That Old Man Was Rotten to the Core
"This guy's villainous nature is completely exposed!" Yi Xuan muttered to himself as he sat in front of the screen.
Although Yi Xuan still doesn't know what the other party's intentions are, he can tell from their words that these people have big plans.
Thinking about it this way, Yi Xuan suddenly became curious. Just how unequal a treaty did the three elders of the Azure Cloud Sect make the Gazing Immortal Sect agree to? Now that it seems like the Gazing Immortal Sect is desperate, they might be resorting to any means necessary.
"Senior Brother Qian! I feel it's about time, so let's begin!"
The man surnamed Qi on the screen spoke weakly.
The disciple surnamed Qian opposite him nodded in agreement, then gently patted the other's shoulder a few times and said, "Junior Brother Qi, I'm sorry you had to go through this! But all of this is for the future of our Gazing Immortal Sect. When Gazing Immortal Sect becomes the number one sect in the Southern Frontier, you will be the greatest contributor to the Gazing Immortal Sect!"
Upon hearing this, Yi Xuan from the screen, was so embarrassed that he started picking his toes.
Couldn't the Gazing Immortal Sect have been a little more skillful with their empty promises? And with the promise so convincingly made, that disciple surnamed Qi actually accepted it with a happy expression. Doesn't he feel uncomfortable about choking on it?
Upon hearing that he was ready, the six people who had been surrounding the disciple surnamed Qi began to rapidly cast Method Formula. Their hand Method Formula converged in the air, forming something that resembled an array.
Upon seeing the appearance of that thing, the six people breathed a sigh of relief and retreated behind the disciple surnamed Qian.
The disciple surnamed Qi looked at his seven fellow disciples in front of him, nodded solemnly, and went straight to the bottom of the array diagram, where he sat down cross-legged.
"Senior brother! Junior Brother Qi, he...?"
Seeing the actions of the disciple surnamed Qi, one of the seven people spoke to the disciple surnamed Qian with a look of reluctance.
"Shut up! This was a scheme painstakingly set up by our master back then. Put away your womanly compassion!"
"Senior Brother Qian! We all understand that back then, our Master discovered this Supreme-Grade Law Artifact and this extremely ominous place here! But he didn't take the Law Artifact out; instead, he allowed this ominous Law Artifact to nurture it. Wasn't it all for today? Junior Brother Liu! How can you be so naive!"
"Yes! Junior Brother Liu! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Only our Gazing Immortal Sect will be able to leave alive from this expedition to the Artifact Ruins!"
Hearing the conversation behind him, the disciple surnamed Qian did not react, but kept his eyes fixed on his Junior Brother Qi was sitting below the array diagram.
Junior Brother Qi already looked very weak, and now, sitting under the array diagram, he seemed to be crushed by it. His face became even paler, and he swayed precariously, as if he might faint at any moment.
The disciple surnamed Qian, seeing his condition, asked with concern, "Junior Brother Qi, how are you?"
Hearing this, Junior Brother Qi, standing below the array diagram, gave a bitter laugh, "Don't worry, Senior Brother, this is my decision, and I will definitely hold on! Master's hard work will not be in vain!"
Although he looked somewhat reluctant, upon hearing his junior brother's words, the disciple surnamed Qian still cast a series of Method Formula towards the formation in the sky.
As the Method Formula was injected, the entire array seemed to be activated, suddenly bursting out with an extremely intense light.
Something below the cave seemed to sense this power and began to tremble incessantly, causing the entire cave to shake violently, with rocks constantly falling from above.
Seeing this, the other seven people quickly activated their True Essence shields to block the falling rubble.
The disciple surnamed Qi was unaffected by the shattered stones because of the array above.
But his reaction was more than a hundred times more violent than if he had been hit by rubble.
But then the array above him began to slowly descend, and the space between the array and the cave floor seemed to be compressed, causing the Qi disciple's body to become increasingly hunched over. At first, he could still clench his teeth.
But as the array diagram got closer and closer to the ground, he could no longer bear it and roared madly.
Seeing his terrifying and ferocious expression, the other seven were filled with shock. One disciple even turned around; it was the same disciple who had been scolded by Senior Brother Qian for being too soft-hearted.
Yi Xuan was increasingly baffled by what was happening in the cave. However, Yi Xuan knew that the more incomprehensible it was, the more serious the problem became.
Moreover, they had previously discussed that if they succeeded, none of the other sect disciples in the Southern Frontier would be able to leave the Artifact Ruins alive.
The Qi disciple's roar stopped abruptly; he had been hysterical just moments before, but the next second he returned to calm.
When Yi Xuan looked at the screen again, he found that the disciple had disappeared from the camera's view, leaving behind a human-shaped cloud of blood mist in the air.
"What? It was crushed?" Yi Xuan stared at the screen in disbelief. It was a living, breathing person!
Although Yi Xuan knew that the Cultivation Realm place where the strong preyed on the weak and that killing each other was not commonplace, Yi Xuan sight of someone being crushed into a bloody mist was still very visually striking.
Yi Xuan couldn't imagine what kind of belief could have supported him to do this.
The other disciples of the Gazing Immortal Sect, however, did not find this scene cruel; instead, they all looked excitedly at the source of the blood mist.
The ground trembled even more violently, as if something might burst forth from the earth at any moment.
"Senior brother! It seems that the peerless weapon that Master has nurtured here for over fifty years is about to be unleashed!"
Senior Brother Qian nodded. "That's right. With such an ominous place, a Supreme-Grade Law Artifact, and the Yin-Gathering Evil-Birthing Formation set up by our master, the ferocity of this Law Artifact is absolutely beyond imagination!"
"Fortunately, this was our master's doing. Now, all we need to do is make Junior Brother Qi the Artifact Spirit of this peerless weapon, and then our plan can be considered a complete success!"
Upon hearing this, the others nodded in agreement.
Yi Xuan had also roughly figured out the ins and outs of the matter.
It must have been during a trip to the Artifact Ruins fifty years ago that the current leader of the Gazing Immortal Sect discovered this extremely ominous place and a peerless magical Law Artifact.
However, since refining a peerless magical Law Artifact is extremely difficult, he gave up the idea of refining it. Instead, he used an array to nurture the Law Artifact in this extremely dangerous place, and he also kept a backup plan.
Now, fifty years have passed, and the Gazing Immortal Sect has selected a disciple to become the Artifact Spirit through the contingency plan of that year. This is equivalent to having combat power beyond the peak of the Grain Avoidance Perfection realm within the Artifact Ruins.
At that time, the people of the Gazing Immortal Sect can use this peerless weapon to kill everyone in Artifact Ruins and monopolize all the benefits within.
And it wasn't just once. After that person became the Artifact Spirit, he was unable to leave the Artifact Ruins. In other words, every time the Artifact Ruins opened in the future, that murderous weapon and its Artifact Spirit would wreak havoc, allowing the disciples of the Gazing Immortal Sect to seize the benefits for themselves.
In this way, the Artifact Ruins truly became the backyard of the Gazing Immortal Sect, and the strength of the Gazing Immortal Sect would increase significantly after each trip to the Artifact Ruins. Backed by the ruins of the High Antiquity Artifact Sect, the Gazing Immortal Sect would one day become the overlord of the Southern Frontier.
Having figured all this out, Yi Xuan immediately thought of the sect leader of the Gazing Immortal Sect, who was none other than Sect Leader Liu, who had previously razed Yi Xuan's courtyard to the ground.
Yi Xuan still had a deep impression of that Sect Leader Liu, so he cursed inwardly, "That old man is wicked! He planned such a big thing without making a sound!"