38: Earth-atmosphere impact

"Senior Brother, I don't know why you've become like this, but I'm your Junior Sister. Are you really unwilling to listen to me anymore?"

Su Yuheng did not immediately attack Shen Lian, opting instead to play the emotional card.

This time, she didn't call him Junior Brother, finally switching to Senior Brother.

But Shen Lian watched Su Yuheng's performance silently, as if looking at an idiot, and uncharacteristically refrained from retorting.

He was very curious what kind of acting this trash was planning to use to deceive his former self at a time like this.

At the same time, it would take a while longer for the earth qi at the bottom of the Medicinal Field to erupt, and he deliberately intended to stall for time.

Su Yuheng didn't notice the change in Shen Lian's eyes, only thinking that her Verbal Manipulation was working, so she moved a few steps closer and continued speaking.

"Senior Brother, listen to your Junior Sister's advice. Don't continue down this path of stubborn delusion. Seeing you make such a huge mistake truly hurts my heart.

You have already entered the Demonic Path. If you continue, you will be beyond saving. Come, listen to me, retract your Aura,

Your Junior Sister will take you back. Wouldn't it be better if we got along peacefully, just like before?"

As she spoke, she stretched out her hands, revealing a look of utter sincerity, as if she were saving a prodigal son who had seen the error of his ways.

"Hahahahaha..."

Shen Lian finally couldn't hold back and burst into laughter.

"Su Yuheng, I have to admit, your acting is so terrible that even stray dogs would despise it.

Go back with you? And then be like before? Setting aside whether your words are true or false, I just want to ask you: 'Like before' was what exactly?"

Su Yuheng was startled: "Of course, it means getting along harmoniously, just like before."

"Getting along harmoniously? Hahaha, what a wonderful 'getting along harmoniously'."

Shen Lian replied coldly.

"The so-called 'getting along harmoniously' means you uniting with six other dogs to accompany that Old Wall Lamp beside you, and then uniting with the bastard Ye Fan to bully me?"

"Or is it punishing me and making me wish I were dead whenever you were slightly displeased?"

"Or perhaps the seven of you uniting to torture me until I couldn't even beg for death?"

"Put away your hypocrisy. Be your dog like before? Do you think everyone is as cheap as you imagine?"

"Today, I'll say this clearly: Su Yuheng, you will die a miserable death. I will repay the humiliation and harm you inflicted upon me tenfold, a hundredfold!"

"You, and the other six white-eyed wolves—oh, and that bastard Ye Fan—I will slowly torture you all,

letting you experience what it feels like to fall from the clouds into the mud and be trampled upon!"

Su Yuheng's delicate body trembled, and she replied with a shaky voice: "Senior Brother! I think you've truly gone mad. You never used to talk to me like this!"

"Shut up! You bitch, even now you still want to use that cliché Verbal Manipulation to ensnare me?

Your goal in feigning sincerity now is nothing more than making me drop my guard so you and that old hag can kill me, isn't it?

If you want to fight, then be quick about it and just attack. Today is your last chance. If you don't kill me, your future fate will surely be no different from an ant's!"

Su Yuheng was completely enraged by Shen Lian's ruthless words.

"Senior Brother, I advised you kindly, yet you show no appreciation. It seems necessary to teach you a lesson.

I'm warning you one last time: don't force me to strike. Just obediently surrender yourself, understood!"

Old Ancestor Tianyu, standing nearby, had completely lost patience and loudly urged: "What are you dawdling for? Why are you wasting so many words on him? Attack immediately!"

"Alright!"

Su Yuheng started with "Star," channeling all her spiritual power, intending to quickly defeat and capture Shen Lian.

But Shen Lian was one step ahead.

"Only attacking now? It's too late!"

"Void Concealment: Eight Desolations Seal!"

He roared, flipping his hands over.

Instantly, two surging streams of True Essence condensed in his palms.

His left palm held wind and thunder, and his right held water and fire. The four elements merged into one, shining brilliantly.

"What? That Little Beast can actually simultaneously mobilize four types of Spiritual Attributes?"

Old Ancestor Tianyu was greatly astonished upon seeing this scene.

"Impossible! Shen Lian doesn't have any Spiritual Attribute Foundation in his body. How could he possibly condense the Dao Rhyme of four attributes simultaneously now? I don't believe it!"

Su Yuheng widened her eyes even further, staring at Shen Lian in disbelief.

Yet, Shen Lian gave another low shout.

"You, with your mere Primordial Chaos Realm and Immortal Realm, think you can kill me, Shen Lian? Your naivety is truly despair-inducing!

How can a common sparrow know the ambition of a swan? How can a toad at the bottom of a well gaze upon the vastness of the sky!"

As his voice fell, Shen Lian clapped his palms together and dove toward the ground.

"This is bad! Quickly stop him, stop him! Hurry!"

Old Ancestor Tianyu finally realized what Shen Lian was about to do. Ignoring the intense pain radiating throughout her meridians from the Lightning Tribulation cleansing her body, she roared and charged at him like a madwoman, trying to prevent a tragedy.

Su Yuheng was stunned for a long moment, still not understanding the reason why, but she followed the Old Ancestor's shouted reprimand and went to stop Shen Lian.

Unfortunately, in the end, the two of them were half a step too late.

"Come on, let everything become crazier, more exciting, hahaha~"

With continuous laughter, Shen Lian slammed both palms heavily onto the ground.

Boom—

In the next instant, the already restless earth qi, after being ravaged by the four elements of water, fire, wind, and thunder, completely lost control.

"Shen Lian~"

Old Ancestor Tianyu saw this scene and cried out in despair.

Seeing the earth qi about to surge up from the ground, she didn't have time to think further. She and Su Yuheng decisively flew backward, moving away from the Medicinal Field at maximum speed.

However, a stream of earth qi, moving faster than the eye could see, poured into Old Ancestor Tianyu's body from her back, merging with the Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation that Shen Lian had left inside her.

Boom—

Just as the two flew away from the Medicinal Field, amid the earth-shaking commotion, scorching Magma erupted from the ground like a geyser, shooting straight toward the sky.

Tens of thousands of acres of Medicinal Field were instantly covered by the frenzied earth qi, turning into ruins.

Old Ancestor Tianyu and Su Yuheng, who had barely escaped the crisis, stared dumbfounded at the scene before them.

It's over. Everything is over.

First, the Spiritual Vein was destroyed, then ten thousand acres of High Grade Medicinal Fields were ruined, leading to an imbalance of earth qi.

Heavenly Feather Sect had been demoted from a top-tier Sect to a second-rate, or even third-rate, Sect in the shortest amount of time.

"Shen... Lian!"

"Ah~"

Old Ancestor Tianyu truly couldn't accept this reality. Her Dao Heart suddenly suffered a backlash. After letting out a long howl toward the sky, she immediately spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed.

"Old Ancestor!"

Su Yuheng immediately supported Old Ancestor Tianyu.

"Yuheng, no matter the cost, you must... you must eliminate this Little Beast. I... I cannot coexist with him! Pfft—"

After spitting out another mouthful of old blood, Old Ancestor Tianyu instantly felt her cultivation begin to rapidly regress.

In the blink of an eye, she fell from the second level of the Immortal Realm to the Peak of the Primordial Chaos Realm, and the trend of her cultivation loss was still accelerating wildly.

The residual force from the earth qi eruption moments ago had unknowingly penetrated her internal organs, causing her unbearable pain and twisting her face in agony.

"Old Ancestor, you must take care of yourself!"

Su Yuheng comforted Old Ancestor Tianyu while looking at the hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers that had been reduced to a Magma pool.

"With such an earth qi impact, Shen Lian surely couldn't have survived."

But the next moment, a mass of black clouds flashed across the Void Realm.

"Whew~"

Following a horse's neighing cry, Shen Lian's arrogant figure leisurely sat beside the carriage.

"Hahaha, old hag, do you like the 'coming out of seclusion' gift I gave you?"

"The earth qi is imbalanced, the Medicinal Fields are utterly destroyed—the downfall of your Heavenly Feather Sect is now certain!"

"But don't think for a second that things are over.

This is merely collecting some interest on the past five hundred years.

In the future, even more despair awaits you, until the moment your Divine Souls are completely destroyed!"

"The consequences of angering Shen Lian are not something you ants can bear."

"We'll stop here for today. When we meet again next time, you will face an even crueler reality!"

"Hahaha—"

His wild laughter shook the heaven and earth. As the netherworld chariot was activated, Shen Lian departed the territory of the Heavenly Feather Sect in style.

"Pfft—"

Qi and blood rushed to her heart; nothing causes more despair than killing the spirit along with the body.

Old Ancestor Tianyu spat out another mouthful of old blood. She looked as if she had aged decades, and staring in the direction the netherworld chariot vanished, she finally couldn't withstand this fatal madness and completely fainted.

"Old Ancestor, don't scare me! Old Ancestor Ah—"

In the empty valley, only Su Yuheng's endless cries of alarm remained... On the way back to the Longevity Chamber of Commerce, Shen Lian closed his eyes inside the carriage to regulate his breathing, quietly guiding the earth qi within his body to condense toward his dantian sea.

Half an hour later, his Cultivation Foundation was completely stabilized, and he had miraculously broken through to the fifth level of the Tribulation Crossing Realm.

Opening his eyes and feeling the drastic changes occurring throughout his body, Shen Lian decided to take the opportunity to fuse his own Cultivation Technique to enhance his Combat Power. He simply ordered the netherworld chariot to stop, pulled back the curtain, and looked outside.

"Buming Mountain?"

What met his eyes was a majestic scene of layered mountain peaks—it was Buming Mountain, located just three thousand li away from Wushuang City.

"It's rare for this world to have such a place of outstanding people and spiritual land. It's a good spot to comprehend the Martial Dao."

Thinking this, he paced and stepped into the mountain range.

Just as he stepped onto the stairs, a middle-aged man with a slick, mercenary face and a middle-part hairstyle walked toward him, bearing a resemblance to Ma Bangde.

"Hmm? A familiar Aura."

Seeing the old man arrive, Shen Lian's expression instantly became solemn.