Chapter 1065: Three Sacred Palaces (1/2)

“Why are there four from the sacred clan by his side? … we should've killed him when we had the chance!” Huo Shentong dearly wanted to slap himself across the face. If he'd known the truth of the situation, he would've taken care of Jin Gushen at first light. He hadn’t thought that there’d be four sacred palace disciples by the genius’ side, and that they’d come from three different sacred palaces!

It would be one thing if they all came from the same palace—Huo Shentong wouldn't think much of them then. Unfortunately, three sacred palaces were represented by the four of them. Ethos Palace would never offend three other peers for a mere Huo Shentong.

He’d already seen an emblematic display of their power; ignorance was no longer a plausible defense if he continued to make a move. Inception, Burgeon, and Creation Palaces would never let him off the hook for it.

Though he possessed a soul lamp within Ethos Palace, the faction would surely hand it over if three sacred palaces came knocking. The dignity of one sacred palace was not to be defiled. Offending three at once was worse than courting death.

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“Long time no see, Huo Shentong.” Leng Xian scanned the scene with her frosty beauty. She hadn’t released the power of creation on her, but she also took a step forward at this time.

“Junior sister Leng Xian!” Though Huo Shentong was an eternal overlord and had reached the level of a sacred land prime, he still had to bow his head when facing a creator of the sacred clan.

His eyes began to shift around. Leng Xian enjoyed an uncommon status within the Creation Palace and was one of the monarch’s most favored disciples. Though she was only a creator for now, her potential was extraordinary.

Even Creation Palace’s most notable treasure had been bestowed to Leng Xian for use in self defense.

“Is there anything else?” Leng Xian asked coolly as she stood firmly in front of Ying Luo.

“No, nothing else…” Cold sweat beaded the foreheads of Huo Shentong and the three other eternal overlords.

“Then get out of here,” Leng Xian concluded with some impatience.

“Y-yes…” Even with all the borrowed courage in the world, Huo Shentong didn’t dare make a move against Leng Xian in broad daylight. There was no way to kill the woman; the moment she resurrected from the soul lamp was the moment of doom for the fire origin land.

Besides, there was also Wang Shu here!

As the son of the Burgeon monarch, he was infinitely more important than Leng Xian. Huo Shentong might have a chance of emerging alive if he offended Leng Xian, but if he accidentally irritated Wang Shu… that was the precursor to utter annihilation.

Thus, Huo Shentong led the others from the fire origin land in a quick, sheepish retreat.

Utter annihilation was no hyperbole. Experts of the water elemental land once killed an Inception creator when they fought over a treasure. When that disciple revived from their soul lamp, three sovereigns departed from the palace and razed the water elemental land to the ground. It’d been rebuilt only with the help of the other four elemental lands and was still the weakest among its brethren.

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Jin Gushen relaxed when he saw Huo Shentong leave with his men. He was stronger than Huo Shentong, but just barely. There was a sacred palace behind Huo Shentong and another three eternal overlords as bodyguards. If it came down to a fight, Jin Gushen would also be heavily injured, if not outright dead.

In a place rife with dangers like the Tomb of Heaven and Earth, to be gravely injured was the same as being dead.

“We saved you this time.” Lu Yun retracted his power and bumped Jin Gushen’s shoulder with his. The latter looked dubiously at Lu Yun. He’d clearly felt the purest power of inception from Lu Yun just now!

What was labeled the power of inception was a strength derived from the six laws of highest order in the chaos. The sacred clan was who they were because they could control these orders. If an ordinary chaos creature ascended to sovereign realm, they still wouldn’t be a sacred clan member if they didn't grasp one of the orders.