Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

‘Could it be that these people are all Brother Yang's enemies? No, in order to protect Brother Yang, I must not reveal his whereabouts.’

Amidst the surprise, Song Lin suddenly thought of something. After pondering for a moment, he shook his head and said, “I have been guarding here, but I haven't seen Yang Ming come out, so he might still be inside.”

“What? Still not out?”

Hearing Song Lin's lie, the excitement on everyone's faces immediately dimmed, and they smiled bitterly as if quite disappointed.

Looking at the expressions of the crowd, Song Lin felt a little surprised, because they didn't seem to be enemies with Chen Tian.

After thinking for a while, Song Lin cupped his hands again and said, “May I ask you fellow Daoists, has Yang Ming committed some heinous crime, that you are chasing him so closely, wanting to seek revenge?”

“Revenge? Haha… Hahahaha…” Hearing Song Lin's words, the brocade-robed old man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter. The others also smiled wryly upon hearing this.

Looking at their strange appearance, Song Lin became even more curious and couldn't help but ask, “Why are you laughing, fellow Daoist? Did I say something wrong?”

“Wrong! Terribly wrong!” After a long while, the brocade-robed old man stopped laughing and explained, “Actually, we have no grudges with Yang Ming. In fact, if we're being honest, we should thank him for our safe escape.”

“That's right! We really should thank Fellow Daoist Yang!”

“If it weren't for Fellow Daoist Yang, we would have died long ago!”

The others nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, the doubts in Song Lin's heart grew stronger, and he frowned and said, “Since Yang Ming has done you a favor, why are you chasing after him now?”

“Hey, I think you've misunderstood.” The brocade-robed old man shook his head self-deprecatingly and said, “The reason we are chasing Yang Ming is to implore him to join our sect, but our temple is too small to accommodate a great Buddha like him. I'm afraid we are not destined to be together.”

“Alas…”

As soon as the brocade-robed old man said this, everyone around him also sighed.

However, after hearing these words, Song Lin was dumbfounded. He originally thought that these people were chasing Chen Tian to seek revenge, but he didn't expect that after all this commotion, these people just wanted to implore Chen Tian to join their sect.

This astonishment caused by the huge contrast immediately left Song Lin stunned in place, unable to speak for a long time.

However, after slightly recovering his senses, a strong sense of shock surged in Song Lin's heart. He guessed in amazement, what exactly had Chen Tian done to cause such a huge sensation?

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It should be known that those who could enter the Demonic Ruins were not ordinary people, but powerful cultivators with cultivation bases of at least the Transformation Spring Realm.

And the scale of three hundred people was enough to shake the entire cultivation world.

Because this matter was too important, once it was publicized, it would surely cause the world to be turbulent and people's hearts to be unstable. Therefore, the Immortal Cultivation Alliance and the Icebound Demonic Domain rarely reached an agreement and decided to temporarily seal off the matter, forbidding anyone from mentioning it.

Therefore, the outside world knew very little about what happened in the Demonic Ruins this time.

Of course, the lack of information flow would also lead to some ridiculous and laughable rumors.

For example, some people rumored that an ancient demon appeared in the Demonic Ruins, and it killed all the missing cultivators, and took out their hearts and livers to devour them raw.

Others rumored that the missing cultivators did not die, but found a paradise-like place and hid inside to cultivate in peace.

For a time, many different versions circulated in the cultivation world, half true and half false, half false and half true, with truths and falsehoods mixed, nonsense, and everything else.

However, some versions mentioned a few rather intriguing things.

The first thing was about Lanfang Sect's genius, Li Qianyun.

As a heavenly daughter who had cultivated to the Foundation Establishment Realm in just two hundred years, the most dazzling genius on the Qian Yuan Continent, Li Qianyun's every move was actually the focus of everyone's attention.

However, Li Qianyun's encounter this time greatly surprised some people who knew the inside story.

Li Qianyun did not come out of the Icebound Demonic Domain with everyone else, but used her natal magic weapon to forcibly tear apart the void and directly appeared on Fairy Peak, where Lanfang Sect was located.

However, according to some eyewitnesses, the disciples of Lanfang Sect were gathered in front of the square that day, listening to the teachings of their Sect Master. At this moment, the wind and clouds changed above their heads, and a strong wind rose. After all the abnormal phenomena disappeared, a delicate body fell straight down from the sky, smashing a large pit in the hard ground.

Everyone thought that a strong enemy had come to attack, and they were about to draw their swords and step forward when someone suddenly discovered that the person who fell from the sky was actually Li Qianyun, who had entered the Demonic Ruins to search for treasures.

However, at that time, Li Qianyun no longer had her former prestige. Her eyes were tightly closed, her lips were white, and her face was bloodless, as pale as paper. What was even more surprising was that Li Qianyun's left arm seemed to be poisoned, and it had become scorched black, like charcoal.

It could be said that at that time, Li Qianyun was only one step away from death!

The number one genius of the Qian Yuan Continent had actually fallen to such a state. This news immediately shocked the entire Lanfang Sect's high-level officials, and some old ancestors who had been in seclusion for many years also came out one after another. Finally, gathering everyone's strength, they rescued Li Qianyun, who was on the verge of death.

However, it was said that although the person was saved, because the injury was too serious, Li Qianyun's cultivation base directly declined by two realms, from the Coagulation Sea Realm back to the Transformation Spring Realm. Furthermore, she had sequelae, which caused great damage to her future cultivation.

A month later, the Sect Master of Lanfang Sect personally came forward and issued a kill order to all cultivators, to kill a person named Yang Ming, and promised that whoever could kill Yang Ming could go to Lanfang Sect to receive one hundred immortal pills and three immortal-grade magic treasures, and could even become Li Qianyun's husband!

As soon as this news came out, the world was shaken. Not to mention how tempting the one hundred immortal pills and three immortal treasures were, the last condition alone was enough to make people's hearts flutter.

Who was Li Qianyun? She was the number one heavenly daughter that everyone envied!

And if they could marry her and cultivate together, wouldn't that be the best thing in the world?

For a time, everyone was eager to try and planned to give it a try.

But just as people were excited, suddenly, an unexpected situation appeared!