Chapter 094

Chapter 94: Make a Name Across the World

After Yan Ju left, even though he had agreed to let Ye Wan Wan stay at Disciples’ Peak to heal, he still turned and told Pei Xuan what she planned. Pei Xuan listened, thought for a while, then said: “Let her do as she wishes.”

Yan Ju grew anxious and asked: “Senior brother, won’t you try to talk her out of it?”

Pei Xuan looked puzzled and asked: “Why should I?”

Yan Ju said: “She’s drawing all the trouble to herself. That’s dangerous.”

Pei Xuan nodded, a light smile on his face, and said: “I know. But it’s her choice, and I respect it. Besides,” his voice stayed calm, “didn’t she say that, this time, she has us?”

He added, quiet but firm: “Then our Heavenly One Sect must not let her down.”

Yan Ju frowned and started: “Then…”

Pei Xuan stood and looked out at the wind and snow filling the sky, then said: “Ask Liu Meng Lan this: the Dominion Dao Sect tried to kidnap our sect’s disciple. How should our Heavenly One Sect answer?”

Yan Ju fell silent: “…”

[Ask Sixth Senior Brother that? The answer is obvious!]

Inside the Spirit Link Formation, Liu Meng Lan roared: “I’ll destroy the Dominion Dao Sect right now, just wait!”

Li Ming De said: “Hold on…”

Liu Meng Lan snapped: “Sect Master Senior Brother, are you stopping me? They’ve already bullied us and even tried to take our disciples. You want to swallow this?”

“Our sect only has a few seedlings. Each one is more precious than their ancestors. And they dared to lay hands on them! That’s treating us like we have no one above us!”

Second Brother Luo Qing Feng said, deadpan: “We really don’t.”

Everyone: “…”

Liu Meng Lan huffed: “I’m so mad.”

Li Ming De said: “I won’t stop you. We have reason, and we’re in the right. If we act, we should act big. It’s time for everyone to know our Heavenly One Sect is not easy to bully.”

The Spirit Link Formation fell silent.

Liu Meng Lan scratched his head and said: “Sect Master Senior Brother, you’re acting different. I’m not used to it.”

Li Ming De chuckled and said: “I prefer peace, but we’re not afraid of trouble. Since the chance came to our door, Third Senior Brother and Fifth Junior Brother should make a trip. Take Iron Fist over and meet Sixth Junior Brother.”

Li Ming De’s tone cooled as he said: “The Dominion Dao Sect can vanish.”

The pressure of a Divine Transformation expert spread from the main peak. A soundless force rolled out. Standing atop the main peak, Li Ming De’s eyes turned cold. Bully them if you must, but touch their disciples? No.

The Spirit Link Formation stayed quiet for a long moment. At last, Boss Gu Cang Lan stepped out and said: “By Sect Master’s order.”

Everyone echoed: “By Sect Master’s order.”

Ye Wan Wan spent the third day in recovery when Li Wan Zhi rushed in to whisper: “The Dominion Dao Sect is gone.”

Ye Wan Wan’s pupils tightened as she stared at him. Many thoughts flashed through her mind: [Was it the Ye Clan? Or the person behind them? I haven’t even started digging yet. How are they already wiped out? Are there any clues left?]

Li Wan Zhi waved a hand in front of her and asked: “Why do you look so pale? Sect Master Senior Uncle took revenge for us. Sixth Senior Uncle led people and erased the Dominion Dao Sect.”

This time Ye Wan Wan could not keep her expression steady and asked: “What?”

Li Wan Zhi lowered his voice and said: “I heard this secretly. Sect Master Senior Uncle didn’t want us to know. That day, Third Senior Uncle captured some Dominion Dao Sect people. After questioning them, he learned they had set their eyes on Senior Sister Bai and on your talent. They wanted to take you both and turn you into cultivation vessels. Sect Master Senior Uncle was furious.”

“Second Senior Sister was raised by Sect Master Senior Uncle from when she was little. And you are Pei Xuan’s only disciple. They targeted you two at the same time, so the senior uncles talked it over and told Sixth Senior Uncle to go and kick their hall down.”

“Even Third Senior Uncle went.”

“They say, and this is only what I heard, that after Senior Uncle Liu arrived, he found the elders of the Dominion Dao Sect practiced dirty arts, like Evil Cultivators. They publicly notified the Under Heaven Sect that very day, then took action. Everyone in the Dominion Dao Sect at Nascent Soul or above was crippled.”

“Including the sect master. Not a single one was spared.”

“As for the junior disciples at Golden Core Stage and below, those who didn’t resist were released and told to leave the mountain.”

“In one day, the Dominion Dao Sect was gone.”

Watching Ye Wan Wan’s face, Li Wan Zhi waited a long time and then asked softly: “Did it scare you?”

He whispered: “When I first heard it, I was scared too. I never thought they would have…”

He searched for the word, and Ye Wan Wan finished for him: “Courage.”

Li Wan Zhi blinked and looked up at her. Ye Wan Wan’s eyes were clear and steady as she said: “They did the right thing.”

Li Wan Zhi’s heart trembled and he said: “I…”

Ye Wan Wan knew what he was struggling with. He hadn’t lived through the darkness of the last life. Right now, Li Wan Zhi was still a hotheaded newcomer who had just stepped into the Cultivation World.

In his view, you repay kindness and you repay hatred. That’s normal.

But wiping out a whole sect was hard for him to accept, especially when the ones who did it were the senior uncles he thought were kind and easy to talk to.

Li Wan Zhi was a little afraid.

He wanted to run again.

Because Heavenly One Sect didn’t seem like what he had imagined.

But Ye Wan Wan knew he needed to grow up.

She looked into Li Wan Zhi’s eyes and asked calmly: “If one day the Dominion Dao Sect came to Heavenly One Sect, killed every senior uncle, every senior sister, killed me, and killed Senior Brother Fang, killed everyone, and you were the only one left, would you take revenge?”

Li Wan Zhi pictured it, and his face changed.

Ye Wan Wan asked again: “Would you?”

His voice turned rough as he said: “I would!” His eyes turned red and he shouted: “Of course I would!”

When he thought of that scene more, he began to shake all over. He was truly afraid.

“I get it now. You’re right. If the senior uncles didn’t destroy them today, they would think our Heavenly One Sect is easy to bully, and they would push us harder.”

Ye Wan Wan’s voice was very soft as she said: “Yes. The senior uncles are protecting us. The Cultivation World is survival of the fittest. Our Heavenly One Sect hasn’t shown itself for a very, very long time. If our disciple was attacked and we didn’t fight back, others would think we’re weak. If the Dominion Dao Sect found a chance to stir up all the sects to attack Heavenly One Sect, then, senior brother, we would be the ones forced to flee the mountain. No, that’s not right.”

She let out a low laugh and said: “They wouldn’t be like our senior uncles and give junior disciples a chance to escape. We would have only one path: death.”

Li Wan Zhi’s eyes grew steady. He pressed his hands on Ye Wan Wan’s shoulders and said, firm and sure: “That day will not come.”

He held her gaze and asked, just as firm: “That day will not come, right?”

Ye Wan Wan covered the back of his hand with her palm and said, gentle but strong: “Yes.”

That day would not come. Because she would not let it happen.

Some things must be seized in time. If you miss them, they are gone.

Chance comes only once.

Ye Wan Wan said softly: “I understand Sect Master Senior Uncle’s goal this time. He wants to build our Heavenly One Sect’s prestige. Then we must not drag behind.”

Li Wan Zhi asked: “What should we do?”

Ye Wan Wan looked at him and said, one word at a time: “Three months from now is the Grand Sect Tournament. We will make a name across the world.”