NOVPUB"What do you have to use against the True Martial Holy Sect, with your Flying Immortal Body taken from you," Lin Yuqing said, "your realm has already fallen to the Condensing Vein Realm. Even if the Baili Family wants to help you, I’m afraid they lack the strength.
But I have a good idea, which you could consider."
"What idea?" Baili Xiao pondered for a while before asking.
"The True Martial Holy Sect is certainly untouchable, and the Sect of the Empress is naturally also my sect, and I still need to rely on the power of the Holy Sect," Lin Yuqing replied; "However, I can help you take care of that young man named Xu Zimei."
"What price must I pay?" Baili Xiao asked.
She knew there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
"Relax your mind and soul, let our Divine Souls completely merge, allowing me to fully awaken in advance and gain control of this body," Lin Yuqing said, "think it over for yourself. Even if you don’t agree, I will control this body one day anyway; it’s just a matter of sooner or later.
But by then, whether I will help you take revenge, well, that’s not certain."
Upon hearing Lin Yuqing’s words, Baili Xiao slightly raised her head, her gaze lifting toward the dense night above.
She fell into an endless silence.
She only remembered that the colors of that evening’s sky were thick and the evening breeze gently brushed through the cool pavilion in the courtyard.
She hadn’t expected things to evolve to this point; originally, all she wanted was to distinguish herself and then be with the person she admired.
The dark beasts roared silently around her, the thick night enveloping her whole being.
...…
In the Secret Realm, Xu Zimei finished learning about the Leaf of Life and then stored it away.
He looked at the deep pit where he now stood, a kilometer deep and wide.
The Tree of Life had once rooted itself here but one day decided to leave.
Before leaving, it merely left behind a single leaf, whose life essence proved even more potent than that of the Spring of Life, which ranked tenth on the list of world’s wonders.
"Kid, I’ve told you everything you wanted to know, now let me go," the aged voice from the Leaf of Life hastily said.
"When did I say I would let you go?" Xu Zimei shook his head, disregarding the loud pleas of the Leaf of Life, and placed it into his Storage Ring.
What truly moved Xu Zimei was the Tree of Life itself; although he did not know what kind of entity the Tree of Life was, the mere fact that a casually fallen leaf from it possessed consciousness.
How terrifying must the tree itself be.
With the support of the Leaf of Life gone, the entire Secret Realm began to shake and sway.
Loud rumbling sounds exploded all around, and the terrifying trees with human faces that surrounded him began to wither without the support of the Leaf of Life.
These trees had been living in this Secret Realm for far too long. With the Leaf of Life’s power to sustain them, they had also helped to ward off invaders coming here.
As the trees withered away, numerous cracks began to appear throughout the Secret Realm.
Finally, with a series of explosions following on one another’s heels, the Secret Realm shattered like glass.
Xu Zimei only felt a slight weightlessness, then as the Secret Realm was completely destroyed.
The aura of the Esteem Vein Realm surged around him, allowing him to tread through the air, and he flew out through the cracks that had formed in the Secret Realm.
Not long after he flew out, he saw the entire Secret Realm reduced to ruins.
...…
Outside the Secret Realm, the group of more than a dozen elders from the Bear Clan had been waiting nearby for some time.
At the moment, Xiao Guizi was being suppressed by them, their auras overwhelming as they watched Xu Zimei emerge from the Secret Realm.
Their auras merged into one and bore down toward Xu Zimei.
"What do you all mean by this?" Xu Zimei asked with interest.
"Hand over what you obtained in the Secret Realm, and we may spare your life," the elder at the forefront said loudly.
"What if I said I didn’t get anything?" Xu Zimei asked.
"Then hand over everything you have on you," the elder replied.
Xu Zimei chuckled lightly, picked up Tyranth Shadow and slashed down with it.
"A bunch of ants dare to rob me?"
Boundless thunderbolts descended from the Firmament, and the elder’s hands surged with Spiritual Energy, with the ethereal shadow of a bear faintly appearing on his body.
He caught the divine might of the thunderbolts in his hands, and at that moment, the brown bear roared in fury. Though the thunderbolts were blocked, the powerful impact of the blade’s momentum still sent the elder flying.
The elder’s body slammed heavily onto the ground, creating a small pit.
A roar of anger echoed from the pit, and then the elder emerged, disheveled, flying out of the pit.
His aura was powerful, and he looked up at Xu Zimei in the sky with a solemn gaze.
"This guy is probably not some Loose Cultivator; he must be a disciple trained by a major power."
Hearing the elder’s words, the dozen or so elders beside him frowned, and one of them snorted coldly, "In that case, we definitely cannot let him go."
"Don’t worry, no one is leaving today," Xu Zimei slowly raised Slaughter Blade, his figure shining like a streak of light as he charged down from the edge of the sky.
"I love nothing more than slaughtering geniuses. A genius who has yet to grow into his potential is nothing at all."
The dozen or so elders’ auras of the Esteem Vein Realm’s peak emerged, and the boundless space resounded with thunderous echoes.
Ethereal shadows of brown bears appeared on all the elders, their imposing auras mingling with the pale yellow Spiritual Energy surrounding them.
Xu Zimei laughed lightly and executed the first ten moves of the Nineteen Styles, slashing a blade from beneath the Firmament.
Great wind and clouds arose, and the Slaughter Blade swept across, enveloping the Firmament in a vast expanse of red blood qi, transforming the wind and clouds into a roaring dragon stretching across the sky.
The world was cleaved in two by a line, as the Deathly Curtain covered the blazing sun with a dense aura of death.
In that moment, with a single slash, three elders were instantly annihilated into a mist of blood.
The blood mist dissipated into thin air, and several other elders were also heavily injured, lying in pools of blood.
The earth was split open by a seemingly bottomless crack, within which the Sea of Blood boiled and thunderbolts flickered.
The Clan Leader of the Bear Clan watched this scene, dumbfounded.
His heart was thumping wildly, as if tens of thousands of Divine Beasts were galloping within him.
"Why, why is it that we’re all at the Esteem Vein Realm, yet you’re so outstanding?"
As the remaining elders lay injured or dead, the elder of the Bear Clan quickly snapped back to his senses.
He stepped forward, appearing directly in front of Xiao Guizi.
His hands surged with Spiritual Energy as he grabbed Xiao Guizi’s neck, trembling as he looked at Xu Zimei and said, "Let me go, and I’ll let him go. I don’t want anything else."
"I hate being threatened the most," Xu Zimei shook his head and walked step by step toward the elder.
"Xiao Guizi, pass on without worries; I will avenge you."
