The Gate of Life and Death's Legacy (1 / 2)

After leaving Wutan City, Protector Xuan headed straight to the Misty Cloud Sect to rendezvous with Soul One, Soul Two, and Soul Three.

Together, they would secretly investigate the Misty Cloud Sect and search for the whereabouts of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment.

Soul One, Soul Two, and Soul Three might have been rather dull, but they still possessed the intelligence they needed.

Upon reaching the Misty Cloud Sect, they immediately began investigating, concealing their identities to infiltrate the sect.

Their method of infiltration was simple and brutal.

They caught three Misty Cloud Sect disciples who were alone, killed them, then put on their clothes and took their tokens, strolling brazenly into the sect through the front gate.

After infiltrating the Misty Cloud Sect, they divided the work and began their investigation, mingling with the disciples and learning everything from them.

A week earlier, a mysterious expert had descended upon the Misty Cloud Sect and used overwhelmingly forceful means to marry its Ninth-Generation Sect Master, Yun Yun, against her will.

The day after marrying Yun Yun, he had Nalan Yanran replace her as the Misty Cloud Sect's Tenth-Generation Sect Master.

Later, he somehow learned that Nalan Yanran had been betrothed since childhood.

Upon learning of her childhood betrothal, he personally led a group to the Xiao Clan in Wutan City to break off the engagement.

The entire process of breaking off the engagement took less than a morning.

They went there in the morning, and Nalan Yanran returned at noon.

Then, because of the broken engagement, an expert came storming to their doorstep in a rage. His strength was so formidable that the moment he arrived and attacked, he flattened a small hill with a single slap.

As he struck, he was also shouting something about souls, clans, and people.

Sect Master Yun Yun then fought him to defend the Misty Cloud Sect.

In the end, he crushed her effortlessly. With one casual palm strike, he left her unable to withstand the blow and nearly killed her on the spot.

Fortunately, Chen Yang returned just in time at the last moment, saving the former sect master, Yun Yun. In his fury, he severely injured the intruder and broke one of his arms.

After piecing together the entire chain of events, Soul One and the others were almost certain that Iron Protector had fallen at the hands of the second mysterious expert, while Protector Wu had likely fallen at Chen Yang's hands.

Two Soul Hall Protectors had died because of a single Misty Cloud Sect, so naturally, the blame was laid at the sect's doorstep.

What they did not know was exactly what cultivation realm Chen Yang had reached.

However, since he could construct a Spatial Bridge and travel through space, he had to be at least a high-level Dou Zun.

Dou Zun were not cabbages piled up at a market. Nearly every Dou Zun expert in the Central Plains was known by name.

Yet they had never heard of a Dou Zun named Chen Yang.

Nor was there a family surnamed Chen among the Ancient Eight Clans.

So just who was Chen Yang?

And was he really only a Dou Zun?

With these doubts weighing heavily on him, Soul One decided to hold his position and wait until the Soul Hall's Venerable Elders arrived.

There was no need to rush. The Misty Cloud Sect was doomed to destruction anyway.

For no other reason than that the Soul Hall had always been the one bullying others, and no one had ever dared disrespect its people.

The Misty Cloud Sect had dared to attack their Protectors with audacity that reached the heavens—and had killed not one, but two. They must have been tired of living.

If they did not destroy the Misty Cloud Sect to vent their anger and establish their might, would everyone not feel free to take a kick at the Soul Hall in the future?

Soul One transmitted the results of their investigation to the Soul Hall's Branch Hall Master in the Dead Soul Mountain Range, who then relayed the message to Soul Hall Headquarters.

Upon learning of this, Soul Hall Headquarters flew into a rage and immediately dispatched two Venerable Elders, Old Man Mu Gu and Star-Picking Old Ghost, along with several Protectors, to the Northwest Region to destroy the Misty Cloud Sect and find and retrieve the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment.

The Soul Hall's simultaneous dispatch of two Dou Zun experts to the Northwest Region immediately drew the attention and condemnation of various factions.

The strongest condemnation came from One Tower and Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions.

When they learned that the Soul Hall had violated the Central Plains Agreement by sending people to the Northwest Region, they immediately condemned it in the strongest terms for breaching the agreement.

However, backed by the powerful Soul Clan and itself stronger than One Tower and Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions, the Soul Hall completely ignored their foot-stamping denunciations.

It continued doing exactly as it pleased, sending Venerable Elder Old Man Mu Gu and Venerable Elder Star-Picking Old Ghost to the Northwest Region.

Such behavior all but openly declared to One Tower and Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions, who opposed them:

"I'm doing it anyway! Come fight me if you've got the guts, you bastards!"

The Soul Hall's strength was there for all to see. However arrogant it was, One Tower and Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions dared only to rage, not to act.

The reason was simple: if they actually fought the Soul Hall, they could not beat it.

In terms of the number of Dou Sheng and Half-Saints alone, they were no match for the Soul Hall.

Not to mention the behemoth standing behind it—the Soul Clan.

In secret, however, they did send people to the Northwest Region to investigate why the Soul Hall had dispatched two Venerable Elders there at once.

The Northwest Region was nothing but a barren land. How had it suddenly caught the Soul Hall's eye and prompted such a grand mobilization?

They would never have known without investigating, and what they discovered gave them an enormous shock.

The Misty Cloud Sect in the Northwest Region truly had guts!

It had actually slain Protector Wu and Iron Protector, who had been carrying out missions away from the hall, right at its sect gates.

For a time, these so-called top factions—One Tower and Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions—could not help admiring the Misty Cloud Sect's sheer courage!

Unfortunately, no faction that made an enemy of the Soul Hall had ever met a good end.

Before long, the Misty Cloud Sect would be consigned entirely to history.

Even as One Tower and Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions lamented the Misty Cloud Sect's fate, they admired it from the bottom of their hearts.

Though the Misty Cloud Sect was merely a lowly third-rate sect, it had done what these so-called top factions did not dare to do.

Thus, these so-called top factions made their decision.

After the Misty Cloud Sect was destroyed, they would unite once more to condemn the Soul Hall.

If anyone survived this calamity of annihilation and possessed decent talent, One Tower and Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions would make an exception to admit them and give them a home.

While Soul One, Soul Two, and Soul Three patiently awaited reinforcements from the Soul Hall's Venerable Elders, Chen Yang, elsewhere, also improved Nalan Yanran's talent.

Only after using the Modifier System several times did Chen Yang realize that, although it was an outrageously powerful cheat that allowed him to alter someone's cultivation at will as long as he had enough Modification Points, there was a catch.

If the change was too drastic, it would trigger a correction from the power of rules.

For example, an ordinary disciple cultivating at the Dou Zhe level could be modified into a peak ten-transformation Dou Zun through the modifier.

Before they even had time to celebrate, the power of rules would condense between heaven and earth in the next instant and send down the power of heavenly retribution, forcibly wrenching their cultivation back to its original level.

That had caused Chen Yang to waste ten thousand Modification Points for nothing.

After that, Chen Yang no longer considered using the Modifier System to alter people's cultivation directly.