Chapter 449: Even the Eldest Senior Sister is So Strong, What Kind of Powerhouse Must Lu Yang's Master Be?

Lu Yang wiped the tea from his face and looked at the Great Elder with an innocent expression. "Great Elder, what is wrong?"

The Great Elder stared at Lu Yang as if he were seeing a ghost, wondering if his advanced age was finally making his hearing fail.

He had lived for over two thousand years, and as the eldest brother of the Nine Sages of the Wendao Sect, a powerhouse at the half-step Tribulation Transcendence Stage, it was the first time he had ever encountered such a thing.

To his knowledge, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou had traveled to the Barren Province accompanied by nothing more than that Dragon-Horse Demon King.

Never mind this meager lineup; even if their strength were multiplied tenfold, it would still be impossible for them to capture three souls of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.

"Whom did you capture?"

"Wu Youdao, Venerable Xuanlei, and Venerable Wuji," Lu Yang said, counting them off on his fingers for the Great Elder.

The Great Elder inhaled a mouthful of tea in shock; all three were famous Tribulation Transcendence masters of the Dayu Dynasty, especially Wu Youdao, who was born with the grand aura of a dragon and tiger emperor and had long been praised by Dayu's historians.

"Old Horse runs fast, so we arrived first. The news probably hasn't spread yet. Great Elder, you have no idea how dangerous this trip to the Barren Province was. We nearly lost our little lives there; it was truly perilous."

The Great Elder looked askance at Lu Yang. Did the "perilous" situation you speak of refer to the fact that all three of them were captured by you?

"First, explain clearly how you brat managed to capture three Tribulation Transcendence cultivators."

Lu Yang said mysteriously, "Great Elder, there are no outsiders here, we are all part of the Heavenly Court Sect, so I won't hide it from you. Our Heavenly Court Sect possesses a great figure, none other than the Lord of the Ancient Heavenly Court, the Supreme Great Heavenly Emperor, Emperor Dou!"

"My capture of these three Tribulation Transcendence cultivators was entirely thanks to Emperor Dou's timely intervention!"

The Great Elder froze for a moment, then broke into an understanding smile.

It seemed that girl Yun Zhi had taken action.

Although Martial Niece Yun's designated role in the Heavenly Court Sect was the Sect Master, that did not prevent her from holding multiple identities.

For instance, she was both the Eldest Senior Sister among the disciples and the Acting Sect Master.

"Alright, alright, since it is Martial Niece Yun's affair, go speak to her about it."

The Great Elder tossed Lu Yang out of the Mission Hall.

Lu Yang shook his head helplessly and said to the Immortal Fairy, "See, what did I tell you? This matter definitely needs to go through Eldest Senior Sister. You wanted to bypass her and come straight to the Mission Hall to exchange for contribution points, which is simply impossible."

"Fine then," the Immortal Fairy said, utterly dejected.

Just as Qiu Jin'an had said, Eldest Senior Sister had already finished the prison release procedures for their Master and returned to the sect.

When Lu Yang returned to Tianmen Peak, Eldest Senior Sister still maintained that otherworldly posture, sitting cross-legged at the mountain peak, her eyes containing tens of thousands of stars, mysterious and unpredictable.

Just gazing at her from afar brought an immense sense of pressure.

Wu Youdao and the other two felt their scalps go numb upon witnessing this scene; Lu Yang might not understand the meaning behind it, but as Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, they knew exactly what it signified.

It was precisely because they knew that fear arose from the depths of their hearts.

During the Dayu era, the stars in the sky were merely residual phantoms left behind from ancient times; true stars were virtually nonexistent.

Because of this, when Wu Youdao and the others awoke from their slumber, they quickly noticed the abnormality in the starry sky.

The stars that were originally phantoms had been quietly filled in by someone, and there was no record of it whatsoever.

What kind of mighty power was this?

And what realm must one reach to accomplish such a feat?

They had always wanted to know who had made the stars in the sky shine brilliantly once more, and now they finally knew.

They would rather not have known.

"Eldest Senior Sister, I have returned." Facing Eldest Senior Sister, Lu Yang was exceptionally obedient.

"What did he call this immortal? Eldest Senior Sister?" Venerable Xuanlei cried out in disbelief, losing all composure.

The other two had similar reactions; this woman was actually Lu Yang's Eldest Senior Sister?

Then what kind of powerhouse must Lu Yang's master be?

How terrifying this Wendao Sect was.

"You're back?" Eldest Senior Sister stood up, the stars within her cold eyes flashing past as if they had never appeared, her clear black-and-white eyes quietly observing Lu Yang.

"What is the situation with the three Tribulation Transcendence souls inside you?" Eldest Senior Sister cast a casual glance and saw that Lu Yang's spiritual space was bustling with activity.

"Alright, all of you out." The Immortal Fairy dragged the three of them out.

The three Tribulation Transcendence cultivators were no different from little chicks in the Immortal Fairy's hands.

"Their foundations of cultivation are quite ordinary, making it difficult for them to achieve immortality. Explain the situation."

Eldest Senior Sister knew all of the current Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, having visited them to exchange pointers, but she did not recognize these three, meaning they were clearly ancient cultivators.

In Eldest Senior Sister's view, these three had average foundations and were incapable of becoming immortals.

Lu Yang structured his narrative appropriately, skipping over his luck with women, only mentioning that he went to the Corpse Driving Sect, found Hanshui City haunted, and while slaying ghosts encountered Huang Ming, a Dayu Body Integration Stage cultivator who had dispersed his cultivation to retrain. He then encountered the intervention of Perfected Lord Mengtian and was saved by Qiu Jin'an.

"Perfected Lord Mengtian and Huang Ming fled and haven't been caught. This Wu Youdao then made his entrance with an expression that suggested their plot had been exposed, forcing them to execute the plan ahead of schedule."

Wu Youdao: "..."

So it wasn't you guys who captured Perfected Lord Mengtian and Huang Ming!

Venerable Xuanlei and Venerable Wuji looked at Wu Youdao with resentful eyes. Why did you have to jump out in such a hurry?

Their original plan was to wait until Venerable Wuji successfully crossed his tribulation, activate the grand formation, and seize the power of the state destiny.

Even though they followed the original plan, the outcome was still the Immortal Fairy borrowing the power of the state destiny to beat the three of them to a pulp.

Lu Yang then recounted the battle between Wu Youdao's faction and the Governor of Lu Province's faction, specifically mentioning Sect Master Lu, whose body had been possessed, and the white-paper-hatted man who came to help in the middle, suspected to be the Sect Master of the Jiuyou Sect.

"Possessed Sect Master Lu?" Eldest Senior Sister's eyes narrowed slightly, causing ripples to ripple through space. Venerable Wuji's soul trembled, as if targeted by an extremely terrifying existence from which he could not escape.

When Eldest Senior Sister had gone to the Corpse Driving Sect for academic exchange, it was primarily to consult Sect Master Lu on the art of corpse driving.

"Sect Master Lu's soul lamp has not gone out, so it seems they refrained from a complete possession out of consideration for that, but it is still unforgivable."

Eldest Senior Sister stepped forward and coldly pressed down on the top of Venerable Wuji's head. Venerable Wuji screamed in agony, a blood-curdling cry as if his three souls and seven po were being violently torn apart, his consciousness rapidly dissolving.

"Why have you all disappeared? Why can't I see you anymore?" Venerable Wuji's eyes went dark, and he stumbled forward with outstretched hands, unable to see a thing.

"Wuji, you..." Venerable Xuanlei started to speak but stopped, wanting to say that it wasn't that they had disappeared, but that he had lost his ability to perceive the outside world.

"Is anyone speaking? Louder, I can't hear you." Venerable Wuji lost his sense of hearing.

As Venerable Wuji's consciousness dissipated, his mouth opened and closed without being able to utter a word, and he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

His soul had been washed clean; from then on, the person known as Venerable Wuji no longer existed in this world.

"To be used as an artifact spirit." Eldest Senior Sister tossed Venerable Wuji aside and looked at the shivering Wu Youdao and Venerable Xuanlei.

A Tribulation Transcendence artifact spirit; even a Tribulation-grade Dharma treasure might not possess such a powerful spirit.

For a cultivator's soul to be refined into an artifact spirit, the severity of the fate was second only to complete annihilation of soul and spirit.

"If the two of you hide anything, you shall likewise be refined into artifact spirits."