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"If Gu Yue is still alive, where would he be?"

Qingluan Immortal Monarch's words greatly surprised Lin Chen.

Gu Yue is not dead, which might be the best news for Qi Jie. If I could rescue Gu Yue, it would be a way to repay Qi Jie.

Qingluan Immortal Monarch shook his head: "Gu Yue is very important. If Sea Burning Immortal Monarch still has him, he must be imprisoned in his magical treasure, the Void Pearl."

"Void Pearl?"

Qingluan Immortal Monarch replied: "The Void Pearl, like the Heavenly Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Tower, contains an entire world within. Or rather, the Void Pearl was refined from an entire realm, hiding Gu Yue within, never to be found by anyone."

Lin Chen responded: "Like your personal secret realm?"

Qingluan Immortal Monarch smiled bitterly: "Similar, but the Void Pearl is more advanced because the entire world has been refined into a magical treasure, easy to carry around, much better than a secret realm."

Lin Chen asked: "Is there a secret in your secret realm? How to get inside?"

Qingluan Immortal Monarch explained its usage. Knowing so many secrets, he knew Lin Chen wouldn't let him go. If he didn't speak, he'd face the Soul Search and still end up revealing everything. In that case, why suffer unnecessarily?

The activation of the personal secret realm is similar to Qiqiao Hall; a token is the key to the secret realm. Only with this token can one enter or exit. Otherwise, even Qingluan Immortal Monarch himself cannot force his way in.

There's one restriction for opening the personal secret realm; it can only be opened in the Immortal Realm. It can't be opened in the Cosmic Star Sea or the Demon World.

The personal secret realm contains many good things, high-level Immortal Medicines, rare Immortal Beasts, etc., but these are no longer useful to Lin Chen now.

To be precise, not only Qingluan Immortal Monarch's personal secret realm, but the entire Immortal and Demon Worlds have very little that can aid Lin Chen's cultivation.

"Are you going to deal with Sea Burning Immortal Monarch?"

Lin Chen smiled faintly: "Since he took action against Gu Yue, and Gu Yue is still in his hands, dealing with him is inevitable."

"Good! Good!"

Qingluan Immortal Monarch laughed madly: "You have Lord Charm Erosion helping you. To deal with Sea Burning is as easy as pie. Unbelievable, Master's three direct disciples, two of them ended up dead by your hands!"

Lin Chen shrugged: "At least I saved one."

Qingluan Immortal Monarch snorted coldly: "He's really lucky! Back then, I thought he was doomed, yet you brutally brought him back!"

"With me and Sea Burning dead, Master will only have Qi Se as a disciple. The position of Saint will fall right into his lap without competition."

Lin Chen laughed: "Those who befriend me usually have good luck, but my enemies, not so much."

Qingluan Immortal Monarch asked unwillingly: "Can you spare my life? You can control my life with any means, making sure I can't speak out. After all, I'm also the Immortal Emperor's direct disciple. Besides my strength, this identity is very useful."

Lin Chen chuckled lightly: "Don't worry, I won't kill you for now. Just stay at ease inside the tower."

Lin Chen is worried that killing Qingluan Immortal Monarch might trigger some prohibition left on him by the Immortal Emperor. Though Charm Erosion could handle it, even if something goes wrong, Charm Erosion could escape without implicating Lin Chen. However, imprisoning Qingluan Immortal Monarch inside the Linglong Tower is also a feasible way.

The Linglong Tower can isolate all detection and sensing. Inside and outside the tower are two different worlds. It was tested before; even the Demon Emperor couldn't sense those hiding inside the tower. By the same logic, neither could the Immortal Emperor.

The Linglong Tower scattered golden light, bringing Qingluan Immortal Monarch inside the tower.

Qingluan Immortal Monarch was sealed by Lord Charm Erosion, unable to cast even the simplest spell. Trapped inside the Linglong Tower, there's no worry that he could cause any trouble.

Inside the Linglong Tower, Qi is a divine spirit!

Now Lin Chen is a Quasi-Saint, powerful in strength. With his power and Qi's ability to freely manipulate the Tower World, even if Qingluan Immortal Monarch's power wasn't sealed, suppressing him wouldn't be too difficult.

In the Linglong Tower, Qi learned the truth about Gu Yue's attack and the possibility that he might still be alive, leaving her full of joy.

"Lin Chen, thank you! Finally, we know the truth of those years!"

Lin Chen comforted her: "I will find an opportunity to strike at Sea Burning soon."

Qi nodded joyfully. Now with Lord Charm Erosion's help, she no longer needed to worry about Lin Chen, afraid that his pursuit of the truth would attract attention and leave him defenseless. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novelFirｅ.net

"The Immortal Emperor chose Qingluan Immortal Monarch as his protégé, but now Qingluan has disappeared. This plan will have to be temporarily shelved. We don't need to worry too much."

Lin Chen laughed: "With Qingluan Immortal Monarch gone, they will investigate. I'd better temporarily return to the Crimson Immortal Domain camp to lay low."

As the Immortal Emperor's disciple, Qingluan Immortal Monarch being taken away by the impostor Shepherd Heavenly Monarch will undoubtedly be personally investigated by the Immortal Emperor. He might also increase surveillance on Qi Se Immortal Monarch and Sea Burning Immortal Monarch. Acting now would be too risky.

Lin Chen no longer sought out Chu Jiaxue and Nalan Wushuang. He directly teleported back to the Immortal Demon Boundary, crossed the boundary between the two realms, and then instantly returned to the Crimson Immortal Domain camp, back to his closed-door cultivation room.

Lin Chen walked out of the room and was immediately discovered by three women.

"How did it go, was it successful?"

Lin Chen recounted what happened to the three women, who were all astonished and moved.

"Who could have thought the Immortal Emperor's direct disciples would fight so fiercely, using infiltrators and borrowing assassination, so ruthless."

"Sea Burning Immortal Monarch is not a good person either!"

Lin Chen laughed and said: "No Mercy in the Cultivation World, where's the absolute good? After all, the Immortal Path is all about resource plundering; hasn't everyone climbed up over the corpses of others?"

Yao Xuanji sighed: "With Qingluan Immortal Monarch in trouble, a storm might be coming."

Lin Chen nodded: "Let them investigate, it wasn't me who acted, I'm not afraid of their investigation."

Shang Wenyin asked: "When will you strike at Sea Burning?"

"No rush."

Lin Chen laughed: "It's already been so long, a bit more time won't matter. Let's take it slowly and ensure we find a safe point to strike. After all, their backers are Saints. These survival methods come one after another, we can't be careless, it'd be exposed otherwise. We must be cautious."

"For now, let's not worry, let's just continue as before, doing what we should..."

The three women's predictions were correct. When the Five Saints of the Crimson Demon Domain, leading many Quasi-Saints, efficiently destroyed a purple crystal and all surrounding demons, making camp once again, the Immortal Emperor received the report that Shepherd Heavenly Monarch appeared and took Qingluan Immortal Monarch away.

The Immortal Emperor frowned: "Shepherd Heavenly Monarch came, where did he take Qingluan?"