CH 133

Chapter 133 – Primordial Lord Tongming

In the Shangqing Sacred Sect, above the skies of the Mingxin Mountain Range, a massive palace was floating in the sky, hidden among the thick clouds atop Mingxin Peak.

Spiritual pets in the form of rare birds occasionally soared past. The distant, echoing cries of cranes rang out, adding a misty, nebulous atmosphere to the floating palace.

“Lu Ling, you said that you were only going to go take a quick peek at the festivities before returning. Why were you gone for so long?” a youth in a golden robe said, furrowing his brows as he looked at the charming girl walking into the hall.

“I was just curious, Senior Martial Brother Zhang. I wanted to see how human tournaments were different from ours,” the girl said in a clear tone, her eyes concealing a hint of craftiness. She then turned to face the person seated in the hall’s seat of honor and bowed respectfully. “Primordial Lord.”

The golden-robed youth shook his head, then also turned and bowed to the old man, who was seated cross-legged on a praying mat. “Primordial Lord Yangze, now that I have delivered what my master wished to give you, I won’t disturb you any longer. We will return to the Ancient Nuwa Sect right away and report to our master.”

The old man’s appearance was extremely ordinary, but his gaze was unfathomably deep and profound. With a light flick of his sleeves, he responded, “It seems that the two new disciples that Tongming took in aren’t too bad. You two take these things with you. Consider it a congratulatory gift from me to Tongming’s new disciples.”

The light flickered and a simple and unadorned interspatial ring appeared in the air in front of the golden-robed youth.

“Thank you for your generosity, Primordial Lord Yangze,” the golden-robed youth said, bowing in unison with the girl. They didn’t open the interspatial ring on the spot, instead putting it away immediately.

“You can go now then,” Primordial Lord Yangze said, flicking his sleeves once more. The scenery shifted, and in the next moment, the golden-robed youth and the girl with the elegant features found themselves outside of the palace.

“Zhang Zeming, take out that interspatial ring. Let me see what kind of treasures Primordial Lord Yangze gave us,” the girl said, tugging on the golden-robed youth’s sleeve.

Zhang Zeming looked at her and shook his head. “Lu Ling, you are considered to be one of master’s elite disciples. Why can’t you learn to be patient?”

“If you don’t let me see it, I’ll tell master that a few days ago, you secretly…” Lu Ling began before Zhang Zeming covered her mouth with his hand.

“Fine, here,” Zhang Zeming said, taking out the interspatial ring and handing it to Lu Ling. “Let’s first go back and report to master though.”

The two of them rapidly flew, turning into beams of light as they streaked through the sky. Within an hour, they made it out of the territory of the Shangqing Sacred Sect.

“Phew, maintaining this transformation technique for so long really consumes demonic qi,” Lu Ling said, demonic qi fluctuating around her body. Her legs turned into a single white serpent tail, which swung lazily back and forth.

Zhang Zeming’s legs also turned into a serpent tail, but his scales were golden. “Master and Primordial Lord Yangze are old friends. Our mission this time was a personal matter of master’s. As disciples of the Ancient Nuwa Sect, there’s no way we could have entered the Shangqing Sacred Sect, otherwise this initially quite simple matter would have become far more complicated.

“Yeah, I remember the last time a ceremonial worship was held in the Shan Mountains, it was hosted by the Ancient Nuwa Sect and the Shangqing Sacred Sect. The several hundred sects of the Shan Mountains, both small and large, all attended. But the etiquette and tasks involved were way too convoluted,” Lu Ling said with a laugh, fiddling around with the interspatial ring in her hand. She hesitated for a moment, but still decided not to open it. “I’m really curious what kind of treasures Primordial Lord Yangze gave us, but I’m thinking it still might be better to report to master first.”

Zhang Zeming nodded, glancing at Lu Ling with a commending gaze. “Then let’s hurry back to the Ancient Nuwa Sect and head to the Tongyou Domain so we can report to master as soon as possible.”

A cloud of pure demonic qi poured out from his hand, and with a flick of his golden serpent tail, a golden cloud appeared beneath his feet, propping up his weight. He shot forward as a dazzling beam of golden light, disappearing into the horizon.

“Wait for me!” Lu Ling shouted. She was distractedly looking at the simple, unadorned interspatial ring, but she quickly put it away, summoned a white cloud, and shot forward to catch up with Zhang Zeming.

The wind swept past and rustled her black hair, revealing a seal on her forehead that depicted thunder and lightning.

The three golden suns were on the verge of disappearing beyond the horizon. A small beam of twilight afterglow illuminated the girl’s side profile.

Her black hair fluttered lightly in the wind, revealing her fair skin and beautifully refined features. Her red lips parted in a smile to reveal pearly white teeth, as if she happened to think of something funny at that moment.

With a light swipe of the snow white serpent tail beneath her pale pink dress, the cloud beneath her put on even more speed. Her figure sped off into the distance, disappearing into the sky full of clouds.

… …

By deploying the entire clan’s resources, the Ruyang Region Xu Clan wiped out the Lin’an Region Guo Clan in just three days.

With a force consisting of 4 Xiantian stage transcendents, several dozen half-step Xiantian stage martial artists, the 800 elite troops of the Ruyang Army, and 500 Houtian martial artists from several other clans in the Region, the entirety of the Lin’an Region was unable to put up any resistance whatsoever.

Seeing the advance of the Ruyang Army, the countless small aristocratic families of the Lin’an Region immediately surrendered. Xu Chaoyang pardoned all of these small aristocratic families without exception, but he forced them to forfeit around half of their assets.

After all, the Xu Clan would be relying on them to govern the Lin’an Region on their behalf in the future.

As for the members of the Guo Clan who still remained in the Lin’an Region, there was only the Xiantian stage transcendent Guo Nansu. The rest of the members of the Guo Clan had all been slaughtered!

However, Guo Nansu’s youngest granddaughter, Guo Ruoxi, had Grade 4 Dao Channels, which meant that she had an impressive talent for cultivation. As a result, she had been sent away in advance, and her current whereabouts were unknown. Many people from the Guo Clan had fled immediately upon catching wind of the invasion of the Xu Clan. However, Xu Chaoyang didn’t pay any mind to those people. With only a few remaining stragglers, there was no way they would be able to cause any trouble, so he just let them be.

It was nighttime back in the Ruyang Region, in Zhenhai City. Festivities were in full swing, making a show of happiness and prosperity.

“Our Regional Lord is so brilliant!”

“With our Regional Lord guiding us, we will definitely flourish and prosper!”

“A toast to the Regional Lord!”

The elders and family heads of the small aristocratic families were laughing heartily as they offered a toast to Xu Chaoyang, who was sitting in the seat of honor with a complicated look on his face.

Nourishing Heart Hall was extremely spacious, capable of holding all of the participants of this extravagant banquet, ranging from the people of authority from the large and small clans, the various talented and heroic youths, to the people who had obtained accolades in the recent battle.

“Seventh Young Master, we’d like to offer you a toast,” Ye Fantian said, approaching Jin Wuyou with several other outstanding youths from the small clans.

As a younger brother of Ye Zhaixing, Ye Fantian was also someone originally from the Ye Clan. Because he was a peak Houtian martial artist, he was granted a position as deputy commander of the Ruyang Army after the Ye Clan was taken into the Xu Clan.

“Seventh Young Master’s strategies were excellent this time. Many of them are being spoken of throughout the Ruyang Region. For example, that plan to offer the ordinary citizens of Lin’an Region bounties in exchange for clues on the whereabouts of the members of the Guo Clan… Truly brilliant!” a youth in black clothes said with a smile. “With the Lin’an Region surrounded by enemies on all sides, the members of the Guo Clan could only escape through the fields of the citizens. But by offering them bounties in exchange for information, they would definitely sell them out. And sure enough, by relying on Seventh Young Master’s plan, we managed to capture several dozen of the remaining members of the Guo Clan!”

Jin Wuyou simply shook his head and said, “Those were just petty ruses. Our victory over the Lin’an Region this time was all due to the powerful forces of the Xu Clan. They would have easily accomplished it regardless before long.”

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