Chapter 403: The Undying Tianjian Sect

"Oh?"

Li Heng narrowed his eyes slightly, a fierce light shooting from his gaze, and stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the crowd.

"I am the Sect Leader; you dare to demand that I do things—you have quite some nerve."

The next moment, these members of the Tianjian Sect fell silent.

They seemed not to have expected Li Heng to say such a thing.

Beside him, Su Xian was also extremely astonished upon hearing this, unsure what scheme this senior expert was plotting, and still deeply immersed in the shock that Li Heng could produce the Tianjian Token.

"The Sect Leader is right."

It was unclear who had spoken, but this sentence rang out.

These Tianjian Sect members also nodded in deep agreement.

But the next moment, the voice of the unknown speaker rang out again.

The tone shifted once more.

"But the Tianjian Sect is not the Sect Leader's personal fiefdom! Since the Outer Disciple Su Xian has made a mistake, we must punish him! You must know that if a Sect Leader commits a mistake, he is guilty of the same crime as his disciple!"

"Oh, is that so? It's not my personal fiefdom?"

Li Heng was surprised, but immediately spoke calmly.

"Then it is now; the Tianjian Sect is my personal fiefdom."

"Whatever I say, you can only do."

A voice devoid of any emotion, merely stating the facts quietly, echoed across this plaza and graveyard, causing these Tianjian Sect members to be astonished once again, wondering if they had misheard.

This newly appeared Sect Leader was quite arrogant.

At this moment, Su Xian also came to his senses.

Was this senior expert trying to protect him?

But why? Just a moment ago, he had clearly wanted to seize his position as Sect Leader, feeling that he, an Outer Disciple, was not qualified to be the Sect Leader...

No!

Why would he, an Outer Disciple, want to be the Sect Leader?

And what qualifications did he have to be the Sect Leader?

These doubts suddenly rose in his mind; his originally calm and normal memories became chaotic, confused, and somewhat distorted.

Why did he say he could not save the Tianjian Sect?

And why did he want to be the Tianjian Sect Leader?

Su Xian kept muttering to himself, repeatedly questioning.

"If a Sect Leader commits a mistake, he is guilty of the same crime as his disciple..."

The voice of the unknown speaker rang out, eerie and faint.

Instantly, the Tianjian Sect members on the plaza were filled with righteous indignation, all feeling that Li Heng was too arrogant and simply not fit to be the Sect Leader of the Tianjian Sect; they all drew their swords and pointed them at Li Heng.

"Audacious madman, hand over the Tianjian Token and cripple your own position as Sect Leader!"

The Tianjian Sect members all shouted in unison with rage.

"I already said it is my personal fiefdom now."

Li Heng shook his head with a sigh.

Why were some idiots unable to recognize the situation?

With a wave of his hand, the pressure of the Creation Realm suppressed the entire scene, directly pinning these Tianjian Sect members in place, unable to move, unable to speak, and only able to maintain the posture of drawing their swords.

"Alright, it is my personal fiefdom now."

Li Heng clapped his hands, very calmly.

He turned his head to look at the troubled Su Xian beside him and spoke.

"Alright, can you tell me what is happening now? Looking at you, it seems you have recalled some things; can you tell me, the Sect Leader of the Tianjian Sect?"

Su Xian was silent for a moment, struggling to calm himself down; his skeleton frame barely managed to reveal a look of supplication, and he spoke weakly, "I beg the senior to let me become the Sect Leader of the Tianjian Sect."

"What is difficult about that?"

Li Heng smiled nonchalantly and handed the Tianjian Token to Su Xian.

Su Xian was stunned, "For me?"

"You wanted to be the Sect Leader, so I will give it to you."

Li Heng said calmly.

Me? Am I now... the Sect Leader?

This question rushed into Su Xian's mind and echoed continuously. As the echo grew louder, Su Xian also became increasingly firm: he was now the Sect Leader of the Tianjian Sect!

And Li Heng also noticed that Su Xian's strength was soaring rapidly.

From a plain, unremarkable skeleton frame that even an ordinary human could dismantle to boil for bone soup, he rapidly leveled up: Heavenly Human Realm, Void Heaven Realm, Void Dao Realm, and finally reached the Creation Realm!

Even though Li Heng could sense that this Creation Realm had a lot of "water" in it.

But Li Heng could also be certain.

The current Su Xian possessed the genuine, mighty power of the Creation Realm!

So, what would happen next?

The thought in Li Heng's mind was quickly answered.

He saw Su Xian's snow-white skeleton frame suddenly sprout flesh and blood out of thin air, which finally covered his entire body, manifested robes, and turned into a man who was five parts as handsome as he, Li.

Su Xian waved his hand, and the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi condensed into a sword.

Then he spoke loudly, looking up at the sky.

"I, Su Xian, the current Sect Leader of the Tianjian Sect, you Evil Demons stop being arrogant; as long as my body is undying, the Tianjian Sect is undying!"

"One Sword Separates the World!"

Following this, a sword strike was unleashed, slicing through time and space, directly causing the faint, shimmering bubble membrane above the sky to shatter, revealing the despair, madness, and various weird shadows of the outside world.

Seeing the bubble shatter, these shadows and weird shadows stretched out their tentacles, baring fangs and brandishing claws, as if wanting to reach into the Tianjian Sect.

But the next moment, the bubble membrane that had originally shattered manifested and evolved once more due to the great power of this sword, and it no longer shimmered faintly, wrapping around the entire Tianjian Sect and isolating it from Heaven and Earth.

Those shadows and weird shadows were also isolated outside the Tianjian Sect.

Su Xian revealed a smile; the long sword dissipated, his robes shattered, his flesh and blood receded, and he returned to being a snow-white skeleton frame, his strength also regressing to its original level.

He lowered his head, looking at the Tianjian Sect members restrained by Li Heng. The smile dissipated and vanished; even though he was only a skeleton frame, he revealed a look of sorrow that was almost tangible.

Li Heng remained calm, waiting for Su Xian to speak on his own.

Finally, Su Xian's silent mourning ended, and he looked at Li Heng.

"Senior, please ask; my memory will not last long."

"Is this the past repeating itself?"

Li Heng opened his mouth to ask.

Su Xian shook his head.

"What Senior says is not entirely correct; it is merely that what has already been will surely be again, and what has already been done will surely be done again. I have already served as Sect Master countless times, and I have also unleashed this sword countless times..."

Li Heng nodded in understanding.

This "countless times" was obviously just a figure of speech, but it was enough to prove that this Su Xian had certainly experienced this kind of thing many times.

Next, Li Heng continued to inquire, confirming his guess.

Back then, when the disaster occurred in the outside world, the high-level combatants of the Tianjian Sect, the Sect Master, and many Supreme Elders died in battle; he, an Outer Disciple who had received the founder's inheritance, stood up and succeeded as Sect Master.

Finally, facing the disaster and the Evil Demon, he unleashed this sword.

One Sword Separates the World, forming its own Heaven and Earth, protecting the Tianjian Sect.

But looking at the current result.

He also died, and everyone else in the Tianjian Sect also died.

Only this remnant body and the undying obsession of the past repeating itself remained, repeatedly unleashing this sword, shattering the old world barrier, and opening up a brand-new world barrier to meaninglessly shelter the Tianjian Sect.

In other words, Su Xian had failed.

But when Li Heng spoke his thoughts aloud.

Su Xian strongly denied it.

"No, Senior, I have not died, so the Tianjian Sect will not be destroyed either; they have not died either, Senior, you are wrong."

Listening to such firm words, Li Heng spoke again.

"Even if the Tianjian Sect members reflected and evolved by you, and even that Guardian Beast, have clearly been affected by the outside Calamity and Pollution, do you still think so?"

"I firmly believe in myself."

Su Xian only answered these five words softly.

Li Heng sighed with emotion.

From the evolution of the graveyard turning into a plaza earlier, he could vaguely see what kind of path this was: the Dao of Idealism.

I think, therefore I am; I believe, therefore I exist. As long as Su Xian can firmly believe that he has not died and the sect members have not died, and reach the peak on this path, perhaps he truly will not die.

But he could also see.

Su Xian could not hold on for much longer.

Otherwise, he would not have changed from a living person with a flesh-and-blood body into the dead person who was now nothing but a skeleton frame; everything indicated that the situation was constantly worsening and falling.

After thinking for a moment, Li Heng was about to speak.

Suddenly, Black Fog erupted from within the bodies of those Tianjian Sect members he had restrained; the Black Fog gathered and fused, finally forming an incomparably Weird face.

This seemed to be a brand-new power of Calamity, and both its essence and volume were extremely high, ignoring Li Heng's casual restraint.

The Weird face stared at Li Heng, then stared at Su Xian.

Afterward, it roared aloud, and the sect members below spoke along with it.

"Su Xian, you madman, let us out!"