921: Chapter 922 The Celestial Venerable Assume to Be the Master

Xiao Hei turned around, casting his gaze toward the main hall, and said in a deep voice, "Let's go, to the main Peak hall."

With that, he flicked his sleeve, swept up the limp Third Elder Zhao Wuji and the four kneeling Heavenly King Realm experts, and flew slowly toward the direction of the main hall.

Sect Master Liu Zhenshan took a deep breath to suppress the turbulent waves in his heart, and shouted in a deep voice, "Several Elders and Peak Masters, follow me to the main hall! Everyone else, remain where you are and await orders!"

The ten Heavenly King Realm experts, along with the six people including Xiao Ruobai and Liu Qingyao, as well as Xiao Hei, headed toward the Tianyuan Sect Main Peak Hall.

Along the way, tens of thousands of Disciples knelt on the ground, having lost even the courage to raise their heads and look directly.

At this moment, the entire Tianyuan Sect was left with only utter awe.

Main Peak Hall.

The main hall was boundless and vast, its pillars carved with eternal dao patterns, and Spiritual Qi drifted in the air like a mist.

The moment the group stepped into the hall, everyone's gaze was involuntarily drawn to the figure on the main seat.

At the very top of the hall, a figure in white leaned casually against the seat with a relaxed posture, as if he were just sitting there taking a nap at will.

Yet when everyone's gaze fell upon him, it was as if they were looking at an unsurpassable divine mountain.

Clearly, he was sitting right there with a peaceful aura and no external pressure leaking out.

Yet it caused a sense of insignificance to well up from the bottom of people's hearts, like Mortals gazing up at the starry sky without seeing an end.

Standing beside him was a woman with a gentle and refined temperament, like an orchid in a vacant valley. She was precisely Ji Qingyi.

Clearly two living people were sitting there, yet they made the entire hall appear empty and vast.

It was as if all things in this world paled into insignificance before them.

Just as everyone was guessing who this person was, a figure had already stepped forward quickly from their side.

Sect Master Liu Zhenshan.

Amidst everyone's horrified gazes, he walked quickly to the front of the main seat, bowed deeply, and spoke with utmost respect,

"Exalted One!"

Exalted One?!

These two words exploded in the main hall like a thunderclap.

Grand Elder's hand trembled, and he almost pulled out his beard.

Ziyang Peak Master's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.

Tianjian Peak Master's hand gripping his sword tightened slightly, and Biluo Peak Master even covered her mouth, her eyes filled with shock.

They had followed Sect Master Liu Zhenshan for hundreds of thousands of years and had never seen him use the address "Exalted One" for anyone.

Yet at this moment, he was actually bowing in salute to a youth in white who looked to be barely in his early twenties, his tone carrying heartfelt awe.

However, before everyone could recover from this shock, Xiao Hei stepped forward and looked at Gu Changge,

"Master, I have brought the people here."

The voice was not loud, but it was like a heavy hammer, fiercely smashing against the hearts of every follower.

Master?!

That Black-robed Heavenly Sovereign who crippled a Peak fifth-layer Heavenly King Realm expert with a wave of his hand and made heaven and earth lose their color actually called him Master?!

Moreover, looking at how naturally and casually he shouted it, it showed that he had long been accustomed to such an identity.

The pupils of the various Peak Masters, the Grand Elder, and all the Elders and executives shrank violently at the same time, their breathing choking for a moment.

That was a Heavenly Sovereign!

Looking across the Desolate Region, or even the entire Heavenly Realm, Heavenly Sovereigns were already existences standing at the clouds; any single one of them could establish a Sect and dominate a region.

Yet such a Heavenly Sovereign was willingly recognizing someone as Master, and shouting it with such matter-of-factness?

It was one thing for the Sect Master, who was in the Heavenly King Realm, to call this person "Exalted One," but this Senior was a Heavenly Sovereign!

Third Elder Zhao Wuji and the others were also completely dumbfounded at this moment.

The Sect Master called him Exalted One, and the Heavenly Sovereign called him Master. This person's identity had already exceeded the scope of what they could imagine.

However, at this moment, behind the crowd, Xiao Ruobai and the others, who were just preparing to salute and call him Master, also froze in place.

They couldn't help but look at the bowing Sect Master Liu Zhenshan, and then looked at Gu Changge sitting upright.

They suddenly recalled what Gu Changge had said earlier, "I have some friendship with Sect Master Liu of the Tianyuan Sect."

Was this called "having some friendship"?!

Xiao Ruobai's mouth twitched as he lowered his voice and said, "Master calls this 'having friendship'?"

Wang Xiaopang nodded blankly, "Mn, indeed there is friendship—the kind of friendship between superiors and subordinates."

Dong Li swallowed a mouthful of saliva and muttered, "I've never seen such a huge 'friendship' in my entire life."

Right at this moment, Gu Changge on the seat slowly straightened his body.

Just a simple movement seemed to drive the aura of the entire hall.

The dao patterns that were still flowing instantly returned to silence, and even the Void Realm seemed to become heavy at this moment.

He raised his eyelids, and those indifferent eyes did not contain any pressure, merely sweeping across the crowd casually.

However, the moment they were touched by this gaze, whether it was the Grand Elder and the three Peak Masters, or those shivering Third Elder Zhao Wuji, Second Elder, and others,

only felt a violent tremble deep within their Souls, as if all their secrets and thoughts were completely exposed before those eyes, unable to hide anything.

A sense of insignificance originating from the level of life, one that was impossible to resist, flooded everyone's mind like a tide.

Even Xiao Hei at the side lowered his head slightly at this moment to show respect.

Gu Changge's gaze pierced through the crowd and finally locked onto the puddle of mud-like Third Elder Zhao Wuji on the ground.

His voice was calm yet as bone-chilling as ice, echoing through the entire hall:

"It was you people who plotted against and wanted to kill my Disciple time and time again?"

"Disciple?"

These two words were like divine thunder from above the Nine Heavens, fiercely cleaving a crack into everyone's heart.

Almost at the exact same instant, everyone's gazes were uniformly nailed onto Xiao Ruobai.

Within those gazes, there was no longer a shred of the previous complexity and suspicion, leaving only a nearly absurd shock and a chill seeping from their very bones.

So those five newcomers who had killed until blood flowed like rivers in the Secret Realm were actually Disciples personally taken in by this supreme existence?!

Previously, they still felt that Xiao Ruobai was immensely daring, using his Heaven-Reaching Realm cultivation to dare kill a Heavenly King's descendant as standard courting-death behavior.

Looking back now, he wasn't courting death—that was confidence!

A Heavenly Sovereign personally guarded his Dao, and the Exalted One personally acknowledged him as a Disciple.

Never mind killing Zhao Qian; even if they flipped this Tianyuan Sect upside down, the existences standing behind these few would probably just frown and be done with it.

At this moment, Third Elder Zhao Wuji, kneeling at the very front like a puddle of mud,

upon hearing the cry of "Exalted One" and the subsequent words "Disciple," saw his last trace of luck completely shattered.

He had exhausted his heart's blood plotting for millions of years, embezzling the Sect's resources and raising progeny,

rallying allies, and even not hesitating to split the Sect, believing he had calculated everything and held victory in his grasp.

Only to find out in the end that the newcomer he wanted to kill and the Sect Master he wanted to force to abdicate

had standing behind them not only a Heavenly Sovereign, but also a supreme existence whom even a Heavenly Sovereign had to call Master.

This was simply a joke.

A colossal joke.

Third Elder Zhao Wuji opened his mouth, wanting to plead for mercy.

But right at this moment, Gu Changge no longer looked at him and simply waved his hand casually:

"Kill him."

Two words, spoken lightly and casually, yet they caused the temperature of the entire hall to plummet to freezing point.

Xiao Hei moved in response, bringing his fingers together like a knife as a wisp of purple-gold dao radiance silently swept across.

Third Elder Zhao Wuji opened his mouth, not even having time to let out a cry for mercy before his gaze completely scattered.

This Third Elder who once wielded immense power in the Tianyuan Sect and plotted for millions of years thus met his demise.

Until his death, he never uttered the word "spare me."

The hall was in dead silence.

No one dared to speak, no one dared to move, and even breathing was done with extreme caution.

Gu Changge's gaze slowly rose, landing on the trembling Second Elder not far away.