NOVPUBWu Ninglu was surrounded by nothing but darkness, unable to find the source of the voice.
The voice, however, continued to laugh eerily, incessantly taunting her.
"Come out!" Wu Ninglu screamed madly.
The other party paid her no heed, instead, a series of images illuminated the pitch-black darkness.
Wu Ninglu looked on, her heart’s resentment intensifying.
It was the bustling scene of the Sun Family’s Qilin Child, Sun Tianci, being born with the Unity-Path, shaking the world, and all the major families of the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals sending envoys to celebrate.
This even included her own family, Yao Hall Chen Family, who, despite previously having a fallout with the Sun Family, still sent envoys with congratulations. Adhering to the adage not to strike a smiling face, they generously accepted the congratulatory gifts for the sake of just-born Sun Tianci.
As for Wu Ninglu, the mother of Sun Tianci who had mysteriously disappeared, she was completely disregarded.
...
"All this glory, all this praise, it should have been mine!"
The stark contrast between mother and son within these circumstances drove Wu Ninglu further into madness.
She wept and wailed, like the howling of ghosts and wolves.
At that moment, the voice finally spoke again.
"You…"
"Want to take revenge on them?"
Instinct urged Wu Ninglu to curse out loud, but the last remnants of her rationality made her slowly calm down.
She answered without hesitation, "I do! Elder, save me!"
"Hahaha!"
Laughter echoed from the darkness: "Your body, your divine soul have both vanished from this world, leaving only a trace of your divine sense. Even if you could be resurrected, how could you possibly stand against the Sun Family’s five Unity-Path cultivators?"
Wu Ninglu’s thoughts went blank at these words.
Indeed, setting aside her current state, even if she successfully consumed the Essence of Heaven and Earth to achieve Unity-Path, how could she alone be a match for the thriving, newly-risen Sun Family?
Wu Ninglu was filled with utter despair, but suddenly she thought of this senior who had saved her in front of three Unity-Path cultivators; surely, he wouldn’t just be toying with her for fun.
The reason he was still saying this…
Wu Ninglu suddenly came to her senses.
"I beg of you, Elder, teach me! Whether I succeed or fail, Ning Lu is willing to toil like an ox, serve as a maid, to attend to the Elder at all times!"
Wu Ninglu said through gritted teeth.
"Hmph, you’re barely clinging to life; do you think I need your willingness to control you?"
A powerful pressure enveloped Wu Ninglu, and amidst the terrifying suffocation, she felt her cautious divine sense on the verge of shattering at any moment.
As her thoughts grew weaker, despair filled Wu Ninglu’s heart.
Just then, for some reason, the sense of urgency by her side vanished into thin air.
"Luckily, you’re not completely foolish."
The voice, like a song from the heavens, rang out again by her ear.
At the same time, an extremely mystical text appeared in her spirit consciousness.
The Divine Law of Three Calamities and Hundreds of Tribulations.
With a single thought, myriad ghosts arise; a supreme mystical ability capable of making up for the numerical discrepancy of cultivators.
Wu Ninglu eagerly read each word as if starving for them.
"Sun Family, Sun Family…"
Under the terrifying obsession for revenge in her mind, the notion of a formidable Demon God wreathed in malevolent energy was slowly gestating.
Li Fan’s Split, lurking in the darkness, watching this transformation unfold, gave a slight nod.
Although the Saint from the Sun Family could be said to have been cultivated by his very own hands, it did not prevent him from creating a natural nemesis for them.
As for when this future fearsome fiend driven solely by the desire for vengeance would be unleashed, or even if it would be let out at all,
is still an unknown.
It was nothing more than a contingency he left at his whim.
"This world, all preparations have already been made. Now, all that’s left is to await the beginning of a good show."
"Judging by The Emperor’s personality and the current situation between the two sides, their first battle should not be too far off."
...
Three months later, the first showdown between the Holy Dynasty and the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals took to the stage in an unexpected manner.
The origin of the conflict was due to a sword light that came from Beyond the Heavens.
That day, golden light arched like a rainbow, illuminating the sky.
At the End of the Star Sea, below the High Wall, on the Merchant Immortal Boat, enduring Tribulation.
Within the seven-color rainbow light visible throughout the Xuanhuang World, sixteen characters shimmered brightly.
Seeming to be a peculiar form of message transmission, even attempts by some from the Immortal Alliance to dispel it were futile.
The rainbow light could only be left to drift quietly in the sky for seven days before slowly fading.
However, the tremors brought about by these sixteen characters were far from subsiding.
On the contrary, they seemed to be intensifying.
Roaring Abyss, Duan zhang Immortal City.
Shang Shaojun recalled these sixteen words, lost in thought.
"I knew he wasn’t dead. End of the Star Sea, below the High Wall…"
"Has he really gone that far?"
The carefree and unrestrained image of Saint Li Fan once again surfaced in Shang Shaojun’s mind, evoking a tinge of nostalgia and a faint sense of loss.
"Outside the Xuanhuang World."
"If I had forsaken everything back then and gone with him, what would our situation be like now?"
After being lost in thought for a long while, Shang Shaojun finally came back to his senses and began attending to serious matters.
He started sending messages to First Weaver, Ji Hongdao, and others.
"Have you seen the rainbow light in the sky these past few days? That is the White-Robed Sword Immortal I introduced to you before. You said I was exaggerating in my words, so what do you think now?"
After satisfying his urge to boast, Shang Shaojun then checked the quantity of Kongming Flow Crystal in his private treasure house.
Although the Immortal Alliance had long since banned its circulation, in reality, nearly every major family in the alliance secretly hoarded some.
