Sakuragetsu watched Ye Ling, who stood unharmed, in a daze, unable to react.
This, this…
Sakuragetsu couldn't understand what had happened between the Venerable Lord and Ye Ling.
Why had the Venerable Lord retracted his attack after launching it?
Ye Ling walked towards the altar with a faint smile and asked the Venerable Lord, "I am very curious, who exactly are you? To be swindling people here like this?"
The Venerable Lord stammered, "You, you don't come any closer! I have powerful backing!"
Hearing the Venerable Lord's panicked voice, Sakuragetsu's eyes were filled with disbelief. He quickly asked, "Venerable Lord, what happened to you? Why aren't you devouring him?"
In Sakuragetsu's heart, the Venerable Lord was a great desert capable of destroying the world. When he was cornered by the Ten Great Experts, he had inadvertently triggered the Venerable Lord's seal, and then the Venerable Lord had helped him break through to the Ninth Grade Mortal Immortal!
After that, with the Venerable Lord's help, Sakuragetsu had killed the Ten Great Experts who had surrounded him, as well as a hundred thousand troops!
It could be said that Sakuragetsu's breakthrough to Mortal Immortal was entirely facilitated by the Venerable Lord!
However, Sakuragetsu's becoming a Mortal Immortal was not without its price. The Venerable Lord had completely taken him as a slave. To repay the life-saving grace, he had to offer twelve peerless geniuses to the Venerable Lord as sacrifices every hundred years.
Otherwise, the Venerable Lord would break through the seal and devour the entire world!
Sakuragetsu had always guarded this secret, and he believed everything the Venerable Lord said, never revealing the Venerable Lord's existence to outsiders.
He feared that the Venerable Lord would discover his leak and that his wrath would consume the Yang Kingdom!
But…
Hearing the Venerable Lord's current fearful voice, Sakuragetsu was completely stunned, and his faith collapsed.
What about the ability to devour the world that was promised?
In the end, it was afraid of Ye Ling?
Seeing Sakuragetsu's incredulous expression, Ye Ling smiled and said, "The Venerable Lord you've always feared is just a nobody at the True Martial realm. It might be considered top-tier in the mortal world, but in the Three Realms, there are plenty who can crush it with one hand."
Boom!
As soon as Ye Ling spoke, Sakuragetsu's mind exploded, and his entire spirit was greatly impacted.
Plenty of beings could crush the Venerable Lord?
This must be a lie!
"This is impossible! You must be lying to me! The Venerable Lord could directly help me break through to Mortal Immortal, and it could easily devour me, so how could it not destroy the world?"
Sakuragetsu roared, veins bulging on his neck, completely unable to accept what Ye Ling had said.
If what Ye Ling said was true, then his efforts to protect the world by consistently offering sacrifices to the Venerable Lord would have become a joke?
Sakuragetsu could not accept this fact.
"You don't believe me?"
Ye Ling chuckled, stepped lightly on the altar with his foot, and a puff of black smoke emerged from the altar. Then, a giant black rat was shaken out of the altar.
After being shaken out of the altar, the giant rat's eyes filled with endless fear, and it frantically tried to escape into the distance. However, it was bound by Ye Ling's demonic energy and suspended in mid-air.
Ye Ling threw the rat in front of Sakuragetsu and said, "Here, this is the Venerable Lord you speak of."
The rat struggled incessantly, shouting in a sharp voice, "Let me go! Do you know who I am?"
Hearing the familiar voice from the rat's mouth, Sakuragetsu's faith completely collapsed. He knelt on the ground, disheveled and vacant-eyed.
He couldn't accept that the Venerable Lord he had feared for hundreds of years was just such a fat, big-eared black rat!
Sakuragetsu trembled and said, "How, how is this possible… What have I been doing all these years…"
Wang Liren looked at Sakuragetsu's current state, his feelings complex.
Anyone who experienced what Sakuragetsu had gone through would likely not be able to accept it.
The dignified Mortal Immortal of the mortal world, a being feared by billions, was actually toyed with by a rat. If a Mortal Immortal was so insignificant, Wang Liren couldn't imagine… in this vast world, was he a blade of grass, or dust?
And the Emperor… what kind of role would he play in the Three Realms?
The bright sun in the sky?
Unknowingly, Ye Ling's status in Wang Liren's heart had risen infinitely.
Ye Ling walked up to the rat and stepped on its head, crushing half of its head into the ground. He said, "Little thing, tell me about your background."
"The aura surrounding you carries the scent of an outsider."
Upon hearing Ye Ling's words, the rat's eyes flickered slightly, and then it shrieked, "I, I don't know what you're talking about?"
Crack!
As soon as it finished speaking, Ye Ling's foot exerted a little more force, directly crushing the rat's skull. The rat immediately bled from all seven orifices, and the intense pain stimulated it to yelp incessantly.
"Pain, pain, pain! Let go of your foot quickly! My master is Huang! If you dare to touch me, you will surely suffer!"
"Huang?"
Hearing the rat's words, a hint of surprise flashed in Ye Ling's eyes. "You mean Huang, the leader of the Void Organization?"
The rat retorted, "That's right! It's the Great Lord Huang! If you know his name, then obediently release your foot! Otherwise, when my master arrives, you will be utterly destroyed!"
Bang!
As soon as the rat finished speaking, its head was directly stomped into an explosion by Ye Ling, splattering blood and flesh all over Sakuragetsu!
Sakuragetsu looked at the headless corpse in front of him, his body trembling.
Venerable Lord…
His head was stomped into an explosion?
Just as Sakuragetsu's spirit was greatly impacted, a smaller rat emerged from the headless corpse of the giant rat and quickly burrowed into the ground.
However, before the rat could burrow halfway, Ye Ling stepped on its tail, rendering it immobile!
The rat, having been caught, emerged from the soil again, turned its head, and roared at Ye Ling, "Kid! Do you really dare to capture me? My cousin is a great demon from before the Buddha's lamp. It consumed the Buddha's lamp oil and has the potential to become a saint. Aren't you afraid?"
"Oh? You have other connections?"
Ye Ling chuckled, then shook the rat into the air again. He then formed wind into a blade and sliced the rat in half.
A white jade transparent rat flew out of the corpse and once again attempted to flee towards the hole.
Unfortunately, this time the white jade rat still failed to escape. It slammed headfirst into a transparent air wall, becoming dizzy and disoriented.
This time, the white jade rat was only palm-sized, and there were no more substitutes within it. It was clearly its true form.
Its cultivation had dropped directly from the True Martial realm to the peak of the Eighth Grade. The cultivation accumulated over these centuries had been completely destroyed by Ye Ling.
Seeing that the Venerable Lord had been beaten by Ye Ling to be even weaker than himself, Sakuragetsu's blood surged, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, completely passing out!
He couldn't accept that the supreme god in his heart turned out to be just a small Eighth Grade white rat!
He was the biggest fool in the world!
Ye Ling grabbed the white jade rat from a distance and asked with a smile, "Speak, what is your name?"
The white jade rat, hanging by its tail, looked at Ye Ling in terror and stammered, "I, I am… Cang Tian Shu."