Chapter 1637: Formless Six Son, Yin Qing Kun

When Dan Sheng's voice, laden with complex emotions, rang out between heaven and earth, Li Luo's face immediately filled with horror, and he looked in disbelief at the enormous bronze mask that resembled a vengeful spirit.

This "Yin Li Tianwang" of the Gui Yi Hui actually shared the same identity as Wang Tai Xi, being one of the "Formless Six Sons" of the Formless Saint Sect?!

No wonder the Gui Yi Hui always seemed to have an unusually thorough understanding of the Formless Saint Sect's information and the myriad phase seeds. It turned out their leader actually possessed such an identity and secret!

Within that ancient sect that had once dominated an entire era and reached the pinnacle of power, the status of the Formless Six Sons was second only to the Sect Master. They even possessed the qualification to recommend candidates for Sect Master, which showed just what kind of standing they held within the Formless Saint Sect.

However, Li Luo could not understand—if this "Yin Li Tianwang" truly was one of the "Formless Six Sons," then why would he have founded the "Gui Yi Hui," an organization that colluded with the aberrations of the Dark World? Moreover, he had repeatedly manufactured Calamities, stirring up countless disasters in the world and causing living beings to suffer.

One must remember that in those ancient times, the Formless Saint Sect had been equivalent to a guardian deity of the Ten Outer Shenzhou.

"Formless Six Son, Yin Qing Kun."

Amid Li Luo's shock, Jiang Li Tianwang also momentarily lost himself for several breaths, then could not help sighing with emotion. "So that's how it is. I had harbored vague suspicions before, but I never expected that you would actually be one of the Formless Six Sons."

"What a pity. The Formless Saint Sect represented the most glorious era for the countless living beings of the Ten Outer Shenzhou. Those ancestors poured their hearts' blood into protecting this world, yet your current actions betray the will of the Formless Saint Sect's forebears."

The ghastly white flames within the eye sockets of the bronze mask flickered, and a voice of indifferent mockery rang out: "Jiang Li Tianwang, spare me your meaningless talk of grand righteousness. The Gui Yi Hui was likewise founded to put an end to the chaos of this world. You do not understand our path."

"The truly naive ones are you of the Academy Alliance. With your shallow strength, you believe you can stand against the aberrations of the Dark World? How laughable. If even the Formless Saint Sect could not complete this path, what right do you have?"

Jiang Li Tianwang replied calmly: "The Academy Alliance has inherited the Formless Saint Sect's last wish. We will naturally walk this path to the very end."

"The Formless Saint Sect's last wish?"

Yin Li Tianwang's mockery deepened: "You do not possess that qualification."

Jiang Li Tianwang shook his head, knowing that arguing with the other held no meaning whatsoever. Both sides were Divine Fruit Li Tianwang, their own wills incomparably overbearing, and absolutely impossible to shake easily.

When the paths differ, one must defend them with one's life.

At this moment, Dan Sheng, who stood atop the eerie colorful butterfly, fixed Yin Li Tianwang with a gaze both fierce and complicated. "Yin Qing Kun, you should not have appeared here, and you should not have lived until now!"

Even she, a former Divine Fruit Li Tianwang, could only rely on her own special characteristics to eke out an existence through the erosion of these endless years, and she had paid the bitter price of being unable to recover her full former strength.

But looking at the pressure emanating from the Yin Li Tianwang before her, he was still at his former peak.

And... most importantly, even if Yin Qing Kun had relied on some special method to resist the erosion of the endless years, he still should not have appeared here, nor become the one plotting against her.

That was not something he, as one of the Formless Six Sons, should have done.

"Yet I have somehow lived until now, and I have also come here," Yin Li Tianwang said indifferently.

Dan Sheng said in a heavy voice: "Yin Qing Kun, after I Zi Wo Feng Yin myself back then, what exactly happened within the Formless Saint Sect?!"

Yin Li Tianwang fell silent, offering no answer.

"So the purpose of your coming here is to devour my Divine Fruit phase nature?" Dan Sheng asked mockingly.

Yin Li Tianwang said slowly: "Cai Die, stop pretending. You know I did not come for you."

Li Luo and the others could not help being startled upon hearing this. Yin Li Tianwang had plotted so deeply—was his target not Dan Sheng? Why then did he now say otherwise?

And while they were astonished, Dan Sheng's expression turned utterly grim. Her eyes radiated a bone-piercing cold as she stared fixedly at Yin Li Tianwang.

Yin Li Tianwang let out a slow sigh, and when his indifferent words fell, they caused Jiang Li Tianwang's expression to change drastically.

"Cai Die, hand over the Sect Master's 'Wind-Fire Phase' to me."

Li Luo's face turned pale with shock. The Sect Master's "Wind-Fire Phase"?!

By now he had also come to know many secrets, and naturally understood that the Sect Master they spoke of must be the final, and most mysterious and legendary, Sect Master of the Formless Saint Sect. That Sect Master had been far too unfathomable—even though he himself was long gone, his phase nature had been preserved.

Just like that "Divine Fruit Crystal Phase" of beyond ninth grade deep within the Celestial Mirror Pagoda.

And now, Yin Li Tianwang's plot against Dan Sheng was actually because Dan Sheng possessed a "Wind-Fire Phase" left behind by that Sect Master? From the sound of it, this seemed to be a main-auxiliary dual phase like his own.

But this was also normal. After all, the Great Formless Divine Forging Art could refine acquired phases, so it stood to reason that the Sect Master possessed a main-auxiliary dual phase. However, the Crystal Phase previously seen in the Celestial Mirror Pagoda was a single phase. Perhaps viewed in this light, the Sect Master's phase nature should be a mix of single and dual.

The only thing unknown was whether the myriad phase seeds of the Formless Saint Sect were, like him, born as empty phases, or whether they were refined and filled in Yi Mi Fa after a phase nature was born.

Between heaven and earth, all was silent. An indescribable, oppressive terror pervaded the air, nearly causing the very atmosphere to congeal.

Such a high-level conversation was utterly incomprehensible to ordinary experts, but that did not stop them from trembling, because they felt that as these Li Tianwang confronted each other, they themselves were like bamboo rafts in a terrifying tsunami, liable to capsize and shatter at any moment.

Dan Sheng's hands slowly tightened into fists, green veins standing out on her Bai Xi hands, as she stared fixedly at Yin Qing Kun. After a long moment, she finally uttered words frigid beyond compare: "Yin Qing Kun, you have truly gone mad. You even dare lay your hands on the Sect Master's phase nature!"

Yin Li Tianwang said calmly: "What if I told you that my coming to take the 'Wind-Fire Phase' is precisely the execution of an order the Sect Master once gave?"

Dan Sheng's chest rose and fell slightly, and she laughed mockingly at the same time: "Oh? Then do you know why I brought the 'Wind-Fire Phase' and Zi Wo Feng Yin myself back then?"

"Because this was an edict the Sect Master personally issued to me!"

The ghastly white flames within Yin Li Tianwang's eye sockets flickered slowly, and a deep, indifferent voice rang out.

"I know."

"And I also know that I am acting under orders. Cai Die, are you going to defy the Sect Master's will?"

Dan Sheng stared at Yin Li Tianwang with a dim look in her eyes, a weariness surfacing within them. She said softly: "But before the sealing back then, the Sect Master once said a sentence to me..."

"The Sect Master said..."

"Do not trust Yin Qing Kun."