The Yuan Sect.
Ren Yuanzi sat in the great hall, frowning slightly as he listened to a disciple's report.
"He suppressed Jiang Ba with one punch?"
"Mm, understood." Ren Yuanzi nodded, and the disciple withdrew.
"Even the Yin Nether Heavenly Thunder failed to draw out his strength?"
The matter of dealing with Xiang Yun, the Primordial Hall's sudden rising star, had been placed in his hands. Senior Brothers Earth Yuan and Heavenly Yuan had more important matters to attend to.
He was the one who had ordered Tyrant Extreme Mountain to test him.
He had personally implanted the Yin Nether Heavenly Thunder in Jiang Ba using the Thunder Emperor Canon, and it could be activated with a single thought.
In other words, Jiang Ba had been suppressed in an instant.
Ren Yuanzi frowned slightly. He could only ask his senior brothers for permission to use Zhou Tong. Now was not the time to fall out with the other sects.
So he could not show himself. Dealing with Xiang Yun was one thing, but dealing with that brute Hong Wuji would not be so simple.
If he could not make a move, Zhou Tong was his only option.
Though Zhou Tong was not yet completely under their control, there should be no problem having him appear for a while to deal with Hong Wuji.
With Zhou Tong's strength, Hong Wuji would have no way to free himself in the short term.
Originally, he had not wanted to use such extreme measures. The main reason was that he had investigated Xiang Yun and found that he was an orphan with few friends.
The only ones he had relatively close ties to were probably Ling Qingzhu and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.
This was no time to cross the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.
So the methods they had used on Zhou Tong before simply would not work on Xiang Yun.
"You can suppress someone in the Life Profound Realm. Let's see if you can handle someone in the Death Profound Realm. If we can capture you and bring you back, it wouldn't be bad to control you too."
"This Xiang Yun must have secrets as well, to be able to fight someone at Advanced Life Profound while only at the middle stage of the Nirvana Realm..."
A chill flickered through Ren Yuanzi's weathered eyes. No one could stand in the way of the Yuan Sect dominating the Eastern Xuan Region. This was the promise he and his two senior brothers had made to their master!
The Dao Sect.
Ying Xuanzi, who was usually as elusive as a divine dragon whose head was seen but never its tail.
At this moment, however, he stood in the air, wearing his sect master's robes, which looked like Daoist robes but were actually elaborate.
Behind him stood the hall masters and deputy hall masters of the four great halls, along with the personal disciples of each hall. Almost all of them were at Eight Yuan Nirvana.
The exception was Ying Huanhuan, who stood at the head of the Heaven Hall's disciples. Although she had only recently broken through to the Nirvana Realm, her status and her comprehension of the Heavenly Emperor Scripture meant-
At least in terms of status, she counted as their eldest senior sister.
Beside Ying Xiaoxiao, Ying Huanhuan whispered, "This is so grand. I don't think it was this grand before."
Ying Xiaoxiao glanced at Ying Huanhuan and transmitted her voice. "Use voice transmission. Why are you talking out loud?"
"Oh, I'm used to it."
"This time it's an exchange between three sects. Both the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace and the Primordial Hall are coming. In the past, only one sect came, so of course it's different."
"I heard the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace was the one that strongly requested it this time?"
"Mm. I heard the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace wanted to see how strong the Dao Sect's disciples were. Since the Primordial Hall also happened to be seeking out the Dao Sect, they decided to come together."
Ying Huanhuan looked a little puzzled as she listened to Ying Xiaoxiao.
What did she mean, "happened to"?
That was far too much of a coincidence. Besides, there was no need to rush; they could have come later.
Why did it feel as though the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace had come for the Primordial Hall instead?
"Hey, Sis, do you think it's really true that that arrogant fool can fight someone at Advanced Life Profound? It's only been half a year. How did he get so ridiculous?"
"What's so ridiculous about it? Have you forgotten how he drove Deputy Hall Master Qing back in the Geomagnetic Mountain Range?"
When Ying Xiaoxiao said this,
She actually found it ridiculous too. Even with her mastery of the Heavenly Emperor Scripture, she could not possibly fight someone in the Life Profound Realm while in the Nirvana Realm.
Over the past half year,
She had used resources to break through several tribulations in succession, reaching Three Yuan Nirvana. For them, the Nirvana Realm was when they truly began to make strides.
After all, the most important cultivation resource for the Nirvana Realm was Nirvana Qi.
And a super sect without several Pill Rivers could hardly be called a super sect.
"How is that the same?"
Ying Huanhuan gritted her teeth at the thought of how arrogant Xiang Yun had been back then.
That arrogant fool had even said that if one had the strength to back up one's arrogance, it was called having an invincible heart.
Invincible, my ass!
So what if he could compete with her sister? If Senior Brother Zhou Tong were still here, beating that fellow would be like beating a dog!
Just then, the space in the sky beyond the light barrier suddenly twisted, and a vast expanse of light gathered.
It finally formed a huge array, within which hundreds of figures appeared. At a glance, they were all muscular men, though there were indeed a few women scattered among them.
Though their muscles did not look quite so exaggerated, they were still taller and more slender than ordinary women.
One look was enough to tell they were from the Primordial Hall.
"Hahaha, Sect Master Ying, everyone, sorry for the trouble of making you wait here."
Hong Wuji spoke in an affectedly refined manner, which looked rather odd paired with the beast hide he wore.
Xiang Yun glanced at him. Fortunately, he had persuaded Hong Wuji, saying that if he tried to paint a tiger and failed, he would end up with a dog instead, and that he would be better off showing his true nature.
He could not be a licking dog!!
So Hong Wuji had ultimately changed into this Spirit Treasure, a Pure Yuan Treasure called the Primordial Dragon Armor.
Oh...
Xiang Yun seemed to understand what grudge lay between their Primordial Hall and the Dragon Clan.
Could this Primordial Dragon Armor have been snatched from the Dragon Clan, or refined using something important from them?
Still, this was more in keeping with the Primordial Hall's bearing and Hong Wuji's build.
If he had kept wearing Daoist robes, he would have looked utterly ridiculous. Now, he had a sort of wild beauty instead.
Ying Xuanzi, however, secretly raised an eyebrow. They had been apart for such a short time, so why had the threat Hong Wuji posed to him grown so much?
Of course, he was not talking about his clothes.
Hong Wuji's taste was still a pile of crap.
He meant his presence.
Then his gaze fell on Xiang Yun beside Hong Wuji, only for him to discover that he could not see through him at all. When he looked up, he saw Xiang Yun smiling at him.
Ying Xuanzi withdrew his gaze with supreme nonchalance and said with a smile, "You're too polite, Hall Master Hong. You've all come from afar, so thank you for making the effort!"
"Hahaha, no effort at all, no effort at all. We're so close, after all, and the scenery here is much prettier than at our Primordial Hall..."
Xiang Yun was speechless as he listened to Hong Wuji.
All he could say was that, compared with the rest of the Primordial Hall, his master had some brains, but not many.
At the very least, he was still lacking when it came to exchanging pleasantries.
Xiang Yun glanced over the Dao Sect's disciples. Their quality was decent, but that was all. He had thought there would be disciples at Nine Yuan Nirvana.
It turned out there were none.
In that case, the outcome of this exchange was another matter.
A thought suddenly struck Xiang Yun. No, that was not right.
There had been one originally.
It was Wang Jie, but she had died as a result of the Yuan Sect's scheme.
In fact, it had happened at the last sect competition.
Though Xiang Yun had been old enough to understand things then, he had only just started down the path of cultivation.
Naturally, Xiang Yun would not warn the Dao Sect. He was not one of its members, and even if he told them, would they believe him?
And even if they believed him, would that prevent it?
Not at all.
Clearly, the Yuan Sect had been prepared for that incident long in advance.
If the Primordial Hall had also become involved, its foundations were not nearly as deep as the Dao Sect's.
Of course.
That was then. If it happened now,
If he failed to beat the Three Little Kings to death within three punches, he would count it as a failed order!