At Holy Fire Cliff, Perfected Chong Guang was in ditative seclusion.
But just then, Perfected Yin Shan’s voice bood over. He seed to be trying to suppress so intense emotion, but he couldn’t quite hold it in.
"Senior Brother! Co out and watch the show!"
Perfected Chong Guang opened his eyes and shook his head. "Yin Shan, how many tis have I told you? You must remain composed no matter what happens. Don’t be so transparent."
"It’s just Chen Taihe trying to break through to the Late Stage of Foundation Establishnt."
"He acquired the third Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch a long ti ago, and now his Substitution Secret Technique is ready. What’s so strange about him attempting to reach the Late Stage?"
Despite his words, he didn’t have a look of reproach. He even felt a touch of nostalgia. After all, he used to be just like Perfected Yin Shan—a novice who had seen little of the world, easily startled by the smallest things. Now, however, he had grown numb to most everything.
There was nothing left in the world that could stir the waters of his heart.
Loneliness, solitude, tranquility... This was the path every Foundation-Stage Cultivator had to walk. The sweet and bitter of cultivation, the myriad faces of the mortal world—it contained them all...
"It’s not that! Lü Yang is with the wife of the Master of Heaven nding Peak!"
"...What?"
The next second, Perfected Chong Guang, who just a mont ago had worn a look of serene indifference, snapped his eyes open, almost instinctively doubting what he had just heard.
Lü Yang?
The wife of the Master of Heaven nding Peak!?
In an instant, Perfected Chong Guang circulated his Divine Sense, extending it past Holy Fire Cliff to gaze toward Heaven nding Peak. A spectacular sight imdiately entered his vision.
There, on the vast Heaven nding Peak, was the Master of Heaven nding Peak undergoing his tribulation outside. Inside, Lü Yang and Lady Ruoxiang had walked hand-in-hand into a great hall, their voices booming out via a Sound Amplification Array.
The crowd of Saint Sect Perfected Persons outside listened, utterly dumbfounded.
"You filth! You filth! You filth!"
Within the Foundation Establishnt region, the Master of Heaven nding Peak’s face was ashen with rage. He never imagined that Lü Yang and Lady Ruoxiang would do sothing so utterly depraved.
But a second later, he purged all distracting thoughts from his mind.
’Right now... the tribulation is the priority!’
The Master of Heaven nding Peak was, after all, a great Demon. His shift from fury to composure was incredibly fast, and he even began to feel a sliver of disdain for Lü Yang and Lady Ruoxiang.
’Do that wretched pair really think they can disrupt my focus with such a despicable tactic?’
At this thought, a cold glint flashed in the Master of Heaven nding Peak’s eyes. ’Yuan Tu... so it seems he already knows I worked with Fulong?’
’This has to be revenge!’
’Since he can’t get back at , he goes after my wife?’
’What an animal!’
For a mont, the Master of Heaven nding Peak was almost impressed by Lü Yang’s audacity and skill. ’No wonder Perfected Chong Guang thinks so highly of him,’ he thought. ’The man’s gall is boundless!’
’Whatever. I’ll just continue with the tribulation.’
The Master of Heaven nding Peak reigned in his emotions, ignoring the sounds being deliberately broadcast from outside, and prepared to focus on the tribulation before him.
But in the next instant, he froze.
For at that mont, Chen Shuqian, whose Divine Sense he had sealed, suddenly trembled. Her once-vacant eyes rapidly regained their clarity!
"This is... the [Two-Body Unity True Skill]!?"
"That bitch!"
Only now did the Master of Heaven nding Peak truly begin to panic. He instantly understood why Lady Ruoxiang and Lü Yang would do such a thing at this critical mont.
The [Two-Body Unity True Skill] allowed its two casters to deliberately share all of their perceptions and experiences.
Lady Ruoxiang had cast it on Chen Shuqian, originally intending for Chen Shuqian to help her overco the amnesia of reincarnation after she was reborn.
Now, however, Lady Ruoxiang had turned this True Skill back upon Chen Shuqian. It awakened her from the ignorant state her father had forced her into by suppressing her Divine Sense—an effect not unlike overcoming the amnesia of reincarnation itself!
"Ngh..."
Within the Foundation Establishnt region, Chen Shuqian’s brow smoothed as her stagnant thoughts began to turn once more.
"Ah!"
The next second, a scream echoed from within Heaven nding Peak.
At almost the sa instant, Chen Shuqian’s eyes flew open!
She was awake!
The mont she awoke, Chen Shuqian grasped the situation. Without a shred of hesitation, as the Master of Heaven nding Peak watched in apoplectic fury, she violently self-destructed!
"No—!"
Her exploding flesh beca a sky-filling mist of blood, instantly dyeing the Master of Heaven nding Peak’s vision red. As Chen Shuqian self-destructed, brazenly severing the karmic links of their bloodline, he could clearly sense the Substitution Secret Technique he had placed on her dissipating. It could no longer draw the Celestial Thunder away for him!
"You unfilial wretch!"
The Master of Heaven nding Peak ground his teeth so hard they nearly shattered. "If I hadn’t gone through hell and back to gather resources for you, how could you have ever reached Foundation Establishnt? Is *this* how you repay ?"
"You’re wrong about that, Father."
A wisp of Chen Shuqian’s soul instantly fled the Foundation Establishnt Realm, leaving only her voice echoing behind. "We were father and daughter. I truly didn’t want to be this blunt."
"But to be perfectly honest, I have never once been happy with you."
As her voice faded, the Master of Heaven nding Peak watched Chen Shuqian’s soul drift lightly back down to Heaven nding Peak. Simultaneously, the peak’s main gate swung open, revealing a large palace hall.
Lü Yang and a sowhat disheveled Lady Ruoxiang erged, supporting one another.
In truth, this entire sche had been Lady Ruoxiang’s proposal from the very beginning. Such a crazed act of vengeance spoke to the depths of her hatred for the Master of Heaven nding Peak.
"Chen Taihe, that’s what I want to say to you, too."
Lady Ruoxiang’s red lips parted in a cold smile as she looked at the Master of Heaven nding Peak. "All the ti I’ve spent with you hasn’t brought as much pleasure as that single mont with Yuan Tu."
The next mont, Chen Shuqian’s soul descended and prostrated respectfully before Lü Yang. "Thank you for saving my life, Elder Yuantu. Shu Qian will be sure to repay this debt generously in the future."
The Master of Heaven nding Peak: "..."
Instantly, Lü Yang watched as the Master of Heaven nding Peak’s face turned visibly red. Wisps of white steam even began to drift from his seven facial orifices.
"Good! Good! Excellent!"
The Master of Heaven nding Peak took a deep breath and looked away from Lady Ruoxiang and Chen Shuqian. He suppressed his fury, because he was still clinging to a sliver of hope.
To overco the [Celestial Thunder], he had prepared both his son and daughter. It should have been a foolproof plan. But now, with both Lady Ruoxiang’s and Chen Shuqian’s betrayal, he had lost one of his substitutes. Even so, with his power, he was still sixty percent confident he could survive the [Celestial Thunder]!
’Once I break through to the Late Stage... not one of them will escape!’
’Lady Ruoxiang, Chen Shuqian, Lü Yang... After such a monuntal humiliation, even if I were to kill all three of those wretches in public, no one in the Saint Sect could say a word against it.’
’That’s right. As long as I pass this tribulation!’
Thinking this, the Master of Heaven nding Peak’s gaze burned as he looked at his other substitute. "Xin’an, for your father’s sake, you can go in peace!"
In this mont of life and death, he finally tore away the facade of the loving father, revealing his greedy and deranged true nature. Cackling hideously, he began to cast the Substitution Secret Technique, about to redirect the roiling [Celestial Thunder] that was still descending onto Chen Xin’an...
...And then he saw a sight that nearly shattered his very soul.
"My apologies, Father. I’ve belonged to the Master for a long ti now."
Chen Xin’an, who like his sister should have had his Divine Sense suppressed, opened his eyes without any warning. Then, he let out a long sigh in his father’s direction.
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