Chapter 349: The Witch Moon God's Targeting, Unifying the Three Sects, Discussion Conference

Purple Luo Heavenly Venerate was startled to see Zhao Xing conversing with the Earth Puppet. Could he really communicate with it? Was the Earth Puppet capable of communication at all?

Chen Song, Peng Bo, and Zhang Liang exchanged bewildered glances. This was truly beyond their comprehension; they certainly didn't know the language of the Jixi Path.

When Zhao Xing returned and began conferring with King Shenluo and the others, Purple Luo Heavenly Venerate felt a sense of foreboding. Zhao Xing and his companions kept casting glances in their direction, as if plotting some sinister scheme!

"Let's withdraw first!" Purple Luo Heavenly Venerate immediately gave a decisive order, telling his disciple, True Person Shuiyun, to lead their group of several dozen people away from the Earth Puppet's vicinity.

He was already traumatized; this individual was adept at exploiting loopholes and manipulating authority. They had been thoroughly swindled before in Guteng Royal City. Purple Bone Heavenly Venerate's tragic past was still vivid in his mind, making him extremely cautious. He immediately led his people towards the exit.

"Fellow Daoist, please wait!" Just then, a voice echoed from behind them. Purple Luo Heavenly Venerate stiffened and ran even faster.

However, four disciples fell behind, remaining on the plaza. "Protector Shi San, what are you doing?" True Person Shuiyun urged in a low voice, "Hurry up and go!"

Protector Shi San and the other three were bewildered. It wasn't that they didn't want to leave, but a mark had appeared in front of them, making it impossible to exit the plaza. "Elder, Master, we can't move!"

"What's happening?" Purple Luo Heavenly Venerate, seeing the marks on the four, was greatly alarmed. "A voice appeared in our ears, roughly saying that if we leave the plaza, we will die."

"No, we've been challenged," Shi San, being of a higher realm, listened carefully to the voice of the Grand Dao and quickly understood what had transpired. "Challenged? What does that mean?" Purple Luo Heavenly Venerate asked, watching Shi San from outside the plaza.

Shi San's face was filled with shock: "It means we are now all disciples of the Jixi Path, and those four from Great Zhou have initiated a True Heir Challenge against us four fellow disciples." "True Heir Challenge?" Chen Liang and the other two were utterly confused and instinctively recoiled. Purple Luo Heavenly Venerate's expression was grim; he sensed deep trouble.

Before he could grasp the situation further, King Shenluo, Ye Yukong, Cui Chengzhi, and Ji Yun from Great Zhou all made their move. "Boom!" The four unleashed their full power, each engaging their marked target, beginning the True Heir Challenge. Shi San and the other three were utterly stunned.

Even for a challenge, shouldn't it be somewhat normal? Among these four, the strongest was Shi San, who had only just entered the early Heavenly Fate realm. Yet, the Great Zhou contingent consisted of individuals who had perfected the Life Palace realm, cultivated domains, or mastered strange and arcane spells. How were they supposed to fight?

"This isn't right, I don't want to enter the True Heir Hall..." Shi San shouted at the Earth Puppet, finally grasping the full meaning of the Grand Dao's voice. A cross-realm challenge to prove oneself and enter the True Heir Hall? But he had no desire for a cross-realm challenge!

"I surrender! I surrender!" Shi San yelled, looking at the charging King Shenluo. "Don't come near me, I'm not fighting!" Unfortunately, the Earth Puppet was completely unresponsive to his pleas.

King Shenluo's expression was peculiar; why did Shi San think *he* was the one undertaking a cross-realm challenge? Well, it made sense—someone had to be. King Shenluo extended his sleeve cannon, and a fiery red aurora pierced through Shi San.

Unexpectedly, Shi San displayed an incredible will to survive, dodging the vital point at the last moment. Only half of his shoulder was gone; his head remained untouched.

"King Shenluo, finish this quickly," Zhao Xing urged in a low voice. The sleeve cannon was merely for clearing minor targets; Shi San was in the Heavenly Fate realm, so he should at least use the Five Viscera Cannon.

King Shenluo instantly felt ashamed; a mere minion had actually made him lose face in front of the Grand Minister of Agriculture!

"Click, click, click." Lights immediately emerged from King Shenluo's chest and abdomen, and pointers resembling a compass rotated above Shi San's head. "Five Absolutes Shenluo Array!"

Above Shi San's head, five illusory Shenluo figures appeared, and five beams of light enveloped him, forming a cage. *Buzz.* Then the lights instantly converged, and Shi San was immediately sliced to pieces.

Meanwhile, Ye Yukong, facing a third-rank opponent, didn't even draw his sword; a casual burst of sword energy was enough to instantly dispatch his challenger.

Ji Yun, the Life Official, employed a curse-killing spell. Zhao Xing noted its resemblance to the blood-character curse-killing spell that Blood Spirit Venerate had once used against him. However, Ji Yun's featured golden characters; change the color, and it would become a unique and magnificent spell of Great Zhou!

Cui Chengzhi flung a small, willow-leaf-shaped knife that moved with lightning speed. His opponent fled across the plaza, but by the time the willow-leaf knife drew near, they couldn't react. Cui Chengzhi's method of killing could be described as mesmerizing. As the willow-leaf knife danced, a skeleton suddenly emerged from within the opponent's flesh.

The flesh and skeleton were astonishingly separated by the willow-leaf knife's cuts! Then a soul appeared on the bones, looking as if it had created a double image. One layer was the physical body, another the skeleton, and the third the life soul.

"The great physicians of the Military Realm are so meticulous even when killing," Zhao Xing muttered to himself. "Truly perverse." With this, all four had completed their task of entering the True Heir Grand Hall.

At this point, the Earth Puppet spoke to the four. "What is it saying?"

"The Earth Puppet is congratulating you," Zhao Xing translated, "for completing the cross-realm challenge, proving yourselves, and now being able to become true disciples of the Jixi Path." The four felt no excitement or sense of accomplishment, only absurdity.

If even the participants found it absurd, the people from the Corpse Puppet Sect and the Four Extremes Sect found it even more outrageous. "Cross-realm challenge... what kind of ridiculous rule is this?"

"It's too strange," someone remarked. "Can you really enter just by killing someone of a lower cultivation realm?" "Senior Brother," Peng Bo said, glancing at the members of the Corpse Puppet Sect, "the only ones here below our cultivation level are the Corpse Puppet Sect disciples." Chen Song's eyes also narrowed.

After Zhao Xing and his companions entered, the exasperated Purple Luo Heavenly Venerate finally noticed that Chen Song and the other two were also looking at his group strangely. Even his own disciple, True Person Shuiyun, seemed to be contemplating something. Compared to achieving a breakthrough, what did killing a few disciples matter?

Zhao Xing hadn't completed a cross-realm challenge, so he couldn't enter and waited outside. However, King Shenluo possessed a secondary ring, which allowed for communication.

After King Shenluo and the other three entered, a fight suddenly erupted outside between the Four Extremes Sect and the Corpse Puppet Sect. "Chen Song, what are you doing!" "Peng Bo, how dare you ambush me!" "Ah—"

Zhao Xing observed with cold detachment as they slaughtered each other.

Just as King Shenluo and the other three entered the ruined palace to seize the world's bounty, in the distant south, atop an ancient sacred mountain, within a temple...

A young man in a pristine white Daoist robe stood atop the high mountain, gazing north. He had a baby face, but his eyes were incredibly deep, as if the entire world were reflected within them. The white-robed youth possessed a unique aura; Tian Gui, observing his back, felt as though he were gazing upon the entire world.

He was Wuyue God, the supreme being of the entire Southern Barbarian lands; even Ke God, Purple Dragon God, and Nine Nether God held positions beneath him. This was Tian Gui's third visit to the Wuyue Temple. As long as Tian Gui could remember, Wuyue God had appeared this way. Tian Gui was now eight hundred years old, yet Wuyue God still maintained his youthful appearance.

There were nine other beings like Tian Gui, totaling ten Great Sky Shamans, all nurtured by Wuyue God. Tian Gui was merely the youngest and weakest among them.

"The wicked path of Jixi is about to be erased," Wuyue God's voice echoed ethereally. Tian Gui heard Wuyue God's first sacred decree. "I shall act; inform the others not to go." "Yes, I obey