Chapter 3030 Such is Fate
The clan's Divine Rank law had been seized. Ji He's state was unknown. Ji Beifeng had been captured with a single move. To make matters worse, the Will Dharma Form of Immeasurable Eternal Ji Qingfeng had just been blasted to smithereens!
The series of blows pushed even an Eternal like Ji Xiaoyun to the verge of collapse. Why were things like this? How did it get to this?
The hallowed Divine Ji Clan was among the top five of the Eternal Divine Clans in the Ninth Heaven Domain in terms of overall strength. For countless years, it had towered above the heaven domains like a god, proudly peering down upon all beings.
However, today...it faced the possibility of annihilation! Furthermore, it was all the handiwork of one person: Lin Xun!
The countless spectators in the far distance had all frozen. Their hearts and minds were reeling, their faces filled with horror and confusion.
No one could have dreamt that the Will Dharma Form of an existence like Ji Qingfeng would be smashed so easily. No one could have dreamt that Lin Xun alone would overpower the entire Divine Ji Clan!
It was unthinkable. Nothing remotely close had ever happened in the past, for the simple reason that this was the Ninth Heaven Domain, the territory of the twelve Eternal Divine Clans! Today, however, Lin Xun had appeared to shatter what had always been regarded as normal, to overturn the structure of this Ninth Heaven Domain!
“Are we...looking at the start of a huge change?”
Many were perplexed.
“Too scary. How could there exist a character like Lin Xun...”
While the crowd was in shock, Lin Xun stopped in the air and looked at Ji Xiaoyun from a distance. “Don't worry, I won't exterminate your whole clan, but you will still have to pay adequately.”
His tone was indifferent, but it stabbed into Ji Xiaoyun's heart like a sharp tip.
“My clan will never be exterminated!!!” shrieked Ji Xiaoyun, his eyes bloodshot.
Lin Xun smiled. “Indeed, the ones who deserve death are only a portion of the Ji Clan.”
“What do you mean?” Ji Xiaoyun's face turned blue.
“If I say I'm here to release resentment on behalf of Senior Xi, would you believe me?” asked Lin Xun.
“Xi?” Ji Xiaoyun was stunned. He asked incredulously, “Our clan’s Ji Xi?!”
“Correct.” Lin Xun nodded. “In order to bond with the Taihao Clan, you old things went so far as to force Senior Xi to get married, a despicable and shameless act. If I hadn't rushed here, you bastards would have ruined her life!”
By the end of his speech, Lin Xun's eyes were already seething with murderous intent.
Ji Xiaoyun, on the other hand, was completely dumbfounded. He had thought that Lin Xun was here to take revenge for himself, but it turned out to concern Ji Xi's marriage?
He had to ask, “It’s for this reason that you went on a killing spree in the Ji Clan?”
Lin Xun shook his head. “Wrong. Your clan should feel fortunate. If it wasn't on account of Senior Xi, you would definitely be uprooted and wiped from existence today.”
Ji Xiaoyun's expression kept changing, and only after a long silence did he grieve, “So to speak, we should actually be grateful to you instead?”
Lin Xun said, “No need. The deaths of you old fogeys will be the greatest blessing for your Ji Clan.”
Ji Xiaoyun muttered in a daze, “So that's how it is, so that's how it is...”
If Lin Xun had come purely for revenge, he would never have regretted what he had done, but knowing this was about Ji Xi turned everything around!
If he had known that Ji Xi and Lin Xun had such a good relationship, how could his clan...have invited this disaster? Who would have treated Ji Xi like that? It was just that...no amount of regret could salvage the situation now!
“Lin Xun.” Ji Xiaoyun suddenly looked up and gazed at Lin Xun, his expression unusually calm.
“No matter the reason why you are here, the enmity we make today is no longer resolvable. Just so you know, many of our sages traveled to the Kunlun Dominion a long time ago. Some of them may have met unfortunate deaths, but there are bound to be survivors. If one day they know what happened here, they will not let it slide!”
Lin Xun nodded. “The Yangs said similar stuff when I razed their clan to the ground.”
Razing the Yang Clan to the ground!
This fact that Lin Xun had nonchalantly divulged shattered the last shred of persistence in Ji Xiaoyun. Before the previous battle, Ji Xiaoyun would never have believed such a claim, but now...he had to. Even his clan had fallen into this state, let alone the Yang Clan who was weaker than them.
Ji Xiaoyun sank into silence. After a long time, he finally let out a deep sigh. “In all my cultivation life, I have always thought that the enemy of the great Eternal Divine Ji Clan could only be the epochal calamity, but unexpectedly, someone like you, Lin Xun, exists...
“Funny thing is, if it wasn't because of this epochal calamity, if it wasn't because our old ancestors have all left for the Kunlun Dominion, how could my clan...possibly have suffered in this ordeal? Who can I blame? Such is fate, isn't it?”
His desolate, sorrowful, and bitter voice echoed between heaven and earth.
Lin Xun realized something was wrong and grabbed through the air at Ji Xiaoyun, but he was one step too late. In that same instant, the latter's figure scattered without a sound, turning into wisps of light before completely vanishing.
Lin Xun raised his brows. Meanwhile, the distant spectators were dumbfounded.
Ji Xiaoyun! For such a Law Transcendence powerhouse to actually resort to suicide, what kind of despair must he have felt to do this?
If there was a glimmer of hope to reverse the situation, how could he have done so? Without a doubt, he had realized that he had no chance of surviving against an opponent like Lin Xun. Therefore, he had chosen to end himself, in order to preserve the last shred of dignity!
The world was dead quiet. Shaken by what had just transpired, everyone felt an indescribable emotion fermenting in them. When they looked at Lin Xun again, there was now automatically awe and shock in their gazes, their expressions, and their minds.
Today, Lin Xun had walked into the Central Divine Palace alone and set off a killing spree. None of the esteemed guests from the other Eternal Divine Clans had survived, and neither had the Immortals of the Ji Clan. Even the Central Divine Palace had been destroyed!
If all of that wasn't appalling enough, then with the capture of Ji Beifeng, the explosion of Ji Qingfeng's Will Dharma Form, and the suicide of Ji Xiaoyun... These were more than enough to startle all history and worlds as events that had never happened since time immemorial!
Lin Xun! This Fangchun Mountain disciple and pavilion master of the Origin Sect, had toppled the Divine Ji Clan and tipped the power scale of the world all on his own!
......
Perhaps thanks to having the experience of taking down the Eternal Divine Yang Clan, Lin Xun didn't feel anything special this time.
He actually found it a regret that Ji Xiaoyun had ended himself. If he could have captured this oldie and refined him with the Five Principle Laws of the Return Dominion, he could have obtained many Eternal Divine objects....
Shaking his head, Lin Xun stopped thinking about it, for the matter had yet to conclude.
Buzz~
Lin Xun’s clothes fluttered as he stood in the air. With a thought, he controlled the blue jade ruler to fly up and turn into waves of law power that rippled outward.
Instantly, every nook and cranny, every detail of the Origin Divine Mountain were projected in his mind. As they said: Deduce the big picture through the small details, deduce the characteristics and interrelationships of the small from the big.
The Origin Divine Mountain was extremely large, covering an area of thirty thousand miles, but in Lin Xun's mind, it was a foot-wide box, every part of which he understood by heart.
With his current cultivation, even if the target was a big world, he could instantly capture every detail of it through the lens of its heavenly principles! Of course, the premise was that the law power of said world did not fight back against his senses.
At the moment, in different areas of Origin Divine Mountain, the Ji Clan members were panicking and at a complete loss of what to do. Many had attempted to escape the mountain, but despaired when they found that it was impossible under the full coverage of their clan's Divine Rank law.
“What do we do? Do the heavens want my clan dead?” someone shouted in grief.
“Darn it! How could this be... how could this be...” Someone looked horrified.
“That damned Lin Xun! Sooner or later, he's going to get what he deserves!” Someone gnashed their teeth and cursed.
All of these scenes were reflected back to Lin Xun. Not standing on ceremony, he used the Divine Rank law to start a bloody purging operation on Origin Divine Mountain.
Previously, he had already learned many things from the memory of Ji Molei's primordial spirit. Therefore, the ones he was executing at the moment were all those who opposed Patriarch Ji Wangtu.
Lin Xun would not kill the innocents; he merely abolished the cultivation of all those above the Emperor Stage.
Moments later, all of the Ji Clan members on Origin Divine Mountain that Lin Xun saw as targets had been cleansed. He put away the jade ruler that was the physical form of the origin law. As he was about to return to Xi's residence, he suddenly remembered something.
In the next moment, his voice resounded through the region, “Everyone, please first stay here. When the Taihao Clan's bride-escorting team arrives tomorrow, I will let you go.”
The guests attending the Ji Clan's celebration numbered in the thousands. They had been scared witless by the bloody sight, acting like ants on a hot pan not knowing what Lin Xun would do to them. Upon hearing his announcement, they felt like they had survived a deadly tribulation. They were relieved as though a huge weight had been lifted off of their backs.
“So, Pavilion Master Lin isn't as cruel and ruthless as the rumors say.”
“If he's the type to kill indiscriminately, the Origin Sect Ancestral Court wouldn't have accepted him. After all, there are boundaries one should never cross. Given Pavilion Master Lin's status, how could he be bothered with minor characters like us?”
“That Taihao Clan's bride-escorting team... I'm afraid they're out of luck...”
The crowd started discussing, not at all concealing their awe for Lin Xun. Even some old monsters who had lived for thousands of years respectfully referred to him as Senior Lin, Pavilion Master Lin, Lord Lin, etc.
“My eyes were open today as a witness to a glorious event that will shake the world for many generations to come!” The python-robed old man was emotional beyond his control.
As the one who had brought Lin Xun into Origin Divine Mountain, he had been worried to be implicated by the latter. Now, however...no words could describe his excitement. He felt honored for Lin Xun’s feat.
