The Supreme Being Against Heaven
Chapter Summary
Meanwhile— Inside an Immortal Cave atop a mountain within the Beast Soul lineage’s inner sect territory, Tan Yun continued his killing spree! “You hypocritical old bastard!” “When the 9 lineage chiefs of the inner sect went to recruit disciples from the outer sect, which one of them didn’t want Mengji as their final disciple?” “But after you accepted her as your disciple, you secretly gave your son, Wu Feixiong, the ‘Dream Illusion Pill!’” “In the end, Mengji was drugged, and your son tried to v...
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After receiving the order, the elders stormed out of the grand hall in fury and immediately rushed toward the Five Souls Immortal Valley.
Even after conducting a thorough search throughout the entire night, they failed to find even the slightest trace of the culprit!
Frustration!
Rage!
The elders were like headless flies, searching blindly in every direction while constantly wondering who the real murderer could be.
Everyone was filled with suspicion.
Because the 9 lineages had always been at odds with one another, peaceful relations had never truly existed between them. As a result, they first ruled out the possibility that someone from their own lineage was responsible.
In the end, everyone arrived at the same conclusion...
Anyone capable of infiltrating the Five Souls Secret Realm without leaving a trace and killing 2 elders had to be at least a 6th-Level Divine Soul Realm expert!
3 days later—
As the saying goes, good news never travels far, but bad news spreads for 1,000 li.
The deaths of the 2 elders from the Five Souls lineage within the Immortal Sect had already spread throughout the entire sect!
Whether it was the Sacred Soul lineage, Ancient Soul lineage, Beast Soul lineage, Wind Lightning lineage, or even the Alchemy, Talisman, Artifact Refining, and Formation lineages, all of them began to grow suspicious of one another.
Every faction suspected that another lineage was behind the incident... or perhaps it was an internal conflict within the Five Souls lineage itself!
Of course, although the higher-ups of the other 8 lineages were filled with confusion, the emotion they felt most strongly was...
Schadenfreude.
For the past 3 days, especially among the tens of thousands of disciples under Wu Qingquan and Kong Gaoxiang, everyone had been living in fear and tension, terrified that disaster might suddenly fall upon them as well...
Meanwhile—
Inside an Immortal Cave atop a mountain within the Beast Soul lineage’s inner sect territory, Tan Yun continued his killing spree!
At this moment, all 4 of Wu Hong’s limbs had their tendons severed. He was being mercilessly pinned to the ground beneath Tan Yun’s foot!
Wu Hong had once been the Chief of the Beast Soul lineage in the inner sect and was also Mu Mengji’s former master.
More than 3 years ago, during the Inner Sect 9 Lineages Competition, he had been demoted by the Sect Master to become the 3rd Elder!
“Tan Yun... please... don’t kill me... I don’t want to die yet...”
Wu Hong trembled violently. Blood continuously flowed from his mouth, and his voice shook with terror.
Tan Yun sneered coldly before bending down, grabbing Wu Hong by the throat with 1 hand and lifting him into the air!
Veins bulged across his face, and his expression twisted with hatred!
“You hypocritical old bastard!”
“When the 9 lineage chiefs of the inner sect went to recruit disciples from the outer sect, which one of them didn’t want Mengji as their final disciple?”
“But after you accepted her as your disciple, you secretly gave your son, Wu Feixiong, the ‘Dream Illusion Pill!’”
“In the end, Mengji was drugged, and your son tried to violate my woman!”
“Damn you!”
“If I hadn’t arrived in time that day, my woman would’ve lost her innocence because of your son!”
“And at Thousand Dragon Peak, if your son hadn’t committed suicide after I crippled his cultivation, leaving behind no evidence... the Sect Master would’ve executed you long ago!”
“You were once the Chief of the Beast Soul lineage in the inner sect! You were even my woman’s master!”
“And yet you committed such vile and despicable acts!”
“Even if you died 1,000 times or 10,000 times, it still wouldn’t be enough!”
Seeing that begging was useless, Wu Hong suddenly burst into mad laughter and screamed:
“Tan Yun! Kill me then!”
“Do it!”
“Today, I, Wu Hong, curse you!”
“One day, you’ll die by someone else’s hands!”
“Hahaha!”
“Tan Yun! Oh, Tan Yun! You’ve made far too many enemies!”
“Even without my curse, sooner or later your enemies will chop you into 10,000 pieces and leave not even bones behind for burial!”
“BANG!”
Tan Yun punched Wu Hong directly in the mouth, sending teeth flying as blood splattered everywhere before speaking coldly:
“Don’t worry.”
“You’ll be disappointed.”
“As long as I don’t want to die... no one can kill me!”
“And as for you...”
“In a moment, I’ll strip your clothes off and hang your corpse on the mountain peak so everyone can see just how miserable your death was!”
Hearing this, Wu Hong’s eyes turned blood-red with fury as he shouted in a trembling voice:
“You... you monster!”
Tan Yun laughed icily.
“So what if I am a monster?”
“I don’t care.”
“Die!”
The moment his words fell, all 5 fingers tightened instantly!
“CRACK!”
Wu Hong’s throat was crushed in an instant!
Tan Yun did exactly as he promised. He tore apart Wu Hong’s robes before using a rope to hang the other man’s naked corpse from a towering ancient tree atop the mountain peak!
Afterward, he turned and walked away without looking back even once...
In another 1 hour, the sun would disappear beneath the horizon...
“No! Don’t kill me… Please, Tan Yun!”
“I swear I’ll never seek revenge again for you killing my grandson, Murong Kun!”
Inside the cave, the old man’s desperate pleas gradually grew weaker before finally disappearing into silence.
Not long afterward, Tan Yun, dressed in the “Turtle Breath Concealment Veil,” slowly walked out of the cave.
Inside, only a gruesome corpse remained lying in a pool of blood.
That corpse belonged to none other than...
Murong Hong, the former 2nd Elder of the Beast Soul lineage!
Back then, after Tan Yun passed the selection from Meteorite City and successfully entered the Huangfu Sacred Sect, he had returned to the sect alongside Mu Mengji...
The one who blocked their path while riding a Spiritual Crane was Murong Kun, Murong Hong’s grandson!
Murong Kun had attempted to violate Mu Mengji and even planned to kill Tan Yun to silence him!
In the end, within the outer sect, Tan Yun personally killed Murong Kun with his own hands.
After entering the inner sect, Murong Hong repeatedly sent assassins after Tan Yun!
And today...
After killing Wu Hong and Murong Hong, Tan Yun’s slaughter still had not ended!
The person he most wanted to kill...
Was Linghu Changhe, the acting chief of the Sacred Soul lineage in the inner sect — the Sacred Soul Daoist!
Linghu Changhe’s great-grandson, Linghu Changkong, had tried to deal with Tan Yun multiple times within the inner sect, only to end up killed by Tan Yun instead!
Even after Tan Yun entered the inner sect, Linghu Changhe had still repeatedly sent people to assassinate him!
Previously, Tan Yun had not possessed enough strength to kill him.
But today was different!
Now that he had the Heaven-Slaughtering Demonic Ape by his side, revenge was easy!
A true man can wait years for revenge without it being too late!
6 hours later—
The setting sun glowed crimson like blood.
“AAAAAH—!!”
A horrifying scream erupted from Linghu Changhe’s cave residence. The scream lasted only briefly before falling completely silent.
As the sun disappeared beyond the horizon, Tan Yun slowly walked out of the cave, relief and release finally appearing within his eyes...
3 days later—
The elders and disciples of all 9 inner-sect lineages received news of the tragic deaths of Wu Hong, Linghu Changhe, and Murong Hong.
The entire inner sect was instantly shaken!
One had to understand that these 3 were not ordinary people!
Wu Hong had once been the chief of the Beast Soul lineage in the inner sect!
Linghu Changhe was the current chief of the Sacred Soul lineage!
And Murong Hong had once been the 2nd Elder of the Beast Soul lineage!
Yet 1 of them had been found hanging from the tallest tree atop a mountain peak...
While the other 2 were discovered dead inside their caves!
The deaths of these 3 individuals caused an enormous uproar!
The elders of the Sacred Soul lineage and Beast Soul lineage within the inner sect immediately rushed to the Immortal Sect to report the matter to the Great Elders of both lineages...
Within only a few days—
2 elders of the Five Souls lineage in the Immortal Sect had been killed.
At the same time, 3 high-ranking figures of the inner sect had also been murdered!
This incident plunged both the Immortal Sect and the inner sect into complete chaos!
The matter even alarmed Tantai Xuanzhong, who was currently in Tianfa City overseeing the construction of a new city alongside more than 1,000 sect masters!
Upon hearing the news, Tantai Xuanzhong flew into a rage. He personally dispatched people to investigate and swore that he would drag the murderer out and punish them!
Meanwhile, amid the turmoil engulfing both the inner sect and the Immortal Sect...
Tan Yun, disguised as “Shen Subing’s Master,” quietly returned to the Immortal Sect without anyone noticing.
Afterward, he headed toward the Huangfu Headquarters within the Immortal Sect’s city to meet Tantai Zhongde and inquire about clues regarding the “Fire Seed”...
...
At the same time—
Within the Alchemy lineage’s secret realm, inside Virtue Immortal Valley No. 8—
Mu Mengji and Xue Ziyan stood gazing anxiously at the sky, praying only for Tan Yun to return safely!
When they first heard about the death of the Five Souls Daoist from the Five Souls lineage within the Immortal Sect, both women merely suspected that Tan Yun might be responsible, though they were not certain.
However...
After hearing about the deaths of Wu Hong, Linghu Changhe, and Murong Hong within the inner sect—
The 2 women became certain immediately!
The one responsible...
Had to be Tan Yun!
Because they both knew very well that all 4 of those people were targets Tan Yun had long intended to kill with his own hands!