Volume 1, Chapter 453 – Sweeping the World Clean

The atmosphere across the entire mountain peak was somewhat strange.

This gathering would affect the future course of all Yunyan Star.

Every family on Yunyan Star with even a little standing had sent people to Golden Cauldron Mountain.

Not many people were optimistic about what the four great royal clans were doing today. Some even felt they were simply striking a stone with an egg.

As for the tribulation clouds from the day before yesterday, all sorts of rumors had somehow begun circulating among the many families of Yunyan Star.

According to the rumors, the master of Tianyan Sect was about to shatter the shackles of the King Realm and step into an entirely new realm, which was why such a terrifying heavenly tribulation had been triggered.

In the end, the heavenly lightning had not descended only because the master of Tianyan Sect was compassionate and could not bear to see the living beings of Yunyan Star reduced to ruin. That was why she had suppressed her cultivation and dispersed the tribulation.

Among the various families, their understanding of Shi Lan’s strength had also come from the mouths of Tianyan Sect’s disciples, amounting only to a vague general impression.

She was said to be a peerless mighty figure of heaven-reaching power, someone whose very presence could swallow mountains and rivers, who could make the sun and moon fall with a shout. King Realm experts were like ants before her, and she even controlled a passage to other worlds.

The four great royal clans, however, did not believe such rumors.

In their minds, not much time had passed since Shi Lan’s last tribulation.

It was simply impossible for one person’s cultivation to rise so quickly. Even if she had made a breakthrough, there was no way she could have drawn down lightning tribulation twice in less than two short years.

That was sheer fantasy!

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As for treating King Realm experts like ants, the gathered King Realm experts were even more dismissive. If they themselves had possessed such strength, they would have unified the whole of Yunyan Star long ago. Why would they have let Tianyan Sect remain cornered in one region for so long?

On the mountaintop, the group of King Realm experts sat in silence, and the atmosphere was heavy.

But the whispered discussions below the mountain had never ceased.

“Do you think the master of Tianyan Sect will come?”

“Most likely. After all, this is a joint invitation from the royal clans. But with such a display, they’re probably trying to give the Tianyan Sect Master a show of force.”

“When the time comes, I’m afraid these royal clans are going to kick an iron plate.”

“Hard to say. No one has ever personally seen the Tianyan Sect Master take action. Everything about her strength is just hearsay.”

“Not long ago, the Tianyan Sect Master killed a ferocious King Realm bird. She slapped it to death with a single hand, and that bird had no power to resist at all! One of my nephews is in Tianyan Sect. He saw that bird’s corpse with his own eyes. It was as massive as a primordial mountain range, with a wingspan close to a thousand li!”

“Your information is wrong. I heard the Tianyan Sect Master never even moved. She only looked at that bird from afar and glared it to death!”

“That’s definitely an exaggeration.”

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Rumble…

A deep roaring sound rang out, like the howl of a savage beast. Ripples spread through the void layer by layer.

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A streak of rainbow light tore open the heavens, splitting apart the layered black clouds overhead, and finally came to a slow halt above the summit of Golden Cauldron Mountain.

Shi Lan stood in the highest heavens, her gaze sweeping over the King Realm experts below, her expression neither joyful nor sorrowful.

The radiance of the great sun condensed into a single beam that fell upon her shoulders, tinting her dark red hair with a layer of dim golden divine brilliance.

The crowd gathered near Golden Cauldron Mountain all looked up in unison, and the place instantly fell silent.

Above the sky stood a woman in white robes and red hair. Her bearing was immortal and proud, her beauty peerless. Beneath her light brows, her eyes were bright and limpid, yet when they shifted and turned, there was not the slightest trace of tenderness in them. Clad in the divine radiance of the great sun, she seemed to have the whole of Yunyan Star beneath her feet. She was like an immortal blossom capable of toppling a world, a fatal temptation shot through with a pressure that struck terror into the heart.

“You are Qin Liang?”

Shi Lan’s gaze swept across the gathered King Realm experts before finally settling on the old man seated atop a massive boulder at the mountain’s peak, and she spoke calmly.

Her voice was cool and clear, like a spring so cold it pierced the soul, flowing softly through the void.

Qin Liang, the Qin family’s old ancestor, was the only person on Yunyan Star to have reached perfect completion in the King Realm.

Back when the eight races had lived together, he had been the number one expert of Yunyan Star’s human race.

He had been famous for a long time. As one of the human race’s top experts, he was like a pillar holding back the sea, shielding Yunyan’s humans from no small number of dangers, both open and hidden. Among the various great families, his prestige was immense.

“That is correct. Greetings, Sect Master of Tianyan Sect.”

Qin Liang slowly rose to his feet and looked up in reply, a trace of gravity flashing through his eyes.

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His cultivation had already touched the shackles above the King Realm, and his senses toward heaven and earth were extraordinarily sharp.

In his perception, the person before him had already fused into one with the entire world. There was not the slightest friction between her and the laws of heaven and earth. This was true, flawless unity between heaven and man.

To have reached such a level, this Tianyan Sect Master’s attainments in the path of laws were already close to the Dao itself. Her strength was absolutely unfathomable.

This completely overturned every prior estimate they had made of Shi Lan’s power.

“We invited Sect Master here this time mainly to discuss the construction of Tianyan Sect’s branch strongholds, and whether our families need to assist in the process. Other than that, there is nothing else.”

Seeing Shi Lan’s indifferent expression, Qin Liang suddenly felt somewhat apprehensive. If he probed any further, he feared he would be unable to bear the consequences of failure.

He had already reached the final stretch of his life. It was not that he feared death, but that he feared failing to preserve his reputation in old age and bringing an irresistible calamity down upon the Qin family.

The other King Realm experts, however, could not sense things anywhere near as clearly as Qin Liang could, and they found his sudden change in attitude hard to accept.

In their eyes, Shi Lan’s aura was unstable and drifting, nowhere near as powerful as they had imagined. She even seemed to be carrying fairly serious injuries.

Thinking of the King Realm ferocious bird that had appeared within Tianyan Sect some time ago, the same guess surfaced in their minds.

To kill that King Realm ferocious bird, Shi Lan must have paid an immense price and suffered grave injuries.

At this moment, perhaps a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity had appeared. The gaze of one King Realm expert grew increasingly hostile, and a trace of killing intent surfaced in his heart.

The moment that killing intent appeared, Shi Lan, standing in the air, slowly turned her head. Her gaze, utterly devoid of emotion, locked onto him.

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“You want to kill me?”

“I did not—”

Buzz—

Shi Lan did not give him any chance to explain. Her pupils, black as ink pearls, instantly turned a dark crimson, igniting the void.

The entire world was sealed. Blazing red lotus karmic fire shot into the sky and swallowed that King Realm expert whole.

After only a few breaths, the red lotus karmic fire dispersed, and nothing remained on the ground but a patch of ash.

A rhombus-shaped crystal the size of a finger joint hung in midair. This was the origin crystal unique to King Realm experts on Yunyan Star, condensed from the profundities of the laws.

The entire place fell deathly silent. Everyone stared in stunned disbelief. Not one of the remaining King Realm experts failed to blanch in shock.

Before everyone’s eyes, a King Realm expert had been killed so easily by a single glance. How could anything be more horrifyingly unbelievable than that?!

“The human race of Yunyan Star was weak in the past and could never amount to much because of sectarian prejudice and hoarding what they had for themselves. Otherwise, how could they have fallen to the bottom among the eight races and suffered the bullying of foreign races?”

Shi Lan reached out and put away the origin crystal. Her gaze swept across the surrounding crowd as she spoke again:

“Today, I will not only make Tianyan Sect the sole master of Yunyan, I will also sweep away every great clan and aristocratic house under heaven in one stroke!”