"Ahhh! You actually dared to make me kneel? Even before Eldest Senior Brother, I never had to kneel."
Yu Shuixian went mad, letting out a hysterical roar. Her features twisted beyond recognition from sheer fury.
"Senior Brother Pilu Xian, Senior Brother Jin Guangxian, Senior Brother Ling Ya Xian, come save me! Someone is insulting our Intercepting Teaching! Hurry and kill him!"
She let out a shrill howl, her voice like that of a Nine Abyss Wraith, brimming with venomous hatred.
This was not the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, and there was no such thing as the Investiture of the Gods. Disciples of saints were not afraid of death, because they knew that even if their true spirits were scattered, the saints could revive them.
But they feared losing face. Death could be undone through revival, but once their face was lost, it could never be recovered.
A talisman shot out of Yu Shuixian's body and exploded in the sky. The light from the blast formed the image of four treasured swords overhead.
"Eldest Senior Brother, be careful! This woman is using the Biyou Palace Sword Talisman to summon her fellow disciples. Whenever Disciples of Intercepting Teaching are about to lose, they use the Biyou Palace Sword Talisman to call for reinforcements."
Guang Chengzi's heart jolted when he saw the pattern of treasured swords in the sky, and he hurriedly warned him.
"What is there to fear? Before absolute power, numbers mean nothing. If numbers alone could defeat an opponent, why would we cultivate so desperately? We might as well recruit troops throughout the Primordial Wilderness."
Meng Chen flicked his finger, sending a Jade Purity Talisman flying out. It stuck firmly to Yu Shuixian's forehead.
This Jade Purity Talisman had been drawn by Meng Chen using the mysteries of the Seal of Heaven Overturning. It could suppress not only Yu Shuixian, but even earth, fire, water, and wind.
Yu Shuixian, who had been so arrogant moments ago, knelt stiffly in place like a zombie, unable to move even a finger.
"See? Suppressed just like that! The orthodox Daoist arts of our Xuanmen surpass all Heretical Paths. Do not learn from such scum—abandoning your own Daoist arts to study Heretical Paths."
After effortlessly suppressing Yu Shuixian, Meng Chen did not forget to admonish Guang Chengzi and the others.
Guang Chengzi and the other two nodded repeatedly. They could suppress Yu Shuixian as well, but they absolutely could not do it so quickly. Before they could subdue her, the other Disciples of Intercepting Teaching would likely have already arrived.
As they spoke, demonic winds suddenly howled across heaven and earth, while dark clouds rolled overhead. Boundless black qi swept in from the west, and three Daoists with strange appearances rode the surging clouds to arrive above them.
These three Daoists were Pilu Xian, Jin Guangxian, and Ling Ya Xian.
When Pilu Xian saw his beloved suppressed on the ground, his eyes widened in fury. "You brats of the Chan Sect dare humiliate a disciple of my Intercepting Teaching? Today, I will make sure you die without intact corpses!"
With a wave of his hand, lightning surged through the sky. Crackle, crackle—within an instant, the entire heavens became a sea of lightning. A heavy pressure immediately filled heaven, earth, and the void, as though the end of the world had arrived.
Supreme Purity Divine Firmament Heavenly Lightning!
Pilu Xian waved his hand again, and blades and sword shadows emerged from the Thunder Sea. Countless lightning sabers, lightning spears, and lightning swords manifested one after another, their edges exposed as they charged toward Meng Chen.
At that moment, time itself seemed to stop.
Guang Chengzi immediately recognized the formidable power of the Supreme Purity Divine Firmament Heavenly Lightning. "Eldest Senior Brother, leave this insignificant clown to me."
With Meng Chen standing guard, he was not afraid of other Disciples of Intercepting Teaching arriving. Thus, he cast aside his reservations and prepared to fight Pilu Xian.
But Meng Chen stopped him. "Since they enjoy relying on their numbers to bully our Chan Sect, our Chan Sect must respond in kind. Otherwise, they will think we are easy to bully."
As the Eldest Senior Brother of the Chan Sect, no one could bully its disciples before he fell. Though he did not wish to turn against the Intercepting Teaching, they had already come to his door. He could no longer retreat.
If he took one step back for the greater good today, he would have to take a second and a third step back in the future. He had no desire to become the sort of person who "exhausts the Chan Sect's resources to win the Intercepting Teaching's favor."
Facing the Supreme Purity Divine Firmament Heavenly Lightning, Meng Chen brought his hands together and formed a hand seal.
Guang Chengzi's mind shook when he saw it. His aptitude was second only to Meng Chen's within the Chan Sect, and he recognized at a glance that Meng Chen was using the most complex and profound of the Primordial Nine Seals: the Seal of Infinity.
"The Seal of Infinity? The foremost of the Nine Seals, the Seal of Infinity? Eldest Senior Brother has comprehended the complete Primordial Nine Seals?!"
Guang Chengzi was shaken beyond measure. He had thought that comprehending the Seal of Creation, the Seal of Heaven Overturning, and the Seal of Void already made him extraordinary. Never in his wildest dreams had he expected Meng Chen to comprehend all of the Primordial Nine Seals.
With such talent and comprehension, Guang Chengzi could not catch up even if he used the Golden Light Evasion Technique!
The instant Meng Chen activated the Seal of Infinity, a kingdom of nothingness descended. Within this kingdom, there was no time, no space, neither being nor nonbeing. No concepts existed at all.
The world-destroying Supreme Purity Divine Firmament Heavenly Lightning fell into the kingdom of nothingness without even causing a ripple. In an instant, it was assimilated by the kingdom's power and turned into nothingness.
"What?!"
Pilu Xian's expression changed drastically. Never in his dreams had he imagined that his divine ability would be so easily neutralized. "Junior Brothers, this man is exceptionally fierce. Quickly bring out your Magic Treasures and join forces with me to kill him!"
Thus, Pilu Xian flew into a rage from humiliation. He swore that he would kill the man who dared suppress his Dao Companion and make him understand that Disciples of Intercepting Teaching could be killed, but never humiliated.
Boom! Boom!
Even without Pilu Xian saying anything, Jin Guangxian and Ling Ya Xian knew what to do.
Jin Guangxian and Ling Ya Xian exchanged a glance. Jin Guangxian brought out a violet-gold bell, while a pitch-black wolf-toothed club appeared in Ling Ya Xian's hand.
"At the peak of heaven stand the immortals of the Intercepting Teaching; only with our Intercepting Teaching can there be immortals!"
The two roared at the same time, coordinating with Pilu Xian's Supreme Purity Divine Firmament Heavenly Lightning to launch a joint pincer attack on Meng Chen.
The battle intent of the three rose without end. Even heaven and earth sensed their resolve and were stirred by their fighting spirit, giving rise to countless bolts of lightning in the void.
This was lightning born of nature, not Supreme Purity Divine Firmament Heavenly Lightning.
Amid the atmosphere of destruction, the three men's magic power rose steadily, their strength growing ever more tyrannical as they shattered the endless void.
Meng Chen merely sneered when he saw this, and the power of the Seal of Infinity erupted completely.
Boom!
The kingdom of nothingness swept across heaven and earth. Mountains, rivers, vegetation, time and space, laws, divine abilities... all were absorbed by the Seal of Infinity and became part of nothingness.
The divine abilities and Magic Treasures of Pilu Xian and the other two became even more vulnerable.
Under the Seal of Infinity, all power was suppressed. Their divine abilities dissipated, and the Divine Light of their Magic Treasures vanished completely.
Finally, the Seal of Infinity slammed heavily into Pilu Xian and the other two, then enveloped them within the kingdom of nothingness.
Pilu Xian and the other two only had time to utter the word "No" before collapsing into unconsciousness.
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