Chapter 65: Appearance

The young cultivator clenched his fists in frustration, his face showing disappointment as he turned and flicked his sleeves away.

Some low-level cultivators in the city looked at each other, opened their mouths as if to say something, but ultimately swallowed their words……

Never mind, just hold on a few more days; trust the sect master.

Since the sect master said the predicament would be resolved in a few days, let all the cultivators wait a bit longer.

Strive to hold out until hope arrives.

"Sect Master." Personal guard Eleven pursed his lips and walked up to Su Chen, asking doubtfully: "Why don't you directly tell those cultivators that the Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect possesses supreme-grade spirit crystals and various supreme-grade spirit treasures?"

"As long as we wait for the young sect master to return with these talismans and slaughter our way back to Cloud Sea City, the beast tide and those cultivators of the Ye family are nothing to fear."

"If you had spoken up earlier, Elder Wang and the others wouldn't have betrayed us and defected to the Ye family."

Su Changfeng shook his head slightly, gazing toward the Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect: "An innocent man incurs no crime, but carrying a jade brings guilt—moreover, the talismans are running low, the breakthrough pills are exhausted; without absolute strength, revealing one's trump card will only invite the covetousness of stronger foes."

"I trust Chen'er's choice."

"The day my son returns will be the time the Ye family bows their heads."

Su Changfeng was not mistaken.

At this moment, Su Chen had already left Qianyuan City, carrying nearly two million points, along with stockpiles of sufficient spirit stones and spirit treasures, leading the members of the Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect, he boarded the spatial teleportation array and rushed toward Cloud Sea City.

The only unexpected thing was that he couldn't bring Liu Liyan along.

"How is this possible… This is absolutely impossible! Su Chen, Su Chen never mentioned any of this to me; I don't know, I really know nothing at all……"

"Other than buying me precious pills and beautiful jewelry and occasionally uttering profound remarks, he shows no other abnormality at all!"

"Brother Ye Xuan, you must believe me; everything I say is true, I can swear an oath to the heavens……" Lin Jianran said in panic.

She had not yet come to her senses from the joy of being promoted to Outer Elder of the Azure Abyss Sect.

She was summoned in the middle of the night to the Azure Abyss Sect.

This time, she learned from her childhood friend Ye Xuan that Su Chen had fled Qianyuan City, the Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect possessed an imperial armament and spirit-grade lightning-fire talismans, and held terrifying trump cards.

Even their dharma weapons were so numerous they could be used directly for self-destruction, and the lightning-fire talismans were freely thrown about as if they cost nothing.

Below the Martial Sovereign Realm, cultivators either die or are injured.

Even a Martial Spirit cultivator holding such trump cards could take down several Martial Emperors, or even Martial Ancestor experts.

The Ye family's covert guards, jailers, and the elite inner disciples of the Azure Abyss Sect, added together in scattered numbers, total about a thousand cultivators, whereas Su Chen's side has only around ten people, among whom only Madam Su and his second sister Su Lingxue have reached the Martial Ancestor Realm.

The others are at most Martial Emperor Realm—what kind of concept is that!?

With those talismans and the imperial armament, even a trashy Martial Spirit cultivator could drag down several Martial Ancestor experts.

Hum—

Ye Xuan's aura of Martial Sovereign experts leaked out, and the pressure actually made Lin Jianran kneel directly on the ground: "Do you really think I didn't take you as a concubine because of the imperial princess?"

"These past few years I've left the Eastern Wasteland to train in the Central Lands—how many men have you hooked up with, how many gifts have you accepted from men, how many men have you embraced, do you really think I don't know about all of this?"

"Someone like you, a worn-out shoe, only a trash like Su Chen would madly fawn over your stinky feet; over the past three years, she has practically bled herself dry for you, nearly emptying the entire Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect, and now you tell me you don't know?"

"Then hurry up and confess!"

Lin Jianran knelt on the ground, feeling utterly wronged in her heart.

But even her grievance couldn't outweigh—originally, originally, in the eyes of the Ye Xuan she constantly thought about, she Lin Jianran turned out to be a shameless woman?

Could Brother Ye Xuan have forgotten—when his meridians were completely ruined and the Ye family expelled him from the household, who encouraged him to persevere, who used his own cultivation resources to support him?

And Su Chen truly treated her well, often praising her, but regarding carrying talismans, various high-grade profound weapons, wound-healing holy medicines, and fleeing Qianyuan City, she truly never heard Su Chen mention those.

When she heard this, she was even more shocked than Ye Xuan.

Had she known earlier that the Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect still had such hidden depths, that Su Chen was this formidable and could still escape alive, she would not have fallen out completely with Su Chen.

She should have kept stringing him along.

"Brother Ye Xuan… cough, cough, your aura……"

Instantly her body felt light.

Lin Jianran, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, collapsed limp on the ground: "Brother Ye Xuan, you've changed; you said you would marry me, and regarding Su Chen, he truly never mentioned it to me—Brother Ye Xuan, let's forget Su Chen, just you and me, shall we start over?"

A flicker of disgust flashed in Ye Xuan's eyes.

In his half-lowered eyes, killing intent flickered, and a Martial Sovereign pressure filled the entire Azure Abyss Hall.

Just as he was about to speak.

The Sixth Prince of the Great Universe, who had rushed over for his beloved, felt a pang of bewilderment deep inside.

He quickly interjected: "Brother-in-law, keeping this woman is still useful; Su Chen hasn't been found yet, and if anything changes, we can also use her to threaten Su Chen."

"Su Chen loves her to the point of sparing no effort to please her; I've heard that over the past three years, she has fallen into danger several times, and I'm almost certain that once Su Chen learns she's in our hands, he will surely try every means to rescue her."

Ye Xuan gave the Sixth Prince a complex glance, revealing a hint of disappointment.

He had Lin Jianran of the Lin family and the Holy Maiden Liu Liyan of the Purple Yang Sect both enter the Azure Abyss Sect, but he never expected that Liu Liyan would mysteriously go missing at this critical juncture……

Those disciples of the Purple Yang Sect secretly left the sect in the middle of the night.

It seems the Sixth Prince of the Great Universe must know that Liu Liyan possesses a Bodhi Holy Body, and he also covets the Great Universe's Void Thought Technique, wanting to break through quickly, thus he needs to find a suitable cauldron.

It appears the Sixth Prince, while claiming disinterest in power, actually harbors boundless ambition.

"Lin Jianran."

Ye Xuan looked down from a lofty height at Lin Jianran.

That was a look of contempt, as if regarding an ant; that offhand remark once again pierced Lin Jianran's heart: "Harboring Su Chen, despising the sect—effective immediately, you are demoted to a menial laborer and temporarily confined to the Lin Manor."

"If you can't recall Su Chen's inheritance for a day, then don't leave the Lin family—I want to see how long you can continue to harbor Su Chen."

Hum……

Lin Jianran's face instantly turned pale, filled with disbelief.

How did she suddenly become a menial laborer disciple?

How was her Outer Elder position suddenly stripped away!

She was just telling the truth; she originally didn't know what damned inheritance, spiritual treasure!

Does Brother Ye Xuan truly have no place for her in his heart? Why must he be so cruel to her?

She never dared to think about it.

In absolute cultivation, barely managing, one is so humble and helpless.

And after a man possesses great cultivation, he can truly be that ruthless.

A single sentence can make her below one person, above ten thousand.

Or a single sentence can cast her from heaven into hell.

「Wuu… wuu… wuu…」

「Brother Ye Xuan, everything that happened between us, do you really not remember any of it? Brother Ye Xuan, don't imprison me, I don't want to be a menial! I am an Outer Sect Elder of the Qingming Sect! Brother Ye Xuan, you cannot, you cannot treat me like this! 」Lin Jianran, being dragged away by a guard, wailed bitterly.

She became a menial disciple, having lost everything; the Outer Sect Elder token she had just obtained was taken back.