212: One fart and he'd be dead...

The young man in green stood with his hands behind his back, his expression indifferent.

The small silver-white wolf was picking its ear with its little paw, while the large black dog bared its teeth, revealing forest-white fangs.

Just now... who made the move?

He hadn't even seen the attack!

Was it that youth?

Or those two strange dogs?

Lin Chen's gaze swept across—

[Name: Yang Lie]

[Realm: Peak Earth Immortal (Clone)]

[Identity: Chiyang Heaven Domain, Great Sun Divine Cult, inner sect elder]

“Chiyang Heaven Domain, Great Sun Divine Cult?”

Lin Chen's eyebrows twitched slightly as he recalled that ranking list. “The one ranked fifth among the Twelve Heavenly Domains, even above my Wending Sect?”

Yang Lie's Clone in the pit coughed up blood, his voice hoarse and strained. “Cough cough... You... who exactly are you! How can there be such a powerful person in the Lower Realm! Impossible!”

Xiao Bai strolled to the edge of the pit, looking down at the wretched Yang Lie, its silver eyes filled with mockery. “Hey, weren't you quite capable? Didn't you want to refine this Realm? Why aren't you refining it anymore?”

“Come, tell This Deity, how exactly were you planning to refine it?”

Xiao Hei also leaned over, its dog nose sniffing Yang Lie, a look of disgust on its face. “Aiya, Big Brother, why waste your breath on him! One look and you can tell he's not a good thing. Just ask him how he wants to die!”

Yang Lie's Clone was shocked and furious, but mostly filled with boundless fear.

The pressure these two 'pets' gave him was simply too terrifying!

What kind of ghost place was this?!

“You... who exactly are you! Do you know that This Immortal is only...”

“Only a Clone, right?” Lin Chen smiled coldly. “You are the Great Sun Divine Cult inner sect elder, Yang Lie. Your true body should be in the Chiyang Heaven Domain, right?”

Yang Lie's pupils shrank suddenly. “You... how do you know?! Who exactly are you!”

“I know more than you imagine,” Lin Chen said indifferently. “As for who we are, you aren't worthy of knowing.”

He looked at Xiao Hei and gave a casual command. “Alright, stop wasting words with him. Step him to death; he's an eyesore.”

“Alright! Sect Master!”

Xiao Hei had long been impatient. Hearing this, its dog eyes lit up. “I've been holding it in the whole way! Sect Master, Big Brother, leave him to me! To deal with this kind of trash, I can kill him with a single fart!”

“Guaranteed clean and efficient, leaving no trace!”

Hearing this, Yang Lie's Clone felt his Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering. He no longer cared about face and hurriedly begged for mercy. “Don't! Don't fart! Let's talk this out! Fellow Daoist! Senior! Have mercy! This Immortal... no, this Junior has something to say!”

“Junior was just passing through this place by chance. This is a misunderstanding! A huge misunderstanding!”

“If you have any last words, say them quickly!” Xiao Hei stuck out its butt, aiming it into the pit with a constipated expression. “This Immortal can't hold it in much longer! If you don't speak now, you won't have another chance!”

Yang Lie's liver and gall were split with fear as he shouted urgently, “You can't kill me! This is just a Clone! If you kill my Clone, my true body will definitely not let you go!”

“My Great Sun Divine Cult is the Dominator of the Chiyang Heaven Domain, a supreme great cult ranked fifth in the Twelve Heavenly Domains!”

“If you dare kill me, you will forge an irreconcilable feud with my Great Sun Divine Cult!”

“When the time comes, the Cult Master will be enraged, heavenly soldiers will descend, and you, along with this Realm, will all be turned to ashes!”

He threatened with a show of strength while hiding his weakness, attempting to make the other party hesitate.

Lin Chen only chuckled upon hearing this, a laugh that contained unconcealed mockery and... a hint of amusement?

“Great Sun Divine Cult? Heh.”

Lin Chen shook his head as if he had heard a joke. “Wash your neck and wait in the Chiyang Heaven Domain. My Wending Sect will soon come to 'visit'!”

He looked at Xiao Hei and nodded.

Yang Lie's last shred of consciousness saw that black dog turn around, stick out its butt, and then... 'Puff~~~~~~'

A long, dull sound.

There was no world-shaking explosion, no brilliant radiance.

There was only an invisible, intangible, terrifying fluctuation that instantly froze the Soul, lightly brushing past.

Then, Yang Lie's Clone body was like pencil writing erased by an eraser, silently and completely turning into nothingness, without even a speck of dust left behind.

The pit was still the same pit, but the person inside was gone.

Lin Chen glanced at the empty deep pit, a cold arc curling at the corner of his mouth.

“I was just worrying about not having a suitable reason to start steamrolling the Twelve Heavenly Domains. This reason... didn't it just deliver itself to my door?”

He turned around and didn't look at the deep pit again, leading the still-unsatisfied Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai as he leisurely walked into a nearby alley. Their figures flickered a few times and disappeared.

Only the countless survivors, stunned Cultivators and Mortals in the city, remained.

It wasn't until that terrifying pressure completely vanished that everyone dared to breathe heavily, looking at each other with faces full of unbelievable shock.

“Just... just now... what happened?”

“That Great Devil Head who said he wanted to refine the world... was blown away by a dog's... fart?”

“My God! Who is that youth? Even the pets he keeps are so terrifying?!”

“Killing such a terrifying existence with a single fart... this... this is simply a legendary method!”

“At the end, he seemed to say... Wending Sect? Could he be...”

“Shh! How can we discuss such an existence! Quick, record what we saw today!”

“That Great Devil Head seemed to come from some Great Sun Divine Cult? Ranked fifth? What kind of power is that? Why have I never heard of it?”

“Hiss... I don't know either! But I feel that this sky... is probably going to change again!”

...Cangxuan Realm, Heavenly Secrets Mountain.

Upon the strange and steep mountain peaks shrouded in mist year-round sat a cluster of simple and mysterious buildings. It was the ancient power known for deducing heavenly secrets and divining fate—

Tianji Pavilion.

On this day, in front of the Ancestral Master Shrine deep within the Tianji Pavilion that had been closed for years, ripples suddenly appeared in space.

A figure transformed from void to solid, quietly appearing.

Liu the Half-Immortal.

He stood on the bluestone plaza in front of the shrine, looking at the plaque engraved with the three ancient seal characters for 'Tianji Pavilion,' a look of joy flashing in his eyes.

“Hahaha! A long million years! I, the Great Emperor of Heavenly Secrets—have returned!”

The sound waves echoed through the mountains, startling countless birds into flight.

“Juniors of the Tianji Pavilion! Why haven't you quickly come out to pay respects to your Old Ancestor?!”

Silence.

A deathly silence.

Throughout the Tianji Pavilion, there was first a brief moment of bewilderment, followed by a massive commotion.

“Great Emperor of Heavenly Secrets?”

“Nonsense! Tianji Ancestor ascended to the Upper Realm long ago. How could he suddenly return?”

“Which petty person dares to impersonate our pavilion's founding Ancestral Master! How outrageous!”

“And he wants us to go out and pay respects? What big talk!”

“If he's the Tianji Ancestor, then This Seat is his grandfather!”

“Let's go! Go out and see! This Seat wants to see who's tired of living and dares to come to my Tianji Pavilion to act wildly!”

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!

Several streaks of light soared into the sky from various parts of the Tianji Pavilion, landing on the shrine plaza.

Every one of them was at least at the Supreme Peak.

Among them, two auras were exceptionally powerful, clearly Great Emperor Realm experts!

They were all dressed in the star-patterned Daoist robes unique to the Tianji Pavilion. Their faces were either serious, gloomy, or uncertain. Their gazes collectively locked onto Liu the Half-Immortal, filled with scrutiny and hostility.