“Did your Ancestor come in?”
After tidying up, Lu Ming asked the Danji Saint.
“I don’t know. I’ve only encountered my three junior brothers since I entered...” the Danji Saint replied, gesturing to the three people behind him.
“I saw the Tiansheng Sect Leader when I came in!” one of the junior brothers behind the Danji Saint spoke up.
Lu Ming nodded. “It seems the spatial collapse caused by the collision sucked many people in. We even ran into Emperor Tianqi!”
The Danji Saint muttered, “I wonder if our Great Ancestor was sucked in as well?”
Lu Ming shook his head. “I don’t know; we haven’t seen him.”
Just then, the Danji Saint asked curiously, “Saint Lu, do you know why the Guiyi Sword Sect and the Tiansheng Sect crashed their spirit boats into each other?”
“Ah... ha... I don’t know either!” Lu Ming was suddenly quite embarrassed. He couldn’t exactly say it was because they were racing spirit boats!
Even though he wasn’t the one driving, he had been on the boat at the time and had apparently been cheering them on.
Big Yellow also looked up at the sky, pretending to know nothing.
After all, it had also been cheering and had even contributed some spirit stones to the cause.
“Let’s... let’s go! Let’s keep looking around...”
Lu Ming changed the subject and led the way forward.
The group followed Lu Ming as they continued to explore the secret realm.
“Robbery!”
“Saint Gu, hand over your storage bags!”
Boom... Thud... Crack...
“Spare us, Saint Gu! Here are our storage bags!”
After dealing with a few more cultivators trying to rob them, Lu Ming looked at the Danji Saint with a strange expression.
“Seriously, are you guys really this easy to bully in the cultivation world?”
The Danji Saint and his companions looked embarrassed.
“Ah! Our Danji Sect isn’t specialized in combat. Our Ancestor also taught us that harmony breeds wealth! We try not to fight whenever possible; we just make sure to remember who robbed us.”
Big Yellow couldn’t help but roll its eyes in frustration. “What’s the point of just remembering? Rob them back!”
The Danji Saint rubbed his nose. “Remembering them is useful. When they eventually come to our sect to buy rare pills, we just add double the value of the assets they stole from us to the price...”
Lu Ming and Big Yellow’s eyes widened instantly.
“Holy crap, you can play it like that?”
The Danji Saint nodded. “Yes!”
“What if they don’t buy your pills?” Big Yellow asked, tilting its dog head.
“Our Danji Sect has some unique specialty pills. If they don’t buy from us, no one else has them!”
Lu Ming’s mouth twitched. Well, that was certainly one way to rake in money.
Boom...
Just then, a massive explosion suddenly echoed through the void.
Lu Ming and the others jerked their heads up.
In the distance, a golden pillar of light soared aggressively into the clouds.
The shockwave caused the air currents throughout the secret realm to surge and hum.
“Let’s go... see what’s happening!”
Lu Ming then led everyone toward the source of the golden light.
He believed that with such a massive commotion, everyone in the secret realm should be able to see it and would likely head there.
When the time came, he would be able to find Wang Defa and the others.
“Damn it!”
The Tiansheng Sect Ancestor cursed under his breath.
At the same time, he propped up a protection shield to block the sudden burst of pressure, retreating several steps.
After being sucked into the secret realm, he had made his way all the way to the center of the realm to find that immortal treasure blade.
Following the location in his memory, he found that the immortal treasure blade was indeed still there.
The blade was still stuck diagonally into an ancient stone platform in the center of the cave.
The blade was long and upright, with patterns on the back that looked like surging clouds. Its edge held a restrained but hidden sharpness.
Wisps of immortal qi lingered around the blade. Even just standing there quietly, it possessed a domineering aura that looked down on all creation.
At the hilt, the character ‘Ye’ shimmered with immortal light.
The Tiansheng Sect Ancestor guessed that this ‘Ye’ character was left by the creator or perhaps its owner.
Just as he was excitedly preparing to step forward and pull the blade, he discovered a formation blocking his path.
The last time he entered the secret realm, everyone was busy fighting and snatching, and no one had even managed to touch the immortal treasure blade.
He had even been beaten nearly to death while trying to seize it.
It was the Sect Master of the Qingshan Sect who had saved him!
Only after leaving did he realize that of all the people who entered the secret realm, no one except him and the Qingshan Sect Master had made it out!
He suspected that those who were fighting over the immortal treasure blade had all killed each other off!
This was also why he had arranged for people to come in and retrieve it this time.
He just hadn’t expected there to be a protective formation.
Left with no choice, he began attempting to break the formation.
Although he didn’t specialize in formations, he had some understanding of them.
Inside the formation, Ye Fan was also filled with helplessness.
That’s right—he was now this immortal treasure blade.
He never imagined that after being killed by Lu Ming and the others, he would be reborn into an immortal treasure blade called ‘Ye Slaughters the Nine Heavens.’
And it was a high-grade immortal treasure blade at that.
Immortal treasures were divided into four tiers: Heaven, Earth, Mystic, and Yellow. The Yellow tier was the lowest, and each tier was further divided into high, mid, and low grades.
He currently belonged to the mid-grade Mystic tier!
When he first realized he was a blade upon rebirth, a melody kept playing in his mind:
“My blade, blade, blade, blade... like the surging waves... blade, blade, blade, blade... I’m a pig-butchering blade...”
He had broken down and cried several times to that melody!
If he weren’t currently incapable of shedding tears, he would have drowned in his own grief!
After crying, cursing, and lamenting, he had also reflected deeply on his failures.
Revisiting his past lives, his life as a demon, and now his life as a blade...
Besides being a bit miserable, he realized he had been too conceited and arrogant.
Just like when he tried to kill Lu Ming; he had been too hasty.
Why couldn’t he have waited until they were married to strike?
On the wedding night, when the other party was off-guard and at their happiest.
He could have launched a surprise attack and stabbed him to death right then!
Or, he could have poisoned the nuptial wine and killed him that way.
But thinking about how he was currently a blade, he felt even more depressed.
He knew that Lu Ming had a weapon specifically designed to counter him!
Wasn’t he just walking straight into Lu Ming’s hands?
Could he even get his revenge?
Why was he, a dignified Immortal Emperor, living such a miserable life?
Why was he repeatedly killed by a damned mortal?
Why?
...
As Ye Fan reflected on the past, he also noticed something strange.
He hadn’t been born as a Mystic-tier immortal treasure; he was being raised and refined by someone!
He discovered that he could still increase his grade!
But who was this person?
What was their strength? Could they kill Lu Ming?
Just as Ye Fan was about to go moldy in that dark and gloomy cave, he noticed someone approaching. To his surprise, it was the Tiansheng Sect Ancestor.
At first, he thought this old fellow might be the mastermind behind the scenes.
As it turned out, he was overthinking things.
However, if he were taken away by this old fellow, would he have a chance to kill Lu Ming?
After all, this old fellow was a Mahayana cultivator. Killing someone at the Soul Transformation stage should be as easy as a single slap...
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