The surrounding sects were miserable when dealing with the Tianhuan Sect, yet none were a match for the Sect Leader of the Tianhuan Sect.
“Today marks the one hundred and ninety-nine million, nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-ninth birthday of this old man. Servants, bring out the treasures from the vault and distribute them to everyone, to celebrate with the heavens!”
The Sect Leader of the Tianhuan Sect was in high spirits, waving his hand grandly as the Tianhuan Sect disciples brought out platter after platter of rare delicacies, all of which were Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures amassed by the Tianhuan Sect over the years.
The Elders and Disciples of the Tianhuan Sect gathered together, embracing the wives and daughters of the Orthodox Sects they had captured, all of them flattering the Sect Leader: “Tianhuan Old Immortal, with boundless magical power, you dominate the universe and shake the heavens!”
“Very good, very good.”
The Sect Leader of the Tianhuan Sect laughed heartily.
Next to him sat a woman of the Golden Immortal Realm.
This woman was originally the wife of the leader of a quite powerful sect which had contended with the Tianhuan Sect for hundreds of thousands of years. In the end, that sect was destroyed by the Tianhuan Sect, and even the wife of its leader was captured by the Sect Leader of the Tianhuan Sect.
This woman dared to feel anger but not to speak out, for her husband was imprisoned by the Tianhuan Sect in a dungeon cell. If she dared to resist, both of them would be executed by the Sect Leader of the Tianhuan Sect.
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“Thank you, Sect Leader. Your martial prowess is peerless, and even the Holy Lands cannot compare to you.”
“Sect Leader, with the body of a mortal, you have cultivated up to the Quasi-Emperor tier. The geniuses on the Qilin Ranking pale in comparison to you.”
“How can the light of a firefly dare to compete with the bright moon?”
The Elders and Disciples of the Tianhuan Sect could not stop singing his praises.
The Sect Leader of the Tianhuan Sect had a peculiar habit; he appointed Elders not based on cultivation or talent but on the level of flattery they exhibited.
The better someone was at sucking up, the higher their status within the Tianhuan Sect.
Even a disciple in the Void Refinement Realm had become a Supreme Elder.
Tianhuan Old Immortal was very pleased with the fawning compliments from numerous Elders and Disciples.
To suck up, the Elders and Disciples of the Tianhuan Sect each came forward to offer a toast, saying flattering words, and even publicly reciting poems.
During a toast, a Tianhuan Sect disciple found himself unable to utter such nauseating words.
“Hmm?”
Tianhuan Old Immortal was immediately displeased.
How can everyone in the sect be so eloquent, yet you can’t speak?
Just as Tianhuan Old Immortal was about to get angry, the Tianhuan Sect disciple suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed toward Tianhuan Old Immortal.
The Tianhuan Sect disciple, with agile movements, arrived in front of Tianhuan Old Immortal in an instant. The dagger broke through the Gang Qi and had already pierced Tianhuan Old Immortal’s heart.
Tianhuan Old Immortal looked down in disbelief at the dagger buried in his heart.
The dagger was a Holy Artifact, and it was also coated with a fierce poison.
Even as a master of using poison, Tianhuan Old Immortal couldn’t detoxify quickly.
Tianhuan Old Immortal subconsciously sealed off some of his acupoints to prevent the poison from spreading.
Just as the Tianhuan Sect disciple’s dagger pierced Tianhuan Old Immortal’s heart, his left hand condensed True Qi and delivered a palm strike to Tianhuan Old Immortal’s head!
Assassin!
Tianhuan Old Immortal’s first reaction was that this Tianhuan Sect disciple must be a member of an Assassin Sect!
This person’s attack was fierce, with a dagger and poison, with no wasted words, and he acted swiftly and decisively, indicative of an assassin with extensive experience.
Tianhuan Old Immortal hurriedly raised his hands to shield his head and, in his haste, blocked the palm strike.
Overwhelming True Qi surged forth, and the palm contained boundless True Qi. Tianhuan Old Immortal was repelled and smashed into the palace behind him!
“Sect Leader!”
All the Elders and Disciples of the Tianhuan Sect were alarmed, utterly astounded.
Someone dared to assassinate Tianhuan Old Immortal!
Tianhuan Old Immortal, a Quasi-Emperor-tier formidable Demon Chief!
Though there were plenty of Quasi-Emperor-tier powerhouses among the Holy Lands, in ordinary places, without a tiger in the mountains, a monkey could claim to be king. Tianhuan Old Immortal was the strongest within millions of miles, yet he now suffered such a significant loss.
With the Sect Leader ambushed, the Elders, and Disciples of the Tianhuan Sect didn’t dare move forward.
Usually, they would flatter Tianhuan Old Immortal, getting benefits just by moving their lips. Now there was an assassin trying to kill Tianhuan Old Immortal, and if they stepped forward to intervene, it could cost them their lives.
Tianhuan Old Immortal crawled out from the ruins, coughing up a mouthful of fresh blood, staining his white beard red, his complexion turning purple. “Who hired you? I’m willing to give you all my treasures, just spare me.”
The expression of Tianhuan Sect disciple changed, revealing a stunningly beautiful woman. “We, assassins of Eternal Night, adhere to a very professional code of ethics.”
Su Xiaoqi didn’t waste words. Clutching her dagger, she advanced again to fight against Tianhuan Old Immortal.
Su Xiaoqi intended to use Tianhuan Old Immortal as a stepping stone to break through to the Quasi-Emperor realm!
Su Xiaoqi, at ninth level Golden Immortal, had critically wounded Tianhuan Old Immortal by ambushing him, and now fighting against him, she sought to kill him.
With the Body of Nothingness, she drew in the Hongmeng Purple Qi from the void, becoming stronger as the battle raged on.
Su Xiaoqi used the Emperor Tier Cultivation Technique “Spatial Transposition Step,” constantly shifting through space, appearing and disappearing unpredictably, making it impossible for Tianhuan Old Immortal to defend against.
Tianhuan Old Immortal had no choice but to release a poisonous fog, enveloping his body.
However, as a Heavenly Level assassin of Eternal Night, Su Xiaoqi had rich experience in assassination and had long prepared various poisons and Detoxification Pills, completely ignoring Tianhuan Old Immortal’s poison fog.
Eventually, Su Xiaoqi took a palm strike from Tianhuan Old Immortal head-on, plunging her dagger into his Golden Core.
Tianhuan Old Immortal, a formidable Demon Chief, thus fell.
Many Elders and Disciples of Tianhuan Sect were dumbstruck.
Their usually revered, seemingly omnipotent Tianhuan Old Immortal, had just been killed like that?
The righteous sect women, whom Tianhuan Old Immortal had kidnapped, felt as if they had been through an entire lifetime.
Their arch-enemy had been killed by an assassin from an Assassin Sect.
The quickest to react, a Golden Immortal Realm woman, immediately pointed to the Elders and Disciples inside the main hall, “These demon chiefs have been committing all sorts of evils; please, lady hero, take action and kill them.”
“Okay then.”
Su Xiaoqi’s original mission was only to assassinate the Sect Leader of Tianhuan Sect, but since she was already there, offering an extra service wasn’t out of the question.
“Run!”
The Elders and Disciples of Tianhuan Sect hastily fled.
With her Body of Nothingness, Su Xiaoqi was highly talented. She teleported instantly in front of a Supreme Elder of Tianhuan Sect, the dagger thrust killing the Elder with a single blow.
Su Xiaoqi specifically targeted and killed the more powerful Elders of the Demon Sects.
Once the leaders were dead, the rest would scatter like monkeys; they were not a concern.
The Golden Immortal Realm woman quickly went to the dungeons of Tianhuan Sect to rescue her husband.
The couple came to thank Su Xiaoqi. “Thank you, miss, for your intervention.”
Su Xiaoqi cleaned her dagger. “No need to thank me. It was your disciple who spent everything he had to post the bounty at Eternal Night, but since the reward was too low, no one took the job. If it weren’t for the fact that I needed a stepping stone, I probably wouldn’t have taken the job either. Also, consider the treasures of Tianhuan Sect as my payment.”
Upon hearing this, the couple bowed over and over again.
They knew their disciple couldn’t have had many treasures; Su Xiaoqi accepting the mission was a huge favor to them.
After killing the Sect Leader of Tianhuan Sect, Su Xiaoqi simply decided to break through in Tianhuan Sect.
The Golden Immortal Realm couple, grateful for Su Xiaoqi’s kindness, volunteered to take up swords to protect her as she made her breakthrough.
As Su Xiaoqi attempted to break through to the Quasi-Emperor realm, she attracted vast amounts of Hongmeng Qi from the void, causing spatial collapse and the auspicious sign of Purple Aura Coming from the East over a hundred thousand miles, causing a heavenly phenomenon.
The Golden Immortal Realm couple looked at each other in dismay; they had truly encountered an eminent figure this time.
On Yuntai Peak of Taihua Divine Mountain, Lu Changsheng was comprehending the second sword realm of “One Sword Across Ages.”
Mastery of the first sword realm could cut through space.
Mastery of the second sword realm could cut through time.
The difficulty of the second sword realm was a hundred times greater than the first, and its power also increased a hundredfold.
Suddenly, the Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator chimed in with a prompt.
[Ding! Your tenth disciple “Su Xiaoqi” has advanced from the Daluo Golden Immortal to Quasi-Emperor realm, you have received the disciple’s realm advancement reward: a top-grade Emperor Soldier “Great Wilderness God Armor.”]
The third disciple to break through to the Quasi-Emperor realm turned out to be the tenth disciple, Su Xiaoqi.
The system awarded a top-grade Emperor Soldier used for protection—a set of armor engraved with patterns of Ancient Beasts, which appeared within the inner space of Lu Changsheng’s body.