Published: February 25, 2025
"Lu Yi, what about the matters that follow?" Tan Yun sneered.
"Afterward?" Lu Yi shook his head like a rattle drum, appearing innocent, but the cold sweat dripping from his forehead had already betrayed his inner turmoil.
"Since your memory is so poor, it seems I can only help you recall it," Tan Yun asserted.
With a sharp shout, Tan Yun stepped on Lu Yi's left palm, gradually exerting force to grind and rotate.
"Ah..." Lu Yi screamed, "Tan Yun, I only left the Immortal Sect Danmai today after you left the Danmai. I really didn't do anything! Why don't you trust me!"
"Crack!"
"You old fool, you really are too stubborn!"
Tan Yun crushed Lu Yi's left palm and said coldly, "Your closed-door disciple Zhou Ang, along with ninety-nine other great perfection refining soul realm disciples, have all been killed by me."
"Before Zhou Ang died, he revealed that you instructed them to lie in wait above my Meritorious Lineage Mountain Gate to ambush my disciples!"
Tan Yun emphasized each word, "Lu Yi, who gave you the guts to repeatedly provoke my Meritorious Lineage? Speak!"
"Tan Yun, it turns out all the disciples at my Danmai Mountain Gate were killed!" Lu Yi howled in despair, "What good will it do for me to speak?"
"There is, of course there is," Tan Yun's gaze became even colder, "Do you know how your son Lu Wu died?"
"He was maimed by me, his legs severed, and left to die in the spirit pool. If you tell me who directed you, I will give you a quick end!"
"Otherwise, I have a hundred ways to cripple your spirit pool and leave you to die alone in this cave, at which point you won't even have the strength to commit suicide."
"Don't doubt my abilities, I always deliver on my word!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Yi trembled and lowered his head, closing his eyes, "Fine, I will speak! Just give me a quick end once I do!"
"Tan Yun, the one who ordered me to deal with your Meritorious Lineage is..." Lu Yi paused, suddenly raising his head to glare at Tan Yun. In an instant, he thrust his right hand forward, revealing a golden talisman in his palm that radiated a chilling aura. "Tan Yun, die!"
"You're overestimating yourself!" The heavenly slayer demon ape swung its black rod in an arc, "Crack!" It smashed Lu Yi's wrist holding the talisman!
The golden talisman in that severed hand immediately dimmed, its activation failed!
"Old Ape, kill him!" Tan Yun ordered with a dark expression.
"Tan Yun, I curse you... no!" Lu Yi screamed in anger as a blow from the heavenly slayer demon ape shattered his head. In that moment, six strands of Lu Yi's divine soul flew out of his corpse, and Tan Yun struck out with five punches, dispersing five of those souls!
"Primordial divine eye!"
Tan Yun's deep-set eyes flickered with an eerie red light as he gazed at the last floating soul of Lu Yi, stating undoubtedly, "Speak, after Shen Subing left the Danmai, what have you all done to my Meritorious Lineage?"
Lu Yi's soul appeared dazed as he replied, "My master ordered me to eliminate Shen Subing and Tan Yun."
"So, I personally lurked outside the Immortal Sect Meritorious Lineage Mountain Gate for a year and two months. I never expected that instead of encountering Shen Subing or Tan Yun, I stumbled upon Shen Qingqiu leading fifty disciples away from the mountain gate."
"Wait!" Tan Yun gritted his teeth, "You were the one who killed fifty disciples of the Meritorious Lineage? Wounding Shen Qingqiu and stealing a million supreme spirit stones?"
"No, it wasn't me," Lu Yi's soul remained blank, "I intended to kill him, but he was aboard a low-grade sub-respect artifact spirit vessel, and I don't know what method he used to move so fast, I couldn't catch up."
"Out of desperation, I waited in place until the next evening when I saw him being chased by three groups of people, fleeing into the Meritorious Lineage Mountain Gate!"
Upon hearing this, Tan Yun furrowed his brow, "Wait, you said there were three groups of people besides your Danmai?"
"Yes," Lu Yi's soul confirmed.
"What three groups?" Tan Yun's expression grew serious. This situation exceeded his expectations. He initially thought that among the three groups Shen Qingqiu mentioned, in addition to the death warriors of the Danmai and Fang Canghai, there was another group.