Chapter 151

What are you laughing at?

Chen Zheng stared at the Heaven Punishment Elder and said, word by word: "I laugh at that old dog Wu Mingkong's shamelessness."

"You… you dare insult the Patriarch?" The Heaven Punishment Elder trembled all over from shock at Chen Zheng's audacity.

Chen Zheng sneered: "Why can't I curse that old dog? What favors has he ever given me? To say he wants to test me is shameless—does he even deserve it? Moreover, how much has the Feather Ascension Sect nurtured me? Isn't my cultivation entirely my own step‑by‑step effort?"

He stepped forward and pressed the Heaven Punishment Elder: "I ask you, for such a penny‑pinching Feather Ascension Sect, why should I be loyal, and what reason could there be to make me loyal?"

Chen Zheng's words struck like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, making the Heaven Punishment Elder's head buzz nonstop, his throat rolling, yet he couldn't utter a single rebuttal.

It was simply impossible to refute…

Chen Zheng's achievements today are entirely due to his own efforts outside.

He has nothing to do with the Feather Ascension Sect!

Even when the Supreme Unity Sect came last time to demand an explanation, they were helpless.

It was only Fang Qingxue mediating in the middle, fighting the Six Great Ancient Giants, that temporarily resolved Chen Zheng's trouble.

Thus, Chen Zheng owes the Feather Ascension Sect nothing at all.

If anything, he owes Fang Qingxue.

Moreover, everything is mutual.

If the Feather Ascension Sect gives no corresponding resources and does not nurture Chen Zheng, what right does it have to demand his loyalty?

On what grounds?

Upon thinking this, the Heaven Punishment Elder's face filled with bitter shame as he said: "Chen Zheng, it's true that we elders were too narrow‑minded and short‑sighted before. But this time is different—the Patriarch has already promised that if you release Wang Daoling and others and hand over that Five Elements Land talisman to the sect's overseers, he will focus on cultivating you, opening all the divine powers from the Feather Ascension Scripture and the immortal pills in the treasury, so that you can condense your natal golden core and advance to the seventh layer of divine powers."

By the end, his tone carried a plea.

"Let me hand over the Five Elements Land talisman? Then give me immortal pills and divine powers? Let me advance to the Golden Core Realm? Hah! Do I need that? Take a good look, Elder—what is this?" Chen Zheng laughed angrily at Wu Mingkong's shamelessness.

He shuddered all over; his natal golden core suddenly flew out from within his body, emitting the immortal radiance representing three hundred and fifteen divine abilities, brilliant and dazzling to the world, like an immortal sun falling into the mortal realm, stabbing the Heaven Punishment Elder's eyes with excruciating pain, so he could barely open them, unable to see anything in heaven and earth.

What... what?

After the Heaven Punishment Elder finally saw clearly how many kinds of light were on the golden core, his eyeballs bulged out, his whole person as if struck by five thunderbolts, he no longer had the slightest dignity of an ancient titan, nor did he resemble the former swift and decisive elder in charge of punishment; instead, like a fool, his eyes were vacant, staring blankly at Chen Zheng.

He was completely dumbfounded by the natal golden core bearing the three hundred and fifteen divine abilities.

Even his soul fell into a stupor, losing the ability to think.

Ah.

Chen Zheng let out a soft sigh, put away his golden core, took out the iron-blood battle banner he had obtained from Sima Teng and handed it to him, saying: "That day when I went to the True Transmission Palace, the Transmission Elder gave me a Heavenly Azure Easy Origin Pill; please deliver this Dao artifact to him as thanks. Moreover, you and Elder Jiang Rourou and others have several times wished to aid me; when I gain the ability in the future, I will also repay you."

Having said that, he proceeded toward the hall's exit.

As for the Feather Ascension Sect, it's better not to wait.

"Chen Zheng, you... you want to leave the sect? Will you come back?" the Heaven Punishment Elder said hoarsely, turning his body with difficulty to gaze at Chen Zheng's back.

Chen Zheng replied without turning his head: "I will, but by then Wu Mingkong may not welcome me."

The Heaven Punishment Elder trembled violently all over.

The Feather Ascension Sect will surely face a great calamity in the future.

I don't know if Wu Mingkong and the others will regret it.

Chen Zheng no longer paid attention to the Heaven Punishment Elder, took out the Ten Directions Five Elements Pagoda and lifted it toward Righteous Qi Peak, thereby gathering the Golden Stone Terrace, Jin Rilie, Chen Fu, Liu Suyun, Xiao Hezi and others who had just assembled at the summit into it.

All the Yang Xuan and Yang Zhen across the mountain, as well as numerous servants of the Fang household, were also taken into the pagoda's interior space.

He then went to Jialan Peak, taking the Jialan who was inside the hall, feeling anxious and uncertain because Chen Zheng had not come to find her, into the pagoda.

Having done all this, he took a step forward and left the endless Feather Ascension Mountains.

As for whether Wu Mingkong and the other high-level officials of the Feather Ascension Sect would pursue and kill him, he did not care.

He bore a Great Luo Talisman, allowing him to travel at any time to the Linglong Blessed Land, and also possessed a Six-Character True Words Talisman for coming and going in the Five Elements Land, ensuring his safety.

Fang Qingxue was not inside the sect, and Chen Zheng did not know where she had gone, but the Three Saints of Feather Ascension still hoped to rely on her to survive the Immortal Realm's heavenly tribulation, so she should also be safe.

Buzz—buzz—buzz!

Not long after Chen Zheng left the Feather Ascension Sect, at the summit of Righteous Qi Peak, inside the hall where the Heaven Punishment Elder stood dazed, a spatial rift suddenly appeared, from which figures emerged one after another—turns out they were Feng Baiyu and a host of Supreme Elders.

Earlier, deep within the Feather Ascension Heavenly Palace, when Wu Mingkong spoke, Feng Baiyu and some Supreme Elders who favored Chen Zheng had a bad premonition, so they diverted part of their attention to monitor outside movements.

Seeing the situation was not right, they all came out.

Not only them, but also a middle-aged man wearing a tall cap and ancient robes, his features strikingly clear, his body flashing with golden light like a blazing, dignified sun, stepped out of the spatial rift at this moment; seeing that no one was present above Righteous Qi Peak, he immediately furrowed his brows and coldly said to the Heaven Punishment Elder: "Where is Chen Zheng? Did he hand over the talisman of the Five Elements Land?"

This person was Wu Mingkong.

(End of Chapter)