The immortal who spoke was named Zhou Song, the leader of the Huaxuan Sect, possessing peak cultivation at the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
He was somewhat renowned within the Heavenly Realm.
His personality was extremely straightforward, though his mouth was excessively foul.
Now, standing on the territory of Taiyan Dao, he openly interrupted the speech of its Acting Sect Leader and began to question him.
This was undoubtedly a grave insult to Taiyan Dao.
In an instant, the atmosphere at the scene fell completely silent.
All the sect leaders exchanged knowing glances towards Qian Li Zhenren.
They clearly wanted to see how this Acting Sect Leader of Taiyan Dao would respond.
Qian Li Zhenren’s expression was calm as he spoke softly, “If I’m not mistaken, you must be Zhou Song of the Huaxuan Sect, right?
What you just said was very good: ‘a land without a master will be taken by the capable.’
I agree with your viewpoint.
But there is one thing you are wrong about. I hadn’t finished speaking, yet you interrupted me.
That is very rude!
You don’t even know what I was about to say.”
Zhou Song sneered disdainfully.
Rude?
There were plenty of worse things.
He did not believe that in front of all these eyes, Qian Li Zhenren would take any overly extreme action against him.
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Qian Li Zhenren raised a finger and lightly tapped the void.
Zhou Song’s divine soul was directly ejected from his body.
His soul floated behind him in empty space.
It must be known that compared to the body, the divine soul was extremely fragile.
Once the divine soul was destroyed, it meant the immortal had fallen, and the body left behind was useless.
Seeing the situation clearly, Zhou Song immediately tried to return to his body.
But he was restrained by a mysterious force.
Qian Li Zhenren said softly, “Sect Lord Zhou, can you wait until I finish speaking before you express your opinion next time?”
“Yes, yes, yes! Zhenren, I was wrong, I won’t dare again! Please spare me!”
Zhou Song began to beg desperately.
He clearly felt that as long as Qian Li Zhenren wished, he could be wiped out at any moment.
This sensation of facing life and death was truly agonizing.
The surrounding sect leaders all became solemn upon seeing this scene.
Many who had never heard of Taiyan Dao’s name before were forced to reassess the host.
Qian Li Zhenren, merely the Acting Sect Leader,
yet with a single finger could cause a peak Heavenly Immortal Realm immortal’s soul to leave his body, forcing him to kneel and beg.
By this power alone, he could easily crush over ninety percent of the immortals present.
Truly terrifying beyond measure.
Ye Yu raised an eyebrow slightly. Was this a show of force?
But Zhou Song’s words were not without reason.
Even if Taiyan Dao was a reclusive sect, it could not control heaven and earth, nor command all immortals of the Heavenly Realm to forbid them from competing for the sect ruins, right?
If you could truly do that,
then perhaps all immortals of the Heavenly Realm would directly regard your Taiyan Dao as supreme.
Following this, Qian Li Zhenren did not press Zhou Song too harshly.
With a wave of his sleeve,
the mysterious force suddenly vanished.
Zhou Song’s divine soul returned to his body.
He no longer held the previous arrogant demeanor, instead sitting quietly in his seat without daring to breathe heavily.
Qian Li Zhenren then faced the numerous sect leaders and continued softly, “Fellow sect leaders, there is no need to be so impatient.
There are still some words I have not finished saying.
Taiyan Dao convened this sect assembly not to become the overlord of the Heavenly Realm.
Nor to force you not to fight over the sect ruins.
Rather, it is a call to all immortals that when contending for the sect ruins, keep it measured; do not fight to the death.
Because it is completely unnecessary.
After the Heavenly Realm calamity passed so long ago, those sect ruins have been searched more than once.
To risk one’s life over an empty shell is truly not worth it.”
After finishing, Qian Li Zhenren deliberately glanced at Zhou Song in the crowd.
The latter immediately nodded repeatedly.
“Zhenren is right, I misunderstood, I deserve to die!”
Hearing this, Ye Yu could not help but feel very puzzled.
Surely Taiyan Dao did not convene this sect assembly merely to deliver such hypocritical words of justice?
That would be too meaningless.
Besides, what was the truth about the ‘exquisite immortal robes’ Bai Miaoling and Shangguan Jiujiu mentioned?
Qian Li Zhenren’s warm smile gradually vanished, replaced by a serious expression.
“Today, I have gathered you all here for one more matter: currently in the Heavenly Realm, the evil immortals of the Sanshi Hall run rampant.
Perhaps many sects present have been newly established and do not know what the Sanshi Hall is.
Then let this old man explain.”
Then, Qian Li Zhenren spread both hands.
A shadowy image appeared.
It was a scene of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
At least a thousand immortals had fallen here, their deaths extremely tragic.
At first, it seemed to be only a static image.
But unexpectedly, after a moment, three figures slowly struggled to rise from it.
Qian Li Zhenren told all present that these were the founders of the Sanshi Hall.
Long ago, a million years ago, they ascended together from the Mortal Realm to the Heavenly Realm.
Because their cultivation method was extremely cruel, requiring the flesh, blood, and souls of immortals as sacrifices to advance,
they soon provoked many immortals.
In the northern Heavenly Realm, thirteen sects mobilized over a thousand immortals to kill these three evil immortals.
But unexpectedly,
in just a few hundred years, they had broken through from early True Immortal Realm to peak Heavenly Immortal Realm.
They even gathered nearly a hundred like-minded evil immortals.
That battle lasted ten days and ten nights, extremely fierce.
It was originally thought that these evil immortals had been completely exterminated.
But a few days later,
the three founders of the Sanshi Hall actually crawled out from the mountain of corpses.
From then on, they founded the Sanshi Hall.
On one hand, they continued recruiting like-minded evil immortals,
on the other, they continued practicing poisonous cultivation methods.
However, since that battle,
the Sanshi Hall’s manner of operation became extremely low-key.
Even their previous enemies, upon hearing they were not dead, could find no trace of them.
Actually, if the Sanshi Hall were like rats crossing a street, hiding underground,
Taiyan Dao would have no objection.
Evil immortals were still immortals; since they could ascend to the Heavenly Realm, it was already very difficult.
As long as they did not indiscriminately kill immortals, no one would care about these evil immortals.
But since the Heavenly Realm calamity,
Taiyan Dao discovered that these Sanshi Hall evil immortals seemed to be rising again.
At this point, Qian Li Zhenren spread his hands once more.
A planar shadow map of the central Heavenly Realm suddenly appeared behind him.
On it, various sect ruins were marked.
Some points were blue, others red.
Qian Li Zhenren explained that the blue sect ruins represented ownerless lands, or ordinary immortals’ occupation.
The red points represented the Sanshi Hall evil immortals’ territory.
