The Body Sect is Destined to Be Annihilated Within Twenty Years

As Xiao Jinchen and his companion drew near, Du Busi caught sight of the newcomers.

"Eh? And who is this?" Du Busi asked, looking at the Ice Empress beside Xiao Jinchen with a puzzled expression.

"Old man, this is the Ice Empress," Xiao Jinchen said with a smile.

"What! The Ice Empress! Wasn't her soul taken by you?" Du Busi asked, bewildered, as the memory of capturing the Ice Empress's soul in the Far North Lands flashed through his mind.

"That's right, but I resurrected her," Xiao Jinchen replied, waving his hand dismissively.

Upon hearing this, Du Busi carefully sensed Xiao Jinchen's aura again. His expression shifted instantly, and he exclaimed, "You've reached level seventy?!"

Xiao Jinchen smiled lightly. "I encountered a bit of fortune and managed to break through."

In reality, the Ice Empress had reached the Limit Douluo level by gorging on medicinal pills, and he had naturally followed suit, breaking through to level seventy with pills that had absolutely no side effects.

"Old man, let's head down first. We can't just keep hovering in the sky," Xiao Jinchen said with a yawn, feeling the fatigue of two days of travel.

"Then she..." Du Busi gestured toward the Ice Empress. After all, she was a soul beast and an unpredictable variable; he had to be responsible for the disciples of the Body Sect.

"Old man, Bing'er is my person, no need to worry." Xiao Jinchen took the Ice Empress's delicate hand, feeling the softness against his palm, and offered her a gentle smile.

The Ice Empress's fair face flushed slightly, but she did not resist, allowing him to hold it.

Du Busi's gaze lingered on their joined hands for a moment, a flash of surprise crossing his eyes. Having lived as long as he had, he could naturally tell that such intimacy was far from ordinary. He didn't press the matter, a meaningful smile tugging at the corner of his mouth as he looked away, tacitly accepting the situation.

With a light cough, Du Busi turned to the others. "Let's go, to the council hall first." With a flick of his sleeves, he led Xiao Jinchen and his group toward the depths of the sect.

The earlier scene of Du Busi and the elders acting as if facing a formidable enemy had already drawn the disciples' attention. Now, seeing the Sect Master personally leading the way, they cast looks of awe and curiosity.

They soon arrived before the council hall. Du Busi pushed the doors open, and as everyone took their seats, dozens of eyes fell squarely on Xiao Jinchen and the Ice Empress. Xiao Jinchen pulled the Ice Empress to sit beside him.

The elders exchanged glances, filled with confusion, yet no one dared to speak first.

"Why so serious?" Xiao Jinchen toyed with the Ice Empress's small hand, saying lightly, "I've brought a grand gift for the sect this time."

"A grand gift? Could it be more pills?" Du Busi asked. Xiao Jinchen had frequently refined pills for the disciples while at the sect, and the Body Sect's overall strength was already a cut above what it had been in the original records.

"Yes," Xiao Jinchen nodded. "Old man, these are pills that can help you break through to Limit Douluo."

With a wave of his hand, thousands of jade bottles instantly covered the tabletop. He had emptied the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well of its immortal herbs and medicinal plants, leaving only the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in their original places.

"These pills can help you break through directly to Limit Douluo. Other elders who haven't reached Super Douluo can break through immediately, and those who have can advance by two levels," Xiao Jinchen continued. "The pills are graded from one to six, and they are labeled. Anything above grade four requires the Spirit Douluo level to consume."

"Little Chen... these pills don't have any side effects, do they?" Jin Peng asked after a moment of hesitation. Although the sect disciples had consumed his pills before, the sheer quantity this time made it prudent to confirm.

"Rest assured, Elder Jin, there are absolutely no side effects," Xiao Jinchen laughed. "As long as you don't consume too many at once and cause the medicinal power to accumulate, it's fine. The ones grade five and above were refined using legendary immortal-grade herbs."

"What! Legendary immortal herbs? Are they the same kind the first generation of Shrek Seven Devils consumed?" Jin Peng asked, visibly excited.

"Correct." Xiao Jinchen's lips curled upward as he nodded.

Immortal herbs! They were actually immortal herbs! The hearts of everyone present hammered against their ribs, their eyes widening. These legendary items actually existed, and they had been refined into pills with no side effects?

A deathly silence fell. Everyone stared blankly at the thousands of jade bottles on the table.

"Hahaha! Good! Good! Good!" Du Busi was the first to react, laughing three times. "Heaven bless my Body Sect!"

"Little Chen, from now on, whoever you don't like, I'll be the first to crush them!" the Third Elder, Su Zhou, said excitedly.

His martial soul was his brain, and as a level ninety-six Super Douluo with a massive head, he was currently beaming with excitement.

"Xiao Jinchen is the number one talent of our Body Sect's younger generation and our only hope for rising to power! I hereby name him the Young Sect Master!" Du Busi roared, a terrifying wave of soul power sweeping across the hall.

He had originally intended to wait until Xiao Jinchen was older to confirm his successor, but he had changed his mind on the spot.

"Agreed! The position of Young Sect Master belongs to Little Chen!" Jin Peng stood up, slamming his hand on the table.

With Xiao Jinchen having achieved such a great feat—not only finding legendary immortal herbs but also refining breakthrough pills—naturally, no one would object.

"Since there are no objections, it is settled!" Seeing no dissent, Du Busi laughed with satisfaction. "From this day forward, Xiao Jinchen is the Young Sect Master of the Body Sect!"

"Old man, wait."

Just as Du Busi finished his announcement, Xiao Jinchen interrupted him.

"I won't be the Young Sect Master. I want to establish my own sect to develop soul guidance devices."

As his words fell, the council hall became so quiet one could hear a pin drop.

Du Busi froze, his tone turning stern. "Little Chen, did you take the wrong medicine today? You're turning down the position of Young Sect Master to split the sect?"

"It's not splitting the sect; it's saving it." Xiao Jinchen's smile vanished, his expression turning grave. "The Body Sect is too set in its ways. It won't last twenty years before it is completely wiped out."

"Little Chen! Have you lost your mind!" Du Busi flew into a rage, the joy brought by the pills fading as his soul power made the air heavy. "My Body Sect has stood for a thousand years! Who could possibly touch us?"

The Ice Empress frowned, her delicate fingers tapping the air to isolate the pressure of the soul power leaking from Du Busi's emotional outburst.

Xiao Jinchen understood why Du Busi was so agitated. The Body Sect was his life and his roots; to have someone tell him to his face that it was doomed would make anyone furious. It was like someone running up to a man on the eve of his wedding to tell him his bride was a fraud—anyone would lose their temper.

But he had to say it. According to the original trajectory, the Body Sect's ultimate fate was tragic. Du Busi was a stubborn man; he had tried to persuade him to accept soul guidance devices before, but the man wouldn't listen.

Words often fail to teach, but experience is a harsh master. By the time the Du Busi of the original story realized the truth, it was already too late. To prevent the sect from repeating that history, he had to start his own path and forcibly support the sect from within.

Xiao Jinchen did not back down. "The Sun Moon Empire's soul guidance technology is advancing too quickly. Once a level nine fixed-station soul cannon shell is fired, even a Super Douluo won't be able to withstand it."

Xiao Jinchen swept his gaze over the elders of the Body Sect and said in a deep voice, "The times are changing. If we don't follow the trend of the era, we will eventually be eliminated. We are too isolated and too stubborn. To avoid being eliminated, we must change."