Appreciate? If you don't kill yourself, your clan will be annihilated!

The smell of blood spread through the air.

The entire venue fell silent!

The turn of events had come so suddenly that no one present had time to react.

"You're provoking me!"

The moment Lu Ling saw her guard being blown apart on the spot—

An unprecedented fury surged straight into her chest!

As the legitimate daughter of the family, she had been born noble.

She had always gotten whatever she wanted. Never had anyone dared treat her like this!

Especially when this had happened after she awakened the Immortal Spirit Body and became part of the Lu Family Sequence!

Driven by rage, Lu Ling charged straight at Lu Qingyun!

As the owner of the Immortal Spirit Body, her vitality and blood were not particularly powerful.

By Lu Qingyun's estimate, she was only at a little over a hundred layers of the Blood Moving Realm.

Compared to Lu Qingyun's three hundred thousand layers of the Blood Moving Realm, she was as insignificant as a single wave in the vast ocean!

Yet her strength could not be judged by her realm alone.

Her body radiated dazzling light, countless streams of flawless, pure-white immortal energy swirling around her. She was truly extraordinary!

With the sound of the Great Dao accompanying her, an unparalleled Female Immortal seemed to materialize behind Lu Ling at that moment, charging toward Lu Qingyun!

"Good, you came!"

At the sight of this, Lu Qingyun's eyes brimmed with excitement!

The vitality and blood within him boiled, erupting like a volcano at that instant!

Boundless blood energy shot into the skies!

The force of his aura alone made Lu Ling's face turn deathly pale!

I'll die. If that punch lands, I'll really die!

Before this, when she had merely seen the vitality and blood naturally emanating from Lu Qingyun, though his aura had been imposing, Lu Ling had believed—

That with the unique qualities of her physique, she could still suppress him!

Since ancient times, owners of top-tier physiques had been invincible among those of the same realm!

There was no way she would become the exception!

So although she knew there was a gap in vitality and blood between herself and Lu Qingyun, she had never thought she would lose.

Not until Lu Qingyun truly unleashed all his strength!

Only then did she clearly see the gulf between them—a chasm that could not be crossed!

BOOM!!

Their fists collided!

Lu Qingyun's body was sent flying backward!

Standing opposite him was an utterly ordinary-looking man!

He stood protectively before Lu Ling and had taken that punch from Lu Qingyun!

"Hahaha! Good!"

Lu Qingyun steadied himself, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. Yet rather than getting angry, he laughed!

He shoved Zhao Chen aside and fixed his gaze firmly on the man who had exchanged that punch with him.

His voice did not conceal his admiration for the man in the slightest!

"Tell me, what's your name?"

At those words, the man's eyes flickered slightly before he immediately answered, "This subordinate is Sun Cheng, captain of the Fourteenth Sequence's guard unit, of the True God Realm!"

"Just now, I was too anxious to save my master and accidentally injured the Thirteenth Sequence. I ask the Sequence to punish me!"

Mm, with those words, he had both stated his identity and demonstrated his loyalty.

Judging from the Thirteenth Sequence's admiring tone just now, he was surely favorably inclined toward him.

Though Sun Cheng still felt that following the Fourteenth Sequence offered a brighter future than following the Thirteenth Sequence, one could always leave oneself a way out.

Lu Ling, who had just been shielded, recovered slightly. Seeing Lu Qingyun's manner—

She thought he was trying to snatch Sun Cheng from her and hurriedly stepped forward. "Lu Qingyun, I did lose this time. But I possess the Immortal Spirit Body, and my rate of growth is beyond your imagination. Next time, the title of Thirteenth Sequence will belong to me!"

"Sun Cheng, let's go!"

Just as Lu Ling turned to leave, Lu Qingyun's faint voice drifted from behind her.

"Go? Don't be in such a hurry. This matter hasn't been settled yet."

"You injured me, and you think you can just walk away like that?"

As soon as the words fell, over a hundred guards surged forward, surrounding Lu Ling and her Guard Captain, Sun Cheng!

Zhao Chen and another True God guard locked their divine senses tightly onto Sun Cheng, the killing intent in their eyes utterly undisguised!

With the strength of a True God, it was naturally impossible for him to lose control of his power while protecting someone and end up injuring the Sequence.

In other words, Lu Qingyun's injuries had been deliberately inflicted by Sun Cheng!

They truly had not expected anyone to dare do such a thing!

It had caused them to fail in their duty, unable to properly protect Lu Qingyun!

Now that their own Sequence had given the order, they naturally would not let Sun Cheng leave so easily!

"Lu Qingyun, you've already won. What more do you want?!"

Lu Ling turned back, speaking through gritted teeth.

The next moment, Lu Qingyun's blood and qi erupted!

He arrived before Lu Ling, swung his arm in a full arc, and sent the ethereal immortal aura around her body scattering with a single slap!

The tremendous force slapped her straight to the ground!

Lu Ling's face was swollen as she spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with shattered teeth.

She looked utterly miserable!

Sun Cheng tried to intervene from the side, only to be forcibly suppressed by the other two True Gods!

"Weren't you the one who suddenly came looking to challenge me? As far as I'm concerned, this challenge isn't over yet!"

Lu Qingyun planted a foot directly on Lu Ling's head. No matter how she struggled, she could not move him in the slightest!

Then, Lu Qingyun turned his gaze toward Sun Cheng.

His eyes still carried undisguised admiration, and beneath it... there was even a trace of anticipation and excitement.

Watching Lu Ling being trampled beneath Lu Qingyun's foot, Sun Cheng's heart turned incomparably cold.

At this moment, he no longer believed that Lu Qingyun's admiration meant genuine recognition of him...

An intensely bad premonition lingered over his spiritual platform, leaving him incredulous!

He was clearly a True God!

Yet he was actually afraid of a child who had merely reached the Blood Moving Realm!

What an absurd joke!

Let alone someone in the Blood Moving Realm—even the two True Gods currently suppressing him did not worry him all that much.

They were all True Gods; there was simply one more of them.

If he truly wished to leave, they would not be able to stop him.

So... why did he feel so unsettled and panicked...?

"Sun Cheng, right? I'll give you a chance. You... take your own life."

Lu Qingyun rubbed his hands together, looking at Sun Cheng with an expectant expression.

Yet the words that left his mouth were utterly earth-shattering!

A weakling of the Blood Moving Realm was actually telling a True God to take his own life?!

This was a True God!

A being capable of ruling a region and founding a kingdom in the Great Wilderness!

Forget the Blood Moving Realm—even someone at the peak of Nirvana was no more than an ant before a True God!

Yet now, someone in the Blood Moving Realm was telling a True God to take his own life!

What gave him the right?!

Naturally, it was his identity as a Lu Family Sequence!

Seeing that Sun Cheng remained unwilling to act, Lu Qingyun did not grow angry in the slightest.

Instead, the excitement in his eyes grew ever stronger.

"Good! Just as expected of someone with the nerve to attack a Sequence!"

"You dare to act, and you dare to bear the consequences! In that case, according to Lu Family rules, those who defy their superiors and deliberately seek to murder a Sequence shall have their—clans—wiped—out—"

Lu Qingyun stared at Sun Cheng. He spoke the final two words with extreme slowness, making sure Sun Cheng heard every syllable clearly!

The instant those words were spoken, Sun Cheng's emotions exploded!

All the might of his True God cultivation burst forth as he endured his injuries and forcibly broke free from Zhao Chen and the other man's restraints!

"Impossible! What gives the Lu Family the right to be so tyrannical?! I didn't even take your life!"

As the only True God in his clan, he had relied on the entire family's support to reach his current realm.

He had come to the Lu Family and willingly served as a junior's guard.

All because he wanted to secure a powerful patron for his family, so they would no longer have to fear being casually erased by some passing powerhouse.

But he never imagined that all he wanted was to earn a little favor in the eyes of his own Family Sequence.

So he merely tampered with things a little, leaving the opponent with a minor injury.

So minor that, with the medicinal power accumulated within the other's body, it would heal in just a few breaths!

Yet he never could have imagined that such an almost negligible wound

would cost him his entire clan!?

How unfair!!

He wanted to question Lu Qingyun!

Divine power shaped itself into a giant hand that reached for Lu Qingyun!

But an invisible ripple came from nowhere and struck him!

The next instant, the giant hand Sun Cheng had formed dissipated!

The power within him, enough to shatter mountains and split peaks, was steadily sealed away!

In the blink of an eye, he had been reduced to an ordinary mortal!

On the Lu Family's Divine Mountain, he had actually dared attack a Lu Family Sequence...

Lu Qingyun had never imagined that this man could be foolish to such an extent!

He could wildly humiliate Lu Ling with his feet because that was a matter between the younger generation of the Lu Family.

As long as no one died, they could mess around however they pleased.

But who did Sun Cheng think he was?

Just an utterly ordinary True God!

"Pass down the order: Sun Cheng intended to murder the Thirteenth Sequence. His crimes are heinous! Seal his cultivation and send him into the Forbidden Zone. As for the family under his command, strike them from the rolls!"

A Lu Family expert's voice rang out from the void.

It echoed unceasingly throughout the Divine Mountain.