The Demon with Holy Radiance

Yang An voluntarily returned to the Golden Wave Pool. The journey was completely unimpeded, and he was in an excellent mood.

It’s no wonder some people love to profit from war. This single event had allowed the Bow Lady to devour a massive number of souls—something that would have been utterly impossible on any other day.

The Bow Lady needed time to digest the memories from all those souls, but his confinement in the Golden Wave Pool had only one day remaining. That, of course, wouldn’t do.

’So it was only reasonable to voluntarily add some more time to his sentence.’

But what Yang An didn’t know—and didn’t care to know—was that at this very moment, both the Golden Thread Pavilion and the Great Virtue Temple were in a complete uproar.

"You’re telling me he killed everyone from Qiangui Mountain and the Great Virtue Temple all by himself?!"

Thirty Flow asked from within the Central Hall, his voice filled with incredulous shock.

Also in the hall, the Internal Affairs Elders of the Golden Thread Pavilion were at a loss for words. It wasn’t just Thirty Flow who found it hard to believe; if they hadn’t witnessed it themselves, none of them would have thought Yang An capable of such a feat.

For practitioners of the Insect Dao, killing another of their kind was no easy task. It was only possible if there was a vast difference in their Cultivation Realm, or if one’s Power of Rules was a powerful counter to the other’s.

But Yang An was different. He had killed a whole group of them.

Although his Power of Rules completely countering Qiangui Mountain’s Gu Techniques was a factor, that wasn’t what mattered. What mattered was... he had killed them instantly.

The men from Qiangui Mountain and Great Virtue Temple had been completely unable to fight back. They were all dead in an instant.

"Zhuan Yu, he was once your disciple. You must know him well, right? Why is he so powerful?"

Thirty Flow looked down at Elder Zhuan Yu, who currently wore a dazed expression, seemingly lost in thought.

As someone who had also witnessed the event firsthand, and with his past connection to Yang An, he did indeed know more than the others. But that was precisely why he was all the more shaken.

"This..."

But when it came to Thirty Flow’s question, Zhuan Yu couldn’t offer any answer at all.

When he had first accepted Yang An as his Direct Disciple, Yang An hadn’t even reached the Zombie God level. But in the blink of an eye, he had become this formidable. ’Who the hell knew what had happened to him?’

’All I did was teach him the Shell Nourishing Technique and send him to the Great Virtue Temple as a spy. Neither of those things could explain why he’s so powerful now.’

Seeing that Zhuan Yu couldn’t answer, Thirty Flow said no more. He was, however, glad that he had previously shown goodwill toward Yang An. Their relationship shouldn’t be too strained.

’As for understanding Yang An, I’ll probably have to ask the Supreme Elder.’

At that moment, another Internal Affairs Elder spoke up.

"Elder Mu also mentioned that because he indirectly caused the deaths of many of our sect members, he voluntarily accepted punishment and added another thirty days to his sentence. And... he said... not to bother him."

Thirty Flow was stunned into silence. However, he couldn’t let such a golden opportunity pass, so he immediately issued an order to his subordinates:

"Reorganize the Cultivators to reinforce the front lines! Advance on the Great Virtue Temple and press our advantage!"

"Yes, sir!"

...

"What did you say?! They’re all gone?! Say that again!"

「Meanwhile, in the Land of Great Virtue and Goodness, inside the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall.」

A dwarf, no more than a meter tall and dressed in plain clothes, stood there. On his back, he carried a fleshy growth of roughly the same length, covered by a transparent membrane. Beneath it, countless Gu Insects could be faintly seen squirming and crawling.

His name was Insect Paradox, and he was the second elder of Qiangui Mountain, leading the forces sent to support the Great Virtue Temple.

His face contorted with rage, Insect Paradox glared at the subordinate who had come to report. He didn’t suspect he had misheard; he suspected the man was lying.

The force sent to support the Great Virtue Temple included numerous Corpse Transformation and Zombie God experts, as well as a full nine from the Insect Dao. Qiangui Mountain had paid a steep price to assemble such a force. Just a moment ago, they had joined with Great Virtue Temple’s men and were crushing the Golden Thread Pavilion’s Cultivators. How could he possibly believe it when his subordinate now told him they were all gone?

"Second Elder, it’s true. A strange light suddenly erupted in the Southeast Realm, like... like a sun just appeared! By the time we rushed over, not only were the people from Great Virtue Temple gone, but our men were gone, too."

The reporting Cultivator spoke with trepidation. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn’t have believed it either, but those were the facts.

’A strange light? A sun? That doesn’t sound like something the Golden Thread Pavilion’s Supreme Elder is capable of. Besides, that old bastard is tied up dealing with the Dao of Celestial Being; it’s impossible for him to have made a move. Don’t tell me the Golden Thread Pavilion has another Immortal Platform?’

Insect Paradox could have disbelieved his subordinate, but when he extended his senses and found no trace of the auras of the men he had brought, his expression turned grim.

He turned his head to look behind him.

"Hai Shu, did you hide the truth from us?"

Before the countless towering Golden Buddha Statues in the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall, there sat a single black Lotus Platform. Hai Shu was seated quietly upon it, his eyes tightly shut.

As if sensing the question, he slowly raised his head, though his eyes remained closed. Instead, his body began to tremble in a bizarre fashion, as if something were about to emerge from within him.

"The Golden Thread Pavilion has only one Immortal Platform! It’s impossible for there to be a second."

Given how well the Great Virtue Temple knew the Golden Thread Pavilion, he was certain of this.

"However, that strange light and sun you mentioned... they do remind this old monk of someone."

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