Eternal Immortal Clan: It All Started When I Married My Junior Sister!

127: The leader’s order is to make an example of someone!The Alliance Meeting had ended, but the scent of blood on Heavenly Sword Peak lingered, unable to dissipate for a long time.

The Sect Leaders and Elders from the various great Sects of Central Prefecture departed, one by one, looking utterly distraught.

The scene they witnessed today would surely become a lifelong, haunting nightmare for them.

One person, suppressing an entire prefecture!

This man from South Spirit Prefecture, using a domineering and bloody method,

ascended to the pinnacle of power among the Righteous Path of Central Prefecture.

Heavenly Sword Sect, it’s over...

Heavenly Sword Peak Main Hall.

This hall, which symbolized the Heavenly Sword Sect’s tens of thousands of years of glory, now appeared incredibly vast and deathly silent.

Outside the hall, there were corpses and devastation everywhere.

Inside the hall, only three people remained.

Chen Xu sat high on the main hall’s throne.

His expression was indifferent, his fingers gently tapping the armrest,

making a soft thumping sound.

Murong Zhuyun, dressed in white, stood quietly by his side.

And in the center of the main hall,

Li Wangchen lay sprawled on the ground like a dead dog with a broken spine.

His moon-white Sect Leader’s robe, once his pride,

was now soaked with blood and dust, tattered beyond recognition.

His right arm and half of his body had been severed by Chen Xu’s sword, with only a faint spiritual light flickering at the wound,

preventing the injury from worsening further.

But what was the use of that?

His Nascent Soul, in the previous frantic burning, had already had its Foundation completely destroyed.

His Dao Heart, after witnessing the annihilation of his Sect and the tragic death of his Old Ancestor, had completely shattered.

Now, he was a cripple.

A cripple who couldn’t even decide his own death.

He curled up on the ground, his body trembling uncontrollably from the intense pain.

He dared not look up... dared not look at that terrifying figure on the throne.

”Now.”

The next moment, Chen Xu’s voice came from the throne: ”You can speak now, can’t you?”

Chen Xu’s voice wasn’t loud, but it made Li Wangchen’s body tremble violently.

He completely froze.

The next moment, he raised his head, his once elegant and gentle face

now filled only with regret and despair.

He looked at Chen Xu on the throne, his lips trembling,

but he couldn’t utter a single word.

He didn’t want to speak.

This was the Heavenly Sword Sect’s last shred of dignity.

However, just as he hesitated,

Chen Xu’s gaze swept over lightly.

Boom!

Li Wangchen felt as if his Primordial Spirit had been violently struck by a Divine Mountain!

That imperial Dragon’s Might, dominating the world... made him unable to even conceive of the slightest resistance!

”Uh, ah...”

He let out a painful groan, collapsing onto the ground,

convulsing violently.

The shadow of death instantly enveloped him.

He was afraid, he was truly afraid!

What Sect glory, what last dignity, all seemed so ridiculous in the face of death!

”I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you! Alliance Leader, spare my life! I’ll tell you everything!”

Li Wangchen completely broke down. He was like a madman, prostrating on the ground, using his remaining left hand,

frantically kowtowing.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Bloodstains quickly appeared on the ground from his kowtowing.

”Alliance Leader, spare my life! I’ll tell you everything!”

Chen Xu’s gaze remained indifferent.

He didn’t speak... he just watched him quietly.

That silent oppressive feeling was more terrifying than any torture.

Li Wangchen dared not hesitate any longer, and like beans pouring from a bamboo tube, he revealed everything.

”The Heaven-Deceiving Law is not... not a unique creation of our Heavenly Sword Sect!”

”Three hundred years ago, my Revered Master and I, that is, Heavenly Sword Ancestor, accidentally obtained it in an ancient relic!”

”It was an incomplete technique, which recorded a... a forbidden art that could obscure the Heavenly Dao and forcefully Breakthrough Realms!”

Li Wangchen’s voice was filled with terror.

”This Law... this Law requires a very special Formation, and also a token capable of carrying the Heavenly Dao’s Luck as the Formation core!”

”Most... most importantly, it also requires sacrificing a living being with great Luck!”

At this point, he secretly glanced at Chen Xu, then quickly lowered his head,

his voice as soft as a mosquito’s buzz.

”You... you killed the three Demonic Lords, bearing the human Dao Luck of South Spirit Prefecture and even the entire world, you are the... you are the most perfect sacrifice we could find...”

”Therefore, this Alliance Meeting was, from the very beginning, a trap to lure you to Heavenly Sword Mountain, then activate the grand Formation, sacrifice you, and help the Old Ancestor... help the Old Ancestor Breakthrough to Soul Transformation!”

His voice grew softer and softer.

Upon hearing this, Murong Zhuyun’s beautiful face instantly turned cold!

The veins on her hand, gripping the sword hilt, bulged!

What a Heavenly Sword Sect!

What a leader of the Righteous Path!

To be so despicable and shameless!

For their own selfish desires, they would not hesitate to set such a vicious trap!

They were even more Demonic than the Demonic Path!

However, Chen Xu, on the throne, showed no ripple of emotion on his face.

It was as if what Li Wangchen said... was something completely unrelated to him.

He merely frowned slightly, seemingly dissatisfied with this answer.

”Soul Transformation?”

Chen Xu spoke indifferently, a hint of sarcasm in his voice: ”With such underhanded methods, can one achieve Soul Transformation?”

Li Wangchen’s body trembled, and he quickly said: ”No... not true Soul Transformation!”

”The Old Ancestor studied it for three hundred years before discovering the biggest flaw of this Law! It... it only temporarily elevates a Cultivator’s energy level to the Soul Transformation level by obscuring the Heavenly Dao!”

”The user can possess strength comparable to true Soul Transformation for a period! But essentially, they are still Nascent Soul Cultivators!”

”Lifespan will not increase, comprehension of the Great Dao will not improve at all, and it’s even... even more impossible to Ascend to the Upper Realm!”

”Once the secret technique’s duration passes, or if the Heavenly Dao’s obscuration is broken by a stronger force, the caster will immediately revert to their original state!”

”Even due to forcibly activating the power, their Foundation will be completely destroyed, leading to instant death!”

”Heavenly Sword Ancestor... she... she forcibly used the incomplete secret technique, which is why...”

He didn’t dare to finish the rest of his sentence.

But the meaning was already clear.

The reason Heavenly Sword Ancestor had the might of a Half-Step Soul Transformation was not because she cultivated it herself, but because of this self-destructive Heaven-Deceiving Law!

Therefore, in front of Chen Xu’s true, supreme killing Qi that could slaughter Immortals and gods,

her pseudo-god body was as fragile as paper, unable to withstand a single blow!

”So that’s how it is.”

A hint of understanding flashed in Chen Xu’s eyes.

Immediately followed by deep disdain and contempt.

”Heh.”

He let out a soft laugh.

The laughter was full of mockery.

”For this brief, false power, the future of the entire Sect was sacrificed.”

”For the Realm of a pseudo-god, they even schemed against me.”

”Heavenly Sword Sect... truly pathetic and laughable.”

He shook his head, as if looking at a group of utterly foolish idiots.

This kind of self-destructive, self-deceiving trash technique.

For him, who pursued the true eternal Dao... and possessed a Primordial Chaos Nascent Soul, he didn’t even have the slightest interest in looking at it twice.

It was worse than trash!

He was even too lazy to ask where that ancient relic was located.

And too lazy to demand that so-called incomplete scroll.

Those with different Daos do not plot together.

A summer insect cannot speak of ice.

However, this incident also made Chen Xu realize one thing more clearly.

The Laws of Heaven and Earth in this world

were indeed extremely incomplete.

Even a top Sect like Heavenly Sword Sect, which had dominated Central Prefecture for tens of thousands of years,

could only come up with such crooked methods to seek a Breakthrough.

It was evident that cultivating to the Soul Transformation Realm by conventional means was an impossible task.

”Calamity from Beyond the Realm”... perhaps, that was the true path to breaking the deadlock.

The true Opportunity, the true Great Dao to the Heavens, might be hidden within that calamity sweeping across the entire world!

With this thought, Chen Xu’s mind instantly cleared.

He no longer looked at the pathetic worm on the ground.

After asking his questions, Li Wangchen had lost his last bit of utility.

Chen Xu looked at him and spoke indifferently: ”Considering your cooperation.”

”I’ll give you a quick death.”

As soon as these words were spoken, Li Wangchen suddenly looked up, his face filled with terror!

”No! Alliance Leader! You promised to spare my life! You can’t kill me! I...”

His words came to an abrupt halt.

Because Chen Xu had slowly raised his finger.

A wisp of purple-gold Qi

lingered at his fingertip.

It was precisely Primordial Violet Qi!

”No...”

Li Wangchen’s pupils contracted frantically at that instant.

He wanted to beg for mercy, wanted to scream, wanted to struggle!

But he could do nothing.

He could only watch helplessly as that wisp of purple-gold Qi gently flicked from Chen Xu’s fingertip.

The next moment, that wisp of Primordial Violet Qi directly entered Li Wangchen’s glabella.

Then... the terror on Li Wangchen’s face froze.

His body, his shattered Nascent Soul, his Primordial Spirit... all were instantly obliterated by that wisp of Primordial Violet Qi!

A generation’s hero, the former overlord of Central Prefecture, Sect Leader Li Wangchen of Heavenly Sword Sect,

was thus completely erased from this world, ending his magnificent yet tragic life.

Having finished this, Chen Xu slowly withdrew his hand.

His expression remained unchanged.

He slowly rose from the throne and walked to the entrance of the main hall.

Murong Zhuyun followed closely behind him.

Outside the hall, the setting sun was like blood.

The evening breeze blew, carrying a strong scent of blood.

Chen Xu stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the turbulent sky in the distance, his gaze profound.

He was lost in thought.

Having dealt with Heavenly Sword Sect,

and becoming the nominal Alliance Leader of the Righteous Path,

this was merely the beginning.

The true crisis was still far from arriving.

”Sir...”

Murong Zhuyun looked at his back and spoke softly.

Chen Xu did not turn around, merely saying indifferently: ”Issue my Alliance Leader’s order.”

”Within ten days, all Cultivators above the Nascent Soul Stage from all Sects in Central Prefecture are to gather at Heavenly Sword Peak.”

Murong Zhuyun’s heart tightened, and she immediately bowed to receive the order.

”Yes!”

She knew that Sir was about to begin integrating the power of the entire Central Prefecture.

Chen Xu’s gaze swept across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.

As if seeing the land shrouded in Devilish Qi, a cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: ”The Heavenly Sword Sect appetizer is finished.”

”Next, it’s time to settle accounts with those true Demonic Path Cultivators!”

...On the other side, Murong Zhuyun bowed to receive the order.

The next moment, she waved her jade hand.

Buzz—!

Thousands of blank Jade Slips floated before her.

She pointed her fingers like a sword, and a Sword Intent containing supreme Phoenix might erupted from her fingertips.

The Sword Intent rapidly moved above the thousands of Jade Slips, and wherever it passed, the Alliance Leader’s order was deeply imprinted upon them.

Every word carried a heart-palpitating killing Qi!

”Go!”

Murong Zhuyun let out a soft cry.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Thousands of communication Jade Slips transformed into streaks of light, like a torrential rain sweeping across the heavens and earth, instantly piercing the sky and shooting towards every corner of the Central Prefecture!

...Central Prefecture, Badao Sect.

Inside the Sect’s discussion hall.

The atmosphere was extremely oppressive.

The Sect Leader of the Badao Sect, the burly man who had bowed his head to Chen Xu on Heavenly Sword Peak, was silent at this moment.

Before him, a Jade Slip floated quietly.

The three blood-red characters “Kill Without Mercy” on it seemed to be dripping blood.

”Too much! This is simply too much!”

An Elder slammed the table and roared angrily, ”What kind of thing is that Chen Xu! A barbarian from South Spirit Prefecture, who slaughtered our Central Prefecture’s leader, the Heavenly Sword Sect, and now he wants to ride on all our heads and defecate?!”

”He wants all our Nascent Soul Cultivators to gather at Heavenly Sword Peak? What is he trying to do? Is he trying to wipe us all out in one fell swoop?!”

”Sect Leader! This order must never be obeyed! Our Badao Sect has stood for ten thousand years, how could we ever suffer such humiliation!”

”That’s right! The Heavenly Sword Sect brought it upon themselves, coveting other people’s treasures!”

”We didn’t provoke him! Why should he command us!”

Inside the hall, emotions ran high.

The Elders of the Badao Sect present were all unruly individuals, cultivating the Dao of dominance.

They valued a clear and unobstructed mind.

Making them bow down to an outsider was more unbearable than killing them!

”All of you, shut up!”

Just then, an even louder, more domineering voice boomed.

An old man, whose figure was even more burly than the Sect Leader’s, with a full beard and bloodshot eyes, walked in from outside the door.

He was the Grand Elder of the Badao Sect, Yuan Zhenshan!

A Great Perfection Nascent Soul Body Cultivator who had been famous for hundreds of years and had a fiery temper!

Yuan Zhenshan snatched the communication Jade Slip, and terrifying physical strength erupted.

He directly crushed it into powder!

”A mere brat, dares to call himself an Alliance Leader? Dares to give orders to my Badao Sect?”

He scanned the entire hall, his voice like a great bell: ”Sect Leader, you are afraid, but I, Yuan Zhenshan, am not! The blade of my Badao Sect would rather break than bend! You want me to go to Heavenly Sword Peak to worship him? Not unless I die!”

The Sect Leader of the Badao Sect looked at Yuan Zhenshan, who was acting like a madman.

His brows were tightly furrowed, and a look of struggle flashed in his eyes.

He had personally witnessed Chen Xu’s terror.

That was a power no human could contend with!

However, the pride of the Sect for ten thousand years and the pressure from the Elders.

Put him in a dilemma.

Seeing the Sect Leader hesitate, a trace of disdain flashed across Yuan Zhenshan’s face, and he snorted coldly, then turned and strode away.

”Coward! If you don’t go, I will unite with Fellow Daoists in the Central Prefecture! I want to see if that Chen Xu truly dares to defy the world and make an enemy of my entire Central Prefecture!”

...Illusory Sound Immortal Sect.

Sect Master Liu Ruyan held the Jade Slip, her beautiful face filled with solemnity.

”Sect Master, Yuan Zhenshan of the Badao Sect, and several old stubborn individuals from major Sects, are secretly colluding, trying to jointly resist the Alliance Leader’s order.”

An Elder reported in a low voice.

”They say that Chen Xu’s slaughter of the Heavenly Sword Sect was his limit, and he absolutely dares not go on a killing spree again, fearing it would cause turmoil throughout the Central Prefecture.”

”They also said... this gathering is just a bluff, an attempt to test our bottom line.”

Liu Ruyan listened, a cold smile appearing on her lips.

A bluff?

Those fools had no idea what kind of terrifying existence they were facing.

That was a peerless fiend who, with a single person and a single seal, made ten thousand swords turn against their Revered Masters.

And killed a half-step Soul Transformation expert with a flick of a finger!

Testing his bottom line?

His bottom line was that there was no bottom line!

”Pass on my order.”

A determined look flashed in Liu Ruyan’s beautiful eyes, ”All eligible Elders, immediately pack your bags and prepare to go to Heavenly Sword Peak.”

”Sect Master, think twice!”

An Elder said anxiously, ”If we go, won’t we become a target? How will we establish ourselves in the Central Prefecture in the future?”

Liu Ruyan gave her a cold glance.

”Establish ourselves?”

”Do you want to lose face now, or do you want to lose your lives and have the entire Sect wiped from this world ten days from now?”

The Elder felt a chill in her heart from Liu Ruyan’s gaze and instantly fell silent.

Liu Ruyan ignored them and walked alone into the depths of the main hall.

She had to go.

Not only must she go, but she must also be the first to go!

This was both submission and a huge gamble!

If she won the gamble, the Illusory Sound Immortal Sect would gain unimaginable benefits in this new era dominated by Chen Xu.

...Within a single day.

The entire Cultivation world of the Central Prefecture completely erupted.

Countless Sects were engaged in similar debates as those within the Badao Sect and the Illusory Sound Immortal Sect.

Fear and arrogance.

Submission and resistance.

Two completely different emotions intertwined within every Sect.

On the surface, most Sects, like the Illusory Sound Immortal Sect, chose to comply, responding to the Jade Slips one after another.

Stating that they would arrive on time.

But in secret.

An ”Anti-Chen Alliance,” led by Yuan Zhenshan, the Grand Elder of the Badao Sect, and uniting a dozen old, established Sects and Immortal Caves of the Central Prefecture, was quietly formed.

In a hidden underground Immortal Cave, dozens of powerful Divine Thoughts converged through a Formation.

”Everyone! That Chen Xu is merely at the end of his tether!”

Yuan Zhenshan’s Incarnation of Divine Thought was passionately speaking in the center of the Formation.

”He slaughtered the Heavenly Sword Sect, so he must have expended a great deal of his own power!”

”Furthermore, as an outsider, his Foundation is unstable, and he urgently needs us Cultivators of the Central Prefecture to fight for him against the Demonic Path! Does he dare to kill us? He doesn’t dare! If he kills all of us, who will be the cannon fodder?”

”Therefore, this Alliance Leader’s order is nothing! He’s just trying to scare us!”

”As long as we unite and refuse to obey! That Chen Xu will have no way to deal with us! In the end, he can only sheepishly withdraw his order, and even have to appease us in return!”

”By then, his so-called Alliance Leader will become the biggest joke in the world!”

Yuan Zhenshan’s words were extremely inflammatory.

Those Old Ancestors and Elders who were already discontent and held themselves in high regard.

Were instantly ignited!

”Old Ancestor Shi is right! When did it become an outsider’s turn to dictate matters in our Central Prefecture!”

”Exactly! We just won’t go! Let’s see what he can do to us!”

”Let him be a bare-bones Alliance Leader! Hahaha!”

For a time, the Immortal Cave was filled with arrogant laughter.

They seemed to have already seen the comical scene of Chen Xu standing alone on Heavenly Sword Peak ten days later,

His face completely lost.

Apparently, arrogance and prejudice made them selectively forget how the Heavenly Sword Sect was annihilated.

And also made them completely embark on a path of no return... Heavenly Sword Peak, main hall.

Murong Zhuyun reported the external intelligence to Chen Xu one by one.

”Sir, those people... are getting more and more out of line.”

Her clear and cold voice carried a hint of anger: ”Some people are not only openly defying orders, but also secretly spreading rumors, saying that you are... a mere brute, cruel and inhumane, unfit to be an Alliance Leader, inciting more Sects to join them.”

On the throne.

Chen Xu’s eyes were slightly closed, as if in meditation, completely indifferent to everything outside.

It wasn’t until Murong Zhuyun finished speaking that he slowly opened his mouth.

His voice was as calm as water: ”Let them jump, the higher they jump, the harder they will fall.”

In the blink of an eye, the ten-day deadline arrived, the last night.

The summit of Heavenly Sword Peak was brightly lit.

However, these myriad lights could not dispel the chill that enveloped everyone’s hearts.

On the huge square in front of the main hall, hundreds of Cultivators from various major Sects of the Central Prefecture had already gathered.

Sect Master Liu Ruyan of the Illusory Sound Immortal Sect, the Sect Leader of the Badao Sect, the Valley Revered Master of Myriad Beast Valley... these important figures who could shake an entire region with a stomp of their feet on normal days.

At this moment, they all stood on the square, silent as cicadas in winter.

They dared not enter the hall, nor did they dare to converse freely.

They could only stand in the cold night wind, gazing remotely at the solitary figure above the main hall.

Their hearts filled with apprehension.

Ten days had passed since the Alliance Leader’s order was issued.

This new Alliance Leader had not spoken another word.

He merely sat quietly on the Alliance Leader’s throne, which originally belonged to the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Like an emotionless stone statue.

But the more so, the greater the fear in everyone’s hearts.

A storm was brewing!

Everyone knew that tonight, blood would surely be shed!

They were all waiting to see how this new Alliance Leader would deal with the Sects that defied his orders.

”Sect Master, did we... did we make the wrong gamble?”

In the Illusory Sound Immortal Sect’s contingent, an Elder transmitted a message to Liu Ruyan.

”That Yuan Zhenshan of the Badao Sect has united over a dozen Sects, forming a massive force, openly defying the order!”

”If this Alliance Leader Chen... truly has no way to deal with them, won’t those of us who were the first to come and submit become the laughingstock of the entire Central Prefecture?”

Liu Ruyan’s beautiful face was also filled with solemnity at this moment.

She looked at the other Sect Masters in the distance, who also showed signs of unease.

Her heart had also wavered at times.

The Law does not punish the masses.

This was an unwritten rule that had remained unchanged in the Cultivation world since ancient times.

She had also considered... no matter how strong Chen Xu was. He had just slaughtered the Heavenly Sword Sect, would he really dare to wipe out a third of the Central Prefecture’s top forces?

But she still held firm to her belief.

Thinking of this, she took a deep breath, suppressed all distracting thoughts in her heart, and responded with a cold voice: ”Shut up! Just watch!”

In stark contrast to the oppressive and deathly silent atmosphere at the summit of Heavenly Sword Peak.

At this moment, tens of thousands of miles away, within the Xuanjing Sect’s mountain gate, lights were brilliant, and music resounded.

A grand banquet was being held in the main hall of the Xuanjing Sect’s main peak.

Inside the hall, cups clinked, and laughter filled the air.

Dozens of powerful Nascent Soul Ancestors gathered, each with a radiant face and an arrogant expression.

They were precisely the core members of the so-called ”Anti-Chen Alliance”!

Yuan Zhenshan, the Grand Elder of the Badao Sect, was currently holding a wine jar larger than a human head, laughing loudly.

”Hahaha! What joy! What joy!”

”Fellow Daoists, today we gather here to show that barbarian from the South Spirit Prefecture that not just anyone can act so arrogantly on our Central Prefecture’s territory!”