Chapter 175: Invincible, Domineering, Arrogant, Presumptuous!!!!

Great Elder of the Taizhen Sect of the Righteous Alliance, Great Cultivator of Nascent Soul Late Stage True Master Zhiyang Shangren, and the leader of the Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects, Hehuan Laomo, a Great Cultivator of Nascent Soul Late Stage.

Two of the three great cultivators who once stood at the peak of the Tiannan Cultivation World were beheaded on the same day by the same person, their heads tossed onto the council hall of the Hehuan Sect.

The shock, astonishment, fear, and terror this brought to the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects currently in the Hehuan Sect council hall could not be described in words.

This group of Nascent Soul cultivators, who stood at the pinnacle of the Tiannan Cultivation World, were so shocked and terrified by the unprecedented, never-before-seen, and never-even-imagined scene before them that they could no longer speak.

Their entire bodies were frozen stiff by the chill rising from the soles of their feet.

They had anticipated many possibilities, but never had they imagined that such a horrifying scene, one that shook their minds, souls, and even their Nascent Souls, would appear before them.

After a long while, the person in charge among the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects in the council hall finally regained their senses; the look of terror and fear on their faces and in their eyes still lingered as they looked at one another.

"Fellow... Fellow Daoist, what is it that you want?"

At this moment, the Hehuan Sect leader spoke in a hoarse voice, suppressing the terror in their heart while looking at Yan Taibai, who was overflowing with murderous aura and sinister energy.

For them, if this were not handled well, the entire Hehuan Sect's foundation of tens of thousands of years could be destroyed in an instant, which was something they could not accept.

As for avenging Hehuan Laomo, the Great Elder of the Hehuan Sect, forget it.

They no longer possessed the strength for that; they could only ask what Yan Taibai wanted and hurry to send this god of slaughter away.

Lest the Hehuan Sect's foundation of tens of thousands of years be destroyed in an instant.

This was not just their thought and intention, but also the thought and intention of the other Nascent Soul cultivators of the Six Demon Sects who had regained their senses.

They likewise did not want their tens of thousands, or thousands of years of foundation to be destroyed in an instant.

"What do I want? Back then, when you Righteous and Demonic paths seized, occupied, and invaded the cultivation worlds of various countries, slaughtering countless cultivation sects and cultivation families, did you ever think of today?"

Yan Taibai smiled; the smile was handsome, yet it made the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects in the entire Hehuan Sect council hall feel horrified and terrified.

They wanted to leave, but discovered they had already been locked on by Yan Taibai's divine sense and murderous aura, their entire bodies directly restrained by these two forces—which didn't even count as a Restriction—unable to move.

To be precise, they dared not move at all, fearing they would give Yan Taibai an excuse to kill them directly.

"Then, True Master Taibai, how do you want us to compensate? Could it be that you want to slaughter and exterminate our Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects and the entire Fengdu Kingdom Righteous Alliance together?"

The Hehuan Sect leader continued to ask cautiously.

"Heh! That is not entirely impossible. After all, over these tens of thousands of years, who knows how many cultivation sects and cultivation families have been slaughtered and exterminated by your Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects and the Fengdu Kingdom Righteous Alliance? So, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; the fortunes change. Did you not think of this day for your Hehuan Sect?"

Yan Taibai's slightly cold, sinister voice made the chill in the entire Hehuan Sect council hall deepen, and paired with the two bloody heads on the ground—once the three great cultivators of the Tiannan Cultivation World—it added a few more layers of terrifying atmosphere.

However, for this group of Nascent Soul cultivators, none of that compared to Yan Taibai's incomparably handsome face.

"Back then, the Yan Family Fortress was nearly exterminated. Although the Ghost Spirit Sect has now declined and is no longer in the cultivation world, and the Wang Family has gone into hiding under assumed names, the Seven Sects of Yue Kingdom were almost forced to leave the Yue Kingdom Cultivation World. Does this blood debt not need to be settled properly? Fellow Daoists."

"Yan'er and I had to fake our deaths to escape and flee to other cultivation regions to cultivate. Now that we have achieved success in our cultivation, if I do not settle these accumulated blood debts with you properly, I would truly be failing my teacher, Mr. Xuan Ye, who taught me from a young age, failing my master who searched for me and Yan'er for many years, and failing the many clansmen and fellow sect members. And today you ask me how to compensate? You worry about your sects and families being slaughtered to the last. But back then, how many families and sects did you slaughter? I don't need to say more, do I!"

Yan Taibai grinned, revealing two rows of bone-white teeth.

"True Master Taibai, you surely do not intend to kill us all? If you do, I fear the fellow Daoists of the entire Tiannan Cultivation World will not tolerate your existence. If they all attack together, even a Spirit Severing Stage cultivator would find it hard to escape death."

After hearing Yan Taibai's words, the Hehuan Sect leader, while horrified and terrified, still spoke coldly with a show of bravado.

Their words carried a hint of a threat.

Then, a golden sword qi shot out from Yan Taibai's sleeve.

With a "Boom," they were dead; person, treasure, and Nascent Soul were all destroyed. They didn't even last the time it takes to blink before they were directly dead!

With this scene unfolding, the Hehuan Sect council hall fell into absolute silence. The Nascent Soul cultivators of the other Heavenly Luo Kingdom sects wanted to act, but found they could not move.

It was not that they were restrained; rather, the fear of Yan Taibai in their bodies and Nascent Souls made them unable to move. For Nascent Soul cultivators, this should have been completely impossible, yet it happened.

One can imagine just how deep the terror in their hearts had reached.

Yan Taibai walked straight up, waved a hand to burn the Hehuan Sect leader's corpse to ashes, and sat down in the original position.

"Now that the loudmouth is gone, we can talk properly."

Hearing the six words "can talk properly" from Yan Taibai, the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects in the Hehuan Sect council hall finally let out a sigh of relief, and their complexions looked much better.

Clearly, Yan Taibai did not intend to kill them all! However, this could not be guaranteed, but regardless, at least for now, there were no problems, and it was much safer.

As for the Hehuan Sect leader from just now, they didn't know them, nor would they seek revenge; didn't you see that the other Hehuan Sect elders in the hall didn't even say a word?

Whoever speaks dies!

Yan Taibai, who had now killed the Hehuan Sect Great Elder Hehuan Laomo and the Taizhen Sect Great Elder Zhiyang Shangren, was simply not someone they could provoke or offend.

First, send this "god of slaughter" away. As for the Hehuan Sect's Sect Protection Array and the various restriction arrays meant to kill powerful enemies...

You can see that Yan Taibai was able to enter this Hehuan Sect council hall carrying the heads of two Great Cultivators of Nascent Soul Late Stage, Zhiyang Shangren and Hehuan Laomo, so you know those things were completely useless.

The disciples and elders of the Hehuan Sect responsible for the Sect Protection Array and restrictions were of no use at all; they hadn't discovered Yan Taibai's arrival in the slightest.

And what they didn't know was that the "White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash" cuts through everything in the world, including array restrictions. Moreover, its speed was so fast that it could completely deceive the Hehuan Sect's array restrictions.

To put it bluntly, unless one could surpass Yan Taibai in speed, it would be impossible to kill him.

Ordinary array restrictions were of no use at all to Yan Taibai.

Therefore, such things as surrounding and killing him would naturally be ineffective.

Furthermore, the Hehuan Sect Great Elder Hehuan Laomo and the Taizhen Sect Great Elder Zhiyang Shangren had both died at Yan Taibai's hands; who else could possibly stop the plan to surround and kill Yan Taibai? Wei Wuya of the Nine Nations Alliance Huayi Sect, or the couple Long Han and Feng Bing of the Heavenly Dao Alliance Mingluan Sect?

It would be good enough if those three didn't help Yan Taibai.

To put it bluntly, the current Fengdu Kingdom Righteous Alliance and the Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects no longer had the qualifications to confront Yan Taibai; they could only admit defeat, beg for mercy, and cede territory and pay reparations!

There was no room for any other choice; otherwise, the outcome would basically be a dead end.

After realizing this, the Hehuan Sect council hall fell into a brief, eerie silence.

"I wonder, how does True Master Taibai intend to talk? Our six sects can withdraw from the cultivation worlds of Yuanwu Country, Zijin Country, Cheqi Kingdom, Jiang Kingdom, and other countries."

It was not until the current Great Elder of the Yuling Sect, Han Lingshan, spoke to ask.

"That is natural. However, besides that, you also need to pay thirty Spirit Stone mines and material mines. This should not be too difficult a matter, compared to your respective sects' foundations of tens of thousands of years."

Yan Taibai nodded slightly, a hint of a smile appearing on his face.

He truly did not want to kill them all. As for whether the Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects and the Fengdu Kingdom Righteous Alliance would retaliate after he left, that was not his concern.

He had suppressed the Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects and the Fengdu Kingdom Righteous Alliance for so many years; if the Heavenly Dao Alliance and Yanyue Sect still couldn't surpass them, then they deserved to die, and he would not meddle in such affairs.

There are too many instances of sects declining in the cultivation world, and he cannot manage so much.

After all, he has already left for the Spirit World through Ascension.

Naturally, he cannot manage matters in the Human World.

As for things like exterminating another sect, he cannot bring himself to do it either.

"Very well, this is naturally not a problem. True Master Taibai, please rest assured. In at most one year—no, half a year—we will return the cultivation countries such as Jiang Kingdom, Cheqi Kingdom, and Zijin Country to your sect. At the same time, we will offer thirty spirit energy mineral veins and material mineral veins. I wonder, True Master Taibai, do you have any other requests?"

Now, the Yuling Sect Great Elder Han Lingshan, under the gaze of the other Nascent Soul cultivators, continued to ask Yan Taibai.

After all, it is better to settle such matters once and for all.

"Other requests, naturally I have them. These are the materials I need; you will help gather them. The time is long; I will give you one hundred years. As for what happens if you cannot gather them after one hundred years, you can imagine the consequences yourselves. In short, these are all my requirements. I hope you will act for your own good."

Yan Taibai took out a Jade Slip and placed it on the table beside him, then transformed into a golden rainbow light and left the Hehuan Sect's council hall directly, leaving the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Heavenly Luo Kingdom Six Demon Sects in the hall staring at each other.

In the end, it was still the current Yuling Sect Great Elder Han Lingshan who reached out to take the Jade Slip into his hand to examine it.

When he finished reading it, his complexion changed, becoming ugly to the extreme, which caused the hearts of the others to sink as well. After exchanging glances, they had no choice but to take the Jade Slip and examine it.

When the Jade Slip had been examined once, everyone's complexion could no longer be described as merely ugly.

"He intends to take away the foundation our sects have built over tens of thousands of years. With so many materials and Spirit Stones, as well as spirit herbs and spirit wood, we might as well fight him to the death."

The Tiansha Sect Master was furious, roaring almost uncontrollably.

After all, in Yan Taibai's Jade Slip, the wood attribute Spirit Stones and metal attribute Spirit Stones alone amounted to one hundred million, along with the corresponding materials, spirit wood, and spirit herbs; in short, the total value of Spirit Stones was also calculated in the hundreds of millions.

Although he gave them one hundred years, this was still too much.

"One hundred years, one hundred years. With one hundred years, if our sects split it evenly, it is not actually too much. It won't go so far as to cost our sects their foundation of tens of thousands of years."

The Yuling Sect Great Elder Han Lingshan, who had finished reading the Jade Slip first, thought for a moment and spoke.

"That may be so, but this is truly too much. Even if our sects wanted to take it out, the number of Spirit Stones required each year would be calculated in the millions. If it were just that, it might be barely manageable, but he just demanded thirty spirit stone mineral veins and material mineral veins in one breath. Under these circumstances, it will be very difficult for us to come up with it. He intends for us to clash head-on with the Righteous Alliance, preferably fighting until we are dead or alive, thereby allowing more sects and families to attach themselves to the Heavenly Dao Alliance and Yanyue Sect. This calculation is truly formidable."

The Qianhuan Sect Master saw through Yan Taibai's intentions at a glance, yet was helpless. Because they could not defeat him, they could only speak about it.

As for refusing, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they had been completely frightened out of their wits by the bloody heads of Hehuan Laomo and Zhiyang Shangren.

It was simply impossible, and they dared not refuse.

"Now that things have come to this, Brother Du, do you have any other methods?" Yuling Sect Great Elder Han Lingshan asked.

"If I had a method, would I be here?"

The Qianhuan Sect Master's face turned pale as he retorted unpleasantly.

"Since there is no other way, if we want to survive and preserve the sect's foundation of tens of thousands of years, we can only agree. If we don't have it, we can ask other sects for it. It is not as if we are the only sects in Tianluo Country. Moreover, we are all going to withdraw from the cultivation worlds of countries like Cheqi Kingdom, Jiang Kingdom, Zijin Country, and Yuanwu Country. Naturally, we must also extract as many spirit stone mineral veins and material mineral veins from within their borders as possible. Only in this way can we reduce our losses. Furthermore, just as Brother Du said, since he wants us to clash head-on with the Righteous Alliance and fight fiercely, we shall clash head-on and fight fiercely. In any case, we have always had quite a few grudges with them."

Yuling Sect Great Elder Han Lingshan said in a deep voice.

"That may be so, but what we need to pay is also not small!"

The Blood Killing Sect Master's complexion was the ugliest; compared to the other sects, their Blood Killing Sect had only just replaced the Ghost Spirit Sect, and their resources and such were not as good as the Hehuan Sect or Yuling Sect, so naturally, they were the most unwilling.

But they did not want to end up with the same fate as the Ghost Spirit Sect.

"The price—if your Blood Killing Sect can defeat True Master Taibai, naturally you won't need to pay any price, and even if our sects gave your Blood Killing Sect tributes every year, it would be no problem at all."

Yuling Sect Great Elder Han Lingshan sneered sarcastically, causing the Blood Killing Sect Master's face to turn blue and white, yet he had no way to refute.

Under the lingering prestige of Yan Taibai, he dared not act rashly.

After all, now is not the time to act; it is more important to work together to resolve this crisis.

"Since things have come to this, we can only do our best."

The Demon Flame Sect Master sighed and said.

After all, their Demon Flame Sect occupied the entire Yuanwu Country.

(End of this chapter)