335: Chapter 335 What You Say Comes True

"Lord of the Heavenly Court, please rest assured, we will do our utmost to handle this matter well!"

The hearts of the gathered Great Saints and Saints of the Ancient Desolate Alliance trembled once more.

Refuse? Wouldn't that be like an old man hanging himself, tired of living?

"Good! Since that is the case, you may all disperse! Go and do what you must!"

Once these words were spoken, the many Cultivators felt as if they had been granted amnesty, wishing they could grow extra legs to flee the scene immediately.

There was no helping it; ever since the giant hand of Immortal Emperor Dongfang appeared, everything that followed had delivered such a massive shock that it made them doubt reality itself.

As the mastermind behind it all, the pressure Lin Bei exerted on them was immense, almost equal to the Heavenly Dao!

However, not everyone was in a rush to leave.

Long Yan and Long Bing, the two brothers, exchanged a glance. Their figures flickered and appeared beside Lin Bei. "Brother Lin, we two have a presumptuous request!"

Lin Bei looked at the two, already guessing their intent, but he still smiled and said, "Speak your mind, there's no harm in saying it!"

Long Bing was always much more composed than Long Yan. He smiled bitterly and shook his head. "Originally, having cultivated to this Realm, we never thought about pursuing anything greater. We just wanted to return to the clan and live out the rest of our lives in peace..."

"However, Brother Lin's battle with the Immortal from the Upper Realm has reignited our desire to Cultivate!"

"I, Long, also hope that one day I can achieve a Breakthrough at the Peak of the Great Emperor Realm, ascend to the Immortal Realm, and compete with those people of the Immortal Realm!"

"That's wonderful!" Lin Bei exclaimed in admiration. "Cultivators should have lofty ambitions. Brother Long's previous thoughts were truly too passive!"

At this moment, Long Yan couldn't help himself. "Brother Lin, my big brother is always so wishy-washy!"

"I'll just say it directly: we heard from Brother Jiang that the Heavenly Court is a Holy Land for Cultivation, and we want to join the Heavenly Court!"

"Join the Heavenly Court..." Lin Bei was not in the least bit surprised.

He sighed softly. "The two of you must have heard about that curse, right? Don't look at how the Heavenly Court is currently in its prime; it might vanish into thin air overnight..."

"The curse of the Heavenly Court!" Long Bing's expression was resolute. "To be honest, I don't know if there has ever been a Heavenly Court as powerful as the one Brother Lin has created in any previous era!"

"But if the outcome cannot be changed in the end, being able to face the tribulation alongside a Lord of the Heavenly Court like Brother Lin is still a fine thing!"

"Good!" Lin Bei nodded with a smile. "Since it has come to this, I truly have no reason to refuse!"

"However..." He immediately put on a shy expression. "As for the rules... I wonder if Brother Jiang has mentioned them to you?"

"Rules?" Long Bing and Long Yan looked at each other, somewhat confused.

Jiang Yunyi was standing not far away. Hearing this, he approached with a strange expression on his face. "Is the Sect Master referring to the three thousand fangyuan?"

"Eh?" Lin Bei's expression straightened. "What three thousand? We are all friends; I'll only charge two thousand! I don't want even one more!"

"Two thousand fangyuan?" The two Dragon Clan brothers understood the so-called rules and wore the same strange expression as Jiang Yunyi.

"Fellow Dragons, who gets it?"

A dignified Late-stage Great Emperor powerhouse, and they actually have to pay money to join a faction?!

"Hehe!" Lin Bei felt absolutely no shame. "It's all the same, all the same! It's the same for everyone!"

Two thousand fangyuan naturally meant nothing to a Great Emperor. With slightly resentful expressions, the two of them each took out a Storage Pouch.

Lin Bei's eyes lit up as he accepted the Storage Pouches. "Welcome to the Heavenly Court!"

"Rumble..."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the Ancient Desolate Continent suddenly shook. Countless black clouds manifested out of thin air, piling up in the sky, making nearly half of the Central Province suddenly seem as if it had entered the night!

"What the hell? Could that Immortal Emperor have returned to kill us so soon?" Long Yan's eyes widened.

"No! This feeling is..." Lin Bei stared at the black clouds, his brows slightly furrowed. "It really came at the right time; my No Beginning No End effect just ended..."

It had to be said that the threshold for this curse was truly absurd; it hadn't triggered when he broke through to the Peak of the Great Emperor Realm earlier.

Not even Luo Qingcheng and the others breaking through to True Immortal had triggered the calamity.

Yet, it had reached the critical value just because he agreed to let the Dragon Clan brothers join the Heavenly Court.

Thinking of this, Lin Bei shook his head with a bitter smile and looked at the two men in front of him. "You two Fellow Daoists really have words that manifest reality—speak of the devil and he appears..."

Long Bing and Long Yan were stunned upon hearing this. "C-could this be the tribulation of the Heavenly Court?"

Lin Bei nodded slightly and looked upward, his gaze as sharp as a sword.

"Those who presumptuously establish a Heavenly Court! Die!"

"The Heavenly Court shall be destroyed, the Lord of the Heavenly Court shall be executed!"

"Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!"

Roars echoed from behind the black clouds, chilling to the soul.

All around, many low-level Cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Alliance and Yinming Land gradually had their eyes go vacant, their auras growing weaker and weaker.

Finally, they fell straight from the sky, their Divine Souls having been shattered by the roars.

"This won't do!" Lin Bei's heart sank as he watched this scene.

If the Heavenly Court's tribulation caused too many innocent deaths and injuries, that was something he did not want to see.

"Kid, why are you still standing there stunned?" The Lord of Sacred Heart Mansion appeared beside him. "The Heavenly Court's tribulation doesn't just descend upon you; it targets the entire Heavenly Court!"

"The Heavenly Court is currently empty inside. If we don't return in time to guard it, I fear it will be destroyed in an instant..."

Hearing the words of the Lord of Sacred Heart Mansion, Lin Bei's pupils constricted. However, he was not worried about the Heavenly Court.

Although there were many good things inside the Heavenly Court, he didn't care too much; if it was gone, he could just rebuild it.

Currently, the only ones in the Heavenly Court were the Old Turtle and Xiao Yan. These two fellows were not to be trifled with, so presumably, self-preservation wouldn't be a problem.

The one he was truly worried about was Chen Ping!

Lin Bei didn't know why Chen Ping hadn't returned after such a long time.

But what was certain was that no matter where Chen Ping was right now, the Heavenly Court's tribulation would not leave him out.

"I hope the Destroyer that finds Chen Ping won't be too strong. He has an Immortal Sword with him; perhaps he still has a chance..." He sighed slightly in his heart.

Having dealt with Destroyers many times, Lin Bei had long since judged from the roars that it was exactly these kinds of monstrosities within the black clouds.

"Senior," he looked at the Lord of Sacred Heart Mansion, "It's hard to return to the Heavenly Court for a while, let's leave this place first!"

"Good!" The Lord of Sacred Heart Mansion looked at the Cultivators constantly falling from the sky and nodded in agreement.

Immediately, both of them struck at the same time, with Liu Wei and the others assisting, and they took the hundreds of people from the Heavenly Court and vanished from the spot.

Meanwhile, the boundless black clouds above also underwent a change.

The originally continuous black clouds suddenly split into two smaller clouds.

One of them covered an area of about three thousand li, and the other was even smaller, covering less than a thousand li.

However, this "small" was only relative to the massive black clouds that had originally covered half of the Central Province.

If taken individually, even the smallest piece of black cloud was still enough to make a Great Saint unable to catch their breath.

After the two black clouds split, they didn't linger. The slightly larger one moved toward the center of the Central Province at an indescribable speed.

The smallest one flashed with black light and headed toward the Western Desert.

Eighty thousand li away, Lin Bei's figure appeared, just in time to see this scene. He couldn't help but be stunned. "Hmm? Could Chen Ping have gone to the Western Desert?"

However, the black clouds above his head didn't give him more time to think.

"Splash..." The moment the Heavenly Court members appeared from the spatial vortex, black rain began to fall!