Chapter 12 The Sect Leader's Core Shattered: A Peerless Treasure Is Only Good Enough to Be a Snack!

"Jinyue, it's too noisy outside. Close the door; I want to get some more sleep."

These words floating from the depths of the death prison were spoken in a flat tone without a single ripple, even carrying three parts laziness and seven parts impatience.

However, these dozen or so light words falling into the ears of the highest power holders of the Taixuan Dao Sect were no different from billions of world-destroying divine thunders exploding from the Nine Heavens!

"Boom—!"

Immortal Master Qingxu's brain went blank, feeling his blood flow backward at this moment, his hands and feet cold to the extreme.

Get some more sleep?!

Complaining it's too noisy outside?!

The dozen or so Taixuan Elders behind Immortal Master Qingxu were even more terrified, shivering violently. A few Core Formation Stage Elders with weaker cultivation even lost the strength to maintain their kneeling posture, collapsing onto the ground like limp mud.

In the cultivation world, can a Senior powerhouse's "sleep" be called ordinary sleep? That is definitely a supreme state of seclusion, wandering through the void and comprehending the Great Dao!

Interrupting a Mortal's sleep might earn you a scolding at most, but interrupting the enlightenment of an ancient sword immortal-level old monster... that is an irreconcilable blood feud, enough to involve nine generations of one's family and the entire Sect's heritage!

If that Senior hadn't found their blood too dirty just now and disdained to act personally, the moment the gate opened, the entire Taixuan Main Peak would have likely been razed to the ground, and tens of thousands of people, high and low, would have been turned to dust!

"Yes, Young Master. This servant will drive away these flies that have disturbed your peaceful dreams."

At the entrance of the death prison.

The peerlessly beautiful and enchanting Jinyue, dressed in red, turned slightly and bowed deeply and respectfully toward the endless darkness within.

When she turned her head back to look at the Taixuan high-ranking officials kneeling on the ground, her face, which could topple kingdoms, was instantly replaced by an eternal, unmelting coldness and cruelty. The terrifying Evil Qi belonging to the former peerless demoness radiated outward like a physical force.

"Sect Head of Taixuan, did you understand my Young Master's words?"

Jinyue's crimson eyes stared fixedly at Immortal Master Qingxu, her lips curling into an undisguised sneer filled with Killing Intent. "If not for the Young Master's mercy, based on your actions today, this seat could pull out your Divine Souls right now and roast them with Nine Netherworld Karmic Fire for seven times seven, forty-nine days!"

"I... I understand! This Junior understands!"

Immortal Master Qingxu, a grand Nascent Soul Stage Great Perfection Cultivator who awed a region of the Shenhuang Continent, now faced a "maidservant" whose cultivation was clearly only at the Peak of Core Formation, yet he was as humble as a Utility Disciple who had done something wrong.

He slammed his head heavily against the bluestone floor, blood even seeping from his forehead. "Thank you, Senior, for the grace of not killing me! Thank you, Fairy, for showing mercy! This Junior will get out of here right now! I'll take these unworthy descendants and get far away, never daring to let even the slightest sound reach the Senior's ears again!"

Having said that, Immortal Master Qingxu abruptly turned his head.

When his gaze fell upon the unconscious Saint Chu Tiankuo lying in a puddle of foul-smelling waste nearby, the fear in his eyes instantly transformed into overwhelming rage and resentment!

It was all because of this beast who was more of a liability than an asset!

Three years ago, he was blind enough to throw a living ancient sword immortal into the death prison as if he were outer Sect Trash. That was one thing; after all, that Senior had a detached nature and didn't seem to care, even treating the death prison as a secondary residence.

But today, three years later, this beast actually dared to bring people here to smash the door?!

This was pushing the Taixuan Dao Sect's thousands of years of foundation into a fiery pit!

"Someone! Wake this wretch up!" Immortal Master Qingxu roared, his voice cracking.

Two punishment Elders immediately stepped forward, and a stream of bone-chilling Spiritual Qi water slammed into Chu Tiankuo's face.

"Ah—! Demon Sovereign, have mercy! Don't kill me! I'm not a waste, I'm not..."

Chu Tiankuo woke up with a start, waving his hands frantically as more yellow and white waste seeped from his crotch. He had clearly been scared out of his wits, and his mind was no longer clear.

"You beast! Open your dog eyes and see who this seat is!"

Immortal Master Qingxu stepped forward, grabbed Chu Tiankuo's collar, lifted him into the air, and delivered a loud slap filled with Spiritual Qi!

Snap!

This slap directly knocked out half of Chu Tiankuo's teeth and forcefully brought him back to reality from the brink of madness.

“Mas... Revered Master?” Chu Tiankuo clutched his swollen cheek, looking at the murderous Immortal Master Qingxu, the Elders kneeling all around, and the peerless demoness standing at the death prison entrance looking at him as if he were a dead man.

An unprecedented despair completely submerged him.

It was over. Everything was over.

"Don't call me Revered Master! This seat has no such rebellious, death-seeking disciple like you!"

Immortal Master Qingxu's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked half-mad. Today, he had to express the Taixuan Dao Sect's most complete sincerity in front of this "Sword-Wielding Fairy" and the unfathomable Senior Lin! Otherwise, the Taixuan Dao Sect would surely perish tomorrow!

"Chu Tiankuo, the Saint of the Taixuan Dao Sect, has a corrupt heart, has recklessly used force, and has disturbed the peaceful cultivation of a Senior powerhouse. His crimes are unforgivable and intolerable by the laws of heaven!"

Immortal Master Qingxu's majestic and even slightly hurried voice echoed over the perimeter of the death prison, intentionally meant for Lin Yuan inside to hear:

"In the name of the thirty-sixth Sect Head of Taixuan, I declare that effective immediately, Chu Tiankuo is stripped of his position as Saint! He is expelled from the Sect, never to be recruited again!"

"Not only that..."

A look of ruthlessness flashed in Qingxu's eyes. He suddenly raised his right hand, fingers curved like claws, condensing violent Nascent Soul Stage Spiritual Qi, and struck Chu Tiankuo's Dantian Qi Sea without mercy!

Splat—!

"AAAAAAAGH!!!!"

Accompanied by a shrill scream like a slaughtered pig, Chu Tiankuo's eyes bulged, and large mouthfuls of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs erupted from his mouth!

The Golden Core inside his body, which he had condensed with great effort and which represented his status as a supreme Prodigy, was crushed to pieces by Immortal Master Qingxu's palm! Not only that, the violent Spiritual Qi shattered every inch of the Meridians throughout his body!

Crippled.

Completely crippled.

And he was crippled ten thousand times more thoroughly than Lin Yuan had been three years ago! Three years ago, only Lin Yuan's Dantian was shattered, but now, every possibility of Chu Tiankuo ever cultivating again was severed. Even if a Grand Unity Golden Immortal descended, they could not save his mud-like body.

"Drag him away! Throw him into the Ten Thousand Snake Cave in the back mountain! Let him fend for himself!" Immortal Master Qingxu threw the twitching Chu Tiankuo to the nearby law enforcement Elder as if he were throwing away Trash.

After doing all this, Immortal Master Qingxu didn't even have time to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

He turned around and knelt once more ten zhang away from the death prison gate. With trembling hands, he carefully took out three peerless brocade boxes wrapped in multiple layers of Seals from his personal Storage Ring.

This was his entire net worth as the Sect Head, and it even included two top-tier treasures that suppressed the Taixuan Dao Sect's Luck! But he didn't feel the slightest heartache at this moment, only endless relief. As long as these inanimate objects could appease that Senior's anger and preserve the Taixuan Dao Sect's heritage, let alone three treasures, even if he were asked to chop down the Taixuan Main Peak right now and send it in as firewood, he would not hesitate!

"May the Fairy be the judge!"

Immortal Master Qingxu held the three brocade boxes high, his voice loud and fawning as he lowered himself to the dust:

"This Junior failed in his discipline and allowed this wretch to disturb the Senior's peaceful dreams. This Junior's death would not be enough to atone for the crime! The wretch has been punished, and this Junior has specially prepared a few meager worldly items to serve as an apology and as little trinkets for the Senior to use while brewing tea to calm his nerves! I hope the Fairy will accept them on his behalf and beg the Senior to be magnanimous and forgive the Taixuan Dao Sect this once!"

At the entrance of the death prison.

Jinyue's blood-colored eyes narrowed slightly as her gaze swept over the three brocade boxes radiating astonishing Spiritual Qi fluctuations.

Even as a former Demon Sect Head who once looked down on everyone, her heart couldn't help but twitch violently when she saw the treasure light faintly emanating from the boxes.

Good heavens, this old ox-nose Qingxu really went all out!

In the first brocade box, there was a dense, inseparable aura of the Mother Qi of All Things. It was the hundred-thousand-year [earth core jade marrow] that could allow a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator to unconditionally break through a minor Realm!

In the second brocade box lay a fist-sized, pitch-black piece of strange metal shimmering with starlight. It was exactly the top-grade divine material that Artifact Refiners in the Shenhuang Continent dreamed of—[Nine Heavens Stellar Iron]!

And the third brocade box was even more ridiculous. It actually sealed a [Nine-Death Soul-Returning Grass] that had already grown nine leaves and faintly emitted the sound of a baby crying! This was a life-saving immortal medicine that could pull a person back from the King of Hell's grasp as long as they still had a single breath left!

Any one of these three items, if taken outside, would be enough to cause a bloodbath in the Shenhuang Continent and make countless old monsters fight until their heads bled.

And now, the grand Taixuan Sect Head was like a rural farmer promoting local specialties, kneeling on the ground and crying out for her to accept them, even calling them "little trinkets for the Senior to use while brewing tea to calm his nerves"!

"It seems that following the Young Master is much more promising than when I was the Demon Sect Head..."

Jinyue was extremely pleased in her heart, and her admiration for Lin Yuan was like a surging river, continuous and unending.

On the surface, she still maintained an air of extreme coldness and arrogance.

"At least you old thing still know some rules."

Jinyue snorted coldly and made a grasping motion with her left hand. A powerful suction force emerged, drawing the three priceless brocade boxes through the air and into her hand.

"Take your people and get out. Remember, within a hundred miles, if another living creature approaches the death prison and disturbs the Young Master's mood, this seat guarantees that your Taixuan Dao Sect's protective array won't be able to stop even a single strand of the Young Master's hair!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Thank you, Fairy! Thank you, Senior!"

Immortal Master Qingxu felt as if he had been granted a grand amnesty, and his heart, which had been hanging in his throat, finally settled. He kowtowed repeatedly, then scrambled to his feet. With a wave of his hand, he led the group of equally shaken Elders, turning into a dozen streaks of light and fleeing the Demon Suppressing Death Prison at ten times the speed they had arrived.

Looking at the empty perimeter of the death prison, Jinyue's lips curled into a smug smile.

She turned around, dragging that heavy dark iron chain, and walked back into the darkness of the death prison.

"Creeeeeak—Boom!"

Accompanied by a tooth-aching grinding sound, the two incredibly thick dark iron gates closed tightly under Jinyue's control, leaving not even a crack.

The entire Demon Suppressing Death Prison was once again isolated from the world, returning to a deathly silence.

...

Deep within the death prison, in the Nine Nether Sword Tomb, by the spiritual spring.

Lin Yuan was still lazily lying on the red sandalwood lounge chair, resting with his eyes closed.

Everything that had happened outside—Chu Tiankuo's screams, the Sect Head's slide into a kneel—he had seen clearly through his powerful Nascent Soul Divine Sense.

"Tsk, that old man is quite ruthless; he acted very efficiently." Lin Yuan chuckled inwardly. Staying hidden in the death prison for three years was actually quite boring. Occasionally watching this kind of drama where everyone overthinks and the villains kill each other was indeed a good diversion.

"Young Master, this servant has closed the door. That group of flies outside has been driven away."

Accompanied by a gust of fragrant wind and the sound of dragging chains, Jinyue returned to Lin Yuan's side very obediently.

She knelt on both knees and respectfully held the three brocade boxes above her head, presenting them to Lin Yuan.

"Young Master, these are three gifts of respect sent by the Taixuan Sect Head as an apology. Although they are nothing but scrap metal in the Young Master's eyes, perhaps they can be used to relieve the Young Master's boredom."

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes, his gaze sweeping over the three brocade boxes.

Others might not know the value of these three items, but since he possessed the original owner's memories, he naturally knew that these were the absolute foundation of the Taixuan Dao Sect.

He casually picked up the brocade box containing the hundred-thousand-year [earth core jade marrow] and opened the lid.

An extremely pure fragrance, even carrying a hint of the world's Origin power, instantly filled the entire Sword Tomb. Just from one sniff, Lin Yuan felt a very obvious stir in his Early Stage Nascent Soul cultivation.

At that moment, the long-awaited System notification sounded in Lin Yuan's mind like heavenly music!

[Ding! Detected hundred-thousand-year natural wonder 'earth core jade marrow', triggering Max-Level Comprehension feedback!]

[You have carefully observed the condensed form of the world's Origin Qi and gained insight into the principles of the birth of all things and the reconstruction of creation. You have had an Epiphany!]

[Congratulations, Host, for comprehending the supreme Body Refining Divine Ability—"God Elephant Prison-Suppressing Strength" (Incomplete Manual/Deducible)!]

"Boom—!"

The moment he heard this name, Lin Yuan's calm heart suddenly surged with overwhelming waves!

"God Elephant Prison-Suppressing Strength"?!

Even among the countless masterpiece web novels he had read in his past life, this Cultivation Technique was absolutely at the ceiling level!

Using Qi to guide the spirit, using the spirit to form the elephant—every movement carried the strength of a giant elephant. A person's body is composed of 840 million particles; if their potential is awakened, every tiny particle possesses the strength of a God Elephant. When all are awakened, one can rival the gods, plucking the moon and swallowing the sun in a single thought!

Although the System indicated it was only an Incomplete Manual and could currently only awaken the initial "Giant Elephant Particles," when combined with his already invincible [Eternal Immortal Sword Body], what a terrifying sight that would be?!

Who would dare to fight him in close quarters in the future? He wouldn't even need to draw his sword; with just his physical strength, a single punch could smash a top-grade defensive Magic Treasure along with the person inside into quarks!

"Good stuff! This is truly getting exactly what I needed when I needed it!"

Lin Yuan's eyes flashed with brilliant light. Without any hesitation, he directly crushed the Seal on that hundred-thousand-year [earth core jade marrow] and began to circulate the mnemonic for the newly comprehended "God Elephant Prison-Suppressing Strength."

"Inhale!"

Lin Yuan opened his mouth and, like a whale sucking in water, directly swallowed the entire piece of priceless earth core jade marrow, which would have caused outside Nascent Soul old monsters to fight frantically, into his stomach!

"Rumble—!"

The moment the jade marrow entered his stomach, it did not turn into gentle Spiritual Qi, but instead transformed into an extremely violent ancient primordial force capable of tearing the sky apart!

Under Jinyue's extremely shocked and even slightly fearful gaze...

From within Lin Yuan's seemingly thin body, an extremely dense series of terrifying booms suddenly rang out, like billions of spring thunders exploding at once!

"Roar—!"

Vaguely, the phantom of an ancient God Elephant treading on the Nine Netherworld and carrying the sky on its back flashed behind Lin Yuan! That extremely pure and ancient overbearing power, even if only a hint leaked out, pressed down on the nearby ancient malevolent sword [zhutian], causing it to emit trembling sword hums!

"One thousand!"

"Five thousand!"

"Ten thousand Giant Elephant Particles... open for me!"

Lin Yuan closed his eyes, his face flushed. Under the overbearing circulation of the "God Elephant Prison-Suppressing Strength," the hundred-thousand-year earth core jade marrow became the most perfect fuel, frantically washing over and lighting up the 840 million cellular particles in his body!

This was not just an increase in Realm, but the ultimate leap in life level!

Looking at Lin Yuan, who was in a state of violent Breakthrough, the peerless demoness Jinyue kneeling nearby was already numb with shock.

She looked at Lin Yuan, then at the other two brocade boxes containing the [Nine Heavens Stellar Iron] and the [Nine-Death Soul-Returning Grass], and suddenly felt... that the apology gifts from the Taixuan Sect Head were still too light!