Chapter 14: Changsun Yu's Shock

Before the Golden Summit Hall of Yuhua Sect, Changsun Yu stood proudly in midair, his gaze fixed on the baby-faced Bai Yunfei, his expression utterly blank.

This was his first time meeting Bai Yunfei.

He bore no grudge against Bai Yunfei.

But their positions were different — and that difference made Bai Yunfei's death inevitable.

A cold glint flashed in Changsun Yu's eyes. "So you're the current Sect Master of Yuhua Sect?"

Atop the Golden Summit Hall, a gentle breeze swept past, lifting the hem of Bai Yunfei's robes. He stood with his hands clasped behind his back and gave a nod. "I am Bai Yunfei, the one hundred and twentieth generation Sect Master of Yuhua Sect."

"I hear you've been in life-or-death seclusion for the past two years, trying to break through to the Eighth Seal and save Yuhua Sect?" Changsun Yu's words carried a note of mockery. He himself had spent a hundred years in seclusion before breaking through to the Eighth Seal — and Bai Yunfei thought he could manage it in just two years?

Pipe dreams.

"Indeed, I have been in seclusion," Bai Yunfei replied calmly. "I've comprehended a great deal. Though I'm still one step away from the Eighth Seal, I feel that killing you shouldn't be much of a problem."

Changsun Yu laughed in spite of his anger, his disdain plain to see. "The Sect Master of Yuhua Sect turns out to be a boastful, delusional fool. Challenging the Eighth Seal from the Seventh Seal — you're dreaming with your eyes wide open."

"Over a hundred years ago," Bai Yunfei said unhurriedly, "our Yuhua Sect disciple Zhou Sheng accomplished exactly that — defeating a Eighth Seal cultivator from the Seventh Seal. How can you call it a pipe dream?"

Changsun Yu's face went deathly cold in an instant. His eyes locked onto Bai Yunfei, and within them, threads of frenzied bloodlust began to spread.

What Bai Yunfei had just mentioned was the eternal scar buried at the bottom of his heart.

"Do you know who it was that Zhou Sheng killed?" Changsun Yu said through gritted teeth.

Bai Yunfei furrowed his brow in thought. "I believe it was a Dao Ancestor of the Eighth Seal named Changsun Wuji."

"And do you know my name?" Changsun Yu said coldly.

Bai Yunfei looked at Changsun Yu, his eyes narrowing slightly, but said nothing.

Changsun Yu's face was as cold as frost. He stared at Bai Yunfei with unblinking eyes. "My name is Changsun Yu. I am Changsun Wuji's younger brother."

Bai Yunfei's expression shifted with sudden understanding. He pointed at Changsun Yu. "So you've come to avenge your brother?"

"Zhou Sheng killed my brother," Changsun Yu said, his voice filled with hatred, "but he died at the hands of our Taishang Sect's Supreme Patriarch. I cannot take my revenge on him personally — so I will destroy Yuhua Sect instead, to comfort my brother's spirit in the afterlife."

"Then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed," Bai Yunfei said bluntly. "You cannot destroy Yuhua Sect."

"Cannot destroy it? Laughable," Changsun Yu sneered.

"What formidable figures does Yuhua Sect have left besides you?"

"Could it be those few people over in the Canon Pavilion?"

"Nothing more than a Sixth Seal cultivator with three Third Seal disciples, plus you at the Seventh Seal. Who in Yuhua Sect could possibly stop me?"

Changsun Yu spread his hands wide, gazing at Bai Yunfei with arrogant contempt, paying absolutely no heed to Lin Jiufeng inside the Canon Pavilion.

Bai Yunfei paid no attention to Changsun Yu's arrogance. Instead, he turned to look toward the Canon Pavilion, his eyes widening in surprise. "Senior Brother has broken through to the Sixth Seal?"

He clearly remembered that before entering seclusion, his Senior Brother had only just broken through to the Third Seal.

In just a few years, he was already at the Sixth Seal?

How did it feel like it was his Senior Brother who had been in life-or-death seclusion, not him?

Before the Canon Pavilion, Lin Jiufeng sensed Bai Yunfei's gaze and smiled faintly. "Junior Brother, it's been a long time."

Bai Yunfei nodded and offered his congratulations. "Senior Brother has entered the Sixth Seal — truly something to celebrate."

"But it won't help at all with today's crisis." Lin Jiufeng said with a note of shame. If only he had a few more years — perhaps he could have fought this Eighth Seal Dao Ancestor.

"Crisis?" Bai Yunfei laughed. "Yuhua Sect faces no crisis. It's merely one Eighth Seal Dao Ancestor."

"Nothing to worry about!"

Bai Yunfei's bold words enraged Changsun Yu. His eyes narrowed, the aura around his entire body surging and climbing, his cultivation technique and Divine Abilities fully activated. From within his body rose a sound like the Milky Way cascading down from the heavens — vast and sweeping.

Boom!!!

Thunder rolled across heaven and earth, and wild winds howled and raged in all directions, making him appear like a supreme Dao Ancestor commanding the winds and clouds.

In that moment, Changsun Yu stood alone in midair, his entire body radiating light. He was like a cosmic furnace, scorching all ten directions, his overwhelming presence making many tremble.

An Eighth Seal Dao Ancestor was no mere boast.

Inside the Canon Pavilion, Lin Jiufeng felt that aura wash over him. Even though it wasn't directed at him, the pressure was immense.

If he were to face this head-on, even with the power of a hundred dragons and a hundred elephants, he likely wouldn't last a single exchange.

Though the Sixth Seal and the Eighth Seal were only two levels apart, the difference between them was like the gap between clouds and mud.

At this moment, the entire Golden Summit Hall was enveloped in a sacred radiance, like a bronze furnace refining the world — nothing could break through it. Changsun Yu stood at the center of it all like a god!

Impervious to all techniques, immovable as a mountain, towering and unyielding. Like the blazing sun, he shone with a dazzling brilliance that no one could look upon directly.

"Do you still say there's nothing to worry about?" Changsun Yu's voice boomed like rolling thunder, like the wrath of a deity, as he challenged Bai Yunfei.

The other members of Taishang Sect who witnessed this scene erupted in cheers. An Eighth Seal Dao Ancestor was truly this powerful.

Hearing the cheers, Changsun Yu felt a surge of pride. In this world, with no Ninth Seal cultivator emerging, he stood at the very apex of the pyramid.

But when he looked toward Bai Yunfei, he found not the slightest trace of panic or fear. On the contrary, beneath his crushing pressure, Bai Yunfei remained as calm as a gentle breeze, natural and unhurried, as though he had merged with heaven and earth itself.

Bai Yunfei did not answer Changsun Yu's challenge. Instead, he asked, "How did Zhou Sheng defeat your brother across realms back then?"

"Why are you asking that?" Changsun Yu's expression darkened.

Bai Yunfei smiled and stepped forward. "Was it this technique?"

Boom!!!

The aura around his entire body erupted in an instant, blasting upward toward the sky. In a moment, a brilliant immortal radiance floated into the air, blotting out the sun and sky, directly shattering Changsun Yu's Eighth Seal pressure. The heavens trembled, waves surged, and the light cascaded down in an overwhelming torrent.

In that moment, Bai Yunfei stood before the Golden Summit Hall with an aura that could swallow heaven and earth!

From within his body, a pure white Dao light manifested, piercing through the clouds, blazing with magnificent transformations beneath the vault of the sky.

Within that pure white Dao light, a world slowly took shape — with the birth of living beings, and the laws of death.

All things rise and fall, in silent stillness.

Changsun Yu was stunned. He had seen this before.

Unbidden, his mind conjured the memory from over a hundred years ago — watching from a great distance as Zhou Sheng manifested that same pure white Dao light and used it to slay his brother.

Changsun Yu stared at Bai Yunfei in furious shock, his teeth clenched. "This… this is the [Yuhua Ascension Scripture]?"

The moment those words fell, everyone was stunned.

No one was unfamiliar with the [Yuhua Ascension Scripture].

It was the supreme canon of Yuhua Sect — a pinnacle Daoist scripture renowned throughout the Cultivation World. Lost for three hundred years, it had made its final appearance a hundred years ago when Zhou Sheng, through his extraordinary comprehension, brought the lost [Yuhua Ascension Scripture] back into the world and took the life of Taishang Sect's once-in-five-thousand-years genius.

But with Zhou Sheng's fall, the [Yuhua Ascension Scripture] had been lost once more.

How could Bai Yunfei possibly know it?

Changsun Yu stared at Bai Yunfei with unblinking intensity, his composure long since shattered. He roared, "How do you know the [Yuhua Ascension Scripture]?"

Bai Yunfei did not answer. He simply struck.

In that moment, he was like an ancient Dao Ancestor — his body wreathed in pure white Dao light, manifesting the world of men, accompanied by sharp Dao spikes that radiated a cold brilliance across the ages.

"Over a hundred years ago, Zhou Sheng defeated your brother from the Seventh Seal."

"Over a hundred years later, I, Bai Yunfei, can do the same — defeat you from the Seventh Seal."

"Both of you brothers will be buried beneath the [Yuhua Ascension Scripture]."