Just a Useful Pawn in the Stain Sect

Chapter 284: Chapter 284: What a Grand Feast

The Fruit of Long-Flow Water was falling!

How terrifying is the fall of a Fruit? At that very moment, every Cultivator in the world who practiced the Fruit of Long-Flow Water felt an inexplicable sense of oppression.

Directly above the Foundation Establishment Realm, waves churned in the Sea of Suffering. The crowd of Foundation-Stage Cultivators looked up to see a somewhat blurry, incandescent white light. The light was shaped like a crescent moon, hazy and ethereal. Its true form was indiscernible, but they could sense it was filled with the vast, boundless imagery of Abilities.

”He failed...”

Seeing this, Lü Yang shook his head. This clearly wasn’t the phenomenon of a successful Seeking Gold attempt, even though Suo Huan had charged toward the Fruit, betting on that one-in-ten-thousand chance.

Unfortunately, he had fallen at the final hurdle.

Soon, Lü Yang spotted Suo Huan’s figure within the crescent of light. His expression was dazed, as if he had encountered something unbelievable.

Then, the Outer Heaven Great Cultivator suddenly laughed. He roared with laughter in the air, a shrill and tragic sound. His originally stable Qi trace erupted into a frenzy, and his dark eyes turned a startling scarlet. Everyone could hear his hysterical roar:

”This is too much! You’ve gone too far!”

”Why treat me like this? My World Ruins Realm, I, Suo Huan... HAHAHA! Summon! Summon! This Daoist name... it couldn’t be more fitting!”

”My lord! Show yourself!”

”I know you’re watching!”

Amid his roars, centered around the slowly descending Fruit of Long-Flow Water, three world-spanning, unbelievably vast Golden Core Dharma Bodies materialized.

Suo Huan instantly recognized these three Perfected Lords. They were the masterminds who had presided over the Battle for the Dao and annihilated the World Ruins Realm. In that instant, his laughter grew even more tragic. He had once believed he had escaped death with the help of the Outer Realm, but now it seemed that was not the case at all!

”Everyone, the main course is served.”

The voices of the Perfected Lords, laced with amusement, echoed on a plane imperceptible to the Perfected Persons:

”Amitabha... My Buddha is merciful. It was not in vain that we let this man escape back then. Today, our Merit is finally complete, and we can guide this Blessed Land home.”

”This person’s Gold Attribute is mine.”

”You from the Stain Sect, hold it. Don’t make a move. We’ll divide this according to our prior agreement. Otherwise, if we turn on each other, no one gets to eat.”

”Tsk.”

The three Perfected Lords took their positions. Exchanging messages with their vast Divine Sense, they had apparently already decided on a ”distribution plan.” They now acted in unison to subdue Suo Huan.

’The Pure Land gave me the resources of a Blessed Land, so after my failure, the Blessed Land returns to the Pure Land. The Dao Court blessed my cultivation, allowing me to cultivate the Gold Attribute, so after my death, the Gold Attribute goes to the Dao Court. As for the Stain Sect, they wanted me to destabilize the Fruit of Long-Flow Water, perhaps hoping to bring it under their control?’

This was a glutton’s feast.

He was the main course on the table, and the Pure Land, the Dao Court, and the Stain Sect were the ones carving him up... At this thought, Suo Huan’s crazed laughter gradually subsided.

He had actually anticipated this long ago.

From the moment he accepted aid from the three powers, he had considered the possibility of failure. So the current scene of being devoured by all three did not actually surprise him.

The one who truly drove him to despair was someone else entirely.

The next second, Suo Huan glanced around at the three Perfected Lords and suddenly smiled. ”My lord, after scheming for so many years, what are you still waiting for?”

RUMBLE!

In an instant, as if in response to Suo Huan’s question, an indescribably vast Qi trace suddenly erupted from the direction of the Four Seas Sect and the Dragon Palace!

”Hm?”

At this moment, the crowd of Foundation-Stage Cultivators below all turned to look. Even the three Perfected Lords in the sky, who were in the middle of carving up Suo Huan, revealed looks of surprise:

”The phenomenon of Seeking Gold?”

”Is that Tian Qiu? No, wasn’t he slain by Suo Huan? Without a physical body, how can a mere soul attempt to Seek Gold? What kind of Fruit doesn’t require a physical body...?”

In an instant, a hundred thoughts flashed through the minds of the three Perfected Lords before they finally arrived at a guess. At the same time, the gates of the Dragon Palace of the Four Seas Sect swung wide open, unleashing a monstrous torrent of deathly aura. And in the center of that aura was a blurry dragon silhouette, slowly opening a portal.

The Netherworld!

What Fruit in this world doesn’t require a physical body? Naturally, it’s the Netherworld, which oversees the endless reincarnation of all living beings! Those with physical bodies can hardly enter the Netherworld to begin with!

Only a soul can come and go!

It was just that ordinary souls in reincarnation were directly absorbed by the Netherworld. Yet, at this moment, Tian Qiu was trying to open a gate *to* the Netherworld!

”What is he doing?”

”He’s Seeking Gold while also opening the Netherworld... It’s Ang Xiao! He’s using the Netherworld to drag a Fruit down with him! Was Suo Huan just bait to distract us?”

”Tian Qiu was the real target of the play!”

At that moment, the three Perfected Lords saw that as Tian Qiu’s Qi trace erupted, a celestial star in the vault of heaven blazed to life. It was the Water Fruit Position, the Fruit of Sky-River Water. This Fruit was described as: ”Its qi rises and falls; from the high and bright fire position, abundant water falls as rain to aid the water within the fire. This exists only in the heavens.”

Among the Water Fruit Positions, this path was supreme!

Such a development immediately stirred the Perfected Lords to action. They struck at Tian Qiu almost simultaneously, only to be blocked by another, towering dragon’s body.

The Four Seas Sect’s Dragon Monarch!

This was a born aristocrat of a bygone era. At the Middle Stage of Golden Core, with his Pocket World unfallen, his existence was so long that it could be traced back to the founding days of the Four Great Sects.

Just how much substance was there to his reputation?

To put it bluntly, he had even met the Master of Dao!

One must understand that in the present age, the Master of Dao did not manifest. Even among Perfected Lords of the Golden Core, the vast majority had never seen the Master of Dao, nor did they even know if the Master was male or female.

But the Dragon Monarch had.

Although the Dragon Monarch had remained at Mid-stage Cultivation for all these years due to suppression from various powers, unable to break through to the Late Stage, it absolutely did not mean he was weak.

Now, as the Dragon Monarch made his move, his majestic dragon form was like a city wall with no visible beginning or end. It stretched between the Perfected Lords and Tian Qiu, seemingly dividing heaven and earth. In response, the entire Overseas region and its boundless seawater surged, and another Fruit Position Star flared brilliantly in the vault of heaven.

The Fruit of Vast-Sea Water!

In the past, the True Dragon Race commanded the rivers, lakes, and seas. Of the six Water Element Fruit Positions, four were under their control, and the Fruit of Vast-Sea Water was once the Water Element Supreme Venerable.

However, after the heavens changed, the might of the True Dragons was no more.

Not only did the Fruit of Vast-Sea Water lose its position as Water Element Supreme Venerable to the ascendant Fruit of Sky-River Water, but their other Fruits were also lost. Of the four Dragon Monarchs, only one remained.

To describe their grudge as being as deep as a sea of blood would be no exaggeration!

’I’ll stake it all!’

At this moment, the Dragon Monarch attacked, truly prepared to risk everything. He knew in his heart that the Masters of Dao of the Four Great Sects would not intervene in such matters.

And with his Middle Stage of Golden Core cultivation, if he also had the help of that certain Ang Xiao, he might just have a chance!

Just then, as Tian Qiu opened the gate to the Netherworld, a tall, straight-backed figure, hands clasped behind his back, finally appeared quietly behind the gate, surrounded by an endless aura of death.

Judging by his silhouette, he appeared to be male, yet his face was obscured by a blur, making it impossible to see clearly. However, unlike other things from the Netherworld, he had a physical body! Although his vitality was not apparent, the sense of unmoving, unshakable solidity was definitely not something a soul could possess.

”What a grand feast.”

He smiled faintly, and a voice that was both male and female, old and young, a voice of indeterminate age and gender, boomed out: ”Why not let me have a piece of the pie?”

Ang Xiao the Sun Veiler!

After only a short while, all the Perfected Lords in the world felt the sensation once again.

For a moment, countless Perfected Lords cast their gazes over, trying to peer through the gate of the Netherworld, through the hazy mist that veiled the mysterious Perfected Lord’s face.