Chapter 203 - 140: Reckoning, Emperor Ascension Crisis, Terrifying Death Trap

Chapter 203: Chapter 140: Reckoning, Emperor Ascension Crisis, Terrifying Death Trap

"We were truly blind back then, failing to recognize a paragon among mortals and missing out on a profound karmic bond."

"The Qi Family is finished. From now on, there will be no Qi Family in the Xingyue City Realm."

While countless Cultivators regretted their past actions, those who had mocked, bullied, and oppressed the youth back then were even more terrified. They lived in constant fear, deeply afraid that the figure in white would come back to punish them for their past sins.

Everything was over. The youth led the entire Ye Family slowly out of the estate.

As he passed before the countless Qi Family Cultivators prostrating on the ground, he spoke.

"The Qi Family’s hands are not stained with the Ye Family’s blood. As for the grudges of the past, the lives paid by Qi Tianyang, his son, and the countless family elders will serve as adequate compensation."

At a certain moment, following the youth’s words, his tone shifted. "As for the grudges between the Qi Family and myself..."

BOOM!

The youth released a sliver of his aura. Suddenly, several muffled groans emerged from the crowd.

"Ugh—!"

Dozens of the Qi Family’s favored sons and daughters, who had once hunted Jiang Hao in the ancient ruins, collapsed to the ground, unable to rise. Alongside them, several family elders and Qi Tianhai lost all signs of life.

"From this day forth, all karmic ties between the Qi Family and myself are written off. As for the sins you have committed in Xingyue City, others will naturally come to collect your dues. Look out for yourselves."

Ultimately, Jiang Hao did not exterminate them completely because he didn’t need to. Over the years, the number of factions the Qi Family had offended and bullied in Xingyue City was already countless. The fate of the Qi Family, now lacking the protection of powerful experts, was easy to imagine. They would inevitably face extermination, ripped out by the roots. Such was the cruelty of the Cultivation Realm.

Having finished speaking, the youth took to the sky with the entire Ye Family, never once casting a glance at the members of the Qi Family from beginning to end. Watching the terrifying, overwhelming army of Nanling slowly retreat, the entire Xingyue City Realm remained anxious, living in a constant state of panic.

Amidst the sea of people, Wang Jiang watched the terrifying formation disappear at the end of the horizon, his body still trembling. "Impossible. It’s only been such a short time. How could he have already reached such heights?"

While his eyes were filled with horror and shock, Wang Jiang also felt as if he had been given a new lease on life. From the moment that figure appeared, he had hidden himself. Fortunately, the other party hadn’t sought him out to settle accounts. Otherwise, a single thought would have been enough to reduce him to ash.

However, little did he know that the figure in white had never paid him any mind from start to finish. To him, someone like Wang Jiang simply didn’t exist; he was nothing more than an almost invisible, leaping clown. There was no deep-seated blood feud, nor did he possess the qualifications to be remembered.

Time slowly flowed by. In the blink of an eye, a month passed.

After migrating to Nanling with their entire clan, the Ye Family took root in a valley rich with Spiritual Qi. The Spiritual Qi here was countless times denser than in the Xingyue City Realm. More importantly, they didn’t have to worry about safety here at all. It wasn’t like Xingyue City, where a single Great Power of Transcendence could destroy the entire city. If a powerful Cultivator with a bad temper happened to pass by one day, that region could have been reduced to history.

But the Ye Family was different now. In Nanling, as long as the Ye Family didn’t actively court death, they would multiply endlessly. If a peerless figure were ever born into their clan, they would instantly soar to the heavens.

One could even say the Ye Family had hit the jackpot and ascended to greatness. In the Cultivation Realm, the hardest things to seek out were a stable cultivation environment and terrifying amounts of cultivation resources. And all of this had changed because of the appearance of that youth. Perhaps hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years later, the Ye Family would transform and become a Longevity Family as well.

This was a reality that left all the factions in Xingyue City utterly consumed by regret.

However, the Ye Family’s settlement didn’t mean that Jiang Hao’s situation had improved. Quite the contrary.

At this moment, outside Nanling.

Various imposing figures were concealed within the void. Countless older generation figures from the Celestial Sword Sect, along with supreme experts from various factions harboring ambitions for the "Great Emperor’s Opportunity," completely blocked off every exit from Nanling. Even from within Nanling, one could sense the earth-shattering murderous intent lurking outside.

"They are waiting. They are waiting for the start of the second phase of the Prodigy Hegemony. By then, Hao’Er will have to face those older generation Daoist Cultivators directly. His situation will be even more pessimistic."

On South Mountain Peak.

Jiang Renfeng and Yan Nantian stood with their hands clasped behind their backs. Gazing at the earth-shattering murderous intent outside Nanling from afar, both of them wore incredibly solemn expressions. Jiang Renfeng continued,

"The Celestial Sword Sect alone would be easy to handle; Nanling is not weak in the slightest.

"But what the entire higher echelon of Nanling worries about most right now is the ’Great Emperor’s Crisis’ and the Ten Great Daoist Lineages.

"The Ten Great Daoist Lineages are enough to destroy all the accumulation Nanling has built up over tens of thousands of years.

"And as for the Great Emperor’s Opportunity, those four words alone are enough to trigger an earth-shattering catastrophe. Even a realm as strong as the Nanling Realm cannot withstand the pressure.

"It is as if this child was born into a fatal dead end. Escaping it is as difficult as ascending to the heavens—it’s almost impossible.

"I can’t even imagine what kind of arduous beginning awaits him next.

"In the future, if he achieves his Dao, his path will inevitably be paved with a mountain of white bones."