88: The sect was shaken

Just as Su Qingyue and the others were escorting the deeply unconscious Lin Ye on their journey back, an unprecedented violent storm had already swept through the entire Qingyun Sect with a speed that surpassed anyone's imagination!

Initially, it was just an urgent message sent back to the Sect by a Core Disciple who was out on a mission, at the cost of burning his vital blood!

That blood-red communication talisman, like a meteor, broke the centuries-long tranquility of the Qingyun Sect and directly rushed into the Sect Master's Great Hall, which was shrouded in mist all year round and symbolized the highest authority of the Sect!

When that communication talisman exploded in front of the Sect Master and several Core Elders, turning into a line of shocking blood-red characters—

The highest echelons of the entire Qingyun Sect were completely stunned!

"Black Wind Mountain Range... Demon Shadow Tower Dharma Body Realm Elder's Clone descends... Imminent danger!"

Just sixteen characters, yet they pressed down on the heart of every Elder like an ancient divine mountain!

Demon Shadow Tower!

Dharma Body Realm!

Either of these two terms was enough to shake the entire Qing Province!

"Quickly investigate! Which team is carrying out a mission in the Black Wind Mountain Range?!"

"Immediately activate the Sect Protection Array! All Elders, enter a state of highest alert!"

Instructions filled with panic and solemnity spread from the Sect Master's Great Hall throughout the entire Qingyun Sect with unprecedented speed!

However, before they could recover from this shocking bad news, the second, third, and even dozens of similar communication talismans poured into the Sect like raindrops from all directions!

The senders included Sect Disciples traveling abroad, merchants and travelers who were friendly with the Sect, and even Mortals in Black Wind City who had intricate connections with the Qingyun Sect!

And the news they conveyed completely plunged the entire Qingyun Sect into... madness!

"Extra! Extra! Qingyun Sect's Seventh Squad was ambushed by the Treasure Body Realm demonic cultivator 'Blood Fiend Old Demon' in Black Wind City! All annihilated!"

As soon as this news spread, the entire Sect was shrouded in sorrow and anger.

However, just half an hour later, an even more outrageous, even more... absurd piece of news completely overturned everyone's perception!

"Heaven-shattering reversal! Qingyun Sect Disciple Lin Ye, with Qi Refining Realm cultivation, cut down a Treasure Body Realm demonic cultivator! He saved all the people in the city with his own power!"

"What?! Qi Refining slays Treasure Body?! Are you telling me a myth?!"

"Fake! Absolutely fake! It must be the Mortals of Black Wind City spreading rumors and exaggerating!"

However, just as everyone was treating this news as a joke, the final, most devastating news that was enough to silence the entire Sect finally... arrived late!

"Final confirmation! Demon Shadow Tower Dharma Body Realm Elder 'Black Fiend Demon Venerable's' Clone Projection has personally descended to avenge his Disciple's grandson! He is ambushing the survivors of the Seventh Squad outside the Qingyun Mountain Range!"

This news, like a basin of ice water, instantly extinguished everyone's last shred of hope!

It's over!

This time, it's truly... a death sentence!

Dharma Body Realm! Let alone a small team of Inner Sect Disciples, even if the Sect Master himself came, it would probably be...!

In an instant, an endless sorrow and despair, like dark clouds, enveloped the skies above the entire Qingyun Sect.

However, just as everyone thought that the team that had just created a miracle was about to completely perish and become the most tragic chapter in the Sect's history—

The last, and most incredible, piece of communication finally, like a lightning bolt piercing through endless darkness, arrived late!

"Demon Venerable's Projection... has dissipated!"

"The one who acted... is still... Lin Ye!"

...When this final news was announced by the Disciples of the Deacon Hall—

All the Disciples who saw this line of text, whether from the Outer Sect or the Inner Sect, were struck by lightning at this moment, completely petrified!

"I... I didn't see wrong, did I?! Demon Venerable's Projection... was... was dispelled by Senior Brother Lin?!"

"Qi Refining slays Treasure Body?! Divine Thought destroys Dharma Body?!"

"This... this is no longer human!"

Countless Disciples surged out from their respective Immortal Caves!

Like iron filings attracted by a magnet, they converged frantically from all directions towards the same destination!

Qingyun Sect, Mountain Gate!

They were going to worship the hero who, with his own strength, turned the tide, propped up the collapsing edifice, and created an... immortal myth for all of them!

...The end of the journey is home.

When the ice crystal snow lotus carrying Lin Ye and Su Qingyue finally pierced through the familiar Sect Protection Array and appeared in the sky before the Qingyun Sect's mountain gate—

Even Su Qingyue's heart, which had been frozen for countless years, couldn't help but tremble violently!

Below, on the white jade steps that should have been cold and quiet, there was now a dense mass of people!

From the mountain gate, to the Martial Arts Training Ground, and then to every mountain path leading to the Inner Sect!

As far as the eye could see, there were people!

Tens of thousands of Qingyun Sect Disciples, from Outer Sect servants to Inner Sect Geniuses, and even those Core Disciples who were usually elusive, had now spontaneously gathered here!

They looked up at the slowly descending ice crystal snow lotus in mid-air with eyes full of reverence, adoration, and fanaticism.

When their gazes pierced through the crystal clear ice lotus and saw the young man lying in Su Qingyue's arms, bleeding from all seven orifices and barely breathing—

Everyone's eyes turned red at that instant.

Someone, the first one, bowed deeply towards that figure.

"Welcome back, Senior Brother Lin, in triumph!!!"

A shout full of endless respect and fanaticism, like a sudden clap of thunder, instantly tore through the dead silence!

Immediately after!

"Welcome back, Senior Brother Lin, in triumph!!!"

"Welcome, Senior Brother Lin!!!"

Shouts like a mountain roar and a tsunami, like the most surging waves, crashed against the sky one after another, frantically! The sound was so fervent, so sincere, that it caused the entire Qingyun Mountain Range to hum!

Amidst this wave of sound that was enough to make heaven and earth change color, Su Qingyue slowly lowered the ice lotus.

She ignored the fervent gazes around her, only lowering her head to look at the young man still sleeping in her arms.

It was as if her world only contained him.

Just then!

The crowd slowly parted to both sides.

A figure filled with supreme majesty and anxiousness, surrounded by a group of Elders, walked quickly from the end of the crowd!

The newcomer, dressed in a purple-gold Daoist robe, with a refined face that exuded authority without anger, was none other than the current leader of the Qingyun Sect—the Sect Master, Su Changqing!

He had actually... personally come out of seclusion to greet them!

"Qingyue!" He took three steps as two, instantly arriving in front of Su Qingyue. When he saw his daughter's pale face and the unconscious young man in her arms, his originally majestic eyes instantly filled with endless tenderness and... shock!

He didn't utter a single superfluous word, slowly extending the hand that seemed to contain the entire world, and gently placed it on Lin Ye's wrist.

A gentle yet vast as the sea spiritual energy instantly probed in.

The next moment, even this Dharma Body Realm expert, who had long been accustomed to great storms, showed a look of horror on his normally placid face!

"Such... such overbearing flame power! Such... such terrifying Divine Soul Foundation!"

He no longer hesitated for a moment, issuing the most solemn command since he ascended to the position of Sect Master, in an undeniable tone!

"By my command!"

"Immediately, activate the 'Nine Revolutions Spirit Pool'!

"Bring all the Spirit Medicine that nourishes the Divine Soul from the Sect's treasure vault!"