The sect asked me to marry, and I cultivated to the pinnacle of martial arts!

However, faced with the angry shout of the Cheng family patriarch, the guard only held up a piece of broken glass with a mournful face.

The head of the Cheng family looked at the fragments, and his expression changed instantly.

Those are clearly fragments of a soul tablet...

"Damn it! Wasn't it said that the opponent was only around the mid-stage of the Innate Realm? Why did this happen?!"

The head of the Cheng family gritted his teeth and said.

In the Northern Territory, a master of innate talent is incredibly precious.

His passing is a significant blow to Chengjia.

Soon, the Cheng family patriarch thought of someone else. Now that even the Second Elder had fallen... what about Cheng Yun?!
Although Cheng Yun is a direct descendant of the Cheng family, his strength is insufficient. Making a soul tablet requires cutting off a portion of his spiritual consciousness and storing it in the soul tablet, which is very detrimental to someone with low strength.

Therefore, Cheng Yun does not possess a soul tablet.

But the head of the Cheng family probably already guessed that Cheng Yun, who was only at the Acquired Realm and whose strength was merely a result of being built up, was not going to run away.
With a flickering light in his eyes, the head of the Cheng family was considering whether to summon the clan's patriarch.

Just then, an elderly man walked in from outside.

"What's the matter that's causing such a fuss?"

Upon seeing this person, the head of the Cheng family immediately stood up and bowed, saying, "Greetings, Ancestor!"

The other elders also stood up and bowed.

The white-haired old man who came in was their ancestor who broke through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster realm a year before they got married, and he was also their absolute backbone.

"Ancestor, just now, the Second Elder... has fallen!"

The patriarch of the Cheng family frowned deeply: "What exactly happened? Have our enemies come knocking on our door, or what?"

At that moment, the head of the Cheng family dared not hide anything and quickly recounted the events.

“Ancestor, shouldn’t we avenge the Second Elder? After all, losing a Xiantian cultivator for no reason is a great loss to the Cheng family.”

Knowing that at this point, simply saying that he wanted to avenge his son wouldn't be a sufficient reason, the Cheng family head directly targeted the Second Elder.

Unexpectedly, after listening, the Cheng family ancestor remained silent for a moment, and then...

Snapped!
The face of the Cheng family patriarch suddenly made intimate contact with the palm of the ancestor, and the sound was loud.

Upon witnessing this scene, the remaining elders in the hall were immediately stunned, unsure of what had happened.

How could it suddenly turn out like this?!

"Ancestor, what is this...?" The Cheng family patriarch was also stunned for a moment, staring at his ancestor in disbelief.

"Foolish! Do you even know what a critical moment this is? It's the most dangerous time the North has faced in the last twenty years!"

The old patriarch of the Cheng family twitched his face and said angrily, "Do you know that you may have offended a very important person that our Cheng family simply cannot afford to offend?!"

"An important figure?" the Cheng family patriarch asked in confusion. "But the guards who came back to report only said that it was a young woman in blue riding a two-horned spirit beast."

"Ancestor, so young, when did our Northern Territory have such a great figure?" After thinking for a moment, the Cheng family head said, "If that person were a man, we could make contact with Senior Chen Beixuan, who hasn't appeared in the Northern Territory for a long time, but that's a woman..."

Therefore, the head of the Cheng family did not find the woman particularly frightening.

"Foolish! Do you know what time it is? I already said, it's a once-in-twenty-years event! Have you forgotten about the Misty Heaven Palace?" The Cheng family patriarch said with a frown.

"The 'mysterious heaven' of the Mysterious Heaven Palace is the 'heaven' of the Heaven Realm! Once it opens, even legendary Earth Realm and Heaven Realm Grandmasters will appear and rush to the Northern Territory."

"Not to mention the other mortal realms, and grandmasters like myself. This is the grandest event in the Northern Territory in the past twenty years. Any reclusive person could potentially appear. How dare you judge a book by its cover?" The Bewildering Heaven Palace…

Upon hearing these three words, many elders in the hall were startled, suddenly realizing that the twenty-year deadline was indeed fast approaching.

The last time the mysterious Heavenly Palace appeared in the Northern Territory, it was indeed because a peak Heavenly Realm expert had come from another state.

Even powerful figures from the mysterious sea forces have crossed over to reach them.

That period was also the time when the most powerful individuals were seen in the historically barren northern region.

Because the location of the Mysterious Heaven Palace is uncertain, powerful figures from other regions can be found in almost every city.

"Ancestor, you...you mean that woman might be a powerful cultivator from another realm?!"

The head of the Cheng family felt that his legs were almost trembling.

To be able to travel tens of thousands of miles, traversing mountains and rivers, even a cultivator at the Innate Realm would probably need at least a month, exhausting themselves to cross a single state.

In the past, when the Heavenly Palace of Mystery opened, those who arrived at the bottom were none other than these cultivators at the Innate Realm...

The woman, just from the guards' description, exuded a leisurely air, as if she were riding a spirit beast on her journey...

With such a relaxed mindset, one cannot possibly be a bottom-tier, cannon fodder in the Innate Realm.

So, setting aside the Innate Realm, the woman's lowest level of cultivation was still the Grandmaster...

My own ancestor was only at the first level of Grandmaster, and had only been promoted for less than two years.

Thinking of this, the Cheng family patriarch's face paled: "Thank you for your guidance, Ancestor! I was indeed too careless!"

...

Outside the city, the veiled woman in green stood under a tree and waited for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, but she never saw the old man who had beaten the younger one come to seek revenge.

It was rather strange.

"Hey, where did everyone go? Did they get lost?"

Or did the other party suddenly realize they didn't want revenge?

"Since that's the case, I don't have time to waste here with you. I have important business to attend to." Withdrawing her gaze, the woman in green lightly leaped onto the back of the two-horned spirit beast and said softly, "Little Ten, let's go."

Upon hearing this, Shenjun's two-horned spirit beast, Thunder Lion, let out a low roar to indicate that it understood, and carried the woman in green away from the place with ease.

The reason it has this name is because it is half of the character "叶" (leaf).

Even after the woman in green left, the shock in the eyes of the onlookers who had originally wanted to enter the city remained.

Just moments before, they had all witnessed with their own eyes that the arrogant elder of the Cheng family in the city was a being at the Innate Realm...

Even this seemingly frail woman couldn't withstand a single move from him! He died instantly.

Of course, Cheng Yun, the young master of the Cheng family, also went down to follow him.

When news of the death of an elder in Nanmu City reached the small town near Xisha Mountain, Lu Ye and Jiang Qingge, who were in the town, also heard it.

"This Cheng family must be the family behind those bandits." Jiang Qingge waited on the mountain for a while, but when she found that there was no big movement, she came to the town.

I heard some gossip and learned that Cheng Jia was the backer of the Xisha Mountain bandits.

But neither he nor Lu Ye made a move, so how could someone from the Cheng family have perished? (End of Chapter)