A beam of light visible soared into the sky from the Earthsea Land of the Heaven Continent, so great was the light that it was visible on the Earth and Mortal Continent. At the sa, the scent of peaches covered the whole Huang Realm. The fragrance was the heaviest in the Heaven Continent, while the Mortal Continent had the least.
All the mortals who inhaled the fragrance felt their vitality strengthen. Those on the Heaven Continent had the greatest benefits. Depending on the circumstances, a mortal could even have their lifespan increased by ten years. Even so cultivators felt the effects as their hidden injuries were nourished or healed altogether.
Within the Buzhou Immortal Sect’s forbidden ground, a middle-aged man glanced at the beam of light. He wore a white jade coronet with long white brocade robes with nurous dragons embroidered on it. Although he did not emit any qi fluctuation, just the majesty he emitted was enough to awe immortals.
A single tear leaked down the man’s face as he stared at the beam of light. His eyes glazed over as if reminiscing over the past, and his gaze held both tenderness and sadness. He silently mouthed a na.
At the Saintly Scholar School, a middle-aged man with two streaks of white hair on both sides of his temples was conversing with a sloppily dressed daoist that had the faint scent of alcohol on him. The forr was Lao Tzu, the founder of the Saintly Scholar School, and the latter would shock Tianyi and Daoyi. He was Daoist Lu that the two had t by chance.
“Before, I never had the chance to sll this fragrance. It lives up to its na as the Queen Mother of the West’s treasure that judges life and death. You should be even more familiar with this fragrance. Isn’t that right, King Duke of the West?” Lao Tzu asked with a smile at Daoist Lu.
Daoist Lu took a swig of alcohol from his wine gourd before wiping his mouth on his sleeves. “That’s just a past life of mine. I no longer have any connection with that identity.”
Lao Tzu poured a cup of fragrant tea with a smile and didn’t say anything more.
At the epicenter of the beam of light, Tianyi, Daoyi, and Su Bojing received the greatest benefits. Tianyi felt as if his stressed mind had relaxed significantly, no longer as haunted as before. Daoyi felt her soul strengthened, and even her dominance over the ghosts increase. And Su Bojing felt as if he was nearing the next stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.
The only one who didn’t seem to have received any benefits was Elder ng. Even Lei Jingye felt so of his vitality return. But Elder ng didn’t mind and instead gazed at the light with a happy yet sad gaze, full of complicated emotions.
It didn’t take long for the light to rescind, and once the light was gone, ngfei stood in the air was a bone-white mirror in her hand. The ground below her had a large hole in the ground where the grotto was once hidden.
But ngfei didn’t have a happy expression on her face as she imdiately appeared in front of Tianyi as if she had teleported. The bone-white mirror dropped to the ground as ngfei held Tianyi cheeks with both hands, inspecting every inch of him.
Mother, you just dropped a divine artifact like so roadside garbage! What are you doing! That’s a divine artifact! Tianyi roared in his mind. Even if his mother didn’t explicitly say it, the fluctuation coming from the mirror did not lie. Plus, Tianyi wanted to act calm and make sure his mother didn’t sense anything wrong with him.
“You’ve gotten thinner,” ngfei finally said after releasing Tianyi’s cheeks.
“I’ve gotten taller. Of course, I would seem thinner.” Tianyi said as naturally as possible. Then he asked ngfei with a worried expression. “What about you? Are you tired? You’ve been refining the divine artifact nonstop for almost a year now.”
ngfei shook her head. “It just took so ti. Are you alright? You don’t seem to be sleeping well.”
Tianyi’s heart shook at his mother’s question. Before, he had a habit of sleeping once every few days. Even if he didn’t, it would matter due to his cultivation. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to sleep, but every ti he did, he recalled his brush of death. Thus he decisively stopped sleeping.
“I just gained a great amount of motivation to cultivate. That’s why I didn’t sleep as much.” Yeah, a great motivation such as not dying.
“What happened?” ngfei asked, her eyes conveying worry without her realizing.
When did mother get so sharp? Tianyi couldn’t help but question. He maintained his position, but under his mother’s unblinking stare, he finally relented.
“Rember the Dragon Emperor?” Tianyi asked. ngfei nodded; it was one of the greatest battles she partook in. “Turns out, his conscious awakened and beca a bodiless soul or sothing. But whatever the reason, he has his complete mories and possessed one of his clones.”
Tianyi pointed at Lei Jingye. “I don’t know if mother knows, but he took the na Longwei and appeared at the Heavenly Connection Gathering. And due to so circumstances, we fought.”
“Are you injured in any way? Did he did anything to?” ngfei imdiately asked and began to inspect Tianyi once more.
“Don’t worry. Although the Dragon Emperor has all his mories, he’s far weaker than before, not even having the strength of a Unity Venerable. How could a has-been be enough to beat ? I dealt him so much damage that he released his possession of Lei Jingye.” Tianyi said, his chest puffed in a display of confidence.
“Has-been?” ngfei repeated the words, not recognizing the aning in Tianyi’s usage. But she put in the back of her mind as there was a more important matter.
“Yi’er, no matter what, the Dragon Emperor was once a half-sovereign Immortal. His ans are far beyond your understanding. We should return to the sect to make sure nothing happened to you.” ngfei said, her face beyond serious.
“Wait, wait!” Tianyi said, seeing his mother grabbing his wrist in preparation to take them back to the sect. “We have to take Lei Jingye back too. I don’t know if the Dragon Emperor fled or is pretending to be Lei Jingye. Best to take him back to the sect and investigate clearly.”
After saying this, ngfei turned her eyes to Lei Jingye. Lei Jingye glared hatefully at Xi ngfei. Anyone and anything related to Tianyi or rather Xi Longyi, such as the Buzhou Immortal Sect and ngfei, Lei Jingye hated by association.
“Yi’er, he was the one who tried to assassinate you in the Northern Region?” ngfei asked.
Tianyi nodded, but his heart skipped a beat when his mother pulled a sword out. He imdiately grabbed her sword-holding hand. “Mother, what are you doing?”
“He’s too dangerous. Whether alive or dead, even a corpse will do. Too dangerous to be left alive.” ngfei righteously said.
Tianyi felt that his mother wanted to say that he was too dangerous to Tianyi. She was fine if Tianyi fought with people of the sa generation, but an old monster like the Dragon Emperor was a huge taboo, apparently. “Who knows, but we might need so ans to soul search him. Elder ng couldn’t do it because his soul was too weak. It’s better to get more information. Better to cut the grass by the roots. If we can’t stop the Dragon Emperor, more problems will arrive in the future.”
ngfei paused and deliberated over Tianyi’s words for a few monts. In the end, she nodded. “What about the Lei Clan?”
“No need to bother with them. I’ve already got my target,” Tianyi said as he glanced at Lei Jingye. The only reason he was here was for Lei Jingye. He never expected to fight the Dragon Emperor here. The Lei Clan were minor characters without Lei Jingye’s support. Who knows wether they can overco the over three clans with the disappearance of Lei Jingye?
“Yi’er, if they found out about your actions that pushed them to the brink, then they would hate you to the core. It’s better to eliminate them now, cut the grass by its roots as you’ve said.” ngfei warned.
Lei Jingye, who heard this, imdiately exploded. Although his mories were fuzzy, he knew that Tianyi had done sothing to his clan from ngfei’s words. Not to ntion how ngfei wanted to exterminate his whole clan. But before he could speak much more, ngfei sealed his mouth, the immortal artifact armor not having the power to resist her spells. He could only glare hatefully at this mother-son duo.
“They are just inconsequential people. What can they even do when they find out? The only noteworthy one is Lei Jingye over there. I’m afraid that they won’t even have ti to worry about with their current predicant.” Tianyi breezily said. He really didn’t place the Lei Clan in his eyes at all.
ngfei sighed when she saw that Tianyi didn’t care at all. “Very well, we must return to the sect as soon as possible.” She motioned for the others to co closer to her.
But before she left, she sent a glance at the three surviving Lei Clan mbers, including Lei De. All three of them lost their breath at the exact sa ti. ngfei had exterminated their souls in the instant she glanced at them.
Lei Jingye went crazy as hot tears leaked down his face. Before he returned to the past, and before the clan’s fall in his first life, Lei Jingye had lived a carefree life. Even though his mother had disappeared, his father gave him twice as much love to compensate him. And it was his father who sacrificed his life for him when the three of the four great clans exterminated the Lei Clan. Aside from Daoyi, his other greatest wish was to prevent his father’s death. But now, his father had just been killed in front of him! And to make it even crueler, his death was even earlier than before!
ngfei frowned and waved her sleeves. Lei Jingye was instantly knocked out. Tianyi just coldly looked on. Honestly, after the fight with the Dragon Emperor, he couldn’t bring himself to empathize with Lei Jingye at all. In fact, it was rather good that he didn’t tornt Lei Jingye to vent his anger like when he first awoke.
“Wait, mother, aren’t you forgetting sothing?” Tianyi said before ngfei
ngfei blinked before looking down at her feet to see the forgotten divine artifact. Under her control, the divine artifact floated next to her. “I didn’t forget. It would’ve transferred with us.”
Tianyi might have believed her had it not been for her looking away when she spoke those words. But Tianyi didn’t expose her. Instead, there was a hint of a smile, the first ti in months.
A pillar of light descended from ngfei’s Heaven, Earth, Man Trinity Palace outside of the Huang Realm and pulled them there before moving them to Jade Peak Palace of the Buzhou Immortal Sect.
In Paradise Sand City, the delegates from the four great clans were assembled at the Lei Clan. The Lei Clan naturally didn’t know that their patriarch and the elders were dead, much less that Lei Jingye had his cultivation crippled. They were currently negotiating the terms of surrender.
Although Lei Clan was worried about the sudden departure of Lei Jingye, they didn’t put much thought into it. Currently, the only clan able to threaten them was the ng Clan and their nascent soul grandmaster, who was injured. Even with the ng Clan’s nascent soul grandmaster, the Lei Clan’s own nascent soul grandmaster was still present, even if he was also injured.
Currently, the Lei Clan was hamring out the other three clan’s surrender. They didn’t want to push things too far. Although they had the upper hand, the Lei Clan didn’t know what a cornered clan would do when all that was left was their extermination. Besides, even if they didn’t take action above-board, they were plenty of shadowy thods they could take to eliminate the other clans.
Suddenly, a giant sword that seed to have been ford from heaven itself descended onto the city. Everyone in the city felt their mind blank while the sword was still in existence as if all the Paradise Sand City was frozen in ti. Only when the sword disappeared did everyone in the city regained their consciousness.
To their amazent and horror, they found all the Lei Clan mbers were dead, leaving only their soulless corpses. Even the nascent soul grandmaster of the Lei Clan died while sitting in his cultivation chamber. When the remaining three of the four great clans discover this, they felt as if they have been riding a roller coaster full of ups and downs as they glanced at each other, unsure of what happened.
Outside the city, a formation stopped working, revealing the tens of corpses inside. They were Lei Cai and the Lei Clan mbers Tianyi trapped inside over a year ago.
In truth, ngfei was venting. Although Tianyi didn’t explicitly say anything, she could still discern so changes in him. How could Tianyi, no matter how monstrous talented, not suffer fighting the Dragon Emperor, despite his weakened state?
That day, there were nurous witnesses of swords descended from the heavens and kill nurous people. To the shock of many, all these people were male and had the exact sa face!
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