"Ah..."
After searching his soul, Luo Feng learned the entire sequence of events.
As for the Nine Splendor Sect's Sect Master, his soul had suffered unprecedented devastation. He was casually thrown aside, collapsing onto the ground as he howled with splitting agony, his soul on the verge of collapse.
Zhu Tian Suo, Ye Wanrou, and the Nine Splendor Sect's high-ranking elders were all stunned speechless.
Seeing the Nine Splendor Sect Master's miserable state, no one dared to make another rash move for the moment.
"Just who are these people?"
"How could there be Nascent Soul Realm experts? How did Chu Yun come to know them?"
Ye Wanrou was both shocked and doubtful.
She truly could not understand where Chu Yun had found such tremendous influence, enough to make Nascent Soul Realm experts stand up for him?!
"Fellow Daoists."
"My Nine Splendor Sect falls under the Great Xia Dynasty, and in Qingzhou, we can be considered a force of some standing."
"You barged into my Nine Splendor Sect so recklessly and injured our Sect Master. Is that not a little too unreasonable?"
At the same time, an aged yet resounding voice came from outside the hall.
Immediately afterward, a tall, gaunt old man dressed in plain robes flashed into the hall. The pressure of a peak Nascent Soul Realm expert spread beneath his feet, suppressing the shadow guard's aura.
At the same time, four more white-haired elders of varying builds appeared within the grand hall.
All of them possessed cultivation at the Nascent Soul Realm.
"Wonderful!"
"It's the five patriarchs!"
"All five patriarchs have come! These people will definitely be unable to bear the consequences!"
When the Nine Splendor Sect members saw the five patriarchs appear, delight filled their eyes as they cried out excitedly.
The Nine Splendor Sect's Grand Elder, whose face had been full of shock and horror, immediately regained his confidence!
Yet Luo Feng and Xuan Feng's expressions did not change in the slightest at the appearance of the Nine Splendor Sect's five Nascent Soul patriarchs.
Luo Feng completely ignored them and moved to Xuan Feng's side. "How is His Highness?"
"Not bad."
"His Highness's body has astonishing self-recovery abilities. After refining two pills, he has already recovered seventy to eighty percent. He should awaken before long."
Using his Nirvana power, Xuan Feng had brought out the medicinal effects within Chu Yun's body to their fullest. His limbs had already regenerated; awakening was merely a matter of time.
"Hey!"
"Are you deaf?!"
"Our patriarchs are speaking to you! Are you treating their words like wind passing by your ears?!"
Seeing Luo Feng and the others ignore his own patriarchs, a mid-stage Golden Core Realm elder of the Nine Splendor Sect stepped forward and pointed at them as he questioned them.
Bang!!
A savage gleam flashed through Luo Feng's eyes, and invisible pressure crushed down upon that elder.
With a thunderous explosion, his flesh, blood, and soul burst into a magnificent firework. Before anyone could react, he had vanished into ash within the great hall!
"Third Elder!!"
The Nine Splendor Sect's Grand Elder and the others cried out in grief and fury, their eyes filled with shock and rage.
No one had expected Luo Feng to strike and kill so directly. Even the Nine Splendor Sect's five Nascent Soul Realm patriarchs had failed to react in time.
"What terrifying speed..."
"This man... has likely surpassed the Nascent Soul Realm."
The peak Nascent Soul Realm patriarch of the Nine Splendor Sect could not conceal the shock on his face.
Although Luo Feng had not revealed his aura, the speed at which he acted was already utterly beyond comparison with his own.
From this alone, it was clear that Luo Feng's cultivation was even above his own.
A Shattering Realm expert!!
At that thought, the patriarch's eyelids twitched.
That made today's matter truly troublesome.
"Your Excellency is immensely powerful. You must surely be a senior expert at the Shattering Realm."
"But this old man truly does not know what today's matter is about. Is it because of this young friend?"
The patriarch immediately changed his attitude and asked cautiously.
Xuan Feng gave him a cold, indifferent glance. "What do you think?"
The only reason he had not acted yet was that he was waiting for Chu Yun to awaken.
Whether these people lived or died would naturally be decided by Chu Yun.
"Qin Kun, what exactly is going on here?"
"Explain yourself!"
One of the Nine Splendor Sect patriarchs directly questioned the sect's Grand Elder in a cold voice.
"Patriarchs, it was that little bastard Chu Yun..."
"Chu Yun stole the Heavenly Bloom Cauldron and murdered fellow disciples. The evidence is conclusive. When we were about to judge him, this was the result..."
Qin Kun had initially wanted to embellish the story further, but upon seeing Xuan Feng and Luo Feng standing there and sensing the intimidation radiating from them, he was frightened into retreating.
"What?!"
"He stole the Heavenly Bloom Cauldron!"
"You say the evidence is conclusive. Where is the evidence?"
The patriarch who had questioned him earlier turned pale in alarm upon hearing that the Heavenly Bloom Cauldron had been stolen, then hurriedly pressed for details.
The Heavenly Bloom Cauldron was not merely the Nine Splendor Sect's treasured artifact. More importantly, a Thousand-Year Great Medicine was sealed within it.
It had been left behind by Qingzhou's highest Dao lineage, the Wangxian Dao Sect, so that the Heavenly Bloom Cauldron could continuously nourish that great medicine. In another hundred years, they would come to reclaim it.
If the Heavenly Bloom Cauldron had been stolen, it was not simply a matter of losing a treasure. More importantly, if this matter were exposed, they would have no way to account for it to the Wangxian Dao Sect!
"Reporting to the patriarch, someone personally witnessed Chu Yun sneaking into the Treasure Pavilion late at night, stealing the Heavenly Bloom Cauldron, and killing two disciples standing guard," Qin Kun replied.
"Who was it?"
"Patriarch, it was this disciple." Zhu Tian Suo slowly stepped forward.
This had been their plan from the very beginning. Zhu Tian Suo, as the Senior Disciple Brother, would serve as the witness, while Ye Wanrou would place the belongings of the two deceased fellow disciples on Chu Yun's person.
Together with his disappearance throughout the night.
Witness testimony and physical evidence were both complete, forming a closed loop!
If they had to face soul-searching, they would first make Chu Yun's soul collapse.
The scheme could be said to be layered and meticulous.
They simply had never expected that the present Chu Yun would already be as different from the former one as clouds and mud.
"Did you truly see that it was Chu Yun who stole the Heavenly Bloom Cauldron?" the patriarch asked again.
"Patriarch, this disciple dares to swear that I truly saw Chu Yun last night. He was the thief and murderer!" Zhu Tian Suo declared with absolute conviction.
"This..."
The several Nine Splendor Sect patriarchs immediately found themselves in a difficult position.
These people had clearly come for Chu Yun, yet the Heavenly Bloom Cauldron was of tremendous importance to the Nine Splendor Sect and involved far-reaching consequences. They had to retrieve it.
"Your Excellency, there is something within the Heavenly Bloom Cauldron that belongs to our Nine Splendor Sect's superior sect, the Wangxian Dao Sect."
"If young friend Chu truly took it, then please have him return it."
"As for all other matters today, my Nine Splendor Sect is willing to pursue them no further."
The Nine Splendor Sect patriarch knew that he was no match for Luo Feng and the others.
Thus, he directly brought out Qingzhou's strongest force, the Wangxian Dao Sect, as his backing.
The Wangxian Dao Sect had inherited its Dao lineage for more than a thousand years and was the undisputed overlord of Qingzhou, holding near-absolute control over Qingzhou's core regions.
Not only did it possess Shattering Realm cultivators, it even had super experts of the Nirvana Realm.
The old monsters hidden within the Wangxian Dao Sect's foundations were all terrifying existences at the level of Titled Venerables.
A single Venerable Realm figure could suppress an entire province!
Their power could overturn an entire prefecture; their Battle Venerable Bodies were like Dharma Idols towering over heaven and earth as they galloped across the world!
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