As soon as the words "Heavenly Dao" were spoken, Zhang Yuxian's expression instantly turned solemn.
Everyone in the world knew that Lu Ze had inextricably close ties with that entity.
Even if it was just a wisp of the Heavenly Dao's remnant spirit, it was still a transcendent existence detached from all things.
If anyone else had said it, he could have treated it as a joke.
But coming from Lu Ze's mouth, the meaning was completely different.
Zhang Yuxian had no doubt that if he went along with Lu Ze's wishes, that morally ambiguous remnant spirit of the Heavenly Dao would truly step forward and personally verify the truth!
"I guarantee with my sect's reputation that our disciples would never do such a despicable thing!"
Zhang Yuxian quickly recovered his composure. Knowing that he couldn't target Lu Ze directly, he immediately looked at Zhao Wendao with a stern voice and harsh expression:
"Elder Zhao, since your sect has already taken first place, why must you slander my Qingshan Sect like this? What exactly are the intentions of your Lingxiao Sect!?"
Zhao Wendao looked at Zhang Yuxian, then at Lu Ze.
How could he not understand that Zhang Yuxian wanted to divert the fire and have him rein in his own disciple?
But thinking about how this matter involved his two beloved disciples, Zhong Yi and Lu Ze, he immediately chose to play dumb:
"Old Zhang, my sect's disciple indeed spoke out of turn and sullied the reputation of the Qingshan Sect..."
"Then make him shut up! Let's part on good terms! My Qingshan Sect is magnanimous and won't hold it against him!"
"But you see..."
Zhao Wendao's eyes darted around, and a hint of slyness surfaced on his wrinkled face.
"Look here, so many fellow Daoists from all over the world are watching. If we don't prove our innocence, what kind of talk will spread in the future?"
"???"
"In my opinion, why doesn't your Qingshan Sect do as Lu Ze suggested? Let's swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao so that everyone in the world will know that your Qingshan Sect is faultless, and it was my Lingxiao Sect's disciple who carelessly smeared your reputation... How about that?"
"????"
Zhang Yuxian's mouth twitched uncontrollably from anger.
In the past, Zhao Wendao had always maintained the persona of a peacemaking good guy. Today, he acted entirely out of character. On the surface, he seemed to be speaking up for the Qingshan Sect, but in reality, he was pushing him into a dead end at every turn!
Yet, infuriatingly, there was absolutely nothing wrong with what the other party had said!
"Old Zhang, why do you have that expression... Oh! I get it, you feel that Lu Ze isn't being punished? Don't worry, once you two swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao, I will naturally punish Lu Ze and send him to face the wall in the forbidden grounds for a hundred years. Rest assured!"
Hearing Zhao Wendao's rhetoric, Lu Ze, who was standing to the side, almost couldn't hold back his laughter.
Originally, he had been calculating that if this shameless old man Zhang Yuxian acted like a rogue and stubbornly refused to swear before the Heavenly Dao, he wouldn't have any way to actively summon the Heavenly Dao's remnant spirit to handle it.
But with Zhao Wendao making his move, he had propped the other party up on a pedestal with no way down.
"Grand Elder, that forbidden ground is no place for a human to stay. This disciple doesn't want to go!"
Lu Ze instantly fired up his acting skills, playing along with Zhao Wendao to trip up Zhang Yuxian.
"You... you people..."
Zhang Yuxian gritted his teeth in anger, yet he couldn't find a single flaw to pick at.
Seeing that Zhang Yuxian couldn't squeeze out a single word after a long time, Zhao Heng, the true disciple of the Qingshan Sect and the creator of the illusion realm, who was also being roasted on the fire, could no longer sit still.
"Don't you push us too far!"
"Under the heavens, who doesn't know that you, Lu Ze, are intimately connected with the remnant spirit of the Heavenly Dao... Are we swearing before the Heavenly Dao, or before the remnant spirit of the Heavenly Dao?"
"If we swear before the remnant spirit of the Heavenly Dao, who knows if that Lord Remnant Spirit will be biased towards you!?"
Zhao Heng knew very well that once they fell into Lu Ze's rhythm, everything would be irretrievable.
The last time an elder of the Wuji Sword Sect took a hit from the Heavenly Dao's remnant spirit, his cultivation base plummeted by hundreds of years overnight...
If it were him, whether he could even survive would be a question!
"Why would you think that the remnant spirit of the Heavenly Dao would be biased towards me?"
Lu Ze asked with a calm smile.
"Hmph! Who doesn't know that your illusion realm is backed by the remnant spirit of the Heavenly Dao, and the spiritual network covers the entire world... Other than you, who else can use it? If that isn't bias, what is!?"
Hearing Zhao Heng's words, Lu Ze closed his eyes, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly.
Because he knew very well that the other party had committed a grave taboo.
The next moment,
A manic and surging wave of spiritual energy gathered above everyone's heads.
Even Qin Ming turned pale with fright, looking up in sheer terror.
The dense dark clouds converged into a human face:
"Who said... that this Heavenly Dao is biased?"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
