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"Difficult to break unless one is a Great Luo Golden Immortal?"
Hearing this, Shen Gongbao ground his teeth in anger.
"Eldest Brother really thinks highly of my father."
His father, Shen Zhengdao, hadn't even reached the Golden Immortal realm.
"Daoist Shen, it seems you'll have to temporarily abandon that idea. The hope of kidnapping the Immeasurable Immortal from within Yuxu Palace to open this door is too slim. We aren't willing to take that risk," Ao Run stated her thoughts bluntly, skipping any pleasantries.
Her preference was to stealthily rescue Shen Zhengdao, steal the immortal pills in passing, and then fight their way out of Yuxu Palace before the Immeasurable Immortal could react.
Although dangerous, this plan had a high probability of success.
Once they were out of Yuxu Palace, whether using her Void-Rending Claws or George's teleportation techniques, they could quickly shake off the Immeasurable Immortal and the disciples.
However, trying to capture the Immeasurable Immortal alive inside Yuxu Palace, bring him to the depths of the palace to open a door, and then escape? That was suicide.
Leaving aside the Immeasurable Immortal's personal strength and the formations within Yuxu Palace, just the countless Chan Sect disciples residing there were enough for them to struggle with.
Even if they had the sea demons of the Four Seas stored in George's dimension.
The disciples within Yuxu Palace weren't limited to the Demon Catching Squad. The Squad members were merely disciples carefully selected by the Immeasurable Immortal for sharing his ideology.
Beyond them, Yuxu Palace housed many other disciples—more than ten times the number of the Squad—and none were weak.
If the news spread quickly enough, the Eleven Golden Immortals (direct disciples of the Primordial Lord of Heaven) and their own students might receive word and rush over.
Those Eleven Golden Immortals were all at the Golden Immortal or Taiyi Golden Immortal level, and each held several top-tier Dharma treasures.
"If that is truly the case, then we must plan for the long term," Shen Gongbao did not refute Ao Run. He was rational enough to know that forcibly attempting a rescue without an opening would likely result in their total annihilation.
"Not necessarily."
At this moment, George brought out the Ruyi Jingu Bang again and spoke up.
"If it were before, I couldn't be sure. But since it is a door, and I have the Ruyi Jingu Bang, if we combine our strength, there might actually be a significant chance to blast it open forcibly."
Since it was a door, it would be affected by the Unlocking Charm. Coupled with the indestructible Ruyi Jingu Bang and the Sword of Rupture (Ea), plus the full power of four Dragon Kings with Golden Immortal strength, Shen Gongbao, and himself...
He felt it was worth a try.
"How confident are you?" Ao Guang asked.
George raised his hand. "Seventy or eighty percent!"
"If it's seventy or eighty percent, then we are willing to try."
Hearing George's estimate, Ao Run nodded.
Seventy or eighty percent was already a very high probability. If it didn't work, they could just run immediately, so the danger wasn't excessive.
"Good, then I will trouble you all!"
Shen Gongbao clasped his fists and bowed deeply to the group.
"Let's begin. The illusion array is broken; the Immeasurable Immortal might have already sensed it."
George wasted no words. With the Golden Hoop Rod in one hand and the Sword of Rupture in the other, he poured his internal energy into them and smashed them simultaneously against the stone gate.
Boom!
With a loud explosion, the stone gate immediately began to shake.
"Such strength!"
Shen Gongbao and the four Dragon Kings widened their eyes, startled by the powerful mana George had instantly unleashed.
They had always known George wasn't weak, but they hadn't expected him to be this strong.
This fluctuation of mana was nearly catching up to a Taiyi Golden Immortal.
"We'll help you!"
Recovering from their shock, the one leopard and four dragons immediately took out their own weapons and Dharma treasures. Erupting with power in unison, they smashed their attacks against the stone gate as well.
The shaking of the stone gate became even more violent, looking as if it might be blasted open at any moment.
"Open for me!"
George shouted loudly, unleashing the laws of the Unlocking Charm. The stone gate could no longer hold on and was finally blasted open by force.
Seeing this, Shen Gongbao rushed inside immediately.
"Father!"
Inside, Shen Zhengdao was missing an arm and was chained to a stone pillar by magical chains, lying unconscious from severe injuries.
"Quick, let's go! The Immeasurable Immortal has discovered us."
Sensing a powerful energy rapidly charging toward them from the outside, George couldn't wait for Shen Gongbao to wake his father. He slashed the chains with his sword, grabbed the unconscious Shen Zhengdao, and rushed out.
"It really is you lot! To dare come to Yuxu Palace, you are simply seeking death!"
Just as they rushed out of the underground palace, they heard a familiar laughing voice. It was the Immeasurable Immortal, arriving on a cloud from a distance.
The Immeasurable Immortal had returned to Yuxu Palace from Chen Tang Pass. After careful consideration, he had decided to strike first by accusing the victims. He planned to frame the destruction of Chen Tang Pass as a deception by the Dragon Clan to fool ignorant mortals.
Once Shen Gongbao took the bait, he would trick his junior brothers into uniting to exterminate the Dragon Clan, thereby burying the truth.
Unfortunately, the formation used to contact all eleven junior brothers simultaneously during the Six-Star Alignment had just been used and would take ten years to recharge.
Therefore, he could only send disciples individually to the cave abodes of the eleven juniors to summon them to Yuxu Palace for a discussion.
Unexpectedly, just as the disciples were dispatched, he sensed that the illusion array he had set up was broken, followed closely by an attack on the stone gate imprisoning Shen Zhengdao.
He immediately ordered Crane Boy to gather all Yuxu Palace disciples while he flew ahead on his cloud.
When he saw that it really was Shen Gongbao bringing the Dragon Clan to rescue Shen Zhengdao, he wasn't angry but delighted. This would only further prove that the Dragon Clan had ill intentions.
Moreover, here at Yuxu Palace, with the Heavenly Lord's formations and the combined strength of so many disciples, he was confident he could take down Shen Gongbao and the four Dragon Kings.
As long as he killed the four Dragon Kings and imprisoned Shen Zhengdao again to force Shen Gongbao into submission, wouldn't everything be whatever he said it was?
"Kill!"
Ao Guang didn't waste a word. His blue blade instantly expanded, and he took the lead, hacking forward.
The Immeasurable Immortal stopped hiding his strength. His body rapidly expanded in size, and with just one hand, he easily caught Ao Guang's full-force strike.
"Hmph, although this isn't my main body, it's still not something a scaled and horned reptile like you can contend with!"
"Go help him!"
George said to the other three Dragon Kings. He didn't step forward immediately but quickly began forming hand seals to cast projection magic.
While casting, he also gave instructions to Shen Gongbao, who was supporting Shen Zhengdao nearby.
The Immeasurable Immortal was indeed worthy of being the eldest disciple of the Chan Sect. Even though this was merely a clone transformed from a walking cane, its strength was terrifying.
Under the siege of the Four Sea Dragon Kings, he only fell slightly into a disadvantage.
But this disadvantage was soon reversed.
Countless Yuxu Palace disciples, riding clouds, flying swords, and Dharma treasures, were swarming in from all directions under the leadership of Crane Boy.
These disciples were either casting various demon-subduing spells, controlling Dharma treasures they had refined themselves, or setting up various great formations.
It had to be said, the Chan Sect truly lived up to its reputation as one of the Three Great Sects. Any single one of these disciples placed in later generations would be considered a high-ranking master.
"All disciples, hear my order! Capture all these demons who dared to trespass into Yuxu Palace!"
Knowing that things had reached this point, the Immeasurable Immortal felt victory was already in his grasp.
(End of Chapter)