the ground. These individuals were clearly severely injured, with not a single clean spot on their bodies. Those covered in bone-deep lacerations were considered lucky; many others were missing arms and legs.

Upon closer inspection of those somewhat scorched wounds, one could easily deduce what had caused them. Several spiritual energy robots were parked not far away, having already returned to standby mode. Qi Hong and the others were also present, surrounding the elders of the Immortal Alliance with vigilance in their eyes.

The reason these people were still alive was that Qiu Ci had temporarily instructed them to be left alive, preventing the spiritual energy robots from destroying them entirely.

"Your Xuantian Sect dares to attack the Immortal Alliance! Aren't you afraid that the other immortal sects will rise up in unison against you?" Despite their injuries, they still glared resentfully at the group.

Qi Hong let out a cold snort and rolled his eyes directly. "Rise up then. It's not like it hasn't happened before. Do you really think our Xuantian Sect is scared?"

The crowd grew even more indignant. Meanwhile, Luo Ying on the other side refused to give up and demanded persistently, "Where on earth did you obtain the control technique? Why are you able to control the Heavenly Puppets of the Immortal Alliance?"

"The Heavenly Puppets of the Immortal Alliance?" Qiu Ci, who was just about to walk past, paused in her tracks. She couldn't help but point at those spiritual energy robots in refutation, "You merely stole some low-level permissions; when did they become the private property of the Immortal Alliance?" She, the sole heir, hadn't even spoken yet!

"What do you mean?" Luo Ying's expression shifted, and he glared at her, demanding, "What permissions?"

"Didn't you understand?" Qiu Ci couldn't be bothered to bicker with him and directly exposed the truth, "Those so-called immortal artifacts in your hands, and these... Heavenly Puppets, weren't crafted by you at all, were they? You simply discovered them elsewhere and managed to use them through some special means."

"How could you..." He blurted out, but instantly stopped himself.

"How do I know?" Qiu Ci seamlessly continued, "Because these are all products of my clan. Of course I know everything about my own belongings."

"No! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Realizing something, Luo Ying widened his eyes abruptly and stared at her in disbelief. "These were clearly... No, that's just a legend! How could such an existence truly exist in this world?"

"Why couldn't they? Didn't you use them yourselves?" She gestured toward the spiritual energy robots.

Luo Ying's face turned instantly pale, and he finally awakened to the reality. "You... you are of the God Clan!"

"..." What on earth is the God Clan? Isn't this Blue Star?

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