The Immortal Emperor Returns Chapter 279 - Suppressing the Subterranean Devils Clan

Chapter 279 Suppressing the Subterranean Devils Clan!

The next day.
Yue Fandie and Chu Xun arrived at the Tetrarchy Hall.
They got ready to activate the Tetrarchy Cauldron and refine pills.
Yue Fandie had issued an undefinable order, barring anyone from approaching the Tetrarchy Hall.
“Brother, nothing’s going to happen, right?” He was still worried as the Tetrarchy Cauldron was the only object suppressing the Subterranean Devils Clan.
Chu Xun chuckled. “Just relax!”
He then started laying down a magic formation.
He had prepared all the materials needed for the pill refinement last night.
Rumble!
The magic formation was complete. As Chu Xun performed hand seals, a surging light curtain began to envelop the entire hall.
He stepped forward and approached the Tetrarchy Cauldron while performing seals with one hand. Immortal Qi gathered around him until a brilliant purple flame appeared in his palm, bringing with it a sweltering heat.
That was the Violet Underworld Flame, a magic technique from the Hong Meng Scripture.
“Go!”
Chu Xun cried softly, and the Violet Underworld Flame surged. The flame turned into a fire dragon and entered the cauldron from the bottom.
Suddenly, the raging Violet Underworld Flame surged with incredible power and began to burn the Tetrarchy Cauldron.
Rumble!
The cauldron shook and trembled with what appeared to be excitement.
Yue Fandie had retreated to a corner of the hall. The Violet Underworld Flame was so amazingly hot that even he felt uncomfortable.
The flame continued to pour out of Chu Xun’s palm and jet into the bottom of the cauldron. The terrifying heat warped the air around him, causing crackling explosions.
After burning for more than an hour in this way, a change began appearing on the cauldron.
Rumble!
The cauldron started emitting a brilliant light. The sculptures of mythological beasts in the hall began to swim around the cauldron, looking like they had come to life.
Chu Xun turned his hand and poured an even more violent flame into the bottom of the cauldron.
Swoosh!
An intense light burst out of the cauldron and illuminated the entire hall.
As the cries of dragons, tigers, birds, and turtles resounded, a huge shadow appeared all of a sudden and leaped on the cauldron.
Chu Xun turned his hand, took out a golden middle-grade Celestial-eyed Elixir Grass, and threw it into the cauldron.
Clack!
The elixir grass started changing as soon as it hit the cauldron and swiftly turned into ashes, leaving behind only a drop of golden essence.
Chu Xun was overjoyed. The cauldron was of indecipherably high quality! It even possessed the consciousness to strip away the dross and zero in on the essence.
He turned his hand again and threw in seven blades of spiritual herbs. Instantly, only seven drops of liquid essence remained. They glowed with a brilliant golden hue.
This left Chu Xun ecstatic. He raised his hand and poured a magic signet into the cauldron. The cauldron’s glow became even brighter.
One after another, many spiritual elixirs and spiritual herbs were thrown into the cauldron for refinement, so he could retrieve their essence. Drops of golden essence swam at the bottom of the cauldron.
He dared not drop his guard. Raising his hand, he produced a few more magic signets and pushed them into the cauldron.
He was using pill signets. Pill refinement was no easy matter. He had to control the fire just right. Besides having a prescription, he needed to understand pill signets or more precisely, pill refinement techniques.
Boom!
Purple Immortal Qi swirled around Chu Xun as an even more turbulent Violet Underworld Flame poured into the bottom of the cauldron.
The drops of golden liquid were merely the essence of the blades of elixir grass and were not pure enough. He had to refine them further.
Chu Xun wore a grim expression as he carefully controlled the flame. Sweat was beginning to gather on his forehead.
Half an hour later, the golden liquid appeared purer without any trace of dross.
Chu Xun flipped his hand and took out a small piece of dark wood, a remnant of the Lightning-struck Wood from a previous refinement session.
He tossed the Lightning-struck Wood into the cauldron and instantly, electricity sizzled and crackled within.
Bang!
All of a sudden, the ground shook with force.
Chun Xun’s expression turned increasingly solemn. Meanwhile, Yue Fandie had appeared beside him in a flash.
There was a movement in the Subterranean Devils Clan.
Chu Xun was staring with fervent sights as he controlled the flame. His divine sense was spreading out and penetrating the ground at the same time.
It was dangerous to be distracted while controlling the fire. One careless move and he would suffer a backlash.
His divine sense spread down as deep as several kilometers.
A sledgehammer as black as ink appeared, bringing with it a surging demonic power that bombarded the purple light that permeated the surroundings without stopping.
Bang!
The sledgehammer swung at a beam of purple light, producing a brilliant flash and a loud crackling noise. The purple light exploded and was swiftly swallowed by the foul aura.
After careful observation, Chu Xun realized that the cauldron was suppressing the Subterranean Devils Clan underground with the help of his Hong Meng Immortal Qi.
The few floating purple lights in the air sunk into the ground, heading towards the depths of the earth.
Bang! Bang!
The sledgehammer continued its bombardment. The billowing foul aura intercepted and then imploded all the purple lights.
Seeing this, Chu Xun immediately raised his hand and poured his majestic Hong Meng Immortal Qi into the cauldron and instantly turned it purple.
He once again used his divine sense. Sure enough, the purple lights that had penetrated the ground were rushing towards the bottom of the hole at a greater speed. They had multiplied as well.
Bang! Bang!
The black sledgehammer began to swing even more quickly, but there were too many purple lights. Some had even reached the bottom of the hole.
Chu Xun could vaguely hear an angry roar.
Everything was as he had expected, but there wasn’t time to think too hard about it. He shaped his divine sense into a fist and hurled it straight at the sledgehammer.
The sledgehammer, appearing to have detected the fist-shaped divine sense, swung at him as well.
Boom!
The fist-shaped divine sense exploded, blasting the sledgehammer toward the cave wall.
Simultaneously, dozens of purple lights raced to the bottom of the hole.
Roar!
An enraged roar came from below, bringing with it a billowing foul aura.
On the surface, Chu Xun was surrounded by a turbulent aura. An endless stream of Hong Meng Immortal Qi continued to be poured into the Tetrarchy Cauldron.
His divine sense turned into a fist underground and hit the sledgehammer again.
Boom!
Terror began to ripple. Chu Xun’s fist-shaped divine sense collapsed again, swinging the sledgehammer aside.
Even more purple lights entered the ground.
The sledgehammer trembled. As its foul aura surged, it quickly flew back and hit the purple lights.
The sledgehammer wanted to stop the purple lights that appeared to be detrimental to them.
Chu Xun refused to let it have its way. His divine sense once again transformed into a fist and he hurled the fist at the sledgehammer.
Boom!
The fist exploded and once again hurled the sledgehammer aside.
Roar!
He could vaguely hear an angry, constant roaring emerging from the bottomless hole. The noises sound like they had come from hell.
Chu Xun couldn’t worry about that now. He kept turning his divine sense into a fist and hitting the sledgehammer.
Bang! Bang!
His fist was defeated by the sledgehammer again and again, but he didn’t give up and kept producing more, fighting the sledgehammer head-on.
“Who is stopping me from breaking the seal?” said a faraway voice, the noise not fading in the air. It was a spiritual power transmission.
“You lot should stay down there obediently. The world doesn’t welcome you,” Chu Xun replied, using his divine sense.
He thought that the speaker didn’t hear his reply, but to his surprise, an answer arrived after a long time.
“Are you from the Immortal Realm?”
Chu Xun’s eyes glinted. “Exactly. Evil creatures like you should stay down there forever.”
After a long time, the voice came again. This time, its anger was palpable. “Everyone from the Immortal Realm is a shameless hypocrite. All you know are your ruses and traps. Sooner or later, my clansmen will break the seal and leave this place. When the time comes, we’ll destroy the Immortal Realm.”
Chu Xun guessed that the hole must be more than 100,000 meters deep or the voice wouldn’t have arrived so slowly at the speed of sound.
“Losers are always in the wrong. Your clansmen massacred the innocent and plunged the world into misery. Not exterminating your clan is our greatest mercy to you,” Chu Xun fibbed without thinking about it.
“The shamelessness of the Immortal Realm knows no bounds. You massacred the people to save your Child of God but put the blame on my clan. How shameless! Shameless indeed!” an angry voice roared.
Chu Xun was intrigued. Was it true that the Immortal Realm conducted a massacre to save the Child of God?
“Are you telling the truth?”
After a long while, the angry voice erupted again. “You’re not from the Immortal Realm! Who are you?”
“I’m just an ordinary person from the earth. The Immortal Realm no longer exists,” Chu Xun replied.
“The Immortal Realm no longer exists...” The voice sounded somewhat confused, but quickly regained clarity and yelled, “Impossible!”
“I don’t care if you believe me, but since you threatened to slaughter the people of the earth, I would never let you reborn.”
“No one can stop the revival of the Subterranean Devils Clan. In the near future, we’ll return to the earth. Haha...”
The voice disappeared. It was silent even after Chu Xun tried talking to it a few times. The sledgehammer retreated into the hole and vanished.
Regardless, Chu Xun continued to pour his Hong Meng Immortal Qi into the Tetrarchy Cauldron with everything he had so that the golden light would illuminate the bottomless hole.
He only stopped when he was completely drained of energy.
A sword light was surging forth from the cauldron and dozens of golden liquid droplets were exuding a golden glow. The shadows of the mythological animals were still swimming around the cauldron. Everything was dazzling.
The golden liquid began to fuse and was continually refined inside the cauldron. Several hours later, the mixture began to separate and turn into dozens of pills.
The Violet Underworld Flame continued to burn for a few hours.
The pills refinement was a success.
Chu Xun waved his hand to remove the magic formation. He waited until the cauldron had cooled down before retrieving the pills.
Dozens of golden pills gradually rose and hovered above the cauldron, their golden glow and strong smell permeating the entire hall. Just a whiff of it was enough to make one feel relaxed all over. The smell brought an indescribable comfort.
Chu Xun turned his hand around and took out a jade box. He put all of the pills inside the box. Suddenly, he lost his footing and nearly fell.
“Brother.” A startled Yue Fandie immediately stepped forward to support Chu Xun’s arm. He poured an overwhelming Internal Breath into Chu Xun to help him.
When his Internal Breath entered Chu Xun’s body, Chu Xun’s Hong Meng Immortal Qi began to move on its own and assimilated the Breath.
Chu Xun was surprised. He never knew that Hong Meng Immortal Qi would be so powerful as to absorb another person’s Internal Breath for his own use.
He didn’t try to be courteous with Yue Fandie. He immediately sat down to adjust his breath and recover his strength with Yue Fandie’s Internal Breath.
Half an hour later, his strength had returned to its peak again.
He was elated. His recovery this time was more than three to four times faster than his usual recovery rate.
Yue Fandie sighed in relief when he saw that Chu Xun had recovered. With a solemn expression, he said, “Brother, was there a change in the Subterranean Devils Clan again?”
Chu Xun nodded. Without hiding anything, he told Yue Fandie everything that had happened earlier.
At the end of it, Yue Fandie said, “Thank you!”
If Chu Xun hadn’t refined the pills with the Tetrarchy Cauldron to suppress the Subterranean Devils Clan, he would be forced to worship the cauldron as his god every day.
“Does this mean it’s not that easy for the Subterranean Devils Clan to break the seal and come out?” Yue Fandie asked.
“Correct. From the conversation earlier, we can tell that the seal and cauldron are both suppressing them. It’s no easy task for them to break the seal,” Chu Xun said.
Yue Fandie breathed a sigh of relief.
“But we have to keep our guard up. After all, no one knows what’s going on down there,” Chu Xun suggested.
Yue Fandie nodded.
“Brother, can you tell me what your cultivation level is?” Chu Xun asked.
“Grade-seven,” Yue Fandie answered.
Chu Xun was surprised. The earth had only started mutating in recent years, reintroducing an abundance of spiritual energy. The spiritual energy of the earth had been depleted in the past. It was amazing that Yue Fandie could still cultivate up to the grade-seven Human King Realm.