The fireworks faded, and the sky returned to darkness again. The battlefield resumed its slaughter.
However, the soldiers fighting recklessly below, heedless of life and death, did not know that after this blossom of fireworks, the situation of this battle had quietly changed, with the attackers and defenders switching places.
When Li Shiyin held the Cherishing Star Sword and looked back at the other side, there were only four people left on the other side — all of them at the Golden Core realm.
With one move, Heavenly Flight, all the Foundation Establishment cultivators from Xuanqin had been crushed to death by the terrifying sword qi. Only the Golden Core cultivators survived under the sword qi.
The consumption of that one firework was four Foundation Establishment cultivators and one Golden Core cultivator.
This woman had directly confronted five of their Golden Core cultivators and four Foundation Establishment cultivators alone, and then in the confrontation, four Foundation Establishment cultivators and one Golden Core cultivator were directly crushed to death by her sword qi. This was unimaginable to Qing Yuan. Even the most outstanding genius of Cloud Heaven Sect, standing at the pinnacle of all geniuses, could not accomplish this... At least that person would have to be at the Golden Core realm to have a chance.
Not only could she hunt them down in the dark, but she could also face them directly in broad daylight.
"What kind of monster is this?" The thought emerged in Qing Yuan's mind again. He felt a hint of despair. Facing a Foundation Establishment cultivator, "Could she really be that kind of top genius who came back from Lingnan Immortal Sect?"
He thought that even in Lingnan Immortal Sect, she should be considered an outstanding genius.
Another burst of sword qi rose up, and the icy wind brought with it sword intent, hitting Qing Yuan in the face. His skin stung as if cut by the sword qi.
"Scatter and escape!" That senior brother suddenly shouted and issued new orders.
As soon as Qing Yuan heard this, he felt it made sense, because he actually wanted to escape too... Though he worried whether they could outrun the woman with her ghostly movement technique.
...With the senior brother's strategy of scattering to escape, they only needed one person to die.
He was very confident in his own movement technique. He believed he would definitely not be the one caught.
So as soon as the senior brother finished speaking, Qing Yuan turned into a ray of light and flew away.
Golden Core cultivators fleeing in terror from Foundation Establishment cultivators. What kind of bizarre humiliation was this? Oh right, this was nothing. Those who had cultivated in the world of cultivation for a long time did not care at all about such moral shame... Because those who had such moral awareness had already died early on.
As soon as the Cloud Heaven Sect disciple with the highest status shouted, four rays of light immediately shot out in four directions.
Watching those four escaping rays of light, Li Shiyin did not immediately give chase. She exhaled lightly, stabilizing the vigorous circulation of power within her body, then blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
She was injured. She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth with her hand.
After all, she was still just a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
There were limits to the Foundation Establishment realm.
She had killed ten of the fifteen Xuanqin cultivators within a short time, with five escaping; she had directly clashed blades with nine Xuanqin cultivators with Heavenly Flight. She had only sustained some internal injuries.
(Note: The original Heavenly Flight was Li Shiyin gathering all the power in her body, then amplifying it through the Stellar Guidance and War Soul techniques, finally attacking outward with sword qi. At that time, the sword qi manifestation was what Lu Junxing called the second stage of sword qi; now, Li Shiyin can already flexibly control the output of power.)
Li Shiyin was not a god, it was just that those Xuanqin cultivators were too terrified and had obviously deified her.
In fact, if Qing Yuan and the others did not flee and stayed to continue clashing with Li Shiyin, the outcome would not be certain.
Li Shiyin took healing and power-restoring pills, then glanced back at the shocked silly Li Shiwen on the city wall. She shook her head with a sigh, then followed one of the escaping cultivators.
The master said to take advantage when the enemy was weak and seize the opportunity to eliminate them. One must take the chance when the enemy was exhausted to decisively cut the grass and eliminate the root.
She wanted to beat those Xuanqin cultivators back in one go.
Zi Yi was the Nascent Soul cultivator sent by Cloud Heaven Sect this time to oversee the rear.
What did overseeing the rear mean?
It meant hanging a Nascent Soul senior's name here; he didn't need to make a move. His presence here was enough.
For Zi Yi, he was just changing locations to cultivate, then he would be allotted a large sum of spirit stones from the sect.
Because for matters between mortal kingdoms, large sects almost never directly intervened, only small sects would take action, but small sects did not have the strength for him to need to act, let alone those loose cultivators. The number of loose cultivators who could cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage was extremely small, and none would appear in a land with immortal legacies like this.
So Zi Yi had never thought he would need to take action in this battle...
Until a panicking, deranged disciple ran back crying loudly outside his cultivation chamber:
"Ghosts‽ Ghosts‽ Devils, it's a devil...!" "Darkness, sword qi, stars, corpses..."
"Nascent Soul, Foundation Establishment, mortals, Golden Core..."
"Ah hahaha, dead, dead! Dead again, exploded! Exploded again!"
"Golden Core, no match for Foundation Establishment!!"
It sounded wrong to him. He stopped cultivating, got up and went out, then controlled this deranged disciple.
"Peace." He pointed at the spot between this disciple's eyebrows, using his Nascent Soul realm control over souls to calm this disciple's mind and spirit.
This disciple had obviously been progressing too fast in his cultivation, yet his heart was too weak, generating inner demons.
"What is your name, what happened to all of you?" Zi Yi asked.
The disciple regained his senses. Seeing Zi Yi again, he hastily bowed in greeting. "Disciple Qing Ming. I greet Elder Zi Yi!"
"What happened to you?" Zi Yi asked again. "And the others?"
Qing Ming collected himself before replying, "An extremely horrifying Foundation Establishment sword cultivator came from North Chu. Her attainments in sword qi and intent are extremely high. She chased and killed us. We were completely outmatched. Disciple barely managed to escape alive."
"Foundation Establishment, sword qi, sword intent?" Hearing these clashing terms, Zi Yi glanced down at the disciple. Could he still be out of his mind?
"Everyone else is dead!" Qing Ming's voice trembled. "That sword qi that pierced heaven and earth, everyone would die from it!"
With that mentality, no wonder they couldn't even defeat a Foundation Establishment cultivator; Zi Yi looked down on Qing Ming in his heart.
"More than ten of you went, now all dead except for you who escaped?" He asked, actually not really believing Qing Ming's words.
"Yes!" Qing Ming lowered his head in acknowledgement.
"With your abilities, it wouldn't be your turn to escape..." Zi Yi was halfway through speaking when he suddenly perceived a powerful fluctuation of sword qi. He raised his head and gazed into the dark night...
There in the darkness, a star exploded open! Countless sword qi blossomed.
"What you said seems to be true." His mind shook as he murmured softly.
"Huh?" Qing Ming was stunned. He raised his head to look, and realized the Zi Yi before him had vanished.
He turned back again and saw in the darkness that bone-chilling purple sword qi once more. His body started trembling again.
"A devil, a devil has come chasing...!"
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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