I awakened my god-tier passive skill early on and took off instantly

Lu Xin walked along with the crowd, listening to their idle chatter, and surprisingly, he learned a lot of common knowledge about the cultivation world.

In the blink of an eye, they arrived in front of the Qingyang Temple, where there was a small square.

"What's going on? It's supposed to be an exchange meeting, but there aren't even any tables and chairs?" Soon, someone noticed the oddity. "Are we supposed to stand and discuss Dao?"

"Yeah, could it be that the location was changed temporarily?"

There was a lot of discussion around them.

Lu Xin already knew there was a problem, so he didn't rush into the square. Instead, he stayed in a place out of sight, released his divine sense, and searched for anything unusual.

To capture so many people in one fell swoop, if there weren't high-level cultivators, they would have to rely on formations.

Lu Xin searched carefully and soon discovered a scarlet wooden stake under the ground at the edge of the square, with complex patterns carved on it.

"This should be the formation base. There should be more than one." Lu Xin continued to search and soon found several more, distributed around the square, surrounding the entire area.

"They've really put a lot of thought into this. If I weren't a Foundation Establishment expert with the ability to penetrate objects with my divine sense, I really wouldn't have been able to discover it."

Lu Xin snorted coldly and immediately used the Earth Escape Technique, arriving next to a wooden stake. He wanted to destroy it or take it away, but he was afraid of alerting the enemy and stirring up a hornet's nest.

After all, he wanted to devour them all in one bite.

After thinking for a while, he examined the wooden stake again and saw that it was only engraved with patterns he didn't understand, as well as spirit stones embedded at the intersections of the patterns. The material was ordinary.

So, he took out a Burst Talisman from his storage bag. This was a high-grade, first-tier talisman that could be activated directly with mana to cause an explosion, or it could be attached with a wisp of aura and detonated with divine sense.

Lu Xin buried it under the wooden stake. To be on the safe side, he buried a few more, and then he did the same at the other locations.

After everything was done, he leisurely walked into the square.

"Why hasn't Daoist Qingyang appeared yet?" Some people in the square were already impatient, and some even wanted to leave, including the couple Lu Xin had met earlier.

"Husband," the woman called out softly to the man, feeling uneasy.

The man had already sensed something was wrong. He looked around and shook his head gently. "It's too late. Be careful."

Then he took the woman's hand and subtly distanced himself from Xuanzhen, who was chatting and laughing with others nearby, before slowly retreating.

Xuanzhen glanced back and smiled indifferently.

"Not everyone in the cultivation world is stupid." Lu Xin sighed in his heart when he saw this scene and secretly warned himself that even though he had a cheat, he still had to be careful and cautious.

"Well, to be on the safe side, I'll hang out with lower-level cultivators more often in the future," he decided happily in his heart.

Soon, more and more people were quietly retreating. Just then, six red pillars of light suddenly rose around the square, followed by a burst of red mist, instantly enveloping the entire square.

"Ah ~"

A scream was heard. It turned out that someone had reacted quickly and used a light escape technique to try to leave, but was instantly corroded into a skeleton by the red mist.

"Brother Li!" Someone exclaimed in alarm.

It turned out that the one who reacted quickly was the man who had previously said he had obtained a high-grade, first-tier escape talisman.

But it didn't let him escape.

This sudden change instantly made the square so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, followed by a burst of commotion.

"Not good, it's a formation! This exchange meeting is a trap!"

Someone else activated a protective shield, wanting to escape, but after just breaking into the red mist, there was a scream.

This instantly made the people in the square dare not act rashly.

Lu Xin, after sensing the Burst Talismans and confirming that they were not affected, waited peacefully for the upcoming show.

"Are they here?"

Lu Xin suddenly turned his gaze forward, where three figures, old, middle-aged, and young, suddenly appeared. He recognized two of them, Ji Yue and her so-called second uncle.

The other was a thin old man wearing a black robe.

"Interesting." Seeing that the three of them were clearly led by Ji Yue in the middle, Lu Xin was slightly surprised, but then he didn't care.

"Sorry to keep everyone waiting!"

The thin old man in the black robe took the lead in speaking.

"Daoist Qingyang, it really is you causing trouble. What does this mean?" Seeing the person who came, someone immediately questioned him.

The thin old man did not answer him, but said to himself, "This seat's name is Black Mist. The reason for gathering everyone here is to give you all a fortune."

"Fortune?" The surrounding people looked at each other in confusion.

Someone said, "It's really funny. You set up a killing formation here to cut off our retreat, and now you say you're giving us a fortune. Do you think we'll believe you?"

"That's right," someone echoed.

Black Mist shook his head with an indifferent expression. "This seat doesn't care whether you believe it or not. If you accept this fortune, you live. If you don't accept it, you die!"

The people below were in another commotion upon hearing this.

Someone tentatively asked, "Just the three of you?"

Black Mist glanced at him, sneered, and suddenly raised his hand. The person who had just asked the question instantly had his head moved, because a scarred-faced man standing behind him had suddenly made a move.

Lu Xin recognized this person. He had obtained the black bead from him.

Then, another scream came. The few people who had questioned the loudest earlier were also attacked by the people next to them.

"Brother Chang, you…" One person fell unwillingly.

This sudden change caught people off guard and instantly caused another chaos. They quickly moved away from the people who had attacked, and then, as if remembering something, they immediately distanced themselves from others and looked around in panic.

Bad people were mixed in with good people. At this time, even close brothers couldn't be trusted.

The crowd instantly thinned out.

The people who had killed were expressionless and silently walked behind Black Mist and stood still.

"Interesting."

Lu Xin, after feigning a moment of panic, met a gaze. The owner of the gaze was Ji Yue. She seemed to have been looking for his location.

"This expression seems a little smug?" Lu Xin felt inexplicable.

Just then, Black Mist spoke, "What do you all think?"

The crowd looked at me, and I looked at you, and no one dared to answer.

The atmosphere was a bit oppressive for a while. After a while, someone finally couldn't help but weakly asked, "What is the fortune you're talking about?"

After speaking, he did not forget to scan his surroundings warily.

Black Mist chuckled and did not beat around the bush, but gave way and introduced:

"This seat is an outer sect deacon of the Holy Heart Sect, and this is our sect's Holy Maiden. The reason for gathering everyone here today is naturally to bring you into the sect and bid farewell to the hard days of being a rogue cultivator."

"What? Holy Heart Sect?"

Upon hearing this, someone exclaimed in alarm and instantly changed their expression.

Lu Xin frowned slightly. He searched his memory carefully but could not find any information about the Holy Heart Sect. He only knew the five major sects of Yan Country: Evergreen Sect, Cloud Mountain Sect, Moon River Gate, Nebula Valley, and Red Maple Mountain.

"Could it be an unknown small sect? Or a sect from another country?" Lu Xin was puzzled, and no one around him explained.

"It seems that some brothers have heard of our sect's great name." Black Mist sneered. This time, he did not kill anyone, but took out a gourd and said:

"This contains our sect's holy medicine, the Holy Heart Pill. After taking it, you can come back to the sect with me."

"No, I'm not going!" Someone shouted in horror.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, he was pierced through the heart with a sword.

This time, the one who attacked was the man named Xuanzhen. After shaking off the blood on his sword, he walked forward calmly.

There was another commotion at the scene, and they distanced themselves from each other even further. Only the couple were tightly leaning together.

"Is there anyone else who doesn't want to go?"

Black Mist and the others watched this scene with great satisfaction. As long as these people did not unite, they would be easy to deal with. But just then, a burst of applause came:

"Not bad, not bad, I also have a fortune to give to you."