Chapter 158: Dog-Like Lovers!

On Holy Fire Cliff, Master Chongguang was in closed-door meditation.

But just then, True Person Yinshan's voice rumbled over, seemingly forcibly suppressing some emotion, though a hint of it slipped through.

"Senior Brother! Come out and watch the show!"

Master Chongguang opened his eyes at the words and shook his head: "Yinshan, how many times have I told you—when things come up, stay calm. Don't be so lacking in composure."

"It's just Chen Taihe making a push for late Foundation Establishment."

"He's had the third Cheng Tian Gang Earth Fiend for a long time now, and his Calamity Substitution secret art is fully prepared. What's so strange about him pushing for late stage?"

Though he spoke thus, he showed no look of reproach—instead, a touch of nostalgia. After all, the old him had been just like True Person Yinshan now: fresh out of the thatched hut, with little experience of the world, thrown into a panic by any trivial matter. But now, he had grown numb to most things.

Nothing under heaven could stir a ripple in the lake of his heart anymore.

Loneliness, solitude, blandness—these are the paths every Foundation Establishment True Person must walk. The sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy of cultivation, the myriad faces of the mortal world, all lie within.

"No—Lu Yang is screwing the Lady of the Mending Heavens Peak Lord!"

". What?"

The next second, Master Chongguang, who a moment ago had worn an expression of serene indifference, suddenly flung his eyes wide open, instinctively doubting what he had just heard.

Lu Yang, screwing someone?

Who? The Lady of the Mending Heavens Peak Lord!?

Right now!?

In an instant, Master Chongguang circulated his divine sense, sent it out past Holy Fire Cliff, and gazed toward Mending Heavens Peak—and immediately a magnificent scene was reflected into his eyes.

He saw the great Mending Heavens Peak: outside, the Mending Heavens Peak Lord was undergoing Tribulation Crossing; inside, Lu Yang and Lady Ruoxiang had already walked together into a great hall, their voices amplified by a sound-projection array and exploding outward.

The gathered True Persons of the Holy Sect outside heard it and were struck dumb.

No way—you two are actually doing it?

"Slut! Slut! Slut!"

Within the Foundation Establishment realm, the Mending Heavens Peak Lord was so furious his face turned iron-blue, having never imagined Lu Yang and Lady Ruoxiang would stoop to something so bestial.

But the next second, he killed every stray thought.

"Right now—Tribulation Crossing takes priority!"

The Mending Heavens Peak Lord was, after all, that great demon lord—from fury to calm in an instant, adjusting with extreme speed. He even felt a measure of contempt toward Lu Yang and Lady Ruoxiang.

That pair of dog-like lovers—do they really think such a low-down trick can disturb my state of mind?

Thinking of this, a cold flash immediately passed through the Mending Heavens Peak Lord's eyes: "Duanmu Yuan Tu... it seems he's already learned that I joined forces with Arhat Fu Long?"

This must be revenge!

Can't take revenge on me, so he takes it out on my Lady?

Beast!

For a moment, the Mending Heavens Peak Lord even felt a measure of admiration for Lu Yang's boldness and ability—no wonder Master Chongguang valued him so highly. Simply brazen beyond measure!

"Enough. Continue the Tribulation Crossing."

The Mending Heavens Peak Lord gathered his thoughts, ignored the deliberately broadcast, high-pitched voice echoing at his ear, and prepared to focus entirely on dealing with the heavenly tribulation before him.

Yet the next second, he froze.

Because just then, Chen Shuqian—whose divine sense should have been sealed by him—suddenly trembled, and her once-dazed eyes rapidly cleared!

"This is... the Two-Bodies-One-Heart True Art!?"

"Slut!"

Only at this moment did the Mending Heavens Peak Lord truly panic, and he instantly understood why Lady Ruoxiang would do such a thing with Lu Yang at this time.

The Two-Bodies-One-Heart True Art: both parties deliberately share all insights and experiences.

Lady Ruoxiang had planted it on Chen Shuqian, intending that after her own reincarnation, she would use it to have Chen Shuqian help her break through the mystery of the womb.

But now, this true art had been turned around by Lady Ruoxiang and used on Chen Shuqian, awakening her from the stupor imposed by the Mending Heavens Peak Lord's suppression of her divine sense—in a sense, no different from breaking the mystery of the womb!

"Mm—"

Within the Foundation Establishment realm, Chen Shuqian's brow smoothed, and her stalled thoughts resumed their flow.

"Ah!"

The next second, a scream rang out from within Mending Heavens Peak.

Almost simultaneously, Chen Shuqian's beautiful eyes snapped wide open!

She was awake!

And in the instant of clarity, Chen Shuqian sorted out the situation. Without the slightest hesitation, under the Mending Heavens Peak Lord's gaze—eyes nearly splitting with rage—she detonated herself with a thunderous blast!

"No—!"

Her shattered flesh turned into a skyfulling of blood-mist, instantly dyeing the Mending Heavens Peak Lord's eyes red. Because as Chen Shuqian self-detonated her body and fiercely severed the bloodline karma, he clearly sensed that the Calamity Substitution secret art he had planted on her was dissipating—it could no longer draw away the heavenly thunder for him!

"Unfilial wretched seed!"

The Mending Heavens Peak Lord nearly ground his steel teeth to dust: "If I hadn't gone through endless hardship to scrape together resources for you, how could you have achieved Foundation Establishment? This is how you repay me?"

"Father, there you are mistaken."

A wisp of Chen Shuqian's fragrant soul instantly fled out of the Foundation Establishment realm, leaving behind only a lingering echo: "For all our years as father and daughter, I never wished to put it so plainly."

"But to speak the truth, I never once felt happy with you."

As the words fell, the Mending Heavens Peak Lord saw Chen Shuqian drift lightly back down onto Mending Heavens Peak, while the peak's gates swung wide open, revealing a hall.

Lu Yang and Lady Ruoxiang, still somewhat disheveled, emerged supporting each other.

In fact, from beginning to end, all of this had been Lady Ruoxiang's suggestion—such a frenzied revenge showed just how deep her resentment toward the Mending Heavens Peak Lord ran.

"Chen Taihe, those words are what I have for you."

Lady Ruoxiang's Zhu Chun parted slightly as she looked at the Mending Heavens Peak Lord and gave a cold smile: "After all this time with you, it wasn't half as good as what I just had with Duanmu Yuan Tu."

The next second, Chen Shuqian descended and knelt reverently before Lu Yang: "Many thanks to Senior Duanmu Yuan Tu for saving my life. Shuqian will surely repay you generously in the days to come."

The Peak Master of Butian: "."

In an instant, Lu Yang watched the Peak Master of Butian's face flush red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and white steam even began to rise visibly from his seven orifices.

"Good! Good! Good!"

The Peak Master of Butian drew a deep breath, no longer looking at Lady Ruoxiang and Chen Shuqian, and suppressed his anger, only because he still held onto hope.

To cross the Heavenly Tribulation, he had prepared a son and a daughter; it should have been foolproof. Yet now Lady Ruoxiang and Chen Shuqian had both turned against him, causing him to lose one substitute for the tribulation on the spot. Even so, with his strength, he still had a sixty percent chance of crossing the Heavenly Tribulation!

'Once I break through to the late stage, not a single one of you will escape!'

Lady Ruoxiang, Chen Shuqian, Lu Yang—such a monstrous humiliation. Even if he killed these three shameless creatures on the spot, the entire Holy Sect would have no grounds to refute it.

That's right, as long as I succeed in crossing the tribulation!

Thinking of this, the Peak Master of Butian looked with burning eyes toward his other substitute for the tribulation: "Xinan, for your father's sake, go in peace!"

At this moment, at the critical juncture of life and death, he finally completely tore off the pretense of a loving father and filial son he had always worn, revealing his greedy and mad true face. While laughing hideously, he also activated the substitute-tribulation secret art, about to draw the rolling Heavenly Tribulation still falling nonstop onto Chen Xinan.

And then he saw a scene that nearly shattered his very soul.

"I'm sorry, Father, but I have long since been the Old Master's man as well."

Chen Xinan, whose divine sense should have been suppressed just like Chen Shuqian's, suddenly opened his eyes without any warning, and then let out a long sigh toward him.

(End of chapter)