Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 553 - 003: 16 Years

The stars shifted, and time flew by.

Sixteen years later.

Plum Blossom Sect, sect forbidden area.

The current Plum Blossom Sect Leader, Zhuge Minghai, clad in black, with his longsword thrust into the ground, knelt before the Ancestral Hall,

and gazed at the oddly-shaped, unremarkable stone enshrined at the center of the Ancestral Hall,

his eyes filled with despair.

"Sixteen years, Master, the great opportunity of the sect that you calculated after exhausting half your cultivation back then, is it really just a useless Waste Stone!"

"The Profound Moon Sword Sect is aggressive, the merger of the Five Sects of Sanshui is imminent, Master, I am unworthy, unable to protect the ancestral legacy!"

The words echoed in the silent Ancestral Hall, Zhuge Minghai was already tearing up.

Sixteen years ago, a major change occurred in the Yu Continent,

a terrifying great power personally took action, with a palm that turned the heavens, erased the Shuiyue Sect, the largest cultivation sect in Wei Kingdom.

The superpower that once dominated Wei Kingdom like an overlord, in the face of an even greater terror,

was like an ant, casually crushed by others.

Within a range of several thousand miles, the number of ordinary people who died affected easily surpassed millions.

The Wei Kingdom was dealt a heavy blow overnight, nine out of ten rooms were empty.

This massive upheaval immediately caused a huge change in the entire cultivation realm of Yu Continent.

In no time, turmoil arose, countless forces turned their eyes to Yu Continent, wanting to swallow up this power vacuum.

Without the suppression of Shuiyue Sect, both the ordinary and the lower-level martial artists suffered heavy blows, with many places directly being devastated by that forbidden powerhouse’s pressure, leaving no survivors.

At that time, Wei Kingdom instantly became undefended prey.

Chaos, great chaos!

Beacon fires rose,

one force after another fought, battles erupted frequently.

Foreign forces scrambled for "ownerless" spiritual fields and spiritual lands resources, while local forces desperately defended.

In the midst of that era of chaos, Shanshui County naturally could not escape this wave of disorder.

At that moment, when the Plum Blossom Sect was on the brink of peril,

one night, a stream of light suddenly appeared in the sky beyond the mountains behind the Plum Blossom Sect, crashing into the depths of the sect’s forbidden area, and landed inside the Ancestral Hall of the Plum Blossom Sect.

Until the dust settled, the members of Plum Blossom Sect discovered that in the pit was an oddly broken stone.

Fortunately, this incident happened late at night,

and the stream of light appeared suddenly in the void and wasn’t very high, so the commotion it caused wasn’t large, merely equivalent to the momentum generated during the cultivation of some strong martial techniques.

Therefore, it didn’t attract attention, and even the disciples within the Plum Blossom Sect weren’t awoken from their deep sleep.

Only the core elder guarding the forbidden area knew the ins and outs of this matter.

At that time,

Plum Blossom Sect had already begun to decline, with no outstanding disciples emerging for several decades, and its scope of influence in Sanshui County also started to wane.

It was the eve of the chaotic era,

with foreign powers eyeing covetously, and neighboring sects in Shanshui County coveting.

Moreover, as Plum Blossom Sect was founded on the techniques of Divine Calculation and Divination, inheriting the `Plum Blossom Divination`, `Ma Yi Divine Physiognomy`, `Heaven-Reaching Dao Decision`, these techniques of celestial secrets, it was not outstanding in combat.

The sect’s situation was extremely dangerous.

At the time of the occurrence of this event, the Ancestral Hall was broken by the celestial strange stone,

therefore,

the previous Sect Leader of Plum Blossom Sect, also the master of the current Sect Leader Zhuge Minghai,

believed this to be a sign from the heavens.

Incensed incense and bathed for seven days and seven nights, calming the Heart Spirit.

At the cost of his lifelong cultivation and remaining life span, he performed the sect’s secret Celestial Secret Technique, glimpsed a part of the future, and finally left with a few words:

This Celestial Divine Stone is an opportunity for the sect’s great prosperity!

Upon saying this, his entire body dried up and withered, passed away in seated meditation, his body turned to dust and scattered in the wind.

The only Void Realm true person of the Plum Blossom Sect had passed away, using his life as the price to divine the opportunity for the sect’s great prosperity.

Thus, the forbidden area was sealed.

This Celestial Divine Stone became the highest secret of the Plum Blossom Sect, known to only a few core individuals.

However, sixteen years have passed,

the so-called Celestial Divine Stone, after being worshipped by the sect, has remained ordinary, showing no anomalies.

Zhuge Minghai once sent the most outstanding disciples from within the sect, along with the upper elders of the Plum Blossom Sect, to sit sincerely before the Ancestral Hall to comprehend it.

Yet, still yielded nothing.

It’s as if this stone was merely an ordinary, albeit oddly-shaped rock.

Of no significant use.

Furthermore, with the death of the sect’s only Void Realm true person, the Plum Blossom Sect’s strength greatly diminished, already ranking at the bottom among the five renowned sects in Sanshui County.

The only sect without a Void Realm true person to hold the fort.

External sect forces eyed it covetously,

dangers grew within Plum Blossom Sect.

If it weren’t for the invasions of the Wei Kingdom cultivation realm over the years by foreign forces, with battle flames stretching long, forcing the five sects of Sanshui County to ally for self-preservation, to jointly face the external force invasions, the Plum Blossom Sect would have long disappeared in this giant wave.

However, as time went by.

Within the Yu Continent, after sixteen years of battles in the cultivation realm, things began to stabilize.

External forces began to recede,

some individuals’ gaze returned internally.

Previously,

the five sects formed an alliance, uniting for self-defense, against external forces.

However,

without a Void Realm true person in Plum Blossom Sect holding the fort, it contributed little during the chaotic battles, and there were already many dissensions among the other four sects of the alliance, proposing to expel Plum Blossom Sect from the five-sect alliance.

Among them, the strongest,

the Profound Moon Sword Sect, serving as alliance leader of the five sects,

remained ambiguous, neither refusing nor agreeing.

But secretly, they sent someone to propose an earth-shattering plan to Zhuge Minghai.

The Profound Moon Sword Sect plans to merge the five sects at the upcoming alliance meeting,

unifying Sanshui County!

The Plum Blossom Sect,

must unconditionally support the Profound Moon Sword Sect’s merger proposal at the next meeting; otherwise, the Profound Moon Sword Sect will support the expulsion proposal of Plum Blossom Sect from the five-sect alliance.

This, for the Plum Blossom Sect, is absolutely a catastrophic news.

Some hyenas outside have long coveted the strength of the Plum Blossom Sect; if they weren’t wary of the five-sect alliance’s power and the other Void Realm true persons, the Plum Blossom Sect would have long been devoured by those hyenas.

If the Plum Blossom Sect is expelled from the five-sect alliance, it would undoubtedly be a great disaster.

Even if the outside hyenas don’t act, the other four sects, once close, will become ruthless tomorrow.

But if agreed to, even without mentioning how long the Plum Blossom Sect’s autonomy can remain, it might be a question if even the ancestral inheritance can be preserved.

"Unable to protect my sect from above, unable to cultivate disciples below, and even caused my Plum Blossom Sect to lose a mainstay, what is the use of keeping you!!!"

All that talk, it’s all about strength.

If Master were still here, if the sect had a Void Realm true person, how would Plum Blossom Sect end up in such a state?!

It’s all this useless stone’s fault!

A surge of anger filled Zhuge Minghai’s heart as he raised his longsword and slashed down at the stone enshrined in the Ancestral Hall.