Chapter 148: Linglong Immortal Venerable Asks for My Help!

Chen Zheng, called a legendary figure, has since birth leapt into the sky like the great sun, illuminating all mountains and valleys, forging an invincible name that echoes through the profound and yellow, admired by countless people.

But he defeated Jiang Lingkong, slew Wan Luo, and cultivated ninety-nine kinds of divine abilities and other glorious feats; although heaven-defying and shocking countless people, it still remains within the understanding of the few who are well-informed.

Occasionally, for the parts that are hard to understand, one can forcibly explain them by saying Chen Zheng is the reincarnation of some powerful expert.

After all, experts always have something extraordinary.

But today's matter has completely surpassed everyone's imagination.

It even exceeds the psychological endurance limit of most people.

No one can understand it anymore.

Even the Heaven Punishment Elder, Jiang Rourou, and all the titans of the ages, after deep thought, cannot explain this.

No one could speak; the vast Feather Ascension Heavenly Palace fell silent, not even a sparrow's chirp.

How could they imagine that Chen Zheng's spiritual power had already surpassed the limit of a hundred million, and still above Wang Daoling?

To suppress him, one only needs to have hands.

However, Chen Zheng will not explain himself to everyone.

With a wave of his hand, the Ten Directions Five Elements Pagoda trembled slightly and kept shrinking.

From the pagoda's body fell strands of five-colored divine light, turning into chains that tightly bound Wang Daoling Wang Daoling in a five-fold tie, securing him firmly.

"Chen Zheng, I am a titan of the ages, my status is lofty; you cannot move me!" Wang Daoling awoke from doubting life, frantically struggled, wanting to break free of the bonds,

After discovering it was useless, he then, like clutching a lifeline, shouted at the nearby Yi Jianqiu and Chen Tianxia: "We have a thousand-year friendship; you cannot refuse to help me! Come quickly and join me in surrounding him, then turn around to suppress him. Afterwards I want nothing; everything on his body will be yours, including this high-grade Dao artifact!"

"Silence, who has any friendship with you?"

"Wang Daoling, you dare plot against the future Supreme Sect Master; that is tantamount to betraying the sect, I am ashamed to be associated with you!"

Yi Jianqiu and Chen Tianxia were startled by Wang Daoling's plea for help, and hastily drew a clear line with him.

Wang Daoling is utterly despicable; even if he alone suffers, he actually tried to drag them down as well.

"You two beasts..."

Wang Daoling did not expect that the two would not help him, let alone throw stones into his well; he was so angry he wanted to curse loudly.

But there was no chance; he was forcibly dragged by the five-colored chains into the space inside the Ten Directions Five Elements Pagoda.

Swish swish swish!

Again, strands of five-colored chains extended from the pagoda's body, swift as lightning, and in the fearful eyes of the more than thirty elders who agreed with Ru Yi Zi's sanction against Chen Zheng, they were all ensnared and pulled into the pagoda's interior space.

Seeing this, many elders fell silent like cold cicadas.

Especially the elders who had previously held a meeting in the Ru Yi Palace; they broke out in cold sweat, and after surviving the ordeal they felt relieved.

Fortunately they had not previously taken sides recklessly, or else they too would have been taken by Chen Zheng into the Ten Directions Five Elements Pagoda.

Given Chen Zheng's ferocity, they certainly won't get off easy.

"Just a single thought's difference."

Yi Jianqiu and Chen Tianxia swallowed their saliva, feeling fortunate that they had not spoken recklessly like Wang Daoling, saying things like wanting to rebuke Chen Zheng.

Otherwise they might also have been suppressed inside the pagoda.

As the Ten Directions Five Elements Pagoda flew back into Chen Zheng's hand, Jiang Rourou in the distance, the Heavenly Work Elder, and others showed hesitant expressions, wanting to speak but holding back.

Finally, the Transmission Elder spoke up: "Chen Zheng, you have suppressed Wang Daoling and the others inside the pagoda; what do you intend to do with them?"

Those suppressed by Chen Zheng are all Grand Elders, each possessing divine ability of the seventh layer or higher; Wang Daoling is even a Vice Sect Master, and they are all the backbone of the Feather Ascension Sect—if Chen Zheng killed them all, it would be a tremendous loss.

"Elders, rest assured, I only want to suppress them for a period; as long as they recognize their mistakes and reform, I will release them." Chen Zheng turned his head toward the Transmission Elder and others, smiling as he spoke.

"That's good." The Transmission Elder and others all breathed a sigh of relief.

The Heaven Punishment Elder, however, furrowed his brow, feeling that given Chen Zheng's nature he would not easily let those inside the pagoda go, possibly killing them all.

If he really did that, its seriousness would be incomparable to the earlier killing of the Gaunt Elder.

This amounts to violating the sect's final bottom line, tantamount to sect betrayal; the Three Saints of the Feather Ascension, upon learning of it, would all punish Chen Zheng.

Even personally taking action to exterminate Chen Zheng.

The Heaven Punishment Elder's lips twitched; he wanted to speak up and urge Chen Zheng never to kill those people, but in the end he did not utter the words.

Although he is the Elder in charge of punishments in the sect and ought to handle these matters—even Chen Zheng's earlier killing of the Gaunt Elder should have been dealt with by him according to sect rules—

but Chen Zheng's strength is unlike before, and he is domineering, not something he can manage.

If he insists on managing it, it will only backfire, putting him opposite Chen Zheng.

"Chen Zheng, Ru Yi Zi, Hua Tian Du, Wang Daoling—their grudges are beyond my control; I must go deep into the Feather Ascension Heavenly Palace to meet the Sect Master Senior Brother, ask him to leave seclusion, so they can turn conflict into harmony."

The Heaven Punishment Elder sighed inwardly, gazing at the depths of the Feather Ascension Heavenly Palace shrouded in mist.

Sect Master Feng Baiyu is in seclusion somewhere in that spacetime, jointly refining a supreme treasure with many Supreme Elders to prepare for future great changes.

Chen Zheng, however, unaware of the Heaven Punishment Elder's thoughts, flipped his palm, collected the Ten Directions Five Elements Pagoda, and thought to himself: "Refining this Wang Daoling, my spiritual power has nearly accumulated enough; I can begin the transformation to Golden Core."

He turned and left the Ru Yi Palace, flying toward the Feather Ascension Heavenly Palace's edge, where the Exquisite Blessed Land and others were still reeling from the shock.

As for the chief culprit, Ru Yi Zi, at the moment the Ten Directions Five Elements Pagoda suppressed Wang Daoling, he fled like a startled rabbit.

Strangely, Chen Zheng did not stop him in the slightest, nor did he intend to pursue Ru Yi Zi.

Why?

Only he himself knows.

"Senior Brother Chen."

Seeing Chen Zheng approach, Piao Yun, Ye Qingqing, and the other girls all performed a salute with dazed expressions, their gazes upon him as if looking at a monster.

They, who had previously trained together with Chen Zheng in the Great North Ocean and brought him to the Exquisite Blessed Land to sell magical treasures, have now been apart for not a short time; yet no one expected that in this brief separation Chen Zheng would become terrifying to this extent.

It is truly beyond comprehension.

Qiu Xiyu, dressed as a Daoist nun, wore a look of surprise and praised: "Chen Zheng, you are too heaven-defying; if my sect's Supreme Sect Master were to see you again, he would surely marvel at you."

Chen Zheng humbly said: "Just luck."

"Elder Qiu Xiyu, how did you come to my Feather Ascension Sect? Is there something?" he asked.

"Qiu Xiyu said solemnly: 'Indeed, there is something; our sect's Supreme Patriarch wishes to ask you for a favor.'"

"'What favor?' Chen Zheng asked curiously."

"The magnificent Exquisite Immortal Venerable, a True Immortal-level powerhouse of the Tenfold Longevity, what favor does he need?"

"(End of chapter)"