"Did you really kill Immortal Chang Er Ding Guang?"
Sect Master Tongtian quietly asked Ye Changqing behind him.
Ye Changqing nodded without explaining anything.
After all these years as master and disciple, his Master naturally understood why he had acted as he did.
Immortal Pilu panicked and kept shouting, "Master, you can't favor him so openly..."
"We're Jie Cult disciples too!"
His words resonated with the other disciples, who began voicing their dissatisfaction one after another.
Sect Master Tongtian snorted coldly. "Noisy!"
Those two words struck Immortal Pilu and the others in the chest like a heavy hammer, making them spit out blood on the spot.
"As long as Changqing wants it, so what?"
Sect Master Tongtian looked at Ye Changqing indulgently, protecting his own with overwhelming dominance.
Before Zhao Gongming could make a move, he flicked his sleeve and severely wounded them all.
After all, they had once been master and disciples. He merely crippled the cultivation of these people who had brought ruin upon the Jie Cult's fate.
After a round of shocked cries, they were teleported out of the Eastern Sea.
Ye Changqing naturally had his reasons for acting this way. All Sect Master Tongtian could do was stand behind him.
Somewhere in the Primordial World, Immortal Pilu and the other immortals appeared.
"Tongtian, Ye Changqing... I swear upon this life and all lives to come that I will avenge this grievance!"
Having lost all his cultivation, Immortal Pilu let out an unwilling roar.
But what could they do besides rage helplessly?
Did they truly have the ability to kill Sect Master Tongtian?
Outside Golden Ao Island, Ye Changqing shot Zhao Gongming a fierce glare, blaming him for being too hesitant.
The lesson written in blood told him that when cutting grass, one had to pull out the roots.
But Sect Master Tongtian disdained doing such dishonorable things.
Just as Immortal Pilu and the others were agonizing over how to survive in the dangerous Primordial World, a savior appeared!
"Amitabha!"
"Leave the sea of suffering, and turn back to the shore!"
With the sound of a Buddhist invocation, the Two Sages of the West appeared before them.
"Greetings, Saints!"
"Please lead us out of the sea of suffering."
Though Immortal Pilu's cultivation was not high, his skill at sizing people up and serving accordingly was no less than Immortal Chang Er Ding Guang's.
The moment he saw the Two Sages of the West before him, an idea immediately came to mind.
"You are fated with my Western World!"
Sure enough, those were Daoist Jieyin's first words.
Daoist Zhunti reached out with one hand, and with a Universe in Sleeve, snatched up Immortal Pilu and the others.
The two gave them no chance to refuse and directly took them back to the Western World.
On the open ground of Golden Ao Island, however, the scene was exceptionally lively.
A large group of Jie Cult disciples sat in a circle, listening to Zhao Gongming recount the heroic tale of their Senior Disciple Brother "battling" the Dao Ancestor in Purple Heaven Palace.
That was the Dao Ancestor!
Their Senior Disciple Brother had actually defeated such a mythical figure while dragging along his injured body.
Especially when Zhao Gongming repeated Ye Changqing's bold declaration about attaining eternal life within reincarnation, every Jie Cult disciple was thrilled beyond measure.
Naturally, these people were diehard loyalists selected by San Xiao, and they would also become the backbone of the Tribulation Sect in the future.
The reason Ye Changqing had left San Xiao here was to secretly develop the Tribulation Sect's forces.
After all, he was desperately short of manpower right now.
Among them were the Ten Heavenly Lords of Golden Ao Island, Fairy Caiyun, San Xiao's close friend, and many other Jie Cult disciples proficient in formations.
The Chaos Formation Compendium in Ye Changqing's possession had been prepared for them.
Upon returning to Azure Palace, Sect Master Tongtian immediately took Ye Changqing into seclusion to heal his injuries.
This time, he had searched the depths of chaos and found quite a few heavenly treasures and earthly materials. Perhaps they could help with Ye Changqing's injuries.
Sect Master Tongtian took out a green lotus. As its petals bloomed, chaotic energy immediately filled the entire Azure Palace.
He gathered all that chaotic energy back in, added other medicinal ingredients brought from chaos, and refined them into a gray, misty immortal pill.
Although Ye Changqing knew the pill would not do much, he obediently swallowed it anyway.
"Changqing, how do you feel?"
Sect Master Tongtian looked at him expectantly and asked.
Ye Changqing opened his eyes, smiled at him, and said, "Much better."
Sect Master Tongtian's gaze gradually dimmed. He knew his disciple was only trying to comfort him.
"Changqing, believe in your Master!"
"Your Master will definitely cure you..."
"Try this one too!"
Sect Master Tongtian took out a peach and handed it to Ye Changqing.
This peach had been secretly given to him by Haotian Shangdi and Holy Mother of Yaochi outside Purple Heaven Palace.
They had originally intended to use the peaches as bargaining chips to lure Jie Cult disciples into joining the Heavenly Court.
But after the uproar Ye Changqing had caused, they truly no longer dared.
At least they knew how to read the wind. This peach had been plucked from the Peach Mother Tree.
Ye Changqing took the peach and bit into it. He only felt a vast surge of immortal aura flood into his body.
His hunched body instantly straightened, and he returned once more to the jade-like appearance of a young man.
But that was all the peach could do; it could not heal his injuries.
"Then what about this one?"
Sect Master Tongtian handed him another fruit, one that looked like an infant.
Ye Changqing recognized it at once as Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi's Ginseng Fruit.
Ginseng Fruit, also known as Grass Restoration Elixir, was one of the ten great spiritual roots of the Primordial World.
Though Ginseng Fruit could not heal injuries, it could increase one's Lifespan.
Simply smelling the fruit granted three hundred and sixty years of life; eating one granted forty-seven thousand years.
Sect Master Tongtian wanted to extend Ye Changqing's life.
Even if he became a mortal, he still wanted him to be a mortal who lived for ten thousand years.
Yet after Ye Changqing ate the Ginseng Fruit, nothing happened.
The Lifespan he had just replenished was swallowed by the Great Dao fissure within his sea of consciousness.
Seeing that none of these methods worked, Sect Master Tongtian seemed to make some sort of decision. After taking a deep breath, he slowly closed his eyes.
An invisible force erupted from within his body, then instantly shattered, turning into specks of starlight that slowly fused into Ye Changqing's body.
Meanwhile, Sect Master Tongtian himself began to age visibly.
"Master, don't!"
With a roar, Ye Changqing forcibly broke free.
He knew that Sect Master Tongtian was shattering a Saint's Primordial Spirit bit by bit to mend his own.
He wanted to trade his own life for his disciple's.
There was only one outcome if Sect Master Tongtian did this: his body would perish and his Dao would vanish.
Before the Great Dao, even Saints were ants!
"Master, if you truly insist on doing this..."
"I would rather die right now!"
A trace of blood seeped from the corner of Ye Changqing's lips as he threatened.
Sect Master Tongtian sighed and had no choice but to stop. Tears streamed down his aged face as he said, "Foolish child... what a foolish child!"
He knew Ye Changqing's temperament well. If he continued, Ye Changqing might truly disperse his own Primordial Spirit on the spot.
The two remained silent for a long while. Both knew the other's painstaking intentions.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for achieving: witnessing the mysterious past of eternal life amid reincarnation. Everything will come true after the host's death!" "Reward: Coffin Hongmeng Burying Heaven Coffin, innate spiritual root Enlightenment Tea Tree"
The system's voice rang out in Ye Changqing's mind, making him burst out laughing at once.
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