Venerable Yuanshi's Killing Intent, Randeng's Despair, and the Slaughter Tribulation: Are You Ready?

East Kunlun Mountains.

A group of figures flew toward Qilin Cliff with their heads hanging low.

Along the way,

people at Jade Void Immortal Market and many Chan Sect Outer Disciples greeted them respectfully.

But they were listless and in no mood to respond.

Ignoring the greetings from their junior brothers in the Outer Sect, they returned to Jade Void Palace and requested an audience.

Only after Venerable Yuanshi summoned them

did they enter Jade Void Palace, their faces dim.

Daoist Randeng had also come to seek an audience with the Saint, so he entered alongside Guangchengzi and the others.

"Greetings, Master!"

"We greet you, Master..."

The Twelve Golden Immortals of the Heavenly Origin Sect offered perfunctory greetings, their spirits crushed. Then they fell silent, each lost in thought.

"Why are you all so dejected? What happened?"

Venerable Yuanshi's expression chilled. "You are Chan Sect Personal Disciples, yet you carry yourselves nothing like it. If you continue to disgrace the Chan Sect with this behavior, do not blame me for expelling every last one of you!"

At those words,

the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Heavenly Origin Sect felt a chill run through them.

They straightened at once and answered the Saint with respect and grievance.

"Master, we've been wronged! Haotian was once nothing more than a gatekeeping boy. He came from a lowly background and only became Heavenly Emperor through the Dao Ancestor. Yet now he's fallen out of the Dao Ancestor's favor and betrayed him. He even turned to outsiders for power to bully us cultivators of the Primordial Wilderness. It isn't fair!"

"Exactly! Haotian was always a sycophant, currying favor wherever he went and groveling for approval. Now he's using an outsider's power to bully his own people of the Primordial Wilderness. How can he do that?"