Granny Yin Hua dragged Dragon Bodhisattva straight to Soul Mourning Cliff. In no time, she arrived before a sheer drop.
Dragon Bodhisattva glanced over and saw that the cliff was about ten thousand zhang high. Below it, a layer of black mist shrouded everything, the air thick with eerie yin energy.
Though the bottom of the cliff could not be seen clearly, occasional low roars from the divine beasts echoed up, sending chills down the spine.
At this moment, Dragon Bodhisattva completely lost his nerve. He pleaded, “Senior, please, do not kill me.”
“As long as you let me go, I will be your ox or horse in the future, at your complete disposal.”
“I can also help you chase down that boy.”
Who would have thought, Granny Yin Hua remained unmoved. With a blank expression, she said, “My senior brother has already ordered you thrown down to feed the divine beasts. No one dares defy his command.”
“Besides, to capture a little Golden Core cultivator, why would I need your help?”
“You should just die!”
In his terror, Dragon Bodhisattva cursed loudly, “Your Yin Yang Sect, as a top sect in the Eastern Wastelands, acts without distinguishing right from wrong. Sooner or later, you will be destroyed.”
“When I die, I will definitely turn into a vengeful ghost and haunt you forever…”
Slap!
Granny Yin Hua slapped him hard across the face and said disdainfully, “I am not afraid of you while you are alive, let alone after you are dead.”
Granny Yin Hua suddenly thought of something. She patted Dragon Bodhisattva down a few times and asked, “Where is your half piece of Saintly Array Pattern?”
Dragon Bodhisattva sneered, “Old hag, you only think of it now? Too late!”
“I tell you, that boy has a complete Saintly Array Pattern in hand. You will never catch him.”
“Hahaha…”
Upon hearing this, Granny Yin Hua flew into a rage. She slapped him several times, shattering Dragon Bodhisattva’s meridians and crippling his lifelong cultivation.
“Ah…”
Dragon Bodhisattva let out a shrill scream of agony.
He had never imagined that after painstakingly cultivating nine cave heavens, once dreaming of becoming a saint one day, now his cultivation was ruined. He had become a thorough waste.
“Go die!” Granny Yin Hua showed no mercy and kicked Dragon Bodhisattva in the body.
Bang.
Dragon Bodhisattva tumbled into the cliff.
Granny Yin Hua turned and summoned the Wind-riding Boat, speeding towards Sifang City.
Dragon Bodhisattva’s body plummeted rapidly towards the cliff bottom. He lay on his back, gazing at the blue sky and white clouds. Suddenly, he thought of Dragon One and the others back in the secular world. Grief welled up from his heart, and two tears slid from the corners of his eyes.
“Farewell forever!”
Dragon Bodhisattva gently closed his eyes.
“Roar roar roar.”
At this moment, roars from the beasts rose from below, as if jubilant at the arrival of food.
The thought of soon becoming fodder for the divine beasts filled Dragon Bodhisattva with sorrow and fury. In an instant, his killing intent soared to the heavens. He roared loudly, “I am not willing.”
Suddenly, an aged voice rang in his ear, “If you can live, what do you want to do?”
“I want to kill all my enemies!” After saying this, Dragon Bodhisattva suddenly sensed something amiss. He asked, “Who is speaking to me?”
The aged voice continued in his ear, “Killing all enemies is not enough. This seat wants you to slaughter the entire world. Dare you?”
Slaughter the entire world?
Such immense killing intent!
Dragon Bodhisattva declared loudly, “Why not?”
“Very good!” As the aged voice fell, Dragon Bodhisattva felt his back land.
He turned his head and was filled with horror. He suddenly realised he was lying on a gigantic palm.
This palm was even larger than a mountain.
Almost simultaneously, the divine beasts below stopped roaring and fell into an unnatural silence.
Dragon Bodhisattva realised that the one who saved him must be someone of great importance. He could not help asking, “Who is the senior?”
In the next second, he saw two eyes emerge on the cliff face. One was pure white and flawless, transparent like crystal. The other was pitch black as ink, eerie and sinister.
“This seat is the current sect leader of the Yin Yang Sect, Wuji Tianzun!”
Dragon Bodhisattva’s heart shook violently. The Yin Yang Sect’s sect leader was one of the several giants in the Eastern Wastelands.
Without hesitation, Dragon Bodhisattva knelt and said, “Dragon Bodhisattva pays respects to the senior. Thank you for saving my life.”
“Do not thank this seat so quickly. This seat will put you through a trial of life and death. If you are lucky enough to survive, this seat will take you as a direct disciple. If you die, that is your fate.”
After Wuji Tianzun finished speaking, he waved his palm, and Dragon Bodhisattva vanished in an instant.
Everything returned to calm.
…
On the other side.
The sixth elder’s residence.
The hall was deathly quiet. After Granny Yin Hua left, the sixth elder immediately took out a sheet of rice paper and began to paint with ink.
After a while.
A portrait appeared vividly on the paper, exactly resembling Ye Qiu’s face.
If anyone who had seen Ye Qiu looked at this painting, they would be greatly astonished, for it was too lifelike. Every眉 and eye was rendered in exquisite detail, as if it were a photograph.
After finishing the painting, the sixth elder sat back in his chair, his eyes flickering, lost in thought.
A moment later.
The sixth elder finally spoke, “Tian’er~”
“Your disciple is here!” With the voice, a young man walked out from the depths of the hall.
He appeared to be in his thirties, dressed in a grey Daoist robe, with sword-like eyebrows and star-bright eyes. He carried a long sword on his back.
This person was named Lin Tian, the sixth elder’s final disciple, and also the seventeenth Holy Son of the Yin Yang Sect.
The young man walked to the sixth elder and bowed. He asked, “What instructions does Master have?”
The sixth elder said, “You saw everything just now, did you not?”
“Yes.” Lin Tian nodded.
The sixth elder said, “Come with me. This master wants to consult the Divine Calculator to divine where that boy is at this moment.”
Lin Tian asked, “Master means that the boy is no longer in Sifang City?”
The sixth elder said, “That boy dares to kill Jiang Feng, showing his audacity is boundless. Facing Yin Hua, he could still remain calm and composed, which means his mind is meticulous.”
“A person as cunning as him would not linger in Sifang City.”
“If I am not mistaken, he has already left Sifang City by now. Yin Hua’s trip will surely end in vain.”
“By the way, Tian’er, you saw that cauldron, did you not?”
“I did.” Lin Tian had been watching from the depths of the hall earlier. He noticed that it was the appearance of the cauldron in the scene that caused the crack in the Query Heaven Mirror.
The sixth elder said, “That cauldron is a divine artifact.”
What!
Shock appeared on Lin Tian’s face.
“Though I have not seen the real thing, this master vaguely feels that it is most likely the legendary Qiankun Cauldron.” The sixth elder said, “That boy’s cultivation is too weak, and he is an enemy of our Yin Yang Sect. He does not deserve to possess a divine artifact.”
“I will go to the Divine Calculator to confirm his location. Then you go and kill that boy, bring back that cauldron.”
“Also, he has a wooden whip in hand that is extraordinarily unusual. Bring it back as well.”
Lin Tian bowed and accepted the order, “Yes!”
The sixth elder stood up, grabbed Lin Tian’s shoulder, and in the next second, the two vanished strangely from the spot.
