Pay to Cultivate Immortality? My Sect is Completely Free - Chapter 398

Chapter 398 — The Heavenly Dao Sect’s First Step into the Immortal Realm!

The wind, carrying fear and despair, swept across this land whose destinies had been sealed for eternity.

Everyone is born equal!!

Su Bai’s voice was like a lightning bolt tearing through the primeval night, rending the heavy silence of the dark and striking those countless souls curled up in the dust.

In a million years, this was the only voice that could move heaven and earth!

Twelve hundred million li south of Gao Clan City’s south gate, an elderly Old Man lay curled on a heap of gravel, his fingers subconsciously rubbing a sharply edged ore rock at his feet.

It was the only thing his son had left behind when he was taken to work in the mines…

This was a Divine Transformation Realm cultivator who, though absolutely powerful in the Mortal World, had been crushed to the very bottom in the Immortal Realm.

Su Bai’s words echoed through the sky and remained clear even here.

The Old Man’s rough fingers suddenly clenched; with a dull sound, the rock’s corner drove deep into his palm!

But he felt nothing. Instead he lifted his cloudy eyes toward the direction the voice had come from; murky tears began to fall uncontrollably.

“My son… you… did you hear that…”

“If you’re still alive…”

Suddenly he seemed to see a figure racing toward him, calling “Father” as he ran.

The figure looked exactly like his son who had been taken away centuries ago.

“That’s impossible — no one taken by the Gao clan ever came back alive…”

“It must be my grief making me see things… I’m seeing double…”

He laughed bitterly, refusing to believe his son was still alive, shaking his head again and again.

Then he froze.

He saw that the person who resembled his son by about seventy percent had knelt directly before him.

“Father, your child has returned!” The young man knelt, pounding his forehead to the ground.

This young man was one of the ordinary rogue immortals Su Bai liberated from the mines; now he had come home!

“You’re my child— you… you’ve grown thin. These years you must have suffered, haven’t you?” The Old Man trembled as he stood. His eyes were rimmed with red.

Those withered hands stroked his son’s pale face, wordless with pity.

This son of his must have endured endless hardship; his face was smeared with mud and blood, looking utterly miserable.

“It wasn’t hard. It was the owner of that voice just now who rescued us.” The young man shook his head and looked up toward where the voice had come from.

That lord…

That was a true immortal!

…

Su Bai’s words spread farther and farther.

In the corners of stone huts, at the edges of deserts, in deep mountain forests… in every shadowed nook someone lifted their head at the sound.

Their eyes no longer showed habitual numbness, but burned with a flame close to awakening.

It was human awareness!

A human, not an ant!!

Everyone is born equal!!

Souls long trampled, deprived, and labeled “ants” and “lowly” proudly raised their heads at this proclamation of equality!

The setting sun sank, smearing the last streaks of blood-red across the barren ridgeline.

The crowd remained silent for a long time—no cheering, no jubilation, only a vast, heavy stillness.

Billions of eyes, scarred, dust-streaked, still wet with tears and blood, all turned toward the direction where Su Bai stood, toward the sky behind him set ablaze by the sunset.

They didn’t know whether this equality was meant for everyone, or for all… humans!

They didn’t know whether they themselves could even be counted as… a person…

But they knew that on this earth whose fate had been sealed, a breeze full of hope had arrived!

Night had deepened, yet the land for hundreds of millions of li around Gao Clan City remained as bright as day!

Su Bai had lit a giant globe of light in the sky above Gao Clan City!

In the past, light in the dark was a precious resource that belonged only to the Gao clan’s inner kin.

But now it belonged to everyone!

“Let’s go—move toward the light.”

Countless people thought this, though they didn’t know whether the Heavenly Dao Sect Su Bai mentioned was truly as he described.

Something like this had never appeared in the Immortal Realm in tens of millions of years!

Yet they had no other choice!

At worst, they would merely be transferred from being enslaved by the Gao clan to being enslaved by the Heavenly Dao Sect!

But what if it was true??

What if it really was a land of equal opportunity?

Like moths drawn to a flame, even if the dazzle burned their eyes and made them recoil in panic, they still pressed on toward the call of light and freedom coming from its depths.

At this moment, in Su Bai’s eyes, an overwhelmingly stunning sight unfolded!!

Countless pinpricks of light were converging on Gao Clan City!

Those pinpricks were the sources of faith!

Finally, when billions of those lights entered Gao Clan City, the crimson radiance at that moment connected and became a complete expanse!

That was the territory of the Heavenly Dao Sect!

The Heavenly Dao Sect had taken its first step in the Immortal Realm!!

“Tianzhu, these people are in your hands.”

“Remember, make sure everyone has a place to live!”

“Make sure everyone gets enough to eat!”

Su Bai said.

“Yes, Sect Master—rest assured!” Tianzhu replied with a grave expression, bowing respectfully before going to settle the newly arrived populace.

Su Bai, meanwhile, turned his gaze farther away!

In the boundless darkness, a dozen or so gazes capable of devouring everything lurked!

They were the True Immortals of the Northern Realm, watching Gao Clan City’s every move!

“What are they planning?”

A voice spoke, filled with bewilderment.

What did Su Bai intend by granting enslaved people the freedom of equality?

“I don’t understand the mindset of these ascendants. Don’t they have their own clans? Why share these gleaming resources with slaves?”

“Strengthening one’s own clan is the right path—raising these ants for nothing. Have they gone mad?”

“Heavenly Dao Sect? Claiming the ‘Heavenly Dao’—how laughable!”

“Our Northern Realm does not welcome outsiders. This Heavenly Dao Sect must be destroyed!!”

“Indeed, mere ascendants—even if powerful, so what? Do they intend to challenge us many True Immortals?”

“Hmph, utterly reckless!!”

“Not in a hurry. The Shi clan’s True Immortals are dead; let’s first discuss how to divide Shi Family City’s assets!”

……………….

One by one, divine wills intertwined across the night sky, sweeping over the land, each saturated with intense malice.

The owners of those divine wills were all renowned top True Immortals of the Northern Realm.

They had only one goal:

To devour the Heavenly Dao Sect!!