82: Chapter 82 Sect Leader’s Wrath 82: Chapter 82 Sect Leader’s Wrath In the eyes of the Lishui Sect disciples, the command of True Inheritor, Chu Jun, was as sacred as an Imperial Decree.

Upon hearing the command, a somewhat embarrassed Chai Lishan stepped into the signature Dragon Snake Step of the Lishui Sect and, with a twist of his body, he bellowed, “Formation, rise!”

Under Chai Lishan’s leadership, eight Lishui Sect Outer Disciples deployed the Dragon Snake Step.

In the blink of an eye, they moved like dragons hiding and snakes lurking, subtly surrounding Ye Zhen.

“The Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation?”

On the platform, Grand Elder Lut Changchuan’s eyebrows knitted tightly together, his eyes filled with concern.

This Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation wasn’t exactly a true formation, at best, it was a method of cooperative fighting.

However, it was extremely effective against martial artists below the Spirit Summoning Realm.

The other high-ranking members of the Qiyun Sect, even the Eldest Prince Zhu Xuan, also displayed worried expressions.

It wasn’t for nothing, the Lishui Sect’s Lishui Dragon Snake Formation was too well-known.

A hundred years ago, the Lishui Sect had risen to prominence thanks to this formation.

The Lishui Dragon Snake Formation was divided into major and minor formations, particularly the Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation, which was the Lishui Sect disciples’ skill for protecting homes and travelling through Jianghu.

The Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation could be large or small, extremely versatile.

A minimum of three people could deploy it, and at most, it could expand to a hundred people in a grand formation.

In its flexibility, its power was also formidable.

The Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation with less than ten people was famed as unbeatable amongst those of the same rank concerning the formation eye.

The Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation needed an eye to lead, and with the cultivation of the formation eye as a reference, once deployed with fewer than ten people, it could sweep across those of the same rank.

In fact, once a Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation with nearly ten people was deployed, handling opponents of higher stages wasn’t a problem.

In other words, the Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation led by Chai Lishan, whose cultivation had reached the True Essence Third Realm, was invincible among those of the same cultivation level, and could even defeat opponents of the True Essence Fourth Realm.

At that moment, seeing Ye Zhen surrounded by this orderly Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation, every Qiyun Sect Inner and Outer Disciple displayed a look of concern.

“Chai Lishan, what are you dazing at?

Kill him!

The moment you get a chance, immediately execute Ye Zhen!” Chu Jun’s ruthless voice rang out beside Chai Lishan’s ear.

“Rise!”

With a fierce shout from Chai Lishan, the feet of the Lishui Sect disciples moved in unison, charging like flood dragons taking to land, head and tail in action, all converging on Ye Zhen with Chai Lishan taking the lead.

Watching the Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation spring into action, Departure Stone Elder, Chu Jun, and Third Prince Zhu Kun, their eyes ardently blazing, fixed their gazes expectantly on the Martial Combat Platform.

Simultaneously, the higher-ups of the Qiyun Sect, and thousands of Qiyun Sect Inner and Outer Disciples also held their breath at this moment, staring intently at the Martial Battle Arena.

Gazing at the nine Lishui Sect Disciples approaching him with their dragon-hiding, snake-lurking movements, a hint of disdain flashed across Ye Zhen’s lips as he stood firm as a mountain.

Indeed, the Little Lishui Dragon Snake Formation looked formidable.

Nine disciples, with roles in offense and defense, managed their duties, forcing the one attacked to face assaults simultaneously from the front, rear, left, and right, unable to attend to all at once, ensuring eventual defeat if maintained.

But, that was under the assumption that the disparity in cultivation wasn’t great.

Visibly, the gap between the True Essence First Stage cultivation of the other eight Lishui Sect disciples and Ye Zhen’s True Essence Third Stage wasn’t too significant.

But cultivation doesn’t necessarily equate to combat power.

With Ye Zhen’s exceedingly pure True Yuan, his combat power approached that of someone in the True Essence Fifth Realm.

More importantly, Ye Zhen possessed the powerful secret weapon of True Essence Secret Skill!

Chi!

In an instant, three Lishui Sect disciples at the rear of the formation simultaneously thrust their swords towards Ye Zhen’s upper, middle, and lower paths, while Chai Lishan, at the front of the formation, switched his footing in the Dragon Snake Step to get behind Ye Zhen, striking fiercely!

Whoosh!

The True Essence Vortex within Ye Zhen’s Dantian trembled violently, massive amounts of True Yuan surged out, a layer of azure Protective Gang Qi suddenly appeared on Ye Zhen’s body, the hissing sound of swords piercing Ye Zhen ringing incessantly in the ears, but without exception, all attacks were blocked by Ye Zhen’s highly refined Protective Gang Qi.

Almost at the same moment, Ye Zhen turned fiercely, his body swift as lightning, meeting the onslaught with a Thunder Leopard Crashing Fist.

Boom!

Two trails of azure True Yuan collided fiercely again.

Without a doubt, Ye Zhen’s Yuan cut through Chai Lishan’s body like a knife, but this time, Ye Zhen unleashed all his strength without reservation.

Bang!

Chai Lishan was struck as if hit by lightning, his body flying backward like a kite with a broken string.

Nobody could have anticipated that under a four-sided assault, Ye Zhen could still fully counter Chai Lishan.

The moment Chai Lishan was injured and thrown back, Ye Zhen’s body shot forward like lightning, his left hand swiftly grabbing the ankle of the airborne Chai Lishan, and as if carried by the momentum, the moment Ye Zhen was dragged into the air by Chai Lishan, he executed a Thousand Pounds Fall, his body suddenly sinking.

As the two forces intertwined, Chai Lishan’s body uncontrollably spiraled back.

At that moment, Ye Zhen followed the momentum, his right hand forming a sword finger, a six-foot-long True Essence Finger Sword immediately surged out.

Since Ye Zhen had broken through to the Fifth Stage of the One Qi Mixed Yuan Skill, and his Gang Qi could extend three feet away from the body, the length of Ye Zhen’s True Essence Finger Sword had also skyrocketed to six feet.

Amidst the flickering light, Ye Zhen’s six-foot-long True Essence Finger Sword swept around.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!

Like slicing through watermelons, the heads of the other eight Lishui Sect disciples who had closed in with the formation’s movements instantly flew into the air.

Sss, sss, sss, sss!

Eight columns of blood, a meter or two high, violently spurted from the neck stumps of the eight headless corpses, scattering a rain of blood!

Letting go with his left hand, Ye Zhen allowed Chai Lishan’s body to fly away, not even looking back, as a wave of Gang Qi whipped out from his fingers.

Snap!

Chai Lishan’s head soared into the air.

In an instant, everyone was stunned!

The entire Martial Battle Arena, thousands of people, were all stunned!

Though much has been described, in reality, all these events occurred in the blink of an eye, merely a moment or two.

Just a moment before, Departure Stone Elder, Chu Jun, and even Third Prince Zhu Kun were still hoping for miraculous success from the Little Lishui Dragon and Snake Formation.

The next moment, nine massive heads soared into the sky, and from the martial platform, nine fountains of blood erupted.

The contrast was too stark!

It was so stark that even those from the Qiyun Sect, who had hoped for Ye Zhen’s victory, couldn’t react in time.

The next moment, a chaotic cacophony of screams echoed through the skies above the entire Martial Battle Arena.

Seeing the nine heads flying into the sky and the spraying blood, caused some timid Qiyun Sect disciples, especially some of the female disciples, to scream loudly, and some even started to cry.

On the platform, Third Prince Zhu Kun was momentarily dazed, his body leaning forward slightly, slowly reclining back into the chair.

Beneath the platform, Chai Lishan’s head, luckily or unluckily, fell right into Chu Jun’s embrace, immediately snapping the stunned Chu Jun out of his daze.

The whole context of this incident immediately became clear to Chu Jun.

After Ye Zhen killed Lio Yunchong, in his battle against Chai Lishan, he had not used his full strength but rather intensely provoked them, leading to all other disciples of Lishui Sect stepping onto the platform.

It was all for this moment!

All of this, from the very beginning, was Ye Zhen’s plot!

Ye Zhen wanted to slaughter all their Lishui Sect disciples!

“Tricked again!

I’ve been tricked again!” Realizing this, Chu Jun felt as if he had been struck by lightning, a sudden rush of utter humiliation coloring his cheeks.

Violent fluctuations of spiritual power spread out from Chu Jun’s body, “Ye Zhen, ah…Ye Zhen, I will kill you!” he roared furiously, his figure abruptly levitating, about to recklessly attack Ye Zhen, who was within arm’s reach.

Whiz, whiz, whiz, whiz!

Four sharp sounds of cleaving air suddenly shot down from the sky, four sword lights abruptly hanging above Chu Jun’s head, pressing him down so that he dared not make the slightest move!

“Chu, if it weren’t for the Sect Leader stopping you, I would actually be very willing for you to rush to the Martial Combat Platform and make a move against Ye Zhen.

Then, without any hesitation, I would have a perfect reason to chop you down with one sword strike!”

Liao Feibai’s voice came from the void, startling Chu Jun so much that his complexion changed several times as he obediently reabsorbed his spiritual power and descended to the ground.

Startled by the voice of Liao Feibai, Departure Stone Elder, who was almost heartbroken to the point of fainting from the scene, suddenly sternly questioned Ye Zhen.

“Ye Zhen, speak, how did you secretly learn our Lishui Sect’s True Essence Secret Skill True Essence Sword Finger?”

Beneath the platform, a flash of sharpness in Chu Jun’s eyes suddenly made him realize the true crux; the True Essence Secret Skill was one of the Lishui Sect’s most profound secrets, even among Lishui Sect’s Inner Sect Disciples, hardly one in a hundred could learn it.

But now, Ye Zhen had learned it and was using their Lishui Sect’s True Essence Secret Skill to slaughter their Lishui Sect disciples.

A slap in the face!

This was undoubtedly a slap in the face!

“Ye Zhen, fast, how did you secretly learn the True Essence Sword Finger?”

Ye Zhen, covered in blood and radiating an aura of evil, merely glanced disdainfully at Chu Jun, “I picked it up on the street, what, you want to bite me?”

“You…” Chu Jun was speechless.

However, on the platform, Departure Stone Elder’s countenance turned very solemn.

“Ye Zhen, this True Essence Sword Finger is a profound secret of our sect.

You better confess honestly, otherwise, even if you flee to the ends of the earth, I will ensure your execution!” Departure Stone Elder articulated each word deliberately.

The expressions of Qiyun Sect’s high-ranking officials changed in unison, and Sect Master Guo Qijing abruptly stood up, his face stern, his presence bursting like a storm towards Departure Stone Elder, causing the atmosphere to shift.

“Departure Stone Elder, are you representing the Lishui Sect in officially declaring war against our Qiyun Sect?” Sect Master Guo Qijing shouted sternly.

The words of Sect Master Guo Qijing were neither light nor heavy, but they struck like thunder, terrifying Departure Stone Elder and Chu Jun until their faces were ashen white, with Departure Stone Elder hurriedly gesturing with his hands.

In the sky, Liao Feibai’s four sword lights suddenly burst with radiance, seemingly ready to chop down Chu Jun at the command of the Sect Leader, frightening Chu Jun and Departure Stone Elder immensely as their hearts leaped to their throats.

“Sect Master Guo, you’ve misunderstood, misunderstood, I didn’t mean that, I absolutely didn’t mean that.” Due to the fright, Departure Stone Elder’s face was pale as paper, and even his speech became somewhat slurred.

“Then what did you mean by declaring that you must execute our sect’s disciple Ye Zhen, even to the ends of the earth?” Sect Master Guo Qijing did not let go, pressing the question sternly.

Departure Stone Elder’s old face was so anxious that it almost became a chrysanthemum, so anxious he almost cried.

For the Lishui Sect to declare war against the Qiyun Sect, wasn’t it like a centenarian hanging themselves, complaining of living too long?

Although the strength of the Lishui Sect had been close to that of the Qiyun Sect in recent years, the heritage of the Qiyun Sect was always something that the Lishui Sect, a new sect of less than a hundred years, couldn’t match.

If it had not been for the major incident that happened decades ago, the Lishui Sect would never dare show their fangs to the Qiyun Sect.

“I…

so many disciples died, Sect Master Guo, I was just anxious, just anxious!” At this moment, Departure Stone Elder almost wished he could show his heart to Guo Qijing.

“Hmph, alright, let’s assume you were just anxious!”

Sect Master Guo Qijing seemed to accept Departure Stone Elder’s explanation, but at the moment Departure Stone Elder slightly relaxed, Qiyun Sect Leader Guo Qijing suddenly pointed at Chu Jun and vehemently shouted.

“Departure Stone, we’ll put this matter aside considering you were just anxious, but if any harm comes to our sect disciple Ye Zhen, no matter to the ends of the earth, I must sever Chu Jun’s head, as a fitting retribution!”

In an instant, Chu Jun, covered by Liao Feibai’s four sword lights, felt a chilling tremor!

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PS: This chapter was originally over 2000 words, but as I wrote, I got carried away and ended up writing more than 3000 words, making it more enjoyable for you guys to read.

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