Chapter 202: The Inheritance Opens; Little Seven
Meanwhile, the top ten prodigies on the Prodigy Rankings were, for the most part, all acquainted with one another.
And upon arriving near the inheritance ground, they all gravitated of their own accord toward Li Daoyi, the Dao Son of the Wild Heaven Sect.
"Brother Li!"
Lin Gufo walked up before Li Daoyi, offered him a Buddhist salute, and spoke.
At the sound, Li Daoyi finally opened his eyes, looked at Lin Gufo, and smiled.
"Little Buddha, it's been a while."
After Lin Gufo, Tang Lumo and the others arrived as well, and Tang Lumo gave Li Daoyi a bewitching smile.
"Brother Li, you'd best go easy on me later."
Had it been anyone else facing Tang Lumo, they likely wouldn't even realize how they'd been bewitched.
But Li Daoyi merely shook his head.
"Put away your charms — they don't work on me. Try to bewitch me again and don't blame me for striking first."
Seeing how bluntly oblivious Li Daoyi was, a trace of hurt showed on Tang Lumo's face.
"Brother Li, you really do have a heart of stone."
As for the other prodigies, they were all long used to this routine of Tang Lumo's, so they paid it no mind.
Just then, Zheng Yizhuang, ranked sixth on the Prodigy Rankings, knit his brows and spoke.
"Where's that fellow Chuntian? He's never once been late."
"Oh, you haven't heard yet? They say Li Chuntian has already been dealt with."
Hearing Zheng Yizhuang bring up Li Chuntian, a bewitching look came over Tang Lumo's face as she spoke.
And her words were like a great boulder cast into a still lake, sending shock through the prodigies present.
"Who could kill Chuntian? Apart from the three of you, who could possibly kill Chuntian?"
Zheng Yizhuang's eyes went wide, his tone disbelieving.
Among the top ten of the Prodigy Rankings, apart from the gap in strength below the top three, the rest were all more or less evenly matched — and with Chuntian backed by the Immortal-Slaying Sect, who could have dealt with him?
As if sensing Zheng Yizhuang's doubt, Lin Gufo was the first to react, pressing his palms together and chanting a sutra in praise of Li Chuntian.
Tang Lumo covered her mouth and giggled. "Don't go thinking it was me — I looked down on him; he wasn't worth the trouble of lifting a finger against."
Then everyone's gaze turned to Li Daoyi at the center.
"Don't look at me, I don't know either. If I'd wanted to make a move, no one would ever have learned the news of Li Chuntian's fall."
The others thought it over and figured he had a point.
"So the question is — just who has the ability to make even Chuntian no match for them?"
Tang Lumo's tone was playful as she began to scan the surroundings.
Anyone who could slay Li Chuntian was surely no weakling, and would almost certainly come to fight for this inheritance.
But after looking around for a good while, she spotted no one worth suspecting, and could only withdraw her gaze.
"Enough. Li Chuntian was outmatched; his death was his own due. In any case, for now let's focus on the matter of the inheritance."
At this point, Li Daoyi spoke, and the others could only pull their thoughts back from the matter of Li Chuntian's fall.
Only Zheng Yizhuang's expression remained grim, his heart filled with killing intent toward whoever had slain Li Chuntian.
He and Li Chuntian had been the closest of friends; now that Li Chuntian had fallen, he, as a friend, naturally had to find every means to avenge him.
"Brother Li, what kind of mighty being's inheritance do you think this is?"
Just then, Qin Wudao, ranked fourth on the Prodigy Rankings, looked at Li Daoyi and asked curiously.
Li Daoyi rose to his feet, gazed at the pillar of light, and spoke with no small confidence.
"At the very least, an Immortal Venerable Inheritance."
"An Immortal Venerable Inheritance, huh. And here I thought it was an Immortal Emperor Inheritance."
Hearing it was an Immortal Venerable Inheritance, a trace of disappointment showed on Tang Lumo's face.
After all, her Demon Sound Sect did not lack for Immortal Venerable powerhouses, and as the sect's demoness she could have anything she wished — so naturally she wouldn't take an Immortal Venerable Inheritance to heart.
The rest, too, did not much care for an Immortal Venerable Inheritance; to them, it was nowhere near enough to stir their hearts.
Except for Qin Wudao.
His eyes were filled with grim determination to claim it.
The prodigies on the Prodigy Rankings, for the most part, each had their own sects — after all, prodigies were, by and large, fed into being by resources.
Only Qin Wudao was the odd one out, a rogue cultivator.
It wasn't that no sect was willing to take Qin Wudao in; rather, Qin Wudao was used to coming and going as he pleased and couldn't stand being bound, so he had never joined a sect.
And just then, that pillar of light vanished.
In the place from which the pillar of light had shone, a space passage appeared.
Seeing this, the surrounding cultivators charged straight in without another word.
Li Daoyi and the others, by contrast, strolled in unhurriedly — they had only come for the trial; as for the Immortal Venerable Inheritance, if they got it, fine; if not, so be it.
"Holy Son, Holy Maiden, let's go."
Seeing the inheritance open, Ye Wushuang and Gu Feng both spoke up eagerly.
But Lu Qingyun shook her head. "You all go in. I won't be going."
Seeing the puzzled looks the others gave her, Lu Qingyun raised her head and looked at the Seven-Colored Heavenly Dao Deer beneath her.
Over these ten years, the Seven-Colored Heavenly Dao Deer had grown considerably, though it stood only half as tall as Lu Qingyun.
"Little Seven won't go into the Spirit Pet Bag, so I won't be going in either."
Not long after the Seven-Colored Heavenly Dao Deer had awakened, it had decisively acknowledged Lu Qingyun as its master.
It just had one quirk — it refused to go into the Spirit Pet Bag, so it had to follow Lu Qingyun at all times.
"Brother, I'll leave this inheritance to you."
"All right. This inheritance — I have to get my hands on it."
Seeing this, Lu Xiaoyao did not force his sister to go in. Instead, leading the two Holy Lords, he was the first to charge inside.
As for Chen Wangu and Xu Ruoshan, they entered together with Luo Qianxue.
Once there was no one left around, the inheritance space passage closed accordingly.
"Little Seven, let's go."
There was no telling how long the inheritance would last, and Lu Qingyun naturally wouldn't wait outside, so she simply climbed onto Little Seven.
The next moment, Little Seven carried Lu Qingyun off, vanishing into the great mountain.
It had to be said, the Seven-Colored Heavenly Dao Deer's talent was formidable — in this short span of time, Little Seven had already cultivated all the way to the Peak of the Emperor Realm.
What was more, after Little Seven acknowledged her as master, Lu Qingyun's own talent had risen dramatically as well; in a mere ten years she too had cultivated to the Late Immortal Stage.
Meanwhile.
Having stepped into the space passage, a wave of dizzying disorientation washed over them.
By the time Lu Xiaoyao and the others came to their senses, they had been pulled into another space entirely.
Gazing at the great mountain before him, Lu Xiaoyao knit his brows and instinctively sent out his divine sense — only to discover, to his utter shock, that his divine sense... was gone?
Not only his divine sense — even his cultivation realm and strength, all of it, was gone!