Chapter 496 Ruthless Old Loli
Roaring—
Dark clouds covered a thousand-mile yellow sand, silver snakes danced wildly, and gusts of wind blew.
Above Donghuang City Gate, Lei Wanjun, wrapped in silver lightning, stood at the forefront. Behind him were several sect masters from the Western Regions.
Everyone’s brows were furrowed, and their gazes were all fixed on the tragic state of the entire West District within Donghuang City, their hearts filled with confusion.
They could only tell that the Ghost Spirit Sect here had suffered a catastrophe one day ago.
However, they did not know who the perpetrator of this catastrophe was, nor what the cause and effect were.
Yue Xuanming, a general of the Xing Tian Division, scanned the surroundings before looking at Liang Zhu beside him:
“Liang Zhu, do you know anything?”
Liang Zhu looked at Yue Xuanming’s expression and knew that he was asking if his sixth brother was responsible. After a moment of silence, he shrugged and shook his head slightly:
“I haven’t heard him mention it.”
“…”
Yue Xuanming fell silent, but he quickly stopped thinking about it.
Regardless of who was responsible, it was a great boon to the Immortal Families.
They had originally been worried that the Ghost Spirit Sect would use Donghuang as a base and hold Donghuang by means of the Ghost Array. If they eventually took Donghuang, the price would inevitably be considerable.
But now, they might be able to take Donghuang without a fight.
Just as everyone was contemplating this matter, Lei Wanjun, at the forefront, had a flash of lightning in his eyes beneath his eyebrows, and he immediately raised his hand to signal.
Everyone then reacted, protecting themselves with spiritual energy and gripping their swords and spiritual artifacts, preparing to defend against the enemy.
Several streaks of blood-red light sped from the east of the city and suddenly stopped.
Kong Xiangmo led several Void Realm cultivators of the Ghost Spirit Sect, forming a line with Lei Wanjun and the others at the city wall as the dividing line, with each group on either side.
Kong Xiangmo’s face was filled with disdain as he looked directly at Lei Wanjun and the others outside the city, clearly believing that Lei Wanjun would not dare to fight him here.
There were still three Deity Transformation elders in the city, and Lei Wanjun and the few useless people behind him were not to be feared!
“Little Lei, it’s been a thousand years…”
Boom—
As soon as he spoke, a silver lightning bolt suddenly struck Kong Xiangmo, but it was blocked by a layer of bloody energy surrounding him.
“Kong, try calling me that again?”
“Heh, you’re just relying on others’ power.” Kong Xiangmo tilted his head and squinted, sneering, “That old hag Dan Yue isn’t here, where do you get the guts to shout at me here…”
Halfway through his sentence, a gust of cold wind suddenly swept in, instantly sealing Kong Xiangmo’s mouth.
The yellow sand, which had been covered by dark clouds, was suddenly suffused with a silver-white radiance. A full moon, as large as the entire sky, directly broke through the dark clouds above and revealed a corner of its icy moon.
Kong Xiangmo’s lips and teeth immediately began to tremble. His previous侥幸 was once again in vain.
The next moment, a duck-like voice came from above:
—”The old woman is here! The old woman is here!”
Lei Wanjun immediately looked up, only to see a golden-feathered parrot sweeping across the sky like a war eagle, then spreading its wings towards the clouds above.
The next moment, the tip of a floating mountain, as large as a small mountain, poked out from the clouds and slowly descended.
In the center of the floating mountain’s platform, there was a carpet woven from spiritual silk. At the end of the carpet was a huge screen, and in front of the screen, two jade chairs were placed.
Si Xuanji, dressed in a cyan and white immortal robe, was sitting on the larger jade chair with her legs crossed, her jade feet swaying lightly. Pei Lianxue and Qiu Shui Rou were seated on either side of her.
Xiao Yunluo sat on the other jade chair.
The two dragon horns on her forehead were adorned with crystals, and she was wearing a golden dragon robe, known as the “Dragon Girl.”
However, her expression was not as calm as Si Xuanji’s. She was very nervous now, completely unsure where to look.
To the side of Xiao Yunluo’s chair was a black fox.
Hu Mu was wearing a black robe, and although he had transformed into human form, he still had a fox’s head on his neck.
Xue Tianqiao, who was perched on Hu Mu’s shoulder, looked at the people around her and then at her master. She couldn’t help but compare him to Grandma Si. She poked Hu Mu’s face with her paw and said frankly:
“Master, you look so silly. Look how cool Grandma Si is.”
“…”
Hu Mu turned his head and glanced at her, then remained silent.
The floating stone slowly descended from the sky. It stopped descending when Si Xuanji and the others were at the same height as Kong Xiangmo, hovering at an altitude of a thousand feet.
Seeing that Si Xuanji had arrived, Lei Wanjun quickly brought Liang Zhu and the others to the platform of the floating stone and cupped his hands in greeting:
“Sect Master, that person is the Grand Elder of the Ghost Spirit Sect, Kong Xiangmo. He just cursed you as an old hag…”
“…”
Si Xuanji turned her head and glanced at Lei Wanjun beside her, a hint of disgust appearing on her face. She felt that Lei Wanjun was trying to seize the opportunity to call her an “old hag.”
She would settle the score later.
She shifted her gaze back to Kong Xiangmo, her Yin-yang eyes narrowing slightly.
With just one glance, Kong Xiangmo almost lost control and fell from mid-air. He gritted his teeth slightly and couldn’t help but glance at Xiao Yunluo and the black fox beside her.
—Judging by their spiritual might, this black fox was likely the Demon Emperor…
—And who was that girl beside him? Dragon horns?
Kong Xiangmo trembled. He suddenly saw Si Xuanji, who was sitting on the chair, slightly raise her right hand in a palm gesture.
Seeing that Si Xuanji was about to make a move, Kong Xiangmo immediately took a deep breath, condensed all his killing aura onto his palm, and then spun around violently, unleashing a bloody crescent moon behind him.
Swish—
He and the seven Ghost Spirit Sect Nascent Soul cultivators who had come with him were instantly split into two halves, their heads and Nascent Souls severed by Kong Xiangmo’s killing aura.
Rain of blood fell heavily onto the stunned faces of the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples above the city gate tower.
Kong Xiangmo gritted his teeth and took a deep breath, then quickly used spiritual power to hold up the heads of the seven people. He leaped over the city gate and landed directly on the floating stone platform, kneeling on one knee to present the heads of the seven Ghost Spirit Sect elders before him, cupping his hands in apology:
“Junior greets Immortal Dan Yue!!”
?
Lei Wanjun and the sect masters of several Western Regions beside him looked utterly astonished, as if they had seen the sun rise from the west.
Si Xuanji frowned slightly, then lowered her raised right hand and rested it on her cheek. She asked in a cold voice:
“What is the meaning of this?”
Kong Xiangmo gritted his teeth slightly, calmly raised his eyes to glance at Si Xuanji’s somewhat youthful face, and after carefully considering his words, replied:
“Junior assisted Young Master Liang in breaking through Donghuang’s Ghost Array previously, and has been waiting for Immortal to arrive at Donghuang…”
“…”
As soon as he said this, everyone present, except for Si Xuanji and Qiu Shui Rou, turned pale. Lei Wanjun looked at Kong Xiangmo with a look of utter disgust.
At this moment, they all doubted if this person was really the Grand Elder of the Ghost Spirit Sect.
The Grand Elder of a major sect was bound to be a person of outstanding merit and fully trusted by the Sect Master.
When Lei Wanjun was in the Foundation Establishment Stage, he had already followed Si Xuanji on expeditions to the west and east. If he were ever captured by demonic cultivators, he would never become a traitor.
Lei Wanjun couldn’t help but step forward, stroke his beard, and ask:
“Kong, you are a late-stage Deity Transformation cultivator… Tsk, tsk…”
“…”
Kong Xiangmo gritted his teeth. Naturally, he was not a pushover, and he felt very uncomfortable hearing this. However, he also knew that it was a fool’s dream for him to defend Donghuang now.
He didn’t even have a sliver of hope left.
He was able to become the Grand Elder of the Ghost Spirit Sect by relying on his “thirty years of patience.”
But now, his son Kong Huayuan’s crime of “connecting to the immortal” was almost a foregone conclusion.
In that case, it was better for him, the father, to go with the flow and defect to the immortal cultivators. Perhaps Immortal Dan Yue would spare his life.
After all, escaping back to the Ghost Spirit Sect after losing Donghuang meant death, and fighting the immortal cultivators of the Western Regions would also mean death…
He had cultivated for so many years to reach the late Deity Transformation stage, and he was unwilling to end it here.
As for his reputation, was it more important than living?
He was now in the late Deity Transformation stage, and breaking through to the Void Realm was not impossible. After another hundred or even several hundred years, when he became a Void Realm cultivator, those infamies would naturally disappear.
Before Dan Yue broke through to the Void Realm, all the immortal cultivators cursed her for being petty.
But after she broke through to the Void Realm, who dared to curse her?
“Defect to Ji!! Defect to Ji!!”
Ah Ying’s voice broke the silence.
Si Xuanji glanced at it, pouted, tilted her head, and propped her cheek, switching her legs. She asked:
“Who is Young Master Liang?”
“…”
Upon hearing this question, Kong Xiangmo was stunned. Didn’t that “Liang Liu” come from Dan Yue? He had the Nine Dragon Heavenly Seal.
“Young Master Liang did not tell me his name. I only know the names ‘Liang Xiaoliu’ and ‘Liang Liu’.”
Hearing Kong Xiangmo say this, Lei Wanjun and the other sect masters nearby almost simultaneously turned their heads to look at Liang Zhu, who was standing in the corner.
Liang Zhu suddenly panicked inexplicably, but his expression remained as calm as ever.
My Liang family is truly impressive…
Tsk, that old sixth…
Upon hearing this, Si Xuanji’s eyes lit up with a smile. She turned to Qiu Shui Rou and asked:
“Shui Rou, is there a cultivator named Liang Liu in the Western Regions?”
However, before Qiu Shui Rou could reply, Pei Lianxue on the other side, with a pouting expression, looked at Si Xuanji as if she were an idiot and mumbled softly:
“Isn’t that my senior brother? I know him.”
“…”
Si Xuanji was silent for a moment, then reached out and grabbed Pei Lianxue’s face. However, even though Pei Lianxue’s face was distorted, she did not cry out in pain. Instead, she looked somewhat wronged, not understanding why Si Xuanji was pulling her face.
Seeing her dull look, Si Xuanji shook her head and looked back at Kong Xiangmo, asking:
“Where is Liang Liu now?”
Kong Xiangmo hesitated for a moment and replied:
“Young Master Liang… has already gone to the Eastern Domain.”
“…What a pity.” Si Xuanji’s gaze swept over the sect masters of the Western Regions behind Lei Wanjun. “How come I, this Venerable, am not aware that the Immortal Families have such bold disciples? Do any of you sect masters know this Liang Liu…”
As she spoke, Si Xuanji’s gaze fell on Liang Zhu, causing Liang Zhu to stiffen behind his back.
Liang Zhu knew that his sixth brother had a marriage contract with Xiao Yunluo, and by extension, was a son-in-law of Immortal Dan Yue. With this connection, he understood the meaning of her gaze.
It was nothing more than wanting to give his sixth brother some merit.
Liang Zhu was silent for a moment, then quickly walked out from the corner and cupped his hands in a bow:
“Reporting to the Immortal, it should be my sworn sixth brother, the Young Master of the Hundred Lotus Sect, Ye Anping. Liang Liu and Liang Xiaoliu are aliases he often uses.”
“So that’s how it is…” Si Xuanji feigned surprise. “No wonder… so it’s Young Master Ye. It’s not surprising after all. However, for him to be able to break through Donghuang City alone is indeed beyond my expectation. Yunluo, your fiancé is truly amazing…”
?
Xiao Yunluo, sitting on the chair beside her, was stunned for a moment. She felt that the “amazing” in Si Xuanji’s words had a double meaning.
But at this occasion, she couldn’t say anything, so she could only nod and reply:
“Master, you flatter me…”
“Hmph…” Si Xuanji squinted and smiled, saying, “Rewards and punishments should not be the same. This merit must be rewarded…”
These words were directed at the sect masters of the various sects in the Western Regions behind Lei Wanjun.
Ye Anping used to leave after his deeds were done, hiding his merits and fame. Ordinary people did not know what he had done in secret.
Now that Ye Anping was her cultivation partner, how could he not have a title?
However, she had indeed not expected that Ye Anping could make Kong Xiangmo surrender without a fight…
Her Yin-yang eyes slowly fell back to Kong Xiangmo’s bowed head. Si Xuanji pondered for a moment and said with a smile:
“That ghost-named fellow’s judgment is still as poor as it was a thousand years ago. Can someone like you be an elder of a sect?”
“…”
“Even worse than that kid Lei.”
?
Lei Wanjun blinked his eyes, but seeing Si Xuanji looking at him, he said nothing and pretended not to have heard.
Si Xuanji paused, looked at the situation in Donghuang City, and then reached out and grabbed Ah Ying, who was standing on a birdcage beside her. She asked again:
“You said Young Master Liang broke through the great formation here.”
“Yes.” Kong Xiangmo’s cheeks flushed slightly, and he deliberately emphasized: “Junior did assist Young Master Liang in breaking through…”
As Si Xuanji’s fingers tightened slightly, Ah Ying, who was in her hand, flicked its tongue and interrupted:
“Nonsense!! Nonsense!!”
Kong Xiangmo was stunned.
Si Xuanji squinted and said, “See? Even the parrot says so.”
Saying this, Si Xuanji’s small hand, which was propping her cheek, casually extended. A silver-white spiritual light appeared in her palm. Seeing that Si Xuanji still intended to silence him, Kong Xiangmo had no more thoughts of resisting.
“Immortal Dan Yue!! Wait…”
Whoosh—
Boom—!
A golden spiritual light burst forth from the palm of the young, tender hand, piercing Kong Xiangmo’s chest in an instant. It then directly broke through Donghuang’s west city gate, stirring up debris and sand, leaving a nearly hundred-zhang-wide gully on Donghuang’s street.
Si Xuanji waved her hand, pushing the moon in the sky back to its original position, and called out:
“Lei Wanjun.”
Lei Wanjun stepped forward and cupped his hands: “Your disciple is here…”
Si Xuanji slowly closed her eyes and issued a cold order in a clear, childish voice:
“Convey the order to the disciples of all sects: Slaughter the city.”
“Yes!”
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