Chapter 175: Who Wants to Kill Me!?

Immortal Alliance Headquarters.

As a force that had dominated the Emerald Sun Cultivation World for three thousand years, with a system and rule deeply rooted in people’s hearts, the scale of the Immortal Alliance’s headquarters was incredibly magnificent.

Magnificent jade palaces, pavilions, terraces, and towers.

And here, Nascent Soul Condensation, Spirit Refining, and even Void Return cultivators, rarely seen in the outside world, could be seen everywhere. At this moment, however, they gathered together by something.

Right now, these Great Cultivators who were usually high above were looking at the grand hall where the group of Dao Integration Great Cultivators usually secluded themselves with frightened faces. More precisely, they were looking at the figure standing in the center of the grand hall with hands behind his back, sizing up everyone with interest in his eyes.

Just then, Guang Ming actively took a step forward.

“Greetings to the Alliance Master!”

His loud voice resounded in all directions. Although no one knew Guang Ming, with someone taking the lead, there were responses. The sporadic calls quickly became grand—

“Greetings to the Alliance Master.”

Seeing this, Lu Yang instantly swept his spiritual consciousness. How many people were engaging in polite but insincere exchanges, and how many were sincere, all were taken into his view at this moment.

However, Lu Yang didn’t care what opinions the people of the Immortal Alliance had of him. In fact, when the Saint Sect governed affiliated sects, it never cared about the other party’s opinions. After all, the Saint Sect’s reputation was known to every household. Wanting others to be convinced wholeheartedly—not to say hopeless, but at least absolutely impossible.

Moreover, the Immortal Alliance had ruled the world for so long; naturally, it wouldn’t lack diehard loyalists.

Therefore, he had already conducted a great purge before gathering everyone. After all, if you make me unhappy, don’t blame me for giving you a quick end.

Those who could stand in front of him at this moment were those who had given up resistance.

This was the first step of the Saint Sect controlling affiliated forces— resorting to force, first using absolute strength to confirm one’s own status and eliminate the heart of resistance.

Next was the second step— stating the attitude.

“This time the Immortal Alliance encountered a great change. All Great Cultivators entrusted this seat to temporarily manage the Immortal Alliance, but I have no actual experience, so I still need everyone’s cooperation.”

One sentence set the tone.

Rest assured, I won’t touch your power and status, nor will I interfere recklessly. The related interests are yours today, and will still be yours tomorrow!

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of several Void Return cultivators instantly relaxed a lot.

Then the third step could be taken.

In any force, factions inevitably exist. Where there are factions, there are conflicts of interest. If there are no conflicts of interest, create conflicts of interest, then manufacture contradictions.

What Lu Yang had to do was to draw a “big cake” (make empty promises) for each faction based on their different interest demands, then make the two big cakes conflict with each other. In this way, to fight for interests, they would fight among themselves. Lu Yang could also act as a referee to mediate, becoming the person in charge logically.

So after appeasing everyone, Lu Yang met with several Void Return cultivators in turn.

He had many bargaining chips. After all, most of the Immortal Alliance’s previous resources were concentrated in the hands of the group of Dao Integration Great Cultivators, but now they all belonged to him.

Just right to use for drawing cakes.

In this way, within just three months, the cultivators who weren’t united enough began internal strife, scrambling to express themselves, wanting to obtain Lu Yang’s favor.

On this basis, it was difficult for them to refuse Lu Yang’s requests anymore.

So in the third month of entering the Immortal Alliance, Lu Yang opened up the cultivation techniques.

He had even thought of the slogan—

“Everyone is equal, freedom of cultivation!”

The cultivation techniques of the Emerald Sun Cultivation World required possessing a Spiritual Root to cultivate. However, the cultivation techniques given by Lu Yang allowed anyone human to easily get started.

From then on, cultivators with Spiritual Roots and cultivators without Spiritual Roots would become natural opposing factions, fighting and snatching within the force. Whether good or bad, as long as it was proposed by the opposing side, they would resolutely oppose it. Everything no longer depended on pros and cons, but only on the stance taken.

And to overwhelm the opposing side, they could only unite more firmly around Lu Yang.

This was the fourth step, and also the final step.

Expanding the conflicts of the upper levels to the entire force through the system, making it fall completely into chaos, unable to achieve any development and progress anymore.

Lu Yang called it the “Primordial Saint Four Steps.”

Any force tossed about by the Saint Sect with this set of means would find it impossible to rise again, only thoroughly reduced to a Saint Sect affiliate.

Immortal Alliance Headquarters, inside a quiet room.

Lu Yang concentrated his mind and held his breath. As the Immortal Alliance’s rule in the Turbulent Flow Sea was overthrown and restarted, he finally extracted a stream of hazy smoke through the Foundation Establishment Realm.

“…Done!”

Although the smoke was hazy, it carried an unprecedented sense of heaviness, as if carrying the thoughts and feelings of billions of living people and all living beings.

This was Wu Earth, the Controller of Fate of all things, [Zhu Yong] of the Heavenly Stem!

As Lu Yang overthrew the old system of the Immortal Alliance, this invisible “big mountain” finally manifested into Qi, obediently landing in his palm.

“Smooth beyond imagination…”

Lu Yang was somewhat emotional. It had been a long time since things went so smoothly for him. With the Wu Earth Qi in hand, as long as he wanted, he could attempt to break through to the Middle Stage now!

However, the [Yin Fire] to be faced when breaking through to the Middle Stage shouldn’t be underestimated either.

Breaking through rashly was too risky.

To be safe, better return to the Saint Sect first to ask Perfected One Chong Guang, see if there were any tribulation-avoiding methods, and break through after preparing completely; that would be more secure.

“In this way, you are useless.”

Lu Yang took out the [Three-Nine Soul-Destroying Gourd] and shook it gently. The twelve Dao Integration Great Cultivators of the Immortal Alliance were instantly shaken out by him, falling onto the ground in a sorry state.

Subsequently, before they woke up, Lu Yang offered up the [Avici Sword] directly.

Whoosh whoosh—!

Sword light flashed suddenly, instantly cutting off the heads of the twelve Dao Integration Great Cultivators. Although their True Spirits hadn’t scattered, and given time, they might still be able to walk out from the [Imperial Palace Golden Seal Script Tushita True Edict], their bodies of flesh and blood True Qi falsely holding Foundation Establishment were squeezed completely clean by the [Avici Sword].

In the next second, Lu Yang revealed a look of pleasant surprise.

Twelve falsely holding Foundation Establishment cultivators… although incomparable to true Foundation Establishment, the sword-sacrificing effect was the same. It actually added another divine wonder to the [Avici Sword]!

This brand-new divine wonder was named [Danger Sense].

However, what surprised Lu Yang was that this wasn’t a slaughtering divine wonder, but an auxiliary divine wonder, allowing the sword holder to sense their own life and death crisis in advance.

“This overlaps with the [Investigating Heaven Sphere].”

Lu Yang frowned slightly. With the [Investigating Heaven Sphere] protecting him, whenever karma touched his body, he would inevitably sense it; thus, he had no use for the ability of [Danger Sense]…

While pondering, Lu Yang casually urged the [Avici Sword].

But in the next second—

As the sword light of the [Avici Sword] shone on his whole body, the [Danger Sense] divine wonder activated. Lu Yang only felt his mind start to rise suddenly at this moment.

Then he saw the top of his head.

[DANGER]!

A huge crimson character floated above his head, not entering karma, yet suspended high, making him feel an unprecedented huge sense of crisis.

“This is… what!?”

Lu Yang originally thought there was no dangerous karma on him, but the scene seen borrowing the ability of [Danger Sense] at this moment made his expression change drastically.

Correct, there was no fatal karma on him.

Because the crisis originated from Heaven and Earth!

So-called karma was just the product of the interweaving of fate between people. When people emit killing intent, there is karma. When Heaven emits killing intent, how can it be perceived by people?

This was completely different from the Heavenly Punishment that appeared when exploding the Skull Mountain earth vein.

Heavenly Punishment focuses on punishment. It is Heaven and Earth proclaiming to all living beings what cannot be done. Therefore, the momentum is huge, known to everyone, and can also be calculated.

However, the Heavenly Killing appearing at this moment didn’t have so many phenomena.

Heaven and Earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs.

Just like a species being eliminated in the food chain, extinct from then on. The killing intent of Heaven and Earth is also like this— subtle, silent, and seemingly inevitable.

Suddenly, Lu Yang felt something in his heart and looked up at the sky.

In a trance, he seemed to see a lamp flame. Golden lamp generating light, jade stand spitting beauty. Illuminating the sun and moon but not illuminating itself, brightening heaven and earth yet not bright. Suspended high on the dome of heaven.

[Overturned Lamp Flame]

“…Hong Yun!?”

In an instant, Lu Yang finally generated enlightenment.

Looking at the present world, the only person who could mobilize the [Overturned Lamp Flame] was Hong Yun, the reincarnation of a Golden Core Perfected Lord who once held this Dao Fruit position!

“At least a treasure of the Dao Fruit position… and involving karma and fate. Otherwise, it’s impossible to catalyze such a Heavenly Earth killing intent specifically targeting me!”

Hong Yun wants to kill me!?

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