Published: February 24, 2025
The next day, at noon, the sun blazed overhead.
In the Inner Sect of the Huangfu Sacred Sect, within a radius of six hundred thousand miles, towering immortal mountains spread across the land.
In the vast central mountain range, which is also located eight hundred miles east of Huangfu Fang City, stands a colossal pillar reaching into the sky—Coiling Dragon Peak.
In front of the Crouching Dragon Platform stands three high platforms, each several hundred feet square—Crouching Dragon Platform!
To the left of Crouching Dragon Platform, there is currently a Jade Tower standing a hundred feet tall.
At the top of the Jade Tower, there are upper and lower seating areas, with the upper area empty.
The lower seating is filled with hundreds of high-ranking Inner Sect stewards, elders, and chiefs.
On the vast peak in front of Crouching Dragon Platform, over five hundred thousand disciples from the Inner Sect Eight Meridians stand in formation, waiting.
As of now, only the Danmai disciples have not arrived.
In the Jade Tower, among the eight chiefs, Mu Rong Shishi, the chief of Artifact Lineage, the five soul practitioner, and the beast spirit practitioner have increasingly grim expressions.
Mu Rong Shishi is obviously upset because the closed-door disciple Zhong Wu Shi Yao has fallen in love with Tan Yun. At this rate, what will happen? The genius of her Artifact Lineage will eventually become a partner of a Danmai disciple!
The five soul practitioner is troubled because his beloved disciple Xue Ziyan ran to the Danmai to find Tan Yun ten days ago and has not returned!
As for the beast spirit practitioner, he need not say more; Tan Yun has crippled his beloved son Wu Feixiong, and his closed-door disciple Mu Mengyi has also betrayed him and followed Tan Yun!
Tan Yun is like a nightmare he cannot shake off—he desperately wants to crush Tan Yun into ashes!
As for the death of his beloved disciple Bai Xu yesterday, he still does not know. The steward of the Lamp Soul Palace from the Beast Spirit Lineage did not check the Lamp Soul Palace yesterday, so he was unable to discover that Bai Xu's life lamp had been extinguished.
At the same time, what makes the beast spirit practitioner even more anxious is that twenty days ago, he sent his trusted subordinate Jiang Shan, who was at the ninth layer of the refining soul realm, to eliminate the Tan family, and he unexpectedly extinguished his life lamp half a month ago!
Based on the timeline, it is highly likely that Jiang Shan was killed after arriving at Wangyue Town!
He cannot help but associate Jiang Shan’s death with Tan Yun, but no matter how he thinks about it, he does not believe that the mere ninth layer of the fetal soul realm Tan Yun could be the murderer!
With Jiang Shan's cause of death unknown, his beloved son crippled by Tan Yun, and his beloved disciple abducted by Tan Yun, the beast spirit practitioner's anger is unimaginable!
Yesterday, he ordered his disciples that if they encounter Tan Yun in the Nine Meridians Grand Competition, they must kill him!
The five soul practitioner feels the same; in his view, as long as Tan Yun is dead, his beloved disciple Xue Ziyan might reconsider and accept his grandson!
Apart from the three chiefs, there are others who have long held a grudge against Tan Yun, including Murong Kun's grandfather, the elder two of the Beast Spirit Lineage: Murong Hong, and the chief holy spirit path practitioner from the Holy Spirit Lineage!
At the beginning, Tan Yun killed Murong Hong's grandson Murong Kun and exterminated the great-grandson of the holy spirit practitioner, Linghu Changkong, when he was still in the outer sect.
Murong Hong and the holy spirit practitioner are furious every time they think about how Tan Yun has been alive and well in the Inner Sect for three years, especially since they have sent disciples to kill Tan Yun several times during these three years, each time ending in failure, their anger is evident!
In their view, if Tan Yun had not feigned death for more than a year, he would have already been killed by their people!