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Chapter 258: Advise all senior brothers to write their wills as soon as possible!
"Respectfully seeing off the elder."
Xi Yao bent her waist into a respectful arc until Elder Ling Yao's suffocating pressure completely dissipated into the clouds before she straightened up.
The moment she turned around, the cautious expression on her face changed instantly, like a Sichuan opera face-changing act, into a sweet smile that made people feel like they were bathed in a spring breeze.
"Fellow junior brothers and sisters, this journey must have been exhausting, right?"
Xi Yao's voice was soft and sweet, like a poison mixed with honey, easily disarming these frightened birds.
"I am Senior Sister Xi Yao, who is in charge of guiding you. Once you're here, don't worry about anything. Although there are strict rules on Ascension Island, we treat our own people with utmost care."
These words, coupled with her incredibly deceptively innocent face, were extremely damaging.
Several young, spirited male cultivators in the crowd stared wide-eyed, their tense nerves relaxing, and some even reddening their eyes, feeling that this cold and indifferent world of cultivation finally had a trace of humanity.
Xi Yao was very satisfied with the result.
As she directed her law enforcement disciples to distribute identity badges, she slipped into the crowd like a butterfly.
A few words of concern and a few well-timed glances were enough to make these greenhorns, fresh out of school, want to show her everything they owned.
These are all resources.
On Dengxian Island, connections are a resource, and newcomers are like leeks waiting to be harvested.
"Oh, right."
Xi Yao spoke casually, her beautiful eyes darting around, her gaze sweeping over a few of the more clever-looking disciples:
"I just saw the Grand Elder and Elder Xingtian leave in a hurry, and it seemed they took two people with them? They looked to be about your age, were they from the same batch?"
These words instantly turned the previously lively atmosphere into a complete disaster, as if a bucket of liquid nitrogen had been poured over someone's head.
That's cooling in a physical sense.
The smiles on the faces of the male disciples who had just been fawning over Xi Yao froze on their skin.
The admiration and fawning in their eyes vanished instantly, replaced by a tremor that ran deep in their bones.
It's like someone telling a ghost story in the middle of the night, and just as they get to the scariest part, the lights suddenly go out.
"this……"
A young monk from the North Sea swallowed hard, making a "gulp" sound.
He glanced at Xi Yao, then at the lingering clouds overhead, and his legs began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Senior Sister Xi Yao... those two you mentioned are indeed from our batch."
"Oh?"
Xi Yao's eyes lit up.
Since they're from the same batch, they must be newcomers.
Since they are newcomers, no matter how talented they are, they are unfamiliar with the rules when they first arrive, which is the best time to manipulate them.
Her smile widened, even taking on a meaningful tone: "Looks like they have quite the talent? To be personally taken away by the Grand Elder and designated as a Dao Child, our island hasn't been this lively in years. Many of the inner sect senior brothers and sisters are eager to go and 'check up on' them."
She emphasized the word "concern".
I understand everything I understand.
This is meant to intimidate newcomers, establish rules, and squeeze money out of them.
According to the usual script, at this point, the newlyweds should agree, flatter, and even join in to kick them while they're down to show their loyalty.
But today, the script isn't right.
No one laughed.
No one echoed this sentiment.
The cultivator from the North Sea raised his head and looked at Xi Yao with an extremely strange expression.
There was no awe for his senior sister in his eyes, nor any admiration for the strong.
Only pity.
It's like watching a fool jumping around happily, unaware that he's about to fall into a meat grinder.
"Senior sister... if you mean, you want to cause trouble for those two..."
The cultivator from the North Sea forced out the words through clenched teeth, each syllable sounding as if he had used all his strength:
"Then I advise all my fellow students... to write your wills as soon as possible."
"It would be best to order a better coffin for myself, so that there's nowhere to put my body when the time comes."
Xi Yao's fingers, which were playing with a jade slip, suddenly stopped.
Her smile faltered, her eyebrows arched, and her eyes flashed with coldness and disdain.
"Junior brother, this kind of joke is not funny at all."
Xi Yao covered her mouth, letting out a few crisp but cold laughs: "Write a will? What, are they some kind of man-eating ghosts? Our Dengxian Island is full of hidden talents, what kind of monsters haven't we seen? Don't tell me you people from small places are just too naive and scared out of your wits?"
Several disciples who had been eavesdropping nearby couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Exactly! What do they take us for?"
"I think these newcomers are still reeling from the shock of the Ascension Path!"
"He's probably just a lucky ninth-level prospect who caught the eye of an elder. Is it really worth exaggerating like this?"
Laughter rose and fell.
But the expressions of these newcomers grew increasingly serious, even tragic.
They looked at this group of reckless "senior brothers and sisters" as if they were watching a bunch of lunatics dancing on a grave.
"Senior sister, you're wrong."
The cultivator from the North Sea took a step forward.
He didn't want to cause trouble, but he was even less willing to watch these idiots go to their deaths and end up dragging down the new recruits.
"They're level nine. But that doesn't matter."
The monk's voice was low, yet carried a bloody stench:
"The important thing is... they are all at the ninth level of the ultimate realm, having broken through the shackles of life!"
Extreme conditions.
These two words struck Xi Yao's heart like a heavy hammer.
The mockery on her face froze.
The surrounding laughter seemed to have been abruptly cut off by an invisible hand snapping its neck.
Extreme conditions?
That absolute ceiling that only exists in ancient books and legends, the ceiling of each major realm?
"Not only that..."
Before the group of natives could even process this bombshell, a trembling new disciple with a broken arm and his body wrapped in bandages delivered the final blow:
"That man... the one who was taken away by the Grand Elder..."
"He's on his way to immortality..."
"Transform into a dragon!"
"A real... five-clawed golden dragon!!"
Snapped.
A crisp sound.
The identity jade token that Xi Yao was about to give away fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
She was completely oblivious, her eyes wide as she stared intently at the disciple who had spoken, her lips trembling.
"What...what did you say?"
"A true dragon?!"
One of the inner sect deacons, who was responsible for taking notes, dropped his pen in fright and screamed, "Bullshit! True dragons went extinct long ago! You're talking nonsense!"
"nonsense?"
The one-armed disciple gave a bitter laugh and pointed to the sky above.
"We saw it with our own eyes!"
"With his level nine physique, he disregarded the pressure on his soul and ascended the thousandth step of the Path to Immortality in one go!"
"The moment we reached the summit, the purple-gold lightning tribulation cleaved the heavens in two! The sky split open for tens of thousands of miles; that phenomenon... was ten thousand times more terrifying than the apocalypse!"
"Elder Li said it himself... He is the only true god seed of this era of humanity!"
"You call this good luck?!"
The wind blows across Baiyu Square.
No one spoke.
Only the heavy, bellows-like breathing could be heard.
If the previous "Extreme Realm" was merely shocking, then the current "Ascending a Thousand Steps to the Top" and "The Descent of the True Dragon" directly crushed the worldviews of all the true disciples present, rubbing them repeatedly into the ground until they were reduced to a pile of dust.
A thousand steps?
The strongest disciple present had only reached the eight hundredth step!
That's not just a difference in strength.
That's a difference in dimensions!
That is the chasm between mortals and gods!
Xi Yao felt her legs go weak, and a chill ran from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head, making her shiver uncontrollably.
She was just plotting in her mind how to trip up this new "Taoist disciple," how to team up with the other senior brothers to give him a hard time, and how to get a piece of this fat meat.
Now it seems...
This is hardly a show of force.
This is clearly handing over a business card to the King of Hell—they're tired of living!
"So this is what you call...easy to bully?"
Xi Yao stiffly turned her neck to look at the few true disciples who had been laughing the loudest earlier.
Those men were already ashen-faced, their backs soaked with cold sweat, and they were trembling like leaves.
"No wonder……"
Xi Yao murmured to herself, her voice trembling with tears, "No wonder Elder Li granted him 'immunity from murder' in public..."
"No wonder he said...we should wash our necks clean..."
It turns out that, in the eyes of that true dragon...
These disciples, who usually acted high and mighty, were really just a bunch of...poultry waiting to be slaughtered.
So be it.
No need to pay compensation, no need to pay with one's life.
The news spread like a terrifying plague, centered on Baiyu Square, and then spread wildly throughout the entire Dengxian Island.
"Have you heard? The new Daoist is a True Dragon of the Ultimate Realm!"
"Climb a thousand steps?! My God, is this even human?"
"Oh no, I just cursed at him a couple of times. Should I run off the island tonight?"
"Quick! Go and find out if you've offended those new recruits! Go apologize to them right now!"
this day.
The clouds above Dengxian Island seemed to have lowered their altitude a bit.
All the true disciples trembled in fear under the shadow of the same name.
That name is—Lu Sheng.