Chapter 492 Concealment

"Everyone, please don't be anxious. I stopped you not to compete for the pill, but because I don't want you to ruin the other eight pills for the sake of a single Taiyi Pill." Luo Qinghai quickly waved his hand and said meaningfully.

"Oh? Fellow Daoist Luo means there are as many as nine Taiyi Pills?" Feng Tiandu raised an eyebrow and said calmly.

The others also turned their heads at this.

"That's right. If I'm not mistaken, this pill furnace is called the 'Nine Dragons Holding Pearl Furnace,' a rare treasure of the world. Its pill-forming characteristic is that each chi dragon spits out one pill, though the timing may vary slightly. Everyone might as well wait a bit." Luo Qinghai continued.

"I recall now. A million years ago, I heard that a master gathered countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures from the True Immortal Realm, along with true spirit souls, to refine a furnace that seizes the wonders of heaven and earth. It contains some kind of law that allows the fusion of pill materials to proceed more smoothly. I never expected this treasure to be in this immortal mansion." The white-haired old woman of the Nanli tribe also said.

Hearing their words, many present showed a flicker of emotion and their expressions relaxed, but their gazes toward the furnace grew more greedy.

"Even so, there are five factions here, totaling ten people. Even with nine Taiyi Pills, they cannot be evenly divided..." Feng Tiandu said slowly, lost in thought.

As soon as he said this, the slightly relaxed expressions of the crowd tightened again.

"Haha, that's no problem. As I said before, I brought my disciple here just to broaden his horizons. Now that we've encountered this opportunity, I dare not be too greedy. The Cangliu Sect will take only one pill, and you each take two. Wouldn't that make everyone happy?" Luo Qinghai said with an unchanged expression and a smile.

Hearing this, everyone's eyes flickered with a strange light, a mix of surprise and doubt.

Just then, the layers of golden light surrounding the furnace suddenly dissipated.

Footsteps sounded, and a golden humanoid puppet walked around from behind the emerald furnace. It reached out and took the silver-white pill from the chi dragon's mouth, then turned and slowly walked toward the golden throne on the high platform of the hall.

Seeing the pill taken away, though somewhat puzzled, everyone pursued the golden puppet.

At that moment, a sudden change occurred!

Countless black mists materialized out of thin air, surging like a tide toward the surroundings, instantly engulfing everyone.

Everyone felt their bodies sink, as if trapped in highly viscous mud. Even lifting a hand or taking a step became difficult, and the operation of their immortal spiritual power was greatly suppressed. Their faces changed color.

Han Li's immortal spiritual power also stalled, but his time law power was not affected.

A burst of cyan light radiated from his body, and he silently activated his time law power to repel the surrounding black mist. Turning to look back, his expression shifted slightly.

Feng Tiandu was forming hand seals with both hands. Rolling black mist surged from his body, forming a black domain that imprisoned everyone within.

This black domain was extremely dense, almost solid, but its range was small, covering only a small part of the hall and not touching the golden circular array near the furnace.

Han Li narrowed his eyes. Earlier, outside the Taiyi Hall, when Feng Tiandu and Xiao Jinhan clashed, the domain he displayed was far less imposing than this one. Clearly, Feng Tiandu had deliberately concealed his strength.

The others now also realized Feng Tiandu's true power, and their expressions changed.

"Feng Tiandu, what do you mean? Don't tell me you want to monopolize the Taiyi Pills? How dare you!" Luo Qinghai, abandoning his previous amiable demeanor, roared. A burst of blue light suddenly radiated from his body, forming a blue vortex that spun and expanded outward, quickly forming a blue domain.

Countless surging wave phantoms rolled within the domain, like a sea of raging waves. Though inferior to Feng Tiandu's black domain, it was not far off.

Countless blue waves surged, dispersing some of the black domain.

Hu Yan Daoren and the white-haired old woman of the Nanli tribe both shouted, red light blazing from their bodies as they each deployed a flame domain.

The combined force of the three domains largely offset the binding power of the black domain. The other Golden Immortals, their binding greatly reduced, immediately offered up immortal artifacts and struck at Feng Tiandu.

Han Li also waved his hand and offered a Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword. Without fully activating it, he turned it into a giant cyan sword that mixed with the other immortal artifacts and slashed toward Feng Tiandu.

Though the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword did not display its true power, it was in no way inferior to the others' immortal artifacts.

Feng Tiandu sneered and raised his hand, waving it.

A clattering sound of chains colliding rang out as sixteen thick black chains shot out from his body.

Each chain was as thick as a bowl's rim, covered with countless tiny crystalline runes, some shaped like earthworms, others like tadpoles, emitting intense law power fluctuations.

Feng Tiandu had used chain techniques before, but compared to those semi-solid chains, these sixteen were completely different—purely solid entities.

The sixteen chains radiated black light and swept outward.

A series of loud bangs!

The incoming immortal artifacts were all sent flying by the sixteen black chains.

As soon as the sixteen chains appeared, the entire black domain fluctuated violently and flickered wildly, rapidly becoming denser, fully solidifying, and greatly increasing in power.

The domains of Luo Qinghai and the others quickly dimmed and were suppressed.

The binding power of the black domain surged again, pressing down on everyone like a mountain.

Everyone's bodies sank, as if crushed by a ten-thousand-zhang peak, making even the slightest movement extremely difficult.

"Your domain has also reached the Spirit Transformation stage!" Luo Qinghai's face changed as he exclaimed.

His eyes flickered, and blue light blazed from his body. He suddenly turned and shot off in one direction.

Seeing this, the others also flew off in various directions.

After their previous battle with Xiao Jinhan, they had all deeply experienced the power of a Spirit Transformation stage domain, and Feng Tiandu's domain seemed even more formidable than Xiao Jinhan's ice domain.

Fortunately, Feng Tiandu, wary of triggering the restrictions here, had only covered a small part of the hall with his domain. Though suppressed, they could still fly out quickly.

Han Li waved his hand to recall the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword, golden light blazing from his body as he also turned to flee.

He silently activated his time law power, infusing it into the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword.

Bolts of lightning sword qi slashed forward, cutting into the black domain ahead.

At the same time, a golden light flashed before him, and Jintong shot out. Spinning once, it transformed into a millstone-sized golden beetle.

Jintong waved its two front claws, and with a sharp screech, streaks of sword-shaped crystal light shot out, slashing into the black domain ahead.

The combined force tore a rift in the black domain ahead, and they flew forward rapidly.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Feng Tiandu's gaze swept over Han Li's position, and he snorted coldly. Forming a seal, he waved his hand.

A black light flashed on Han Li's body, and two black chains materialized out of thin air—the very same Separation Yuan Chains he had collected and sealed.

"Damn!"

Han Li's face changed, and he tried to dodge, but it was too late.

The black chains expanded in the wind, swiftly coiling around him and Jintong.

Han Li's body tightened, and he was instantly immobilized.

Cursing his carelessness, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. His mastery of law threads was limited; otherwise, if he had sealed them with time law threads, the other party would not have been able to activate them remotely.

The same happened to Jintong. Its entire body was bound by the black chains, its golden light dissipating as it squeaked in distress.

With the appearance of these two Separaation Yuan Chains, the entire black domain fluctuated again, becoming even denser.

The sixteen black chains beside Feng Tiandu shot out like lightning, blurred, and vanished.

In the next moment, black chains appeared throughout the black domain, intertwining and crisscrossing.

In an instant, a chain cage formed, imprisoning everyone inside.

Each person was wrapped in several coils of chain, like flies in a spiderweb, unable to move.

"I never thought that without external help, your domain has also reached the Spirit Transformation stage. But conversely, without external aid, relying solely on your own strength, you can't sustain this domain for long before exhausting all your law power! Everyone, don't be afraid!" Luo Qinghai, bound by the chains, instead calmed down and said loudly.

As he spoke, blue light blazed from his entire body, and countless blue wave phantoms emerged within the light, intertwining with the surrounding black light as he struggled fiercely.

Though the Separaation Yuan Chains could bind their immortal spiritual power, they could not completely bind their law power.

Hearing this, the other Golden Immortals steadied themselves and also activated their law techniques, trying to break free from the black chains.

The black chain cage trembled violently, clanging loudly.

Feng Tiandu's face turned slightly pale. He snorted and spat out a mouthful of essence blood, which condensed into an egg-sized blood mass before him.

Then, under his manipulation with hand seals, a few drops flew into each chain cage.

After the essence blood entered, the previously trembling chain cages stabilized, black light swirling on their surfaces.

Only then did Feng Tiandu's expression relax.

Luo Qinghai was right. Xiao Jinhan had relied on those five stone pillars to elevate his domain to the Spirit Transformation stage.

Though this was somewhat contrived and its power was slightly weaker than a normal Spirit Transformation stage domain, it also meant the consumption on himself was not too great.

But now, relying entirely on himself to deploy a Spirit Transformation stage domain while simultaneously dealing with so many Golden Immortals, the drain on his immortal spiritual power and law power was naturally immense.

"Since you all, as leading figures of the major powers in the Northern Cold Immortal Domain, wish to witness my Fuling Sect's rise to the top of the immortal realm, after I, Feng Tiandu, advance to Taiyi, I will naturally prepare a feast to thank your departed souls!" Feng Tiandu said slowly after taking a deep breath, while maintaining his domain.

"Feng Tiandu, you have wild ambitions. I, Luo Qinghai, would rather sacrifice my cultivation than let you succeed today!" Luo Qinghai roared.

As he spoke, he also spat out a mouthful of essence blood,不惜大耗真元地催动灵域, causing the surface of the chain cage to flicker wildly with black light again.

"Fellow Daoists, the Taiyi Pill is right before our eyes. Are you willing to watch Feng Tiandu succeed? I am not willing. My Nanli tribe will never stand with the Fuling Sect!" the white-haired old woman also shouted.

Hearing this, the others' eyes blazed with fury, and they intensified their efforts to break free.