Chapter 158: Drawing The Sword (2/2)

“for the qing clan to go this far, there must be someone pulling the strings. however, it’s not appropriate for us to meddle in nephrite major’s affairs.” next to the youth sovereigns, four peerless immortals gently shook their heads and held the young men in check. they were bodyguards assigned by their four respective factions to the young geniuses.

talent needed to weather hardships and adversity before it could grow, but it also needed to be guided and protected. although they were reluctant, wu tulong and the other three couldn’t provide any assistance to their peer.

……

after exiting the side room, lu yun looked up peacefully and observed the qing immortals.

“bullying?” the leading old man shook his head. “you’re too insignificant for me to bully you in person. you take my clan’s immortal sword and accept my clan’s resources, but help outsiders in the end. giving away a prize already within grasp? you shame our patronization of you.”

“you’ve hurt qing han.” lu yun’s figure trembled slightly; he could feel qing han’s present pain. although empress myrtlestar was doing her utmost to provide intensive therapy and keep his friend alive, she couldn’t dull the pain of being corroded by a thousand poisons.

a myriad of poisons were eating away at qing han. not only did the longstanding rimesnake poison plague him, but so did the poison fiend’s various toxins torment his body.

it was an agony worse than death.

lu yun could feel a blade twisting in his heart; remorse, self-blame, and boundless rage gave way to tranquility.

“qing han?” the dao immortal blinked, then smiled. “is he going to die?”

lu yun stayed silent.

“that vile spawn, harbinger of misfortune, utter pestilence…. if it weren’t for qing buyi and chen xiao shielding him, those two animals, i would’ve extinguished him long ago.” the old man smirked coldly.

lu yun lowered his gaze, black flames now alight inside his eyes. yuying, feinie, xuanxi, and aoxue were grievously wounded. they lay on the ground, unable to move, while yueshen and her nine bloodcorpse copies were extremely dim.

the big bell in the old man’s hand was oppressively powerful. a single attack from its fearsome toll had inflicted heavy injuries on all five women. even feinie’s formations had been unable to withstand its might.

“this seat demands you retract what you said in the public eye. only someone from the qing clan is entitled to the ancient lord’s legacy,” the old man continued.

“hahahahaha,” lu yun suddenly threw his head back in laughter. surrounded by a misty violet radiance, his figure slowly rose in the air. violetgrave appeared in his hand, the tip leveled at the dao immortal.

dumbfounded, the crowd gaped at the young governor. even his fellow youth sovereigns found it inconceivable that lu yun would point his weapon at a dao immortal. although the old man’s cultivation had been sealed to a mere august immortal, he was still a dao immortal through and through!

true, wu tulong had once defeated one such immortal, but that was one that’d just broken through, and they were inside an eerie ancient tomb at the time. in that tomb, the dao immortal’s strength, realm, cultivation, immortal force, and spirit had all been suppressed. he’d even been deprived of his dao fruit, devolving to the level of an ordinary cultivator. wu tulong wouldn’t have been able to overcome him otherwise.

in comparison, the one in front of them was an established dao immortal with a long-standing reputation, one of the qing clan’s venerated elders. while he’d sealed himself to the august immortal realm for his visit to dusk province, his true strength was a hundred times above that of a zhao tiefeng or a lü biao. he was a figure the likes of which none of them could ever hope to touch.

a dao immortal was an omnipotent existence who’d plucked a dao fruit, obtained the acknowledgment of the heavens, merged their breathing with the world, and ascended to the universe.

yet lu yun was drawing his sword against such a figure! did he truly think that simply being named a youth sovereign by the celestial emperors had made him a supreme existence? he must actually be crazy.

“violetgrave belongs to my clan. to point the qing clan’s sword at qing’s dao immortal is pure insubordination.” the old man’s anger was fully roused at seeing violetgrave’s point facing him. despite his sealed cultivation, he was still one of the immortal world’s greatest existences.