PHS Chapter 102 (Patreon)

Chapter 102: The Five Elders of Mount Shang

Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets.

The crowd that had gathered outside had gradually dispersed.

With the threat to their lives lifted, Great Desolate City returned to its former atmosphere, though with slightly fewer people. But that wasn't important.

Before long, people from the surrounding areas would gather once again.

After all, within a radius of a hundred thousand li, Great Desolate City wasn't the largest city. Still, it was definitely the safest—all because of the addition of one Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets!

Especially after Li Yun had taken action.

The news swept through the cultivation world like a hurricane.

To be able to summon heavenly retribution and then block the perception of the Heavenly Dao, thus dispersing the retribution—could such a person be ordinary?

One must know that an ordinary cultivator couldn't even summon and dismiss a heavenly tribulation at will, let alone heavenly retribution.

This was like playing with the Heavenly Dao itself!

Everyone who heard this news couldn't help but exclaim: 

As expected of the Master of the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets! 

As expected of someone who could divine heavenly secrets!

Inside the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets.

Li Yun reclined on a long chair, his fingers tapping lightly against the armrest, the rhythmic sound echoing through the main hall.

"Shimmering Light Sacred Lord..."

The words fell from Li Yun's lips.

A trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.

From initially sending people to capture him, it had now escalated to setting up formations at his doorstep?

First, the two from the Tiangang Sect, then Leng Qianqiu. He had allowed Yang Qiu to claim a Heaven and Earth Creation Pill, but it seemed the Shimmering Light Sacred Lord hadn't learned his lesson at all.

"And the Heavenly Demon Palace..."

Li Yun's brow furrowed slightly.

This power was unfamiliar—he had never heard of it. But to appear alongside the Shimmering Light Sacred Lord, it surely wasn't simple. The dignified Shimmering Light Sacred Lord had stooped to consorting with practitioners of the demonic path.

If this news were to spread, it would surely drop countless jaws.

In a later age, it would probably trend at the top of every discussion.

No doubt a crowd of onlookers would gather to witness the spectacle.

"Hmm..."

Li Yun sat up, having made his decision. He would release this news first—it was free information anyway, costing no Heavenly Secrets Points.

His hand had just lifted, not yet having placed the news on the stone tablet outside, when a young figure walked in from beyond the entrance.

"May I ask if the Master of the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets is present?"

"Someone from the Blazing Flame Sacred Land?"

Li Yun lowered his hand. He glanced at the person's information and said faintly, "Is this about the matter of the Blazing Flame Sacred Lord?"

"Hmm??"

Xi Xiangnan froze.

He had used a Great Teleportation Talisman to travel directly from the Blazing Flame Sacred Land to Great Desolate City. He hadn't even opened his mouth, yet the Master of the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets seemed to already know something.

He asked excitedly, "Did our Sacred Lord come to the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets?"

"No."

Li Yun shook his head.

Xi Xiangnan's expression stiffened.

"I can only say that your Sacred Lord came at an unfortunate time. He encountered a Saint King-level killing formation. No matter how talented he was, his strength remained only at the Sacred Lord level." Li Yun glanced at Xi Xiangnan and said softly, "A Sacred Lord-level cultivation entering a Saint King-level killing formation—I needn't tell you the outcome."

"A Saint King-level killing formation?"

Xi Xiangnan's brow furrowed deeply as he asked in confusion, "Senior means that someone set up a killing formation and used it to murder our Sacred Lord?"

"Correct."

Li Yun nodded and gestured outside. "If you don't believe me, you can go out and ask. Nearly everyone in Great Desolate City knows about it."

"The Pavilion Master jests. With the reputation of the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets, I naturally believe you," Xi Xiangnan said.

He had come in haste and hadn't had time to inquire about what had transpired in Great Desolate City. But he reasoned that with the status of the Master of the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets, there would be no reason to deceive him on such a matter.

What puzzled him was that he hadn't sensed the slightest trace of a formation on his way here.

Logically, that shouldn't be the case. If a formation had existed, even after being broken, remnants should remain. There should be formation patterns lingering in the sky—they couldn't disappear so completely.

"The formation was destroyed by me."

Li Yun glanced at him and continued, "Naturally, you cannot sense its aura."

"Destroyed?"

Xi Xiangnan was dumbstruck.

In that moment, he even forgot that his thoughts had been read.

A Saint King-level formation, destroyed? What kind of strength was that? Even a Great Saint probably couldn't accomplish such a feat, right?

Could he be a Quasi-Emperor?

He desperately wanted to ask: since the Pavilion Master possessed such overwhelming strength, why hadn't he saved their Sacred Lord?

But he didn't voice the question.

This world was filled with powerful individuals who acted according to their own will. The Master of the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets was clearly such a person.

He had come to discover who had set up the formation. If he were to question the Pavilion Master about why he hadn't intervened, then everything would be for naught.

Far from finding the murderer, he would also offend the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets.

As an elder of the Blazing Flame Sacred Land, he would naturally never do something so foolish.

"Does the Pavilion Master know who set up the formation?" Xi Xiangnan asked.

"I do," Li Yun replied.

"I humbly request that you please—"

Xi Xiangnan was about to speak when he suddenly thought of something. With a flip of his hand, two bottles of Sacred Lord-level pills appeared. He offered them respectfully and said, "I humbly request that the Pavilion Master please enlighten me."

"Of course."

Li Yun's smile grew considerably warmer. He accepted the pills and slowly spoke.

"The Five Elders of Mount Shang!"

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