Chapter 6573 The Zither Sect’s Founder, Cao Yiyang
“Long Chen...!”
Prince Chun Yang’s terrified cry came from within the heavenly tribulation.
“Don’t get distracted!” the old crone barked.
As if in response to his panic, the wild thunderforce intensified. Prince Chun Yang’s essence rune flickered like a dying candle, close to going out.
“I leave this to you. You will decide the Zither Sect’s survival here and now,” said the sweeping elder to Long Chen.
With that support, Long Chen directly made his demands.
“Hand over Zi Yan!”
His voice was calm, but his heart trembled. He feared that she was already dead.
“You really are courting death!” the old crone hissed, livid
After all, Long Chen had killed countless disciples of the Zither Sect, and now he even dared to come to their very sect to make demands. This was too much.
The moment the Zither Sect’s grand formations rose, every building released divine light that flowed toward her. Using the power of the formation, she formed a massive palm condensed from countless law runes.
It then descended upon Long Chen and the sweeping elder.
“Long Chen, watch closely,” the sweeping elder said. “There are two types of law power: flowing and static. The first is like an endlessly circulating river, while the second is like water frozen into ice. Both are law powers, but the latter is stiff and lifeless. This kind of law power is easier to control, but there is a huge difference between the two.”
As the giant hand tightened on them, Long Chen watched closely.
Before it could touch them, a strange energy flowed over from the sweeping elder’s body and disappeared in an instant. If Long Chen hadn’t been paying such close attention, he wouldn’t have been able to sense it.
That elusive power was like a needle striking a water balloon inflated to its limit. The terrifying giant hand instantly blew apart.
In the same instant, the glowing buildings shattered. The old crone coughed blood as cracks split open across her skull.
“Senior, may I ask who you are? Why are you targeting my Zither Sect?!” she demanded, fear finally creeping into her voice.
After suffering two consecutive blows, she still could not understand how her opponent had attacked. That alone told her this elder was not someone she could provoke.
Now, she was nervous. Meanwhile, Prince Chun Yang was absolutely terrified.
At this moment, Lei Linger appeared by Long Chen’s side and stepped right into the heavenly tribulation.
“Senior, we can talk about this!” the old crone shouted in fright.
BOOM!
As Lei Linger formed a series of hand seals, lightning runes spread throughout the tribulation, devouring all the thunderforce in the tribulation clouds.
“She’s trying to take over the heavenly tribulation!”
Gasps erupted. Lei Linger was consuming the tribulation’s thunderforce, and the heavenly will weakened rapidly.
“Long Chen, what are you doing?!” Prince Chun Yang shouted.
He was at a critical juncture—his essence rune was about to make a breakthrough thanks to the heavenly tribulation’s baptism. In other words, he was about to become a true Sovereign Lord.
However, Lei Linger had taken over his heavenly tribulation and devoured his thunderforce, causing him to panic.
“Where is Zi Yan?” demanded Long Chen.
“S-s-she...” Prince Chun Yang stuttered.
Long Chen’s killing intent flared.
“AHH!”
Lightning chains stabbed through Prince Chun Yang’s body. By this point, he had exhausted a great deal of his energy in his tribulation and was powerless to resist.
The old crone gritted her teeth. “If you dare to kill him, I guarantee Zi Yan will suffer a life worse than death!”
BOOM!
After she said this, the space behind her exploded, and vines wrapped around her body.
Startled, she tried to form hand seals, but one look from the sweeping elder froze her in place. She was horrified to find that she couldn’t move.
The moment the vines burrowed into her flesh, she let out a long, intense scream, as if she were a pig about to be butchered.
Before long, her screams stopped, and bloody vines came out of her mouth, eyes, and ears.
BOOM!
The moment Zhi Zhi blew her apart, a flood of information poured into Long Chen’s mind.
Zi Yan was no longer here.
One day earlier, the Zither Sect’s sect master had departed with the Heavenly Devil Zither and a group of elites. This old crone had not been told their destination.
“Damn!” Long Chen gnashed his teeth.
He then appeared right in front of Prince Chun Yang and grabbed his neck.
“Speak! Where was Zi Yan taken!?”
Although Zhi Zhi had grown stronger, anything connected to the Heavenly Devil Zither was protected by natural laws. In theory, someone of this old crone’s status should have known more, but Zhi Zhi didn’t have the power to extract more information.
“S-she was taken by the sect master...” Prince Chun Yang gasped. “Because the Heavenly Devil Zither chose to merge with her, forcibly separating them would kill her and leave an eternal scar on the Heavenly Devil Zither. With one half of the zither in her body, a forced fusion with our other half was impossible. Her dying will might even cripple its control. So the sect master brought the Heavenly Devil Zither to... to...”
At this point, Prince Chun Yang suddenly hesitated to say more.
In response, Lei Linger formed a hand seal, and barbs grew out of the lightning chains, triggering a scream.
“AH!”
He immediately cried out, “I’ll speak, I’ll speak! She... she went to the Primal Chaos World. The sect master said that only Founder Yiyang could separate them.”
“Who is Founder Yiyang?!” demanded Long Chen.
It was the sweeping elder who answered. “He is the Zither Sect’s original founder, Cao Yiyang. The very man who split the Zither Sect away from the High Firmament Academy.”
“AHHH!” Long Chen let out a furious roar.
Thinking of how Zi Yan was suffering at the hands of the founder of the Zither Sect, he couldn’t control his emotions. In his fury, he forgot that he was holding Prince Chun Yang’s neck, and the explosion of power blew Prince Chun Yang apart.
“Sweeping elder, help me cross the worlds!” Long Chen shouted, breath ragged. “I must go to the Primal Chaos World. I have to save Zi Yan!”
Only after killing Prince Chun Yang did a sliver of clarity return to Long Chen. And with it, a desperate plea.