The Supreme Being Against Heaven

"Tan... Tan Yun... I'm telling you, can you spare my life..." The old man trembled with fear.

“Just tell me who you are and why you want to kill me, and I promise I won’t kill you,” Tan Yun said without hesitation.

"Alright, I'll talk, I'll talk!" The old man hurriedly said, "My name is Cui Chaoping, and I am a steward of the Immortal Sect's Artifact Vein. You killed the chief's grandson, and it was the chief who ordered me to get rid of you."

"It really is Fang Canghai." Tan Yun took a deep breath and sneered, "Fang Canghai, I've killed your grandson's father. Show me what you've got!"

At this moment, Cui Chaoping said in fear, "Tan Yun, I've told you everything. Please let me go and don't tell anyone what I told you. Fang Canghai is ruthless. If he finds out that I told you, he will definitely kill me!"

"Old Cui, you're worrying too much," Tan Yun mocked. "I did say I'd let you go, but I can't guarantee that the old ape won't annihilate your soul."

"Tan Yun, you went back on your word, you little beast..." Cui Chaoping's angry curses were abruptly cut off, as the giant hand of the Heaven-Slaying Demon Ape clenched tightly, and his soul was reduced to ashes!

Then, at Tan Yun's signal, the Heaven-Slaying Demon Ape crawled into the spirit beast pouch.

Looking at the shocked Mu Mengyi and Xue Ziyan, Tan Yun told them about his possession of both the Golden Dragon Divine Lion and the Heaven-Slaying Demon Ape, as well as the origin of the Heaven-Slaying Demon Ape.

...

The next day, at noon.

When Tan Yun was piloting the spirit boat, carrying the two of them, and they were still 50,000 miles away from the Five Souls Lineage Mountain Gate of the Immortal Sect, Tan Yun looked at Xue Ziyan, who seemed preoccupied, frowned, and asked, "Ziyan, what's wrong?"

"Brother-in-law, I'm fine," Xue Ziyan said, pursing her lips.

"Ziyan, you're all written on your face, how can you say you're fine?" Mu Mengyi pulled Xue Ziyan's hand. "Tell your sister, what's wrong?"

"I...I don't want to go back." Xue Ziyan seemed to have thought of something, and a hint of panic appeared in her beautiful eyes.

"Zi Yan, is someone bullying you, Five Souls lineage!" As soon as Mu Mengyi finished speaking, Xue Zi Yan, who was usually carefree, suddenly threw herself into Mu Mengyi's arms and started crying.

Because Xue Ziyan was holding Mu Mengyi, her skirt sleeves slipped down, revealing a section of her fair arms.

"Zi Yan, who did this!" Tan Yun suddenly noticed something, took a step forward, and grabbed Xue Zi Yan's fair wrist with his right hand. He saw a long scar left by a sword wound on her fair arm!

Judging from the color of the scar, it must have been inflicted by someone within the last few days!

Mu Mengyi touched the shocking scar on Xue Ziyan's right arm and urged, "Tell your sister and brother-in-law who hurt you!"

"Brother-in-law, sister, please don't ask anymore," Xue Ziyan said, choking back tears.

"Ziyan, tell your brother-in-law, and he'll avenge you!" Tan Yun's eyes were filled with uncontrollable killing intent!

"Zi Yan, speak!" Mu Mengyi was also anxious. "Who is it?"

Xue Ziyan left Mu Mengyi's embrace and whispered, "It was my master who hurt me!"

"Five Souls Daoist!" Tan Yun clenched his fists, burning with anger. "What's going on? Don't be afraid with your brother-in-law here!"

Xue Ziyan wiped away her tears, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Brother-in-law, back when the Nine Meridians Competition was held, my master saw that I had become the second on the Crouching Dragon List with the Five Soul Divine Sword Technique that you gave me, so he set his sights on the technique."

"Over the past three years, he has repeatedly asked me to reveal the cultivation method so that his grandson Wu Ling could practice it."

"Nine days ago, he found me again. When he saw that I still refused to reveal the technique, he became angry and beat me... injured me..." Xue Ziyan's shoulders trembled, and tears streamed down her face. "Brother-in-law, I don't want to go back. I'm scared."

Suppressing his anger, Tan Yun hugged Xue Ziyan, patted her back, and comforted her, "Ziyan, don't be afraid. Come on, I'll take you back to the Pill Meridian. You already have the cultivation technique I gave you, so you don't need to cultivate anything else. From now on, you can just focus on improving your strength in the Pill Meridian."

"Mm." Xue Ziyan nodded.

Tan Yun gently embraced Xue Ziyan, closed his eyes, and at this moment, he made up his mind that it was time to settle the score with the enemies he had made during his time in the inner sect...

Two days later, Tan Yun piloted his spirit boat, carrying Mu Mengyi and Xue Ziyan back to the Pill Vein, and sent the two women into his own Immortal Valley: Immortal Valley No. 8 in the Merit Immortal Valley Domain.

After instructing the two women to focus on their cultivation, Tan Yun, not wanting them to worry, said he needed to find a meritorious elder and then left...

Two hours later, Tan Yun piloted his spirit boat out of the Pill Vein Secret Realm. After donning the Turtle Breath Veil, which prevented even the most powerful Soul Realm experts from peeking through, he steered the spirit boat towards the Five Souls Immortal Sect, a million miles away...

Two days later, early in the morning.

"Who goes there?" At the entrance of the Five Souls lineage, a disciple at the fifth level of the Soul Refining Realm looked up at the figure shrouded in black gauze on the spirit boat and asked with great vigilance.

Tan Yun suddenly lifted the veil of her breath, revealing a pair of eyes radiating an eerie red light. She looked down at the disciple and said coldly, "Tell me, where is the former chief of the Five Souls lineage of the inner sect cultivating, and what elder is he now?"

The man looked dazed and replied truthfully, "He is in the Five Souls Secret Realm, in the Five Souls Immortal Valley, 100,000 miles to the east. He is currently the Twenty-Sixth Elder."

Tan Yun then asked, "How many people in your Immortal Sect's Five Souls lineage want to kill me?"

"a lot of."

"How much is 'a lot'?"

"Too many to count."

"So, do you want to kill Tan Yun?"

"Yes, of course I want to! He killed so many people from our inner sect's Five Souls lineage, I wish I could kill him right now!"

"Do you still have any robes from the Five Souls lineage disciples? If so, take them out."

"Yes!" The disciple blankly took out a long robe from his Qiankun Ring and tossed it to Tan Yun.

Tan Yun took the robe and said without hesitation, "Open the secret realm, but do not close it, then commit suicide!"

"Yes." After the disciple opened the entrance to the secret realm on the stone tablet, Tan Yun piloted the spirit boat and entered the Five Souls Secret Realm with lightning speed, heading towards the Five Souls Immortal Valley...

Outside the Five Souls Secret Realm's gate, a stream of blood splattered along with the sword's edge; the disciple had slit his own throat...

Two hours and a quarter of an hour later.

While the Five Souls Daoist was absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the main hall of the Five Souls Immortal Valley, he suddenly heard a respectful voice coming from outside the valley, "Twenty-sixth Elder, this disciple has urgent business with you."

The Five Souls Daoist said calmly, "Come in, the barrier is not activated."

"Disciple obeys!" Outside the Immortal Valley, Tan Yun, dressed in the robes of the Five Souls lineage, lowered his head and walked step by step toward the Five Souls Immortal Palace in the night!

The Demon Ape had shrunk to the size of a small monkey and was perched on Tan Yun's shoulder, looking completely harmless.

A moment later, Tan Yun entered the main hall. Under the flickering candlelight, he kept his head down and stood thirty feet in front of the Five Souls Daoist.

"Speak, what is it?" The Five Souls Daoist, sitting cross-legged, kept his eyes closed, breathing in and out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, without even glancing at Tan Yun!

Tan Yun slowly raised his head and said, word by word, "Wu Qingquan, we meet again!"