Chapter 932 - 405: Sword Pointed at the Immortal Venerable (2)

Chapter 932: Chapter 405: Sword Pointed at the Immortal Venerable (2)

As soon as the words fell, everyone present was startled!

Daluo Opportunities, Lord of the Heavenly Court...

In that instant, no one knew how many hearts were stirred; countless gazes grew faintly feverish!

"This is not right! The Purple Fairy and the Dao Sect are heroes; how could we kill them in search of glory?..."

Someone hesitated.

"What kind of chance is this? In our entire lives, we will never set foot in the Daluo realm, yet now we can obtain a share of its opportunity!"

"To become Lord of the Heavenly Court is the supreme honor!"

"No, you must not forget what the Purple Fairy said—this struggle for immortality will end in the sacrifice of all..."

"Heh, without this struggle for immortality, would we not die? If I cannot become a Daluo Golden Immortal, in another thousand years I’ll be nothing but dust in the earth!"

The previously quiet crowd began to seethe. Words of morality and righteousness were being shattered by greed and desire. Those who had just knelt to revere the Purple Fairy as the Lord of the Heavenly Court were now hefting butcher’s knives, step by step closing in on her...

"The Purple Fairy is mine!"

Suddenly, a great shout rang out from who-knows-where, and a Taiyi Golden Immortal turned into a streak of Immortal Light, directly slashing toward the Purple Fairy!

"How dare you! Her life belongs to me!"

"I will avenge Hongbo Fairy..."

"Stop!"

In an instant, the others could no longer sit still either!

"There is only one Purple Fairy, but many elder of the Dao Sect—kill them!"

"Right, it’s enough if we can preserve the Daluo Opportunities!"

"Die for me!"

In that instant, countless people also charged to kill Xiang Yuntian, Li Qingran, Li Nianxue and the others.

Before long, a battle erupted on the spot—everyone fighting and slaughtering, struggling to seize Xiang Yuntian and the others’ heads as trophies!

"Fuck, this bunch of bastards..."

Xiang Yuntian’s eyes bulged in fury. "I want to see who dares kill me!"

Before the words had even fallen, a Taiyi Golden Immortal had already rushed over and struck him with a sword. Xiang Yuntian froze on the spot, but fortunately others had already surged forward to contest the kill, and cut down that Taiyi Golden Immortal.

"A pack of lowlifes!"

"Do you have no shame?"

Li Qingran and the others shouted in rage, but in the face of the frenzied crowd, their words were already of no avail.

The crowd was like a tide, about to swallow Xiang Yuntian, the Purple Fairy, and the rest.

Countless streams of mana, countless Divine Powers, faces scrambling to be first, hideous killing intent...

Just as the Purple Fairy, Xiang Yuntian, and the others were about to die, Evergreen Immortal Venerable suddenly waved his hand again.

Instantly, the countless Cultivators charging forward froze as though turned to stone, unable to move another inch. Their mana, Divine Powers, and the like all dissipated with them.

Xiang Yuntian, the Purple Fairy, and the others thus snatched survival from the very jaws of death.

"Take a good look. These are the people you want to save."

Evergreen Immortal Venerable spoke. "You wish to save them, but so long as sufficient profit is laid before them, they will unhesitatingly kill you."

His manner was as calm as still water, as if merely stating a fact, without any trace of personal emotion—no anger, no mockery, no sorrow.

He waved his hand, and Xiang Yuntian instantly regained his freedom.

"Slaughter all these people, and you can become Lord of the Heavenly Court. Until the struggle for immortality ends, you may do whatever you wish."

Evergreen Immortal Venerable named a price to Xiang Yuntian.

The many factions present had never imagined the reversal would come so swiftly. The butcher’s knife they had just aimed at others now fell upon their own heads!

All were aghast.

"No... Supreme Xiang, you must not!"

"Supreme Xiang, our relationship with the Dao Sect has always been good..."

"Please, Supreme, spare us!"

They had actually recovered the ability to speak, and now they begged one after another, their behavior a complete contrast to their mad scrambling and rampant killing intent just moments ago.

Xiang Yuntian lifted his stone sword. His mouth opened, as if to speak, but no words emerged.

He seemed utterly lost.

Those he had protected could come to kill the Dao Sect for the sake of a mere shred of opportunity. The Evergreen Immortal Venerable, whom he had wanted to kill, had instead turned around to protect them, and even promised them the entire Heavenly Court.

In the distance, Yunxi, Ye Cauldron, and the others who had not acted just now all felt their hearts leap.

All of them fixed their gaze on Xiang Yuntian, not knowing what decision he would make.

Reasonably speaking, they had not given in to the urge to kill earlier; they had suppressed the greed in their hearts, so Xiang Yuntian would not kill them. In fact, once Xiang Yuntian succeeded to the throne, it would be a good thing for them as well... Yet now, they inexplicably found themselves harboring a wish.

A wish that Xiang Yuntian...

would not strike.

"Evergreen Immortal Venerable... is really too damn strong."

Ye Cauldron couldn’t help sighing. It wasn’t just the power of his cultivation; in an instant he was toying with people’s hearts, to the point that even someone like Xiang Yuntian had already begun to waver.

"...Maybe Evergreen Immortal Venerable has been through all of this himself, that’s why it comes so easily to him, why he can be so calm."

Yunxi’s expression was complicated as she said, "After weathering countless tribulations, you finally see through it all, seeking only long life and unfading sight; all emotions of the mortal world scatter like illusory bubbles in a dream. If one day we reach his realm, perhaps... we too will become a new Evergreen Immortal Venerable..."

The Heaven Domain fell silent, the masses without a sound. Even Dao Sect’s Li Qingran, Li Nianxue and the others had their heartstrings tightened to the limit. At such a crossroads, a single thought in Xiang Yuntian’s heart could very well decide the course of history!

Xiang Yuntian lowered his head, looking at the stone sword in his hand, muttering:

"No... it shouldn’t be like this..."

But when he raised his head and saw those faces—faces that moments ago were vicious and feral, that had already wounded him, wounded people of the Dao Sect—his killing intent burst out once more.

"You all deserve to die..."

The sword in his hand lifted.

Then slowly lowered again.

Lifting.

And slowly lowering.

Over and over, his heart was honestly twisted to the extreme!

And the cultivators in front of him were by now practically scared shitless, on the verge of a breakdown.

Fuck, big bro if you’re gonna kill then just kill, okay? Raising it then putting it down, putting it down then raising it again... you’re seriously making people’s mentality collapse here.

Evergreen Immortal Venerable watched blandly from the side. A certain light suddenly blossomed in his eyes; his gaze fell upon Xiang Yuntian, and that same light abruptly surfaced in Xiang Yuntian’s eyes.

In that instant, Xiang Yuntian suddenly saw many different things.

In front of him was a middle-aged cultivator, a Taiyi Golden Immortal, a famous figure born of Treasure Cauldron Palace—but five hundred years ago, he’d raped and murdered a female cultivator, and once, colluding with Evil Cultivators, had ambushed and killed his own senior brother...

This was that middle-aged cultivator’s past!

Right after, Xiang Yuntian saw another side of this middle-aged cultivator: he killed Li Qingran, obtained Daluo Opportunities, and finally proved the Dao as a Daluo Golden Immortal. From then on he was lawless, personally destroying the Dao Mountain sect gate, slaughtering every cultivator of Dao Mountain to the last, all just to "cut the grass and pull up the roots"...

Xiang Yuntian’s gaze swept over them one by one; the karma each person had once accumulated actually couldn’t escape his eyes, and their futures too unfolded one by one within his pupils...

In the long stretch of their lives, more or less, all of them had done things that were disgraceful, even utterly, monstrously evil.

And in the future, once they possessed enough strength, once they held authority and status, the evil they committed became even more unspeakable.

...

The light in Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s eyes dissipated.

Xiang Yuntian also returned to himself.

On his face there remained only a deep, heavy doubt and reflection. He knew that what he had just seen absolutely wasn’t some Illusion Technique cast by Evergreen Immortal Venerable, but that Evergreen Immortal Venerable had lent him the Immortal Venerable’s eye that could observe karma, letting him see straight through the falseness and evil of human nature.

"This is really fucking pointless..."

He suddenly said, "Really, it’s so fucking pointless!"

He clenched the Ta’e Sword in his hand, abruptly pouring Daluo power into it. The Ta’e Sword erupted with ten thousand strands of killing intent, and he swept it horizontally toward the countless cultivators before him!

Poof, poof, poof!

Blood sprayed, heads rolled, wails resounded again and again. These cultivators died in swathes; with just a single sword strike, he cut down several thousand people—Quasi-Daluo, Golden Immortals, Taiyi Golden Immortals...

Blood mist blurred Xiang Yuntian’s eyes; he seemed to have become a Shura, seemed to have lost his mind. He roared, "You all deserve to die!"

He madly poured Daluo power into the sword. The stone sword in his hand, clearly already veined with cracks, now unleashed the strongest strike of its existence, then viciously came down––

Everyone present was horrified. Even Yunxi, Ye Cauldron and the other Daluo Golden Immortals were shocked. Had Xiang Yuntian lost himself and gone insane? Was he planning to wipe everyone out?

They instinctively stepped back, while simultaneously readying their defenses!

But at that very moment, that heaven-shocking sword light of Xiang Yuntian’s actually swerved without warning, in an instant cleaving toward Evergreen Immortal Venerable!

He was actually striking at Evergreen Immortal Venerable again!

But this time...

It was different.

Because within the field, there was now an additional strand of Sword Intent!

That Sword Intent had appeared without a sound, approached without a sound... wherever the Sword Intent reached, it was stronger than Xiang Yuntian, more terrifying than Xiang Yuntian!

It even surpassed the might Purple Fairy had displayed before!

Within that Sword Intent, faintly, there was also a Soul, using its hand as a sword, its sword pointing at Evergreen Immortal Venerable...

"Ta’e Sword Saint?!"

"Ta’e Sword Saint’s... Immortal Venerable Level Sword Intent?!"

"He... they’re actually trying to kill Evergreen Immortal Venerable?!"

In that instant, seeing this sudden upheaval, everyone present was... utterly shaken!

...

Good night