PHS Chapter 209 (Patreon)

Chapter 209: The Wusheng Emperor's Scripture

Upon stepping into the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets, Zhao Wusheng came face-to-face with a man in green robes seated in a chair. His temperament was gentle as jade. Holding a teacup, he looked over at him.

Their eyes met.

Zhao Wusheng dared not show arrogance and hurriedly bowed. "This junior, Zhao Wusheng, pays his respects to Senior Pavilion Master!"

"Mm." Li Yun gave a casual nod. "Have a seat."

"Many thanks, Senior."

Zhao Wusheng breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed this unfathomably mysterious Senior Pavilion Master did not show displeasure simply because he was on the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard. This allowed him to relax considerably.

If this Senior had thrown him out the moment they met, that would have been a true catastrophe.

He couldn't fight and couldn't flee. Other than awaiting death, there was nothing else.

"Rest assured," Li Yun said, glancing at Zhao Wusheng. "This Li treats all who step into the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets as equals. Whether you are a Great Emperor or an ordinary person, there is no difference in my eyes."

This was no lie.

No matter how powerful his guest was, the moment they entered the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets, their life and death were in his hands. A Great Emperor was truly no different from an ordinary person.

But when these words fell on Zhao Wusheng's ears, they carried a completely different meaning.

So... even a Great Emperor was not worthy of the Senior Pavilion Master's notice?

Zhao Wusheng composed himself, cupped his hands, and said, "Senior's strength is heaven-defying; this junior is in awe. To be honest, this junior has come today because of the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard."

"You want me to remove your name from the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard?" Li Yun asked with a faint, knowing smile.

Nothing can be hidden from Senior.

Zhao Wusheng gave a dry laugh.

For someone like him, whose hands were stained with blood, it was impossible to appear before the world as openly as other cultivators.

Once he revealed the slightest clue, he would inevitably face the endless pursuit of those from the righteous path.

Right now, the only way to break this deadlock was to have his name disappear from the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard. Once his name was gone, the world would assume he was dead. If he were a little more careful in the future, he should avoid major trouble.

"If that is your thought, you still have time to leave. A moment later, and I'm afraid you won't be able to." Li Yun said casually.

"Senior, what do you mean by that?"

A look of astonishment crossed Zhao Wusheng's face.

For a moment, he couldn't quite grasp his meaning.

"Three hundred years ago, you killed an elder of the Primal Beginning Sacred Land, did you not?" Li Yun lifted his teacup, took a sip, and spoke in a slow, measured tone.

"Yes..." Zhao Wusheng nodded.

If that had been a secret in the past, it was no longer. His entry on the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard already included this information.

By now, the Primal Beginning Sacred Land had likely received the news.

In the worst case, the people from the Primal Beginning Sacred Land might already be on their way to the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets.

"Then did you know that the elder you killed was, in fact, the son of a Saint King Ancestor from the Primal Beginning Sacred Land?" Li Yun set down his teacup and said softly. "As the saying goes, if you don't want anyone to know, don't do it. You killed their elder; it is only reasonable that they would seek revenge. In a short while, the people from the Primal Beginning Sacred Land will arrive in Great Desolate City."

Zhao Wusheng was speechless.

If the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard hadn't appeared, the matter of him killing the Primal Beginning Sacred Land's elder could have remained hidden longer, perhaps even for his entire life.

Unfortunately, a single Heavenly Sin Leaderboard had dredged up his entire past.

"Nothing in this world can escape my eyes, including your innermost thoughts," Li Yun said with an ambiguous tone.

At these words, Zhao Wusheng froze. Thinking of the dissatisfaction he had just felt toward the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard, a cold sweat broke out across his body. Although he felt no dissatisfaction toward the Master of the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets, to have an issue with the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard was as good as having an issue with the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets itself.

"Don't worry, I will not kill you," Li Yun stated.

For now, Zhao Wusheng's whereabouts were still useful. Killing him would be easy, but if his name were to disappear from the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard, the subsequent profits would be greatly diminished.

"You cultivate the Emperor's Scripture left behind by the Great Emperor Wusheng of old, which prioritizes the Way of Slaughter. After you reached the Saint realm, you began to look down on ordinary living beings. The others who have died at your hands—have you ever cared about their will?" Li Yun said with indifference.

Having been in the cultivation world for so long and witnessed the deaths of countless people—even the billion lives of the Bloodfiend Clan had been annihilated because of a single piece of his information—his heart was no longer as soft as it had been in the beginning.

It was just the Heavenly Sin Leaderboard.

If he were truly ruthless, he could release leaderboards for all the major Sacred Lands and factions. At that time, the factions ranked at the top would surely covet the positions of those who weren't on the list.

Before, they wouldn't act because they were unsure if their opponents had any surviving ancestors. Now that they knew their enemy's trump cards, who could possibly hold back?

One only needed to look at Ye Chen, ranked second on the Prodigy Leaderboard, who had defeated the unranked Jade Pivot Sacred Son in a single move.

The same logic would still apply between the major factions.

At that point, with the major factions at each other's throats, would he have to worry about scraping together Heavenly Secrets Points?

He would only need to sit in the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets and sell the methods to break each faction's guardian formations to make a fortune.

"Senior knows of the Wusheng Emperor's Scripture?!" Zhao Wusheng's head shot up, a look of utter disbelief flashing in his eyes.

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