With Duobao holding Guang Chengzi back, Lin Changqing smiled faintly.
"If you want to save them, you're too late!"
Lin Changqing let out a soft snort, but no one heard it.
The humiliation of a hundred thousand years had finally been avenged!
I've paid you back for humiliating my sect, Primordial Heavenly Lord. This is only the interest!
A cold gleam shone in Lin Changqing's eyes. He showed no sign of stopping. Empowered by his magic, the spear flew toward Cihang and Puxian.
If not for the fact that the time to openly break with the Sect of Elucidation had not yet come, Lin Changqing would never have held back against its immortals.
Just think: during the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, when the Sect of Elucidation and the Interception Sect went to war, how many disciples of the Interception Sect had died unjustly?
Mercy to the enemy was cruelty to yourself.
He'd already thrown his spear. If he could cripple two more of the Twelve Golden Immortals, all the better!
"Master!"
"Master, save us!"
Cihang and Puxian watched as Guang Chengzi, their would-be rescuer, was held back. The bloodthirsty spear was still hurtling toward them, and terror filled their eyes.
Lin Changqing really didn't care about your dignity as a Sage! He was going to kill us!
Cihang and Puxian regretted everything.
Why had they gone out of their way to provoke this menace?
They'd seen that even a treasure like the imitation Soul Devouring Needle couldn't kill him, and that he'd beaten Juliusun half to death. Why hadn't they been smart enough to let someone else act?
The three had always been close, but now Cihang and Puxian felt a trace of resentment toward Juliusun.
This was all Juliusun's fault, coming up with such a stupid idea!
He'd told the Sect of Elucidation immortals below to provoke Lin Changqing, claiming that making the mere Mystic Immortal squirm would be amusing.
Well, now they'd been amused right out of their cultivation levels, and the rest of us had been dragged down with them!
As the blood-red spear shot toward them, Cihang and Puxian could no longer hold their nerve.
They both turned and fled.
They were heading straight for the Immortal Palace of the Sect of Elucidation.
Lin Changqing's expression hardened.
Hmph! You think you can leave now? Too late!
The spear streaked across the sky, tearing through ten thousand miles of space as it pursued them.
"Lin Changqing, do you really mean to wipe us out?!"
Feeling the killing intent sweeping toward them from behind, its sharp edge already piercing through their protective magic, Cihang spat out a mouthful of blood and shouted at Lin Changqing.
"As Senior Disciple Brother of the Three Sects, I uphold their laws. Even if Second Martial Uncle himself appeared, he could not object!"
Lin Changqing roared again. He was only one step from victory—how could he back down now?
Still, he had to say the right things.
As he spoke, the Spear of Divine Demons surged forward once more. But this time, a golden light shot out from the Sect of Elucidation and enveloped Cihang and Puxian.
"Changqing, you've gone too far."
Primordial Heavenly Lord's voice came from the Immortal Palace of the Sect of Elucidation. At the same time, a blue jade ruyi flew out, instantly suppressing and shattering the Spear of Divine Demons.
In the next instant, the blue ruyi tore through the air and slammed into Lin Changqing.
He had no time to react. The ruyi swept through the sky, and Lin Changqing was already coughing up blood as he was hurled back ten thousand miles.
"Senior Disciple Brother!"
"Senior Disciple Brother is hurt! It was Second Martial Uncle—a dignified Sage, and yet he..."
The Interception Sect disciples glared at the Immortal Palace of the Sect of Elucidation, furious, but unable to utter a word.
He was a Sage. They could not speak irreverently of him. But did being a Sage give him the right to humiliate people like this?
We refuse to accept this!
Lin Changqing's face was pale. Blood surged around him, and it streamed from the corner of his mouth.
Yet he stood firm in midair.
He had not retreated a single step.
At that moment, he raised his head high. Even facing a Sage, he would not lower it in the slightest.
"Your disciple Lin Changqing dares to ask Second Martial Uncle: why do you shield two disciples of the Sect of Elucidation who have disregarded the laws of the Three Sects? Why did you attack your disciple without cause?"
"I ask you, Second Martial Uncle!"
As Lin Changqing spoke, a chill had already settled over him.
The Sage's pressure descended upon him without restraint.
Even the Interception Sect disciples, who had been furious and indignant moments ago, stared at Lin Changqing in shock.
Senior Disciple Brother dared to question a Sage!
This is how the senior disciple brother of the Interception Sect should be! This is how we immortals of the Interception Sect should be!
Duobao rose to his feet and lifted his head toward the Immortal Palace of the Sect of Elucidation.
"I ask you, Second Martial Uncle!"
Zhao Gongming rose. Yunxiao rose. Jinling rose. The eight personal disciples of the Interception Sect rose.
"I ask you, Second Martial Uncle!"
In that moment, ten thousand Interception Sect immortals rose together without the slightest hesitation.
They lifted their heads in defiance and looked toward the Immortal Palace of the Sect of Elucidation.
"I ask you, Second Martial Uncle!"
Their challenge rang out across ten thousand miles, sweeping through all of Kunlun!
In that instant, the immortals of the Sect of Elucidation all took a step back, staring toward the Interception Sect in fear.
These Interception Sect immortals had gone mad! They were rebelling! They dared to question a Sage!
At that moment, the Immortal Palace of the Sect of Elucidation, filled with the ethereal aura of the Great Dao, was already steeped in killing intent.
Primordial Heavenly Lord's face, usually serene and inscrutable, was now covered in frost.
"Lin Changqing..."
Yuanshi's indifferent voice rang out, laced with killing intent.
A mere Interception Sect disciple, a Houtian Being, dared to question me!
I should have wiped you out a million years ago!
Now he even dared to bring ten thousand Interception Sect immortals to question him. How dare he!
At that moment, Yuanshi was truly enraged.
Lin Changqing had repeatedly attacked and subdued the immortals of the Sect of Elucidation. He had endured it.
He had subdued one of the Twelve Golden Immortals, Juliusun, and even crippled his cultivation. He had endured that too.
Because Lin Changqing had kept pressing forward, and with every step, he stood on the side of justice.
Juliusun had been the one to start all this. Yuanshi could endure it.
But Lin Changqing still intended to cripple more of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Sect of Elucidation. How could Yuanshi endure that?
Yuanshi had intervened, saving Cihang and Puxian while teaching this reckless junior a lesson.
But now he dared to question me! He was asking for death!
A Sage could not be offended. A Sage's dignity could not be challenged!
The blue jade ruyi flew out once more, rushing toward Lin Changqing to suppress him.
The first time had been a warning. This time, it was a lesson!
But Lin Changqing remained completely unafraid.
Second Martial Uncle, when I acted and you chose to favor your disciples of the Sect of Elucidation, you had already lost.
You couldn't judge my strength, so you let your disciples act first.
The moment you had no choice but to intervene yourself was the moment you lost.
As Lin Changqing watched the blue jade ruyi, he was calculating every step.
From the moment he first acted, he had always stood on the side of justice and the laws of the Three Sects.
And just now, when Yuanshi intervened, a Sage had entered the fray. With his own master waiting in the wings, victory was already his.
The crucial step was provoking Yuanshi.
It gave his master, Tongtian, ample reason to enter the fray as well.
The humiliation of a hundred thousand years could not be avenged by merely teaching one or two disciples of the Sect of Elucidation a lesson.
Either don't act, or strike hard!
In the Primordial World, kindness and hesitation only made trouble for yourself.
Facing the blue jade ruyi, Lin Changqing didn't move at all. He had no intention of fighting back.
The ruyi, driven by Yuanshi now, was more than he could withstand.
Even if he used every bit of his strength to defend himself, there was little chance he could block it.
After all, his opponent was a Sage.
But his master was a Sage too—and just as protective of his own.
"Second Senior Brother, you've gone too far!"
An equally overwhelming Sage's pressure descended in an instant!
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