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Chapter 1437: A Lapse In Judgement

Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations

Heavenly Born Holy Man’s figure fluttered as he stepped into the depths of Mount Baiyun, instantly vanishing without a trace. Above the pinnacle, inside Supreme Yin-Yang Void Formation, Kuang Heng and the rest frowned, but they did not panic. Instead, they controlled the entire formation to befall onto Mount Baiyun’s peak.

The formation still operated fully functionally, but it tended to the contraction of its form, turning into a thick and dense cloud, shrouding Mount Baiyun again and obscuring it from the outside world.

Outside the mountain, Luo Qingwu and Tang Jun could only see that from within the white clouds, a golden light blinked occasionally, as a surging spell aura escaped from it constantly.

The spiritual energy from the Greater Worlds was drawn to the Supreme Yin-Yang Void Formation continuously, converging to this point.

Tang Jun’s gaze shifted, for he knew that the longer this dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for Heavenly Born Holy Man. The formation drew energy from the heaven and earth, hence the power supply was endless. While the formation’s Void Insulation spell was extremely effective, even for someone as powerful as Heavenly Born Holy Man, the means to absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world was cut off.

By then, one party would have an endless supply of power, while the other sat on a limited reserve. The balance of power would inevitably be shifted.

However, Heavenly Born Holy Man already saw this coming, naturally. Hence, for him to surrender himself into this ‘cage’, there not only must have been a compelling reason, but also because he had a follow up plan to escape.

After a brief moment, Mount Baiyun, under a blanket of white clouds, suddenly began to tremble again. The tremor of Mount Baiyun was still visible even through the thick clouds.

It seemed like something was going to erupt from within it.

Subsequently, the layers of cloud enveloping Mount Baiyun abruptly expanded in size, becoming much thinner.

Within the white cloud, there seemed to be a faint refraction of water flowing and rippling. Momentarily, the clouds seemingly became rain clouds.

Tang Jun was slightly startled, but he somewhat understood what was going on. Looking at Luo Qingwu, he said, “ma’am, could that be...”

Luo Qingwu nodded and said, “most likely, Great Void Sect’s One Heavenly Primordial Water’s spring has erupted.”

After this turbulence, Supreme Yin-Yang Void Formation, which enveloped Mount Baiyun, started to seem somewhat shaky. Then, a beam of golden light pierced through layers of clouds and bursted out.

In the clouds, rays of golden light swimmed around freely, then they suddenly condensed and the white clouds, at that moment, seemed like it was golden-colored instead.

That golden light which seemingly wanting to break through the cloud, was also unexpectedly frozen into the vast golden complex within the clouds. It looked like it was assimilated into the clouds.

The golden light halted, and somehow in the center of its nucleus, there was a black and white cloud. In the middle of this cloud, Heavenly Born Holy Man appeared.

Heavenly Born Holy Man held an object in his hand – a white cauldron. The surface of the cauldron was decorated with sun and moon motifs. Although they were clearly just scriptures inscribed on the cauldron, they were like the real sun and moon, orbiting and rotating, rising and falling.

This cauldron were not enabled with any spell power, like it was silenced, just like an extremely normal cauldron.

But Luo Qingwu and Tang Jun could recognize it from the rumors. It was actually Great Void Sect’s Mahayana grade magic treasure – Sun and Moon Divine Cauldron. In the history of the Divine Lands, it was the second best magic treasure in forging pills, after Crucible of the Divine Lands.

Whereas within the Sun and Moon Divine Cauldron, there seemed to be something else contained inside.

Heavenly Born Holy Man turned around to smiled towards the followers of Great Void Sect. He said, “I’m just taking back some things that I left behind. Sun and Moon Divine Cauldron is just one of those items. Why make such a big fuss over this?”

From within the clouds, Kuang Heng said, “you already took too much from us. You should be returning things instead.”

Heavenly Born Holy Man smiled and shook his head. He said, “you have no use for my things anyway. As for pills and prescriptions, as long as you keep studying it, you will be rewarded. Qing Ning is gifted and well suited in this field. As far as I know, haven’t you already recovered Ten Sages Golden Pill?”

A muffled groan came from inside the clouds, belonging to Qing Ning Holy Man.

Heavenly Born Holy Man grinned as his figure fluttered. As his figure blinked, another hologram that was a carbon copy of himself was produced.

This hologram left Heavenly Born Holy Man’s protective black and white cloud, into the faint golden-colored clouds. As a bright light shimmered, the hologram vanished without a trace, but also opened up a crevice within the faint golden-colored clouds.

Seizing this opportunity, Heavenly Born Holy Man propelled his black and white cloud, turning into a golden beam and instantaneously dashed out of Supreme Yin-Yang Void Formation through the crevice.

This time, inside the formation, Heng Kuang and the rest truly had a change in their facial expression, for the worse.

The ways of Heavenly Born Holy Man, besides the usual spells of Great Void Sect, exuded an aura of peculiarity. It made them feel familiar, yet left them bewildered.

Although the enemy did not crack Supreme Yin-Yang Void Formation, he successfully escaped from it. He departed into the great big world but they could not leave Mount Baiyun to give chase as they had to keep the formation running.

Heavenly Born Holy Man was flying to freedom, leaving Mount Baiyun, when the void vibrated and a gigantic, seemingly extending to the four corners of the earth bronze crucible appeared before him.

That giant crucible was indeed Crucible of the Divine Lands.

Seeing Crucible of the Divine Lands, Heavenly Born Holy Man’s expression became somewhat peculiar.

Before he went into hiding, he was the most skilled at forging pills and medicine in the Divine Lands. Since he deserted Great Void Sect and disappeared without a trace, Qing Ning Holy Man slowly started to take over his reputation.

But how could Heavenly Born Holy Man not know the miraculous capabilities of Crucible of the Divine Lands?

Although he was going back to Mount Baiyun to retrieve his things, if he could lay his hands on Crucible of the Divine Lands, he would not have bothered to scramble for Sun and Moon Divine Cauldron.

But out of precaution for Heaven-Destroying Sword, Heavenly Born Holy Man had his eyes set on Mount Baiyun, instead of scheming over Celestial Sect of Wonders.

Just now, he already somewhat detected the presence of Crucible of the Divine Lands, Luo Qingwu and Tang Jun. But he thought that since Great Void Sect and Celestial Sect of Wonders were not exactly allies, they would not intervene with his affair with Great Void Sect.

Looking at Tang Jun who was above Crucible of the Divine Lands, Heavenly Born Holy Man smiled and said, “I heard things about your ordeal at the Lei’s. However, that was just a trial for you. ‘The bitter coldness enhances the fragrance of plum flowers’, Fire Lord Body aside, without your experience when you were younger, you would not be where you are today.”

Tang Jun silently inspected the familiar yet distant man before him. Hearing what Heavenly Born Holy Man had to say, he tilted his head slightly, and with a complex expression he asked, “is that all you wanted to say?”

Heavenly Born Holy Man just looked at him, without saying a word.

Tang Jun’s gaze grew colder. He said, “then, what do you have to say about mother? Even before she passed away, she was thinking about you.”

Heavenly Born Holy Man fell into a brief silence. Then he smiled dryly and said, “we were not meant to be. What was there to miss about me?”

Tang Jun inhaled deeply, as all the emotions in his eyes vanished. Staring at Heavenly Born Holy Man, he nodded and said nothing more.

Luo Qingwu looked at Heavenly Born Holy Man and shook her head. She said, “are you wondering why we stopped you? Your internal conflict with Great Void Sect is your own doing and I will not intervene. But your history with Tang Jun needs to be resolved.

“You have predicted and prepared for many things. But you seem to lack an understanding about humanity, so much as to misjudge the situation so callously.

Heavenly Born Holy Man laughed and asked, “so you are not interested in the thing that I have been poring over?”

Luo Qingwu smiled slightly and said, “if you are able to provide closure for Tang Jun, then why won’t we let you go? Otherwise, I have no choice but to fight with you. If you are defeated, then not only the things you care for, but everything else you have would be under our jurisdiction.”

The curvature of the smile at the corner of Heavenly Born Holy Man’s mouth was all the more prominent. He asked, “so you intend to capture me alive?”

He spoke and laughed without a care, but the gaze in his eyes were tranquil like water, without a bit of ripple.

Although he was able to enter and leave Mount Baiyun easily, as Supreme Yin-Yang Void Formation was ineffective against him, the spell aura surrounding Heavenly Born Holy Man was significantly weaker than it was at the start.

Without the formation insulating him from absorbing energy from the heaven and earth, the depleted spell power could be recovered quickly. But in that moment, Heavenly Born Holy Man still seemed rather feeble.

The intrusion and evasion previously had taken a considerable toll on Heavenly Born Holy Man.

The setups that Great Void Sect specifically tailored for him were not completely useless. They had Heavenly Born Holy Man resorting to all tricks and expending all his energy.

However, even then, facing off against Crucible of the Divine Lands, Luo Qingwu, and Tang Jun, Heavenly Born Holy Man still seemed unperturbed.

He looked at Luo Qingwu, shook his head and said, “Sword Celestial Master? I know you. You are the direct disciple of Celestial Sect’s leader. Although only at Immortal Soul Avatar stage, you are extraordinarily gifted in spells, sorcery, and sword fighting. Wielding a Magical Treasure of Destiny, you are indeed a worthy opponent.”

“Aside from your master’s Heaven-Destroying Sword, if you were holding onto the former Saintly Celestial Sword, or even the imperfect Great Nine Heavens Holy Sword, you might indeed have posed a problem for me. As for Crucible of the Divine Lands...”

Heavenly Born Holy Man smiled and shook his head. Saying nothing more, he directly pointed a finger at Luo Qingwu.

Subsequently, a pristine white and magnificent pillar of light appeared between the heaven and earth. One end of it soared into the sky while the other end thrusted deep into the earth’s crust, seemingly skewering the Greater Worlds. Indeed, it was the Supreme Evil-Suppressing Pillar!

Simultaneously, around Luo Qingwu, Tang Jun, and Crucible of the Divine Lands, an abundance of Black and White energy current interweaved and twisted, causing the atmospheric dimension to be crumpled like a canvas of painting.

In that moment, all beings in the world seemed to morph into Yin or Yang energy, then altogether compressing towards the center, where Luo Qingwu and Tang Jun were at.

Another one of Great Void Sect’s famed high-energy ultimate spell, Yin Yang Heaven Crushing Earth Grinding Spell.

The two ultimate level spells coordinated into one horizontal and one vertical formation, like a cross, compressing Luo Qingwu and Crucible of the Divine Lands in the center, with an utterly terrifying strength.

Luo Qingwu was neither shocked nor panicked. She pointed a finger at Crucible of the Divine Lands as it suddenly trembled and waves of invisible ripples diffused in all directions.

Those invisible ripples collided into the aura of Heavenly Born Holy Man’s two spells. Instantaneously, ten thousand miles of the void were shattered. Both parties would not give in as the moment the battle began, it became heated.

After Heavenly Born Holy Man casted Yin Yang Heaven Crushing Earth Grinding Spell and Supreme Evil-Suppressing Pillar, he did not take a break. Raising his palm, he extended it to grasp at Crucible of the Divine Lands.

At the tip of his five fingers, as well as in the middle of his palm, there were each a glowing light orb, inducing an energy of creation, magnificent and unyielding.

It was the seventh of Great Void Nine Heavenly Palaces – Heavenly Six World Holy Ritual!