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Chapter 407

Li Fan, who had once had a close encounter with Zhao Shijie in forbidden literature, instantly recognized her voice.

“【One Heart Heavenly Venerate】, is that her name? Or does it represent her defiance of the laws of heaven and earth?”

“Why would she show herself?”

Several thoughts flashed through Li Fan’s mind in a split second.

Just as Li Fan was filled with uncertainty, the One Heart Heavenly Venerate’s voice rang out again.

“The agreement was made with the Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate.”

“Now I am here, where is the Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate?”

The voice was clear and spread throughout the heavens and earth.

All the cultivators in the Tianling Province looked at each other in astonishment.

Most of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance members knew that the Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate had long since transcended the world, no longer interfering with worldly affairs.

But everyone assumed that the Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate was simply living a carefree life, too lazy to bother with these mundane matters.

That was why he hadn’t appeared for so many years.

And he was undoubtedly still alive in the world.

But what did the One Heart Heavenly Venerate mean by her words today?

“Where is the Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate?”

A terrifying thought arose in the minds of everyone present.

“No, no, it can’t be.”

Everyone’s eyes were filled with suppressed fear.

“Where is the Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate?”

The One Heart Heavenly Venerate asked again.

Her voice was like thunder, echoing through the Tianling Province.

It had the tendency to cross the white mist barrier and spread to other provinces.

In the sky, strands of green light appeared, like a giant net.

They blocked the sound.

The One Heart Heavenly Venerate’s voice gradually faded.

“【One Heart Heavenly Venerate】, please leave.” Ji Hongdao said again.

His face was as cold as ice, devoid of any expression.

“If I don’t leave, what will you do?” Zhao Shijie’s voice, laced with amusement, rang out.

The thousands of Five Elders Association cultivators below all took a step forward in unison.

Ji Hongdao took a deep breath, “After the achieving Heavenly Venerate, she should no longer participate in the disputes of the mundane world.”

“This is the agreement between the Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate and the Five Elders Association Heavenly Venerates of that time.”

“Are you truly going to break it now?”

“Boom!” The thousands of Five Elders Association cultivators, who had formed a battle formation, took another step forward in unison.

It showed the One Heart Heavenly Venerate’s determination.

“Very well.”

“If that’s the case…”

A flicker of hesitation crossed Ji Hongdao’s eyes.

But he quickly suppressed it.

His eyes now reflected an icy coldness and unwavering determination.

Ji Hongdao looked up at the sky, bowing and bending his body.

One after another, green lines appeared in the sky.

They rapidly spread from the center to the surroundings, forming a giant net that enveloped the entire Tianling Province in an instant.

Ji Hongdao stood up and bowed again.

The green light became increasingly brighter.

It dyed the entire sky a strange shade of green.

Ji Hongdao then bowed three times.

A moment later…

Countless, densely packed green threads descended from the giant net.

They rushed towards their targets on the ground.

In an instant, the entire Tianling Province seemed to have been trapped in a terrifying green spider web.

“Wait, how is this possible?!”

The cultivators on the Dust Crossing Boat, witnessing the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Formation unleash its power, finally saw the formation’s true might.

But none of them showed the excitement they should have.

Instead, they were filled with immense terror.

Even more so than when they had just heard about the 【One Heart Heavenly Venerate】 coming to the battlefield.

Because the target of the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Formation was not the Longevity Venerate who stood before the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.

Nor was it the thousands of Five Elders Association cultivators who had come to invade.

It was…

All the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance cultivators present in the Tianling Province.

Every green thread that fell meant the death of a cultivator.

High in the heavens.

A distorted apparition formed an abstract painting of chaotic and mottled colors.

Return, return, return, return…

Path, path, path…

At, at, at…

Countless sounds converged and intertwined.

It was impossible to discern their meaning.

They were just a multitude of strange sounds echoing endlessly, forming a grand, chaotic, and distorted celebratory symphony.

Whether it was the young formation masters on the Dust Crossing Boat.

Or Li Fan, who was several provinces away.

They were all in a state of stupor at this moment.

Because this scene was beyond their comprehension.

The Tianxuan Locking Spirit Formation, which was supposed to be used to intimidate the Five Elders Association, was now slaughtering the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance cultivators indiscriminately.

Looking at the dense green lines in the sky and earth of the Tianling Province.

Everyone had no doubt that all the cultivators in this province below the Dao Integration stage had perished in the attack of the Locking Spirit Formation.

“Why?”

Li Fan’s heart was filled with endless confusion.

He had thought that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance would kill the formation masters who had built the Locking Spirit Formation to ensure that its structure wouldn’t be leaked.

But he hadn’t expected that the target of the Locking Spirit Formation would be all the cultivators in the Tianling Province.

“It makes no sense at all.”

“Has the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance gone mad?”

He analyzed one possibility after another in his mind, but he couldn’t find any motive for the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance to do this.

Just as he was racking his brains, trying to understand.

The world suddenly began to shake.

The Tianling Province.

And the Tianpan Province where he was currently.

Both were shaking.

His heart pounded rapidly, as if he had encountered a fatal threat.

Li Fan abruptly stood up, his face grave as he looked towards the heavens.

“This is…”

A meaningless roar echoed faintly from the sky.

The entire world trembled slightly.

At this moment, all the living beings in the Xuanhuang Realm.

All instinctively raised their heads, gazing at the sky.

Great fear was born in their hearts.

The feeling of doomsday approaching, with nowhere to escape, surged through all living beings.

The trembling lasted for a long time before finally stopping.

All living beings showed expressions of relief, as if they had survived a catastrophe.

But they were clueless about what had happened.

The Tianling Province.

Before the survivors had recovered.

“【One Heart Heavenly Venerate】, please leave.” Ji Hongdao said again.

After a long silence.

“Hahaha…”

“Haha…”

“Interesting. Whose idea was this?”

“Staying in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is truly a waste of your talents. Why don’t you join me instead!”

Zhao Shijie chuckled, revealing her figure, asking with amusement.

She looked exactly like the image Li Fan had seen in the forbidden book.

And she was exactly as depicted in the legends.

She wore a white robe, her figure alluring.

Ji Hongdao closed his eyes, not daring to look directly at her.

“Please leave, Heavenly Venerate!”

Cold sweat streamed down his forehead, but he remained resolute.

Zhao Shijie stared at him for a moment.

Then she looked up at the sky.

“You have some nerve.”

Before her voice had faded, she had vanished.

The instant the One Heart Heavenly Venerate disappeared.

The thousands of golden rays of light that had been suspended in the air, blocked by her, fell to the ground.

They killed all the Five Elders Association cultivators who had come to invade.

Strangely, these cultivators showed no fear in the face of death.

And there were no signs of cultivators falling from the heavens.

“【One Heart Heavenly Venerate】…”

Ji Hongdao looked in the direction where Zhao Shijie had left, muttering for a moment.

Then he turned around, his expressionless face facing the formation masters on the Dust Crossing Boat.

“Let’s go.”

“The feast is over. It’s time to have a good talk with you.”

Chapter 408

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    What just happened
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    Have we heard of Ji Hongdao? Is he new to the story, maybe I’ve been reading too fast and have lost track of characters,

    I will assume Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate is the ancient ancestor/leader of 10.000 alliance but I wonder where he went or died?

    1. Qi Refining

    2. Foundation Establishement

    3. Golden Core

    4. Nascent soul

    5. Soul Transformation (also called true monarch)

    6. Dao Integration (also called immortal sage? Ex:golden sun immortal sage who led the fight vs crimson flame)

    7. Longevity Immortal (heavenly {sovereign?/ancestor?/venerate?} is title of leaders of 10.000 alliance/5 elders association, also called ancient celestial lords?)

    8. True Immortal

    9. God Transformation?? (Unknown if this is the realm, mentioned as Mr. Bai's realm)

    (Dao integration and higher realms cultivators seem to have specific tiles

    1. One Heart Heavenly Venerate= Zhao Shijie (she is an elder of 5 elders)
    2. Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate= cultivator who created /promoted the method of stealing from heavenly dao, leader? of 10.000 immortal alliance)
    ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
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    **Chapter 407 – Using All Living Beings as Hostages**

    Li Fan instantly recognized the voice. He had once come into close contact with Senior Sister Zhao while studying a forbidden text.

    “*Heavenly Venerable of One Heart*... Is that her name? Or the law of heaven and earth she defied?”

    “Why would she appear in person?”

    Countless thoughts flashed through Li Fan’s mind.

    Before he could sort them out, the voice of the *Heavenly Venerable of One Heart* sounded again.

    “The original agreement was made with the *Heavenly Venerable of Transmission*.”

    “Now that I stand here—where is Transmission?”

    Her crisp voice spread across heaven and earth.

    All cultivators within the Heavenly Spirit Prefecture looked to one another in confusion.

    Those of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance mostly knew that the *Heavenly Venerable of Transmission* had long since transcended worldly matters.

    But everyone had assumed he was merely detached and indifferent, choosing to ignore mortal concerns—hence his long absence.

    None doubted his existence.

    But what did she mean by those words?
    “Where is Transmission?”

    A terrible thought rose in their hearts.

    “No... impossible.”

    Fear flickered in every gaze.

    “Where is Transmission?”

    The *Heavenly Venerable of One Heart* asked again.

    Her voice was like thunder, echoing through the Heavenly Spirit Prefecture and pressing against the pale mist that walled its borders, as if it would spread to other prefectures beyond.

    Then thin green threads appeared across the heavens, woven like a net, blocking the voice from escaping.

    Her words faded into silence.

    “*Heavenly Venerable of One Heart*, please withdraw.” Ji Hongdao’s voice came again, cold and expressionless.

    “If I refuse, what will you do?” Zhao’s amused tone answered.

    Below, the thousands of Five Elders Association cultivators took a unified step forward.

    Ji Hongdao drew a deep breath. “After a Heavenly Venerable establishes a *Principle*, they must no longer involve themselves in mortal disputes. That was the pact between the *Heavenly Venerable of Transmission* and the Heavenly Venerables of the Five Elders Association.”

    “Would you truly break that vow?”

    A rumble answered him as the Five Elders Association cultivators stepped forward once more, showing the determination of the *Heavenly Venerable of One Heart*.

    “Very well.”

    “In that case…”

    A flicker of hesitation crossed Ji Hongdao’s eyes—but it was quickly buried beneath an icy resolve.

    He lifted his head toward the heavens and bowed deeply.

    From above, countless green filaments spread outward from the center of the sky, forming a vast net that covered the entire Heavenly Spirit Prefecture.

    Ji Hongdao straightened, then bowed again.

    The green light grew brighter, dyeing the heavens an eerie emerald hue.

    He bowed a third time.

    Moments later—

    From the immense web descended countless green threads, falling toward the earth below.

    In an instant, the entire Heavenly Spirit Prefecture was ensnared in a monstrous web of jade light.

    “Wait—this can’t be right!”

    The cultivators aboard the *Dust-Crossing Vessel* finally saw the *Heavenly Profound Spirit-Sealing Formation* unleash its might—yet not a single one looked pleased.

    Their faces were filled with horror, even greater than when the *Heavenly Venerable of One Heart* herself had appeared.

    For the formation’s targets were not the *Heavenly Venerable of Longevity* standing before the alliance, nor the invading cultivators of the Five Elders Association—

    But the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance’s own cultivators within the Heavenly Spirit Prefecture.

    Every strand of green light that fell marked the death of a cultivator.

    High above, twisting visions turned the sky into a chaotic, abstract mural of color and distortion.

    Strange, overlapping sounds filled the heavens—
    Incomprehensible syllables merged into a vast, discordant symphony, as though celebrating the massacre.

    Whether it was the young formation masters aboard the *Dust-Crossing Vessel* or Li Fan watching from several prefectures away, all were stunned.

    The scene had exceeded the limits of comprehension.

    What was meant to be a weapon against the Five Elders Association had become an instrument of slaughter against the alliance’s own.

    As Li Fan stared at the countless green threads filling the heavens, he realized with dread that every cultivator below the Integration Realm within the Heavenly Spirit Prefecture had likely perished.

    “Why?”

    His mind raced in confusion.

    He had thought the alliance would silence the formation masters to prevent the *Spirit-Sealing Formation*’s secrets from leaking.

    But never had he imagined that the formation’s true target would be *all cultivators* in the Heavenly Spirit Prefecture.

    “It makes no sense.”

    “Has the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance gone mad?”

    Countless theories ran through his head, yet none explained such madness.

    Then the earth began to tremble.

    Both the Heavenly Spirit Prefecture and the Heaven Judgment Prefecture where Li Fan resided shook violently.

    His heartbeat quickened as an overwhelming sense of danger surged.

    Li Fan rose abruptly, gaze fixed upon the sky.

    “What is this…”

    A deep, indistinct rumble spread from above.

    The entire world quivered.

    Every living being within the Xuanhuang Realm instinctively looked up at the heavens.

    A primal terror was born in their hearts—
    An inescapable sense that the end of the world had come.

    The trembling lasted for a long time before finally ceasing.

    Survivors looked around in relief, though none understood what had just occurred.

    Within the Heavenly Spirit Prefecture, as the stunned survivors struggled to recover—

    “*Heavenly Venerable of One Heart*, please withdraw,” Ji Hongdao said once more.

    After a moment of silence—

    “Hahaha…”

    “How amusing. Whose idea was that?”

    “To stay in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is such a waste of talent. Why not join me instead?”

    Zhao’s gentle laughter echoed as her figure appeared—exactly as Li Fan had once seen in the forbidden text, and just as legend described.

    A white-robed beauty of enchanting grace.

    Ji Hongdao shut his eyes, not daring to look directly.

    “I beg the Heavenly Venerable to depart,” he said, cold sweat beading on his forehead, yet his tone firm.

    Zhao studied him for a moment, then glanced toward the heavens.

    “Courageous, aren’t you.”

    Before her words had faded, her form vanished.

    The moment she disappeared, the thousands of suspended golden beams above descended at once, striking and annihilating the invading cultivators of the Five Elders Association.

    Strangely, none of those struck showed the slightest fear—
    and no visions of death appeared in the skies.

    “*Heavenly Venerable of One Heart*…”

    Ji Hongdao muttered softly as he gazed toward where she had vanished.

    Then he turned, expressionless, to the formation masters on the *Dust-Crossing Vessel*.

    “Let’s go.”

    “The grand spectacle is over. It’s time we had a proper conversation.”

    *(End of Chapter)*
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    Interesting if that's why they did it This is why the number of farmers must remain constant wiseacre
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    Did that law-bestowing heavenly venerable betray the ten thousand immortal alliance
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    So is the Law-Bestowing Heavenly Venerate the Immortal Ancestor or nah? Who else could make a deal with the Five Elders Association alone?
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      He is.
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      I think so, Law-Bestowing probably refers to the fact that he gave the new way of cultivation
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    Then he turned around, his expressionless face facing the formation masters on the Dust Crossing Boat.

    “Let’s go.”

    “The feast is over. It’s time to have a good talk with you.”



    I thought they killed everyone in the province?
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      Probably just the cultivators within the province are the ones that are killed. Not the ones on the boat
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    Heavenly Venerate should mean a Longevity Immortal right?
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      Yeah
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