People of Hundred Peaks for Life

Hundred Peaks Sect, Prison Suppressing Peak.

Mother Song chatted with Wu Qingqing for a long while before suddenly thinking of a question. She asked curiously, "How long will it take us to reach your... mm, your great sect?"

"How long..." Wu Qingqing glanced at the group, paused slightly, then said, "Probably a little over ten days. I can't calculate the exact time very well."

The main reason was that, with so many people, they would definitely need a Flying Boat.

That would naturally be slower than her traveling alone.

She had always flown by herself, so she truly did not know how long it would take.

"Oh? A little over ten days—not too far." Mother Song nodded gently. She had been in Hundred Peaks Sect for so long, and had even begun cultivating. Her understanding of distance and time was no longer what it had once been.

Flying for over ten days really did not count as far.

Song Zhong did not want to speak. You probably have no idea how powerful a Half-Step True Monarch was, or how fast one could fly.

Come to think of it, though, he did not know how fast a Half-Step True Monarch could fly either.

And he had another question.

"By the way, what is the difference between a great sect and an ordinary sect? Or rather, what requirements must a sect meet before it can be called a great sect?"

He did not believe a sect could simply call itself a great sect because it felt like it.

After speaking, Song Zhong looked up into the sky. In the void, the Mountain Guardian Elder and the other higher-ups of the sect happened to be flying over.

The Mountain Guardian Elder respectfully cupped his hands toward Wu Qingqing before asking, "Forgive us for disturbing you, True Lord."

He did not wish to disturb Wu Qingqing either, but Hundred Peaks Sect knew nothing about the Ancestral Land. They could only ask Wu Qingqing. And what if Dao Xuan Sect came looking for them again afterward?

He even wanted to ask whether Hundred Peaks Sect could seek the protection of Piaomiao Sect, and what conditions they would need to fulfill.

At the side, Mother Song, Father Song, and even Song Zhong's sworn elder sister, Song Qingwei, all looked toward Wu Qingqing in shock.

They had actually been quite confused when they arrived.

Earlier, the higher-ups of Hundred Peaks Sect had found them and told them that Song Zhong had found a Dao companion, asking them to come take a look. They had also said that Song Zhong's Dao companion was formidable—she had come from the Human Race's Ancestral Land and was exceptionally powerful.

They had wondered just how formidable "exceptionally powerful" could be.

Could she be a little stronger than the Mountain Guardian Elder?

But looking at the situation now...

The Mountain Guardian Elder and even the sect leaders of Hundred Peaks Sect were treating her with such respect. She seemed far more powerful than they had imagined.

Wu Qingqing merely nodded slightly and said, "There is indeed a requirement for becoming a great sect. That is, a sect or school must have existed continuously for one hundred thousand years since its founding, without ever having been destroyed."

"One hundred thousand years?" Song Zhong immediately turned to the Mountain Guardian Elder and the others. "How long has our Hundred Peaks Sect existed? I remember it being over ninety-nine thousand years."

He did not know the exact number.

"As of this year, it has been ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine years. Once this year passes, only one hundred years will remain."

As the Mountain Guardian Elder spoke, excitement appeared on his face. So after one hundred years, their Hundred Peaks Sect would also be able to call itself a great sect?

"Your sect has indeed existed for a long time." Surprise also flashed across Wu Qingqing's face before she continued, "However, one hundred thousand years is merely the threshold for becoming a great sect.

"Becoming a great sect is not as simple as a sect calling itself a great sect after one hundred thousand years, and everyone else acknowledging it as one.

"To become a great sect, you must also survive the Sect Tribulation!"

"The Sect Tribulation?" Everyone's eyes widened at once.

Wu Qingqing nodded slightly. "That is right. When cultivators reach certain levels, they undergo heavenly tribulations. A power is no different.

"The Sect Tribulation is far more terrifying than the heavenly tribulations ordinary cultivators must endure.

"It is a heavenly tribulation aimed at the entire great sect. Every cultivator in the great sect must undergo the tribulation!"

At these words, Song Zhong wore an unconcerned expression.

A Sect Tribulation? So what?

You may not know that the man standing before you is hailed as the nemesis of heavenly tribulations.

I, Song Zhong, fear no heavenly tribulation!

As for joining Piaomiao Sect and no longer being a member of Hundred Peaks Sect?

Isn't that simple?

If I can join Piaomiao Sect, can't I return to Hundred Peaks Sect later?

I am joining Piaomiao Sect now partly for myself, and partly for Hundred Peaks Sect.

I destroyed Dao Xuan Sect myself, so I only need to draw the matter onto myself and preserve Hundred Peaks Sect.

Then, when Hundred Peaks Sect must undergo its Sect Tribulation, I can simply return.

Leave Hundred Peaks Sect?

Hundred Peaks Sect has never wronged me.

My Boundary Thunder was given to me by Master. Back then, when I provoked Formless Peak, Master had always supported me. And the Mountain Guardian Elder—when I helped others capture Divine Weapons, I had already violated Hundred Peaks Sect's rules somewhat, yet he still allowed me to do it.

And later, if not for me, so many foreign races would not have besieged Hundred Peaks Sect.

Yet every one of Hundred Peaks Sect's predecessors would rather self-destruct to protect Hundred Peaks Sect than utter a single word of blame against me.

They had even wanted me to break out of the encirclement, to survive.

After that day, after personally watching so many Hundred Peaks Sect cultivators self-destruct before my eyes, I had already made up my mind about Hundred Peaks Sect! From that moment onward, I knew that Hundred Peaks Sect was my root!

For my entire life, I will be a person of Hundred Peaks!

They had once said that Hundred Peaks Sect was their home.

How was Hundred Peaks Sect not my home as well?

The first sect I joined after coming to this world was Hundred Peaks Sect!

Wu Qingqing seemed to notice the indifference in Song Zhong's eyes and explained, "The horror of the Sect Tribulation... Let me put it this way.

"Forget me—even true True Lords die in Sect Tribulations. Without the existence of an Immortal King, there is absolutely no possibility of surviving a Sect Tribulation.

"In fact, even one Immortal King is not enough.

"There was once a sect called the Quaking Lightning Sect. Though they were only a sect, an astonishingly gifted Heavenly Prodigy emerged from among them: the Quaking Lightning Immortal King.

"That person had already become an Immortal King.

"Yet their Quaking Lightning Sect still failed to survive the Sect Tribulation, vanishing into smoke and ashes. Even that Immortal King died in the Sect Tribulation.

"They were a sect that cultivated the Lightning Dao, and they truly had some skill in resisting lightning tribulations.

"But the Sect Tribulation is not merely a lightning tribulation. Metal, wood, water, fire... all kinds of heavenly tribulations will descend.

"To survive the Sect Tribulation, one powerful expert is not enough. There must be many powerful cultivators defending the great sect together."

Song Zhong was stunned. Besides lightning, there were other heavenly tribulations!

He was not afraid of lightning tribulations, but the other tribulations would not be so easy.

Even an Immortal King could not withstand them!

An Immortal King—that was already the highest cultivation realm he knew of.

An Immortal King...

Hundred Peaks Sect had one hundred years before its tribulation. Could he become an Immortal King by then?

And what about everyone else...

What cultivation realm would they need to reach?

At the side, the expressions of the Mountain Guardian Elder and the others changed drastically. They asked, "True Lord, you just said that the sect failed its Sect Tribulation and vanished into smoke and ashes.

"Could they not establish their sect again? Or did all their disciples die in the Sect Tribulation, with none escaping in advance?"

Wu Qingqing sighed. "Even if they escaped, they would still die."