A breaking sound echoed deep in Ji Chengming's soul, activating the protective chanism left to him by his father—an enormous face that kept morphing into countless facial expressions to express thousands of emotions. The emotions varied, but they also had one thing in common: obsession.
The obsession manifested in many shapes: the intense desire to survive, the intense anger to seek revenge by all ans, and the rage of killing people who have wronged you beyond words can explain. It did not matter what the intense emotions/desires or the obsessions were; it manifested in this singular face.
Boom!
Tian Xuan's sword finally landed, but the effect could be described as ridiculously useless. Ji Chengming survived but did not look happy; on the contrary, he seed furious, probably because Tian Xuan pushed him to such a level.
"Destroy him," Ji Chengming ordered. As soon as these words left his mouth, the obsession creature released a terrifying tower that shook the entire trial for a few seconds.
'This aura,' Wang Wei thought; this face reminded him when he faced Supre Unity. He squinted his eyes, waiting for what was to co. Besides, Tian Xuan was the only person calm throughout the situation.
"Stop!' Sir Lu said, and his words contained imnse power as the face suddenly beca immobilized. "This is the second ti you've broken the rules." Ji Chengming was not allowed to teleport outside the tower during his fight, but he still did it. However, Sir Lu had not reprimanded him since he returned imdiately.
"Get the fuck out of my way," Ji Chengming said coldly. Now that he was forced to activate his protective asures, he would annihilate his opponent for bringing him sha and humiliation.
"Your actions have violated the rules, aning you have officially lost this match," Sir Lu declared calmly. Tian Xuan deactivated his [Awakening], returning to his forr handso face.
'Interesting,' Wang Wei thought. 'It seems the trial spirits are using this opportunity to establish their prestige. Let's see where their confidence cos from.'
"And?" Ji Chengming sneered. "What are you going to do about it?"
"The rules are clear. Since you lost, you must die," Sir Lu replied calmly before snapping his finger to manifest a towering clear palm that descended directly toward Ji Chengming. The myriad face creature turned into a dark green shield to protect him, but its power was utterly useless before the palm. Then, for the second ti in his life, Ji Chengming experienced genuine fear.
"You are quite bold," said a gentle voice with a hint of laziness. The clear palm disappeared, replaced by a pair of eyes accompanied by a background of a universe full of vivid and bright colors like a rainbow.
"No, you're the bold one, Ji Liuyu," Sir Lu said calmly. "You know the rules, but you send your people here and expect them to break them or act as if they don't apply to them."
"Cheng'er is young and brash, so it's normal if he makes a few mistakes," Ji Liuyu replied calmly. "However, this does not an you have the right to execute him."
"And what are you going to do if I insist?"
The two stared at each other for a brief mont. "You know your situation, so why are you doing this?" Ji Liuyu asked with a sigh.
"It's not your ti to judge what we do," Sir Lu countered back.
"What do you want?"
"Take your people and leave."
"Cheng'er is the only one who broke the rules, so why are you exiling everyone?"
Sir Lu frowned. He imdiately realized these people would not give up. "Fine, but you must pay to take him away."
"No problem," Ji Liuyu answered before a crystal descended from the sky. With a wave of his hand, the thing disappeared before anyone could see or detect what it was.
"Supre Elder, I have no problem with your decision," Ji Chengming suddenly said before pointing at Tian Xuan. "But I must kill this bastard."
The horrifying eyes did not even glance at Tian Xuan and asked: "What do you say?"
"Nothing can happen to him as long as he's in the trial."
"Why are you —"
"Teacher, soone is threatening to kill . Please help, if not for my sake, for your face," Tian Xuan suddenly bowed. A pair of golden eyes that embodied all knowledge and secrets of the world materialized above the battlefield, looking down on the rainbow starry sky eye.
"The little brat from the Ji Clan, it seems you are still acting as arrogant as ever," the Heaven Cardinal said. "It's odd, given how Ji Dingxiang was quite the humble lad."
"L-Lord Cardinal," Ji Liuyu stuttered before regaining his calmness. "My apologies — I did not know he was your apprentice."
"Your palace should rember that you are not the Prival Body Mansion. You only exist due to the kindness of Grand Dao. Understand?"
"I do."
"Good," the Heaven Cardinal nodded. At his peak, Ji Dingxian was more powerful than him, so he had to give his descendants so face — especially since the bastard left so protective asures for them before his passing. He looked at his disciple but did not say a single word; his eyes had communicated enough. Tian Xuan nodded before bowing, and the Cardinal left.
"You little bastard," Ji Liuyu cursed as he looked at Ji Chengming. He had to control himself; otherwise, he would have annihilated this bastard for forcing him to experience such humiliation. Ji Liuyu controlled himself because of Ji Chengming's importance and because he understood the latter.
Ji Chengming did not act arrogantly because of his deep background. Besides the Body Prival Mansion, no faction dares walk arrogantly everywhere in the Chaos Universe, aning the Ji Clan knows how to raise their people properly. Although they are arrogant, it's not to the point of being mindlessly prideful to the detrint of themselves or their factions.
Ji Chengming's situation is the result of a few things. Firstly, he was born with the highest concentration of their founders, Ji Dingxiang's bloodline, aning he had a terrifying affinity for Soul Dao. Unfortunately, their clan hasn't given birth to a transcendent in a while, and they are starting to worry. Ji Chengming was their hope.
However, the Ji Clan and the palace realized the limits of their bloodline, so they chose another approach. They allowed Ji Chengming to use their study of one of the taboos — the Abomination — to add variety to his Dao and break free from the limitations of his bloodline. This approach has shown so success so far, but the backlash was that Ji Chengming's mind had beco chaotic. They successfully suppressed most of it, but his pride, arrogance, and brash nature remained and even intensified. They sent him to this trial to use foreign ans to beco a Paragon as soon as possible. Although their clans have similar thods — albeit not as effective as this trial — their thods also involved Soul Dao, aning it could aggravate Ji Chengming's situation instead of improving it.
"Co with ," Ji Liuyu said before disappearing with Ji Chengming. However, as soon as he left, everyone — except Sir Lu, Tian Xuan, the palace people, and the Prival Body Mansion people — imdiately forgot the conversation they had heard or the fact that Ji Liuyu had appeared in the first place.
So Paragons, like Emperor Kong, felt sothing extra had occurred but did not notice anything else. Only Wang Wei knew his mories were erased.
"What a pain," Wang Wei complained before teleporting to the first room in the Dao Tower. He borrowed the trial energy to condense a few needles he embedded into his acupoints and soul. mories were part of his [Existence]; it's the reason Eternal Emperors and above can revive themselves as long as soone rembers them.
Wang Wei activated the part of his [Existence] involved mories, and he rembered most of the conversation, with a few blurry parts that he had to fill in the blank. "This is valuable information," he muttered, taking the ti to analyze everything.
"Sothing fishy is going on with Tian Xuan," he muttered. "Hmm?" Before he could even proceed further with his analysis, he detected sothing. Soone was using the trial's power to hide sothing in this room. The odd thing is that the object would reveal itself only if another Dao Overlord walked into this room.
Wang Wei waved his hand, and a piece of paper appeared before him. He carefully opened it to see the content:
[I need to see you in secret. Use your Heaven Deception Array and this trial's power to create a secure location — Tian Xuan.]
"Hehehe," Wang Wei chuckled. "Things are getting interesting." Curiosity imdiately got the best of him, and he did as the note said. After being powered/blessed by the power of this trial, this array could probably be hidden from anyone or anything — including Grand Dao.
Once everything is set up, Wang Wei steals Hong Wa's thod by resonating his Three Emperor Position with Tian Xuan's to summon his projection.
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