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Chapter 196
After a great battle, the Sect Master’s hall was destroyed.
With the absolute power of Xiao Ting and the cooperation of the Jiuyan Sect members, Luo Wu and the people from the Ghost Controlling Sect were beaten black and blue, their cultivation sealed.
Afterward, the sect’s prison housed ten ‘family’ members who had come to visit.
After Jiang Chen got his wish and received his ill-gotten gains, he happily returned to Ninth Peak with Lin Mubai.
……
The twelve Supreme Elders gathered in the sect’s prison.
The situation had blown up!
Originally, their goal was to infiltrate the demonic path through a marriage alliance, but the plan hadn’t even started before it was dead in the water.
Not only did they murder and plunder, but they also tied up the other party’s people…
With this, let alone infiltrating the enemy’s ranks, they would be lucky if the enemy didn’t come after them with a vengeance.“Why do I feel that if this gets out, it will be a devastating blow to our sect’s reputation?”
“Not just a devastating blow, by then our sect will have nothing to do with ‘reputation’ anymore!”
“What about killing them to silence them?”
“That’s not right. These people have soul lamps in the Ghost Sect, if we kill them, the Ghost Controlling Sect will surely notice it.”
“This matter cannot be hidden. Even if we wanted to, the Ghost Controlling Sect would definitely spread the word everywhere!”
“So, is our sect’s reputation doomed?”
“Does the Old Ancestor give any instruction?”
“The Old Ancestor said that reputation is of little use, the innocent are naturally clear of guilt.”
“The Old Ancestor really sees through it clearly. After all, our Jiuyan Sect’s current reputation isn’t that great to begin with, so it won’t make much difference if it gets worse.”
The Supreme Elders discussed among themselves.
The conclusion they reached was: Just let it be.
The innocent are naturally clear of guilt, and one day other sects will surely understand that Jiuyan Sect is righteous!
“So, what should we do with these people? Send them back?” asked a Supreme Elder.
“How can we do that?” Xiao Ting decisively rejected the idea.
“These are hostages. I will have someone send a message to the Ghost Controlling Sect, demanding the Nine Abyss Soul Embryo in exchange!”
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“What a brilliant plan. This way, we can avoid a direct confrontation and acquire the Nine Abyss Soul Embryo. It’s like killing two birds with one stone!” another Supreme Elder agreed enthusiastically.
Xiao Ting was also very satisfied with his strategy.
As for the person to send the message, they had to be chosen carefully.
Because it was very easy to lose one’s life.
Soon, the Jiuyan Sect’s mission hall listed a new task labeled ‘Deliver a Message’.
The Jiuyan Sect’s missions were categorized by difficulty.
From high to low, they were: A, B, C, D, and E, each with upper, middle, and lower tiers.
This message delivery task was rated A-level.
Normally, an A-level task would require at least an upper four realms cultivation, but this message delivery task was special, with no cultivation limit, just confidence was needed. 𝔯
The reason was simple.
If the Old Ancestor of the Ghost Controlling Sect really intended to kill, even an ordinary upper four realms cultivator would die.
Even if Xiao Ting went personally, there was still a chance he wouldn’t return!
The disciples of the Jiuyan Sect, although unaware of the danger, knew that an A-level task was extremely difficult.
Thus, the task hung in the mission hall for more than a month, with no one daring to take it.
Until one day, a man in black arrived, glanced at the task, accepted it, and left the sect that very day.
“Jiang Chen still cares about the sect in his heart…” Xiao Ting and the other high-ranking members of the sect said with tears brimming in their eyes as they watched Jiang Chen’s departing figure.
They had no intention of stopping him.
Because only Jiang Chen could successfully complete this task!
Who else but the young master of the Jiang family?
Even if the Ghost Controlling Sect’s Old Ancestor had a hundred times the courage, that person still wouldn’t dare to lay a finger on Jiang Chen…
……
A hundred li away from the Jiuyan Sect.
Jiang Chen, accompanied by Xiao Hongyi, Zhang Hu, and Lin Mubai, moved through an ancient forest.
Xiao Hongyi’s red clothes flickered in and out of view behind them, ready to catch the enemy off guard at any moment.
Zhang Hu and Lin Mubai each held a thirty-zhang-tall red banner.
The banners were embroidered with golden characters depicting dragons flying and phoenixes dancing.
They read:
【Wherever Jiuyan goes, the righteous make way!】
【Ninth Peak’s Eldest Senior Brother with the stature of a great emperor!】
The banners were extremely conspicuous, and the cultivators they encountered along the way frowned and kept their distance.
This annoyed Jiang Chen.
His departure this time was not really to complete a sect mission but to earn system rewards.
The purpose of these banners was to provoke others!
But the cultivators sensed his identity and dared not approach, which was contrary to his goal.
“Zhang Hu. Change the gold characters on this banner!” Jiang Chen commanded.
A few moments later.
The gold characters on the first banner remained the same, but the second banner now read…
【Ninth Peak’s nameless junior with the stature of a great emperor!】
The effect was immediate.
Soon, an Earthly Origin cultivator passing by scolded, “A nameless nobody dares to claim the stature of a great emperor? What arrogance! I am Billowing Clouds Sect’s top disciple, Lu Renjia! Dare you fight me?!”
Billowing Clouds Sect was a second-tier righteous sect in the Central Domain.
This man did not ask Jiang Chen’s name, as he did not care for the name of a nobody.
But he soon regretted it.
Because with a casual swing of his sword, Jiang Chen severed his arm!
Not only that. Perhaps because he had been suppressed in the Jiuyan Sect, Jiang Chen unleashed his full power upon finding an ordinary cultivator.
“Great Majestic Heavenly Dragon!”
“Dragon Soars in the Sky!”
“Om Mani Padme Hum!”
“Haha! I just love that defiant look in your eyes!”
“Azure Lotus Sword Qi!!”
“Want to run? Watch me walk on lotuses!”
“First, take my hundred punches!”
A few moments later, Jiang Chen finally vented enough.
In contrast, Lu Renjia was barely alive, filled with regret and wailing in despair.
This nameless junior was too strong!
Clearly at the Core Formation stage, yet wielding a superior-grade spiritual weapon and using superior-grade techniques.
He simply had no power to resist this nobody!
What made Lu Renjia even more desperate was yet to come.
Seeing Jiang Chen stop, Lin Mubai, holding two machetes and excitedly asking while sharpening them, “Eldest Senior Brother, is it my turn to enjoy?”
Before he finished speaking, he had an epiphany.
His cultivation rapidly increased, becoming a Heavenly Origin cultivator.
Having been imprisoned in the sect’s dungeon for half a year, Lin Mubai had not been without gains.
Although his cultivation was sealed, he comprehended talisman, formation, and beast-taming arts to the Minor Achievement realm with his Innate Dao Bone.
With several arts and the Innate Dao Bone, he could leap from the Earthly Origin realm to the Heavenly Origin realm.
“…Innate Dao Bone, Lin Mubai?!”
Hearing this, Lu Renjia was almost scared to death.
What terrified him wasn’t Lin Mubai, but the term “Eldest Senior Brother” from Lin Mubai’s mouth.
This meant… the person who had beaten him up was not some nameless nobody, but Jiang Chen!
Along with the Jiuyan Sect’s fall to a Demonic Sect, Jiang Chen’s reputation had worsened.
There were even rumors that Jiang Chen liked to eat human souls.
Lu Renjia didn’t want to die a horrible death, nor did he want to be tortured to death.
“Mother, your son is unfilial! I’m going ahead!” he cried out while looking up at the sky.
With that, he directly severed his own heart meridian and died…
【Host’s actions conform to the villain’s character setting, cultivation level upgraded from early Earthly Origin stage to mid-stage!】
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