Starting with a Family System to Become an Immortal Official Chapter 97
Up on the central observation dais.
Song Yan slammed her palm down on the armrest so hard the wood cracked.
"This can’t go on any longer!"
She shouted at the other proctors, eyes blazing.
"Can’t you put your hatred aside and focus on making sure the candidates don’t die?! You can’t hate Li Qingmu so much that you’d let him die at the cost of innocents who only came to take the exams!"
She was desperate to help, but she knew she couldn’t act against Gu Bingyue in particular. Her cultivation wasn’t on the same level as that green-haired witch.
It was a risk too stupid to take.
Gu Bingyue let out a small sigh from her luscious lips and gently blew on her hot tea.
"I don’t know what you’re talking about."
That pushed Song Yan over the edge.
Her fists clenched tight.
She swung them through the air and roared.
"You must be mad! How can you still act like you don’t know Hai Tung Wan is slaughtering people out there!? You better do something this instant or I’ll—"
Gu Bingyue cut her off with a deadly stare.
"Or you’ll do what?"
Her dainty finger tapped her teacup and reality itself seemed to bend like soft clay.
It was a small tap and a gargantuan effect!
The entire central observation dais morphed.
For an instant, Song Yan saw herself inside Gu Bingyue’s smallish teacup.
It was now a vast, endless ocean.
Gu Bingyue calmly stared down at her like a giant gazing at an ant.
"The gap in our cultivation is clear. You don’t have the right to opinions. Is that understood?"
Song Yan frowned, then gathered spiritual energy in her hand and swept it through the air.
The warped reality shattered.
All of a sudden, everything snapped back to normal.
The beautiful Gu Bingyue returned to sipping her tea as if nothing had happened.
"Let’s enjoy the show."
Song Yan sat back down in silence.
Ye Zirou remained quiet in her chair.
『Song Yan is a fool to think disrespect to the Ye family can be taken lightly. By the end of today, Li Qingmu will be dead and I’ll bring the good news to Father.』
She smiled coldly.
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Back on the examination grounds.
Hai Tung Wan remained a living nightmare.
Xu Lingxi lay on the sand to shield Xiao Bai and Auntie Chuyan with her own body.
Auntie Chuyan coughed weakly.
"My lady... don’t protect me. What kind of guardian would I be if I can’t even shield my young miss?"
She tried to move but Xu Lingxi pinned her down.
"There’s no need. I’ll keep both of you safe!"
While she protected them, Bi Haitao and his fellow Golden Sun Pavilion disciples fought like desperate animals to hold Hai Tung Wan back.
But every attack cost them a life.
The creature was lethal beyond reason.
It ripped limbs from some, decapitated others. When two attacked together, it summoned spears of condensed water that shredded them into sprays of blood mist.
One sect member stepped back in fear.
"Senior Brother Bi, we can’t keep risking our lives like this! Shouldn’t we run? This thing killed a Nascent Soul expert from the Lower Heaven Realm—we’re no match!"
Bi Haitao shouted furiously.
"Shut up and fight!"
He charged forward and unleashed his treasure sword.
Heaven-Piercing Thousandfold Slash!
A hundred blazing sword lights erupted from his blade and ruthless slashed toward the blood-thirsty monster in a storm of razor-sharp qi.
Hai Tung Wan remained completely unfazed.
It raised a hand and summoned a colossal move.
Abyssal Torrent Hammer!
A massive spiritual water maul lethally crashed down like a heavenly tribulation.
Bi Haitao barely dashed back using Golden Sun Phantom Step at the last second.
A movement art that left afterimages in golden light.
He let out a shaky sigh of relief.
When he looked forward, a massive crater scarred the desert where the hammer had struck.
His body trembled.
『If that had hit me... even with my body refinement that gives me the strength of a thousand tigers and fortification of a hundred buffaloes... I’d be dead.』
He gripped his chest and felt his brave heart pounding like a war drum.
The other sect members saw it and dropped their swords without a second thought.
This senior brother was a fool.
One who is scared must run away to fight another day.
They refused to fight beside a leader who didn’t even have any confidence in his own skill set.
"We’re running! We won’t risk our lives for nothing when there’s a way out!"
They fled, abandoning Bi Haitao and Xu Lingxi.
Bi Haitao looked after them.
"Cowards."
He tightened his grip on his sword.
All his life, the sword had been his brother.
His only family since he had no parents, no siblings.
He didn’t need love.
He didn’t need anything except to stop being invisible to his superiors.
Bastards like Li Qingmu got all the praise.
To him, that man had never suffered once!
It wasn’t fair.
It wasn’t fair!
Tears rolled down his dry, dusty cheeks.
He stomped forward and burned his spirit root as well as his sword intent until platinum-purple energy enveloped him like a great waterfall.
The desert trembled under the pressure.
With tears streaming, he charged with lethality.
Hai Tung Wan grinned at the sight.
With a casual snap of its fingers, the tears in Bi Haitao’s eyes hardened into razor-sharp ice shards.
They burst.
Bi Haitao screamed in agony and collapsed.
Blood poured from his ruined eyes.
"I can’t see! I’m blind—arghhh!"
He thrashed on the sand in torment.
Hai Tung Wan let out a dark chuckle.
Xu Lingxi stared in shock, speechless.
『This beast is the devil incarnate!』
Her body shook as she tried to drag Xiao Bai and Chuyan away while crawling weakly.
But Hai Tung Wan stomped on her hand.
"You go nowhere until it’s done."
Xu Lingxi gritted her teeth to hold back tears and looked up at the monster.
It laughed.
"Don’t look at me like that. I’m just doing my job. A strong monster must be a predator. It kills everything in its path no matter how powerful or small it may be. That’s simply the law of nature!"
It lifted a grotesque webbed foot and stomped her face into the ground.
Xu Lingxi refused to cry.
Hai Tung Wan laughed harder.
"Won’t you let out some cries?!"
It stomped again—and again—urging her.
"CRY! CRY! CRY! CRRRRYYY!!"
Each stomp shook the Thousand Empty Sea Domain.
Auntie Chuyan watched in pain but couldn’t move.
"My lady..." she mumbled weakly.
Hai Tung Wan slowed the stomps now.
Less speed, more crushing force.
Its grin split wider.
A sadistic being that only wanted to hurt arrogant cultivators that challenged him.
That is what Hai Tung Wan is!
Song Yan watched from the dais.
Her hands were over her mouth in horror.
Gu Bingyue and Ye Zirou showed no reaction.
They just calmly sipped their tea.
Gu Bingyue sighed softly.
"How heartbreaking..."
That made Song Yan furious, but she said nothing.
What was the point?
She had no power to back her anger.
She lowered her head and bit her lip until it bled.
Hai Tung Wan noticed Xu Lingxi had stopped grunting.
It tilted its head at her limp form.
"Huh?"
It kicked her head gently like a ball.
"Still awake?"
Her fingers twitched.
"Ohoooo~ Then I’ll continue until you cry."
It raised its foot again.
But a hand touched its carapace shoulder gently.
Hai Tung Wan paused.
"Eh?"
It looked sideways.
Li Qingmu stood there and stroked his chin as he gazed pervertedly at Xu Lingxi.
Her clothes were a little ripped so now he could see more of her milky-white skin.
"Even when she’s getting stomped, her ass still finds a way to be so prominent, huuuu~"
In the fraction of a second.
No, maybe even less.
Hai Tung Wan’s massive body flashed back ten meters on pure instinct.
Since it opened its eyes... it had never run that fast.
The monster stared at its shaking hands.
『Why did I just do that? I’m a predator. I’ve never retreated from a greater presence. Not when I devoured the Great Water Spirit. Not even when that useless bastard Wen Jiuling sealed me. So what does this nobody have that makes me... scared? That makes me jump back?』
It didn’t make sense.
Its hands kept trembling.
This was truly a mystery.
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In another part of the desert.
Far from the battlefield.
A great blue light was born.
It bloomed out of the empty sands like a falling star.
The light gathered, thickened, and slowly took shape.
Within it, the outline of a woman formed.
She was graceful and flawless, as if sculpted by the laws of heaven themselves.
The blue glow peeled away from her spotless skin like drifting motes of light.
In the next second, a beautiful woman stood there.
Her presence was calm and deep like an endless sea.
She looked every bit like a charming water deity who had descended into the mortal world.
Her long white hair flowed down her curvy back like a trail of fresh snow. A tight blue dress clung perfectly to her slender figure to outline curves that were full where they should be and delicate where they needed to be, as though heaven had measured her body with care.
When she took a single step forward, her elegant chest went up and down gently.
The way they bounced with lusciousness.
That untouched and pure melons.
One can tell her ancient body has never been touched for the eons she has existed.
Her eyes lowered.
At her feet lay the corpse of Daoist Water.
She studied him quietly for a moment then muttered under her breath with a lovely voice.
"This body... its water spirit root is strong enough to sustain my current form."
Without hesitation, she knelt beside him.
One pale hand rested over his chest and her body dissolved into blue light once more. The radiance flowed downward and sunk into Daoist Water’s lifeless body like water returning to its source.
The desert fell silent.
His eyes snapped open as if he had just awakened from a very deep slumber.
He slowly raised his hands and flexed his fingers.
A feminine smile graced his dry lips.
"It worked."