Chapter 533: The Ins and Outs
Originally, although Dongfang Bai climbed to the high position of Zuo Tianjun of the Heavenly King Sect, because he had joined the sect for a relatively short time, his foundation was not solid, and Tianxing, the director of the Heavenly King Sect at that time, seemed to cultivate her as the heir of the sect leader, so Dongfang Bai was not in a hurry to seize power.
Anyway, there was no clear time limit for the trial mission that the Firmament God had taught her, as long as she could eventually become the leader of the Heavenly King Sect. And what Ren Tianxing said to her could be regarded as knowing the grace of promotion, if it wasn't for the last resort, she wouldn't be willing to really act against Ren Tian.
However, Dongfang Bai didn't expect that people were harmless to the tiger's heart, and the tiger was hurtful, although she didn't think about dealing with Ren Tianxing, but Ren Tianxing didn't have good intentions towards her.
Ren Tianxing was able to become the leader of the Heavenly King Sect, and he was not an idle person. Dongfang Bai didn't know it when he first entered the Heavenly King Sect, but after Dongfang Bai rose rapidly in the sect with his outstanding merits, it aroused his suspicions. After many investigations by him, and even using the dark line that he had finally planted in the Firmament God Sect, Ren Tianxing finally determined Dongfang Bai's identity and origin and her purpose for joining the Heavenly King Sect.
However, Ren Tianxing was cunning and cunning, and after learning Dongfang Bai's purpose, he did not choose to attack immediately, but pretended not to know, and pretended to be extremely appreciative of Dongfang Bai, and vigorously promoted her, promoting her to the high position of Zuo Tianjun, and posing as if she wanted to take Dongfang Bai as the heir of the sect leader, so as to appease Dongfang Bai's heart, so as to lower her vigilance.
It wasn't until later that Dongfang Bai knew that this Ren Tianxing admired and valued her extremely on the surface. In fact, he has hidden evil intentions for her.
The martial arts practiced by Ren Tianxing is the Heavenly King Sect's Zhenjiao Divine Skill "Star Absorbing and Fighting Dafa", this "Star Absorbing and Fighting Dafa" can be regarded as a hybrid and strengthened version of Ling Muyun's "Star Absorbing Dafa" and "Northern Shengong", and it is even somewhat similar to Ling Muyun's Extraterrestrial Divine Skill, which can not only absorb the internal force of others for its own use, but also absorb the essence of other people's internal force and absorb the advantages of others' internal force attributes.
It is precisely because of the characteristics of the "Star Absorbing and Fighting Dafa" that Ren Tianxing got the idea of Dongfang Bai's skills after knowing the origin of Dongfang Bai's identity.
Ren Tianxing's "Star Absorbing and Fighting Dafa" has been rampant in the rivers and lakes for many years, and he has absorbed the skills of many martial arts masters, and he has already reached the realm of innate perfection at that time. He was one of the most famous grandmaster-level masters in the rivers and lakes at that time.
It's just that most of his skills are obtained by absorbing others. Although it is extremely powerful, purely in terms of skill, in addition to the legendary masters who have reached the realm of breaking through the void, it is difficult to find a person who can compare with him in the world. But it is not pure. The will of martial arts is complex and impure. If you want to go further and step into the realm of breaking the void, it is bound to be difficult to reach the sky.
Ren Tianxing also knew that if there were no accidents, his achievements in this life would only stop at the realm of innate perfection. It's just that with his ambition, how can he be willing to be stuck outside the threshold of breaking the void. Not allowed for life? Therefore, after learning that Dongfang Bai turned out to be the holy daughter of the Firmament God Sect, he couldn't help but have evil thoughts.
In his mind, since he couldn't break the void with the ordinary method, he needed to try the extraordinary method. Dongfang Bai, as the holy daughter of the Firmament Divine Cult, practiced the Eastern Emperor Secret Dictionary of the Firmament Divine Sect, and as the strongest Celestial Divine Sect in the world, the Eastern Emperor Secret Dictionary is known as the first divine skill in the world, and the internal force cultivated by this exercise must have its peculiarities. If he can devour and absorb it, he may be able to find a way to break through to the Void Breaking Realm.
In order to achieve the best results, Ren Tianxing did not start as soon as he came up with this method, but tried his best to cultivate and sharpen Dongfang Bai, so that his martial arts cultivation could be improved as soon as possible. It wasn't until Dongfang Bai's martial arts reached the pinnacle of innate greatness that Ren Tianxing found an opportunity to bring Dongfang Bai to the Black Wood Cliff, the main altar of the Heavenly King Sect, and separated everyone else, and suddenly attacked Dongfang Bai.
The reason why Ren Tianxing would make a move at this time was also carefully chosen, if Dongfang Bai's martial arts were too weak and his internal force cultivation was not strong, even if he devoured and absorbed his internal force, he was afraid that the effect would be limited, and it might not be able to help him break through to the realm of breaking through to the void.
But if Dongfang Bai's martial arts cultivation is to reach the realm of innate perfection, with the strength of the Eastern Emperor's secret book, Dongfang Bai's strength will definitely be greatly improved, and Ren Tianxing will not be absolutely sure that Dongfang Bai will be able to clean it up.
Dongfang Bai didn't expect Ren Tianxing to suddenly turn his face and make a move, facing Ren Tianxing, a character who has reached the pinnacle of the grandmaster's realm, although Dongfang Bai has outstanding talent and strength, he is still not an opponent at all, and he was defeated by Ren Tianxing after a few reluctance to deal with him, and he saw that his strength was about to be sucked away by Ren Tianxing.
At this critical juncture, Ling Yuantu, who had been secretly protecting Dongfang Bai, arrived in time and had a big battle with Ren Tianxing, and finally fought with Ren Tianxing to lose both sides, although Ren Tianxing lost the strength to fight again, but he also suffered a fatal blow that could not be saved.
Seeing that he was mortally wounded, and it was irreparable, Ling Yuantu passed on all his skills to Dongfang Bai, and then died of his skills. And after Dongfang Bai got Ling Yuantu's hand, his strength was not only completely restored, but he also took advantage of this to enter the realm of innate perfection and completely control the situation.
Originally, Dongfang Bai wanted to kill Ren Tianxing, but he felt that it would be too cheap to simply kill Ren Tianxing, and he wanted to pry out some secrets from Ren Tianxing's mouth, so he changed his decision, and handed Ren Tianxing over to her henchmen, imprisoned him in an extremely secret place, and tortured him to the extreme.
Later, she pretended to be Ren Tianxing's practice and went mad and died, staged a coup d'état, usurped the power of the Heavenly King Sect, and became the new leader of the Heavenly King Sect.
Because Ling Yuantu's identity was secret, and he had been suspended for many years, although Dongfang Bai was deeply grateful to Ling Yuantu, he only buried Ling Yuantu quietly in person and kept it a secret from the outside world. Therefore, the people in the rivers and lakes, even Ling Muyun and other descendants of the Ling family thought that Ling Yuantu had passed away decades ago, and they didn't know that Ling Yuantu had also entered the Heavenly King Sect, and it was Dongfang Bai's greatest contribution to becoming the leader of the Heavenly King Sect.
Because Dongfang Bai's foundation in the Heavenly King Sect was still shallow at that time, although he succeeded in usurping power, he did not dare to exclude dissidents with great fanfare, and in order to appease people's hearts, he also promoted the original Right Heavenly Monarch to Tianwen by one step, and was promoted to the Left Heavenly Monarch of the Heavenly King Sect, and added Ren Tianxing's young daughter Ren Yingying as the only saint since the founding of the Heavenly King Sect, which can be regarded as a candidate for the head of the Heavenly King Sect.
It wasn't until a few years later, when Dongfang Bai's power in the Heavenly King Sect was stable, that he began to slowly purge those cronies who had always had doubts about her superiority, still remembered the former sect director Tianxing, and had never sincerely surrendered to her.
However, in order to stabilize the situation in the sect, Dongfang Bai carried out the purge of these people quietly and unconsciously, and did not deal with these people with great fanfare, but only handed over some difficult tasks to these people to do, creating more opportunities for them to die in the line of duty, and then supplemented by some other means to quietly cut off these people.
It's just that there is no impermeable wall in the world, and although Dongfang Bai's methods have been as hidden as possible, he is still noticed by a few people in the sect after all, including Zuo Tianjun of the Heavenly King Sect asking the sky.
Xiang Tianwen was originally Ren Tianxing's diehard, so he knew that Ren Tianxing was not really promoting Dongfang Bai, and he had always been suspicious of Ren Tianxing's sudden "violent death" and Dongfang Bai's superiority, and always thought that Ren Tianxing's sudden accident must be inseparable from Dongfang Bai.
Therefore, Xiang Tianwen has been quietly investigating the events of the year over the years, and when he noticed Dongfang Bai's purge of Ren Tianxing's old cronies, he stepped up his actions and investigated a lot of things, and with some sect elders who thought the same as him, he wanted to launch a coup d'état against Dongfang Bai and strike first.
It's just that this matter was noticed by Dongfang Bai, so the coup d'état of Xiang Tianwen and others naturally failed to succeed, and most of their gang were also ambushed on the spot, and only Xiang Tianwen escaped with injuries under the desperate cover of the same party.
So Dongfang Bai personally led people to hunt him down, and happened to learn from his subordinates that Ling Muyun was also involved, with gratitude to Ling Yuantu and curiosity about Ling Muyun himself, Dongfang Bai quietly followed Ling Muyun, and incarnated as "Wang Tiansheng" to contact Ling Muyun.
Originally, Dongfang Bai came into contact with Ling Muyun, mainly because Ling Muyun was a descendant of her deceased benefactor, Dongfang Bai wanted to get in touch and find an opportunity to take care of Ling Muyun in order to repay Ling Yuantu for his great kindness to her back then. It's just that she didn't expect that after having more contact with Ling Muyun, Dongfang Bai found that Ling Muyun was particularly in line with her appetite, so she really intersected with Ling Muyun.
Because Dongfang Bai had been following Ling Muyun since Kaifeng, he couldn't have been very clear about his purpose of coming to Luoyang this time, so that night Ling Muyun went to the Prefecture Pastoral Mansion to find Wang Kaizhi to settle accounts, and she also set off to follow quietly, wanting to take care of him in secret.
Originally, Dongfang Bai followed Ling Muyun to go, just in case, after all, Ling Muyun was not weak, and the general scene would not be difficult for him.
It's just that what Dongfang Bai didn't expect was that Ling Muyun really ran into big trouble in the state pastor's mansion, not only did he meet with the two masters of Princess Fu Wang Mengyao and Luozhou Commander Jiang Bofang, but later even provoked the sword demon relics like Dugu Sword Puppet.
Dongfang Bai came to the rescue, first grabbed a dead ghost and used Ling Muyun as a meat shield to delay the sword demon sword qi, and then took the risk to block the sword demon sword qi for Ling Muyun, which led to a series of things that happened later. (To be continued......)