[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star":3,"chapter-after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-229":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","After Fifteen Years of Secret Cultivation, I Start as a Top-Grade Ultimate Peak!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2282337,4464,"Chapter 229: The Fury of Baolian Peak","after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-229",229,"\u003Cp>Lanterns lit and hung everywhere, turning the peak as bright as day, the entire Baolian Peak awash with joyous festivity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the towering gate forged from black iron, a rider and horse galloped out of the night and came to an abrupt stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Baolian Peak messenger, a high-ranking disciple, dismounted and leapt past the gate guards without pause, racing straight into the peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gate guards recognized him—he was their senior by generation, and none dared to stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet all of them were puzzled; his frantic demeanor suggested something major had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how many years had Baolian Peak gone without a major incident? The only recent matter worth noting was the Da Li Tianjin Guard’s sudden attack on Luoshen Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet as disciples of Luoshen Peak, they had never taken the Da Li court’s foolish act seriously—beyond deep anger, they felt no fear that Luoshen Peak would truly suffer harm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Probably still about the young lord—perhaps the killer has been dealt with, and this uncle is rushing back to report the news?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One gate guard said, and the others around him paid it no mind at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after entering the peak, the messenger raced straight toward the cliff’s summit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yunfeng’s iron-stone courtyard atop the summit was his secluded cultivation chamber—a place as forbidden as any in Baolian Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, only a handful of people within the peak could visit to pay respects or report affairs; by right, he had no authority to go there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this situation was different, and he had already received permission from the Grand Elder to personally report the situation in Baolian City to Zheng Yunfeng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, the Grand Elder harbored his own intentions—he knew the deaths of the First Lady, Zheng Zi, and Zheng Shangzong would send Zheng Yunfeng into a rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one who delivered this news would bear the brunt of that fury immediately, and he certainly did not wish to shoulder it himself—so he conveniently made this man a scapegoat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, once Zheng Yunfeng calmed down, he would avenge the man, and the matter would be laid to rest; worse still, he might even gain favor in Zheng Yunfeng’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet for all his scheming, he never imagined the sheer terror of Li Muxian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only did he fail to avenge anyone—he was tortured before being killed himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, something has happened!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The messenger, unaware of the protocol for approaching Zheng Yunfeng, shouted loudly the moment he reached the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Insolent! Who gave you permission to come here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yunfeng’s voice, laced with fury, rang from within the courtyard, and the heavy clouds crowning the summit churned violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They coalesced into a white iron chain forged from cloud qi, descending from the sky with a piercing shriek, lashing toward the messenger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the messenger froze in terror and cried out at once:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The First Lady and the Lord of Baolian City have both been killed!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At those words, the descending cloud-iron chain halted mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The messenger then slammed his forehead to the ground and, before Zheng Yunfeng could speak, hurriedly continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We followed the First Lady and two Elders of the Enforcement Hall to Baolian City to avenge the young lord—but when we arrived, we found the Lord of Baolian City had also been killed by the same man.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The First Lady, overcome with grief, led us with the two Elders to seek vengeance—but… the First Lady and both Elders were slain with a single finger by that man. He deliberately spared nine of us to deliver this message to Jiufeng…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The messenger spoke rapidly, laying out the entire sequence of events, terrified Zheng Yunfeng would think he had broken protocol without cause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he never expected that the moment he finished speaking, the cloud-iron chain crashed down, reducing his entire body to a mist of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He died without understanding why, after racing all this way in panic, he ended up with no corpse left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same moment, the summit of Baolian Peak erupted in wind and swirling clouds, thunderous roars echoing like rolling thunder—as if a terrifying force was coiling into being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Disciples across the peak all felt it—whether resting, cultivating, or awake—they all stepped out of their rooms and looked up toward the summit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, the entire Baolian Peak fell into deathly silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the courtyard atop the summit, hidden within mist, slowly exuded a suffocating aura of dread—like a ravenous beast slowly awakening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, one disciple turned back and glanced toward the bronze wind chime hanging beneath the eaves of his room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw it violently ringing, then suddenly exploding—shards flew in all directions, piercing walls of nearby buildings and slicing across his cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s the Master!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A disciple on the peak suddenly cried out—and soon, disciples on the mountain slopes all knelt as one, bowing their heads and chanting Zheng Yunfeng’s title.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From within the dark summit courtyard, a brilliant golden aura of true qi surged upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden rays blazed like the blazing sun, illuminating the entire Baolian Peak; the churning clouds atop the summit transformed into a sea of golden mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Zheng Yunfeng gave no response to his disciples—the entire peak was met with an overwhelming tide of killing intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the entire mountain trembled in resonance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pine forest near the summit lost all its needles at once—the needles floated midair, every tip pointing toward the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waterfalls reversed, droplets froze, the mist shrouding the peak surged violently into a colossal vortex, howling winds rising as if to shake the entire Baolian Peak apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, nearly every disciple on Baolian Peak finally realized—this was not the Master emerging from seclusion to display his Heavenly Immortal martial might. This was the Master’s rage and killing intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of the disciples knew what had happened—they could only tremble and kneel across the peak, foreheads pressed to the ground, not daring to make a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, every suspended pine needle in the forest exploded into dust, softly falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The frozen droplets of the waterfall were crushed by a terrifying force, bursting into sheets of mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, pine dust and water mist were swept up by the vortex, engulfing the entire Baolian Peak—every disciple was drenched in damp chill, a bone-deep cold spreading through their bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, all of them faintly understood the icy, chilling emotion the Master now felt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that very moment, the golden aura suddenly plummeted from the summit and halted above the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Prepare the carriage. I shall go to Baolian City myself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1102,"2026-06-20T01:43:39.330Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","05a14a1ee00f444004f5923e7a84986dea761918a8de808038dd72e1743c37b0","after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-230","after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-228",259,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-cover.jpg"]