Chapter 272 - Only Li Yang

Recently, an odd event has arisen in the star domain.　　They say a great cultivator has started going around robbing people of their wealth.　　The specifics are as follows:　　First, dark mist covers the sky above a sect, then a great cultivator draped in pitch-black mist descends and immediately asks to borrow ten thousand spirit stones.　　This scene is incredibly intimidating, especially with the immense pressure that the great cultivator brings along intangibly.　　Indeed, no sect dares to refuse, and once lent, they do not dare to ask when it will be returned.　　The great cultivator also does not mention when it will be returned.　　Isn't this just robbery?　　The sects can only seethe inwardly but not speak out, leaving behind this rumor.　　Historically known as the Star Domain Borrowing Mystery.　　In reality, Chen Xia hasn't borrowed too many spirit stones; he only has one hundred thousand spirit stones now. He feels that borrowing money this way is too slow and thinks it would be faster to directly approach major sects for loans.　　A single loan could get him one hundred thousand spirit stones, much quicker than borrowing small amounts.　　But choosing which major sect to borrow from presents another worry.　　Unable to decide, Chen Xia ultimately decides to give up on the idea, lying on a dead star like he's about to die. He ends up using the dead star to craft himself a square coffin.　　With a million souls pulling the coffin, it resides within the Dead Star Domain.　　Chen Xia lies inside the coffin.　　Twenty years later, Li Yue visits Chen Xia again, dressed in a white dress and bringing some special medicinal herbs from her family. However, she doesn't see Chen Xia, only the black coffin.　　Her expression freezes instantly, her grip on the medicinal herbs loosens, tears start to form at the corners of her eyes, and quickly turns into anger, gritting her teeth and shouting lowly.　　"Who is it, I'm going to kill... kill..."　　"Who?" A calm voice comes from inside the coffin as Chen Xia pops his head out, frowning: "Why so uncivilized, disturbing my sleep."　　"Eh... Eh?" Li Yue's face shows surprise, then she quickly lowers herself, picks up the herbs, and flashes to stand opposite Chen Xia.　　"What?" Chen Xia frowns and asks.　　"Um..." Li Yue hesitates, tilts her head slightly, and replies: "My family has... has some extra medicinal herbs, so I brought you a few."　　"Thank you." Chen Xia takes the herbs, swallows them whole, and then burrows back into the coffin, waving his hand.　　"If there's nothing else, I'm going back to sleep."　　Thud.　　The coffin lid closes.　　Li Yue blinks her watery eyes, unsure how to respond, and calls out: "If there are more medicinal herbs in the future, will you still eat them?"　　No response, the star domain remains silent.　　"Huh... huh." Li Yue laughs awkwardly, hands behind her back, whistles, perhaps feeling embarrassed, she kicks a passing soul.　　She really wants to talk to the Lord of the Dead Stars, liking might be too strong a word given the generation gap between them.　　Mainly, she finds the Lord of the Dead Stars interesting, often speaking from perspectives Li Yue never thought of.　　So Li Yue enjoys coming to talk to Chen Xia, but it seems Chen Xia doesn't want to talk to her.　　Li Yue shakes her head, thinking Chen Xia must be busy.　　Talking about sleeping probably means entering seclusion, since Chen Xia always speaks like that.　　She consoles herself with a few words, wanders around the Dead Star Domain twice, finding it boring, and finally looks back at the black coffin lying across the Dead Star Domain before turning to leave.　　This departure.　　Spans a century.　　———　　After the seven major sects failed in assassinating Li Yue.　　It seems they understood the saying 'if you can't beat the little ones, go after the elders,' so they directly went after the Li Family Patriarch.　　And at the critical moment, the seven major sects failed to kill the Li Family Patriarch.　　This failure is worth investigating.　　Although the Li Family Patriarch escaped, he was severely injured, falling in cultivation and lacking spiritual energy.　　Naturally, the Li Family was very angry, and in a fit of rage, they sought help from Li Yang, asking him to take charge.　　Even though Li Yang officially left the Li Family, they weren't enemies, and blood is thicker than water, so he couldn't ignore it.　　Thus, Li Yang intervened, demanding an explanation from the seven major sects.　　After all, two assassination attempts against the Li Family occurred within less than two hundred years, which is not simple.　　The seven major sects were also troubled. They had just dealt with the cultivators who chased Li Yue, and now this happened again.　　What's most absurd is that this time the assassin was indeed from the seven major sects, and not just any cultivator but an Inverse Sea realm elder.　　When the Li Family came to demand an explanation, they wanted this Inverse Sea realm elder dead and demanded fifty thousand spirit stones in compensation from the seven major sects.　　The seven major sects definitely refused, agreeing to let the elder die but not to pay the compensation.　　Just as the two parties were entangled,　　the Li Family lost someone.　　The Li Family Patriarch, who was recuperating, died completely, his head hung on the signboards of the seven major sects, news spreading throughout the entire star domain instantly.　　Now both the Li Family and the seven major sects knew someone was meddling.　　But they didn't know who, mainly because there were too many suspects, all these cultivators being bad seeds, none of them good people.　　That same year.　　Cultivators from the seven major sects began dying continuously, although they were mostly Grand Ascension and Mountain Moving realm cultivators, too many deaths still had a significant impact.　　Outsiders guessed it was the Li Family doing this.　　But the seven major sects knew it wasn't, as the Li Family was too busy dealing with its own issues.　　The seven major sects realized they had provoked a big shot, one of the few top-tier existences in the star domain.　　One of those highly powerful Heaven Mending realm cultivators!　　The panic lasted for ten years.　　As the seven major sects were almost unable to hold on, someone approached them.　　A cultivator dressed in a bright blue robe, holding a sword in his arms, walked into the main hall of the seven major sects with unhurried steps, as if entering a place without anyone.　　Seeing the blue-robed cultivator, the current leader trembled, "It's you!"　　"I used some means, you shouldn't mind, right?" the blue-robed cultivator smiled.　　"Why are you doing this? The seven major sects haven't provoked you!" the leader angrily retorted.　　"For no reason." The blue-robed cultivator lightly replied, "Jia Bai just found it amusing. You know, he loves scheming."　　"Jia... Jia Bai?" the leader whispers, stunned.　　Jia Bai, the seventh of the fourteen sons of Azure Heaven, is now a second-level Heaven Mending realm cultivator and an emperor seedling, capable of matching ordinary third-level Heaven Mending realm cultivators.　　And this blue-robed cultivator holding the sword is also a Heaven Mending realm sword cultivator, only slightly weaker than Jia Bai.　　This kind of confrontation is not something the current seven major sects can handle.　　But why target the seven major sects?　　The blue-robed cultivator gives the answer, the flying sword in his arms trembling slightly, smiling lightly.　　"Jia Bai wants to make the seven major sects look like victims and frame the Li Family as evil, then besiege the Li Family under the guise of righteousness."　　"As for why, probably just for fun. After all, Jia Bai and I are quite bored."　　Suppressing his anger, the leader of the seven major sects asks again.　　"So you're doing this to obtain the entire Li Family?!"　　"No." The blue-robed cultivator shakes his head, smiling again.　　"Jia Bai only wants Li Yang."