Chapter 155: An Abandoned Passage? The Tragic Sect of Tianxuan

If you were to ask Wei Yi what his greatest wish in life was, it would undoubtedly be to obliterate the Ancient Forbidden Land.

Back then, the Tianshu Sacred Land prepared to attack the Ancient Forbidden Land in the hope of opening the passage to the Immortal Realm and ascending their entire sect to the Immortal World!

Because Wei Yi had been away on business at the time and missed this expedition into the forbidden zone, he miraculously escaped that great disaster.

By the time he returned to the sect, it was already completely empty! Desperate to face the great battle together with his fellow sect members, Wei Yi flew frantically toward the Ancient Forbidden Land, his heart burning with anxiety!

Before he could even reach the Ancient Forbidden Land, news arrived that the entire Tianshu sect had been completely wiped out, and not a single person had emerged from the forbidden zone!

Someone once witnessed a hand covering the sky descending from the highest heavens, striking down into the forbidden zone! At that time, the supreme might of an Imperial Weapon had erupted, attempting to block the giant palm, but in the end, it could only emit a mournful wail before being suppressed! After that, there was absolute silence!

Wei Yi could not understand how, with the immense strength of his sect and an Imperial Weapon in hand, even a Great Emperor could not possibly slaughter them all with a single palm!

What he did not know, however, was that back in the day, the Empress had shattered the entire Yuhua Dynasty with a single slap to avenge her brother, even destroying an Imperial Weapon in the process. Although the Tianshu Sacred Land was powerful, it still fell somewhat short compared to the Yuhua Dynasty.

For the Tianshu Sacred Land to meet such a fate was only natural!

Later, Wei Yi had wailed miserably outside the forbidden zone, hoping to see his loved ones appear once more, but alas, those familiar faces never returned.

Initially, Wei Yi had contemplated entering the forbidden zone to die alongside his sect members.

Just then, however, news spread that his youngest junior brother had not perished; he had been sent out through the desperate efforts of the elders, but having suffered too great a shock, he had gone mad and disappeared without a trace.

Fearing that some accident might befall his junior brother, Wei Yi abandoned his thoughts of death and set out to find him, hoping to help him recover.

Eventually, he did find his junior brother, but facing his madness, Wei Yi was completely helpless. With no other choice, he brought him back to the Tianshu Stone Workshop to take care of him.

Not long after, however, the junior brother disappeared again.

From then on, a madman with terrifyingly high martial prowess began to roam various starry regions—none other than the Old Madman whom Ye Fan had once encountered.

Filled with profound despair from that day forward, Wei Yi secluded himself in the Tianshu Stone Workshop, watching his lifespan slowly fade away, never stepping out into the world again!

No one knew that inside this dilapidated stone workshop resided a Great Saint! Otherwise, that young man from earlier would never have dared to act so arrogantly here.

Now, witnessing Chen Xing's unfathomable cultivation—one that left him utterly powerless to fight back—and hearing that Chen Xing resided within the Ancient Forbidden Land, Wei Yi naturally assumed that Chen Xing had wiped out the entities originally dwelling within the forbidden zone. Overwhelmed by wild joy, he immediately voiced his question.

Hearing Wei Yi's words, Chen Xing's expression darkened, and he said coldly, "What? You want me to kill my own younger sister?"

Wei Yi was struck with utter terror upon hearing this. Never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined that Chen Xing claimed to be the older brother of the Ruthless Empress! How could this be possible? No one had ever mentioned that the Ruthless Great Emperor had a brother!

In an instant, Wei Yi's heart turned to dead ashes, leaving him with not a shred of luck or hope!

Originally, the Ruthless Great Emperor alone was already invincible across the heavens and the earth, and now there existed a terrifying existence like Chen Xing! No wonder he dared to utter such wild boasts—even if the thirty emperors through eternity were reborn, they would not dare set foot in the Ancient Forbidden Land!

Although Wei Yi still harbored some skepticism toward this statement, everything indicated that the Ancient Forbidden Land was likely the most formidable forbidden zone of all. That was beyond doubt.

Alas, he could never imagine that what Chen Xing meant was that even if the thirty emperors of eternity were resurrected together, they wouldn't be able to withstand a casual slap from a furious Chen Mi! Reality was simply that cruel!

These so-called Great Emperors and Ancient Sovereigns were merely supreme beings within this medium thousand world! Even Shi Hao and the Willow Deity, who pulled strings from behind the scenes and emerged together from the bizarre world, had to treat Chen Xing and Chen Mi with utmost respect upon meeting them! Shi Hao would even have to kneel—after all, he was just a junior!

Seeing Wei Yi's face ashen and lifeless, his spirit utterly broken, Chen Xing's expression eased slightly as he said in a deep voice:

"Back then, it was your Tianshu Sacred Land that was ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth, attempting to use the Immortal Realm passage in the Ancient Forbidden Land to ascend with the entire sect! In itself, that was understandable! Unfortunately, someone in your sect became far too arrogant, attempting to level the Ancient Forbidden Land to shake the world with their prestige. Being suppressed was reaping what they sowed; they have no one else to blame!"

At this point, Chen Xing cast a peculiar glance at Wei Yi, then gently uttered a sentence: "Sadly, you were all mistaken. The true Immortal Realm passage is not in the Ancient Forbidden Land at all! That place is merely an abandoned, blocked-off dead end!"

Upon hearing this, Wei Yi was struck as if by lightning!

Now, he believed that Chen Xing would not lie to him; since he said so, it must be true.

For a moment, Wei Yi was rooted to the spot in utter shock! After a long while, a miserable, piercing wail resonated across the heavens and earth: "Master! Martial Uncle! Junior Brother! Your deaths were unjust!"

Wei Yi went mad. Large tears streamed down his aged face as he grieved for his fellow sect members!

No matter what, he could not accept this ending! What a devastatingly tragic price the entire Tianshu sect had paid just to open the passage to the Immortal Realm!

Only he and that mad junior brother had been left behind out of the entire sect. And now, he was told that the so-called forbidden zone's Immortal Realm passage was actually abandoned, completely incapable of allowing anyone to ascend from there!

Then what had all the efforts of his sect's elders amounted to? A joke?

Wei Yi simply could not accept it for a moment! He hated—hated the person who claimed the Immortal Realm passage was in the Ancient Forbidden Land!

He raged—raged at the Ruthless Empress for slaughtering his entire sect!

He regretted—regretted not dying alongside his fellow sect members back then, for then he wouldn't have learned the truth, nor would he spend the remainder of his life living in remorse!

Just as Wei Yi was on the verge of losing control and completely breaking down, Chen Xing suddenly added calmly in a faint voice:

"Who told you that everyone in the Tianshu sect is dead? Did I say that?" The words went directly into the ears of Wei Yi, who was on the brink of madness.

Wei Yi, whose state of mind was on the verge of collapse, froze instantly upon hearing Chen Xing's words, as if struck by an immobilization spell, all his movements halting abruptly!

After a long while, Wei Yi stiffly turned his head to look at Chen Xing, wearing an expression that was half-laughing, half-crying—a very comical look set against his tear-stained face, almost making Chen Xing laugh out of amusement.

"You... you mean... they're... they're not dead!"

After a long while, Wei Yi, barely managing to control his emotions, asked with a trembling, stuttering voice!

His face was filled with utter disbelief! Yet his eyes were brimming with desperate prayer.

Rationality told him not to believe it, but emotionally, he desperately hoped it was true! He knew he could not withstand another blow; it would drive him completely insane!

"Correct! Quite a few people are still alive. Isn't the Tianshu Saintess one of them?" Chen Xing nodded casually. Although Wei Yi hadn't been of any help to him today, he didn't mind lending him a hand!

After all, the Myriad Clans Convention was about to be convened shortly, and Chen Xing didn't mind giving those Primordial Royal Clans a 'surprise' when the time came.

Indeed, not many of those people from the Tianshu Sacred Land had actually died! Naturally, those individuals who had proposed executing the forbidden zone supremes to display their own might had long since been reduced to ashes.

The Ruthless Empress was different from the forbidden zone supremes; other supremes would slaughter any living being that entered their forbidden zone without leaving a single survivor!

However, the Ruthless Empress originated from the human race, and during times of past dark turmoil, she had stepped forth multiple times to aid humanity!

Although the Tianshu Sacred Land had angered her back then, she had never dealt a fatal blow to all of them! She had merely executed a few individuals she found displeasing; figures like the Tianshu Saintess had merely been refined into Forbidden Land slaves to deter the world.

As for the rest of the members, out of sheer boredom, she had simply sealed them away casually inside a mountain cave, and she had never visited that cave again.

Thinking of the things Chu Ningdie had done out of sheer boredom, Chen Xing could not help but smile wryly!

As time passed, many of those Tianshu sect members sealed away by her casual touch had indeed exhausted their lifespans and died, but those at the Saint level and above still had quite a few survivors.

"Thud!" With a heavy sound, Wei Yi dropped to his knees before Chen Xing once more! Pulling his hand away when Chen Xing attempted to lift him, he kowtowed respectfully three times, and despite his face still stained with tears, he solemnly declared:

"If Your Excellency can release the members of my Tianshu sect, from this day forth, all of us in Tianshu shall follow Your Excellency's lead! Should I break this oath, may heaven and earth destroy me!"