Immortal-Exterminating Divine Venerable

’This is bad! These people... they actually believed that brat!’

Seeing the hundreds of pairs of disdainful eyes on him, Lu Tiansheng couldn’t help but feel a growing unease.

If it were just anyone’s contempt, Lu Tiansheng wouldn’t have been afraid in the slightest.

But being despised by so many juniors, peers, and especially by the very relatives who were once close to him and were an integral part of his life...

Even for someone as thick-skinned as Lu Tiansheng, he felt uneasy, and his expression grew awkward.

After all, everyone present at the Greater Yang Pool was an elite of the Lu Family. While this wasn’t everyone, it was the vast majority. Once word of this got out...

He would surely suffer a great loss of prestige within the Lu Family.

At that point, it would likely be very difficult for him to survive.

’No, how can I let some junior destroy my name and reputation?’

Lu Tiansheng refused to accept it.

He did not admit defeat so easily.

Therefore, even after Yang Xiao manifested his Emperor’s True Body, Lu Tiansheng continued to dig his own grave. ”The Magical Treasure of His Majesty the Human Emperor is truly profound,” he said. ”To think it could allow the Saint Prince to directly cultivate a Clone. Not bad, not bad. Truly, what else would one expect from His Majesty the Human Emperor.”

”Oh? You’re still spewing nonsense at a time like this? It seems calling you an old dog, or even shameless, would be an insult to both terms. You’re not just shameless, you’re utterly without shame. But do you really think anyone believes a word you’re saying? Or have you started treating the elders of your own Lu Family as blind fools? Is it that whatever you say goes? If that’s the case, then I have to ask: Second Elder, Lu Family Master, are you just going to stand by and do nothing while this man insults this Saint Prince and treats you like imbeciles?”

Yang Xiao paid Lu Tiansheng no further mind.

Instead, his gaze locked onto the Second Elder, with whom he’d had a prior conflict.

Under his stare, the Second Elder’s face couldn’t help but twitch.

He knew he had to step forward.

In truth, aside from the Second Elder, the rest of the Elders—including the Lu Family Master—all felt that Lu Tiansheng was being utterly shameless.

As a Lu Family Elder, it was one thing to fear a junior and not dare to duel him.

But to tell such blatant lies in front of all of them—and not just one or two, but a whole string of them from the very beginning?

By now, even the most inexperienced junior could see that the Eighth Elder was spouting utter nonsense.

After all, ignoring Lu Tiansheng’s status as the Eighth Elder, who among the elite Lu Family disciples present could possibly be fooled by such words?

There was only one reason no one had stood up to him.

He was a member of the Lu Family.

He was the Eighth Elder of the Lu Family.

That was why everyone present afforded him some face.

Even though they saw through the facade, only the more impulsive juniors dared to speak out.

But now, things were different.

Yang Xiao had now called out the Second Elder and the Lu Family Master directly.

The Second Elder was the one presiding over the situation. If he didn’t step forward, the Lu Family Master would. And if it really came to the point where the Lu Family Master had to intervene...

He had already offended the Saint Prince, and now he would be seen as tacitly protecting the Eighth Elder.

The consequences... were easy to imagine.

Therefore, Second Elder Lu had no choice but to step forward.

”Eighth, you have gone too far,” Second Elder Lu began. ”This Clone is suffused with a dense Greater Yang Power. It was clearly refined by the Saint Prince here in the Greater Yang Pool, so how could it have been bestowed by His Majesty the Human Emperor? Besides, even if it were a gift from His Majesty, so what? We Martial Cultivators judge everything by strength alone. For the Saint Prince to be able to condense such a Clone at his current level of cultivation is a testament to his own skill. If you refuse to accept this, then lower your cultivation to his level and see if you can refine one yourself! If you can’t, then shut your mouth. As an elder of the Lu Family, being weaker than someone is not a cause for shame. What is shameful is being clearly inferior yet insisting on making all sorts of excuses. If you carry on like this, even the direct descendants of your own line will look down on you!”

The moment Second Elder Lu finished speaking, the color drained from Lu Tiansheng’s face.

He had been stubbornly holding his ground, convinced the Second Elder would not rebuke him.

But upon hearing those words, he staggered, nearly losing his footing.

Because they were all true.

The brutal truth, which had mercilessly torn his hypocrisy to shreds.

”Grandfather, Second Elder is right. You should apologize to the Saint Prince!”

As Second Elder Lu finished speaking, Lu Yicheng, whom Yang Xiao had just defeated, also spoke up.

He was Lu Tiansheng’s direct grandson, a generation senior to Lu Fangcheng, and the top genius from the line of the Lu Family Eighth Elder. Despite his young age, he had already reached the Peak of Fifth Tier Divine General and held significant authority. Compared to Lu Fangliang’s four Demigod Level uncles, the difference was like that between heaven and earth.

It would be no exaggeration to say that Lu Yicheng was the leader of his generation within the Lu Family.

He was also the Eighth Elder’s greatest pride.

But now, even he had spoken up.

A tremor ran through Lu Tiansheng.

”I never thought... that even you, Yicheng, would see me this way?”

Lu Tiansheng muttered in a low voice.

Lu Yicheng was silent.

He did not respond.

It was because his grandfather had, in fact, gone too far.

But a dark resentment began to fester in Lu Tiansheng’s heart.

He couldn’t accept it.

”If it were anyone else saying this to me, I could accept it. But you too, Yicheng... I cannot accept it!”

But as he looked at Lu Yicheng, the grandson he had always doted on, Lu Tiansheng found he couldn’t bring himself to hate him. His gaze involuntarily shifted to Yang Xiao.

’It’s all his fault. All because of him. If it weren’t for his damned status as the Saint Prince, I would have slapped him to death long ago! How could I have ended up in such a state?’

’That’s right, didn’t he want to duel me? Fine! I’ll grant his wish. I’ll let everyone see that I, Lu Tiansheng, am not someone who can be insulted so easily!’

As this thought took hold, Lu Tiansheng glared at Yang Xiao.

His eyes were burning with a fury born of shame and humiliation.

Yang Xiao was taken aback for a moment, before shaking his head.

’This kind of person is truly incorrigible.’

’From the very start, beginning with the fight for the True Dragon Nest in the Greater Yang Pool, this old fool has looked down on me. He never took me seriously, using his seniority to throw his weight around, pressuring my friend Lu Fangliang, and bullying me for being an outsider. And now? Now he’s acting as if *I’m* the one who bullied *him*.’

’He’s the one who’s been provoking me this entire time.’

’And now that he’s lost, this is how he acts.’

’How laughable.’

”Saint Prince, since you are so eager to exchange blows with me, I would be shaming the Lu Family if I were to hesitate any further. In that case, let us have a fair fight!”

The moment his voice fell, Lu Tiansheng raised his hand and unleashed a palm strike at Yang Xiao.

The attack was ferocious.

His boundless rage fueled its power.

Most importantly, he gave Yang Xiao no time to react, striking the very instant the words left his mouth.

Even an expert of the same level would have suffered a major blow from such a surprise attack.

To say nothing of someone like Yang Xiao, whose cultivation was far inferior to his?

In an instant, the expressions of all the Elders changed.

’That reckless old Eighth, flying into a rage from humiliation... he’s about to cause a catastrophe!’