Chapter 404 - 304: Breaking Into Biyun Hall, Slaying Zhang Guangcheng!
Chapter 404: Chapter 304: Breaking Into Biyun Hall, Slaying Zhang Guangcheng!
"Stubborn and hopeless, blinded by greed!"
Hearing this, Gu Yuan simply spoke coldly, uttering eight words.
A cesspool like the Thousand Waves Sect, he hadn’t believed it before, but now it seemed, indeed, it wasn’t a lie.
This was a complete loss of face.
The foremost noble family of the Thousand Waves Sect, is it so despicable?
Don’t the True Persons within the Thousand Waves Sect ever enforce discipline?
As Gu Yuan contemplated, his eyebrows suddenly furrowed, Divine Sense rapidly poured out, looking outside the hall.
He saw an invisible Command Sword slicing through the Void, in an extremely covert manner, approaching his great hall.
This Command Sword was formless and intangible, seemingly hidden within the Void, if not for its destination being Gu Yuan’s great hall, even with his Divine Sense, he wouldn’t have been able to discern its trajectory.
"Clang!"
However, this Command Sword existed simply to transmit a message, harboring no malicious intent, so it naturally stopped after colliding with the hall’s array, vibrating ceaselessly.
"Whoosh!"
With a wave of his grand sleeve, Gu Yuan opened the array, and the invisible Command Sword transformed into a flash of light, heading straight towards his palm.
Yet before it could approach, it was seized by an invisible magical hand.
"This is..."
The Command Sword was about the size of a palm, approximately three inches, crystal clear, with a small Jade Token hanging from it, on which two flamboyant characters were inscribed: Shenyi!
The Command Sword of Master Shenyi, a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator from the Thousand Waves Sect!
Gu Yuan’s heart instantly tightened.
But when his Divine Sense touched the Command Sword, only four small words appeared and flowed out: Act without restraint!
Act without restraint?
Gu Yuan was momentarily stunned; this seemed somewhat different from what he had expected.
"Bang!"
And as the small words flowed out, the Command Sword immediately shattered, and then three items fell down.
One of them was a silver Jade Talisman, covered with densely packed seal texts; with Gu Yuan’s current realm, just a glance made him feel dizzy.
The other was a white Jade Scroll.
Beside the Jade Scroll was a piece of grayish animal hide, upon which coarse lines outlined what seemed to be a map.
"This is..."
Seeing these three items, Gu Yuan furrowed his brow, seemingly somewhat puzzled.
But when he picked up the three items and carefully sensed them, he immediately revealed a look of realization.
"So it’s to make me the blade to cut away the decay..."
Among these three items, the silver Jade Talisman was the core array talisman of the Thousand Waves Sect’s Mountain Protection Array. With this talisman, all arrays in the Thousand Waves Sect were useless before Gu Yuan, with no array to hinder him.
The white Jade Scroll contained the pill recipe of the Thousand Waves Sect’s Tier Three Treasure Pill, "True Law Form Intention Pill".
Gu Yuan didn’t yet understand the purpose of the map on the animal hide, but with the three items in hand and the four words "act without restraint", he immediately comprehended Master Shenyi’s intention.
Perhaps even within the Thousand Waves Sect, the catastrophe of the Zhang family could no longer be tolerated?
Was the proposed sect change merely to muddy the waters and purge the toxic tumors?
A family with four Golden Cores, as the foremost noble family of the Thousand Waves Sect, does it really have such audacity?
Gu Yuan thought of many things for a moment.
But in the next instant, he smiled broadly: "It’s not my sect, why should I care?"
"Since they say act without restraint, they can’t blame me for being impolite!"
By now, he understood that the proposal for sect change wasn’t malicious, and the matter with the Zhang family wasn’t the intent of the Thousand Waves Sect.
If that’s the case, a mere Zhang family, what does he have to fear?!
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Biyun Hall, Zhang Family.
In the hall, three Golden Core cultivators of the Zhang family gathered together, drinking wine while a mermaid danced below, the lingering sound of music drifting around endlessly.
"Uncle, looking at Gu Yuan, he seems no easy mark. Even Su Chengyin was defeated by him. Are we going a bit too far with this?"
Zhang Zhengzheng, dressed in a wide robe with a Dragon Pattern Jade Pendant on his waist, had the demeanor of a noble family scion, yet at this moment, he looked somewhat worried as he spoke to Zhang Guangcheng.
"Hahaha, Zheng, you’re overthinking. No matter how strong Gu Yuan is, he’s merely Early Stage Golden Core at best. How can he trouble the Zhang family?"
"Besides, this is the Thousand Waves Sect. We can simply close our doors and make excuses. Can he really storm in?"
"If he dares to come, then he’s turning against the Thousand Waves Sect, and at that point, he’d be in the wrong!"
Zhang Zhengyang took a sip of wine, laughing heartily as he spoke.
"It’s not that I’m unwilling to keep my promise, but this Golden Seal is vital to our Zhang family’s grand plan and absolutely cannot be given up!"
"A hundred years later, that Ding Zhixiu will return and certainly challenge Ping’Er again. I miscalculated back then, and we should have given Ping’Er another Golden Seal. With three Golden Seals in hand, he would certainly surpass Ding Zhixiu, saving us the embarrassment and effort of obstructing Gu Yuan’s sect change."
"But this time, it cannot be like that again, so the Golden Seal cannot be given."
Zhang Guangcheng sighed, looking somewhat helpless.
"Aren’t there two more Golden Seals in the treasury?"
Zhang Zhengzheng asked, frowning.
"Tai’Er isn’t that young anymore and has already reached Foundation Establishment Peak. With the upcoming sect competition, to be on the safe side, this Golden Seal must be kept for Tai’Er..."
Zhang Zhengyang smiled slightly.
Seeing this, Zhang Zhengzheng sighed slightly but had nothing more to say.
Is it wrong? Indeed, the family’s grand plan cannot be delayed.
"If that’s the case, why not speak frankly with Gu Yuan and find another method to compensate him? After all, he’s a Golden Core cultivator of Cyan Peak Daoist School; we shouldn’t overly offend him, right?"
Zhang Zhengzheng hesitated for a moment before speaking again.
"Haha, precisely because he’s from Cyan Peak Daoist School do we need to obstruct him a bit, otherwise, wouldn’t the sect change benefit Ding Zhixiu?"