"That's right. I am Li Zhōujūn."
Li Zhōujūn looked at Chu Rou, whose eyes were burning with fury, and chuckled.
Before Chu Rou could speak,
Murong Xue beside Li Zhōujūn sneered, "Miss, do you know that the Crimson Eyed Demon Lord, Chu Fan, wanted to refine everyone who was at the Xue Family into blood pills, including the innocent? Wasn't Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord right to kill him?"
Upon hearing this, Chu Rou snorted. "I don't know why he wanted to do that, but I know him. He isn't someone who would slaughter the innocent."
"Heh heh." Murong Xue laughed. "Perhaps the Crimson Eyed Demon Lord was once a kind man, but people change."
"So what if he changed? No matter what he became, he was still my brother. Wasn't I supposed to avenge him?" Chu Rou countered.
Murong Xue was about to speak again,
but Li Zhōujūn interrupted her. "Murong Mountain Lord, why are you arguing with someone who has something wrong with her head?"
With that, Li Zhōujūn looked at Chu Rou. "What? You want to kill me?"
"That's right. Kill yourself. It'll save me the trouble of doing it." Chu Rou let out a cold snort.
"She wants to attack our Dao Tian Sect's mountain lord on our Dao Tian Sect's turf? How much does she look down on our Dao Tian Sect? Sect Master, take down this arrogant woman!" Liǔ Yán shouted at once.
Mu Taiyu: "..."
"Shut up!" Chu Rou's golden eyes turned cold as she glared at Liǔ Yán. "If you dare say one more word, I'll tear your mouth apart later."
[ Ding: The system has detected someone showing great disdain toward the host. ] [ Ding: System mission issued: teach the Saintess of the Tai Xu Immortal Palace in Azure Continent, Chu Rou, a lesson! The host will receive an unexpected reward! ]
"The Tai Xu Immortal Palace's Saintess, Chu Rou?"
Li Zhōujūn looked at Chu Rou in surprise. Her face had remained haughty from beginning to end.
No wonder this woman dared to be so arrogant. It turned out she had an immortal-realm power backing her.
At the same time, Liǔ Yán shrank his neck, but still said defiantly, "If you've got the nerve, come and try. Let's see whether our Dao Tian Sect's Sect Master and Grand Elder will let you run wild here!"
"That's right. On our Dao Tian Sect's turf, even a dragon has to coil up, and even a tiger has to lie low!"
"Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord killed him well! The Crimson Eyed Demon Lord deserved to die. If I had been there, I would definitely have waved the flag and cheered you on!"
At that moment, the mountain lords of the Dao Tian Sect spoke up one after another.
Mu Taiyu finally spoke slowly as well. He smiled at Chu Rou and Elder Wu. "The two of you, please leave. Even if someone from our Dao Tian Sect is in the wrong, I, as the Sect Master, will personally deal with it. There's no need for outsiders to point fingers."
Seeing that the people of the Dao Tian Sect continued to protect Li Zhōujūn, Chu Rou was furious inside, but suddenly smiled. "You're nothing more than a somewhat larger ant sect in the lower realm. Do you know that the power backing me is the Tai Xu Immortal Palace of the immortal realm? I, Chu Rou, am the Saintess of the Tai Xu Immortal Palace. Are you really going to offend an immortal-realm power for a mere mountain lord?"
"Get lost." Mu Taiyu's eyes turned icy. "Don't push your luck. I've already said that no outsider may lay a finger on anyone from the Dao Tian Sect. If you leave now, we'll have no further trouble with each other. But if you remain obstinate, don't blame me for showing no mercy!"
As Mu Taiyu's voice fell,
a terrifying aura suddenly erupted from his body. Behind him, it was as if a true god who looked down upon all beneath heaven slowly straightened his back.
Even Elder Wu's heart tightened at such an overbearing display.
How could such a terrifying expert exist in this tiny lower realm? This aura—could it be that of a Mahayana True Immortal?!
"The Sect Master is furious!"
"Heh heh, now there's a good show to watch. Did she really think our Dao Tian Sect had no backing in the immortal realm?"
"I haven't seen the Sect Master take action in a long time. The last time I did was when he sent Liǔ Yán flying with a single slap."
At the same time, seeing Mu Taiyu's fury, the mountain lords looked at Chu Rou and Elder Wu with schadenfreude.
Only the corner of Liǔ Yán's mouth twitched.
Chu Rou was stunned as well.
She hadn't expected that even after she brought up her background, the people of the Dao Tian Sect would remain so arrogant.
But Elder Wu's expression changed.
He had suddenly recalled that in the central region of the immortal realm, there was a power known as the Dao Tian Immortal Palace, whose palace master possessed the cultivation of an Immortal Emperor.
Could this Dao Tian Sect have some connection to the Dao Tian Immortal Palace?
At that thought, Elder Wu prepared to persuade Chu Rou to leave.
Seeing that the people of the Dao Tian Sect were still protecting him despite knowing that Chu Rou had an immortal-realm power backing her, Li Zhōujūn couldn't help feeling a trace of belonging.
At the same time, Li Zhōujūn cupped his fists toward Mu Taiyu and the mountain lords. "Zhoujun thanks the Sect Master and all my fellow disciples for your affection. However, this matter began because of me, so I should be the one to end it. Chu Rou wants my life, but it won't be that simple."
"Mountain Lord Li, don't try to show off. As a mountain lord of our Dao Tian Sect, you have our Dao Tian Sect behind you. Why bother reasoning with this unreasonable woman?"
"Exactly, exactly. Even if you want to reason, you should reason with someone who can listen. This woman clearly can't reason at all. She actually wants to avenge a Devil Lord burdened with monstrous sins. It's utterly laughable. And she has the nerve to call herself the Saintess of an Immortal Palace. If I were the Immortal Palace behind her, I'd slap a disciple like that to death."
A mountain lord smiled at Li Zhōujūn as he spoke.
"Don't try to show off. The Dao Tian Sect can still help you resolve this matter." Mu Taiyu also spoke to Li Zhōujūn.
"Rest assured, Sect Master." Li Zhōujūn gave Mu Taiyu a slight cupped-fist salute. Then his gaze sharpened as he looked toward Chu Rou and grinned. "Do you know how Chu Fan died back then?
"You probably don't. Let me tell you. He was too weak. I blasted him into a mist of blood with one punch—the kind where his soul was completely destroyed."
"You're courting death!"
Li Zhōujūn's words pierced Chu Rou's heart like a sharp sword. Already furious and humiliated, Chu Rou immediately lost her reason. With a wave of her hand, she condensed a golden Dharma Seal and sent it crashing toward Li Zhōujūn.
"Hiss!"
"This woman may be brainless, but her cultivation is truly terrifying!"
"That's right. With this kind of strength, she's probably reached the late stage of Tribulation Transcendence, right?"
"Can Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord defeat her?"
"Probably not. Although Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord killed a cultivator at the Integration Stage's pinnacle with one strike, he's only a little over forty at most. When I visited the former Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord, I even saw him fishing in the river naked as a child. So his cultivation should be capped at the early Tribulation Transcendence Stage, right?"
Seeing this scene, the mountain lords of the Dao Tian Sect voiced their guesses one after another.
Seeing Li Zhōujūn's calm expression, as though victory were already in his grasp, Mu Taiyu didn't strike immediately.
With a tremendous boom, Li Zhōujūn raised one slender palm. As his sleeve slid down, he caught the golden Dharma Seal Chu Rou had sent crashing toward him before the incredulous gazes of the mountain lords.
"Hiss!"
"Fake!"
"Too fake!"
That was precisely what the mountain lords were thinking at that moment.
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