The Heart He Had Kept Hanging Suddenly Died

The Sacred Void Great Hall suddenly fell into a deathly silence.

Every high-ranking figure present was at least in the late Nascent Soul stage. How did Zhou Zheng, a mere third-turn Golden Core cultivator, dare to spout such wild nonsense?

He even said it would not be so easy to kill him?

To put it bluntly, any one of them present could easily annihilate him, as simply as crushing a little bug!

Gong Zheng, Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall, could not help sneering. "Heh heh, you truly are insane. Men, drag him out and behead him. Do not defile the sect's holy ground!"

"Yes!"

Two senior Law Enforcement Hall stewards at the ninth turn of the Golden Core stage immediately stepped forward.

But at that moment, the silent Sect Master Sikong Xuan suddenly spoke. "Wait. The cultivation technique this man practices is extraordinary. In merely one month, he broke through from the Foundation Establishment eighth layer to the third turn of the Golden Core stage. Have the Law Enforcement Hall see whether you can bypass the primordial spirit restriction and replicate the cultivation technique he practices."

Gong Zheng immediately understood. "Sect Master, your wisdom is unmatched. That was precisely my intention as well. Leave it to the Law Enforcement Hall..."

As he spoke, the void above Zhou Zheng's head suddenly twisted, and a dazzling spatial vortex slowly emerged.

Immediately afterward, a wisp of ethereal aura drifted out, like an invisible giant hand that seized the hearts of everyone in the hall in an instant!

"This aura... How is that possible?!"

Sect Master Sikong Xuan instinctively leaned back, utterly shocked.

"Hahahaha... Nothing is impossible. My backer is here. Do you think you can still kill me?!"

Zhou Zheng, who had endured for a full thirty seconds, could not help bursting into loud laughter.

The next second.

A young man wearing a dark cyan Daoist robe slowly stepped out of the spatial vortex.

After a brief moment of blanking out, the expressions of the Sacred Void Sect's upper echelon changed drastically!

This was because the man's temperament was incomparably transcendent, and his Dao aura was exceptionally ethereal. He was clearly hovering right there, yet their divine senses could not detect even the slightest trace of him. They could only see him with their naked eyes.

What did that mean?

It meant his cultivation far surpassed everyone present. He was an existence they could not contend against!

This was bad. He even seemed to be the backer Zhou Zheng had summoned to support him.

Were they not completely screwed?

Who was it that said Zhou Zheng had no background and could be bullied at will?

This backer was far too formidable!

The Sacred Void Sect's upper echelon, who had originally stood high above all others, began to feel fear. One after another, they retreated behind the Sect Master without prior agreement.

There was no helping it. He was the strongest here. A Sect Master had to bear a Sect Master's responsibility—when the sky collapsed, if the tall ones did not hold it up, who would?

Beasts, a pack of beasts... Sikong Xuan cursed endlessly in his heart, but he could only steel himself and step forward to negotiate.

"Senior, I believe there may be some misunderstanding between us..."

Chen Yi cast him an indifferent glance. "Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding? When you bullied my Zhou Zheng because he had no backer, why did you not call it a misunderstanding? Now that I am here, it is a misunderstanding?"

Zhou Zheng's eyes instantly reddened with emotion. "Great Group Leader, I..."

Before he could finish, Chen Yi cut him off. "This has nothing to do with you right now. Just stay quiet and watch from the side!"

The experience he had learned from Liu Ruyan told him that he absolutely could not follow the task requirements. If he wanted to maximize the benefits, he had to make things bigger!

Therefore, it was best if Zhou Zheng said nothing at all. He only needed to quietly be a tool and watch Chen Yi work!

Off to the side, Sikong Xuan immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

He would not even listen to the victim's opinion—what exactly was this senior trying to do?

Had he known Zhou Zheng had such a powerful backer, who would have dared make him take the blame and balance the accounts?

Even if he truly had embezzled that much, it was only right!

Sikong Xuan was perceptive enough to go with the flow. "My apologies, Senior. It was my fault. Under pressure, I rashly closed the case without investigating it thoroughly and falsely accused Steward Zhou Zheng. I will immediately conduct a new, thorough investigation and ensure that justice is done for him!"

"So you admit it was your fault?" Chen Yi pinpointed the issue with a single sharp question.

"Ah, yes, yes, yes. Everything you say is right!" Sikong Xuan nodded like a pounding garlic pestle.

The hall masters, who were in the Nascent Soul stage, lacked the realm to understand. They might only have felt that this man was very strong, but Sikong Xuan had already entered the Integration stage. Facing this man felt like facing a bottomless abyss!

Not to mention him—even those Grand Elders within the sect's forbidden grounds would feel the same upon facing this man!

The uncontrollable trembling born from his survival instincts could not be faked. He even believed that the man before him was not human!

But a legendary immortal!

He was merely a mortal at the initial Integration stage. What could he say before an existence suspected to be an immortal? What would he dare say?

"Fine. Then stop being the Sect Master. Let Zhou Zheng take the position instead!" Chen Yi gave his instruction concisely.

Sikong Xuan was equally decisive, without the slightest hesitation. "No problem. We shall do as you say. I will abdicate immediately and convene a sect assembly to announce Zhou Zheng's succession as Sect Master!"

The moment those words were spoken, someone immediately became displeased.

Gong Zheng, Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall, stepped forward at once and declared righteously, "Sect Master, how can you submit in fear to such a petty villain? At worst, activate the Sect Protection Array and awaken the Grand Elders to fight to the death! We of the Sacred Void Sect would rather live standing than die on our knees!"

"You son of a bitch, shut the hell up!" Sikong Xuan cursed loudly, his scalp going numb.

Especially when he saw the subtle curve suddenly lift at the corner of the "immortal's" mouth before him, a chill shot straight up his spine to the crown of his head!

Damn it!

We are so damn finished!!!

Sure enough!

The next second.

He moved!

Rumble rumble rumble!!!

The ground trembled, and the Sacred Void Sect's Sect Protection Array activated on its own for no apparent reason!

Immediately afterward, an enormous handprint that blotted out the sky appeared out of thin air above the Sacred Void Sect. In an instant, it crushed the protective barrier condensed by the Sect Protection Array!

Its momentum did not stop. It immediately reached into the sect's forbidden grounds, and after bursts of terrified, despairing roars, everything fell silent.

Thud, thud, thud...

It was as though dumplings were being dropped into a pot within the Sacred Void Great Hall. Eighteen Grand Elders of the Integration stage were thrown in like dead dogs.

Thud~

Sikong Xuan, the most sensible of them all, dropped to his knees on the spot.

And the moment he knelt, it immediately triggered a chain reaction.

Thud, thud...

Those Sacred Void Sect higher-ups who had originally still harbored rebellious intentions quickly followed, kneeling all over the floor.

Only Gong Zheng, Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall, who possessed an unyielding backbone, remained standing where he was.

Actually, it was not that he did not want to kneel. His body had been restrained by a thread of aura, and he could not move at all.

Watching that terrifying man suddenly smile faintly at him, the heart he had kept hanging suddenly died.

Sure enough, he should not have been the first bird to stick its head out...

The next second, the terrifying man said:

"Zhou Zheng, go up there and slap him twice. Vent the resentment in your heart properly, so you do not leave a knot in your heart later!"

After all, Zhou Zheng was the main tool for the task. The more pleasure he gained, the richer the task reward would be.

"Ah? Me?"

Zhou Zheng stood there dumbly. His Golden Core-stage brain was still immersed in the terrifying scene from just now, and for a moment, he could not process it.

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