Chapter 108: Wang Changsheng Backstabs Jin Taijun; With No Hope Ahead, the Immortal Path Collapses. This Is Not My Sin!
"Especially you, Wang Changsheng."
"The Chaos Calming Art you cultivate was originally meant to quell turmoil and protect all living beings."
"And yet you? For the sake of immortality, you actually defected to the Foreign Realm, truly dragging the reputation of this art into the mud."
As soon as these words were spoken, the entire place erupted in an uproar.
"What?!"
Especially Meng Tianzheng, who had originally intended to spare their lives and send them to the frontier to spend the rest of their days. Upon hearing this, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
He had thought these people were merely opportunistic but never imagined they had secretly betrayed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
And even committed such heinous, unforgivable acts.
"Wang Changsheng! Jin Taijun! Is this true?!"
Meng Tianzheng's hair and beard flared, a terrifying aura instantly rising around him as he pointed at the two. "Have you really colluded with the Foreign Realm?!"
After learning this shocking secret, the Heaven Mending Sect Leader and the others nearby also looked at Jin Taijun, who was clearly beginning to panic, with disbelief.
"To dare betray your homeland, you deserve death!"
"Worse than beasts. Though a Supreme, you are inferior even to the children at our frontier!"
"Those who betray the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths must be executed!"
…
For a moment, behind the Daoist boy, the many giants and Supremes saw that the two stood stunned and did not immediately refute the accusation. They instantly understood that this matter was true.
Being greedy for life and fearing death could be understood, but colluding with the Foreign Realm was a bottom line, an unforgivable capital crime!
Thinking of those old friends and young talents who had died at the frontier, everyone was filled with rage.
Even the usually gentle ancestor of the Wind Clan was now radiating a Supreme aura, his killing intent surging.
Clearly, this matter alone had aroused public fury, a crime that could not be redeemed even with ten thousand deaths.
"Please, Immortal, take action and slay these villains!"
"Kill! These two scourges must not be left alive!"
"I was wondering why something always felt off. So there were traitors within."
"Their hearts deserve condemnation; their crimes deserve death!"
For a moment, emotions surged, and cries for killing shook the heavens.
Faced with the united condemnation of Meng Tianzheng and the others, Jin Taijun completely panicked.
"No, that's not how it is!"
She had just tried to argue stubbornly but was met with the crowd's gaze that seemed ready to tear her apart alive.
Jin Taijun knew that today's matter likely had no room for reversal.
Seeing the shouts of death from all directions, with everyone calling for her blood, she screamed while trying to burn her blood essence to escape.
"Trying to run?"
Seeing this, how could the Daoist boy not understand her thoughts? He immediately snorted coldly and prepared to act.
However, before he could make a move, a soft tearing sound was heard.
A pale hand had already pierced out from behind Jin Taijun, directly penetrating her chest and crushing her still-beating heart!
"Ugh…"
Jin Taijun's body stiffened. She looked down in disbelief at the blood-stained hand, then slowly turned her head back with difficulty.
What entered her sight was a calm, eerily chilling youthful face.
Wang Changsheng!
"Since it's been exposed, there's no other way."
Wang Changsheng spoke indifferently, his voice devoid of emotion, as if he had just crushed an ant rather than a Supreme ally who had stood alongside him for ten thousand years.
"Since we're all going to die, there's no need for nonsense."
"As a dignified Supreme, why behave like this?"
"It only adds ridicule."
This scene was too horrifying, too sudden.
"Whoosh!"
Almost instinctively, the War Clan ancestor, the Old Celestial of the Celestial Clan, and others who had been kneeling beside Wang Changsheng all retreated as if they had seen a plague god.
Even at the cost of burning essence blood, they withdrew against the immense pressure, wishing to be hundreds of meters away from him.
Looking at this seemingly gentle-faced youth, whose hand still dripped with Jin Taijun's Supreme blood, everyone felt a chill shoot from their spine to the top of their head.
Too ruthless!
That was a Supreme ally!
For the sake of self-preservation, he had struck without hesitation at such a moment, not even blinking!
"Wang Changsheng! You…"
Meng Tianzheng looked at Wang Changsheng's indifferent expression, unable to believe what he had just witnessed.
"How can you be so utterly deranged!"
"Even if Jin Taijun is guilty, it is not your place to kill her!"
However, facing Meng Tianzheng's questioning and the horrified, disdainful gazes around him, Wang Changsheng remained unmoved.
He slowly raised his hand. In his palm, a phantom, resentful primordial spirit was struggling wildly. It was Jin Taijun's remnant soul.
"Wang Changsheng, how dare you ambush me!!!"
"Do you want to trigger a war between our two families?!"
"Noisy."
Wang Changsheng merely clenched his hand lightly.
Clang!
In an instant, a dazzling sword light burst forth from between his fingers.
Chaos-Calming Art!
This supreme sword technique, hailed as the number one in primordial spirit attacks and once used to quell countless upheavals for the human race, was now being used by him to erase his former ally.
Then, with a soft sound, Jin Taijun's remnant soul did not even have time to scream before it turned into a wisp of smoke and vanished between heaven and earth.
Erased on the spot!
After finishing all this, Wang Changsheng slowly raised his head.
But those eyes, usually filled with the weight of ages, were now filled with endless desolation.
He then turned to look at Meng Tianzheng, a self-mocking, bitter smile curling at the corner of his lips:
"Brother Meng, don't you understand yet?"
"I too once burned with passion, once fought madly for the human race, charging in and out of battle."
"But this path is broken."
"There is no hope ahead. The immortal path has collapsed."
"We have cultivated for countless ages, watched the changing of eras, and seen seas turn to mulberry fields. What was it all for? Were it not for that single word, "immortality"?
"If the world were complete and the path to immortality unobstructed, with my talent, why would I need to bow to darkness or ally with the Foreign Realm?"
At the end, a trace of madness flickered in Wang Changsheng's eyes.
"Since the righteous path cannot be walked, then even if I become darkness itself and bear infamy for eternity…"
"As long as I can live on, as long as I can glimpse that sliver of immortal light, how am I wrong?!"
"Your obsession runs too deep. Words are useless."
At this critical moment, the Daoist boy's voice rang out, interrupting Wang Changsheng's self-defense.
He did not even look at Wang Changsheng. With a slight movement of his fingers, he had already locked onto him.
For an ant in the human realm, there was no need to use the Immortal King's decree.
"Since you desire immortality so much, I will send you to eternal bliss where life is everlasting!"
However, just as the Daoist boy was about to act and suppress this traitor of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Meng Tianzheng stepped forward once again.
"Senior, please wait!"
Meng Tianzheng's armor clanged loudly; the great banner in his hand fluttered without wind as he stood in front of the Daoist boy.
"Meng Tianzheng, you intend to stop me?" The Daoist boy frowned, somewhat displeased.
"I would not dare."
Meng Tianzheng shook his head, then took a deep breath and turned around, his gaze complex as he looked at Wang Changsheng, who had long lost himself on the path of immortality.
"It's just that this matter of cleaning the house should be handled by our Nine Heavens and Ten Earths."
"The shame of our world should also be washed away by our own hands!"
Hearing this, the Daoist boy looked deeply at Meng Tianzheng, then finally nodded slowly and withdrew his aura.
"Granted."
"Thank you!"
Meng Tianzheng nodded, saying no more.
His entire body instantly transformed into an eternal, immortal light and shot toward Wang Changsheng.
"Heh, being sent off by you is enough to console this life."
Wang Changsheng raised his head, his hair dancing wildly.
He said no more. With the Chaos Calming Art fully unleashed, his primordial spirit transformed into a peerless immortal sword and met the attack head-on.
Boom!
This battle shook heaven and made ghosts weep.
End of Chapter