Martial Universe

“Those are the members of Ghost Blade Gate and Fire Cloud Sect. These twosects have quite a reputation within Eastern Xuan Region, however they haverather close ties with Yuan Gate. Although they can’t be considered as vassalsof Yuan Gate, they will mostly follow the Yuan Gate’s lead for many matters.”looking at the present situation, Ying Xiaoxiao’s expression sunk slightlybefore explaining to Lin Dong.

Lin Dong faintly nodded before raising his head. He looked at the two groupsapproaching from a distance. Under the convergence of everyone’s gazes, theyfinally arrived at a position that was not far from Lin Dong and the rest.

A man dressed in black slowly walked out from the group of Ghost Blade Sectdisciples. A formidable and cold aura radiated from his body. His powerfulpresence was testament to the fact that he was an expert that had stepped intothe nine Yuan Nirvana stage.

As the man dressed in black walked forward, a man dressed in red also walkedout from the nearby group of Fire Cloud Sect disciples with a grin on his face.As his fists loosened, a wave of heat spread outwards.

“My humble self is Meng Duan of Ghost Blade Sect.”

“Fire Cloud Sect, Yang Huo.”

The two men walked out, smiling as they clasped their fists together andgreeted Lin Dong and the rest. However, this was not a single trace of friendlyintent within those smiles.

“Is there something I can help you with?” asked Lin Dong casually with a flatexpression on his face.

“Ha Ha, I’m sure that you understand why we have come.”

Yang Huo of Fire Cloud Sect faintly smiled. Without beating around the bush,he directly said, “Brother Yuan Cang and the rest do not wish to see you all,therefore he had sent us here to deliver his message.”

“If there are any problems, settle them at that final place. Brother Yuan Cangand the rest are considerably merciful and don’t want to preemptively takeaction. I believe that if you people leave this place and head for the finalplace earlier. Perhaps, you all might be able to smoothly leave Unique DevilCity and avoid excessive losses.” said Meng Duan who also had a faint smile onhis face.

“This can be considered a rather good deal for you all. It’s best to avoid theincident that happened in the last Great Sect Competition.”

Upon hearing the remarks of the two men, the faces of the Dao Sect disciplesturned completely dark. This Yuan Gate was too arrogant! Not only had they saidsuch things, they had not even bothered to send a Yuan Gate disciple and letsomeone else deliver their message in their place. One truly did not know whatlevel of contempt they had for the Dao Sect.

Even Ying Xiaoxiao’s face was erupting with anger at this matter, while amalicious fury had already surged up within the eyes of the nearby Wang Yan. Ifnot for him forcefully controlling himself to the utmost degree, he might havealready exploded with violence.

“Many thanks to the two of you for delivering the message…” however, while themajority of the disciples’ faces were dark, there was not a single trace ofanger on Lin Dong’s face. Instead, he merely smiled and replied.

Upon hearing Lin Dong’s reply, Yang Huo and Meng Duan grinned. Looks like thisfellow was rather tactful. Stunned expressions appeared on the many faces ofthe surrounding crowd who had cast their attention at the three individuals. Inthe next moment, the gaze that they sent towards Lin Dong filled with disdain.

“However…”

However, just as Yang Huo and Meng Duan had assumed that the Dao Sectdisciples would be sensible, Lin Dong’s tone suddenly took a complete turn as asinister expression instantaneously erupted forth from the smile on his face.

“Could it be that those blockheads don’t have legs and mouths?”

Lin Dong did not deliberately cover up the sinister and cold tone of his voiceas it rang out. Hearing this, Yang Huo and Meng Duan’s smiles instantly froze,while waves of disturbances erupted in the surroundings.

“Brat, do not make the mistake of paying a price you can’t can’t afford justto flaunt your glib mouth!” Yang Huo and Meng Duan’s expressions darkened. Itwas likely that they had been infuriated by Lin Dong’s mockery.

“Trash like you don’t have the qualifications to strut around in front of ourDao Sect!” Lin Dong replied. The chilling gaze in his eyes was as sharp as ablade.

“Scram!”

“You have guts!”

Yang Huo and Meng Duo were infuriated by Lin Dong’s reply. They suddenlystepped forward as majestic Yuan Power erupted out and surged towards Lin Dong,enveloping him.

Upon seeing this, a cold glint flashed past Lin Dong’s eyes, however he didnot make any actions to defend. With a thought, a black glow suddenly shot outfrom with the group of Dao Sect disciples behind him. The speed of the blackglow was extremely swift and fierce. In the blink of an eye, it had alreadyappeared in front of Yang Huo and Meng Duan.

“Death seeking fool!”

Yang Huo and Meng Duan merely sneered in the face of this surprise attack.With a gush of majestic Yuan Power, powerful palm forces unceremoniously swepttowards the black silhouette.

In response to the ferocious attacks from the two men, a pair of withered armsextended out from the black glow and directly collided with the two men’s palmforce.

Bang Bang!

A deep and low sound rang out as the palms met each other. In the nextinstant, the sneers on Yang Huo and Meng Duan’s faces instantly froze, beforetheir faces turned completely flushed as they spurted a mouthful of blood.Their bodies violently shot backwards, gouging a long scar on the ground whilecracks extended from both sides of the scar.

The originally noisy surroundings was immediately silenced by this sight. Soonafter, a series of low but tumultuous uproars scattered outwards. Countlessgazes locked onto the black glowing figure who had sent two nine Yuan Nirvanastage experts flying with a single palm strike. Such a thing was hard toachieve even by the topmost outstanding disciples of the other sects.

As gaze after gaze locked onto the black figure, they saw the black witheredface. In the next instant, a series of startled voices rapidly rang out.

“Is that…. a demon corpse?”

“Why does Dao Sect have a demon corpse? Could it be that this demon corpse iscontrolled by them?”

“How is this possible? Even Thousand Puppet Sect would find it hard to controlsuch a demon corpse! Also, Dao Sect does not have such expertise, how did theymanage to control it!”

“……”

Pockets of startled voices rapidly resounded across the sky, while quite anumber of people stared at the demon corpse with astonished gazes. It wasobvious that they knew what it was.

“Demon corpse…” upon seeing it, the Sword Sect disciples who had withdrawnearlier all gawked, especially Xue Ling. The pitying look on his face that wasdue to Dao Sect not willing to leave instantly turned grave.

He stared tenaciously at the demon corpse before taking a deep breath. Fromthe looks of it, this was the same demon corpse that had chased after Dao Sectearlier. Not only had it been dealt with by them, moreover… they had used someunknown method and taken control of it…

“Was it Lin Dong who did this?” thought Xue Ling as he stared at the slimfigure, while his pupils contracted slightly. This fellow seemed to be oneamongst the Dao Sect disciples who had concealed his hand the deepest. Nowonder Ying Xiaoxiao and Wang Yan would both listen to him at times.

“It actually is a demon corpse…”

At the Thousand Puppet Sect area, those who were experts in refining puppetswere looking at the demon corpse with astonished gazes. The gaze of the youthdressed in grey called Gui Li turned dignified and grave upon seeing the demoncorpse. Looking once again at Lin Dong, there was a sliver of dread now presentin his eyes. He knew just how hard it was to control this demon corpse…

“If you don’t scram, then die.”

Within the uproar and commotion happening around him. Lin Dong faintly raisedhis head and looked at the alarmed faces of the Ghost Blade Sect and Fire CloudSect disciples before saying in a soft voice.

Overwhelmed with shock, dumbstruck expressions appeared on the faces of thedisciples of the two sects as they looked towards Yang Huo and Meng Duan whohad suffered heavy injuries. In the next instant, they hurriedly carried thetwo of them away, cutting sorry figures as they scattered away.

Looking at the two dejected groups leave, the entire area sank into silenceonce again. The development of this situation was truly somewhat unexpected…

“If you want to say something, come over and do it yourself! Scheming behindone’s back is disgraceful!”

Contrary to the atmosphere which had quietened down, Lin Dong slowly raisedhis head as his eyes locked onto the direction of the Yuan Gate disciples,while his cold and frosty voice rang out.

As his voice rang out, a disturbance occurred with the group of Yuan Gatedisciples as ominous glints erupted from the eyes of quite a few of them.

“Bang!”

The disturbance lasted for while till a sturdy and strong figure whose killingintent blotted the skies finally stood up slowly and turned around. Revealingthe sinister and ruthless expression on his face, this person was indeed theLittle Thunder King Lei Qian.

“Since you don’t want the face I’ve given you and wish to seek death, I’llgrant it to you all at this place. You trash that are unable to tell good fromthe bad!” exclaimed Lei Qian fiercely.

As Lei Qian spat out those words, two figures beside him stood up under thefocus of the innumerable surrounding gazes.

“Just a single demon corpse has given you all so much confidence huh…”

Wearing a blue robe, the Little Yuan King Yuan Cang stared at Lin Dong beforesmiling faintly.

“Since that is the case, let me destroy it.”

Swish!

Just as those words echoed out, an iron sword suddenly slid into his handbefore slashing down gently.

Bang!

As the slash descended, the Yuan Power of the area seemed to flare up as asword aura that blotted the skies seemingly split apart the land as it slasheddown furiously at the demon corpse at a speed that was inconceivable to thenaked eye. Lin Dong was also caught within the radius of the sword aura.

Lin Dong narrowed his eyes slightly as he stared at the approaching sword aurathat was rapidly growing larger in his eyes. Just as he was about to takeaction, he suddenly turned his head towards another section of the sky, where amajestic grey light was present. Whizzing across the sky, it heavily collidingwith the sword aura, creating a loud sound that resounded out.

“Chen Gui. this is a grudge between our Yuan Gate and Dao Sect! Why are youinterfering?!”

A majestic fluctuation erupted and swept outwards while some fluctuationsappeared within the eyes of the Little Yuan King Yuan Cang. In the next moment,a gloomy and cold voice rang out.

“Chen Gui? The fellow who is ranked first on the sects wanted list?”

“Why is he helping Dao Sect?”

As Yuan Cang spoke those words, pockets of uproar started appearing in thesurrounding area as expressions of extreme astonishment appeared on quite a fewpeoples’ faces.

“Swish!”

While the entire area was in an uproar, a rainbow glow shot over from thedistant skies before finally transforming into two figures.

A sliver of doubt flashed past Lin Dong’s eyes as he looked towards thefigures in the air. In the next moment, as his gaze focused on the beautifulfigure that was petite and familiar, his pupils instantly contracted. In thatinstant, an expression of extreme shock crawled up his face, something thatYing Xiaoxiao and the rest had never seen before.

“Heh heh, brother Lin Dong!”

Just as Ying Xiaoxiao and the rest were puzzled over Lin Dong’s reaction, thefigure in midair turned her body around, revealing an exceptionally exquisiteand beautiful little face where a joyous smile was present.

However, just as such a smile appeared on her face, she hurriedly restrainedit. She had noticed that the shock on Lin Dong’s face was withdrawing bit bybit. What substituted it was not the ecstasy of a brother and sister’s reunion, but a furious shade that was caused by an excessive amount of shock.

“Qingtan, why are you here!”