Stealing the Heavens.

Chapter 98 The Dao Ancestor from the East
"Don't argue yet," Elder Fengji quickly advised. "Elder Li, why don't you send someone to Wangxue Town to investigate?"

"It's been investigated. The Snow Fox spirit disappeared right outside his room window!" Elder Li Mei shouted angrily, pointing at Zi Dong.

"Why did that snow fox spirit run to Zi Dong's room window?!" Elder Feng Ji's face immediately darkened. Wasn't he courting death?
"He must have used some method to lure the snow fox spirit there!" Elder Li Mei accused Zi Dong again.

"What method can be used to seduce the snow fox spirit?" Zi Dong stopped Feng Qingwu, who was about to help him fight back, and calmly asked Elder Li Mei.

"How would I know what method you used?!" Elder Li Mei was taken aback by the question, and immediately retorted.

"You don't even know how to seduce the snow fox spirit, so how can you say that I seduced it?" Zi Dong shouted angrily.

"If you have a way to devour demon spirits, you naturally have a way to seduce them!" Elder Li Mei was determined to pinpoint Zi Dong's identity.

"Hmph, it was clearly your Azure Lotus Sword Sect that used that snow fox demon to frame Zi Dong, yet you turned around and bit back!" Feng Qingwu began to retaliate.

"That snow fox spirit is the personal disciple of my Azure Lotus Sword Sect's patriarch. How could we allow her to be in danger?!" Elder Li Mei immediately retorted.

With a "whoosh," just as Zi Dong was about to question him, purple mist suddenly surged out of his body and condensed directly into an amethyst giant above his head.

With a hand as large as a palm leaf fan, he instantly grabbed Elder Li Mei by the slender neck, lifting her up like a chick, and roared angrily:
"The dignified Azure Lotus Sword Sect is actually raising demonic creatures! Immediately summon that old bastard Xue Lian to see me!"

Not to mention others, even Zi Dong was stunned into silence. The purple aura from the east had actually turned into a person!

"Ah, ah, ah..." Elder Li Mei struggled and kicked, screaming in terror, unable to speak because she was being choked.

With a "thud," the amethyst giant casually tossed Elder Li Mei onto the thick snow.

"Who...who are you?!" Elder Li Mei struggled on the snow for a long time before weakly getting up and staring at the amethyst giant with a look of horror.

"I, the Lord, have come from the East!" The amethyst giant swept his lightning-like gaze across the crowd before shouting loudly.

With a "thump," the twenty elders of the Yuntian Sect and the Feng family, along with more than a dozen rogue cultivators, immediately knelt down before the amethyst giant.

Zi Dong, Feng Qingwu, and Zhou Xinyu all stared wide-eyed, at a loss for what to do. The members of the Demon Hunter Group had also knelt down with the elder.

"I will immediately report to Ancestor Snow Lotus!" Elder Li Mei was stunned for a long time before she finally reacted and quickly flew towards the depths of the Great Snow Mountain.

Zi Dong then turned his head to examine the amethyst giant standing tall above him. Inside the swirling purple mist robe, the body, made entirely of pieces of amethyst, appeared sharply defined.

"Zi Dong represents me, and you all must obey him!" The amethyst giant did not give Zi Dong a chance to examine him closely. After giving the order, he immediately turned into purple mist and returned to his body.

"Zi Dong, is he really Daojun Donglai?!" Feng Qingwu quickly approached Zi Dong and asked nervously in a low voice.

"I don't know!" Zi Dong shook his head with a wry smile. He was communicating with the purple aura coming from the east in his soul.

"I was merely impersonating Daoist Donglai to help you resolve this crisis; otherwise, the Azure Lotus Sword Sect would have kept you here forever!" Donglai Ziqi explained.

"Then why did you let the Snow Lotus Ancestor come to see you? Wouldn't that give you away?!" Zi Dong asked in surprise.

"Since I dare to impersonate Daoist Donglai, I am absolutely confident that I can simulate Daoist Donglai's aura!" Donglai Ziqi said confidently.

"Then who exactly are you?!" Zi Dong had no choice but to ask again. If he could simulate the aura of Daoist Donglai, then he must have met Daoist Donglai before.
"I'll tell you later." Donglai Ziqi seemed helpless, and then fell silent. No matter how much Zi Dong pressed him for an answer, he didn't respond. "Let's wait here." After everyone stood up, Elder Fengji gave Zi Dong a strange look, and then said helplessly.

The Demon Hunters immediately set up tents in the snow. The ten elders of the Feng family called Feng Qingwu over and discussed things inside one of the tents.

"Zi Dong, isn't he Daojun Donglai?" Zhou Xinyu asked after pulling Zi Dong into a tent and setting up a barrier.

"He said he was an imposter." Zi Dong had no choice but to tell the truth; if Donglai Daojun was hiding inside his body, then he was also about to die.

"Then who exactly is he?" Zhou Xinyu asked the same question as Zi Dong. This matter was just too strange.

"He didn't tell me." Zi Dong shook his head with a wry smile. He really wanted to know who Donglai Ziqi was.

"Legend has it that when the Dao Ancestor and the three True Gods disappeared, they were shrouded in purple mist," Zhou Xinyu said after a moment of contemplation, looking at Zi Dong.

"You mean the Qi Luck Spiritual Root devoured the Dao Ancestor and the three True Gods?!" Zi Dong was startled; this was truly terrifying.

“That’s not necessarily true.” Zhou Xinyu shook her head thoughtfully. “However, the purple mist in your body is definitely related to the disappearance of the Dao Ancestor and the three True Gods!”

"Right now, all I want is to expel the purple mist from my body and become an ordinary person that nobody knows!" Zi Dong sighed.

“If Zi Wu really leaves you, you’ll die even faster!” Zhou Xinyu quickly warned.

"What should I do? Now that Daoist Donglai has entered my body, how can I possibly survive?!" Zi Dong asked with a bitter face.

"Whether it's true or not, the sect will definitely do everything in its power to protect you." Zhou Xinyu didn't know what to do either.

"Even a sect can't fight against the entire Tianyun Continent for me, can it?" Zi Dong refused to believe it; he even thought the sect would dissect him.

"The Yuntian Sect was founded by Daoist Donglai. Since the purple mist is related to Daoist Donglai, the sect will definitely protect you. The entire Daoist sect of the Eastern Continent will also stand on the sect's side."

Zhou Xinyu seemed to know more about Donglai Daojun's inner workings, so she wasn't worried about Zi Dong's safety.

"The entire Daoist sect will stand on the side of the sect, why?!" Zi Dong was taken aback. There were still two major sects in the Eastern Continent.

“Strictly speaking, the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and the Guangyan Sect are not considered Daoist sects.” After hesitating for a while, Zhou Xinyu finally decided to tell Zi Dong this secret.

"The Azure Lotus Sword Sect and the Guangyan Sect are not considered Daoist sects?!" Zi Dong was quite surprised; this was the first time he had ever heard of such a thing.

"The plant demon race has always been oppressed by the animal demon race in the Northern Continent, so the Snow Lotus Ancestor founded the Azure Lotus Sword Sect in the Great Snow Mountain," Zhou Xinyu explained to Zi Dong in detail.

However, the cultivation speed of plant demons is not as fast as that of animal demons, so the Snow Lotus Ancestor recruited human disciples to fight against the demons of the Northern Continent.

Guangyan Sect was founded by Phoenix. In order to reclaim the Southern Continent from the Witch Clan, it encountered the same problem as the Snow Lotus Ancestor, and Guangyan Sect gradually transformed into a Taoist sect.

It was only after the Eastern Dao Ancestor recognized the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and the Guangyan Sect that these two sects became Daoist leaders of equal status to the Cloud Heaven Sect.

Therefore, when the Eastern Dao Ancestor spoke, both the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and the Guangyan Sect had to obey unconditionally!

(End of this chapter)