The Stopping Blood Sect, located on a small hill in a branch of Ming Mountain, was less than two hundred miles from the Taiming Sect.
It was a very tiny sect in the land of Shenzhou.
It was said that their ancestors had once been successful, but by now, they had completely fallen into decline.
Due to financial problems, this small sect had faced the crisis of extinction several times.
Just as the sect was on the verge of collapse, an outer disciple stepped forward.
He hacked through the thorns and brambles, implementing major reforms that completely transformed the industry of the Stopping Blood Sect and resolved its financial crisis.
Thanks to that Sect Leader, the Stopping Blood Sect had managed to cling to life until today.
Unfortunately…
“Is my Stopping Blood Sect finally going to perish after all?” Sect Leader Mo Qing looked at the sky in despair.
Three months ago, a trade friction occurred between the Stopping Blood Sect and the Dongyang Sword School.
The young master of the Dongyang Sword School had threatened them on the spot—”I will destroy your Stopping Blood Sect sooner or later!”
For these three months, everyone in the Stopping Blood Sect had been living in fear, but the promised destruction had been delayed.
Just as Mo Qing thought the other party was merely talking big… they arrived!
Immediately after the celestial phenomena ended, the army of the Dongyang Sword School pressed down upon them!
The Dongyang Sword School was originally not a large sect; it was not even considered third-rate.
However, back then, the Houtu Holy Master had given all the other sword sects a thorough thrashing.
During that time, the Dongyang Sword School had tucked their Tail and developed in secret, taking in the experts from the disbanded sword sects…
They actually managed to survive and grow by acting like trash!
Relying on the secret manuals provided by these experts, the Dongyang Sword School collaborated with the masters to improve them, even creating a powerful New Dongyang Sword Technique!
The New Dongyang Sword Technique shook all directions and was already quite famous in Shenzhou.
The Dongyang Sword School had also joined the ranks of first-rate sects.
Although it could not compare to a Monster like the Taiming Sect… it was still among the top ten in the world today.
Destroying the Stopping Blood Sect was more than enough for them.
“A tiger in the plains is bullied by dogs!” Mo Qing’s heart was full of sorrow.
If it were the Stopping Blood Sect of the past, when the Blood Pill Ancestor was still around, the Dongyang Sword School would not even be fit to carry their shoes!
But times had changed. The Stopping Blood Sect was no longer that Stopping Blood Sect, and the Dongyang Sword School was no longer that Dongyang Sword School.
The power dynamic had reversed.
“Mo Qing! If you are smart, open the sect’s Barrier yourself. I can still give you a quick death. Don’t wait for us to blast it open, or your deaths won’t be so easy!”
It was a classic line, but very effective.
Mo Qing could already see that the disciples of his sect were starting to waver.
Resistance was meaningless; it was better to die an easy death.
“Doing business fairly, yet you turn to destruction when you cannot win… Is this the style of your Dongyang Sword School?” Mo Qing’s face was ashen.
“Hmph, don’t be naive, Mo Qing. You and I are both Xiu Zhenzhe. In our Cultivation World, there is only ever one truth—fists! Whoever has the bigger fist is the truth!”
“Aren’t you afraid of going to Di Yu after you die?” Mo Qing asked sharply. “In today’s world, the souls of the living must enter the Realm of the Dead after death!”
“Give me a break. The Realm of the Dead? That’s just to scare the bottom-tier Xiushi who have no Cultivation. We cultivators go against the heavens all our lives. What do we pursue? Eternal life! Heaven and Earth Longevity! Since we have eternal life, why would we go to the Realm of the Dead?”
The Dongyang Sect Leader’s logic was simple and crude.
If a Xiushi did not have the courage to burn their bridges, how could they cross the great tribulation of life and death to achieve the body of an Immortal Venerable?
The Realm of the Dead can only control me after I die. Since I won’t die, they naturally cannot control me!
“You…”
Mo Qing knew it was over.
Even the Realm of the Dead established by the Houtu Holy Master could not scare these lunatics.
To become an immortal, they had completely lost their bottom line.
Furthermore, there was no turning back.
Since they would be punished if they died, they might as well go all out and become immortals by any means necessary!
“Start the blast!”
“Rumble—”
The sect’s protective Barrier shook violently. Countless spells landed on the Stopping Blood Sect’s Barrier, the vibration nearly splitting the eardrums of the disciples inside the mountain.
They rolled on the ground in pain, crying and begging via voice transmission: “Sect Leader! Open the Barrier! We’ll have a next life after we die… why suffer this hardship?”
“Nonsense!” Mo Qing grit his teeth and held on.
“Sect Leader…”
“If you think about deleting your save and restarting whenever you encounter difficulty, you’ll still have the same Morality no matter how many lives you live!”
“But there’s nothing we can do! Sect Leader! We definitely can’t win! Your Cultivation is profound, so you don’t understand our pain and helplessness…”
“Even if we can’t win, we must die in battle! Not die on our knees!”
“We really can’t fight anymore, Sect Leader! Our ears hurt so much—”
Mo Qing sighed. Looking at the painful expressions of his disciples, he finally could not bear it.
Yes, what was the point…
It was death in the end. Why make them suffer through it?
Mo Qing waved his hand. “Forget it. Open the Barrier.”
The mountain gate’s Barrier was removed.
“Hahahaha—I see you’ve finally come to your senses!”
The Dongyang Sect Leader laughed loudly as he descended in front of Mo Qing.
He raised his palm, and a pitch-black vortex emerged within it.
“Dongyang Sect Leader! You—”
“This is the Soul Refining Evil Art, which will make the souls of the deceased suffer excruciating torture! The Dongyang Sect Leader had clearly promised everyone a quick death!”
“You what? You didn’t really think I was that merciful, did you?”
The other disciples of the Dongyang Sword School also raised their hands.
The light of evil arts shone from their palms.
And just then, a voice came from the horizon.
“Why hasn’t that person made a move yet?”
“Something’s not right. This is the perfect time for a hero’s entrance. If she waits until people start dying, it’ll be too late… She should have stepped in by now.”
“Wait, do you think it’s possible…”
I facepalmed. “Did we find the wrong sect?”
Jieliya: “…”
Cluru: “…”
Jiang Ke’er had said before that she had been staking out a sect for a long time, just waiting for someone to come and destroy it so she could make a grand entrance.
Thus, we made inquiries everywhere and soon learned about the threat to the Stopping Blood Sect.
Naturally, we came to the Stopping Blood Sect to find her.
While hiding in the clouds, I was thinking—Jiang Ke’er’s disguise technique is amazing! I didn’t know which Stopping Blood Sect servant she had disguised herself as; even I couldn’t tell.
Thinking about it now…
Well, maybe it’s not that I didn’t see through it.
It’s that she didn’t come at all.
At this very moment, a thousand miles away.
At an obscure little sect called the Winter Melon Sect, a young girl was yawning out of boredom.
“Why hasn’t anyone come to destroy the sect yet…”
“Are they really not coming??”
“Tsk, is everyone in this world so law-abiding??”
***
“It seems that person really isn’t here,” Dahlia confirmed.
I shrugged my shoulders. “Then what should we do?”
“Since we’ve encountered this, we can’t just ignore it. Let’s wipe out those Demonic Cultivators,” Dahlia suggested.
“Alright, I just finished my tribulation and haven’t loosened my muscles yet.”
I stretched my limbs, trying to make my joints pop like frying beans.
I failed.
And since we had not lowered our voices at all, the people from the Dongyang Sword School on the ground had already lost their patience.
“Where did these little girls come from, daring to claim they’ll wipe out the Stopping Blood Sect?! Hmph! The Stopping Blood Sect isn’t something just anyone can destroy!”
After saying that, the Dongyang Sect Leader charged toward the clouds with his sword.
I shook my Tail, preparing for battle.
Unexpectedly, the Dongyang Sect Leader turned and bolted.
“++! A Fox! We’re finished!”