The white-robed teenager was a Great Dao Paragon! There were less than thirty top-class powerful warriors in all of Ancient Zang, and he was Great Dao Paragon Sen Mu!
He might have seemed young, but in truth, he had been practicing cultivation for much longer than the great sect elders of Seven Moons Sect. Besides … the great sect elder of the first line in Seven Moons Sect, the others were not as old as him.
"Xu Zhong Fan, fellow Daoist Xu, it's been many years since we last met. I didn't expect that you would have manifested a Great Dao Ring here." The white-robed teenager smiled faintly. His smile was very sincere, and not a single hint of falsehood could be detected. Instead, it made him feel as if he was bathing in spring.
The white-robed teenager cast a scrutinizing glance at Su Ming's Master in Seven Moons Sect, then said with a smile, "I haven't congratulated you, fellow Daoist Xu. You've taken in a good disciple so that your Life Matrix will be noble and you will have hope in attaining your Dao."
Su Ming's Master in Seven Moons Sect, the middle-aged man in the sky-blue Daoist robe, had a dark expression on his face at that moment. The other great sect elders beside him also had murderous looks on their faces as they stared at the white-robed teenager coldly.
Only one of them was an old man with a head full of white hair. He had his eyes closed, and even though he stood among the great sect elders, he seemed to be different from the others.
"Great Dao Paragon Sen Mu has come to visit us, and your presence brings light to Seven Moons Sect. However, Great Dao Paragon, you did not come to us with courtesy. Instead, you entered Sky Beyond the Sky recklessly. One Dao Sect … are you looking down on Seven Moons Sect?!" Su Ming's Master in Seven Moons Sect said slowly while staring at Sen Mu.
"I'm already here." The white-robed teenager's expression remained the same. He continued smiling, and when he swept his gaze past the great sect elders of Seven Moons Sect, his gaze landed on the old man who still had his eyes closed.
"I have been rude. Greetings, Senior Gu Tai." He fell into a moment of pensive silence, then wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to the old man who still had his eyes closed.
"You trespassed into our Sky Beyond the Sky without permission, sealed our sect's Expanse Cosmos in the fifth layer, and even suppressed our disciples in it. Great Dao Paragon, don't you think that you have lowered your status a little? Just because you said you were rude, where will Seven Moons Sect 'dignity be?!" Su Ming's Master in Seven Moons Sect, the middle-aged man in the sky-blue Daoist robe, took a step forward at that moment.
"I'm sorry about this. I have been practicing cultivation for a long time, and I don't quite understand the ways of the world outside. I have indeed come here recklessly today, and I shouldn't have sealed the fifth layer of Seven Moons Sect's Sky Beyond the Sky. I have indeed lowered my status a little. I used my mighty pressure to restrain those juniors … If I have offended you in any way today, why don't you come and hit me?" The plain-robed young man had a smile on his face as he looked at Xu Zhong Fan. Other than the last sentence, his words were filled with sincerity. If this was the first time they had met, it would be hard to avoid their expressions from softening.
But when he finished speaking, the tone of his words changed completely. The gazes of the ten something great sect elders from Seven Moons Sect turned even colder, but no surprise appeared on their faces. Clearly, they had long since known of Great Dao Paragon Sen Mu's character.
"Enough!" The old man slowly opened his eyes. There were no pupils in his eyes, only a vast expanse of whiteness. When he looked at others, it gave them a very strange feeling.
"Sen Mu, Seven Moons Sect will not hand him over. If you want to fight … Seven Moons Sect will fight! If you can come here for the eldest prince, then Seven Moons Sect will also … be willing to destroy our sect for the third prince!
"But I heard that Asura Clan, where the second prince is, is showing signs of rising." The old man's words were calm. Not a hint of joy or anger could be seen on his face, but when he spoke, the other great sect elders around him immediately took a step back, revealing the old man at the center. It was clear that they were treating him as their leader.
Even the smile on the plain-robed young man's face disappeared at that moment. A solemn expression appeared on his face.
"Senior Gu Tai, you are still as awe-inspiring as before. Sen …"
"When I achieved my Dao," said the old man coolly, "you were still enjoying yourself at the knee of your Master. Are you going to fight me or not? That's what I want to hear. Anything else is just too noisy!" A powerful, domineering aura spread out from him.
Sen Mu was silent. He cast a few scrutinizing glances at Gu Tai before him, and a faint glint appeared in his eyes. He sighed softly.
"I once heard my Master mention that there were three ninth level Dao Gods in Ancient Zang, and it was said that as long as they became Great Dao Paragons, they would definitely become ninth level Dao Gods. There was only one of them, and that was Senior Gu Tai of Seven Moons Sect.
"After all … you are the only cultivator who fought against the three ninth level Dao Gods and did not die!
"It's a pity that you have a knot in your heart, and it has caused you to be injured, causing you … to be unable to become Great Dao Paragons. But … I admit that you are still a senior. If you truly want to fight, I do not have much confidence in winning," Sen Mu said slowly. He looked at Gu Tai before him, then wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to him again.
"I came here today to make a bet with Seven Moons Sect. In the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, regardless of whether I win or lose, I will apologize and leave."
"And if I lose?" the old man asked faintly.
"There are one hundred thousand Dao scrolls, and three hundred scrolls containing different epiphanies for entering Dao Spirit Realm," Sen Mu immediately said without any hesitation.
"There's no need for that. If you win, there's no need for us to talk about anything, but if you lose … then all those from One Dao Sect who invaded our land within an area of one million feet will die!" When he said those words, Sen Mu's pupils shrank.
"Alright!" Resolution appeared on his face. After all, while the old man before him was just a Dao Paragon, forget Sen Mu, even his Master was slightly wary of him and would not easily provoke him. The old man's reputation had been so great in the past that it had shaken all of Ancient Zang, and he definitely had some tricks up his sleeves. It was said that he could copy one of the divine abilities from the three ninth level Dao Gods!
"That includes the sky," the old man said faintly.
This time, Sen Mu fell silent, but soon nodded and decided to sit down cross-legged. With a swing of his right hand, an incense stick immediately appeared between him and the crowd. It swayed and was instantly lit.
"Sect Master … this is …" Beside the old man was Su Ming's Master, Xu Zhong Fan. At that moment, a hint of worry appeared on his face. When he was about to speak, Gu Tai cast him a glance.
"We can't help him with this either. If he fails, then it is his fate. It means that he is not someone who can fight for the position of successor, but if he wins … Seven Moons Sect will not hesitate to destroy our sect for him!" There was determination in the old man's words, causing the other great sect elders around him to fall silent and not speak.
Just as everyone's gazes were focused on the burning incense, as the smoke dissipated, the young man with dashing eyebrows in the fifth level of Heaven Beyond Heaven, who had been motionless with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. There was a hint of killing intent and excitement in them.
"The game has started. The time it takes for an incense stick to burn … I only need the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn." At the instant the young man opened his eyes, cracking sounds came from his body. He seemed to have appeared in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky, but at that moment, as the cracking sounds echoed, he seemed to have just descended. He took a step forward … and turned into a long arc that charged towards the mountain of the third line, where Su Ming was.
"Capture the third prince alive … I won't do that. I want to kill him! Haha! I want to become the first cultivator in history to kill a member of the royal family!
"If I kill him, perhaps I will have the chance to snatch his Life Matrix. If I kill him, my level of cultivation will definitely rise! "And even if I kill him, I won't be breaking the laws of Ancient Zang for the next three thousand years!
"As for three thousand years later … if I can't reach the ninth level of Dao Divinity Realm, then there's no point in me living, but if I do … no one can do anything to me!" The young man's laughter echoed in the air. He instantly appeared on the mountain of the third line, but he did not step straight into the cliff where Su Ming was. Instead, once he appeared at the foot of the mountain, his laughter echoed in the air, and he walked up the mountain step by step.
With each step he took, the mountain of the third line would tremble. A powerful, mighty pressure descended with each step he took, turning into an increasingly powerful presence that belonged to the young man. It was filled with confidence and excitement.
"Third prince, the person who will kill you … is Tian He!"
Su Ming sat in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky. Be it the seal in the Expanse Cosmos or the mighty suppression from before, none of them had any effect on him. It was as if they had avoided the region where Su Ming was.
It was precisely because of this that Seven Moons Sect had agreed to Sen Mu's bet, or else the situation would have been completely different. Clearly, everything had been completely calculated by One Dao Sect.
At that moment, as he meditated with his eyes closed, Su Ming sensed the seal in the Expanse Cosmos. He sensed the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky being enveloped by a terrifying mighty pressure, causing it to turn into a prison. The auras of the people inside had become chaotic, and they were all fighting against it with great difficulty.
Su Ming also sensed an additional presence in the prison-like fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky. It was so strong that it brought with it killing intent as well as a hint of madness. It caused the mountain to tremble, and the person's voice filled with crazed killing intent reached his ears. "That's right. That's right.
Su Ming sighed in his heart. He knew that he could not avoid this battle. He could only sigh at the fact that he had already found traces of his fusion with his shadow body, but he was still stuck at an invisible bottleneck, as if he lacked a turning point.
Just as he was about to open his eyes, he suddenly froze, as if he was listening to something. After a long while, his expression remained calm, and he gave up on the thought of opening his eyes.
The mountain trembled even more violently. The sounds of footsteps gradually reached his ears, along with low laughter. A presence that was the fusion of killing intent and excitement filled the entire third line.
A dozen something breaths later, Tian He appeared several hundreds of feet away from Su Ming, and his presence instantly reached its peak.
"Your Highness, third prince, you … have already missed the best chance to fight back." Tian He saw Su Ming meditating outside the house, and a smile appeared on his face.
Those who could reach his level of cultivation were naturally not fools. He might be arrogant, but he was also a schemer. He had taken things one step at a time to create pressure on Su Ming, and another reason … was that his level of cultivation had to return to its peak step by step after he went through the Rune in Seven Moons Sect!
That was the peak of the second level of Dao Divinity Realm!
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