You've Gone Too Far!

"Whoosh!"

While the Three Pure Ones were still worked up, Lin Yunji turned to Lady Nüwa, who stood gracefully to one side.

Ever since he had emerged from the Wind and Thunder Divine Formation, Lady Nüwa had worn a faint smile, tinged with sweetness and joy. Her eyes rested on him, shimmering with a wealth of complex feelings.

"I'm glad you're back!"

When Lin Yunji looked her way, Lady Nüwa did not avert her eyes. She merely brushed a stray lock of hair at her temple and smiled as she sent him a voice transmission.

She said nothing else, but those few short words expressed everything she felt.

"Sorry for making you worry just now!" Lin Yunji smiled apologetically and spoke softly.

"I was very worried, but then I heard you say you'd be right back, so I forced myself to calm down..."

Seeing Lin Yunji's slight confusion, Lady Nüwa burst out laughing.

"I remembered that you weren't a reckless person, and besides, you turned back to say those words..." She looked at Lin Yunji earnestly. "So... so I believed in you!"

With that, Lady Nüwa's eyes curved into an even brighter smile.

"I believed in you." The words were easy enough to say, but how many people could truly live up to them?

And how much feeling was contained in those simple words? Only Lin Yunji knew what they meant when he heard them!

Lin Yunji said no more either. The corners of his lips simply curved upward, and everything was left unspoken!

"Fellow Daoist Lin!"

Just then, Haotian and Yaochi came rushing over to Lin Yunji.

"Fellow Daoist Lin, this time... you really were far too reckless!" Haotian let out a long breath, his expression showing relief at having come through a disaster alive. "The Wind and Thunder Divine Formation is immensely powerful and changes in unpredictable ways. How could you underestimate it? Fortunately, nothing happened, and you came out safe and sound!"

"It wasn't as exaggerated as you make it sound!" Lin Yunji said with a smile.

Hearing that, quite a few experts rolled their eyes!

You're the one with the problem, aren't you?!

That was what every expert present was thinking.

The Wind and Thunder Divine Formation had been set up by Sage Hongjun himself and contained 360,000 variations. Its ever-present, boundless murderous intent alone posed an enormous threat even to Early-stage Quasi-Sage great powers!

Most outrageous of all, Lin Yunji had gone into a formation like that and come back out, with considerable gains to boot!

Wasn't that infuriating?!

The experts were practically furious to death!

Of course, if they had possessed such ability, they would certainly have chosen to brave the formation too!

But the point was, they didn't, so they could only shut their mouths and say no more.

"Brother Yunji, you scared me to death just now!"

Yaochi's face was still pale, as though she had yet to recover. A few tears clung to her lashes, and her eyes were red; she must have just been crying. She pouted and said angrily, "Brother Yunji, how could you charge straight into the formation without saying anything? If... if... But fortunately, you're all right! You really went too far!"

Lin Yunji: "..."

Although Yaochi's words warmed Lin Yunji's heart, he truly had no answer for them.

Had he gone too far?

Of course he had!

He knew it perfectly well, but he would not nod and admit it!

Still, seeing Yaochi like that, Lin Yunji's heart softened. He smiled and said gently, "Of course nothing would happen to me. Don't you believe in me?"

Afterward, Haotian chatted about other things with the Three Pure Ones, Lin Yunji, and the others.

The group spoke mostly about the Wind and Thunder Divine Formation and Lin Yunji's sudden breakthrough in front of the Treasure-Dividing Cliff.

They were very interested in how Lin Yunji had managed to break through the Wind and Thunder Divine Formation so easily, but Lin Yunji easily deflected all their questions!

At that very moment, quite a few experts were watching them.

Among them were two beings not far away, whose gazes were decidedly unfriendly.

They were none other than Dijun and Taiyi.

At that moment, their expressions could only be described as utterly awful!

What happened to the endless murderous intent said to lie within the Wind and Thunder Divine Formation?

What happened to Lin Yunji going in and never coming back?

What happened to anyone who entered the great formation being torn apart, body and soul destroyed?

Instead, Lin Yunji had not only passed through the Wind and Thunder Divine Formation with ease, as though taking a leisurely stroll through a courtyard, but had even made a sudden breakthrough in front of the Treasure-Dividing Cliff! His cultivation had surged, bringing him to his current realm of Late-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal.

In the end, he had swept up every last treasure before all the experts, and even taken the Treasure-Dividing Cliff along with them!

It was such a stark contrast to what they had imagined that Dijun and Taiyi were nearly angry enough to cough up blood.

"Go!" Only after a long while did Dijun force out that single word.

He ground his teeth, wishing he could charge over right now and cut Lin Yunji into a thousand pieces.

"Mm!" Taiyi's expression was just as ugly. Malice flashed from time to time in his ink-black eyes, but there was nothing he could do, for he could not make a move against Lin Yunji now.

Dijun and Taiyi gave Lin Yunji a long look, then moved, turning into two streaks of light that flew into the chaos. Before long, they vanished.

The other experts saw that Lin Yunji had taken even the Treasure-Dividing Cliff. Though displeased, there was nothing they could do about it.

Now that they had finished listening to the Great Dao, the treasures were gone, and even the Treasure-Dividing Cliff that held them had disappeared along with them, there was clearly no point in lingering. So they too scattered.

Lin Yunji, however, found himself surrounded by the Three Pure Ones, much to his dismay!

Faced with three old men who would not stop chattering and crowding around him to ask one question after another, Lin Yunji's head had swollen to the size of a bushel. In the end, he simply said, "I just broke through to Late-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal today, and my realm hasn't stabilized yet. I still need to go into seclusion! We'll chat later!"

He then took flight straight to Lady Nüwa's side and gave her a signal with his eyes. The two took off and flew deep into the chaos as well.

"That brat!" Seeing that Lin Yunji and Lady Nüwa had already disappeared, Cult Master Tongtian flew into a rage. Bristling and glaring, he said resentfully, "Didn't he say he was going back into seclusion? Why did he fly off with Fellow Daoist Nüwa instead?"

"We can only say that Nephew Yunji didn't mean what he said!" Laozi laughed.

"What fun would there be in staying with an old fellow like you?" Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi could not help laughing too. "Nephew Yunji has always had ideas of his own. He's not the sort to be content with things as they are! Don't dwell on it."

Cult Master Tongtian thought it over too. With nothing else to be done, he could only curse, "What a brat!"

With that, the three of them took flight and left.

Before long, the experts standing outside the Purple Treasure Divine Firmament Hall had all departed, leaving only Haotian and Yaochi standing where they were.

"I'm so jealous of Sister Nüwa!" Yaochi could not help saying as she watched the direction Lin Yunji and Lady Nüwa had gone. "I still wanted to go sightseeing in the Primordial Wilderness with Brother Yunji!"

"Silly little sister, don't be so quick to be jealous. We still have to think about how to explain this to our teacher!"

"Explain what?" Yaochi looked at Haotian in confusion.

Haotian shook his head and smiled bitterly. "Teacher only told us to tell those experts how to take the treasures from the Treasure-Dividing Cliff. Who knew Fellow Daoist Lin Yunji would take the Treasure-Dividing Cliff itself? What are we supposed to do?"

Hearing Haotian's words, Yaochi rolled her eyes, stuck out her tongue, and made a face at him. "Big Brother, you're so silly. Teacher may not have seen it with his own eyes, but what does that matter? He set up the Kunlun Divine Formation himself, so how could he not know that Brother Yunji took the Treasure-Dividing Cliff?"

Yaochi said all that, but when she saw that Haotian still did not understand, she could only purse her lips and say, "Teacher didn't step in to stop him at the time. That means he doesn't care at all!"

Little did they know that, at that moment, Dao Ancestor Hongjun's figure had reappeared at some unknown time inside the Purple Treasure Firmament Hall, on the Dao platform suspended high in the void.

His presence was ethereal, as though he had become one with heaven, earth, and the Great Dao.

Yet at that very moment, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly...