Chapter 31

**Chapter 31: Ling Wuji's Shock**

###**Act I: Heaven Observation Mirror Shatters · Immortal Tea Freezes into Ice**

Inside the Immortal Sect's "Heaven Observation Pavilion," the Nine Revolutions Exquisite Cup in Ling Wuji's hand suddenly exploded. The scalding immortal tea froze into ice before it could even hit the ground, and the residual shadows of the Return to Ruins battlefield were reflected in the tea ice—Xiaoyaozi lay drunkenly on the Ancestral Dragon's skull, and the wine aura drifting from the gourd was refining Ao Tian's dragon roar into a little tune.

"Chaos wine stain... it's him!" Ling Wuji's immortal robes fluttered without wind, and the gold threads on his cuffs snapped inch by inch. That nightmare from one hundred thousand years ago reappeared before his eyes: seven Immortal Emperors besieged Xiaoyaozi, but were extinguished by a pot of wine, and even their chances at reincarnation were brewed into wine dregs.

Urgent bell tolls came from outside the pavilion, and nine Immortal Sect elders shattered the barrier and broke in: "Sect Master! Urgent report from the Return to Ruins, Ao Tian has been taken into the gourd, and the Burial Fire source seed has been taken by that Lin-surnamed child..."

"Shut up!" Ling Wuji's reprimand shattered the transmission jade slip, and the jade dust condensed into eight ancient chaos seal characters in the air—it was exactly the "Drunkenly Slaughter Three Thousand Realms" that Xiaoyaozi left in the Return to Ruins. Each character struck his immortal soul like a heavy hammer, and the old scars burned by the wine aura back then throbbed faintly.

####**Immortal Sect Secret Record · Xiaoyao's Calamity**

-**Chaos Era**: Xiaoyaozi turned wine into Dao, fighting alone across the Thirty-Three Heavens without ever tasting defeat.

-**Fall of the Seven Emperors**: The most tragic battle in the history of the Immortal Sect; those who participated, only Ling Wuji survived by luck because he had not yet reached the Emperor Realm.

-**Blood Contract Silence Order**: The surviving Immortal Sect disciples were cursed and forbidden to mention the two characters "Xiaoyao" for the rest of their lives.

###**Act II: Shadow of Xuansu · Terror Reappears**

The Heaven Observation Mirror suddenly operated on its own, and the mirror surface reflected the scene of Lin Xuansu being taught: on the peak of a snowy mountain one hundred thousand years ago, Xiaoyaozi drunkenly threw an ice coffin fragment to the young girl Xuansu, and the silver-white Burial Fire jumping on the fragment was exactly the same as the one Lin Jin held now!

"So that's it... so that's it!" Ling Wuji's fingertips dug deep into his palms, and immortal blood dripped from between his fingers. "The Burial Fire inheritance of the Xuansu lineage is simply bait laid by that old monster!"

The image in the mirror suddenly changed: the blood patterns on the brow of the reborn Ling Yue flowed, which was the "Chaos Brand" unique to Xiaoyaozi. Ling Wuji was struck by lightning—he finally understood that Ling Yue's ability to steal the ice coffin back then was not luck, but Xiaoyaozi's secret indulgence!

###**Act III: Discussion of Calamity in the Immortal Hall · Undercurrents Surge**

"From this moment on, the entire Immortal Sect shall avoid the 'Lin'."

Ling Wuji's voice resounded through the Thirty-Three Heavens, and the Dragon-Slaying Orders in the souls of all disciples were forcibly tampered with, the dragon patterns twisting into the character "Avoid". "Whoever encounters silver-white Burial Fire, retreat three thousand miles; whoever detects chaos wine aura... destroy your own immortal body!"

"Sect Master, why go this far?!" The Punishment Hall Elder Chi Xiaozi slammed the table and stood up. "It's just a drunkard, with the strength of the entire sect..."

"Chi Xiao." Ling Wuji's gaze suddenly flashed with the residual marks of wine aura. "Do you know that the seven Immortal Emperors of one hundred thousand years ago couldn't even touch his gourd stopper?"

Chi Xiaozi suddenly bled from his seven orifices, and the tragic scene from back then appeared in his soul: Xiaoyaozi lay drunkenly on a mountain of corpses, wine drops from his fingertips piercing the brows of the seven emperors. He stumbled to his knees, trembling as he accepted the order: "Obey... Sect Master's order."

###**Act IV: Wuji's Scheme · Dark Chess Piece Moves Again**

Late at night, Ling Wuji sat alone at the bottom of the "Burial Immortal Pool." Nine ice coffins were soaked in the pool, sealing the strongest war puppets of the past Immortal Sect. He bit his tongue and carved a reverse array on the coffin surface with the essence blood of an Immortal Emperor:

"Since the Burial Fire source seed has awakened... then let 'them' be born ahead of time."

The ice coffins opened with a boom, and what jumped in the pupils of the war puppets was actually the same silver-white Burial Fire as Lin Jin's! It turned out that the Immortal Sect had long secretly intercepted the Coffin Keeper bloodline and refined it into a killing weapon.

"Xiaoyaozi, you think only you can plan?" Ling Wuji stroked the Chaos Brand on the war puppets' brows. "The 'Burial Fire Puppets' I raised for one hundred thousand years are specifically designed to counter the naivety of your lineage!"

###**Act V: Aftermath of the Return to Ruins · Immortal Realm Trembles**

Deep in the forbidden ground of the Immortal Sect, the water of the Burial Immortal Pool suddenly boiled. Nine war puppets broke out of their coffins, the silver-white Burial Fire mixing with Pure Void Qi to burn through the Thirty-Three Heavens. And Ling Wuji, sitting high in the clouds, did not notice that Xiaoyaozi's wine stain had quietly appeared on the brows of the war puppets...

At the same time, the "Avoid Lin Decree" of the Supervision Hall spread across the heavens. A Burial Fire Guard looked at the chaos wine stain in the starry sky and carved a secret report into the Ancestral Dragon's reverse scale:

"Immortal Sect moves, Burial Fire Puppets appear. Master Lin, make a decision early."

In the ruins of the Return to Ruins, Lin Jin's Coffin Keeper Seal suddenly stung. He looked up and drank the wine residue in the gourd, his drunken eyes reflecting the pillar of Burial Fire shooting into the sky in the direction of the Immortal Sect—

"Master was right..." He wiped the wine stain from the corner of his mouth. "This Immortal Realm is indeed more interesting than the Void Poison."