Chapter 183: A Shocking Upheaval
You step forward, and your figure appears a hundred li away.
“Sect… Sect Master!” In the back mountain of the sect, a pair of Dao Companions were startled by your sudden appearance, lying on the ground and trembling.
“Ahem, This Sect Master was merely passing by. Continue, continue.” You said somewhat awkwardly, your figure appearing another hundred li away.
Only two steps, and you already felt your spiritual power had been depleted by more than half!
“Worthy of a great divine ability. With my current cultivation, I can take at most four steps!”
Returning to the sect, you met Ancestor Kongling.
“Ancestor, what business brings you here today?” You invited Ancestor Kongling to sit, personally pouring a cup of spiritual tea.
“Within the Imperial City, a strange Fusion realm cultivator has appeared, suspected to be a Wilderness Clansman.” Ancestor Kongling’s expression was extremely grave.
“It seems the imperial family is about to make their move.” You pondered silently for a moment, deciding to wait and see how things developed.
“Please have the Ancestors pay closer attention in the coming days, just in case of accidents.”
“That goes without saying.” Ancestor Kongling nodded and left.
You took a sip of tea, and in your heart you made your resolve — you were going to break through!
“The Wilderness Clan is cooperating with the imperial family. I fear great events are about to unfold in the Cultivation World!”
“Cultivation is the greatest guarantee for one’s place in the world!”
You returned to your cultivation chamber, took out the Chess Sage’s Chessboard, and immersed your Primordial Spirit within it, comprehending the laws of heaven and earth.
“Merge half of the laws and great Daos I have comprehended into my body, and I can break through to the Fusion realm?” you murmured to yourself.
Cultivation knows no years. Ten years later, you — deep in secluded meditation — were jolted awake!
“Sect Master, come out quickly! The Wilderness, they’ve made their move!!!” Ancestor Kongling’s voice came through, and you woke with a start, the world within the Chessboard falling away.
“What happened?” You looked at the somewhat panicked Ancestor Kongling before you and asked.
“The Blazing Fire Sect has been destroyed!!!”
“What?” You were shocked. That was one of the Five Great Sects in the Purple Firmament Immortal Dynasty, on equal footing with the Heavenly Blade Sect!
“When did this happen?”
“Sigh, let us speak in the Sect Main Hall. The other Ancestors have been waiting for some time.” Ancestor Kongling sighed.
“Let’s go!”
Within the Sect Main Hall, Ancestor Kongling set up a formation to isolate everything.
“Ancestors, what’s going on? How could the Blazing Fire Sect have been destroyed?” You, seated in the Sect Master’s position, asked impatiently.
“Three days ago, the Blazing Fire Sect’s Sect-Protecting Grand Formation suddenly activated. A Tribulation Transcendence cultivator was doing battle.”
“When the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation was lifted, the Blazing Fire Sect had been razed to the ground!”
“Several hundred thousand cultivators of the entire sect — not a single one survived!”
“There is the aura left behind by a supreme expert after battle there. We did not dare approach, and could only watch from afar.”
“We suspect a Great Vehicle stage powerhouse may have appeared there!”
“Great Vehicle!!!” Having spent so many years in the Cultivation World, you were no longer the innocent youth you once were.
You knew that every Great Vehicle stage cultivator was a supreme being who stood above the world, one who could annihilate an Immortal Dynasty with a raise of his hand.
They were the ones closest to immortality!
It could be said that so long as one stepped into the Great Vehicle stage, one was already half an immortal!
“How has the imperial family reacted?” After a moment, you calmed down and asked.
Ancestor Kongling shook his head. “The imperial family acts as if unaware. Only just recently did they send people to investigate.”
“And those people suspected to be Wilderness Clan cultivators?” You asked again.
“Since taking up residence in the imperial palace three years ago, they have vanished without a trace.”
“Ancestors, who do you think is responsible?”
“It must be the Wilderness. Only the Wilderness would commit such an act of total extermination.”
“Does the Blazing Fire Sect truly have no enemies?” You asked.
“The Blazing Fire Sect Master has always been on good terms with others. Within the Immortal Dynasty, he had no enemies.”
“Then outside the Immortal Dynasty?”
“That…”
“If experts from other Immortal Dynasties were to enter our borders, we would surely know in advance.”
You pondered for a moment, then decided to sound out Princess Anle. Perhaps you could draw out some useful information.
Returning to your cave residence, you took out that token and sent a voice transmission to Princess Anle.
“Sect Master Ye, This Empress has been waiting for you most anxiously!” Princess Anle’s figure surfaced from the token.
“Oh? Is the Princess missing This Sect Master?” You chuckled lightly, looking at the Princess Anle avatar before you.
“Hmph, has Sect Master Ye considered it thoroughly?” Princess Anle did not take the bait, and asked instead.
“How do you need me to cooperate?” You asked with a smile.
“So then, Sect Master Ye is agreeing?”
“The matter of the Blazing Fire Sect — I imagine the Princess has heard of it as well?” You fixed your gaze on Princess Anle, taking in her every reaction.
“Sigh, who knows which Senior the Blazing Fire Sect managed to enrage, to actually be wiped out entirely!” Princess Anle lamented for the Blazing Fire Sect, as if this matter truly had nothing to do with her.
“Indeed. An entity as powerful as the Blazing Fire Sect, wiped out overnight — how are the rest of us to survive?” You followed along with Princess Anle’s words.
“So then, is this the reason you wish to cooperate with This Empress?”
“As the master of a sect, I am greatly worried about my sect’s safety!”
“This one does not wish for my Heavenly Blade Sect to follow in the Blazing Fire Sect’s footsteps!” You said solemnly.
“Heh, rest assured. Cooperating with my imperial family will naturally guarantee the Heavenly Blade Sect’s safety!”
“Mm, then I thank the Princess.” In your heart, you already had your answer.
“If there is need, please feel free to instruct me, Princess!”
“I will. Sect Master Ye, await This Empress’s notice.” Princess Anle vanished.
“Something’s wrong, Sect Master! The Cloud Stream Sect is under attack, and their Sect-Protecting Grand Formation has already been activated!” The First Elder came to report.
“What?!?” You rushed to the Sect Main Hall, where the eight Ancestors once again gathered.
“Let’s go. Contact the other two great sects, and we head to the Cloud Stream Sect together!” You ordered at once.
“Yes!”
You tossed the Sect Master token to the Vice Sect Master. “Take the token. If I and the Ancestors do not return within a week, immediately dig out Ancestor Yunyi from the Forbidden Grounds to take charge!”
“Yes!”
“This person truly is utterly unscrupulous. The Blazing Fire Sect had barely been destroyed, yet he dares strike again!” Ancestor Kongling said.
“This time, we will stand guard outside the Cloud Stream Sect. This one would like to see just what power is behind this.” One Ancestor said domineeringly.
Riding the teleportation formation, you led the eight Ancestors to the Cloud Stream Sect’s territory, where you met with the Sect Masters of the other two great sects.
……