The board of Sakata Heavy Industries had two main directors. Including the chairman, there were three of them in total, all of whom were True Immortals.
"A few Earth Immortals, you say..." The old director pondered for a mont. ’That should be enough,’ he thought. The main thing was that he wouldn’t have to go investigate himself.
He asked again:
"How long until they arrive?"
"Well..." The Celestial Human beside him wiped away a bead of sweat. "Even at top speed, I’m afraid it will be dusk by the ti they get there."
The old director’s heart settled. Dusk. That was about seven or eight hours away, which was acceptable.
He could wait.
As he was thinking, he suddenly froze.
On the satellite image, the young man seated in the clouds was, at so unknown point, holding a guqin.
While playing the guqin, the young man looked up. Through the screen, through the satellite far off in space, he gave the director a brilliant smile.
The old director’s scalp went numb. ’I’ve been discovered?’
He stumbled back several steps, a storm raging in his heart.
Although it was a low-orbit satellite, with the Ancestor Star having expanded a hundredfold, it was at least several hundred thousand kiloters away from the ground!
Even for an ordinary Earth Immortal, seeing sothing at such a distance with the naked eye would be difficult. And if it was through Divine Sense...
That would be even more absurd!
A chill ran down the old director’s spine. He once again reviewed the file on the young man nad Lu Xuan. That’s right—two or three months ago, the record stated he was suspected to be at the peak of the Grandmaster realm.
And among the four Celestial Humans who had been sent earlier, one had even reached the Fourth Level of the Divine Ladder!
’He was hiding his true strength... This boy was definitely hiding his true strength!’
’Is he a hidden ace for Longque Technology? A secret pawn?’
’Or could it be...’
As a thousand thoughts raced through his mind, the old director subconsciously asked:
"What is Ishida’s status?"
Ishida was the head of the branch office, a high-ranking Celestial Human who had climbed to the Seventh Level of the Divine Ladder. He was also Sakata Heavy Industries’ only high-ranking Celestial Human in Wutong City.
Beside him, a subordinate replied respectfully:
"At Lord Ishida’s speed, he should be arriving soon."
The old director nodded silently, his eyes fixed on the screen, on the satellite image, on the boy who looked to be sixteen or seventeen, calmly playing his guqin.
........
An intensely blazing Great Sun tore across the sky. Ishida’s steps were steady, but his expression was grave.
Four Celestial Humans had been slain in a row; he couldn’t help but be shocked. The first one was one thing, but the next three had gone together, and they had all perished, falling from the clouds!
He asked himself honestly—even for him, accomplishing such a feat wouldn’t be difficult, but it wouldn’t be effortless either.
At this thought, Ishida grew even more vigilant, but he did not slow his pace. He sped through the sky, his Spiritual Will fully manifested. Its terrifying radiance illuminated the nearby mountain forests, frightening many mountain beasts into prostration.
After traveling for tens of miles, he was already approaching the Kongtong Mountain Range when he suddenly stopped.
He heard it.
The faint, lodious sound of music drifted toward him. The piece was imnse, seeming to contain a profound Dao Rhy. rely listening to it gave rise to a sense of terror, an urge to bow down and prostrate himself!
’What is this lody?’
Startled, Ishida proceeded cautiously and saw another Great Sun, also suspended in the clouds.
It was a young man, sitting peacefully, casually playing a guqin. As the music played, various phenona manifested around him, and one could see many birds prostrating themselves below, listening reverently!
’It’s him?’
Ishida’s expression turned solemn. He observed from a distance. The young man’s face was calm, without a single ripple of emotion. He didn’t even look up.
He just sat there, calmly playing his guqin, as if he were oblivious and unconcerned with the outside world.
Yet, the dazzling True Spirit Radiance at his side cast a dim, shadowy hue, cloaked in mystery, as if it contained so great terror.
Ti ticked by. Beads of sweat trickled down Ishida’s forehead. He wanted to approach, yet he didn’t dare.
It wasn’t until the old director’s voice urged him through his earpiece that a wry smile appeared on his face. He replied in a low voice.
"Sir, there’s sothing very wrong with this boy... I’ve arrived, but he’s still just playing his guqin. The music is profound beyond asure, as if it holds the Dao Rhy of the Great Dao. Just by listening, a feeling arises in my heart... a feeling of..."
"The word ’Supre’?"
He said, sowhat uncertainly, his expression growing even more solemn and his nerves tensing.
On the other end of the earpiece, the old director was silent for a mont before saying:
"Probe him, but be extrely cautious. If things look bad, retreat imdiately!"
Ishida nodded grimly. After hesitating for a long mont, he took three more steps forward and announced in a deep voice:
"Ishida Yamagami, head of Sakata Heavy Industries’ Wutong City branch, has co to pay his respects!"
Held aloft to the side by Primordial Qi, both Mukai Rindo and Xu Qingqiu’s hearts pounded in their chests, and they broke out in a cold sweat. ’Ish... Ishida Yamagami!!’
As employees of Sakata Heavy Industries, they naturally recognized their boss’s boss. They were now trembling in fear, rendered speechless.
The two of them tremulously glanced over, instinctively looking at the mysterious young man, only to see him still playing his guqin with serene focus, his expression completely unperturbed.
However, the music from the guqin grew sharper, grander. The Supre Rhy that perated it beca heavier, shaking one’s very soul!
Seeing no response after a long while, Ishida grew impatient. His voice bood a little louder:
"Ishida Yamagami, head of Sakata Heavy Industries’ Wutong City branch, has co to pay his respects!!"
Amid the rumbling voice, the young man’s hands suddenly accelerated. The guqin’s music swelled, growing more passionate until it resounded throughout the heavens and the earth!
Although he had not obtained the true original, and was only imitating the form of the Supre lody,
with Lu Xuan pouring his entire being into it and resonating with the Supre Jade Steps, the sound of the guqin beca vast and magnificently powerful!
Ishida’s spirit trembled slightly, but he did not lose his composure, rely staring intently at the young man playing the guqin before him.
Another long mont passed.
Lu Xuan played the guqin, and played, and played.
HUM! HUM! HUM!!
In the midst of the soaring music, he abruptly raised his head. His eyes were like two Great Sun Golden Lamps, dazzlingly brilliant. The aura around him swelled with the music, growing as vast as the Celestial Vault itself!!
Ishida subconsciously looked up as well, eting the young man’s gaze. He looked into those indifferent eyes, which seed to hold no emotion, yet were also like a bottomless abyss where profundity, brilliance, and majesty coexisted...
Under the weight of the intense music and that piercing gaze,
his spirit was overwheld and his defenses crumbled. He subconsciously took a step back.
And that one step.
Killing intent erupted in Lu Xuan’s eyes. He seized the opportunity. With an air as imposing as the majestic Celestial Vault, he continued to play the guqin as he spoke lightly.
"Such a clamor, like a buzzing mosquito."
"Why do you disturb my music?"
"You deserve punishnt. A single bolt of lightning shall be your sentence."
As his indifferent voice faded, the vast sky for ten thousand li first plunged into darkness, then erupted in brilliant light!
The dazzling radiance blotted out half of the Kongtong Mountain Range!
Lu Xuan’s spirit rapidly drained and his vitality plumted, but the twenty or thirty wisps of fruit peel accumulated in his stomach were consud, stabilizing his spirit and vitality!
Following that, in the sky that had just flashed from dark to light, a wisp of Innate Thunder Light appeared. This light imdiately swelled into an incomparably tyrannical Innate Great Thunder and ca crashing down.
BOOM!!!
The thunderclap resounded for three thousand li. The void collapsed, the Celestial Vault trembled, and all the beasts in the mountains bowed their heads.
A look of terror and shock appeared on Ishida’s face. He wanted to speak, to resist the descending lightning, but his spirit was still suppressed, and his reaction was a fraction of a second too slow.
He was completely engulfed by that bolt of Innate Thunder and disintegrated.
When silence returned to the world and the sky cleared once more,
the high-ranking Celestial Human who had climbed to the seventh level of the Divine Ladder had vanished completely. On the ground, a terrifying, bottomless crater over a thousand ters wide had appeared.
In the absolute, dead silence, only the sound of the guqin remained, still lodious and clear.
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