There are no ancestors at all; I made them all up.

Chapter 139 Seal

The entire pavilion of monks fell silent, trembling with fear.

Shuiyao Niang's fingers trembled slightly as she held the communication talisman, and the spiritual light on the talisman flickered rapidly.

Canglang Jushi and Shi Chongshan exchanged a glance. Just a moment ago they were strategizing how to cut ties and escape, but now their minds were filled with nothing but a chaotic buzzing.

"amazing."

A sigh of praise drifted down from the top floor of the attic.

Leaning on the railing, the elegant Mr. Li, dressed in black robes, looked down and smiled: "This shallow water in Nanbin can actually hide a true dragon? Sect Leader Chen, it is truly illogical that someone of your stature was previously unknown."

His voice wasn't loud, but it drowned out the roar of the waves.

The sect leaders who were initially terrified by Chen Qing's ruthless methods calmed down and straightened their backs a little.

"Who is this man? He's not from Nanbin, is he? What is he doing here?" Canglang Jushi suddenly understood and stared directly at Di Mo: "You really collude with outsiders! Inviting wolves into the house?"

"Collusion?" Mr. Li chuckled and shook his head, his wide sleeves fluttering in the wind, his demeanor carefree. "Island Lord Di simply has a broader vision. The world is vast, far beyond just Dongling. Clinging to sectarianism is nothing but self-inflicted wounds. Only by broadening one's horizons and opening one's mind can one find the path to enlightenment!"

The sect leaders, including Canglang Jushi, who were unaware of the situation beforehand, became vigilant.

"Stop talking nonsense." Chen Qing interrupted him directly. "You're the secret envoy of the Crimson Flame Dynasty? Now that you've shown yourself, I don't need to get entangled with these puppets anymore! The trick of hiding and watching the tigers fight from the sidelines ends here!"

As he spoke, the talisman in the void of his Niwan Palace trembled.

Just as Mr. Li was about to speak calmly, he suddenly felt a stirring in his heart and sensed fluctuations in the surrounding space!
"wrong!"

His expression changed drastically, and he quickly retreated!

Almost at the same moment Mr. Li stepped back, Chen Qing appeared as if by teleportation where he had just stood! With a clench of his five fingers, a yellow-green sword light flickered at his fingertips, and he fiercely grabbed down!

scoff!

The sharp sword energy tore through Mr. Li's robe sleeve, leaving a deep, bone-revealing bloodstain on his arm!
If he hadn't retreated quickly enough, that claw would have torn half of his body apart!

"Releasing sword energy?! And with such penetrating power!" Mr. Li clutched his bleeding arm, his voice a mixture of shock and rage. "You didn't refine yourself into a sword formation! You're a sword cultivator! A sword cultivator? Right, you participated in the rotation... Rainbow Gold is you..."

He instantly grasped the key point, and his voice suddenly rose.

But before he could finish speaking, seventy-two sharp, piercing sounds came hurtling through the air!

"Om-"

The yellow and green sword talismans shot out like stars, and the aura of decay and decay spread out, weaving into a sword net that blotted out the sky and enveloped Mr. Li!
Where the sword net passes, the carved beams and painted rafters of the pavilions silently turn into rotten wood and dust!

After several days of nurturing and coordination with the Qingqiu Fire, Chen Qing's physical body's Daoist magic and supernatural powers were almost identical to those in his dream body, only differing in power. At this moment, he unleashed seventy-two sword talismans, forming a sword array of its own, which was also quite powerful!

Mr. Li's figure flashed repeatedly, his body surging with blood light and filled with demonic energy. He charged left and right through the sword net, and his composed and confident mask shattered completely.

"Mr. Li has been suppressed?!"

"Is this person really going to become the leader of the alliance?!"

Below the attic, gasps of cold air rose and fell.

Canglang Jushi and Shi Chongshan exchanged another glance, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes.

Shui Yaoniang opened her mouth slightly to convey this reversal of the battle situation.

On the other end, Liu Shuang'er received the message and was initially overjoyed, but then realized the crucial point: "Oh no! Shui Yaoniang, quickly tell Sect Leader Chen! That scoundrel surnamed Li is a Golden Core cultivator! Tell him to take you away immediately! Delay will only lead to trouble!"

As if to confirm Liu Shuang'er's warning, the battle situation at the top of the pavilion suddenly changed dramatically!

"Chen Qing!" Mr. Li took a step back, instantly standing ten feet away in mid-air. "I underestimated you! The Hidden Star Sect is indeed hiding secrets! Once I capture you, extract your soul and refine your spirit, everything will come to light!"

boom!
A layer of thick, ink-like flames ignited around Mr. Li, and countless dark patterns appeared. The air seemed to be polluted by this aura, emitting a hissing moan.

"The first stage of the Golden Core, the Flame of the Core melts all techniques!" Master Li stepped forward, his inky flames sweeping across the sky, the countless sword talismans crumbling at the touch. "No matter how sharp your sword talismans are, without entering the Golden Core, they are ultimately illusory! Breaking your spells is as easy as turning my hand!"

He took another step, and black patterns sprouted and spread all over his body, wriggling like living things.

"I'll teach you one more time: the second stage of the Golden Core, the Tribulation Mark that suppresses one's destiny! These are the Tribulation Marks that I have formed from all the tribulations I have experienced. Once you touch them, you will be tainted by the tribulations and your fortune will decline. What can you, a mere Yin Spirit, use to block them?"

With his five fingers spread wide, his giant hand, wreathed in ink-fire and calamity patterns, slammed down on Chen Qing, intending to suppress and corrupt Chen Qing along with the pavilion below!
There was not a trace of fear in Chen Qing's eyes.

He said, "If you had the cultivation of the third stage of the Golden Core, you could reflect your destiny and sense good and bad fortune. You should be fleeing for your life right now, instead of spouting nonsense here!" Chen Qing had read many Golden Core cultivation methods and naturally knew the mysteries of each stage.

Before he finished speaking, a blinding golden light erupted from his body!
A layer of solidified gold covered his entire body!

He neither dodged nor avoided, and struck out with the same palm!
In the palm of his hand, a gray, lifeless, and withered Falun silently rotated!

"boom--"

Amidst the explosions and shattering sounds, ink flames splattered everywhere, and the tribulation patterns crumbled!
Mr. Li's palm strike was actually pierced and torn apart by the Silent Dharma Wheel!
The power of annihilation, like a maggot clinging to a bone, eroded upwards along the wound of the severed arm!

"Pfft!" Mr. Li staggered backward, his eyes filled with horror: "Innate divine power?! You...you are also a Golden Core cultivator?! You've been faking it all along?! What kind of divine power is this? Why have I never seen it before?" His voice was hoarse, devoid of any composure, only filled with shock, anger, and fear after being fooled!

"This is called the Eight-Point Light Wheel!" Chen Qing's attacks were like a tidal wave, giving his opponent no chance to breathe. He once again wielded a Wheel of Annihilation and slashed through the air!
Its sharp edge cuts through space, striking directly at the vital point!
Mr. Li frantically activated his Danhuo Tribulation Pattern to resist, but after a few breaths, his hair was disheveled, and he angrily shouted, "Who exactly are you?! You can't raise a true dragon in a quagmire! Tell me! Let me die knowing why!"

"A desperate struggle, full of nonsense!" Chen Qing had already seen through the fact that the other party's internal power was churning like boiling water, clearly accumulating strength to launch a counterattack or escape. So he launched an even faster attack, with the golden Buddha body and the Silent Dharma Wheel shining brightly, forcing Mr. Li into a desperate situation!

"You want to kill me?! Not so easy!" A madness flashed in Mr. Li's eyes. He bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood! His hand seals changed with lightning speed!
"Blood Shadow Vanishes into the Sky!"

Bang!Bang!
His legs exploded below the knees, turning into two thick, viscous blobs of blood!
Blood-red light enveloped his mangled body, transforming into a blood rainbow that increased in speed several times over, hurtling straight towards the distant horizon!

"Trying to escape?" Chen Qing didn't pursue, but instead formed an ancient and sinister hand seal with his hands, pointing at the fleeing blood rainbow from afar!
"Demon Slaughter Palace! Calamity has begun!"

hum!
An invisible and intangible strange fluctuation crossed space and descended upon Mr. Li!

"Ugh!"

The speeding Blood Rainbow suddenly stopped and howled!

The tribulation patterns on Mr. Li's body, which had been relatively stable, suddenly became disordered and turned against their master!
He suppressed his old injuries and inner demons, and the light he used to escape shook violently in the air, almost dissipating!

"It's almost time to wrap this up. A Golden Core cultivator is just the right person for me to try out the Mountain and Sea Technique, which I've just comprehended, by combining the power of both my bodies! After all, if I enter the dream again, I might have to try to form my Golden Core!" Chen Qing held his hands together as if supporting a mountain of immense weight in his dantian!

Spiritual energy surged throughout his body, the Yin and Taihe energies intertwined, and the two external elixirs within his dantian began to rotate!

A vast, boundless aura, seemingly originating from the ancient wilderness, descended upon this place!
"Mountain and Sea Seal, suppress!"

"Rumble--"

The raging waves of Lord Duanlang instantly subsided!

The phantom of a majestic mountain broke through the clouds and appeared with a roar!
The mountains are majestic and imposing, suppressing all wilderness; the boundless sea below them carries all things!
It resembles a giant, ancient, gray-white seal, as large as a house!

As soon as the giant seal was formed, it smashed down on the blood rainbow with the power to crush stars and reshape the earth, fire, water and wind!

"boom!!!"

The giant seal crashed into the sea!

The waves roared, the Broken Wave Pavilion shook violently, and rubble fell down in a flurry! In an instant, a depression with a diameter of fifty feet was formed in the sea below, and the seawater was pushed into a wall of water tens of feet high, splashing outwards!

At the center of the depression, the blood-red light only had time to let out a short, desperate cry before disappearing into the boiling seawater!
Huge waves surged, and water mist filled the air.

Liu Shuang'er, who had rushed over, stood frozen in place, staring at the figure standing alone on the edge of the broken pavilion, his green robe fluttering in the wind, her eyes filled with shock.

"You didn't see what happened! It's not something that can be described by a level of skill or ability; it's a kind of spirit!"

Inside the Zhenhai Division's yamen, Liu Shuang'er appeared extremely excited upon her return.

"Without seeing it in person, words cannot describe even a fraction of it! I've seen those prodigies in Fengcheng and Huayucheng who were built up by elixirs. Their cultivation levels are high, but it's all due to the resources they've accumulated. They're strong, but somewhat superficial..."

An Ning sat upright, listening to Liu Shuang'er's rapid-fire description, her brows furrowed slightly, her fingertips tracing the porcelain of the cup lid.

"Shuang'er, I remember you didn't say this before. You said that the heartland of Dongling, where major sects poured their efforts into cultivation, piling up elixirs and techniques, was the ladder to heaven. Your words still ring in my ears, how come there's such a big contrast now?"

Liu Shuang'er chuckled, sat down, and said with a smile, "Some things are better discussed on paper than on paper! It's a pity you didn't go and missed this good show! Speaking of which..." Her eyes darted around, "Besides being the master of Mingxia Mountain, does this Sect Leader Chen have any other identity?"

"Shuang'er!" An Ning put down her teacup with a soft sound, interrupting Liu Shuang'er's probing. "Sect Leader Chen is of pure heart and a devoted sage. He has already made a move out of consideration for me. Don't have any improper thoughts and disturb his peaceful cultivation."

Liu Shuang'er was not annoyed that her thoughts had been exposed. Just as she was about to say something more, a green jade talisman on An Ning's waist suddenly lit up.

An Ning's expression shifted. She picked up the jade talisman and sensed it for a moment, a complex look flashing across her face.

"Is it Sect Leader Chen?" Liu Shuang'er was quick-witted and immediately guessed.

“Hmm.” An Ning nodded. “When I asked him to come out of seclusion this time, I promised that after the matter was accomplished, I would allow him to consult two ancient Daoist classics. One is ‘The Great Sun's Celestial Strategy’ and the other is ‘The Pure Yang Primordial Chapter’. However, there are some complications at the moment.”

She did not intend to reveal the matter of the Rainbow Phoenix transformation to prevent the news from spreading.

Liu Shuang'er, however, was completely unconcerned: "I thought it was some enormous difficulty! It's just two inanimate objects! The path to enlightenment is cut off, and no one can continue it. What's wrong with letting him study them? Sect Leader Chen comes from humble origins, and his sect is in decline. He probably just wants to glean a glimpse of the future from these ancient fragments and find a way to break through his current realm! This desire for enlightenment is hard-won and truly remarkable! I'll handle this matter; I can't let a meritorious person feel disheartened!"

Her tone was one of admiration and respect.

An Ning had no choice but to follow up by asking, "What happened to Duanlang Pavilion? Are those other sects still behaving themselves?"

"Behave yourself?" Liu Shuang'er's words were filled with triumphant satisfaction. "Sect Leader Chen's swift and decisive actions killed the Golden Core cultivator, and Di Mo immediately wilted, his eyes clearing up! Who else, besides Sect Leader Chen, would dare to sit in the position of leader of the Nanbin Hundred Boat Alliance? Who is even worthy of sitting there? We only need to go with the flow and show the court's support, and the situation in Nanbin will be stable!"

She picked up the tea, which had long since gone cold, and drank it all in one gulp before her smile faded.

"Besides, Zheng Jiao's death and the leak of the news have revealed many problems that need to be investigated further! And then there's the Crimson Flame Dynasty, stirring up trouble; we can't let them get away with this so easily!"

　Third update, aiming for midnight...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)