683: Chapter 683 Destruction and Reconstruction

At noon the next day, Qin Yu came to tell you that Chu Chu, the five Void Refining experts, and over a dozen Soul Transformation Elders had all returned.

With a movement of your body, you arrived at the Elder Hall of Fengyun Pavilion.

The hall was empty.

You swept your Divine Thought across the Fengyun Pavilion and the Tianhuang Continent—five Void Refining experts, over a dozen Soul Transformation experts, and more than a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators were all within your Sea of Consciousness.

Gu Yuetang, Gu Rihai, Sun Yang, and others had also joined Fengyun Pavilion along the way and were now all Soul Transformation Elders.

Furthermore, after Fengyun Pavilion spread the news that "Nascent Soul Peak cultivators are free to leave," other forces either disintegrated on their own or were wiped out by Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo and her subordinates.

Today, in the Tianhuang Continent, Fengyun Pavilion is the only cultivation force; everyone else is a Loose Cultivator.

It must be said that although the Tianhuang Continent has become a living hell, Fengyun Pavilion has indeed grown stronger.

With such strength, even without counting you and Qin Yu, it could be considered a second or third-rate force in the Immortal Domain—even the Haotian Sect cannot compare to Fengyun Pavilion.

If you include you, Qin Han, and Qin Yu, it is comparable to a first-rate force, second only to the five top-tier forces.

Never would I have thought that in just over two hundred years, Fengyun Pavilion could grow to this extent.

The only downside is that the Tianhuang Continent has no future.

The people at the bottom are filled with resentment toward Fengyun Pavilion. Once these upper-echelon Void Refining and Soul Transformation experts fall, there will surely be no successors.

After taking a deep breath, you slowly raised your hand and pressed down.

An invisible Law Power spread across the entire Tianhuang Continent.

Those hundred-plus high-ranking members were enveloped by an irresistible force. The next second, the hall flashed repeatedly, and everyone was moved into the main hall by you.

Although over ninety percent of the people had never seen you, they all guessed it—you were the Pavilion Master.

More than a hundred people simultaneously cupped their hands:

"Greetings, Pavilion Master!"

"Greetings, Pavilion Master!"

Only a few people here had seen you—Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo, Chu Chu, Cheng Rongrong, Fragrant Lord Qiao, Feier, and others.

Even Ye Wuhen had never seen your true face.

Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo did not salute.

She stood stunned in place, her face full of disbelief.

"Impossible... Impossible!" Her voice trembled, then grew louder, "How could you possibly be the Pavilion Master?"

She pointed at you: "I grew up with you; I know exactly what kind of person you are! A figure like the Pavilion Master, who protects the Tianhuang Continent with his own strength, how could it be someone like you?"

"Impossible! I want to see the Pavilion Master! I want to see the Vice Pavilion Master!"

Looking at Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo, you were genuinely afraid she would blurt out your childhood embarrassment—that Meng Hao had taken you to peek at her bathing, and she had discovered you.

Ever since then, Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo had loathed you.

You ignored her and swept your gaze over the dozen or so Soul Transformation Elders—they were all people you knew, but they did not recognize you.

These Soul Transformation experts had left through a space channel when they were at the Nascent Soul Peak, with the exit set up in an empty secret room. Some had seen the disguised Qin Yu, while others had never even seen her.

After leaving the Tianhuang Continent, they had almost never returned and knew nothing about the current state of the Tianhuang Continent.

This time, Qin Yu had sent a message and told them everything. Meeting your gaze, they all lowered their heads in unison.

"Everyone," you spoke slowly, "What are your thoughts on the current state of the Tianhuang Continent?"

No one answered.

The hall fell into a deathly silence.

Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahaha... Has Fengyun Pavilion become worse? Fengyun Pavilion is now the only cultivation force in the Tianhuang Continent!"

"Is your 'good'," you looked at her, "using the common people as blood food?"

"Is your 'good'," you continued, "emptying out the resources of Fengyun Pavilion, all to prop up your own Family?"

"What's the difference?" Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo sneered, "Aren't they all people of Fengyun Pavilion? Aren't they all working for Fengyun Pavilion? If I don't cultivate my own people, should I cultivate strangers and wait for them to stab me in the back later?"

"A Loose Cultivator like Zhixi, who has the Aptitude but no resources, is still at the Early Nascent Soul Stage," you looked at her, your voice growing colder, "If she had received fair treatment, she would have reached the Soul Transformation stage long ago. You must have killed many such people, right?"

"And your Meng Family, even children a few years old receive thousands of Spirit Stones every month. Ninety percent of your six-hundred-member Meng Family are squandering them."

"With the same cultivation level in Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment, the resources of your Meng Family Disciples are ten or a hundred times that of others."

"But what about their contributions? Where are they?"

"You don't look at Aptitude or character, just because they are members of the Meng Family?"

"Hahaha..." Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo laughed even louder, "What about your Qin Family? And the people here, which Family isn't like this?"

"Precisely because of that," your tone was calm, "everyone in the Pavilion, from top to bottom, cannot avoid punishment. This includes myself and the Qin Family."

Everyone looked at you; some showed expressions of shame, some had a flash of light in their eyes, and some frowned deeply.

You swept your gaze around, your voice not loud, but clearly audible to everyone:

"All personal assets are to be confiscated, including those of my Qin Family. All resources will be distributed equally among all the people of the Tianhuang Continent."

"Furthermore, Fengyun Pavilion is hereby dissolved, and I will no longer serve as Pavilion Master."

As soon as these last words were spoken, everyone was stunned.

After a brief silence, Fragrant Lord Qiao was the first to speak: "Pavilion Master, if we dissolve, where will we go? The Heavenly Palace and the Liu Clan will not let us off. If we are no longer united, where is the future of Tianhuang?"

"That's right." Ye Wuhen nodded, "Pavilion Master, do not be impulsive just because some people have done wrong."

"I, on the other hand, think the Pavilion Master's approach is very wise." Chu Tianqi stroked his beard.

"Indeed." Cheng Wenbo nodded, "Fengyun Pavilion is now rotten to the core; unless everyone is killed, otherwise..."

He did not continue, because over a hundred pairs of eyes were staring at him in unison.

He gave a sheepish smile: "Hehehe, this is unrealistic; isn't this digging our own graves? Everyone, don't misunderstand, that's not what I meant."

Only then did the others retract their gazes and begin to discuss in twos and threes.

A small number of people saw it clearly—Fengyun Pavilion was rotten to the core; it was impossible to turn public sentiment around.

The only way was to break and then establish.

You ignored the noise and looked at Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo: "Considering that the root problem lies in the Tianhuang Continent itself, and that I also bear some responsibility, and since Fengyun Pavilion is dissolved, I will only abolish your cultivation. I hope you will conduct yourself well in the future."

You did not mention removing her from the position of Acting Pavilion Master—Fengyun Pavilion was dissolved, so it was unnecessary.

"I don't accept this!" Acting Pavilion Master Meng Duoduo roared, "You have no right to dissolve Fengyun Pavilion! I've been managing it all these years; on what grounds are you dissolving it?"

You looked at her and smiled faintly: "My dissolving it is my business. You can build your own force in the future; it has nothing to do with me."

Having said that, you casually raised your hand and flicked it.

An invisible Law Power penetrated her body, instantly shattering her Nascent Soul.

"Pfft—"

Excruciating pain spread throughout her body, and she suddenly spewed a mouthful of blood, the fragments of her Nascent Soul scattering amidst the blood mist.

Her body went limp, and she collapsed to her knees on the ground, supporting herself with her hands, her entire body trembling.

She slowly raised her head, her eyes red, staring fixedly at you, her voice trembling: "You are so heartless... I have treated your Qin Family well all these years..."