A Sect Breaking Pill to Sever Their Ties (1 / 2)

Hearing Yun Shan admit it, Yun Yun was utterly disappointed.

"Teacher, have you lost your mind?!" she demanded hoarsely, almost beside herself with fury.

She had thought he had changed and recognized his mistakes.

She never imagined that his change amounted to nothing more than deciding that asking Chen Yang for a Sect Breaking Pill was a better bargain than dealing with Protector Wu.

He had apologized to her because he had raised her himself. With that debt of gratitude between them, he could still use it to bind her to him.

Husband and wife were one. Binding her meant binding Chen Yang.

That way, asking him for a Sect Breaking Pill became perfectly justified.

"I haven't lost my mind. I raised you myself. As the saying goes, the debt of being raised outweighs everything else.

If I ask you for something, shouldn't you give it to me?!" Yun Shan had already fallen into obsession, letting his inner demons control him as he demanded a Sect Breaking Pill from Yun Yun. "Besides, once I break through to Dou Zong, it will benefit both you and the Misty Cloud Sect without doing either any harm."

Yun Shan was still trying to persuade Yun Yun.

Yun Yun stepped back and stared blankly at him.

At the sight, Yun Shan's expression darkened, just as expected.

Although he had known all along that doing this would only make Yun Yun sever ties with him, that meant nothing compared to breaking through to Dou Zong.

After living for so many years, he had come to understand one truth: everything else could be an external possession, but his cultivation alone truly belonged to him.

Once he broke through, he would be a Dou Zong powerhouse. In this vast world, where could he not go then?

"I told you that people's hearts change!" Chen Yang caught the swaying Yun Yun and spoke with heartache in his voice.

"And not every mistake leaves a road back."

"Some roads, once you set foot on them, never let you turn back." The only road back from that one was death.

Chen Yang's comfort worked, and Yun Yun's spirits were no longer quite so low.

Light rekindled in her eyes, breaking through layer upon layer of gloom and obstacles as she raised her head to gaze at the sky.

Above her were blue skies and white clouds, and the blazing red sunlight burned so fiercely.

She remained silent.

Seeing Yun Yun stay silent for so long, while Chen Yang offered no clear response either, Yun Shan began to grow anxious.

Things had already reached this point. He was determined to get a Sect Breaking Pill from Chen Yang.

As for whether Chen Yang actually had one, he did not care.

If Chen Yang had no Sect Breaking Pill, he could steal one from someone else.

He could simply find a seventh-tier alchemist in the Central Plains and hold a blade to his throat to force him to refine it, just as he had forced Yun Yun into marriage back then.

Every petty thought in Yun Shan's mind was written all over his face.

"Yun Yun, I raised you so you could repay me, not so you could stand here questioning me."

Hearing this, Chen Yang looked at Yun Yun with some concern, afraid she would lose control.

Unexpectedly, however, Yun Yun's expression remained unchanged. Her emotions did not fluctuate at all, untouched by Yun Shan's words.

Perhaps she no longer held any expectations of Yun Shan.

That was why she could remain immune to what he said.

Chen Yang breathed a sigh of relief, yet his heart ached terribly.

Watching his wife being bullied, he even felt the urge to kill Yun Shan.

He wanted to beat Yun Shan up and vent his wife's anger for her.

But Yun Yun caught his hand.

Surprised, he lowered his gaze to the hand she had taken of her own accord. When he looked back at her, he instantly understood what she meant.

Although Yun Shan had been in the wrong in this matter, no matter how one looked at it, Yun Yun still owed him a debt for raising her.

If Chen Yang struck him, he would saddle Yun Yun with the reputation of being unfilial.

Chen Yang stayed his hand, turning it over to clasp her soft hand in his palm.

My wife knows where to draw the line. Let her handle this herself.

As for him, he only needed to be her steadfast support, always standing behind her and backing her up.

Yun Yun drew a deep breath, looked at Yun Shan, and said solemnly, "The debt of being raised should be impossible to repay, but your actions, Teacher, are truly beneath contempt to me.

"I will ask my husband about the Sect Breaking Pill you want.

If he has one, I will give it to you!"

She paused, her gaze unusually resolute. "If my husband doesn't have one, I won't force him to steal one for you, either. But I will do everything I can to find a way to get you one."

"With this Sect Breaking Pill, our bond as master and disciple, and our relationship as both teacher and father, will come to an end."

"From this day forward, if we meet again, we will be strangers."

"The moment you chose to cooperate with the Soul Hall, you, Yun Shan, lost the right to be the Misty Cloud Sect's eighth sect master."

"Today, as the Misty Cloud Sect's ninth sect master, I, Yun Yun, formally strip you of your status as its eighth sect master."

"From this day forward, you, Yun Shan, are no longer a member of the Misty Cloud Sect."

"Teacher, this is the last time Yun'er will call you that.

The Misty Cloud Sect is where you have lived your entire life, so I won't take things too far.

Even though you are no longer its eighth sect master, you may continue living here.

Of course, wherever you wish to go, I won't stop you."

Seeing Yun Yun act so decisively, Chen Yang nodded in approval.

She had finally grown a little. His careful orchestration of all this had not been in vain.

A successful ruler did not need too many emotional attachments. A measure of romantic love was enough.

For someone in power, too many attachments were not a good thing. Instead, they would become shackles.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Chen Yang knew that producing a Sect Breaking Pill now would truly sever the last bond between Yun Shan and the woman he had raised.

He brushed a hand over the Storage Ring on his finger. It flashed, and a dark-colored Storage Ring appeared in his hand.

It was Protector Wu's Storage Ring.

Yun Shan had met Protector Wu many times and had seen the Storage Ring he wore, so he recognized its origins at a glance.

What puzzled him was why Protector Wu's Storage Ring had appeared in Chen Yang's hand.

Could Chen Yang actually be Protector Wu?

That was quite possible.

Every time Protector Wu appeared, he wore black robes. Perhaps, once he removed them, he looked exactly like Chen Yang.

Still, Yun Shan felt that Chen Yang was not Protector Wu.

Not understanding what Chen Yang was doing, Yun Yun watched him curiously.

Chen Yang unhurriedly erased the ward Protector Wu had left on the Storage Ring, then extended the spiritual perception of his powerful Emperor Realm Soul into it to search for something.

A few breaths later, Chen Yang took out a bottle of pills.

He opened the cap, and a pure medicinal fragrance wafted from the mouth of the bottle.

Chen Yang tilted the bottle, pouring a pill as blue as an ice crystal into his hand.

A blue ring of energy encircled the pill, and the power contained within that ring was extraordinary.

It was a Sect Breaking Pill, brought by Protector Wu specifically for his cooperation with Yun Shan.

What Protector Wu had never imagined was that Chen Yang would ultimately reap the benefit.

Looking at the Sect Breaking Pill, Yun Yun asked in surprise, "That's a Sect Breaking Pill! Why do you have one? Are you an alchemist?!"

As a pill that increased the chances of breaking through to Dou Zong, the Sect Breaking Pill had a market but no fixed price. In the Northwest Region, even a single pill was almost impossible to obtain, and the ingredients needed to refine it were exceedingly scarce.

Thus, it was hardly surprising that Yun Yun asked whether Chen Yang was an alchemist.

After all, in Yun Yun's understanding of the world, only a high-tier alchemist was likely to carry a Sect Breaking Pill around.

Chen Yang was indeed an alchemist, and the most powerful kind—an Emperor-Grade Alchemist—so he did not deny it.

He nodded. "That's right~!"

With that, he tossed the Sect Breaking Pill in his hand to Yun Shan as though throwing away trash.

Then he told him, "The Sect Breaking Pill is yours. Don't ever show your face in front of my wife again.

Otherwise, if you upset her, I won't mind using your flesh and blood as ingredients to refine an evil pill~!"