Chapter 296: Gathering of Top-Tier Experts, The Three-Year Pact!
Lin Fan watched calmly as Tian Yuzi and Di Yuzi appeared, his expression unchanged.
A flash of killing intent surged in Di Yuzi's eyes as he barked,
"You little bastard, hand over Ren Yuzi's nascent spirit!"
Lin Fan said flatly,
"Yelling like that? You'll scare me."
As soon as his words fell, Lin Fan activated the Flame Ancestral Symbol. Crimson flames surged from his palm, engulfing Ren Yuzi's nascent spirit!
"AHHH—!"
Ren Yuzi's nascent spirit shrieked in agony as it was scorched.
Though he had once been a Reincarnation Stage powerhouse, in this weakened state, he had no way to resist.
"You seek death!"
Di Yuzi roared. He raised a pale hand, unleashing a massive black-and-white energy beam infused with the power of life and death. It formed into a colossal finger that tore through space, bearing down toward Lin Fan.
The might behind the attack warped the air. The entire city trembled.
Everyone watching felt their scalps go numb.
But just as the beam landed—
It struck only Lin Fan's afterimage.
The real Lin Fan had already vanished, reappearing hundreds of meters away with Ren Yuzi's nascent spirit in hand.
"If you want to kill me, you'll have to try harder."
He smiled.
"As for this spirit… I might hand it over. But first, Yuan Gate needs to make me a deal."
Tian Yuzi raised a hand, stopping Di Yuzi from attacking again.
"What deal?" he asked coolly.
"For the next three years," Lin Fan said,
"you two are forbidden from personally attacking me or any of my brothers and friends. As for the rest of Yuan Gate, send whoever you want."
"If I die within three years, this ends. But if I live, I'll walk into Yuan Gate myself—to end it."
"If you refuse, then this ends now. I promise you—everyone from Yuan Gate here today, aside from you two, will die."
Lin Fan wasn't bluffing.
He had the Devouring Heavenly Corpse, and with the help of Ying Xuanzi and Dao Sect's Supreme Elder, he could deal with both of them.
But… Lin Fan wasn't sure if Yuan Gate had demonic reinforcements hiding in the dark.
If they intervened, even he might not make it out alive.
The risk was too high.
So instead, he proposed this three-year truce.
To most people, three years was nothing.
But to Lin Fan—it was enough.
In the original story, Lin Dong had gone from Eight Yuan Nirvana Stage to Reincarnation Stage in three years.
Lin Fan was already stronger, with greater resources.
So why not take the time, prepare completely, and then personally crush Yuan Gate at their doorstep?
As for any assassins they sent his way during those three years… with the Heavenly Corpse, they'd just be feeding his growth.
Tian Yuzi and Di Yuzi couldn't see through his plans.
At Lin Fan's words, Di Yuzi sneered:
"Arrogant! You dare threaten us? With us here, you can't kill anyone—and you certainly won't leave alive!"
Lin Fan smiled faintly.
"You seem to have forgotten… Yuan Gate isn't the only sect with Reincarnation Stage experts."
He looked up into the sky.
"Right, Master?"
WHOOSH—
Everyone instinctively looked skyward.
"Father…"
Ying Huanhuan whispered as her eyes searched the clouds.
At that moment, above the Dao Sect disciples, space twisted—
and from it walked a figure in gray-white robes, graceful and calm.
He looked like a man in his forties, elegant and serene, but his eyes held the vastness of the sun and moon.
"Ying Xuanzi… the Dao Sect Master has arrived!"
Gasps erupted from the city as countless eyes turned skyward.
"Greetings, Sect Master!"
Chen Zhen and the other Dao Sect elders quickly bowed in delight.
Ying Xuanzi looked at Tian Yuzi and Di Yuzi, his voice steady but heavy:
"Yuan Gate's Grand Elders have all taken the stage, shamelessly attacking my Dao Sect disciples in public. Do you not feel that's going too far?"
Di Yuzi growled:
"Your Lin Fan slaughtered over five hundred of our disciples and destroyed Ren Yuzi's body! And you say we're the ones going too far?"
"The Sect Competition has rules," Ying Xuanzi retorted coldly.
"Dao Sect suffered plenty over the years—did we ever complain? But now it's your turn, and you can't take it?"
"Ren Yuzi broke the rules first. He reaped what he sowed."
Di Yuzi's face twisted with rage. He glared at Ying Xuanzi and said:
"No matter what, Lin Fan has killed over 500 of our people and crippled my junior brother! We will not let this go!"
Ying Xuanzi's eyes swept across his disciples and elders.
Finally, he sighed.
"I once told this boy—as long as he wears Dao Sect's emblem, Dao Sect is his shield. If you wish to harm him today—
then you will face all of us."
Di Yuzi's expression soured.
He hadn't expected the usually cautious Ying Xuanzi to draw a line in the sand like this.
Even with Ren Yuzi gone, Yuan Gate still had one more Reincarnation expert than Dao Sect.
Tian Yuzi's eyes flickered.
"It seems… Sect Master Ying is confident in taking both of us on."
Ying Xuanzi shook his head.
"Alone, I cannot."
Then, behind him, space twisted again.
From the void stepped an elder in a blue robe, white hair and beard, smiling kindly.
"That's the Supreme Elder!"
Chen Zhen and the others lit up with joy.
Now, both sides had equal top-tier forces.
"Qian, you're still alive?"
Di Yuzi's expression twisted in disbelief.
"You really passed the Life-Death Tribulation? You've entered Reincarnation?"
Even Tian Yuzi's gaze grew solemn.
They'd expected Ying Xuanzi to appear.
But not another Reincarnation Stage cultivator from Dao Sect.
Now, Yuan Gate had lost the advantage.
"Heh, I thought I was going to die. But I guess I got lucky," the Supreme Elder said with a chuckle.
"Congratulations to Dao Sect," Tian Yuzi said with a polite smile.
But inside, he was cursing.
Unless they revealed their connection to the demonic race, they had no way of taking control now.
And the time for the Demonic Abyss had not yet come.
After a moment, Tian Yuzi looked at Lin Fan and said flatly:
"Out of respect for Ying Xuanzi and Elder Qian, we accept the three-year agreement. Now… hand over Ren Yuzi's nascent spirit."
Ying Xuanzi frowned.
"Three years… that's too short."
He remembered Zhou Tong, and didn't want to see Lin Fan meet the same end.
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