35: Chapter 35 Yang Yan, who narrowly escaped disaster!

The three-month deadline had arrived.

Lingxiao Sect, Discussion Hall.

The hall, usually filled with ethereal Immortal Qi, was now shrouded in a suffocating silence.

Sitting in the main seat at the very top of the hall, originally belonging to the Lingxiao Sect Master, was a man dressed in a crimson python robe.

He looked to be in his thirties. Although his features were handsome, his brows were filled with a thick air of decay and sinister gloom.

Especially his eyes, which flashed with impatient red light from time to time, like a Vicious Beast on the verge of losing control.

This person was the Blazing Moon Sect Special Envoy, and the most favored son of the Blazing Moon Sect Grand Elder—Yang Yan.

"Tap, tap, tap…"

Yang Yan tapped his fingers lightly on the armrest. The crisp sound echoed in the empty hall, each tap like a heavy hammer, smashing fiercely against the hearts of the Lingxiao Sect high-level members kneeling on the ground below.

"Three months have passed."

Yang Yan spoke slowly. Although his voice was calm, the terrifying pressure of his Half-step Nascent Soul Realm around him was like an active volcano about to erupt, ready to swallow the entire Lingxiao Sect at any moment.

He had been trapped in this Realm for fifty full years!

As the son of the Grand Elder, he had enjoyed countless resources since childhood, but due to the limitations of his Innate Aptitude, he had never been able to take that final step to condense a Nascent Soul.

Watching his Qi and blood begin to decay and his Lifespan decrease year by year, the fear of death and the desire for power made him restless day and night, almost causing him to develop a Heart Demon.

Lin Qingxue, that legendary innate dao embryo, was his last straw to defy the Heavenly Dao and change his fate, and to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm!

For this opportunity, he didn't even hesitate to use his father's connections, giving up the invaluable spot in the Soul Transformation ruins allocated to him by his Sect, just to guard this fruit until it ripened here!

"My patience as the Special Envoy is limited."

Yang Yan's gaze swept coldly over the people below:

"How is my Dao Companion faring? Bring her out. I will take her back to the upper Sect to study the Dao together."

"This…"

Below, the Lingxiao Sect Master knelt on the ground, his forehead pressed tightly against the cold floor. Cold sweat had already soaked his back, and he stammered, not daring to look up.

How could he dare to say it?

That Saintess, who had been pinned with such high hopes, had vanished into thin air a month ago!

Even the Law Enforcement Elder in charge of guarding her, Yun Liu, was dead!

"What? Are you mute?"

Seeing no one reply, Yang Yan frowned, a trace of violent killing intent flashing in his eyes.

"Since you don't know how to speak, what use is this tongue? What use is this life?"

"Puff!"

He pointed a finger casually, and a crimson flame shot out like a poisonous snake.

"Ah—!!"

An Early Golden Core Stage Elder kneeling at the very front didn't even have time to beg for mercy. With a shrill scream, his entire body instantly turned into a raging fireball!

In just two breaths, a powerhouse at the Early Golden Core Stage was burned to ashes in full view of everyone, and not even his Divine Soul managed to escape!

This move completely crushed everyone's psychological defenses.

"Speak!!"

Yang Yan shouted angrily, causing the hall to tremble.

"Special Envoy, spare my life!! Special Envoy, spare my life!!"

The Lingxiao Sect Master's psychological defenses completely collapsed. Although he was at the Nascent Soul Initial Stage, in front of a Special Envoy like Yang Yan, who had heaven-reaching connections and formidable strength himself, he dared not resist in the slightest.

He kowtowed desperately, his voice filled with sobs:

"The Saintess… Lin Qingxue, she… she has disappeared!"

"What?!"

Yang Yan stood up abruptly. The killing intent that erupted in that instant shattered the ten-thousand-year profound iron Dragon chair behind him!

Boom!

A terrifying heatwave swept across the hall, making everyone feel as if they were in a sea of purgatorial fire.

"Disappeared?!"

Yang Yan took a step forward and instantly appeared in front of the Lingxiao Sect Master. He grabbed him by the collar, lifted him up, and his eyes turned crimson:

"Say that again?! Where is my dao fetus?!"

"A… a month ago…"

The Lingxiao Sect Master turned pale and said tremblingly:

"Just shortly after you left, Elder Yun Liu's life tablet shattered, and Lin Qingxue… vanished into thin air! We used every method, searched the entire Southern Region, but… but there is no news…"

"Good! Good! Very good!"

Yang Yan laughed in extreme anger, a chilling, ghostly laughter that made one's hair stand on end:

"She was lost a month ago, and you trash actually dared to hide it until now?!"

"Does your Lingxiao Sect think that because my Lifespan is running out, I can no longer wield a blade? Or do you think the Blazing Moon Sect is easy to bully?!"

"Since she is lost, what use is there in keeping you trash? The entire Sect, all of you, go and be buried with my dao fetus!!"

As he spoke, flames flared brightly in his hands, and he was about to order the annihilation of the Lingxiao Sect.

"Report—!!!"

Just as Yang Yan was preparing for a massacre, a Blazing Moon Sect Disciple wearing flame armor rushed in.

"Special Envoy! Something big has happened!"

"What is it? Being so flustered, what kind of decorum is this!" Yang Yan paused, his face full of impatience.

"Sunset Forest… the Soul Transformation Secret Realm… something happened!"

The Disciple knelt on the ground, his voice trembling, clearly terrified by the news that had been transmitted back:

"It was nearly a total wipeout! All the Prodigies who went in, except for the Great Zhou Princess, Jian Nanxin, Shen Luoyu, and the Great Qin Princess whose whereabouts are unknown…"

"The rest… including Senior Brother Ma who went in taking your spot, their life tablets have all shattered!!"

"What?!"

Yang Yan's pupils shrank, he froze in place, and the flames in his hands instantly extinguished.

The Soul Transformation Secret Realm… a total wipeout?!

A bone-chilling cold rushed straight to his crown, causing his original rage to instantly cool down.

He had originally felt some regret for missing this opportunity.

But now it seemed…

How was this regret?

This was simply life-saving!

If he hadn't waited for Lin Qingxue, he would already be a cold corpse right now!

"Dead… they are all dead?"

Yang Yan muttered to himself, then suddenly burst into wild laughter:

"Hahaha! Heaven will not destroy me! Heaven will not destroy me, Yang Yan!!"

He laughed up at the sky until tears came out. It was the joy of surviving a calamity, and even more, a fanaticism toward fate.

"A lucky star! This Lin Qingxue is definitely my lucky star!"

The fire of greed in Yang Yan's eyes burned even more fiercely, even carrying a hint of crazy paranoia:

"Just waiting for her was enough to block this calamity for me… If I can obtain her, refine her dao fetus… what is a Nascent Soul? Even Soul Transformation is within reach!!"

"I have decided on this woman!"

"Even if the emperors of the five nations come, they won't be able to stop me! I said so!"

He looked sharply at the Lingxiao Sect Master. The killing intent in his eyes receded a little, but became even colder:

"I will give you one last chance. She is lost? No problem! As long as she is still in the Southern Region, she cannot escape!"

"Use all of the Blazing Moon Sect's subordinate Schools for me, and simultaneously issue a bounty. Anyone who provides information will be rewarded with one High Grade Profound Rank Cultivation Technique! One Top-Grade Spiritual Artifact! One hundred thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones!"