138: Song Xiangyun was overjoyed

"Alliance Leader, your Senior Sister Liu Yixue and Nangong Li are no longer in this world. Please accept my condolences."

Lord Youyang repeated this to Song Xiangyun once more.

"Dead? They... are they both dead?"

Song Xiangyun was stunned for a long moment, muttering softly to herself with an expression of utter disbelief.

After a long while, she sat back down in the grand armchair, her eyes looking somewhat vacant.

Lord Youyang sighed softly: "Alliance Leader Song, I know this is very difficult for you to accept, but since it has already happened, you must learn to accept it."

Song Xiangyun did not respond, her face still wearing a vacant expression, as if she were immersed in boundless regret and sorrow.

After a long time, she wiped her face, shook her head at Lord Youyang with effort, and revealed a faint smile: "It is fine. May I ask, Vice Sect Master, how did my Senior Sister and the others die?"

Lord Youyang: "They were all killed by Shen Lian."

"Shen Lian?" Song Xiangyun was dazed for a long moment, then shook her head: "Vice Sect Master, are you mistaken? How could Shen Lian possibly do such a thing?"

Lord Youyang: "It is absolutely true. Alliance Leader Song, perhaps you are not yet aware of the news that the Heavenly Feather Sect has also been destroyed by Shen Lian?"

"Hm? What happened to the Heavenly Feather Sect? Tell me clearly at once."

Thus, Lord Youyang shared all the relevant information he had gathered with Song Xiangyun.

After Lord Youyang finished speaking, Song Xiangyun couldn't help but gasp, then put on a pitiful expression and said to Lord Youyang:

"I am truly sorry. I had no idea my Senior Brother would actually descend into the Demonic Path and implicate the Chess Sword Pavilion. Rest assured, as the Alliance Leader of the Northern Domain Profound Sect Alliance, I will certainly not ignore this matter."

Lord Youyang immediately stood up: "It is wonderful that Alliance Leader Song is willing to step forward. Shen Lian has entered the Demonic Path and committed such conscience-less acts; it is truly intolerable by heaven. I implore Alliance Leader Song to take charge of the situation, restore the spirit of our Righteous Path, eliminate this Devil Head as soon as possible, and return peace to this world."

Song Xiangyun smiled gently: "Vice Sect Master, what are you saying? Although Shen Lian and I come from the same Sect, how could I practice favoritism in the face of righteousness? Please rest assured, Vice Sect Master. Those who betray their masters and ancestors are the dregs of our cultivation world, and everyone has the right to execute them. As the Alliance Leader of the Northern Domain Profound Sect Alliance, I must naturally defend the Righteous Path. How could I allow this Devil Head to harm the common people!"

"Alliance Leader Song's righteousness is truly admirable, and I, Lord Youyang, am in awe. It is only a pity that although I am the Acting Sect Master of the Chess Sword Pavilion, I am constrained by many sides and cannot lead the Chess Sword Pavilion out to assist. However, I promise that as long as Alliance Leader Song speaks, I will certainly do my utmost to assist you from the sidelines."

"Defending the Righteous Path is our bounden duty. Since you have brought it up, Vice Sect Master, I will be direct: please invite righteous figures from all paths to gather at Tianji Mountain to discuss how to deal with Shen Lian!"

"I will handle this matter for you, Alliance Leader Song. Give me ten days. In ten days, there will surely be righteous warriors gathering at Tianji Mountain to crusade against Shen Lian. At that time, everything will be under your command, Alliance Leader Song!"

A flash of joy appeared in Song Xiangyun's eyes, but it was quickly masked by her exquisite acting: "Then I will have to trouble you, Vice Sect Master."

Lord Youyang bowed: "There is no time to lose. I shall take my leave now. See you in ten days."

"Take care, Vice Sect Master."

"Alliance Leader Song, please stay."

After watching Lord Youyang leave, Song Xiangyun dismissed everyone and casually cast a soundproofing barrier.

She sat alone in the grand armchair, resting her forehead on one hand, concealing the expression on her face.

But soon, Song Xiangyun's exquisite body began to tremble and convulse due to her intense excitement.

"Hahahaha..."

Finally, she could no longer restrain herself and burst into loud laughter.

"Liu Yixue, Nangong Li, you two bitches are finally dead. It's a pity I couldn't see what you looked like before you died with my own eyes."

"And you, Shen Lian, my Senior Brother, you have been too good to me. Not only did you do the things I have always wanted to do, but I never expected you to give me such a great gift in the end."

Song Xiangyun laughed until she was swaying, and in the end, unable to hide the surging emotions in her heart, she actually rolled back and forth on the hall floor.

Song Xiangyun did not care at all about the death of her fellow disciples or the destruction of the Sect.

Ever since she ascended to the position of Alliance Leader of the Northern Domain Profound Sect Alliance with Shen Lian's help, the poison of ambition had taken root and sprouted within her.

As time passed, being the Alliance Leader of the Northern Domain Profound Sect Alliance could no longer satisfy her expanding desires; she wanted more.

She wanted to become the sole Alliance Leader of the entire continent and enjoy that truly supreme power.

For so many years, Song Xiangyun had been waiting for an opportunity, never expecting that her own simp of a Senior Brother would deliver this great gift right to her.

"Oh, Senior Brother, you really are a fool. Just because of a promise made in your youth, you treated us like treasures and doted on us."

"Since you are so naive and kind, if I didn't use you and deceive you, my conscience would truly be uneasy."

"Now you have suddenly awakened and want revenge, right? It's a pity, you awakened too late."

"You can kill Liu Yixue, Nangong Li, and everyone in the Heavenly Feather Sect, but can you kill power?"

Song Xiangyun licked her dry lips, the excitement in her eyes undisguised.

"In ten days, I will lead the entire Righteous Path to see you off myself. Such a scene can be considered a fitting end to our time as fellow disciples, right?"

"In the end, I will step on your corpse and slowly walk to the pinnacle of power. This can also be considered your final contribution to me."

"Ahahaha..."

Song Xiangyun laughed with extreme malice, forming a stark contrast to her pure and harmless-looking pretty face.

...

At this moment, on the border of the Sacred Domain, on Wuji Mountain, Shen Lian sat alone on a high peak, utilizing the properties of the heaven and earth root and the Indestructible Dao Body to madly absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to nourish the meridians in his body.

"Hmph!"

Accompanied by an extremely suppressed shout, a vast force erupted from Shen Lian's entire body, actually shattering the clouds in the Void Realm until they dissipated completely.

"Three days time, and I have successfully achieved a Breakthrough to the Eighth Level of the Hunyuan Realm. In this chaotic and cruel world, everything is fake; only one's own strength is most trustworthy!"

Feeling the huge changes occurring throughout his meridians, that long-lost fullness of Spiritual Qi truly benefited him greatly.

After steadying his mood, Shen Lian looked at the scene of smoke and fire rising in the distance, his eyes instantly turning cold.

"Boring power struggles; this trick is performed day after day, tirelessly. It ends with one group of trash defeating another group of trash to sit on the chair that symbolizes power. The result is that the most innocent ones, the ants who did nothing, are the ones who suffer the most. When a general achieves success, ten thousand bones wither. No one will know if the trash that the ants painstakingly supported can bring them the life they want."

This made Shen Lian think of an experience from a few lives ago in a low-level Profound world.

He had once defended a Lonely City alone in an extremely difficult environment.

In order to protect the common people of the Lonely City from being invaded by enemy nations, he used every means possible to maintain their livelihood.

At least during the years Shen Lian defended the Lonely City alone, the common people in the city were able to eat their fill.

However, what he received in the end was a collective backstabbing from the two hundred thousand commoners in the city, who all denounced him and welcomed the army of that so-called son of heavenly mandate into the city.

But what was the final result? After that son of heavenly mandate arrived, he didn't care about the lives of the commoners in the city at all. In just two months, eight or nine out of ten of the two hundred thousand commoners had perished, and the rest were merely clinging to life.

Having experienced the sinister nature of humanity, Shen Lian had, from that time until now, never had any expectations for mortals, nor had he cared about their lives.

Just as Shen Lian was preparing to go down the mountain, a youth in tattered clothes walked up to him holding a letter.

"Excuse me, are you the Immortal Master Shen Lian?"