Outer sect…
“Congratulations, Senior Brother Zhang, for stepping into the Earth Star Border Realm and becoming the second inner disciple from here.” Lu Qiming offered his congratulations. Just now, Zhang Long broke through the Body Tempering Realm barrier and joined the ranks of the Earth Star Border Realm experts. As long as he went to the sect to receive the mission, he would be eligible to participate in the assessment and become an inner disciple.
Zhan Long was also feeling very excited. Everything might be due to my efforts, but Senior Brother Lin had a lot to do with this. He hid his inner excitement as he received congratulations from his junior brothers.
“I’m just one step ahead of the juniors. Had Senior Brother Lin not given me the Gold Essence Pill last time, it would have taken me at least a month to break through to the Earth Star Border Realm. God knows how Senior Brother Lin is doing now. When is he coming back?”
Huang Fugui answered with a smile, “Senior Brother Lin went out for training. When he comes back, his cultivation will have gone a step further for sure.”
Just when everyone was about to voice their thoughts, a thunderous shout rang in their ears.
Immediately, the happy and excited look on everyone’s face disappeared all of a sudden.
Lu Qiming trembled fiercely as if he couldn’t believe it. He blew his top, “Who is cursing Senior Brother Lin? I am going to have a look.”
Immediately after, he hurried toward the mountain gate without waiting for everyone.
Inner sect…
In a courtyard with the twittering of birds and fragrance of flowers, Liu Ruochen was gazing into the distance with a calm look on her face. But her heart, on the other hand, was burning with hope that the religious brother of the Saint Convent Sect would arrive earlier. She could no longer stay here.
Suddenly, a voice entered her ears, taking the calm look on her face and replacing it with shock. Then, a smile slowly appeared on her face.
“Dead.” Who would have thought that annoying inner disciple would die? What great news.
“Sis, that guy is dead, dead!.” At this time, a beautiful figure ran over from a distance. Liu Yue’s face was filled with excitement, but the smile on her face seemed a bit hideous.
I have been waiting for this, and news finally came.
“Hahaha!” She burst into laughter, and tears of joy could be seen at the corner of her eyes. She recalled all she had suffered before wiping it from her memories at this moment. The only thing she hated was the fact that she didn’t kill Lin Fan with her own hands.
As the ugliest disciple of the sect, Mu Ling usually cultivated alone by herself. In the past, whenever Lin Fan went out of the sect, she would clean up Lin Fan’s house. But since Lin Fan became an inner sect disciple, an outer sect disciple like her couldn’t enter.
So, in order to get close to her Senior Brother Lin, she could only cultivate like hell. Her aptitude might be a bit worse, but she spent all her time in tedious cultivation apart from eating and sleeping.
Suddenly, the blood and energy in her body became disordered as if she had suffered an attack. A mouthful of blood spewed out of her mouth. Disbelief was clearly written in her elf-like eyes. She immediately ran toward the source of that sound without paying any heed to her health.
At the mountain gate, Mo Jingzhe was already surrounded by many disciples.
“Shut up! You are standing at the Magnificent Flame Sect’s entrance, how can you be so presumptuous?” A gorgeously dressed man with an awe-inspiring gaze scolded Mo Jingzhe in a stern voice. The pressure emanating from his body was quite terrifying. Obviously, he was a powerful inner disciple, far stronger than Mo Jingzhe.
When the disciples in the vicinity saw other people come, they started whispering to each other.
“Senior Brother Tu is here.”
“Now he will fix this guy for good. How dare he yell in the sect. Even if it’s an important piece of news, he can’t.”
Mo Jingzhe, without paying much attention to the public, held his breath before he started shouting with sufficient strength.
“How audacious.” Tu Shi’s eyes flickered with a sharp gleam as he shouted and punched straight at Mo Jingzhe. He wanted to blow this guy who had been shouting at the entrance rolling down the mountain.
But suddenly, Tu Shi felt as if his entire body had fallen into an ice cellar; he couldn’t move, as if his limbs were frozen. Then, his figure was sent flying by a tremendous force. If his body wasn’t protected by a fiery glow, he would have suffered serious injuries.
Huo Rong made Tu Shi retreat as he gazed at Tian Xu. What’s going on in his mind? I had really not expected that kid to die. If it’s really true, it would be a big blow to Tian Xu.
“What did you say? What happened to my disciple?” Tian Xu was extremely powerful to the extent that he would notice anyone whispering his name in the sect, let alone Mo Jingzhe who was shouting at the mountain gate.
Mo Jingzhe stopped yelling. When he saw the figure standing in front of him, he felt as if the person standing in front of him wasn’t an old man but an evil god instead. The pressure bearing down on him made him feel as if he was being strangled.
“Elder Tian Xu, I’m-”
“I’m asking you, what happened to my disciple?” Tian Xu asked in a stern voice. Mo Jingzhe didn’t dare to beat around the bush; if he spoke any more nonsense, he would be lying dead then and there.
“He died! He died in the Thousand Deep Cave,” Mo Jingzhe continued, “I met him in the Thousand Deep Cave. We encountered Sunshine Sect disciples there and started fighting. But suddenly, several people appeared. They were the disciples of the Magnificent Flame Sect. I recognized one of them, he was the first-class inner disciple, Jian Wuchen.”
Suddenly, Mo Jingzhe was shocked because the old man in front of him had directly pressed one of his fingers on his forehead. Then, he felt as if something was being pulled out of his mind.
Huo Rong cried in shock. “Tian Xu, stop! You are using an evil skill.”
“Shut up,” Tian Xu rebuked coldly. Suddenly, a glow of light emerged from the finger on Mo Jingzhe’s forehead as many pictures appeared within it.
The skill Tian Xu was using now was an evil skill, the Evil Art of Searching Souls. It could show all the memories in one’s mind.
“Jian Wuchen.
“Huang Xuandao.
“Han Yuntao.
“Feng Qingyun.
“Four first-class inner disciples dare to besiege my disciple? My disciple was in such a precarious situation in the Thousand Deep Cave and I wasn’t even aware of it. I… I…”
As Tian Xu lifted his finger, Mo Jingzhe’s dull eyes immediately regained their clarity. So terrifying! It was really terrifying! I couldn’t offer any resistance before this Tian Xu.
Huo Rong, sensing the rising pressure from Tian Xu, screamed in his heart. He immediately arrived next to Tian Xu and advised, “Tian Xu, this matter needs to be investigated. This matter…”
But before he could finish speaking, he was stopped by Tian Xu’s glare. “Huo Rong, if you still acknowledge our decades-long friendship, you won’t interfere in this.
“Good, very good! This old man would very much like to know who can compel four first-class inner disciples.” Tian Xu’s furious voice suddenly turned colder. Then, he stretched his palm out and grasped toward the ten peaks in the distance. “Come here for this old man….”
A majestic force immediately broke out from his hand, ripping apart space.
When some disciples in the vicinity sensed this power, they felt as if their bodies would be crushed into nothing. Huo Rong was greatly taken aback by this scene. He immediately made a move and protected these disciples. Then he shouted sternly, “Tian Xu, do you want to kill these disciples?”
“I don’t care who killed this old man’s disciple. This old man will pull his bones out and scatter his ashes even if it’s heaven itself. I will make him die without a burial.”
In the distance…
The ten peaks were the places where the sect’s best disciples lived. Among them, the masters of seven peaks weren’t here. They were out for training. Only Jun Wutian, Wan Zhongtian, and Zhan Hongdi were here today.
Great Emperor Peak…
Zhan Hongdi happened to be stabilizing his heart demon. Suddenly, space shattered as a powerful and invincible force pierced through space, layer after layer, and started quaking the entire Great Emperor Peak
“Elder Tian Xu, you are an Elder. You are disregarding your identity by attacking us. There are rules.” Zhan Hongdi opened his eyes as a towering battle intent broke out from him. “We are candidates for Patriarch. If you arrest us in front of so many junior brothers, how will we face these junior brothers with dignity in future?”
A giant hand directly crushed the formation guarding Great Emperor Peak and grabbed directly toward a magnificent palace.
“Absolute Annihilation.” Zhan Hongdi’s entire body was shrouded in a mass of energy as he shouted. The space around him shattered as a force that could destroy the heavens and the hells broke out from him.
Tap Tap Tap!
A cavalry of ten thousand riders filled with bloodlust slashed toward that ginormous hand.
But this terrifying force instantly collapsed and vanished in a puff of smoke under the ginormous hand covering the sky.
As the hand pressed down on him, Zhan Hongdi felt like he was a boat in a storm that could sink anytime.
“So strong! How could he be this strong?” Zhan Hongdi’s countenance changed drastically. He had never seen Elder Tian Xu display this kind of matchless strength. But now, he felt completely powerless before it.
Bang!
Zhan Hongdi might not have been hit by the palm, but he was being crushed on the ground by the sheer might around the five fingers. His armor cracked apart immediately.
Zhan Hongdi’s eyes widened in disbelief. It was an upper-grade Earth-class armor, but it was crushed and shattered by the sheer might.
The ginormous hand captured the invincible Zhan Hongdi like a chicken and dragged him back to Tian Xu.
As for Wan Zhongtian, he had long resigned himself to Elder Tian Xu’s might. He was brought over without any resistance.
Naturally, Jun Wutian tried to resist, but everything was in vain. They were like ants in the hands of Elder Tian Xu.
The three glanced at each other before looking into the distance. However, their eyes widened in shock by the next sight; that ginormous hand that covered the entire sky clasped toward the peaks.
Immediately, Heaven’s Retribution Peak, Great Emperor Peak, and the Skies of Zhong Peak collapsed. At this moment, the old nests of three major disciples of the sect were instantly destroyed.
Everyone was shocked by this scene.
This is strength.
This is power.
Before their eyes, the three senior brothers who were as powerful as the heavens and the earth collapsed instantly in the hands of an elder without offering even a bit of resistance.
Huo Rong felt suffocated at the sight of this. A fiery glow appeared in his eyes. “Tian Xu, are you trying to cause a civil war?”
“I will voluntarily accept any punishment after I have avenged my disciple.”