Chapter 720: Chapter 722: A Thousand Years of Deep Love (Part 6)
Act first, report later—even if he returns, what then? All that needed to be done had been done. Could it really be they wanted to destroy the entire Immortal Medicine Sect? After all, the sect was his power base, so it was impossible to completely dismantle it…
“This is bad, Elder in Grey, Patriarch, something terrible has happened!”
At that moment, a panicked voice suddenly rang out.
“What has happened?” Yao Jun’s heart skipped a beat, and a hint of unease showed on his furrowed brow.
“It’s… it’s the people from the Immortal Medicine Sect, they’ve come to kill us…”
“What?”
Yao Jun sprang to his feet, his face ashen as he said, “I didn’t expect them to come so quickly! With three Spiritual Origin Realm masters within the Immortal Medicine Sect, we simply do not have the strength to oppose them…”
How formidable is the Spiritual Origin Realm? Yao Family had only two such individuals, after all.
Yet, the Immortal Medicine Sect had three…
“Elder in Grey, let’s go out and take a look!” Yao Jun flicked his robe and strode towards the door.
Above the sky outside the Yao Family, countless figures soared into the air, forming a dense mass. At the forefront were the Shangguan mother and daughter and two other elders from the Immortal Medicine Sect.
Yao Jun immediately recognized that the two elders were none other than Ling Yuan Junlan and Yun Tai from the Immortal Medicine Sect. It seemed that this time, the sect was indeed determined to annihilate the four major powers…
He couldn’t help but sigh softly, his face showing a look of despair. Could it really be that heaven intended to ruin him?
Suddenly, his gaze fell upon the figure of an elderly man within the crowd, and his pupils contracted sharply: “Cang Lan, why are you within the ranks of the Immortal Medicine Sect’s forces?”
The elder named Cang Lan burst into laughter and said, “Yao Jun, this is how the world works: the strong prevail. So, I advise you to do as we do and swear loyalty to the Immortal Medicine Sect, or you will surely be asking for misery!”
Yao Jun’s color changed: “I am not like you, afraid of death and greedy for life! I wonder how the people of the Medicine Sect would feel seeing you act like this, how desperate and heartbroken they would be!”
“Haha!” Cang Lan threw back his head in wild laughter, his lips curling with mockery, “Haven’t you heard, it’s better to be alive than anything else? I am not like those fools, loyal to the Medicine Sect even when death is at hand!”
Yao Jun’s body trembled; he looked up at the elder in the void, his eyes flashing a cold light: “I’ll ask you once, my illness back then, did you really have a cure?”
“Hmph!” Cang Lan snorted disdainfully, “Indeed, I could have cured it, but what does it matter if I didn’t help you? As long as you die, the Yao Family will no longer be a threat. Who knew you would have such luck to survive that ordeal! But what does it matter now, when your destruction is inevitable?”
Even though Yao Jun had guessed the answer, his heart still shuddered: “Our many years of friendship, why have you done this?”
“Friendship?” Cang Lan’s voice dripped with scorn, “The word ‘friend’ doesn’t suit you! I, Cang Lan, have never considered you my friend. If it hadn’t been for you, the junior sister would surely have chosen me. All these years, I’ve wished nothing but death upon you, so how could I pass up such a grand opportunity? However, I can give you one piece of advice, out of regard for our past association. You might as well surrender. The Immortal Medicine Sect possesses immense power and having now subjugated three major forces, do you really think someone from a mere Yao Family could oppose the mighty Immortal Medicine Sect?”
Yao Jun clenched his fists tightly, the knuckles cracking with the force of his grip. His eyes, full of pride, stared coldly at the elder floating in the void: “I, Yao Jun, would rather die here than surrender!”