Chapter 146 – Sect Leader Gathering

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“Spit it out!” Gu Suihan spun around and narrowed his eyes as he looked indifferently at the gigantic illusion of a demon.

ROARRR! The illusion roared loudly, glaring hatefully at the tiny human before it like it was sentient.
Countless vengeful ghosts continued to fly about, cutting through the illusion repeatedly and letting out ear-piercing shrieks.

“Trash will always be nothing but trash.
If I were you, I would just shrink back and just keep meditating while finding a chance to make a sneak attack.
Perhaps I could get a small chance to take revenge.” Gu Suihan looked at the innumerable vengeful souls that made up the illusion with contempt.
He smiled frostily, revealing his pearly whites.
They looked especially sinister in the moonlight.
“Don’t you know? The bird that flies first is also always the one who gets shot first?”

Thunder resounded and threatened to bring the sky down.
The indignant living creatures whom Gu Suihan had slaughtered turned into negative karmic energy that surrounded him and seemed large enough to cover the sky.

They roared angrily and howled miserably as they fought to pounce on Gu Suihan.
Some of them had nasty expressions, some had twisted faces and some were filled with hatred, but one thing they had in common was the murderous look in their eyes.

Their vacant stare was filled with the deep hatred their owners had toward Gu Suihan.
Their instinct was to combine the pathetic and frail little will they had to become a wave of ghosts and take revenge on the man who killed them.

“How foolish!” chuckled Gu Suihan.
His voice was tinged with disdain, his gaze lofty as though they were mere ants.
It made the Huangquan Evil Ghost that wasn’t hiding too far away from all of this shudder in terror.

“He’s…he’s a demon! A demon left behind from ancient days!”

The Huangquan Evil Ghost felt like it was going mad.
This young man seemed as gentle as a lady, yet operated so decisively and viciously.
Initially, the ghost had assumed that Gu Suihan knew some cultivation technique that could create such pure, concentrated and violent murderous qi.

To its horror, Gu Suihan was so powerful that he could swallow up the murderous qi and create a sentience that nearly turned him into a murderous spirit.

Over all these years, the ghost had seen countless cultivators, whether they were humans, demons, or even those legendary immortals.
It had seen them all.
But it had never seen a cultivator with so much fiendish qi that Gu Suihan nearly turned into a spirit.

“Perhaps…there is one.” The ghost’s expression became twisted as it suddenly remembered that tyrant who had conquered hundreds of worlds and killed anyone who did not obey him.

“How…how could you be human? You’re all demons.
You’re the real demons!”

The ghost curled itself up among the ruins and clutched its head in pain.

“All the dark, murderous qi in the air shall gather around my body! The countless laws of nature shall do nothing else but massacre! Everything can be broken! Everything can be slaughtered! I shall kill all of you! All of you! Anyone who stands in my way shall die!”

Gu Suihan took a step forward.
His spiritual sense was as vast as the sea as it spread outwards.
Countless laws of the Way intersected each other within his spirit.
Mysterious runes began to flicker.
Light shot out from his eyes and seemed to reach the sky.
It sounded like thousands of boddhisatva crying out and thousands of souls howling in the distance.
It was as though the stars had exploded, the clouds had disappeared and a deep, endless space was spinning within his eyes.

In that instant, a bolt of lightning speared.
His eyes shot out all sorts of runes that swirled and weaved themselves into a beautiful, eye-catching red spider lily.

The petals were soft and swayed in the wind, but they continued to give off the aura of an overlord and it was impossible to look at the flower directly.
The runes continued to swirl and a redness filled the air.
For that moment, it felt as though this flower was the only thing that existed in the world.

“Gather the fiendish qi! Refine it! You shall have no choice but to hibernate again.”

Gu Suihan’s waist-length black hair flew and his robes flapped loudly even though there was no wind.
His messy hair parted to reveal his deathly pale face and the resolute look in his bright eyes that seemed like immovable rocks.

The ghosts of the residents of the capital city that had been killed turned into a powerful karmic energy.
It was as though the apocalypse had begun.
The bloodied, violently swirling clouds enveloped Gu Suihan.
The ghosts sometimes stretched their claws out and they screeched and shrieked in anger.
It was a terrifying sight to behold.

“Now…be quiet!!” The redness of the spider lily darkened as though it now had access to the nether world.
It carried an invincible sealing power that glowed brightly like a branding iron, which stuck itself firmly onto the bloodied cloud that continued to swirl.

“You will die a horrible death!”

“You will be eaten by thousands of ghosts!”

“Curse you! Curse you!”

The howls of the king of Qingguo just before he died continued to ring in Gu Suihan’s ears.

The hatred, fury, and resentfulness of his last words could not be washed away even if you scrubbed them in the deepest of waters.

“I will die, but not in the hands of trash like you,” murmured Gu Suihan quietly as he watched the murderous qi in the sky attempt to escape the seal he had created.
His deadened gaze seemed to reflect the stars.

A few moments later, the frightening scenes that could make one shudder in fear slowly dissipated.
The red spider lily that had sealed up that incredible amount of fiendish and murderous qi was now embedded in the area between Gu Suihan’s brows, giving his perfect and delicate features a different sort of charm.

“Let me see what’s happened to the world of cultivators!”

Gu Suihan held up the golden soul with the twisted angry face of the king of Qingguo on it and swallowed it with a smile.

Meanwhile, inside a majestic, surreal building high above the clouds.

Seven cultivators had nasty looks on their faces as they stared at the broken pieces on the table.
They exchanged glances and didn’t say anything for a long time.

Finally, a cultivator in elegant clothing who had many wrinkles on his face broke the silence.
“They’re all dead!”

A cultivator wearing the uniform of the Vast Sky Sect immediately responded, “He’s still alive.”

“We’ve suffered terrible losses this time.” A vicious-looking man with muscles like a ferocious beast from the War Demon Sect clutched his forehead in pain.

The sect leader of the Falling Star Sect was a middle-aged woman with snow-white skin, pretty eyes, well-combed hair, and dressed in royal robes.
She rolled her eyes at the man from the War Demon Sect and said, “Never mind the dead now.
We’d better think about how to deal with that wily old fox, You Hantian.”

“How to deal with him?” The vicious-looking man from the War Demon Sect stood up with a start and said through clenched teeth, “If he hadn’t given us the wrong information, we would have joined hands and killed him by now.
We wouldn’t be in this state now.”

“Kill him? You know very well that the great Qingming was a powerful cultivator at Divine Soul.
His level of cultivation was so high that even if he were to fall into a deep sleep from severe injuries, we wouldn’t have been able to kill him either,” said the sect leader of the Vast Sky Sect, an elegant middle-aged cultivator.
He snorted and stared disdainfully at the sect leader of the War Demon Sect.

The sect leader of the Ethereal Court had so many wrinkles on his face, he looked like an elderly farmer.
He said slowly, “Li Yunjian is right.
We’re supposed to be the most powerful seven sects, but only the Seven Kill Sect has two cultivators at Nascent Change.
My sect only has one elder at Nascent Change who’s still meditating in isolation.
Us sect leaders are only at Half Step to Nascent Change.”

“If we were to take that one more step, heaven and earth will be in turmoil and we would suffer great tribulations.
It’s not easy to step into the Nascent Change stage at all,” said the sect leader of the Ethereal Court, his voice filled with hesitation and bitterness.

The sect leader of the Yin Principle Sect was a middle-aged woman with a gorgeous face, watery eyes, and a charming aura.
She had a saddened look on her face as she said, “We intended to destroy the great Qingming and use this achievement to force the Seven Kill Sect back to the Upper World.
We didn’t foresee that so many problems would occur.”

The sect leader of the Youthful Clarity Sect had a perplexed look on his face as he said, “That person…is busy conquering other worlds and unifying thousands of other worlds, so…he wouldn’t have the time to pay us any attention, right?” His voice was uncertain and he didn’t seem confident in what he was saying at all.

“We should think about how to convince You Hantian, or think of a way to make sure he doesn’t report to the Upper World.” The Ethereal Court sect leader looked clearly upset.

Li Yunjian from the Vast Sky Sect said in a low voice, “That’s easier said than done.
To be fair, we schemed against him first.
And now, both sides have suffered damages.
Of course, he would be indignant.”

“You must understand that his mission was to guard and keep the Devil Abyss under control in the first place.
Watching over us was just something out of convenience.” The Yin Principle sect leader fluttered her lashes as she said thoughtfully, “Nearly all of his Peak Leaders have suffered severe injuries.
And it’s almost time to seal the Devil Abyss again, isn’t it?”

“Are you saying…you want to help him to seal the Devil Abyss and use that to shut his mouth?” asked the Ethereal Court sect leader puzzledly as he considered this option.

“That’s right.”

“That’s right, my ass! Did you think that old fogey was that easy to appease? This is a good chance for him to take a big bite out of us! That’s the You Hantian we know!” yelled the War Demon sect leader angrily as he disagreed immediately.

“You’re just too proud to do it,” scoffed Li Yunjian in a mocking voice.
“If he reports this, none of us will get away.
I’m sure you know what happened to the Underworld Sect back then.”

Everyone’s faces paled and their bodies trembled slightly at these words.
They exchanged glances but did not say a word.

After some time, the Ethereal Court sect leader spoke up, “Tell you what.
Let’s all go together.
It doesn’t matter what price we have to pay.
We must dispel his intentions to report this to the Upper World.”

“It doesn’t matter what price we have to pay?”

“That’s right.”

They looked at one another and saw the defeat and bitterness in each other’s gazes as they fell silent again.