Everyone followed the sound and saw a middle-aged man, dressed in an extremely plain white robe and looking to be around thirty, slowly approaching.
A gentle breeze swept by, fluttering his robe and lending him an air of otherworldly grace.
It was Yun Shan, the very man who had summoned everyone here.
Jia Xingtian's expression shifted. He was just about to stand when Fa Ma beside him spoke first. "Yun Shan, you summoned all of us here this time. What for?"
Yun Shan shot Jia Xingtian a cold snort.
Then he walked up onto the high platform and sat down.
"Today, I've summoned everyone to the Misty Cloud Sect to announce something important."
As he spoke, Yun Shan deliberately glanced at Jia Xingtian.
That Yun Shan is far too arrogant! Jia Xingtian clenched his fists.
Both men were Peak Dou Emperors!
If it came to a fight, although his earth-attributed Dou Qi wasn't suited to offense, his powerful defenses meant he wasn't afraid of Yun Shan!
Fa Ma sent him a voice transmission. "Old Man Jia, stay calm. Maybe... Yun Shan is deliberately provoking you so he can use it as an excuse to make a move."
For the sake of the Imperial Family, Jia Xingtian couldn't act as recklessly as Yun Shan. He could only snort. "Hmph! I'm not so easy to fool."
Fa Ma chuckled.
While the people below murmured among themselves,
on the high platform,
a woman in a plain dress slowly walked up.
She looked to be around twenty, but her dark hair was swept up into an elegant Phoenix Hairpin.
Her beautiful features were calm and serene.
From head to toe, she exuded a grace and nobility that her plain dress could hardly conceal.
Yun Shan gestured toward the woman in the plain dress. "From this day onward, my disciple Yun Yun will take over as Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect. I hope everyone will look after her in the days to come."
A chorus of shocked exclamations immediately rose from below!
Especially from the heads of the three great clans and Jia Xingtian!
Yun Shan was already a Peak Dou Emperor, while Yun Yun was only a Peak Dou Wang!
He was already sitting comfortably in the sect master's seat, so why hand it over?
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Jia Xingtian quickly understood Yun Shan's intentions!
The old geezer must be passing the position to Yun Yun so he can devote himself entirely to cultivation from now on!
Fa Ma sent another voice transmission. "If that fellow really breaks through to Dou Zong, I'm afraid you won't be able to stop him from unifying the Jia Ma Empire!"
When that happened, the Imperial Family would exist in name only.
Jia Xingtian sneered. "Heh. If breaking through to Dou Zong were that easy, I wouldn't have been stuck here for so many years."
"Congratulations, Sect Master Yun Yun."
"Congratulations, congratulations!"
"So Sect Master Yun Shan is retiring behind the scenes."
"From now on, we'll be counting on you, Sect Master Yun Yun."
While the two men exchanged voice transmissions,
the members of the three great clans had already risen to offer their congratulations.
The Nalan Family was especially quick.
Nalan Jie even brought his granddaughter to Yun Yun's side.
With a beaming smile, he said, "Sect Master Yun Yun, my granddaughter has decent talent. Would you consider taking her as your disciple and teaching her?"
Yun Yun didn't agree right away. Instead, she examined the little girl's physique before nodding. "Her talent is decent. I'll take her."
"Thank you, Sect Master Yun Yun."
Nalan Jie immediately pressed Nalan Yanran down to her knees. "Yanran, quickly, pay your respects to your teacher."
"This disciple, Nalan Yanran, pays her respects to her teacher."
The little girl kowtowed to Yun Yun.
That bastard Nalan Jie must have gotten wind of this long ago. And he never let on!
The head of the Mu Clan cursed Nalan Jie in his heart.
Nalan Jie couldn't care less.
He looked smugly at the heads of the other two great clans.
He'd seen the affection in Yun Yun's eyes when she looked at his granddaughter.
Who knew? His granddaughter Nalan Yanran might even become the next candidate for sect master of the Misty Cloud Sect!
By then, the Nalan Family's standing in the Jia Ma Empire would rise along with her.
What a windfall!
After that, Yun Shan began the ceremony for Yun Yun's succession as sect master.
Halfway through the ceremony,
a voice suddenly rang out across the sky.
"Heh, you're all here. That saves me from having to run all over the place! Excellent, excellent!"
Before anyone could react,
a figure in blue appeared before Yun Shan.
His arrival was utterly bizarre!
There were two Peak Dou Emperors present, and the terror on their faces and disbelief in their eyes made it clear to everyone else that neither of them had sensed the mysterious man's arrival at all!
Now, their eyes were filled with fear of the mysterious man!
Even the Dou Qi within their bodies seemed to have frozen. No matter how they tried to move it, nothing worked!
Yun Shan was closest to the man in blue, and felt a suffocating pressure coming from him!
It was like a child who had just started cultivating suddenly running into a Dou Huang expert with countless lives on his hands!
Even his soul trembled!
Jia Xingtian's face had gone pale, and his body was rigid.
Beads of sweat as large as beans kept dripping from his forehead.
Could this man be a Dou Zong expert?!
"Um... Sect Master Yun Shan, my... my wheat is ripe, and I need to go back and harvest it. Yes, harvest the wheat. I won't stay for the meal. Farewell."
Nalan Jie was the first to react. He hurriedly stood up and cupped his hands.
"Uh, it's about to rain, and the medicinal pills drying at the Alchemist Guild should be ready. I... I need to go back and collect them."
Fa Ma followed suit.
The others heard them and hurriedly came up with excuses to leave, too.
Their reasons were all over the place. They might as well have said they needed to go home because their sow was about to give birth.
Yun Shan nearly spat blood when he heard them!
Harvest wheat? Collect drying pills?
Why not just say they needed to go home and have children!
When the time came to deal with him, they'd all been striding about with their chests puffed out.
But now that a terrifying expert had appeared,
they were all cowering like turtles!
They fled faster than anyone!
Yun Shan wanted to escape, but couldn't.
Nalan Jie and the others tried moving their Dou Qi, and when they found they couldn't, they resorted to the most primitive method: running down the mountain!
But after only a few steps, the heads of the three great clans, Fa Ma, Jia Xingtian, and the others all seemed to run straight into a wall.
Thud!
They landed hard on their backsides.
The man in blue said coldly, "Anyone else who tries to run will die!"
As his words fell,
Boom!
A pressure as immense as a mountain descended from the sky, crushing everyone present.
The guards brought by the three great clans turned into clouds of blood beneath that terrifying pressure.
The Dou Wang experts from the three clans sprawled on the ground like dead dogs, scarlet blood seeping from their mouths.
"Please spare us, senior! We... we were wrong."
Mittel Tengshan was the first to beg for mercy.
Mu Chen followed close behind. "Whatever you want us to do, senior, just say the word. Please give us another chance."
"That's right. We're just a bunch of ants. Killing us would only dirty your hands," Nalan Jie said through gritted teeth.
Xiao Xuan clasped his hands behind his back and said coolly, "I don't need to lay a hand on you to kill you. One thought, and you'll be reduced to bones and dust."
With a bang, Nalan Jie turned into a cloud of blood that scattered in the breeze.
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