Chapter 190: Desperation Revealed, the Wilderness Clan Appears
“Congratulations, Fellow Daoist, on successfully crossing your tribulation!”
“Haha, same to you, same to you.”
“Hm? Why has Sect Master Ye not taken the pill?” the Turtle Breath Sect Master glanced at you and asked, puzzled.
“Ahem, This Sect Master is young and doesn’t need it yet,” you explained.
Soon after, you felt a cold, sinister aura wash over you, sending a shudder through your heart.
The old emperor means to kill you! Ancestor Yunyi’s voice rang out in your mind. You silently glanced at Li Wudao, then quickly looked away.
“Fellow Daoists, how do you feel?” Li Wudao spoke up.
“So this is the Tribulation Transcendence stage? What immense power!”
“Lifespan, I can feel a vast, surging lifespan! Hahaha!”
“Fellow Daoists, do you still remember the promise from before? It is time for you to honor it!” Li Wudao said loudly, then extended a finger, pointing at you.
“Let us start with the Heavenly Blade Sect, as a sacrifice to the flag!!!”
Instantly, the gaze of every cultivator around turned toward you. Being stared down by several Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, even you felt crushing pressure.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Ancestor Yunyi stepped forward, shielding you behind him and cutting off everyone’s gaze.
“I’d like to see who dares!!!” Ancestor Yunyi said in a deep voice, his eyes fixed on Li Wudao, his gaze gradually turning unfriendly.
“Ahem, may I ask, Your Majesty, what is the meaning of this?” the Turtle Breath Sect Master spoke up, asking in confusion.
“The Heavenly Blade Sect colluded with the Bai family, and actually tricked and slaughtered the troops I sent out!”
“Such an act of insubordination, should they not be killed?”
The crowd fell silent, yet not a single person moved to act. Seeing this, you could not help but find it somewhat amusing.
You had never expected the matter of colluding with the Bai family to stay hidden forever. After all, there had been so many cultivators present back then; it was simply impossible to keep such a secret.
“What, are you all going to go back on your word?” Seeing the crowd unmoved, Li Wudao said in anger.
“This one takes his leave first. An Ancestor has emerged within my sect, and as Sect Master I must return immediately!” the Turtle Breath Sect Master said, cupping his hands, then turned and left.
Seeing this, the other family heads also found excuses to prepare to leave, with not the slightest intention of making a move.
“Stop right there! Do you really think my things are so easy to take?” Li Wudao was furious. His Tribulation Transcendence cultivation erupted, blocking the several people who were about to leave.
“What is the meaning of this, Your Majesty?”
“Your lives are all within a single thought of mine right now!”
“If you wish to die, then go ahead and leave!” Li Wudao said arrogantly.
“What? You tampered with the pills?”
“Are you not just deceiving us? If the pills truly had a problem, with our insight, how could we fail to see it?” Yet even as he said this, no one present dared to act rashly.
“Heh! A bunch of trash who cannot even break through to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. And you think you could see the mysteries within my pills?” Li Wudao said, full of confidence.
“Ancestor, is there really a problem with the pills?” you asked Ancestor Yunyi beside you.
“I don’t know. I don’t refine pills,” Ancestor Yunyi shook his head. “However, their Tribulation Transcendence realm… there is something very wrong with it!”
“What are you standing around for? Hurry up and act!” Li Wudao urged.
“Hold on. You say the pills have a problem, so they truly have a problem?” you spoke up in rebuttal.
“What proof do you have?”
“Proof? Hahahaha!” Li Wudao laughed loudly. “I will let you all experience for yourselves just what problem these pills have!”
Soon, you saw many of the guards around collapse to their knees, their cultivation wiped out in an instant, only to recover to their peak shortly after.
Yet what puzzled you was that the various sect masters and family heads were not affected in the slightest.
“This is the Wilderness Clan’s method,” you reminded Ancestor Yunyi beside you.
“Oh?” A glimmer of light flashed in Ancestor Yunyi’s eyes.
“Your Majesty, this does not seem to be of much use?”
“Patriarch Qing and the others do not seem to have changed at all,” you continued to stir the flames.
“How can this be? Impossible! This is impossible!” Watching the unaffected crowd, Li Wudao could not believe it.
“It’s you! You did this!” Li Wudao turned to look at Princess Anle beside him, his killing intent surging.
Facing the threat of death, Princess Anle smiled faintly. “Imperial Father, you have grown old.”
“I will kill you!!!” Li Wudao reached out and grabbed Princess Anle by the neck, his killing intent running wild.
“Save me!”
“Li Wudao, you have grown old!” A voice rang out, and three figures suddenly stepped out from the void. Judging by their appearance, they were unmistakably Wilderness Clan cultivators!
As his words fell, you then saw Li Wudao, whose cultivation had been at the Tribulation Transcendence stage, suddenly begin to plummet, dropping directly to the Nascent Soul stage!
Princess Anle broke free from Li Wudao’s grasp and looked down at her Imperial Father from above. “Someone, escort His Majesty back to rest!”
“No, impossible!”
“You cannot abandon me!”
“You cannot!!!”
“Time to go.” Ancestor Yunyi’s voice rang out, and he grabbed your hand, about to escape into the void.
“Fellow Daoist, where are you going?” A figure with fiery red hair appeared, blocking your way.
Seeing the newcomer, your heart lurched violently. You had seen this person before!
It was the Blazing Heavenly Venerable, the one who had fought Yang Ji outside the village back then! A Great Vehicle stage cultivator!
Your heart turned cold in an instant, and you felt your life was about to end.
“It’s you. It has been a long time,” Ancestor Yunyi said.
“I never imagined you would actually throw in your lot with them.” A flicker of surprise passed through Ancestor Yunyi’s eyes; clearly, he also knew the person before him.
“There was nothing to be done. The Immortal Path is severed. To survive, this is the only way,” the Blazing Heavenly Venerable said helplessly.
“Several thousand years have passed, and Heavenly Venerable Yunyi is still so young!”
“What, are you going to stop me?” Ancestor Yunyi said with a half-smile.
“I wonder how much of Heavenly Venerable Yunyi’s strength remains?”
“If you wish to know, come and feel it for yourself!” Ancestor Yunyi made his move!
“I could not ask for more!”
Before your eyes, the starry river shattered, the sun and moon hung inverted. One second you were still within the void, and the next you were directly surrounded by a sea of fire.
A searing pain assailed you, making even your soul ache, and your physical body began to melt!
In just a single instant, you returned to Ancestor Yunyi’s side, the strange phenomena around you vanishing, yet your body and soul still throbbed with lingering pain.
To take part in a battle between Great Vehicle stage powerhouses is certain death for me!