Chapter 2858 — Failed Inheritance
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"Tianchan, did you not say that everything had been arranged inside the cave and the Five Baleful origin power of the Five Baleful Mountains had been activated?" Ancestor Xuanzhen's face was grave as he pressed her. "This time everything was prepared so thoroughly, and you even took the Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill—how could it fail?"
"Indeed. Did anything else happen while you were receiving the inheritance?" Ancestor Xuanchen asked.
"That..." Tianchan's heart lurched. Her first thought was of Wei Zhao, but if she told the truth, then even if this matter had nothing to do with Wei Zhao, given Ancestor Xuanchen's temperament he would likely vent his anger on the man. Though he would not dare move against Wei Zhao openly out of deference to the White Leader, he might well scheme in the shadows.
"What is it? Did something truly happen?" Ancestor Xuanchen raised an eyebrow.
"After I finished the preparatory work and was about to receive the inheritance, the Five Baleful Dragon returned..." Tianchan said after a moment's hesitation.
"What? The Five Baleful Dragon came after you had made your preparations?" Ancestor Xuanchen was briefly taken aback, then frowned. "That makes no sense. By all reason, when so many cultivators above the Earth rank entered the Five Baleful Wastes all at once, it should have alerted the Five Baleful Dragon, drawn him from his cave, and set him to deploy all the spirit beasts of the Wastes and issue his commands for them to resist these Earth-rank cultivators together. How could the Five Baleful Dragon have returned so quickly?"
So it was that the change in the Xuandan Sect's trial rules this time had been engineered by Ancestor Xuanchen of the Five Luminaries Sect—all of it so that Tianchan could receive the inheritance without hindrance!
The Five Baleful Wastes were the domain of spirit beasts. Human cultivators who entered were naturally regarded as enemies, yet from the Xuandan Sect's explorations over these thousand-odd years they had discovered that cultivators below the Earth rank were the limit the spirit beasts would tolerate.
When Yellow-rank and Mystic-rank cultivators entered the Five Baleful Wastes to gather trial spirit herbs, there was danger, yes, but only from chance encounters with spirit beasts—the beasts would not hunt them down in packs. In truth, the spirit beasts of the Wastes looked down on cultivators of such strength; they did not welcome their arrival, but neither would they muster a great force to slaughter them.
But once cultivators who intruded into the Five Baleful Wastes were above the Earth rank, they were deemed invaders. Then the Five Baleful Dragon would be roused to issue his commands to every spirit beast of the Wastes, to join together and destroy these cultivators, defending his territory from human intrusion.
This time, to lure the Five Baleful Dragon out of his cave to issue those commands, Ancestor Xuanchen had not hesitated to sacrifice the lives of so many Earth-rank cultivators and above—proof enough that he was a ruthless, vicious man. No wonder he had a daughter as cruel as Little Eleven; indeed, even his daughter was not as venomous at heart as he.
This was the reason for the spirit beast riots in the Five Baleful Wastes. In the first few days, the Five Baleful Dragon only sent word to the spirit beasts near the Five Baleful Mountains, and since the beasts had a language among themselves, those who received the command would immediately seek out the flying spirit beasts skilled at transmitting sound! (To be continued)