Volume 13, Chapter 825 – Thirteen Immortal Steles Upon Him

“How is this possible? Didn’t I have Elder Zou deliver the verbal command? Could there really be an Immortal faction going against the grain?”

Alliance Leader Wei roared in agitation, his voice trembling with the weight of what that possibility implied.

At his outburst, all the senior members gathered in the great hall turned their eyes toward one particular elder. His surname was Ding, he was the uncle of Ding Yao.

“Elder Ding, don’t tell me this is your Ding family’s doing? If I’m not mistaken, your nephew Ding Yao was pursuing the Sect Master of Lingxi Sect.”

Alliance Leader Wei’s face darkened.

“Alliance Leader, please see clearly, it’s absolutely not our Ding family. The Immortal Alliance and the Immortal Clans are bound by shared interests. No matter how foolish we are, we wouldn’t throw that all away for a woman. If you don’t believe me, you can send someone to investigate.”

Elder Ding quickly bowed and explained.

“Elder Feng, tell me, is it the Ding family?”

Alliance Leader Wei turned and asked the elder who had brought the report.

“Alliance Leader, it’s not the Ding family. The Immortal of Lingxi Sect came from the teleportation gate those fiendish specters opened into the cultivation world.”

Elder Feng responded at once.

“Then that makes sense.”

Alliance Leader Wei’s gaze turned utterly cold.

Elder Ding exhaled deeply in relief. He had already learned of his nephew’s death. If more trouble was pinned on them now, it would be a catastrophic blow for the Ding family.

“Alliance Leader, we need to come up with a strategy. Just one Immortal is enough to threaten the rule of the Immortal Alliance.”

“That’s right. You had Elder Zou deliver the verbal command, which has directly offended Lingxi Sect. That Immortal definitely won’t let us off.”

“Damn those fiendish specters, opening teleportation gates out of nowhere. Now it’s not just us who’ll suffer, they’re doomed too!”

The senior members were like ants on a hot pan, panicking.

“What are you panicking for? So what if she’s an Immortal? If she could descend into the cultivation world, then at most she’s at the Heavenly Tribulation Realm—she might even be just a doppelgänger.”

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Alliance Leader Wei frowned and reminded them.

“Alliance Leader, wise as always. Rumor has it she really is just a doppelgänger of that Immortal from Lingxi Sect.”

Elder Feng said with admiration.

“Is that so? Then that’s excellent. The Alliance Leader himself is at the mid-stage of the Heavenly Tribulation Realm, he may not be weaker than her.”

Hearing this, the high-ranking members suddenly saw the light, and their panic visibly eased.

“Alliance Leader, there’s one more thing I must report. During Lingxi Sect’s ancestor worship ceremony, the leader of the invading fiendish specters interfered and killed every expert present who had reached Divine Realm or above.”

Elder Feng continued his report.

“Elder Zou didn’t escape? Didn’t he have an Immortal Stele for protection?”

Alliance Leader Wei asked instinctively.

“The opponent was too powerful, he withstood the Immortal Might head-on. Not a single Divine Realm cultivator managed to escape alive.”

Elder Feng sighed.

“What? He withstood Immortal Might? What kind of power would that take? Mid-stage Heavenly Tribulation Realm? Or late-stage?”

“Only a cultivator at the late stage of Heavenly Tribulation Realm could survive the backlash from Immortal Might.”

“If that fiendish specter is equivalent to a late-stage Heavenly Tribulation cultivator, wouldn’t that make him even stronger than the Alliance Leader?”

Shock filled the faces of the high-level members.

“He didn’t clash with the Immortal from Lingxi Sect?”

Alliance Leader Wei’s tone grew more serious.

“They fought, and shattered a huge section of spatial barriers. No one knows who won, but it seems both of them survived.”

Elder Feng reported.

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“A draw?”

Alliance Leader Wei’s expression turned thoughtful.

“Right… Alliance Leader, that fiendish specter leader even declared that he would slaughter every cultivator in the Kaiyuan Planet’s cultivation world who reached Divine Realm or above.”

Elder Feng’s tone grew grim.

“What? Then what should we do? If he really is a late-stage Heavenly Tribulation expert, we don’t stand a chance!”

“Alliance Leader, you must save us! Right now the Immortal Alliance only has one Heavenly Tribulation expert, and that’s you!”

“But the problem is, even the Alliance Leader is only mid-stage Heavenly Tribulation Realm. How can he save us?”

The moment these words were uttered, the entire hall plunged into chaos. Everyone present was a Divine Realm cultivator. They were directly in the crosshairs.

Alliance Leader Wei’s face was tense as he sank into deep thought, while the chamber dissolved into panic.

“If we’d known this would happen, we should’ve helped Lingxi Sect open the spatial barriers. As long as we got on their good side, we’d have an Immortal to protect us, and we wouldn’t need to fear that foreign fiendish specter at all.”

“Exactly! The Alliance Leader thought he could control the situation, this is just playing with fire and getting burned!”

“What if we had the Alliance Leader go apologize? As long as Lingxi Sect’s people cool off, maybe they’ll help us through this disaster.”

More and more people began to single out Alliance Leader Wei as the one to blame, hurling criticisms.

“Silence!”

Alliance Leader Wei roared, crushing the armrest of his chair and rising to his feet. He shouted in fury: “Is there something wrong with my decision? If we helped the Immortal from Lingxi Sect descend to the mortal realm, do any of you think you’d still have a voice in the cultivation world of Kaiyuan Planet?”

The mid and high-ranking members fell silent, but many still mumbled under their breath.

Alliance Leader Wei took a deep breath before continuing slowly, “Everyone, if that fiendish specter really is equivalent to a late-stage Heavenly Tribulation cultivator, I can’t deal with him alone. But it’s not like we have no options left. Right now, there’s only one method that might allow us to defeat him.”

“What method?”

The upper ranks immediately pressed him for an answer.

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“Don’t we have thirteen Immortal Steles in Kaiyuan Planet’s cultivation world? I want each of you to carve my name onto your sect’s Immortal Stele. With the protection of thirteen combined Immortal Might, I refuse to believe I can’t suppress that demon.”

Alliance Leader Wei revealed his plan.

“Brilliant move, Alliance Leader! With thirteen Immortal Steles combined, even an Immortal would tremble before that.”

Elder Ding exclaimed excitedly.

“Alliance Leader, you have our full support! As long as we can destroy that specter, your name will remain forever carved on our sect’s Immortal Stele.”

“Ours too. Just give the command and I’ll have it carved right away.”

“Alliance Leader, we must act quickly. Give the order!”

After a brief moment of thought, the senior members all echoed their support. They knew they had no better choice.

“Good, excellent! In that case, I’ll trouble everyone. Let’s begin immediately.”

A sliver of smugness crept across Alliance Leader Wei’s face. With thirteen Immortal Steles backing him, if he succeeded in killing that demon, he would become the supreme figure of Kaiyuan Planet, unrivaled in both status and power.

Just two hours later, all thirteen of the top Immortal factions in the cultivation world fulfilled their promise and engraved the full name “Wei Zhuo” onto their Immortal Steles.

Qi Huang observed everything through her divine sense, a faint smile tugging at her lips. Thirteen Immortal Steles was indeed a terrifying power—but only from the perspective of cultivators. From her vantage point as a being on a completely different level, those thirteen steles combined merely touched the threshold of a Human Immortal Realm.

And that Demon General?

He was a mid-stage Human-grade Demon, worlds apart. So the Immortal Alliance’s grand strategy was destined to fail.

Qi Huang came back to herself and looked toward the vast expanse of shattered space in the sky. Uncertainty clouded her heart.

“Darling, what do you think we should do about all these spatial rifts? Should I fix them or not?”

Qi Huang directed the question toward her beloved inside her storage ring.

“You can fix them?”

Cheng Hongling asked curiously.

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“I should be able to.”

Qi Huang sounded unsure. She released a single strand of Boundless Demonic Hair and pierced it into one fragment of space, then dragged it to the side. Then she threaded her hair through another space fragment, linking the two together like she was mending torn clothes.

The two space fissures closed, and the crack between them began to heal rapidly.

“I can.”

Qi Huang confirmed confidently.

“Then go ahead and fix it. Otherwise, when Zhong Zhen arrives, we won’t be able to keep up the act.”

Cheng Hongling advised.

“But…”

Qi Huang hesitated, still unable to make up her mind.

“What is it?”

Cheng Hongling asked in confusion.

“Darling, you know I’ve seen Lu Yao’s memories. I deeply empathize with her experiences, and I really detest the act of mending the heavens.”

Qi Huang spoke from the heart.

Cheng Hongling was silent for a moment before replying, “Then don’t fix it. We carry Lu Yao’s blood. Consider us her descendants in spirit. We can’t do something so fundamentally offensive. But you need to think through your plan… What will you do when Zhong Zhen shows up?”

“Okay. But I really hope she doesn’t appear until after these spatial rifts are fully healed.”

Qi Huang prayed inwardly.

In the time that followed, Qi Huang divided her attention between overseeing the reconstruction of Lingxi Sect and keeping a close watch on the Demon General’s movements.

By early the next morning, that very Demon General had already stormed toward the Immortal Alliance’s headquarters. Clearly, he intended to tear down the strongest “bone” first, using it as a show of force to intimidate the entire cultivation world.