The Sin Ranking!

Huangpu looked at the members of the Black-Yellow Sect: several Body Forging Realm martial artists and Lin Ye, whose cultivation realm he could not discern.

Being unable to discern someone's cultivation did not mean they were powerful. Lin Ye might have cultivated a Secret Method for concealing his presence or be wearing a Law Treasure that did the same. Judging by his age, he probably was not very powerful, having only just broken through to the True Qi Realm at most.

Rather than attack immediately, he said, "I am Huangpu, an elder of the Blazing Sun Sect. Your Black-Yellow Sect disciples killed our disciples, so I need to go inside and search for them."

Killed Blazing Sun Sect disciples?

Lin Ye knew the man was telling the truth. Ye Chen and Yang Yang must have killed quite a few Blazing Sun Sect disciples, and it seemed Huangpu had caught wind of it and come to their door.

"Do you have proof?"

Lin Ye asked indifferently.

"Proof? My word is proof. Stand aside, or I'll personally raze your Black-Yellow Sect to the ground." Huangpu planned to enter the Black-Yellow Sect first and search for any inheritances and fortuitous opportunities that might be there. Once he found them, he would silence everyone in the Black-Yellow Sect, then kill his own disciples as well.

If he found no fortuitous opportunity, he would capture the Black-Yellow Sect's sect master and interrogate him. In any case, having come this far, he could not stop now.

"Get lost, or die."

Lin Ye looked down at him and spoke coldly.

"Hahaha! You're from a one-star sect, yet you dare threaten an elder of a two-star sect?" Huangpu laughed, a chilling sound. He had made up his mind to strike now.

"Capture them," Huangpu ordered.

"Yes, Elder!" The Blazing Sun Sect disciples all prepared to attack.

Just then, Lin Ye made his move. "I'll use you to test the martial art I just mastered."

He stretched out a palm, and a vast amount of Innate True Qi gathered. A gigantic palm appeared in the air, as though reaching out of the clouds and mist, and bore down on Huangpu and the others.

Lin Ye did not use his full strength. He only drew on a portion of his Innate True Qi and unleashed a little of the Heavenly Devil Heaven-Imprisoning Palm's power.

Even so, the strike made Huangpu's entire body tremble.

"An Innate Realm expert!!!"

His whole body trembled with fear. He had never imagined that Lin Ye would actually be an Innate Realm expert. How could an Innate Realm expert exist in the Spirit Yang City region, and stay in a tiny sect like the Black-Yellow Sect at that?!

He had been wrong. With the strength of an Innate Realm expert, it was easy to train a few Body Forging Realm disciples and bestow a Peak Body Casting Realm puppet on them.

There was no fortuitous opportunity in the Black-Yellow Sect. There was a monster of an expert!

Boom!!!

The palm came crashing down, and most of the Blazing Sun Sect members were reduced to powder. Only Huangpu lay there covered in blood, all the meridians in his body severed, and one disciple had escaped the strike, though that disciple's pants were already soaked with fright.

Lin Ye could easily have killed the whole group, but there was no need. If he killed this batch, another batch of Blazing Sun Sect disciples would come, which would undoubtedly be annoying.

"You, go back to the Blazing Sun Sect and tell your sect master to bring ten thousand taels of silver and ten high-grade yellow-rank martial arts to ransom him. Otherwise, I'll have to go to the Blazing Sun Sect and demand them myself," Lin Ye said to the disciple.

"Y-yes... Senior."

The Blazing Sun Sect disciple hurriedly fled in fright, without so much as looking at Elder Huangpu lying there.

"Take this man into the sect and keep him under guard. Don't let him die," Lin Ye ordered.

"Yes, Master." Dongfang Bai immediately had several outer sect disciples carry the man inside, while the other disciples cleaned up the area.

Soon after.

Yu Yu came over. Lin Ye's attack had caused such a commotion that she had naturally heard about it too.

"Senior Brother, how strong are you now? That palm strike was terrifying," Yu Yu said in surprise.

"Only the Innate Realm," Lin Ye said indifferently.

"What? The Innate Realm?!!!!!" Yu Yu was stunned. She had worked so hard, yet her cultivation was only at the Second Layer of the True Qi Realm, while her senior brother had already broken through to the Innate Realm. She had hardly seen him cultivate at all!

Could it be that her senior brother had been powerful all along and had deliberately pretended his cultivation was low? Or had he obtained a heaven-defying treasure that made his cultivation soar automatically every day?

"I have to work harder. Senior Brother, I'll definitely surpass you."

Yu Yu went back to cultivating diligently.

Several hours later.

Ye Chen and Yang Yang returned.

"Master."

"Master."

The two cupped their fists in salute to Lin Ye.

"You're back. Cultivate in the sect for the next few days," Lin Ye instructed.

"Yes, Master," the two replied.

Then Ye Chen asked, "Master, I heard from the other junior brothers and sisters that people from the Blazing Sun Sect came?"

"Mm. A True Qi Realm elder came with some ordinary disciples. It was nothing important, so don't worry about it." Lin Ye waved a hand and dismissed them.

After they went out.

Yang Yang sighed. "That True Qi Realm elder from the Blazing Sun Sect definitely wasn't an ordinary True Qi Realm cultivator. His sword strike nearly broke through the puppet's defenses from a great distance. He must have been considered powerful even among those in the True Qi Realm, yet Master beat him into that state with one move. And Master definitely held back, too. From the looks of it, Master must be an Innate Realm expert."

"We have to work hard too, and strive to break through to the True Qi Realm as soon as possible, or even the Innate Realm," Ye Chen said, clenching his fist.

Not long afterward.

The surviving Blazing Sun Sect disciple ran back to his sect and requested an audience with the sect master.

In the Blazing Sun Sect's main hall.

Sect Master Xu Jinyang looked at the disciple, who had been scared out of his wits and was still trembling all over, and questioned him about what had happened.

The disciple stammered out an account: a gigantic palm reaching out of the clouds and mist, killing the others in an instant...

"An Innate Realm expert? Are you certain?"

Sect Master Xu Jinyang was afraid too. The gap between True Qi Realm and Innate Realm martial artists was enormous. An Innate Realm martial artist could easily kill a martial artist at the Ninth Layer of the True Qi Realm in an instant.

If the man was an Innate Realm martial artist, everyone in the Blazing Sun Sect could attack him together and still be unable to do anything to him.

Of course, he was not worried about the Blazing Sun Sect being destroyed. With the Martial Alliance around, the man would not dare wipe out the sect. At most, he would threaten the Blazing Sun Sect or act against it in secret.

"I still can't afford to offend this Innate Realm expert. He isn't asking for much, just ten thousand taels of silver and ten high-grade yellow-rank martial arts."

"Someone, prepare the things and go ransom Elder Huangpu."

Xu Jinyang gave the order.

The next day.

A Blazing Sun Sect elder at the Second Layer of the True Qi Realm came to the Black-Yellow Sect with several disciples. They brought out the things Lin Ye had demanded and ransomed Elder Huangpu, who had already been crippled.

Another day passed, and quite a few people came to the vicinity of the Black-Yellow Sect, all hoping to join it. The Black-Yellow Sect's reputation was considerable now, and it had attracted many people.

Lin Ye also knew the Black-Yellow Sect still had too few people, so he selected some with decent aptitude to serve as outer sect disciples. He also recruited some cooks and menial disciples.

As for taking disciples, he did not take a single one. None of these people were suited to the devil path, and even if he took them, they could not bring him tenfold feedback.

"Ding! The Heaven and Earth Devil Sect is developing rapidly. To deter the many righteous sects, disciples of the Heaven and Earth Devil Sect are required to enter the Sin Ranking within a radius of several hundred li. Mission requirement: enter the top one hundred of the Sin Ranking. The more disciples who enter the Sin Ranking and the higher their rankings, the more generous the reward. Time limit: one month. If none of your disciples enter the top one hundred of the Sin Ranking, one year's monthly sign-in rewards will be deducted."

"Ding! The Sin Ranking has been activated. Host, please check it."

The Sin Ranking?

Curious, Lin Ye opened the Sin Ranking recorded in the system.