"Elder Zhao, aren't your words a bit too harsh?"
"After all, Qiye is young. His decision just now was merely a moment of impulse. We..."
Seeing the Law Enforcement Elder growing increasingly severe, Sect Master Xu Qingyun immediately stepped forward. Chen Qiye was his final, closed-door personal disciple, and under no circumstances would he allow Chen Qiye to truly be crippled.
"Master, let me handle my own matters."
At that moment, Chen Qiye finally spoke, interrupting what Xu Qingyun was about to say.
Seeing this, a flash of anxiety inevitably appeared in Xu Qingyun's eyes. Fearing that Chen Qiye might act rashly again, he wanted to continue defending him, but right then, he suddenly heard an unusual sound.
"Crack!"
Immediately afterward, Xu Qingyun felt an ancient, mysterious aura—one carrying a hint of terror that made even him shudder—suddenly materialize within the Immortal Lord Hall!
After all, Xu Qingyun was a true supreme Giant of the older generation. Almost instantly, he locked onto the source of this strange aura, and his gaze fiercely snapped toward Chen Qiye.
Rumble!
Outside the Immortal Lord Hall, many disciples and elders of the Qingxuan Sect, who had prepared to disperse after Chen Qiye descended Tongtian Peak and entered the hall, paused. After all, cultivators all had their own affairs and cultivation to attend to.
Yet, just as they began to scatter, someone seemed to sense something and looked up toward the sky.
"Eh? It was clear just a moment ago, why did so many dark clouds suddenly appear? And these dark clouds are tinged with a bloody crimson color!"
"No, these aren't normal dark clouds! From this cloud cover, I seem to sense a trace of Heavenly Dao pressure! Is this a tribulation cloud? Is someone in our Qingxuan Sect undergoing a heavenly tribulation?"
More and more Qingxuan Sect disciples looked up, their faces growing increasingly puzzled. Some began asking the older generation of Qingxuan Sect cultivators.
"This doesn't look like a tribulation cloud. Why, why does it somewhat resemble the legendary heaven and earth anomalies?"
"That can't be right. Rumor has it that only peerless treasures of Saint level or above appearing, or things surpassing the limits of the Heavenly Dao, can trigger such heavenly anomalies. Could it be that some major change is happening in our Qingxuan Sect?"
On the Qingxuan Sect preaching platform, an elder lecturing on the Dao looked up at the sky, his brow furrowing deeply.
"Hm?"
Deep in the back mountains of the Qingxuan Sect, among the ancient ancestral tombs, several phantom shadows that had slumbered for unknown ages suddenly stirred.
"Qiye, what, what are you... what are you doing?"
Inside the Immortal Lord Hall, Sect Master Xu Qingyun turned to look at Chen Qiye. Seeing the terrifying aura radiating from Chen Qiye—an aura that made even him feel horrified—suddenly and violently surge, he quickly took two steps toward him.
He was entirely unfamiliar with this aura and had no idea what Chen Qiye intended to do.
"Hmph! In my view, his Dao heart is unstable and he has suffered a deviation in cultivation! He simply cannot withstand the slightest setback, he..." the Law Enforcement Elder sneered once more.
"Shut your mouth!"
Yet this time, the thirteenth ancestor of the Qingxuan Sect, the Nine Heavens Saint Lord, suddenly erupted with a fierce pressure, cutting off the Law Enforcement Elder's words. His gaze remained locked unwaveringly on Chen Qiye.
"Hm?" The Law Enforcement Elder froze, taking a step backward. The ancestor's pressure was simply too terrifying; he did not dare face it head-on. Still feeling somewhat resentful, he continued, "Ancestor, for Chen Qiye to act like this..."
"Double Pupils!"
"He has cultivated to this extent and yet he was still concealing his talent? Is he about to awaken his Double Pupils right now? Is he actually the legendary Double Pupil physique?!"
A complex rune flashed across the eyes of the thirteenth ancestor of the Qingxuan Sect as he stared directly into Chen Qiye's eyes.
As a true medieval Giant from thousands of years ago, he was exceptionally well-read and experienced. In that instant, he discerned some truly profound secrets!
"Double Pupils? What is that?" Among the younger generation of cultivators, some wore blank expressions, having never heard of the term.
"Double Pupils? Ancestor, you just said that Qiye is actually the legendary Double Pupil physique, and he is awakening them? That's impossible! Qiye has followed me in practicing the Dao all these years, why has he never mentioned having the Double Pupil physique?" Even the eyes of Sect Master Xu Qingyun, steady for a thousand years, truly fluctuated.
"Impossible! He absolutely cannot be of the Double Pupil physique! That physique is the legendary Great Emperor physique, the hallmark of a Supreme physique. How could he possibly possess Double Pupils?" The Law Enforcement Elder stood dumbfounded.
"No, that's not it!" The thirteenth ancestor of the Qingxuan Sect's expression shifted once more.
"So it's not the Double Pupils after all? That makes sense, he could never be. Ancestor, has he suffered a cultivation deviation?" Hearing this, the Law Enforcement Elder relaxed his tense body.
"No, this is impossible! He, he... could this be an existence surpassing the Double Pupils? Are his Double Pupils undergoing a terrifying transformation?" The thirteenth ancestor formed a hand seal directly, and the complex, ancient rules within his eyes instantly spun with terrifying speed.
"Crack! Boom!"
Chen Qiye moved at that very moment. He opened his eyes, and an aura seemingly hailing from primeval times erupted with earth-shattering force.
A beam of light suddenly burst from his eyes!
The light tore through the void, piercing directly through the protective barriers of the Immortal Lord Hall, and fiercely struck the peak of the clouds ten thousand miles above!
The clouds shattered!
Within the bursting clouds, ten thousand realms fell, gods bled, and the terrifying anomaly of a Great Emperor dying in battle manifested!
"What, what is this? How could our Qingxuan Sect witness such a terrifying anomaly? A Great Emperor bleeding to death? What kind of Great Emperor is that, and why does the entire world seem to weep as he falls?"
Countless people within the Qingxuan Sect looked up at the sky. Some young disciples felt their Dao hearts shudder; merely gazing at the sky brought precursors of their Dao hearts shattering!
"Ah, Eldest Senior Brother, look quickly! There seems to be another phantom shadow appearing in the sky!"
"It really is the Eldest Senior Brother! That phantom shadow actually belongs to the Eldest Senior Brother? His shadow is juxtaposed with a bleeding Great Emperor? Could, could this terrifying anomaly have been triggered by the Eldest Senior Brother?"
"Didn't the Eldest Senior Brother enter the Immortal Lord Hall? Even with his peerless talent, it shouldn't be possible for him to trigger such a terrifying heavenly anomaly, right? Why do I feel that even the Sect Master might not be able to conjure an anomaly this terrifying?"
The area outside the Immortal Lord Hall was in an uproar!
Inside the hall, the expression of the thirteenth ancestor of the Qingxuan Sect shifted again and again, and his body even trembled slightly!
"Heavenly Dao, Double Pupils!"
"He is actually the legendary supreme Great Emperor physique of the cultivation world—the Heavenly Dao Double Pupils! This is the pinnacle double-pupil physique that surpasses ordinary Double Pupils! No, these Heavenly Dao Double Pupils even carry a trace of heaven-defying divine blood!"
"I—the Qingxuan Sect—have actually given birth to such a heaven-defying, peerless physique?"
The aura of the thirteenth elder of the Qingxuan Sect instantly erupted. He rushed forward in a single step to stand before Chen Qiye, pressed a finger against Chen Qiye's back, and poured boundless, majestic Dao power directly and violently into Chen Qiye's eyes!
"Do I now have the qualification to decide whom I wish to marry?"
"Do I now have the qualification to declare that I, Chen Qiye, can walk a path of invincibility all on my own, and that I am determined to protect Xiao Yanyue for all eternity? If I violate this oath, would death not be preferable?"
Allowing the thirteenth ancestor to channel the surging Dao power into his eyes, Chen Qiye swept his gaze across the entire Qingxuan Sect from top to bottom. As he spoke, even the heavenly anomalies trembled!
"You, you... are you truly the Heavenly Dao Double Pupils? How, how is this possible? You..."
When the Law Enforcement Elder of the Qingxuan Sect saw Chen Qiye's gaze turn toward him, his feet involuntarily took a step back!
Having cultivated for a thousand years, he had actually been frightened into retreating a single step by a mere nineteen-year-old youth!