# Chapter 1589: Destroyed Sorrow
Yun Che and Qianye Ying'er left Tiangang Cloud Clan just like that, without saying goodbye to anyone outside of Yun Shang.
Right as Yun Che was bidding farewell to Yun Shang, a major decision was being made in the Tiangang Cloud Clan's ancestral shrine.
"Is this... the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill?"
At the center of the ancestral shrine, a pearl the size of a dragon's eye floated and shone, occasionally crackling with faint lightning. It was clearly just a pill, yet it possessed a strong aura of life and soul, and the spiritual energy it released was so dense it was almost unbelievable.
Around them, Tiangang Cloud Clan's patriarch Yun Ting, the three Supreme Grand Elders, and all seventeen Grand Elders were seated. Yun Xiang was also present. This was his first time seeing the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill. Over the years, it had been tightly sealed within the grand formation of the ancestral shrine, both to lock in its medicinal power and to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.
"It seems everyone's opinions are unified." Yun Ting spoke slowly, his eyes reflecting the lightning of the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill, carrying a hint of reverence.
"Are we really... going to refine it for Shang'er?" Yun Xiang turned his head, his face showing worry: "But, the ancestors said that only clan members who have passed through at least four thunder tribulations can take the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill. With Shang'er's talent, she is indeed the most qualified person to use it. However, her cultivation has only just entered the Divine Tribulation realm. Using this ancient pill that the ancestral teachings say should only be refined at the Divine Spirit realm is far too dangerous. What if..."
"Don't worry." Second Elder Yun Fu said slowly: "Shang'er alone certainly couldn't handle it. But with all seventeen of us here, plus the patriarch and the three Supreme Grand Elders, there's no reason we can't control the medicinal power of the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill."
"The three Supreme Grand Elders are also going to act?" Yun Xiang's brow furrowed. The three Supreme Grand Elders of the Yun Clan were already nearing the end of their lifespans. Every bit of power they expended would reduce their remaining years.
"Alas," the Supreme Grand Elder in the center sighed lightly, "we only have seven days left until our time runs out. While we still have our lives, let us use this ancient pill to fulfill Shang'er's potential... Otherwise, after seven days, there may never be another chance."
"Shang'er has received blessings from a noble person, and both her physique and profound veins have become extraordinary." Yun Ting said: "She was able to easily refine all sorts of potent pills and even dragon blood before. Now, with all of our strength combined, there is no reason we cannot help Shang'er refine the ancient pill. It's just that Shang'er's cultivation is too weak, so we must control the medicinal power to a great extent. It will take a long time."
"Xiang'er, we summoned you here to borrow your strength as well. That way, the possibility of accidents will be nearly non-existent."
"Alright!" The words and certainty of the elders immediately dispelled the worry in Yun Xiang's heart. He stood up and said: "I'll go get Shang'er."
Soon, in the ancestral shrine, a rather large purple profound formation took shape.
Yun Shang sat peacefully at the center of the formation, with over twenty streams of energy connected to her body through the formation. These energies came from the twenty-two strongest people of the Tiangang Cloud Clan... including the patriarch, the former young patriarch, and all the elders and supreme grand elders.
Only the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill, only Yun Shang, could make them go this far.
"Shang'er, calm your profound energy, relax your mind." Yun Ting spoke in the gentlest voice: "Although the medicinal power of the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill is fierce and overbearing, it is an ancient pill of our Tiangang Cloud Clan and is naturally affinity to us. You must trust us, and even more, trust the heaven-gifted body and profound veins you have received."
"I won't let everyone down." Yun Shang said, very calmly and obediently.
Yun Ting nodded: "Let's begin."
Crack!
Black light flickered, purple light shone, and the profound formation began to operate slowly. The Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill, connected to the energies of twenty-two divine lords, floated up and flew towards Yun Shang. Yun Shang reached out and took it, putting it into her mouth without any hesitation and swallowing it directly.
"Release!" Grand Elder Yun Jian let out a low roar.
The seal on the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill was undone, and its medicinal power suddenly burst forth like a flood. But it was immediately firmly bound under the control of everyone's energy, turning into a fine stream that slowly flowed into Yun Shang's body, then even more slowly refined into her own power.
"Good..."
Although they had never actually witnessed the medicinal power of the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill, with twenty-two divine lords assisting in the refinement, even if Yun Shang had only just entered the Divine Tribulation realm, there was no possibility of an accident. And at the start, it was indeed without danger. Although the medicinal power that gushed forth in an instant was incomparably fierce, it was well within their control.
"This way, Shang'er's cultivation will surely increase greatly. Perhaps she can even reach the middle stage of Divine Tribulation. Her lightning power will also make great progress!" Yun Ting held his breath and concentrated, but his voice carried an excitement he could hardly contain.
One quarter-hour... three quarter-hours...
With the combined efforts of twenty-two divine lords, the medicinal power was controlled extremely smoothly, and the refinement proceeded very smoothly.
"Squeak..."
Just then, in the perception of everyone, a very light, strange sound rang out.
"What was that sound?" The perception of divine lords was extremely sharp; they would not mistake it for an auditory hallucination.
Suddenly, the medicinal power of the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill completely stopped releasing, as if it had dried up. Everyone was startled... But immediately, the shape of the ancient pill suddenly changed, and another extremely eerie strange sound echoed. The briefly dormant Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill erupted with many times... dozens of times the medicinal power it had before.
Like an unforeseen, violently erupting volcano.
"Wh... what?!"
This sudden anomaly filled everyone with great alarm. But an even more terrifying thing followed. Not only did the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill erupt violently, but its medicinal power also incredibly precisely surged towards the weakest point among the twenty-two energy streams, breaking through in an instant. Like a bursting dam, it flooded violently into Yun Shang's body and profound veins...
Boom————
All light vanished from Yun Shang's world, leaving only a dull boom.
A long stream of blood sprayed violently from between her lips, draining all color from her face.
"Ah... aah! What... what's going on?!"
"Medicine spirit... it's a medicine spirit! Such a terrifying medicine spirit!" It was Yun Ting's cry of alarm... This medicine spirit not only had consciousness, but clearly had considerable intelligence; it had actually set a trap for them!
"Control it... quickly control it!!"
"Stop!" Yun Jian roared hoarsely: "Do you want to kill Shang'er?!"
After all, Yun Shang only had a Divine Tribulation body; how could she directly withstand the power of divine lords? Each of them had only condensed a very careful, thin thread of their power, and if any one of those powers were to increase even slightly, it could directly kill Yun Shang.
Pfft!
Another stream of blood sprayed out. The rampaging medicinal power was like thousands of nightmare blades, charging and crashing within Yun Shang's body and profound veins, mercilessly destroying her life.
"Patriarch!" Yun Xiang was completely at a loss.
"Draw out the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill... quickly!" Yun Ting let out a scream, his eyes splitting.
Arcane light flickered. Half a breath later, the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill, which had only been slightly refined, was hastily drawn out. The moment it flew out from between Yun Shang's lips, several divine lord powers, released at full force, immediately covered it and sealed it tightly in an instant.
The profound formation dissipated. Yun Shang's body slowly fell, her face deathly pale, completely unconscious... The medicinal power within her body was still rampaging, like countless cruel, bloodthirsty beasts.
With Yun Shang's Divine Tribulation body, in just a few more breaths, she would likely die completely under this excessively terrifying medicinal power... or even explode.
"Shang'er..."
"Quick! Guide all the medicinal power in her body into her profound veins!" Yun Ting panted heavily, his voice trembling violently as he shouted.
Yun Xiang abruptly raised his head and said hoarsely: "Th... that would..."
"It's better than dying!!"
Over a dozen streams of energy surged into Yun Shang's body again, carefully and tremblingly guiding those chaotic medicinal powers... With their divine lord strength, annihilating these medicinal powers would be easy. But they were inside Yun Shang's body. Releasing enough power to annihilate these medicinal powers would undoubtedly kill her on the spot.
All they could do was guide!
Guide it into her profound veins... Only profound veins could withstand sufficiently strong power without causing Yun Shang to die.
But the consequence would undoubtedly be severely damaging her profound veins... or even completely destroying them.
Soon, all the medicinal power entered her profound veins, and in an instant, it riddled them with countless holes, destroying them. Yun Ting stepped forward, pressing his finger to her heart, and a beam of profound light surged in... In that instant, blood dripped from between his teeth.
Boom————
The rampaging medicinal power was annihilated layer by layer by Yun Ting's power, until it was completely extinguished.
And Yun Shang's profound veins, in the instant the medicinal power was extinguished, were completely shattered... Her profound energy scattered wildly.
The ancestral shrine fell silent... Only the sound of breathing, each one heavier than the last, could be heard, heavier than ever before.
They stared dully at Yun Shang, who lay unconscious on the ground with bloodstains at the corners of her mouth. Her life force had become exceptionally weak, and her profound energy aura was fading with every passing moment. Before long, it would all dissipate.
And it would never recover.
Because her profound veins... were completely destroyed, ruined.
"How could... this happen..." Yun Ting collapsed where he sat, his hand frozen in the air, his pupils a terrifying ashen white.
"Shang'er..." Yun Xiang called out softly, gritting his teeth and lowering his head, his entire body trembling.
"Alas." All the elders sighed in mourning, seeming to age many years in that instant.
Yun Shang, with her miraculous purple Heavenly Firmament, the miraculous mutation of her profound veins; the Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill, the most sacred and mysterious holy object of their Tiangang Cloud Clan.
They were willing to bestow upon Yun Shang everything precious the entire clan possessed, and today, they had spared no effort in gathering all their strongest members to bestow even this Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill upon her.
But...
Destroyed...
The Sacred Cloud Ancient Pill... no, it was they who had destroyed Yun Shang.
They had destroyed not only Yun Shang, but also the hope and future that the entire clan had placed such ardent hopes upon.
On the day Yun Shang returned to the clan, everything she had revealed had filled the entire clan, from top to bottom, with such excitement. Like a sudden, heaven-sent light at the end of darkness, it made the entire clan feel with unprecedented clarity that heaven was still watching over them, the Tiangang Cloud Clan.
The blood flowing through her veins was not from the patriarch's lineage, yet when she replaced Yun Xiang and was appointed as the young patriarch, not a single person in the entire clan opposed it.
But... it was like a cruel joke. Yun Shang was completely ruined.
Ruined by their very own hands.
"Patriarch..." Yun Xiang managed to utter two words before he could no longer make a sound.
Yun Ting closed his eyes tightly and did not open them for a long time, as if afraid to face the cruel reality that would enter his vision.
"Yun Ting," the Supreme Grand Elder in the center spoke slowly, his voice incomparably heavy: "Prepare to initiate the Blood Sacrifice Ritual."
Yun Ting's eyes snapped open, and Yun Xiang looked up in shock.
The Supreme Grand Elder on the right also spoke slowly: "Although this is a forbidden technique strictly prohibited by the ancestors, in the current situation, there is no other choice. At the very least... we can still preserve the only purple Heavenly Firmament."
The so-called "Blood Sacrifice Ritual" was a cruel blood-transfer method that transferred a Yun Clan member's Heavenly Firmament divine power to another member of the same clan.
Undoubtedly, the one being transferred from... would die without a doubt.
Heavenly Firmament divine power was a bloodline power. Even if the profound veins were destroyed, the Heavenly Firmament remained.
Yun Ting's withered muscles trembled. In the end, he could not utter a word of refusal, and only said weakly: "All elders, prepare the Blood Sacrifice Formation."
Yun Shang had become a complete cripple, with no hope or possibility left. Her miraculous purple Heavenly Firmament could no longer unleash any divine power... Transferring it to another, though cruel to her, would at least preserve the final miracle of the Yun Clan.
"Xiang'er..." Yun Ting called out, but the words that followed remained unspoken.
"I understand." Yun Xiang sighed softly: "I will inherit Shang'er's purple Heavenly Firmament... and I will also... inherit her life... No matter what happens in the future... I will not let her sacrifice be in vain."
In the dreadful oppression, the Blood Sacrifice Ritual... its forbidden aura, began to stir.
Yun Shang lay there quietly, even her lips completely drained of color. Her world was collapsing in pain and darkness.
So painful... so hard... someone... please save me...
Her father's figure, her mother's figure... Yun Che's figure, and a black light that was incredibly dark, yet so warm.
She reached out with all her might, trying to touch that black light. In her blurry conscious world, a murmur from the depths of her soul echoed.
Senior...
... ...
Yun Che and Qianye Ying'er left the Tiangang Cloud Clan. Along the way, Yun Che remained silent, and Qianye Ying'er was smart enough not to talk to him.
"Where are we going?" Qianye Ying'er finally spoke up.
"Wherever fate takes us."
"I have a good place in mind."
"Where?"
"Tai Chu Divine Realm."
Yun Che turned and frowned at her.
"Don't be so rigid in your thinking." Qianye Ying'er said slowly: "You are already extremely skilled at concealment, and now you can also control the power of storms. With a disguise and releasing wind profound energy externally, no one in the Eastern Divine Region would recognize you."
"And I have the Inverse Abyss Stone on me, so even fewer people can detect me. Although we were forced to come here, it seems we are no longer trapped."
"I have been to the Tai Chu Divine Realm many times. There is no better place in this world for cultivation." A cold glint flashed in Qianye Ying'er's eyes: "Of course, there is no more dangerous place either."
"We'll see." Yun Che did not agree, but at the mention of the Tai Chu Divine Realm, a figure in colorful attire flashed before his eyes.
Cai Zhi.
I wonder how she is doing now, and whether she already knows about what happened between Mo Li and me...
Zheng!
Just then, an abnormal black light suddenly flashed through Yun Che's pupils.
"Mm?" Qianye Ying'er noticed: "What's wrong?"
Before she could finish her words, she saw that Yun Che's already cold and hard face had become incredibly gloomy.
Without saying a word, he suddenly reached out, grabbed Qianye Ying'er's shoulder, and shot up into the sky with a terrifying storm, heading straight back to the Tiangang Cloud Clan.