The Whole Sect Forced Me to Die, So I Went Berserk and Killed Them All - Chapter 10:

Chapter 10: Absorb Your Earth Qi, Destroy Your Foundation

In the Divination Hall of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the elder of fate suddenly opened his eyes mid-meditation.

“Pfft—”

Without warning, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

“What’s going on? Why do I suddenly feel such a deep sense of unease?”

Disturbed, the elder immediately began calculating with his fingers.

In an instant, cold sweat poured down his back. “What?! The Child of Destiny’s fortune is declining? How is that possible!”

At that moment, a rift tore open in the void, and a disciple’s voice echoed from within, “Elder, something terrible has happened! The fate plate representing the Child of Destiny has dimmed significantly!”

Hearing this, the elder transformed into a streak of light and entered the void rift.

When he arrived at the Fate Plate Chamber and saw that the plate symbolizing Ye Fan’s fortune had indeed gone dark and dull, he collapsed to the ground.

“This is impossible… Ye Fan is protected by the Heavenly Dao. His fortune is enough to influence the entire Primordial Continent. He’s fated to be one of this world’s future rulers. How could his destiny decay so drastically? Something must be wrong…”

A disciple beside him asked, “Elder, should we send someone to the Heavenly Feather Sect to investigate what happened?”

The elder calmed his breathing, crossed his legs, and began a deeper divination.

“Hmm?”

He opened his eyes once more, eyes darkened.

“Elder, what did you find? Why do you look so grim?”

“Pass down my order—send Tan Beihuan and Ai Buli to the Heavenly Feather Sect at once. If they discover any heretic or anomaly that is harming the Child of Destiny’s fortune, no matter who it is, eliminate them immediately!”

“Yes, Elder. I take my leave.”

Once the disciple left, the elder resumed his calculations.

“Strange… I understood the heavenly secrets over three thousand years ago. Why can’t I see the cause of Ye Fan’s fortune decline? Could there be an unknown force interfering?”

He rose, gazed deeply at Ye Fan’s fate plate, and fell into deep contemplation.

…

At that moment, Shen Lian, having left the Heavenly Feather Sect, was gently waving his folding fan while drifting across the still waters of Tranquil Heart Lake on a small boat.

“First day in this world and I’ve already caused such chaos. The Heavenly Feather Sect and those seven ungrateful wolves won’t sit idly by. If I want to live, I must improve my cultivation before they make their move. At 9th stage Spirit Transformation Realm, I’m still too weak. If I cultivate step by step, even with my full potential restored, it would take three years to reach 8th stage Primordial Unity Realm. That’s far too slow. I need a faster way to rebuild my foundation if I want to survive what’s coming.”

Though Shen Lian acted wildly, it didn’t mean he lacked brains.

The massacre at the Heavenly Feather Sect today had been carefully calculated.

The ancestor was in critical closed-door cultivation and wouldn’t emerge to protect Ye Fan.

Three of the five peak masters had gone to the Monster Beast Mountain Range with Shen Yunchu to suppress a Beast Tide and reinforce the seal, leaving the sect without the strength to stop him.

Only Sword Heaven Peak, Scarlet Flame Peak, and four ineffective Elders remained.

Once he dealt with them, there’d be no external force to stop his escape.

Everything had gone exactly as Shen Lian had planned.

Being mad required capital. A madman without brains was just a clown.

This was a truth Shen Lian, having lived through a hundred lifetimes under jungle law, knew well.

As he was thinking, the old boatman suddenly asked, “Where is sir headed? Ahead is the Heavenly Feather Sect’s Spiritual Vein Mine. Should I drop you there?”

“Spiritual Vein Mine?”

Hearing this, Shen Lian’s mind recalled some memories.

“The Spiritual Vein Mine is the main source of Spiritual Qi cultivation for outer sect disciples. It’s connected to the local earth qi… and it was this body’s previous owner, this so-called trash, who discovered and gifted it to the sect over 200 years ago. Thanks to this vein, the Heavenly Feather Sect rapidly rose to become one of the four major sects in the Eastern Region. Hmm…”

At that thought, a cold smile curved on Shen Lian’s lips.

“Since it was mine to begin with, I have every right to take it back. Every piece of trash in Heavenly Feather Sect deserves to struggle in the mud waiting for death.”

He tossed a spirit stone behind him to the boatman.

Before the boatman could even react, Shen Lian had already vanished.

“A celestial! A real celestial! I, Old Zhang the Third, have seen a real celestial!”

The stunned boatman dropped to his knees in the small boat, kowtowing repeatedly.

…

Above the Spiritual Vein Mine, Shen Lian walked in the air, coldly observing the mortals toiling below like ants.

They endured the beatings and scolding from Heavenly Feather Sect disciples without daring to pause for even a second.

“Hmph. Pathetic. They’ve learned some scraps of cultivation, yet all they do is bully mortals. And they dare call themselves cultivators? What a joke.”

As he spoke, he formed hand seals and swiftly arranged a Spirit Gathering Array over the surrounding area.

“Now then… let’s return everything to its origin.”

Without hesitation, he activated the [Profound Heaven Heaven-Earth Technique].

The Spirit Gathering Array roared to life, frantically drawing the energy of the spiritual vein toward itself.

Within just ten breaths, aided by thousands of times enhanced suction, the abundant Spiritual Qi surged into the array like a broken dam.

A hundred times stronger than the Spiritual Qi he absorbed earlier, it poured into Shen Lian’s body.

9th stage Spirit Transformation Realm…

Peak Spirit Transformation Realm…

…

Breakthrough!

1st stage Void Refining Realm.

As expected, Shen Lian broke into the Void Refining Realm, and the Spiritual Energy in his Dantian Sea now far surpassed what he had during the massacre in the Law Enforcement Hall.

Some of the miners began to notice something was wrong.

Why were previously radiant high-grade spirit stones suddenly turning dull?

At first, only a few noticed and didn’t think much of it—maybe the stones had cracks or internal leakage.

But soon, more and more people realized something was off.

The loss of energy was terrifyingly fast—what were once top-quality stones turned into low-grade ones in the blink of an eye, then into mere ordinary rocks.

Even spirit stones that had already been harvested, previously flawless, rapidly deteriorated until they were nothing but useless rubble.

“What’s going on?! Why is this happening?!”

Several Heavenly Feather Sect disciples stared in horror as the spirit stones crumbled into worthless debris in their hands.

While they were still bewildered, the ground began to tremble violently.

“Earthquake!”

All the miners panicked and dropped their tools, fleeing the mine in terror.

At the same time, the entire mine began collapsing as rocks fell and cracks formed.

The disciples who had been examining the spirit stones had no time to think—they turned and ran.

Meanwhile, Shen Lian floated in the sky, fully focused on absorbing the vast, abyss-like Spiritual Qi and rapidly strengthening his cultivation base.

By now, the entire spiritual vein had been drained under the power of the array.

But he wasn’t finished.

Even the earth qi that nourished the vein was now within his grasp.

4th stage Void Refining Realm…

5th stage…

6th stage!

By the time he reached 6th stage Void Refining Realm, the entire vein spanning 800 li collapsed and dried up.

With the mountain no longer shielding it, the remaining earth qi surged upward and was sucked entirely into Shen Lian’s array.

“Hu…”

At last, reaching the peak of Void Refining Realm, Shen Lian slowly exhaled.

The earth qi that had taken hundreds of thousands of years to form was now completely absorbed.

“The price for offending me… which of you can bear it? Don’t worry. This is only the beginning.”

“I’ll drag every one of you into the deepest pit, make you watch as I rise to the peak of the Great Dao, and force you to look up at me in despair and regret. Hahahaha—”

As his wild, unrestrained laughter echoed through the sky, Shen Lian turned into a streak of flowing light and vanished into the distance, leaving behind nothing but a ruined wasteland.