Physical Mopping, Absorbing the Golden Elixir

"Detonate."

Shen Fei's voice was extremely light.

There was no fluctuation. No killing intent. It was just like ordering a servant to clear the fallen leaves in the courtyard.

"Yes, sir!"

Ling Shuang pressed the launch button on the communicator.

In the clouds ahead of the high ground. Fifty armed helicopters simultaneously adjusted their posture and locked onto the target.

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh..."

Fifty special heavy thermobaric bombs, dragging long orange-red tail flames, tore through the air. Like a dense rain of death, they poured down toward the golden hemispherical barrier below!

On the square of the Taiyi Daoist Sect.

Hundreds of cultivators tilted their heads up. Watching those iron pillars rapidly enlarging in their line of sight, many even let out contemptuous sneers.

"Mortal contraptions dare to try and break our immortal sect's grand array? How overconfident."

An inner sect elder stroked his beard, his face full of arrogance.

As soon as his voice fell.

The first thermobaric bomb viciously slammed into the top of the golden light curtain!

There was no deafening explosion.

Only an extremely muffled poof sound.

The outer shell of the thermobaric bomb shattered. The high-energy thermobaric explosive loaded inside was instantly scattered by high pressure, forming a massive aerosol cloud covering hundreds of meters in radius.

Immediately after. The secondary detonation was triggered!

"Boom!!!"

An extremely terrifying, dark red high-temperature fireball, more dazzling than the sun, explosively expanded above the barrier!

A high temperature of three thousand degrees!

A violent overpressure shockwave!

And the instantly drained surrounding oxygen!

This was not a spiritual energy attack. This was pure physical destruction!

Just as the first one exploded, the remaining forty-nine thermobaric bombs arrived one after another like a chain of iron hammers!

"Boom boom boom boom boom!!!"

The endless sounds of explosions made the entire western suburb land tremble. A sea of fire instantly swallowed the entire sky above the Taiyi Daoist Sect.

"How is this possible?!"

At the entrance of the main hall, Daoist Qingsong's face instantly turned deathly pale.

His proud mountain-protecting grand array could barely hold up when enduring the first wave of explosions. But with the extreme high temperature and destructive overpressure generated by the overlapping of fifty thermobaric bombs, which defied the common sense of cultivation.

The golden light curtain began to violently twist and deform!

An ear-piercing crack sound echoed in every cultivator's ears like a collapsing glacier.

Cracks, starting from the center of the explosion, spread madly in all directions like a spider web!

"Form the array! Channel spiritual energy! Hurry!" Daoist Qingsong roared, his eyes seemingly about to split open.

The disciples on the square finally panicked. They desperately operated their flying swords, trying to inject spiritual energy into the grand array.

But, it was too late.

Under the ultimate overpressure shock of the final wave of explosions.

"Bang—Crash!"

That layer of mountain-protecting grand array, which claimed to be able to withstand Nascent Soul stage mighty figures, finally reached its physical limit of endurance.

It shattered with a boom!

Turning into countless dim spots of light, it completely dissipated.

As soon as the grand array broke.

The three-thousand-degree high temperature and the overpressure shockwave, enough to shatter human organs into meat paste, poured into the building complex of the Taiyi Daoist Sect without any obstruction, like a breached flood!

"Ah!!!"

Miserable screams instantly resounded through the immortal sect.

The white marble square melted and exploded under the high temperature. The ancient wooden palaces were instantly ignited, turning into pillars of fire shooting into the sky.

Those low-level disciples who considered themselves superior and had no time to summon their protective magical treasures. The moment they came into contact with the shockwave, their bodies were directly vaporized by the high temperature, leaving not even a speck of residue behind.

Even Foundation Establishment stage elders were shocked into vomiting blood wildly, blown away like kites with broken strings, and smashing heavily into the ruins.

Hell descended.

In just less than a minute.

The Taiyi Daoist Sect, with a heritage of a thousand years, turned into a scorched earth burning with raging fire.

This was the dimensional strike of modern technology.

You cultivators can fly on swords and move mountains and fill seas.

But I will directly use chemical reactions and physical rules to teach you how to behave.

The aftermath of the explosion had not yet subsided.

Amidst the billowing thick smoke.

"Thud, thud, thud."

Uniform, extremely heavy footsteps sounded simultaneously from all four directions of the ruins.

One thousand black-armored death warriors.

Wielding Mo Daos, like a group of emotionless black ghosts. Treading on the burning scorched earth, they surged into the heartland of the Taiyi Daoist Sect.

The strangulation officially began.

"Demons! How dare you!"

A dust-covered mid-Foundation Establishment elder soared into the sky from the ruins. His eyes were scarlet red as he controlled three flying swords, madly slashing at the group of death warriors rushing at the very front.

"Pfft!"

The flying swords easily pierced the chests of two death warriors. Blood spurted wildly.

But.

The pierced death warriors did not let out a single scream, and did not even pause their charging steps.

They ignored the blood spurting from their chests. They directly threw away the Mo Daos in their hands. Enduring the strangulation of the flying swords, they pounced onto that elder like hungry wolves!

Tightly hugging his legs and waist!

"Roll away! Get away from me!" The elder turned pale with fright, madly circulating his spiritual energy, wanting to shake them off.

But the strength of the death warriors was extremely astonishing, and they had absolutely no sense of pain.

Under the masks, the eyes of the death warriors were as cold as iron.

They extremely calmly reversed the early-stage Grandmaster martial arts true qi within their bodies.

"Boom!"

The two self-destructed at the same time!

The violent true qi shockwave exploded at point-blank range!

That mid-Foundation Establishment elder was blown into a sky full of blood rain before he even had time to scream.

This scene.

Continuously played out in every corner of the ruins.

The black-armored death warriors did not compete with the cultivators in Daoist magic and sword techniques at all.

When they encountered high-level cultivators, as long as they could not break through the defense, they directly adopted the most extreme and cruel suicide attacks.

If two people were not enough, then five; if five were not enough, then ten!

Filling the gap with lives!

Forcibly trading out the cultivators' combat power with human bombs!

This was no longer a battle. This was a one-sided massacre, cold-blooded to the extreme.

The cultivators of the Taiyi Daoist Sect completely broke down. They had never seen such a crazy, such an unreasonable way of fighting.

"Lunatics... they are all lunatics..."

The surviving disciples threw away their armor and weapons, crying and fleeing in all directions. But under the extremely tight military formation encirclement of the death warriors, no one could escape this sea of fire.

On a distant hilltop.

Gu Qinghan held high-magnification binoculars, witnessing this massacre that subverted her worldview with her own eyes.

Her hands were trembling violently.

The mountain-protecting grand array was shattered by the carpet bombing of thermobaric bombs.

The aloof and arrogant cultivators were hugged and blown up by mortal death warriors.

The immortals who were once invincible in her eyes were slaughtered like pigs and dogs in front of Shen Fei's extremely brutal and cruel modern war machine.

"He is not human..."

Gu Qinghan put down the binoculars. Her eyes were filled with extreme awe and deep fear.

"He is a true... demon."

...

Taiyi Daoist Sect, main hall ruins.

This was the place with the richest spiritual energy in the entire folded space, and also the only building that still had half a frame left after the explosion.

Daoist Qingsong stood in the center of the ruins.

His hair was disheveled, and his originally spotless Daoist robe had now been dyed black by blood and ashes.

In front of him lay more than a dozen broken corpses of death warriors.

As an early Core Formation stage expert, ordinary self-destruction was indeed very difficult to kill him.

But his spiritual energy was also more than half depleted at this time, and he had been shocked into suffering internal injuries by the thermobaric bombs.

He looked at his sect burning fiercely all around him and listened to the increasingly sparse, agonizing screams of his disciples. His heart bled.

A thousand-year legacy.

Destroyed in a single day!

"Who... who did this!!!"

Daoist Qingsong roared at the sky. His voice was filled with absolute despair and grief-stricken fury.

"Step, step."

The extremely steady sound of leather shoes stepping on the ground came from the ruined threshold of the grand hall.

The thick smoke dissipated.

Shen Fei, wearing a spotless black trench coat, stepped over the scorched earth and rubble.

He walked into the hall.

He walked right up to Daoist Qingsong.

And stopped.

"Who are you?!" Daoist Qingsong's eyes widened with rage, glaring fixedly at the young man before him who lacked even the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy.

"Shen Group, Shen Fei."

Shen Fei looked at him, his tone flat.

"I heard you wanted me to kowtow every three steps and kneel all the way up the mountain to deliver a hundred billion."

Daoist Qingsong's pupils shrank violently.

The Shen family?!

That financial syndicate regarded as nothing more than mortal ants?!

To think they were the ones who brought about this apocalyptic disaster!

"Brat! You destroyed my immortal sect! I will rip out your tendons, peel off your skin, and cast you into the Nine Underworlds!"

Daoist Qingsong completely descended into madness.

The cultivation base of the early Golden Core stage erupted fully without reservation!

"Clang, clang, clang!"

Dozens of masterless flying swords scattered around the ruins of the hall, drawn by the Golden Core spiritual energy, floated into the air one after another.

They transformed into an utterly terrifying torrent of steel, carrying a shriek that tore through the air, and slashed furiously toward Shen Fei!

This was the wrathful strike of a Golden Core expert. It was enough to level a small mountain!

Facing such momentum.

Shen Fei did not dodge.

Nor did he use the Heavenly Demon Blood Evasion.

He slowly extended his right hand.

Palm facing forward.

"Heavenly Demon Devour."

Shen Fei spoke softly.

Boom!

The dark gold Heavenly Demon spiritual energy, which had just completed its advancement in the secret chamber, instantly transformed into an incredibly deep black vortex in Shen Fei's palm.

This vortex seemed capable of swallowing even light.

The moment those dozens of menacing flying swords, carrying Golden Core spiritual energy, touched the black vortex.

It was like clay oxen entering the sea.

The spiritual energy on the swords was instantly sucked dry!

Losing their spiritual energy support, the flying swords turned into ordinary scrap iron, clattering to the ground in a heap.

"What?!"

Daoist Qingsong turned pale with shock.

His sure-kill strike was actually neutralized by the opponent single-handedly?!

Moreover, he felt an incredibly pure devouring power from that black vortex, one that even superseded the laws of immortal cultivation!

Retreat!

Warning bells rang wildly in Daoist Qingsong's heart, and he instinctively wanted to retreat violently.

But there was nowhere to retreat.

Behind him was a burning, broken wall.

Shen Fei took a step forward.

Shrinking the ground into an inch.

He instantly appeared in front of Daoist Qingsong.

Shen Fei's right hand shot out like lightning, grabbing Daoist Qingsong's neck in a death grip!

"Ugh!" Daoist Qingsong's legs left the ground, desperately trying to mobilize the Golden Core spiritual energy in his body to blast Shen Fei away.

But it was useless.

Heavenly Demon Devour, starting from the point of skin contact, fully activated!

"Boom!"

The Golden Core within Daoist Qingsong's body, which had condensed hundreds of years of cultivation, seemed to suffer a terrifying suction.

The vast spiritual energy, along with his own life force.

Surged out madly like a tide, pouring wildly into Shen Fei's body along his arm!

"You... what kind of demonic art do you practice..."

Daoist Qingsong widened his eyes in horror.

He could feel his cultivation level plummeting off a cliff!

Early Golden Core... Peak Foundation Establishment... Mid Foundation Establishment...

His face lost its color at an extremely fast rate. His skin quickly shriveled and caved in, and his originally ruddy, youthful face with white hair turned into a withered bag of bones within ten seconds.

Shen Fei did not answer.

He just watched coldly as Daoist Qingsong walked toward death in despair.

Twenty seconds later.

The devouring ended.

Shen Fei let go of his hand.

"Thud."

Daoist Qingsong's corpse fell to the ground.

The moment it touched the ground, the dried corpse, completely drained of all vitality and spiritual energy, turned directly into a pile of pale gray powder.

A gust of wind blew by, dispersing it into the ruins.

A generation's Golden Core sect leader.

Died without a complete corpse.

Ding!

Annihilation of the Taiyi Daoist Sect complete!

Congratulations Host! You have obtained a massive amount of luck points!

Heavenly Demon Devour has absorbed a Golden Core cultivation base, the Host's current realm is extremely stable, only a hair's breadth away from breakthrough!

The system's prompt echoed in his mind.

Shen Fei ignored it.

He took a walk around the ruins.

In the wreckage of a half-collapsed secret chamber, his gaze was drawn to something.

It was an extremely ancient tortoise shell.

It lay quietly among the fragments of a jade box.

Shen Fei walked over and picked up the tortoise shell.

He turned it over.

Carved on the back of the tortoise shell was an incredibly complex star map.

The arrangement of those stars completely failed to match any constellation map Shen Fei had seen in the modern world.

"System, analyze the star map," Shen Fei issued the command.

Ding! Analyzing...

Analysis failed.

The star map involves extremely high-dimensional coordinates that exceed the current world version. The system database currently has no matching items.

Shen Fei looked at the system's rare Analysis failed prompt.

His gaze became incredibly deep.

Coordinates that even the system could not analyze.

They could only point to the Upper Realm.

"Behind this immortal cultivation sect, there really is a bigger game at play."

Shen Fei put the tortoise shell into the inner pocket of his trench coat.

He turned around and walked out of the ruins.

All around.

The buildings of the Taiyi Daoist Sect burned quietly in the dying embers.

A thousand deathsworn guards had already reformed their ranks on the outskirts of the ruins.

The remains of immortal cultivators were scattered everywhere on the ground.

A thousand-year-old hidden sect.

Under Shen Fei's extremely violent purge, today, it was completely wiped from the face of the Earth.

Shen Fei looked at the scorched earth covering the mountains and plains.

"Level this place."

"I don't want the people of the capital to see even a single jutting rock here tomorrow morning."

He left these words behind.

And strode down the mountain.