Chapter 228 - 124: The Immortal Master Is Dead

Chapter 228: Chapter 124: The Immortal Master Is Dead

"What a pity."

"Crown Prince Yi’s maternal clan produced a Daoist. He has already reached the Foundation Establishment Post Realm, and his future is boundless. Though I am also at Foundation Establishment, I still have to curry favor with the likes of him. So what if it’s a pity? In all these years, haven’t enough young heroes died in vain?"

Among the Imperial Army, Li Daoist, the Profound Celestial Sect’s guardian Foundation Establishment cultivator, put down his teacup. Looking thoroughly dispirited, he shook his head and left.

In a daze, he was reminded of his younger self.

Back then.

He had traveled from the Small Human World on a Flying Vessel, arriving at the Profound Celestial Sect to step onto the Heaven-Reaching Immortal Path.

Back then.

He hated evil with a passion.

Back then.

He dared to speak out against all injustice, and would even come to blows for it.

But alas.

With the passage of time, he had grown old.

And gradually, he had become numb.

Worse still.

He had now become an accomplice to injustice and conspiracy.

’An Innate Nine Sounds of Life Taker! How could he possibly be an Extreme Cultivator? But if Crown Prince Yi says he is, then he is!’

Prince Xue was imprisoned!

The evidence was irrefutable.

Evidence was found in his mansion—letters proving his collusion with the Extreme Realm.

「Three days later.」

To be beheaded!

The common folk of the Imperial Capital were in an uproar, but the nobility fell silent. The only thing that increased was the endless stream of carriages heading toward the Crown Prince’s Mansion.

"Prince Xue is going to be beheaded?"

On this day, while strolling through the Book Collection Martial Pavilion, Su Chen heard the rumors that were swirling throughout the Imperial Palace.

Before his eyes, the image of the youth in the silver robe surfaced once more.

He vaguely felt that the youth looked familiar.

But he had only just arrived in this Eastern Domain World; how could he possibly know anyone?

’Don’t stir the dust.’

’This has nothing to do with me.’

Su Chen told himself.

He went back to browsing the classics in the Book Collection Martial Pavilion.

The colossal, seventy-seven-story tower pierced the clouds, housing hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of books—enough to keep Su Chen busy reading for more than a decade.

But as night fell, Su Chen left the Book Collection Martial Pavilion after all.

The direction he was headed?

The Imperial Palace’s Celestial Prison.

He wanted to get one last, closer look at this Prince Xue before the execution. He had to know who the prince reminded him of, why he felt so familiar, like an old acquaintance from his past.

But very soon, Su Chen stopped in his tracks.

He even began to regret leaving the Book Collection Martial Pavilion.

The Imperial Palace was in chaos!

Because the Foundation Establishment Immortal Master, Li Daoist, was dead!

Right there in the Imperial Palace, hacked to pieces by an extremely cruel method while he was still alive, the Foundation Establishment Immortal Master had been nailed to a palace wall.

"AHHH!"

"Someone’s been killed!"

"The Guardian Immortal Master from the Profound Celestial Sect is dead!"

The eunuch who first discovered the corpse on the wall was now running madly through the Imperial Palace, screaming.

Afterward, one after another, the Royal Family’s Immortal Dao Tributors and even the Royal Clan’s hidden Innate Experts began to appear. Even Daqi’s Crown Prince Yi was there, supporting the ailing Old Emperor as he arrived at the scene.

"The... The Guardian Immortal Master is dead?"

"How is that possible!"

Everyone present, from the Emperor and Crown Prince down to the common Forbidden Guards, spoke with trembling voices. It was as if the sky had fallen and the earth had cracked open, their eyes filled with an unprecedented terror.

In fact, it was true.

The sky truly had fallen.

He was the Guardian Immortal Master, the public face of the Profound Celestial Sect in the secular world.

To kill him...

...was to invite cataclysm. The Profound Celestial Sect would be furious. If this wasn’t handled properly, it was entirely possible they would slaughter the Royal Race—or even the millions of people in the Imperial City—just to vent their rage.

To an Immortal Dao Cultivator, anyone not walking the Immortal Path was no different from an ant.

Insignificant.

They could be crushed underfoot without a second thought.

"Investigate!"

"You must find out who did this!"

"We must give the Profound Celestial Sect an explanation!"

The Old Emperor roared.

He too was furious.

’Whoever killed the Guardian Immortal Master must be found. Even if it’s one of my own sons, I won’t hesitate to put them to death.’

He had just, with great difficulty, found a way to suppress the incident with the Red Fire Signal Arrow and the appearance of the Extreme Realm.

And now, this had to happen.

The Profound Celestial Sect would certainly come, and they would come in a rage. It was even possible that a Core Formation Master would descend to handle the affair.

’This is ruining my grand plans!’

In the distance, a figure stood.

It was none other than Su Chen.

’A truly eventful time... ’

He was the one who had first discovered the body of the Foundation Establishment Immortal Master, not that terrified eunuch.

He hadn’t seen the killer.

But...

...he was exceptionally familiar with the lingering aura the killer had left behind.

It was an old acquaintance.

An old acquaintance from the Palm of the Human World.

Zhuo!