A shrill scream, like a cuckoo crying tears of blood, tore through Kunlun Mountain's age-old tranquility.
In the square before Jade Void Palace, Guang Chengzi lay on the ground, his body still convulsing wildly beyond his control as meaningless rasps escaped his throat.
His right shoulder was completely empty. Blood mixed with golden Immortal Essence gushed out like a spring with no end, staining the white jade tiles beneath him a glaring crimson.
At the severed limb, countless tiny golden Law Runes, fine as ox hair, clung to his wound like the most vicious maggots gnawing at the bone. They continually carved away at his life force and Dao foundation, preventing his Dao body from healing itself.
The severing power originating from the Great Dao Origin left him without even a chance to use a divine ability to regenerate his limb!
"Senior Brother!"
Chi Jingzi was the first to scramble over. The moment he saw Guang Chengzi's wound clearly, all color drained from his face, and he trembled like a fallen leaf in the wind.
Taiyi Zhenren staggered forward as well. Looking at his Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover, split cleanly in two and utterly dimmed of spiritual light, then at Guang Chengzi, whose aura was plummeting like an avalanche, he felt a stabbing pain in his primordial spirit and nearly fainted on the spot.
They had lost.
They had lost so thoroughly, so decisively, so... humiliatingly!
The eleven Chan Sect Golden Immortals had gathered Kunlun Mountain's fortune and wielded an imitation Pangu Banner forged by a Saint. Yet they had not even seen their opponent's shadow before a divine beam slashing in from billions of miles away sent them sprawling in utter defeat.
Their senior brother, Guang Chengzi, had even lost an arm on the spot. His Dao foundation had been damaged, and his cultivation had plummeted!
This was simply the greatest joke in the world!
"Waaah—!"
Seeing this miserable scene and recalling that unstoppable golden divine beam, Huanglong Zhenren's Dao heart completely collapsed. He actually dropped onto the ground like a mortal and burst into loud sobs.
It was at this moment.
Deep within Kunlun Mountain, several streams of light carrying equally vast and majestic auras shot into the sky from their respective caves, tore through the sea of clouds, and descended before Jade Void Palace in an instant.
As the light faded, several Daoists of differing appearances emerged, each surrounded by an indestructible golden aura.
They were the remaining Chan Sect Golden Immortals, who had been in seclusion and had not taken part in this matter.
True Lord Yu Ding, Daoist Tianzun, True Lord Qingxu, Grand Master Lingbao...
When they saw the disastrous scene in the square, as though the end of the world had arrived, every one of them froze.
"What happened?"
True Lord Yu Ding, the most level-headed among them, furrowed his brow and stepped forward, arriving beside Guang Chengzi in a single stride.
When his gaze fell upon Guang Chengzi's empty right shoulder and the sharp, cutting intent still lingering in the air—an intent that made even his primordial spirit tremble—his expression changed drastically despite his composure.
"Senior Brother Guang Chengzi!"
"Who was it? Who dared act so recklessly in our sacred land of Kunlun?"
Daoist Tianzun had the fiercest temper. Seeing his senior brother in such a miserable state, his rage soared to the heavens, and a terrifying aura erupted from him, stirring the winds and clouds across the nine heavens.
With bloodshot eyes, Chi Jingzi hoarsely recounted what had happened, embellishing the tale and twisting right and wrong.
Naturally, in his version, the Interception Sect fiends had provoked them without cause and insulted the Saint. They had merely punished them from afar to defend the Sect of Elucidation's dignity, only for the other side to lose all reason and set a vicious trap, launching a sneak attack with some unknown, sinister demonic treasure.
After hearing his tearful account, True Lord Yu Ding and the others who had just emerged from seclusion were all enraged.
"The Interception Sect again!"
"How dare a pack of Furred and Horned creatures, Born of Water and Eggs, bully our Sect of Elucidation like this!"
"They have gone too far! If we do not avenge this grievance, where will the Sect of Elucidation's dignity remain? How will we stand in the Primordial World from now on?"
A shared fury burned fiercely in the hearts of every Golden Immortal.
In their eyes, their senior brother Guang Chengzi's crippling was no longer a personal grudge. It was the Interception Sect's most vicious provocation against the entire Sect of Elucidation, the most ruthless trampling of a Saint's majesty!
"Take Senior Brother inside to treat his wounds!"
A cold killing intent flashed through True Lord Yu Ding's eyes as he made the decision at once.
He extended a hand, intending to use his own magic power to help Guang Chengzi suppress the tyrannical cutting force on his wound.
However, the moment his magic power touched those golden runes, it was like ice and snow meeting a branding iron. It was instantly sliced to pieces and melted into nothingness.
True Lord Yu Ding's heart jolted, and horror flashed through his eyes.
What domineering Law power!
The level of this power seemed to have surpassed the Da Luo realm as they understood it!
He took a deep breath, his expression becoming incomparably grave.
"This fiend's divine abilities are strange. We cannot underestimate him!" True Lord Yu Ding said in a deep voice. "But he has humiliated our Sect of Elucidation and injured our senior brother. This hatred cannot exist under the same sky!"
"Junior Brothers, come with me!"
Having said that, True Lord Yu Ding no longer hesitated. He turned and strode toward the depths of Jade Void Palace.
The other Golden Immortals, including Huanglong Zhenren, whose Dao heart had just collapsed, put away their fear. Their faces were once more filled with rage and killing intent.
They were disciples of a Saint, the orthodox lineage of the Heavenly Dao!
If one could not beat him alone, then all twelve would attack together!
They refused to believe that, with the combined strength of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Sect of Elucidation, they could not deal with one Interception Sect fiend hiding his head and showing his tail!
Before long, the remaining eleven Golden Immortals gathered before an ancient Dao platform in the deepest part of Jade Void Palace.
Above the platform floated an ancient bronze mirror. Its surface was blurred, as though covered in an impenetrable layer of chaos.
This was one of Jade Void Palace's treasures for suppressing fortune: the Kunlun Mirror!
Though it was not the Haotian Mirror, one of the legendary ten Innate Spirit Treasures, it was still a Houtian Supreme Treasure forged by Yuanshi Tianzun from the copper of Mount Shou. It possessed the ability to illuminate the heavens and perceive karma.
"Rise!"
True Lord Yu Ding stood at the forefront, chanting under his breath as his hands formed profound seals.
The other ten Golden Immortals stood behind him and poured their magic power into the Kunlun Mirror without reservation.
Buzzz—!
Eleven vast Golden Immortal powers, as mighty as the sea, converged and surged into the Kunlun Mirror. The ancient mirror trembled violently, then burst forth with a divine radiance stretching ten thousand zhang!
A brilliant pillar of light shot from its surface, pierced straight through Jade Void Palace's roof, and surged into the endless chaos beyond the nine heavens.
Like water, the mirror light instantly illuminated the void across billions of miles. Ignoring the barriers of space and time, it began tracing the karmic source of that golden divine beam!
Countless threads of karma appeared within the mirror, intertwining and vanishing.
At last, under the tense and murderous gazes of the Golden Immortals, the image settled.
Above the East Sea stood Three Immortal Islands, wreathed in immortal mist.
A young man in green robes casually tossed a pair of golden scissors back to a female immortal beside him, whose face was filled with worship. His posture was carefree and his expression calm, as though he had merely done something insignificant.
"It's him!"
Chi Jingzi pointed at the figure in the mirror and screamed through gritted teeth, his eyes filled with venom.
"Lock onto him! This fiend will certainly die today!"
The eleven Golden Immortals exerted their strength at once. The Kunlun Mirror shone brilliantly, and an invisible lock of karma crossed endless space and time, firmly locking onto the green-robed figure on Three Immortal Islands.
At the very moment they locked onto Lin Feng.
On Three Immortal Islands.
Bi Xiao accepted the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors with slightly trembling hands. The familiar cold sensation of the weapon in her grasp now felt as heavy as a thousand jun.
Her beautiful eyes stared fixedly at Lin Feng's back. Her gaze was like that of the most devout believer looking upon her god.
One snip had crippled the Sect of Elucidation's senior brother!
What divine might was that? What tyranny?
Just what kind of supreme being was her master?
Just as Qiong Xiao and Bi Xiao were overwhelmed and unable to contain their surging emotions.
Lin Feng suddenly raised a brow, as though he had sensed something. A playful curve formed at the corner of his mouth.
His gaze slowly lifted, seeming to pierce through the void and meet the eleven prying gazes from the Kunlun Mirror in the unseen depths of fate.
Qiong Xiao and Bi Xiao's expressions changed. They too felt the sensation of being locked onto, as though countless eyes were coldly watching this place from beyond the distant heavens.
"Master, it's the Sect of Elucidation!" Qiong Xiao said nervously, as though facing a great enemy.
Lin Feng merely smiled calmly, his tone as relaxed as if discussing the day's weather.
"Looks like they still aren't convinced. They want to come knocking together."
He paused and turned to look at the tense sisters beside him. The smile on his lips grew wider.
"Good. It saves me the trouble of finding them one by one."
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