As I sped along the roads of Winqu, the Heavenly Tribulation continued to fire Nine Heavens Lightning bolts at me. To be honest, what worried me more was the tornadoes that were ripping houses and people from the ground had stopped their rampage before changing their directions at me. As these natural disasters chased after me through out the town, screams and shouts rang nonstop in my ears.
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Yes, I was sacrificing innocent mortal lives to save my own life. I'm not too happy about it but I wasn't too sad either. Like hey, they themselves chose to live among cultivators. They only have themselves to blame for their early deaths. I might have wasted my meridians and crippled myself now but, even without absorbing World Energy, I can still cultivate my soul. This was the reason I was unscathed when I stared at Saint Lightning and Nine Heavens Lightning fusing together. Unless I was hit by that lightning fusion, their external properties would only tickle me.
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BOOM!
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Ok wow, that was seriously close! We'll chat later, I've got to run now.
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"Where do you think you're going, boy?" A maiden's voice resounded within my mind suddenly.
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Turning around, I was shocked to see that the 8 Pillars of Winqu were floating calmly before me. From the right was Long Yukai who was still gripping his head but it seems that the pain subsided, next was a pretty boy named Demon God Yang of...I guess, Demon God House? The 'Demon God' part match...Fuck it, next was a grandma disguised as a maiden...This was a common sight among female cultivators, they would rather spend their cultivation dolling themselves up instead of pursuing a higher Martial Dao. Even after a 100 lifetimes, I still don't understand women.
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On to the next one...was a middle aged man that goes by the name of...Alan Portereid? And next to Mr. Portereid was another middle aged woman named Amelia Deir? Huh, peoples' last names were getting weirder and weirder, floating in front of me was a Portereid and a Deir...I was born and raised in Eastern Heaven so I was not too familiar with western names, but man were these names weird!
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The last 2 Pillars were a pair of twins from different backgrounds, what?! Sweeping their minds with my powerful Spiritual Sense, it seemed that these twins were given birth to by the same family but was separated due to their family's poor situation. They were then raised in 2 different clans under 2 different names and did not meet each other for 100 years straight. It was when both of them succeeded their own patriarchs and became the heads of their respective forces that they met each other and....fucked?! This pair of twins actually fucked first before recalling their pasts?!?! So, for the next 200 years, their forces basically committed incest marriages between disciples since most of their clan descendants came from the twins themselves. Alright, alright...that was too much information...now I've got to find me some holy water to wash my soul.
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Before I could even utter a single word, the grandma disguised maiden gave me a sly smile that sent chills up my spine. 'You hid pretty well for a non cultivator, boy...Could you tell this big sister what did you do to incur a Heavenly Tribulation? I swear I won't punish you for anything that you did.' She spoke directly in my mind.
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Damn, I couldn't help but cough out blood when she called herself big sister. When I read her memories, I found out that she's the oldest among this generation of clan heads. She was 420 years old! Hell, even if she looked like a pretty flower, her insides had definitely withered! Unable to pull myself together as I choked on another mouthful of blood, I released my Spiritual Sense on her with the intention to make her a mute.
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"Hm? Hua Wen, why does your face look so white? You've...You've gained an internal injury?! From who?!" Mr. Portereid cried out as soon as he sensed that the grandma disguised maiden vitality dwindled. "The mortal boy did it? Impossible! We are Core Formation realm Experts! We are the Pillars of Winqu! You shouldn't joke around, Hua Wen! A 5 year old child without any cultivation has no ability to touch us, much less hurt us! What do you mean he has a powerful soul? It was powerful enough to slice your soul's defenses like tofu?!?!"
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When Mr. Portereid blurted out that last part about me, the other 6 Pillars who remained idle immediately casted me with greedy eyes as if I was a precious gem. Now I'm having thoughts about the tornadoes chasing me, I'd rather face the Heavenly Tribulation than to get whisked away by one of these Pillars...And with that, I casted Spirit Eyes and stunned all of them for a quick second before turning around to escape. My pride was way more important than my life, in no way hell would I ever bow my head to these insignificant clan heads.
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"Hey! Just where do you think you're running off to, boy?! We're not done with you yet?!" Demon God Yang shouted.
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"Aah, we can't let that boy escape! For the safety and peace of Winqu, that boy must be captured and interrogated!!! If he escapes now, we will have no choice but to put out a death warrant on the boy's head. Ah, the Heavenly Tribulation along with the lightning and tornadoes are moving! After the boy!" Long Yukai commanded as he begin to form a series of hand seals at me. That was either a tracking art or a sealing art but I did not care for I now had the Heavenly Tribulation and the 8 Pillars of Winqu chase after my crippled self.
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BOOM!
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I don't know when they did but, after chasing me around the city for about 3 minutes, the 8 Pillars of Winqu had called reinforcements to capture me. But, just as an elder of Demon God House was 100 meters away from me, a bolt of Nine Heavens Saint Lightning descended from the black sky and struck the elder spot on, turning his Golden Core to mush as his body disintegrated to ash. Now, I wasn't sure whether Heavens hated me or wanted to protect me anymore.