Chapter 501: Chapter 502: I Created the Pyramid [4th update, please subscribe]

Wu Tian strode forward. He had made a name for himself in the Underground World after annihilating the Righteous Alliance.

Luo Qingshan and his Immortal Seekers all recognized him, and their expressions changed at once.

Wu Tian walked right up to Luo Qingshan.

Luo Qingshan gritted his teeth and said, "If you must kill someone, kill me. Just don’t harm them."

Hearing this, the Immortal Seekers were suddenly filled with courage. They approached Wu Tian and knelt once more. "Mr. Wu Tian, please don’t harm him!"

"If you’re going to kill him, kill me first."

They pleaded with Wu Tian one by one, some with tears streaming down their faces, which momentarily moved him.

"Don’t worry. I will let him live." Wu Tian had just read Luo Qingshan’s physiognomy and realized he could not die yet. First, he would indirectly be of help. Second, he would provide a good show to watch.

Wu Tian then turned to the Immortal Seekers kneeling for Luo Qingshan’s sake. "But as for you," he said, "you must die."

They nodded. As long as Luo Qingshan was spared, they were relieved.

Who would have thought Luo Qingshan could win people’s hearts to such an extent?

Liu Tianji and the others stepped forward, and everyone except for Luo Qingshan was slain.

"Get out of here," Wu Tian said.

Luo Qingshan departed in tears.

The little one in Qin Yuhan’s arms exclaimed, "He’s a grown man, yet he’s crying like that... Sigh!"

Wu Tian, however, looked solemnly at the little one and said, "Girl, you must be wary of people like him. They are the most dangerous kind."

Liu Tianji and the others nodded in agreement. People who look fierce on the outside aren’t always the most terrifying. But when people like Luo Qingshan—who appear kind, weak, and blood-shy—turn sinister, they are the ones who are truly dark.

Qin Yuhan asked, "Then why did you let him go?"

Wu Tian smiled. "I want to watch a good show and see if this ’son’ can truly be ruthless enough to kill his own master!"

Hearing this, everyone was startled.

Luo Qingshan could kill the Honorable Master? That seems impossible.

Wu Tian simply smiled, offering no explanation. Instead, he commanded, "Clean up the bodies."

"Yes," Liu Tianji and the others replied with a nod. With so many corpses underground, an epidemic could easily break out. If it were to accidentally spread to the Surface World, it would spell disaster for the people above.

Some of the most notorious plagues in the history of the Surface World were linked to the Underground World. Major earthquakes, too, were often related to large-scale battles between the Immortal Seekers below.

「Meanwhile...」

Luo Qingshan fled the area in a hurry, only to encounter another group from the Great Sect. The members of the Great Sect were divided into Bronze, Silver, and Gold tiers. The ones Wu Tian and his group had just effortlessly killed were Bronze. Now, Luo Qingshan had run into Silver-tier Immortal Seekers.

Within the Great Sect, there were 10,000 Bronze Immortal Seekers, 1,000 Silver, and only 12 Gold.

Before Luo Qingshan stood over a hundred of the Great Sect’s Silver Immortal Seekers.

"Young Master Luo, what happened to you? Why do you look so pale?"

Luo Qingshan had good connections within the sect. As an illegitimate child, he had learned to endure hardships. He had worked as a servant for a long time, but he gritted his teeth and climbed step by step to become one of the Silver Immortal Seekers.

"I was leading over two hundred Bronze Immortal Seekers, having discovered how to open the Barrier, but we were ambushed," Luo Qingshan said. His eyes darted around as he suddenly gritted his teeth and added, "Both sides suffered casualties. In the end, the enemy achieved a Pyrrhic victory, and I was the only one left. I had no choice but to escape. I have failed them."

Upon hearing this, the hundred-plus Silver Immortal Seekers were furious, but they also gleaned some information from Luo Qingshan’s words.

The enemy isn’t that strong? They only managed a Pyrrhic victory against more than two hundred Bronze Immortal Seekers? If we Silver Immortal Seekers go, wouldn’t it be child’s play to take them down?

"I’ll take you... COUGH! COUGH! COUGH!" Luo Qingshan had barely spoken a word before he was seized by a violent coughing fit.

His face grew pale, making the Silver Immortal Seekers quite worried.

"There’s no need. You should go back and recuperate."

"That’s right, we can handle their small force."

"Indeed."

One Silver Immortal Seeker stayed behind to personally carry Luo Qingshan back to the Great Sect, while the others gazed toward the Abyss with cold smiles.

"Brothers, the enemy is only slightly stronger than our Great Sect’s Bronze Immortal Seekers! We, who have dedicated our lives to the Honorable Master, must reclaim the Abyss! It belongs to our Great Sect! Only our Great Sect is worthy of finding the footsteps of the immortals and achieving ascension for the entire sect!"

"Achieve ascension for the entire sect!"

"Achieve ascension for the entire sect!"

"Achieve ascension for the entire sect!"

"..."

Their entire lives were dedicated to the Honorable Master alone. In their eyes, among all the Immortal Seekers in the Underground World, only those from their Great Sect were worthy of becoming immortals. They believed their mission was destined for success.

But they never stopped to consider what would happen if Luo Qingshan was deceiving them.

「Back before the Abyss...」

Liu Tianji and the others had already piled up the corpses. The resulting pile stood over sixty meters high and spanned more than fifty meters wide. It was hard to imagine just how many people had died trying to break the Barrier.

"We should burn them to prevent any plagues," Liu Tianji suggested.

"No," Yuan Beizheng said, shaking his head as he considered something. "The thick smoke would spread for miles, attracting unwanted attention."

For a moment, they were at a loss as to how to deal with the mountain of corpses. They could only look to Wu Tian for a solution.

A smile touched Wu Tian’s lips. "Let’s build a pyramid!"

Liu Tianji and the others were stunned.

A pyramid? How would we build one?

Even they, people of the Underground World, had no idea.

Of course, a pyramid could be built using cultivation techniques. However, the Immortal Seekers had discovered that the pyramids were built in the blink of an eye—a fact unknown to the people of the Surface World. Even an Immortal Seeker couldn’t possibly build a pyramid in an instant. Not even a legendary Tribulation-Transcending Immortal Seeker, a level never before seen, could accomplish such a feat.

Yet Wu Tian stretched out his palm, once again wielding the Power of Creation from his Nine Dragon Ring. This time, he wasn’t creating a New Holy Land or the No Heaven Villa, but a pyramid.

Suddenly, before their very eyes, the earth and stones began to churn. They rose up to cover the mountain of bones, gradually taking on a new shape.

"A pyramid?" Liu Tianji and the others stared in awe as if looking upon a marvel. Yuan Beizheng’s beard trembled. "Forget the people of the Surface World, who have always been puzzled by how the pyramids were built—even we in the Underground World don’t know! Could it be... could it be that someone like our Lord has appeared before, constructing a pyramid using such methods?"

The little one in Qin Yuhan’s arms also cried out, "It seems the pyramids on Earth have something to do with you, Dad."

All eyes turned to Wu Tian. He, too, was frowning slightly.

In the entire history of the Immortal Emperor Realm, only one person had ever mastered the Law of Creation: the Creation Martial Emperor! Could the Creation Martial Emperor have suddenly vanished and come to Earth? If he is still alive, where is he now?

Wu Tian simply could not figure it out.

Meanwhile, the Great Sect’s Immortal Seekers who were charging toward the Abyss hadn’t even reached their destination when they spotted a mountain-sized pyramid in the distance. They were utterly dumbfounded.

Since when was there a pyramid here?