“Alliance Master, our alliance was formed purely for mutual benefit. If you insist on killing the Soul-Devouring Venerable, then we part ways here.”
One of the Vice Alliance Masters spoke up.
They had only banded together as several small sects to survive in the Ninth Heaven. None of them wanted to wade into this deadly mess.
“You…” Liu Xue glared at him in fury, momentarily lost for words.
Although she was the Alliance Master, theirs was not a strict hierarchy.
“Enough quarrelling. Come see me…”
An aged voice suddenly rang out.
“Old Ancestor…” Liu Xue’s face instantly paled.
“Your ancestor?” Chen Ping asked.
Liu Xue nodded, then grabbed Chen Ping and vanished in an instant.
When they reappeared, they were inside a mountain cave.
In the cave stood a figure whose hair nearly reached the ground. He looked like a ghost, quite terrifying.
“Why do you want to kill the Soul-Devouring Venerable?” the Old Ancestor asked Liu Xue.
Liu Xue glanced at Chen Ping. “Young Master Chen wants him dead, so I will kill him…”
She was completely honest.
“You slept with him?” The Old Ancestor saw the truth with a single look.
Liu Xue nodded without concealment.
“Why? Why give your body to him and help him kill the Soul-Devouring Venerable? Do you not know how terrifying that monster is? Ten thousand years ago, the Soul-Devouring Venerable was already the great demon of the Ninth Heaven.”
The Old Ancestor pressed.
“I know, but Young Master Chen has an extremely powerful backer, far stronger than the Soul-Devouring Venerable!”
Liu Xue declared.
“Hmph. A mere Human Immortal Realm boy? What kind of backer could he possibly have? Compared to the Soul-Devouring Venerable, his so-called backer is nothing but fart…”
“He…”
BOOM!
Before the Old Ancestor could finish, his body suddenly exploded.
He was reduced to dust in an instant, soul utterly annihilated.
Liu Xue stood frozen, staring in total shock, unable to comprehend what had just happened.
She had not sensed the slightest trace of energy. How had her ancestor simply ceased to exist?
“Let’s go…”
Chen Ping, however, showed no surprise. He called to Liu Xue and turned to leave.
“Young Master Chen, our Old Ancestor, he…”
“The one thing he should never have done, the thing he absolutely must not do, was insult the supreme expert behind me. This is the price.”
Chen Ping shook his head with pretentious regret, as though he genuinely pitied the man.
Liu Xue swallowed hard and tightly grasped Chen Ping’s arm.
At this moment, she was more certain than ever: she would follow Chen Ping even in death.
What kind of terrifying existence could, without the slightest warning or even revealing itself, instantly obliterate a Heavenly Immortal Realm ancestor?
Liu Xue dared not even imagine.
Emerging from the cave, Chen Ping took Liu Xue straight to the Yama Heaven Sect. Since the others in the Earth Fiend Alliance refused to follow Liu Xue, there was no point forcing them.
Dissolving the Earth Fiend Alliance was actually perfect. Now that Liu Xue had received the Tianmen inheritance, she could revive Tianmen and become its sect leader.
That was far more prestigious than being master of some Earth Fiend Alliance.
As for Chen Ping himself, he had no interest in becoming any sect leader, nor would he remain forever in the Ninth Heaven. This place was merely a temporary stepping stone for his growth.
Unbeknown to Chen Ping and Liu Xue, while they were meeting the Old Ancestor, someone from the Earth Fiend Alliance had already informed the Soul-Devouring Venerable.
Now fully recovered, the Soul-Devouring Venerable sneered with utter contempt upon hearing that Chen Ping and Liu Xue intended to kill him.
In his eyes, both of them were no more than ants.
Having returned to the Ninth Heaven, his sole ambition was to rule it entirely.
Within Yama Heaven Sect!
Every expert of the Yama Heaven Sect had gathered in the grand hall.
Yan Nantian stood in the centre, while upon the sect leader’s throne sat a middle-aged man.
This was the fully restored Soul-Devouring Venerable, his physical body regenerated.
The Yama Heaven Sect held immense status in the Ninth Heaven, so the Soul-Devouring Venerable planned to make them set an example by submitting first.
