Invincible Dad-Chapter 677: I, Ji Jiuyou, Keep My Word_1

His head was decapitated by the Golden Armor wielding the Golden Sword, spraying Tan Chang’s face with blood.

Tan Chang looked dazed. This top fighter from the Yunxiao Sect had been killed by the two Magical Treasures he himself had brought along.

It’s all so confusing.

Watching Lin Xuzhi’s corpse fall, Tan Chang suddenly realized something, and his heart ached so much he could barely breathe.

"You shouldn’t have killed him! You should have at least gotten all the information out of him first!"

Tan Chang hated that he had spoken too late and sighed with regret, "What a pity!"

「Elsewhere.」

The children, teachers, and security guards from Galaxy Kindergarten were still unconscious, though their injuries had already healed.

"Mao Dou, Ergou, Teacher Miao, wake up." Qian Xiao called out to his friends one by one.

Miao Momo was the first to open her eyes. She felt a bit dizzy and said blankly, "What happened, Qian—"

Before she could finish, Miao Momo saw a blood-stained head a few meters away, its wide eyes staring right at her.

Her own eyes widened, the whites rolled back, and she fainted from shock again.

Oh no, this is bad. I forgot Teacher Miao doesn’t have a strong stomach for this kind of thing. Qian Xiao cursed his oversight and looked pitifully at Xu Lai. "Uncle Xu, please help."

Xu Lai pursed his lips.

With a single thought, the mountain ravaged by the great battle was restored to its original state, and the blood and corpse on the ground vanished.

Xu Yiyi climbed down from her father’s arms and helped Qian Xiao wake up their classmates and teachers.

As for Tan Chang, he quickly caught up to Xu Lai, hesitating as if he wanted to say something.

"If you have something to say, say it."

"Senior Xu Lai, first, allow me to thank you for saving my life," Tan Chang said respectfully, cupping his fist.

Xu Lai said nothing.

Tan Chang’s expression flickered. "Is the Crown Prince of the Moon Clan with you?"

He relayed what the Moon Clan Elder had said.

"Don’t know him."

"Deceitful Moon Clan!" Tan Chang fumed.

Just as I thought. The Crown Prince of the Moon Clan wasn’t missing at all. It was all just an excuse for the Moon Clan to torment me and lure Senior Xu Lai into a trap.

Xu Lai gave Tan Chang a deep look. "How did you end up tied up here?"

"..."

Speaking of this, Tan Chang’s face flushed with awkwardness. A few days ago, he had been minding his own business, lying on the bed in the house assigned to him by the Martial Dao Association and pondering some recent perplexing matters. He must have drifted off to sleep while thinking, because when he woke up, he was tied up in an abandoned factory.

He didn’t blame the Moon Clan. He only blamed himself for being too weak. Weakness is the original sin.

"It’s a pity we couldn’t find the exact location of the Yunxiao Sect," Tan Chang sighed. "The Moon King’s avatar posing as Sect Master Li Qingzhou is a disaster waiting to happen."

He didn’t linger. He flew away quickly, needing to return to the Martial Dao Association to report and summarize the incident.

Xu Lai paused. He looked into the void, where a pair of eyes was staring at him.

Xu Lai chuckled. "You’ve been watching for so long. Why not come out and meet me, fellow Daoist?"

"..."

There was only silence from the shadows.

But about 3,000 kilometers away from East Sea City, in the vast southwestern region of Hua Country, there was a mountain over 7,700 meters high. Its massive, triangular peak was perennially covered in snow and shrouded in clouds, rarely revealing its true face. Every year, countless tourists traveled thousands of miles just for a glimpse of it.

Within the mountain range was a large Barrier, and at its center, on the mountain’s summit, stood a palace: Yunxiao Palace!

「Inside the Yunxiao Grand Palace.」

A middle-aged man with a calm demeanor sat on a throne of white jade. He was the Sect Master of the Yunxiao Sect, but only in appearance. The real Li Qingzhou had died three hundred years ago; the current one was an avatar of the Moon King.

In front of him was a mirror reflecting Xu Lai’s smile and his words, "You’ve been watching for so long. Why not come out and meet me, fellow Daoist?"

The Moon King was silent for a long time.

He exhaled a turbid breath. "Why do you insist on opposing my Moon Clan time and again? We could clearly cooperate for mutual benefit."

"Your Moon Clan tried to kill my daughter, and you tried to kill me. So this is what you call cooperation? This is mutual benefit?"

"..."

The smile on the Moon King’s face faded. "Fellow Daoist, I can make amends. I’ll give you half of Earth. How about it?"

"No."

"Then what is it you want, fellow Daoist?"

"I’m a very reasonable person," Xu Lai said with a small smile. "A life for a life."

BOOM!

Blood rushed to the Moon King’s head. This was his first direct conversation with Xu Lai, and his expression turned incredibly grim. "Xu Lai, do you really think I’m afraid of you?"

"It’s better to resolve enmity than to create it. I hope you understand this principle. Otherwise, I don’t mind making you understand that everything that has happened so far was just the beginning."

"I have reached the peak of the Nascent Soul realm and will soon achieve Divinity Transformation. Teaming up with my true self... I will undoubtedly be able to kill you."

"I, Ji Jiuyou, always do as I say!" the Moon King declared coldly.

Xu Lai laughed.

How many tens of thousands of years has it been? The last person who dared to boast so arrogantly in front of me was a Quasi-Emperor, wasn’t he? His bones have probably turned to dust by now. The youth of today... so little strength, yet such big tempers.

He couldn’t be bothered to deal with him any longer.

...

Xu Lai was afraid. At least, that’s how it looked to Ji Jiuyou.

His eyes gleamed as a sneer touched his lips. So, Xu Lai is nothing special after all. Why did my true self constantly warn me to be cautious? He’s just a mere Divinity Transformation Realm cultivator.

Yes, in Ji Jiuyou’s eyes, Xu Lai was merely at the Divinity Transformation Realm.

The reason the two treasured artifacts of the Yunxiao Sect had betrayed Lin Xuzhi, he surmised, was because Xu Lai controlled some sort of Secret Technique. Legend spoke of a miraculous Secret Divine Skill in the Universe that could seize control of all weapons in the world, including Emperor Artifacts! However, this technique existed only in legends; no one had ever witnessed it firsthand. According to Ji Jiuyou’s guess, Xu Lai probably possessed this Secret Technique, or at the very least, a fragment of it.

As he was lost in thought, his expression suddenly changed. A frantic palpitation seized Ji Jiuyou’s heart; he sensed immense danger. Could it be...

SWOOSH!

He flew swiftly out of the Yunxiao Grand Palace.

When he saw the winds shift and clouds churn within the Yunxiao Sect’s Barrier, and countless tribulation clouds materializing in the sky, he was utterly dumbfounded.

A Heavenly Tribulation???

The Yunxiao Sect’s Barrier was a legacy left by a great power. It was capable of isolating one from the senses of heaven and earth, making it impossible for a Heavenly Tribulation to descend. It was for this very reason that the Moon King, Ji Jiuyou, had placed his avatar in the Yunxiao Sect. Besides using the disguise of Li Qingzhou for convenience, his most important goal was to use the Barrier to obscure the heavens’ detection and delay his tribulation for as long as possible.

But now, that plan was in ruins.

It’s been peaceful for three hundred years. Why now, all of a sudden... It’s Xu Lai!!!

The Moon King’s avatar’s eyes turned blood-red. He roared at the sky, "Xu Lai, my true self and I cannot exist under the same sky!"

"Heavens, it’s a Heavenly Tribulation!"

"Everyone, retreat! The Sect Master is undergoing his tribulation! It’s the Nascent Soul Tribulation!"

"It’s not Nascent Soul... This is the Divinity Transformation Tribulation! When did the Sect Master reach the Divinity Transformation stage? This is bad, run!"

"..."

All the disciples and Elders of the Yunxiao Sect were startled into action. This included the Supreme Elders who were in seclusion or deep slumber; they all began evacuating their disciples from the area.

In a few moments, this place would become a purgatory of lightning and thunder.