Chapter 386: I, Protector of the Heavenly Court Sect, Nether Heavenly King

Chapter Three Hundred and Eighty-Six: I, the Guardian of the Heavenly Court Sect, the Netherworld Heavenly King!

Seeing that Vice Leader Shi suppressed him in all aspects, the withered old man thought to himself that things were going awry, wondering how this youth could be so incredibly powerful, completely defying his expectations.

He was considered among the strongest tier of the Body Integration Stage devilish path cultivators in the Great Yu Dynasty, and the only ones who could bring such pressure upon him were the ultimate great devils of the Body Integration Stage.

Dammit, what kind of luck was this, going out to refine a Myriad Soul Banner only to refine a bunch of livestock that didn't understand a single command, and now encountering an ultimate great devil of the Body Integration Stage.

The struggle of the great era had not even fully erupted yet, and he already encountered such an opponent?

If they kept fighting, the one to lose would be him!

The withered old man no longer lingered in battle, turning his head to flee.

His abundant experience of survival told him that a temporary inability to defeat his foe did not mean a future inability to defeat them, as long as he cultivated with single-minded devotion and took his revenge in the future, who would mock his flight today?

He did not set his designs upon Lu Yang and Tao Tianye, as though these two had solid foundations, their cultivation was too low and they should merely be the opponent's disciples.

Those who cultivated the devilish path valued themselves above all else, and using the kidnapping of disciples as a threat was a joke in the eyes of devilish cultivators.

The withered old man cast down six devils to obstruct his pursuer, while his own body transformed into a streak of flowing light, fleeing far and wide.

"Dammit, the old bastard is truly shameless, fleeing the moment he says so!" Vice Leader Shi swore loudly, the other party possessing not a single shred of a grandmaster's demeanor.

Even though if he were in the withered old man's position, he would have made the exact same choice.

Suddenly, ripples stirred in the space, and a figure appeared behind the withered old man, utterly silent, holding an object resembling a brick, swinging that brick right across the withered old man.

The withered old man staggered, tumbling down from the sky.

"Who is it!"

He hurriedly assumed a defensive posture, but unfortunately that strike of the brick was delivered too fiercely, and the technique was all too practiced, leaving him so dazed that he could not even stand steady.

He realized there was yet another grandmaster present and prepared to flee once more.

A cold sneer curved at the lips of the figure holding the brick, sending a shiver down one's spine.

"Still thinking of fleeing before this Heavenly King?" The figure gazed intently at the withered old man, who fell into a stupor, entirely devoid of the power to resist.

The withered old man was dazed for a mere half a second before quickly recovering.

Yet to the Body Integration Stage, half a second was already enough to accomplish many things.

The figure kicked the withered old man over with a single strike, treading upon him ruthlessly against the ground.

The withered old man wished to escape by tunneling into the earth, but the figure remained unhurried, pointing a single finger toward the ground, and in an instant the earth became as hard as meteoric iron, utterly indestructible, such that the withered old man could not break through the ground even by smashing his head against it.

"Turning Earth to Steel?!"

The withered old man and Vice Leader Shi spoke out simultaneously, recognizing this great divine ability that countered earth tunneling, a technique that was virtually extinct, capable of being executed only by the Five Great Immortal Sects and ancient cultivators.

The figure looked coldly upon the withered old man, applying a bit more force beneath his foot, causing the withered old man to cry out in agony.

"Who are you?" The withered old man stared fixedly at the figure that had suddenly appeared.

If it weren't for the other party's sudden appearance, he would have fled long ago.

Yet he could not give rise to any heart for resistance, as the methods the opponent had just displayed were a notch stronger even than Vice Leader Shi.

Vice Leader Shi also looked upon that figure with a hint of vigilance, for the opponent striking at the critical juncture meant he had been following them all along, yet he himself had not noticed it from beginning to end.

A concealment technique of profound mystery!

The gaze of that figure was as deep as an ancient well, unfathomable, as he cast a glance at the withered form collapsed upon the ground and then took a look at Vice Leader Shi, his tone measured, revealing arrogance and disdain.

"I, the Guardian of the Heavenly Court Sect, the Netherworld Heavenly King."

Vice Leader Shi's countenance shifted slightly, as expected, the other party was a Guardian of the Heavenly Court Sect.

And taking "Netherworld" as his title, could there be some connection to the ancient Nine Netherworlds?

The withered old man looked utterly blank, what kind of organization was the Heavenly Court Sect?

He had investigated all the major factions of the present era, and had never heard of one called the Heavenly Court Sect?

Lu Yang and Tao Tianye watched as the First Elder stepped upon an ancient Body Integration Stage cultivator while looking down on the Vice Leader of the Devil Sect, wild, unbridled, and arrogant, fiercely enduring the urge to complain.

For a dangerous affair like Lu Yang going to meet the Vice Leader of the Devil Sect, the Dao Seeking Sect would naturally send someone over.

Originally Lu Yang had not intended for anyone to follow, and he did not know where the First Elder had heard that he and Tao Tianye were going to see Shi Huagu, but he had proactively offered to protect them himself.

Furthermore, under the pretext of protecting the future of the Dao Seeking Sect.

Seeing the First Elder like this, Lu Yang felt that his elder's protection of them was false, while hogging the spotlight was the truth.

After confirming that the First Elder was an ally, Vice Leader Shi set his mind at ease, crouching down to deliver two slaps across the withered old man's face, shouting sternly.

"Speak, what did you kill so many livestock for!"

The withered old man was furious, feeling that Vice Leader Shi was insulting him too greatly: "Am I insane to go killing livestock, I'm a devil path cultivator, not running a slaughterhouse! If I knew the source of that bloody aura was a slaughterhouse, would I go through the trouble of refining a Myriad Soul Banner?"

Shi Huagu felt that what the withered old man said stood to reason, so he delivered two more slaps to his face.

"Speak, how did the villagers vanish!"

"What villagers, when I went there, that place was already devoid of people!"

The withered old man was deeply puzzled, he had no grievances or enmities with Shi Huagu, so why had the other party targeted him?

"That shouldn't be, it wasn't you who did it?"

"It wasn't!"

Vice Leader Shi could see that the withered old man was not lying, as they were all devil cultivators, there was no need to hide or be secretive about killing people.

"Strange business."

Dao Seeking Sect, Immortal Breeding Farm.

The former Sect Leader of the Immortal Sect gazed at the endless breeding farm, where cows and sheep leisurely grazed on grass in a scene of serene harmony, letting out a long sigh.

"Master, what is the matter with you?" The three female ghosts, Xiao Wu, Xiao Liu, and Xiao Qi, saw the Sect Leader sighing and came forward to show their concern.

"I just remembered the days when I was the Sect Leader running a slaughterhouse."

"You even ran a slaughterhouse before?"

"Look at how you put it, who doesn't have a few personal hobbies?"

"I haven't told you all before, but before I joined the Immortal Sect, my family ran a slaughterhouse, and later I was wanted by the government due to tax evasion, and the Immortal Sect saw that I was a talent, so they recruited me in."

"Muddling along step by step, I ended up becoming the Sect Leader."

"After I became the Sect Leader, I would always reminisce about those days running the slaughterhouse, my subordinates were all as stupid as pig heads, making me angry, but our Immortal Sect had few people, so if a subordinate was gone it would be hard to find another, so I bought a large batch of puppets, built a small village in the wasteland, and named it Huai'an Village."

"I controlled the puppets, disguising them as villagers, opened a slaughterhouse, and slaughtered pigs every day, treating it as slaughtering my subordinates, and just like that I slaughtered for three to four hundred years, muddling my way into becoming a well-known established slaughterhouse in the local area."

"Later on I was caught, wasn't I, the slaughterhouse was confiscated, and the pigs, cows, and sheep inside were all sold by the imperial court, and the court ordered me to cease all movements of the puppets, and then the puppets were also taken away by the imperial court."

"The current Huai'an Village is just an empty shell, leaving behind only a pile of useless bloody aura, and the imperial court didn't know how to handle it either, so they just left it sitting there."

"Won't that bloody aura be utilized by devilish path cultivators, for instance, refined into a Myriad Soul Banner or something?" Xiao Qi worried, as they had almost been refined into a soul banner by someone themselves.

The Sect Leader burst into a great laughter.

"How could that be possible, what kind of idiotic devil cultivator would use that kind of bloody aura to refine a Myriad Soul Banner."