"A mere True Immortal dared plot against the imperial bloodline of the Amaterasu Divine Clan. Your crime is unforgivable."
Boom!
Heavenly Island High Immortal projected his Heavenly Immortal World across heaven and earth. The starlight power of thirty-eight stars surged, thirty-six of them perfectly interconnected and joined as one.
He was at the Heavenly Immortal Early Stage, with thirty-eight Immortal Apertures opened.
Xuanlei Domain Lord, however, had opened a full seventy-two Immortal Apertures, reaching Heavenly Immortal Middle Stage Great Perfection. Both were Heavenly Immortals, yet a vast gulf separated their combat strength.
This was precisely why Heavenly Island High Immortal behaved so courteously toward Xuanlei Domain Lord.
Heavenly Island High Immortal cupped his fists in salute. "Dao Brother Xuanlei, this man is, after all, a cultivator of your Xuanlei Soul-Extinguishing Domain. How do you intend to punish him?"
True Immortal Tianren hurriedly knelt and bowed, begging for mercy. "I implore you to show mercy, Domain Lord. Spare my insignificant life. I am willing to offer up my life soul and surrender control over my life and death."
"With my Half-Step Heavenly Immortal cultivation, I am still of some use."
Xuanlei Domain Lord looked thoughtful. He turned toward the assembled True Immortals and said, "Eradicating Dharma-ending Cultivators is our consensus."
"You defied that consensus and stabbed your fellow Daoists in the back, causing Gu Chen, Tianzhi, and other True Immortals to fall into the hands of Dharma-ending Cultivators and die unnatural deaths."
"Over two hundred Immortal Venerables and more than seventy thousand Mahayana Dao Venerables were also lost, directly costing our Xuanlei Soul-Extinguishing Domain a third of its True Immortals and a third of its Immortal Venerable and Mahayana Prodigies."
"Such conduct would sever the future of my Xuan Thunder Domain."
At these words, Wanren True Immortal lost all hope and