204 What a Pity! (1/2)
”Ah, it's no wonder that I felt something was amiss previously... Senior Zhong Ya from the Xuanyin Sect, as a Golden Essence adept, was floating in the air without a golden halo surrounding him. I guess it's because he has already crossed over into the Dharma stage.”
A senior from the Thousand-Year Sect sighed and said, ”The Dharma stage allows one to go back to the basics. Those who have crossed over will have an inner Yuan that is invisible.”
”Dharma... I guess this means that our powerful supreme sect of Ziyun now has our third Dharma adept...”
At this point, other than the wild happiness that was displayed on the Xuanyin Sect member's faces, other attendees from the other big sects had on more complex and troubled expressions.
The powerful supreme sect of Ziyun's third Dharma adept was a member of the Xuanyin Sect... Of course, those of other sects would have preferred a different outcome.
In the past, the first Dharma adept of the powerful supreme sect of Ziyun was someone from the Tianwu Sect... During that period, the Dharma adept of the Tianwu Sect had wanted to extinguish all the other sects and unify them all under Tianwu before he left the powerful supreme sect of Ziyun.
As the only individual who had crossed over to the Dharma stage in Ziyun, that Dharma adept from the Tianwu Sect had been invincible and was able to do as he pleased.
However, in the end, the other sects had all joined forces and worked together to force the Tianwu Sect to surrender their weapons as they refused to be defeated that easily.
That day, the sects had made a stern announcement: If the Dharma adept of the Tianwu Sect dared to take action against them again, the Primal Core adepts of the other big sects would all isolate the area, leave the powerful supreme sect of Ziyun, vanish into the skies before one day coming back stronger, unleashing revenge on all the Tianwu elders and disciples.
What did it matter if only the Tianwu Sect had a Dharma adept?
He was still unable to protect every single elder and disciple in the Tianwu Sect if every other big sect worked together against him.
They would kill all his sect members!
With this joint determination by the other big sects, the Dharma adept then gave up on the idea of unifying the powerful supreme sect of Ziyun under the Tianwu Sect's name. Furthermore, the Dharma adept of the Tianwu Sect had been determined to leave the powerful supreme sect of Ziyun. Naturally, he would not have wanted to leave the Tianwu Sect in a troubled state.
Afterwards, when the Divine Light Sect produced the second Dharma adept of the powerful supreme sect of Ziyun, although the other sects were slightly fearful, they no longer flew into a panic.
”Go!”
”Go!”
...
The Golden Essence adepts of the Divine Light Sect, Thousand-Year Sect, Tianwu Sect and Xuesha sect all flew up into the sky from where the masses were sitting and flew towards different directions at an extremely fast speed.
This leave taken by all the Golden Essence adepts of the different sects was due to their fear that they would all be defeated together by the Xuanyin Sect's elder, Zhong Ya, who had already crossed over to the Dharma stage.
Furthermore, they had an obligation to return back to their sects to spread the word that Zhong Ya had crossed over to the Dharma stage. They also had to make preparations to defend against Zhong Ya as they had the constant worry that he would attack their respective sects and extinguish them in the future.
The other members of the four big sects, under the direction of their head elders, stayed to watch this spectacle.
Since all the Golden Essence adepts had left to make their own preparations, even though Zhong Ya had crossed to the Dharma stage, he still had to be aware and would not easily attack the other sects.
The scene of the Golden Essence adepts of the other four sects leaving of course did not go unnoticed by Zhong Ya. Not only so, but he also understood their intentions on making a quick escape. However, he did not bother to attempt to stop them.
If he did so, he possibly could prevent all the Golden Essence adepts from leaving and destroy them.
Yet, if he chose to focus on them, the youth dressed in white would definitely have an opportunity to escape then.
Once this youth escaped, it was highly possible that it would signal the future destruction of the Xuanyin Sect!
Three years.
The youth standing before him, who was as tiny as an ant in his eyes and was originally an early Connate adept, had not only crossed over into the late Primal Core stage and become a Silver Essence adept but also now possessed the power to kill the Golden Essence adept of the Xuanyin Sect, Qi Ming!
The existence of this youth was too dangerous and threatening to the existence of the Xuanyin Sect.
Zhong Ya could thus only stare emptily as the Golden Essence adepts of the other big sects left and disappeared into the distance.
”Is that... Dharma?”
At the same time, a group of people, who were shocked into a daze by the presence of Dharma on Zhong Ya's body, regained their senses and shocked expressions flitted across their faces.
A Dharma adept.
To them, such people only existed in legends and folk stories.
Yet today, they had personally witnessed the existence of a Dharma adept right before their very eyes.
”It's simply unexpected that this time's Feast of Ziyun encapsulated so many surprise events... First, a young man appeared out of nowhere and managed to kill the eight biggest Primal Core adepts of the Xuanyin Sect, including their Golden Essence adept, Qi Ming, within two breaths' time... Afterwards, the Xuanyin Sect's Distinguished Elder, Qi Ming, had appeared in person and revealed that he had crossed over to the Dharma stage.”
”The Golden Essence adepts of the other four sects have all taken the opportunity to run... Clearly, they are also worried that Elder Qi Ming, who is now a Dharma adept, would take action against them...”
”Well, the unlucky one here is no longer Elder Qi Ming but the youth. He probably did not even dream that Elder Qi Ming could have crossed over to the Dharma stage.”
”Based on Elder Qi Ming's words, it is highly likely that he crossed over to the Dharma stage only two days ago.”
...
The onlookers all stared anxiously at Zhong Ya with flushed and intense looks on their faces.
A Dharma adept.
if this was the past, they would not even have dared to dream of meeting a Dharma adept in person!
Being able to witness this sight gave them bragging rights. No, it gave even their next generations bragging rights... To think, they had met a Dharma adept!