Chapter 35: Black Bone Ancestor!

"You actually crippled my cultivation!"

Li Dongsheng wiped the fresh blood from the corner of his mouth and straightened his back: "Bahuang Laozu, don't be ungrateful!"

"The Kulu Zong will come to slaughter Bahuang tomorrow. If you surrender to the Kulu Zong now, there's still a slim chance of survival!"

"If you remain obstinate, your soul will be utterly destroyed!"

His heart was in utter panic.

At this moment he immediately realized that someone must have sold him out.

He just couldn't figure it out.

At a time like this, why hadn't Bahuang Laozu fled yet, and why was he still colluding with Lu Tianyu? What was the meaning of this?

Bahuang Laozu said nothing, but looked toward Lu Tianyu.

Just now, Lu Tianyu had suddenly contacted him, saying the situation had changed, and told him to intercept Li Dongsheng quickly.

The one leading this operation was not him, but Lu Tianyu; he listened to Lu Tianyu in everything.

Lu Tianyu coldly rebuked: "Li Dongsheng, you betrayed the Bahuang Clan and went around lobbying other families. Your death is well deserved!"

"Your son died at Ming Tianqi's hands, yet you still work for your enemy. How utterly ridiculous!"

"I'll give you one chance to live. Immediately gather the Nanhuang Clan's spirit veins and Spirit Stones, or I'll kill you on the spot!"

He leaped onto Li Dongsheng's flying vessel and seized Li Dongsheng by the throat.

If Li Dongsheng weren't still of some use, he would have struck him down long ago.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"You—you're twisting the facts!"

Li Dongsheng glared viciously at Lu Tianyu, his eyes bloodshot: "Lu Tianyu, it was clearly you who killed my son. I will grind your bones and scatter your ashes!"

To say that the person he hated most in this world was Lu Tianyu.

The moment he learned his son had been killed by Lu Tianyu, he went completely mad, and for revenge he threw all caution to the wind.

At this moment he wished he could tear Lu Tianyu apart, devour his flesh and drink his blood!

"Heh heh heh!"

Lu Tianyu directly opened a pitch-black orb, letting Li Dongsheng watch the recording inside.

On the screen, a black light struck Li Yuanhao's forehead, and Li Yuanhao's vitality then dissipated.

Afterwards, Liu Qingyan beside him also vanished.

And at that moment, Lu Tianyu was confronting the people of the three clans, clearly not the one who had struck.

"This, this..."

Li Dongsheng's eyes bulged: "It—it was people from the Kulu Zong who killed my son!"

His mind was roaring, a complete blank.

But then he glared viciously at Lu Tianyu again: "The root of my son's death lies with you!"

"If you hadn't provoked my son, Lu Jiuyuan killed my son, how would my son have found his way here!"

"If you hadn't wounded my son, my son wouldn't have died!"

*Slap slap slap~*

Lu Tianyu directly slapped Li Dongsheng a few times across the face: "Don't think I don't know that your Nanhuang Clan colluded with the Kulu Zong long ago!"

"Back then, the hunt was arranged by Li Yuanhao to lure me out. Li Yuanhao wanted to use the Kulu Zong's blade to kill me!"

He had always felt there was something fishy about the ambush four months ago.

Later, carefully recalling the situation at the time, Li Yuanhao's words and actions during the hunting competition with him were somewhat different from before.

If it weren't for his ten thousand years of Soul Dual Cultivation with Qian Gu Nu Di, which had added many things to his soul, he wouldn't have been able to discern this point.

The moment he was ambushed, he had faintly seen a smug smile on Li Yuanhao's face.

Li Dongsheng's face was full of disbelief: "You—you knew everything!"

But then he said hatefully: "So what if my son tried to kill you!"

"You blocked my son's brilliance, so you deserved to die!"

"Ha ha ha!"

"If you have the guts, kill me! Go ahead!"

His dantian had been crippled, and after such humiliation, living held no meaning for him anymore.

*Crack! *

Li Dongsheng crushed a pitch-black bead in his palm: "I won't live, but you'll all die soon!"

"I've already notified Ming Lengye. He'll make his move any moment now, ha ha ha!"

"Kid, you're still too green!"

"If you had killed me just now, I wouldn't have had the chance to send the message."

*Bang! *

Lu Tianyu slapped Li Dongsheng on the forehead: "You deserve to die!"

He looked toward Bahuang Laozu, killing intent bursting from his eyes: "Have your Clone Realm take him to Nanhuang, gather the spirit veins and Spirit Stones. If they refuse, kill them on the spot!"

"You're coming with me to the Forbidden Abyss!"

On the deck of a massive Kulu warship.

Ming Lengye, who stood with his hands clasped behind his back, suddenly changed expression slightly as he looked at the shattered black bead in his palm: "Not good!"

"Li Dongsheng's matter has been exposed. The Donghuang Clan is trying to flee!"

He immediately took out a transmission bead: "Great Elder, have the Yibai Lingba Kulu Jiang enter Donghuang Star immediately. Stop the Lu family from escaping at all costs!"

Ming Lengye ordered his subordinates to push the warship's speed to maximum.

The void before them twisted.

A figure shrouded entirely in black mist slowly appeared, and a sinister voice rang out: "You're going to make a move against Bahuang?"

Ming Lengye bowed with cupped fists: "Greetings, Ancestor. My son was killed — I have reason to act."

His attitude was extremely reverent.

"Not bad. Now is precisely the perfect time to act."

"I discovered fragments of Bahuang's physical body in the Zhuoliu Xingyu. It seems the old Bahuang fellow failed in forcibly breaking through to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, and his divine soul escaped."

The voice within the churning black mist was utterly chilling: "If my guess is right, Bahuang has only a single Clone Realm body left."

The figure within the black mist was none other than one of the two Ancestors of Kulu Zong — the Black Bone Ancestor.

Ming Lengye's body trembled: "What?"

"The old man Bahuang only has a single divine soul left? Then couldn't I have a go at him myself!"

On his pale face, an expression finally shifted: "My Tianji Kulu is on par with a Hollow Void cultivator — I don't fear his Clone Realm body either!"

"We still have the Great Elder and the Third Elder to make a move."

A green glint flickered in his eyes, eager to try.

The Black Bone Ancestor neither agreed nor disagreed: "Though that's what you say, Bahuang Laozu has sat at the heart of Bahuang for over ten thousand years — he must have trump cards we don't know about!"

"I still must make this trip. There's no need to inform the other two sects for now."

Ming Lengye rejoiced: "Ancestor is wise!"

"Those fools of the Bahuang Clan still don't know to flee, naively thinking their Ancestor can save them."

"Our Kulu Zong can devour the Bahuang Star Domain all on our own. Those two sects will surely think we'll come begging them for help — little do they know, hehehe!"

Black mist churned atop the Black Bone Ancestor's head: "Exactly!"

"I'm going to seize Bahuang's Clone Realm body and refine it into a Kulu Kuilei — jiejiejie!"

"I'll head off first. You must speed up!"

The void twisted, and the Black Bone Ancestor's form vanished from sight.

At the same time.

The council hall of the Li Clan in Nanhuang was packed with people.

Heads together, whispering in low voices.

The Li Clan's Ancestor, Li Tiancheng, sat in the seat of honor, his brows tightly furrowed.

For some unknown reason, he had a vague sense of unease.

When Li Dongsheng proposed lobbying the other clans, he had been against it, fearing that Bahuang Laozu would strike at the Li Clan without regard for consequences.

But Li Dongsheng, eager to claim merit before Kulu Zong, had insisted, saying that since Bahuang Laozu had killed the two Xuanming Elders, given his temperament he had surely fled long ago.

But now three full hours had passed and Li Dongsheng still hadn't returned. The unease in Li Tiancheng's heart grew stronger and stronger.

There were Transmission Arrays between every part of Bahuang — traveling to lobby them shouldn't have taken this long at all.

Speak of the devil and he shall appear.

Suddenly someone came to report: "Bad news! The Clan Head's soul lamp has gone out!"