Chapter 1343

My fate is mine, not heaven's!

Seeing this, Feng Kuangman directly mocked, saying, "What a big mouth!"

A few of his subordinates and Elder Li Mo walked over, Li Mo wearing a playful smile as he looked toward the vicinity of the tombstone.

Some shattered fragments lay scattered, along with a broken ancient pagoda.

Originally several stories tall, it was now forcibly cracked open, its internal Dao Resonance completely lost; the once peerless divine weapon has lost all its divine might.

"This small tower was once Yang Tianming's Spiritual Weapon, its divine might vast, capable of swallowing heaven and earth. Afterwards, the strong cultivators of the Eternal Life Sect joined forces and smashed it into fragments, leaving it in this state."

Elder Li Mo sneered, "Long ago the Old Madman betrothed Chi Yao Xianzi to Yang Tianming, but Chi Yao Xianzi had long harbored the idea of abandoning darkness for light; being in the Hehuan Sect while her heart leaned toward the Eternal Life Sect, she naturally looked down on Yang Tianming."

Feng Kuangman blinked, "Really?"

The matter is rather interesting.

Elder Li Mo continued, "As for Yang Tianming, he truly counts as a heaven-defying person. He once obtained the inheritance of an ancient Dao Fruit Realm expert in an ancient ruin—perhaps that's why the Old Madman took a liking to him. But Yang Tianming never managed to grow."

"Besides that, Yang Tianming obtained a strand of Heaven's Mandate Origin! That is the source of his heaven-defying fortune."

Feng Kuangman asked, puzzled, "Heaven's Mandate Origin?"

Elder Li Mo explained, "In the past, Dieyue Laozi and Changsheng Laozi, along with experts of the Longevity Clan, the Deceit Clan, and the Past Sect, fought a heaven-shaking battle. In the end, Changsheng Laozi joined forces to cut Dieyue Laozi's Heaven's Mandate Origin into nine parts, known as the Nine Mandate Cuts."

"This Heaven's Mandate Origin is the source power that allowed Dieyue Laozi to dominate this world; the nine strands scattered across the world, and Yang Tianming actually obtained one of them."

"How profound was Dieyue Laozi's cultivation? The terror of those nine Heaven's Mandate Origins needs no explanation; obtaining just one is enough to rise against the heavens, and future achievements could overwhelm even Dao Fruit Realm experts."

Feng Kuangman frowned, "Yang Tianming is dead; surely this Heaven's Mandate Origin must have fallen into the hands of the Eternal Life Sect?"

Li Mo shook his head, "No. Yang Tianming, knowing he would eventually fall when besieged by many strong cultivators, hid his Heaven's Mandate Origin in the Azure Cloud Star Sea! To this day, we have not found it."

"That's why the Eternal Life Sect can still tolerate the existence of the Bright Illumination Star, as well as those worms of the Hehuan Sect."

Feng Kuangman immediately understood, "The Bright Illumination Star and the Old Madman are both bait."

Li Mo nodded, "Exactly. Those from the Hehuan Sect also wanted to get clues from the Old Madman's mouth, but the Old Madman had already erased his own memories. The strong cultivators of the Eternal Life Sect had investigated earlier, but found nothing."

Feng Kuangman spat at Yang Tianming's tombstone, "What's so special about fate? Nothing much."

Everyone walked toward the outside of the cemetery when Feng Kuangman's attention was caught by a tombstone: "Tomb of the Yaochi Empress Yuxi!"

The great tomb was desolate, seeming to speak of reluctance and despair.

"Huh?" Feng Kuangman blinked, "Did Chi Yao Xianzi's sister also die?"

Li Mo chuckled, "One could almost say she died at Chi Yao Xianzi's hand."

Feng Kuangman burst out laughing, "Marvelous! Marvelous!"

Not long after.

Li Mo and Feng Kuangman, et al., stepped into the void, and the Divine Envoy Sir said, "All the numerous stars near the Bright Illumination Star are our people; holding this token, you can command these forces—whether the Lu family, the Xu family… all are human clans—and with a single thought you can grant life and death."

"You don't really need to garrison here; the Lu and Xu families are monitoring this place, and you only need to control them."

Li Mo took out an Azure Ancient Token and handed it to Feng Kuangman.

On the token were engraved two ancient characters: "Eternal Life"!

It brimmed with Dao Resonance, containing the Eternal Life Sect's unique Insect Dao Resonance.

Feng Kuangman accepted the token, and Li Mo brought him to a star far from the Bright Illumination Star, where Li Mo respectfully said, "Divine Envoy Sir, if you have any further needs, my Ascending Cloud Sword Sect will meet them!"

Feng Kuangman had now calmed down, but he was deeply dissatisfied with the treatment he had received upon arriving here.

He had been here for so long, yet only a single strong cultivator from the Eternal Life Sect had come to pay him a personal visit?

He bears the holy edict of Gu Yue Laozi!

"Damn, these people look down on others with dog eyes!" Feng Kuangman's inner fury roared.

He is looked down upon because his cultivation is too weak, and furthermore his talent and bloodline tests are lacking in numbers!

He was angry.

But Feng Kuangman's face put on a calm guise, saying, "I need cultivation resources! I need vast amounts of cultivation resources! Not only do I need them, my subordinates do too."

Li Mo, seemingly prepared, directly produced several storage rings, saying, "Divine Envoy Sir, the cultivation resources in these storage rings are enough for you and your subordinates to all reach the Five-Star Dao Lord Realm! If these resources are exhausted, we will still meet any request."

"Excellent! Excellent!" Feng Kuangman nodded.

Li Mo then briefed Feng Kuangman on the layout of the Azure Cloud Star Sea and gave him a sound-transmission jade slip, saying, "Divine Envoy Sir, if anything comes up, you can directly send me a sound transmission."

After finishing the briefing, Li Mo departed.

Watching Li Mo's retreating back, Feng Kuangman felt a surge of ruthlessness, thinking, "Just a pack of dog lackeys, and they dare look down on me?"

The task of guarding the Bright Illumination Star is merely passable; any person could take it on.

Accepting this task would make it impossible for him to realize his grand ambitions!

However, his cultivation is currently too weak to freely traverse the void within the Azure Cloud Star Sea.

"Cultivate! I must cultivate!" Feng Kuangman's heart burned with a fiery fervor.

Soon, he stepped onto that star, directly renaming it Kuangman Star, and over the next few days he plundered numerous human beauties.

One moment he was stirring clouds and rain, the next he frenziedly refined nine-turn and ten-turn insect beasts to boost his cultivation.

In secret, the strong cultivators of the Ascending Cloud Sword Sect kept watch on Feng Kuangman and reported the information to the strong cultivators of the Eternal Life Sect's branch.

The Eternal Life Sect regarded the Divine Envoy Sir with suspicion, and the various branches investigated each other, confirming that Feng Kuangman's group was not from the head sect atop the Threefold Heaven Gate.

In the following days, strong cultivators from the Eternal Life Sect's branch successively arrived, asking Feng Kuangman about matters concerning Gu Yue Laozi and Lu Xuan.

As for that lowly World Tree, everyone lacked interest.

After all, the strongest there is only at the One-Star Dao Lord Realm, which is far too weak for them.

The information Feng Kuangman brought was of little value.

Moreover, the Ancestor's Imprint on Feng Kuangman is merely at the One-Star Dao Lord Stage, capable of awakening only a few stone statues—the weakest Divine Envoy's Mark they had ever seen.

The strong cultivators of the Eternal Life Sect's branch issued a secret order: "Keep watching Feng Kuangman and his people; if they are impostors posing as Divine Envoys, they will eventually reveal their chicken feet."

……

Butterfly World, left wing.

The place where Ji Fuyao was in seclusion suddenly burst forth with a terrifying heavenly-earthly phenomenon.

Boom!

The spirit fire boiled, turning into an endless sea of flame that scorched the heavens, terrifying without bound.

In the next instant, Ji Fuyao slowly walked out of the endless sea of spirit fire; her cultivation had already entered the One-Star Dao Void Realm, and she murmured, "It's time to return to the World Tree."

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