"Do three of you dare to act on behalf of the Three Bodies Sect against our Maidens Sect?"
After being surrounded by an inverted ambush.
The Grand Elder of the Maidens Sect, dressed in red, glared furiously and fixed her gaze harshly on the three demonic cultivators.
The three remained silent. All of them were at the early stage of the Divine Transformation Realm.
Such power, for other cultivators, would be considered invincible.
But for a monstrous sect like the Maidens Sect, it really wasn't much.
If it weren't for the forced restriction placed upon them that controlled them.
Wouldn't they prefer not to get involved in this mess?
Seeing that the three remained silent, the Grand Elder of the Maidens Sect turned her gaze to the three from the Treasure Tower and spoke.
"Does the Treasure Tower really want to be our enemy? After today, our two sects will have no more truce."
"Wasn't it you who first caused us trouble? These goods belong to our Treasure Tower. Do you have justification to hijack our merchant ships?"
An Elder from the Treasure Tower, who had already reached the middle stage of the Divine Transformation Realm, let out a cold laugh.
This response put the Maidens Sect in an awkward position.
The Elder of the Maidens Sect quickly changed her tone.
"Today, we come for Tang Yu. We have no ill intentions toward the Treasure Tower. If you help us now, the Maidens Sect will offer you all the resources, like the Three-Month Water, that we will produce over the next three thousand years for you to sell, with only a 30% profit."
The 30% profit—this offer was already quite high.
The previous cooperation between the two sects was that the Maidens Sect provided the goods.
The Treasure Tower handled selling them in other regions of the Nine Clouds Continent, with the profits split 70% for them and 30% for the Maidens Sect.
And now, adding the resources of three thousand years, it was certainly an enticing offer.
However, the three Elders of the Treasure Tower remained unmoved.
Clearly, they didn't accept the Maidens Sect's proposal.
The leader of the sect had said: they only had to continue cooperating with Tang Yu for another five hundred years.
After five hundred years, the Seven Great Sects in the south of the Nine Clouds Continent would be no more.
Only the Treasure Tower and the Hehua Sect would remain.
"Is there truly nothing else to negotiate?"
The Elder of the Maidens Sect turned pale with rage.
The moment she finished speaking, the four charged toward Tang Yu, not hesitating to burn their own blood to maximize their power.
If the Treasure Tower bet this strongly, it must be for Tang Yu.
If they allowed this individual to continue growing, the future of the Maidens Sect would be at risk.
With the mentality of sacrificing four for one.
As they rushed toward Tang Yu, the four didn't forget to send a message to Ning Qingyan, urging her to be ready to escape at any moment.
If the moment of life or death came, they would choose to self-destruct to break the formation in this place.
Upon hearing the words of the four Elders, Ning Qingyan felt her heart unbalance and even experienced a sense of despair.
Knowing that staying here only meant death, Ning Qingyan could only make an effort to turn and flee toward the direction she had come from.
Reaching the edge of the battlefield and being stopped by the formation, she began to attack continuously in an attempt to break it.
Meanwhile, in the center of the battlefield, more than ten great masters in the Divine Transformation Realm were already fighting in total chaos.
The four from the Maidens Sect resisted the attacks of all, advancing toward Tang Yu.
However, faced with so many obstacles, two Elders of the Maidens Sect at the early stage of the Divine Transformation Realm couldn't hold on any longer.
One of them was struck dead on the spot, her soul completely destroyed.
The other, before dying, chose to self-destruct, managing to disrupt the rhythm of the others' attacks.
Seizing this opportunity, the other two increased their speed explosively, and after advancing rapidly to only five meters from Tang Yu, they cast their spells.
The space within a hundred-meter radius around them instantly shattered.
Tang Yu, trapped inside, became a cloud of blood at that very moment.
Seeing that Tang Yu had finally died, the two didn't have time to rejoice.
Suddenly, they realized that the blood cloud left by Tang Yu transformed into an ancient talisman that emitted a faint golden light.
"This isn't his body!"
Recovering from their surprise, the two were filled with rage.
Where had that boy gotten that ancient talisman? He had hidden it right before their eyes!
Just as they tried to locate Tang Yu's position, the ancient talisman suddenly exploded.
Several sharp sword waves emerged and headed toward the two, who were about to be reached by them.
The sword was so sharp, and the speed so fast.
At such close range, the two didn't have time to dodge.
Already heavily injured, they received the impacts of several sword waves, leaving them severely wounded in an instant.
"Is this… Meng's sword?"
Realizing the energy of the sword, the Elder dressed in red had her eyes wide open.
Wasn't Meng the one who was in love with Meiyun?
He had even tried to assassinate Tang Yu twice for Meiyun.
Why was his sword now in Tang Yu's hands?
Could it be…?
When they thought of this terrifying possibility, they no longer had time to transmit the news to Fang Meiyun.
The numerous great masters in the Divine Transformation Realm had already formed a siege and began attacking together.
When a formation net covered the area, the two cultivators at the middle stage of the Divine Transformation Realm were forced to self-destruct, breaking many of the formations and opening a path for Ning Qingyan to escape.
When the formation was destroyed, Ning Qingyan, with tears in her eyes, decided to flee.
Escaping hundreds of kilometers away, Ning Qingyan suddenly stopped.
She looked back and saw that a fleeting light was already less than three kilometers away from her.
Seeing that the pursuer's speed was much faster than hers, and knowing she couldn't escape, Ning Qingyan decided to stop running.
Although she was going to die, she wanted to do so with some dignity, just like the other Elders.
But when she saw that it was Tang Yu who was catching up to her, she wiped her tears and looked coldly at him.
"What does this mean?"
She thought the one who would catch her would be one of the cultivators at the Divine Transformation stage, but she didn't expect it to be Tang Yu himself.
Didn't he worry that she might have ways to escape?
Or did he have some hidden purpose? Like... doing something to her...?
"What do I mean? Have you misunderstood something again?"
Tang Yu had already guessed what that fool was thinking and quietly enjoyed the moment.
Did she still fear that he saw her as a refinement furnace?
He thought she was cute, but with her constitution, if he did that, it would probably be him who would be left powerless.
However, Tang Yu stopped to think.
If he carried the elf who blocks, would everything be safer?
After all, in his homeland, he had said that if he carried her, it wouldn't count as that.
Seeing Tang Yu distracted, Ning Qingyan didn't attempt a surprise attack. She looked coldly at him and said:
"You can kill me or torture me, do whatever you want, but don't think of anything else."
"Why do you always look at me like that? Am I that kind of person? In the Hehuan sect, we follow a monogamous marriage system; we only have one spiritual partner, it's not as messy as you think."
"If you had put a little more effort into understanding who I am, you would have realized that your malicious assumptions are completely the work of a vile mind."
Tang Yu scolded loudly.
If only this woman knew a bit more about him, she would realize that he wasn't the person she thought.
He was even stranger than she thought!
"...."
Ning Qingyan was speechless in the face of Tang Yu's words.
Even after thinking about it, it seemed that the Hehuan sect really promoted joint cultivation between spiritual partners, let alone taking numerous female cultivators.
"What exactly do you want from me?"
Realizing that the conversation had taken a different turn, Ning Qingyan returned to the main topic.
Her mood was still sad.
Those four Elders had always taken good care of her, but today they had left, leaving her heartbroken and unable to accept it.
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in killing you. Everyone pays their debts, and with your strength, you wouldn't be the one doing the killing today. If not, I wouldn't be here talking to you calmly."
Tang Yu smiled and continued:
"I came to see you to remind you of something. You can tell Fang Meiyun about what happened today, but don't tell her that the Treasure Tower also acted."
"Why?"
"Because it's unnecessary. The Treasure Tower was just transporting goods, I'm the one who tricked them, making them travel alongside the ship to catch the big fish of your sect."
"They have no enmity with your sect, and if this is discovered, it will only create enemies for you, which isn't good for anyone."
Tang Yu explained with a smile.
Hearing Tang Yu, Ning Qingyan fell into silence.
The death of the four Elders was directly related to the Treasure Tower.
But if they really broke with the Treasure Tower, it would be very bad for the Maiden Sect.
After a while of silence, Ning Qingyan, with a complex expression, asked:
"What are you trying to tell me with all this?"
"It has no hidden purpose. The Treasure Tower was deceived by me, I don't want to drag them into this, that's why I told you."
"It's like the enmity between Fang Meiyun and me has nothing to do with you. I won't blame you for that, you're a good person. Although we can't be friends, we don't need to be enemies."
Tang Yu smiled faintly.
Ning Qingyan didn't know what to feel for a moment.
But thinking of the death of the Elders, she gritted her teeth and said:
"Good and evil cannot coexist. Today, several of my Elders died at the hands of your Hehuan sect. We can only be enemies."
"Good and evil cannot coexist? Who's good and who's evil? Is my Hehuan sect evil? In the area we control, all mortals can live peacefully. We're not burning, killing, or looting around."
"If being against the Maiden Sect is evil, then you are the real hypocrites."
"And as for the death of your Elders, the killer always dies. If they hadn't died today, it would have been me."
"From the beginning, all the enmity between our Hehuan sect and the Maiden Sect was caused by Fang Meiyun. Why don't you ask her why she publicly humiliated me? Was it because I joined the Hehuan sect?"
Tang Yu no longer spoke politely, his tone became colder.
With this speech, Ning Qingyan was once again paralyzed.
She had always been righteous, and had firmly believed that the Maiden Sect was a just sect, and her master was a just leader.
But today, hearing Tang Yu's words, she was forced to admit that what he said had some truth.
Even while in isolation, she had started to wonder if her master also made mistakes.
Seeing Ning Qingyan standing, deep in thought, Tang Yu took the opportunity to say one more thing.
"I'm treating you politely because you are very much like a friend of mine, who was also righteous like you. Unfortunately, her righteousness was taken advantage of by those around her, making many mistakes, and she ended up dead."
"Blind justice is foolish. Don't hesitate to think about what is right and what is wrong. Will you follow the path of your heart or the one others have prepared for you?"
With those words, Tang Yu turned and left.
Leaving Ning Qingyan, with her heart conflicted, standing in the same place, reflecting on what he had said.
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