Abandoning their master and choosing to flee for their own lives was a very serious crime.
It would be better to just kill her outright.
But right now, these guards simply had no way to kill Ji Mengmeng.
Not to mention that person surnamed Chen was extremely strong. Even without him, the ground was shaking violently at this moment. They could barely stand steady, so how could they possibly kill anyone?
Although Black Fire Mountain had always been considered a forbidden area, and the sect prohibited cultivation there,
it had never shaken like this before, with the entire mountain trembling.
Countless animals were desperately fleeing from Black Fire Mountain.
The martial artists who were cultivating or adventuring nearby
were also frightened by this terrifying scene.
“Boom!”
Finally, the first streak of firelight erupted from the crater.
A pillar of light pierced the sky, followed by terrifying meteor-like firestones constantly falling and smashing around the volcano.
The martial artists were so scared that they fled madly.
Fortunately, those who dared to cultivate near here were not weak. The falling firestones looked frightening but could not actually injure them.
However, the vegetation on the mountain suffered terribly.
Thick smoke rolled, firelight flashed everywhere. It was a complete apocalyptic scene.
“That kid from just now should be dead by now, right?”
The middle-aged martial artist picked up Ji Mengmeng in his arms and fled into the distance.
At this point, he could no longer let Ji Mengmeng act recklessly.
Charging upwards in such a situation was either idiotic or stupid. Was she rushing to her death?
Escape!
Panic!
Volcanic eruption!
Earthquake!
Ten thousand beasts stampeding!
Amid all these strange phenomena, only Ling Xiao remained standing at the crater, completely immersed in the world of sword intent.
What is the ultimate goal of a martial artist’s cultivation?
For wealth?
For status?
Or for power?
Ling Xiao had once pondered these things, but he felt none of them were correct.
The ultimate goal of the martial path should be immortality.
Everything is pursued in order to achieve immortality.
To live as long as heaven and earth, to shine together with the sun and moon, immortal and indestructible, existing forever.
This is probably the deepest wish in the hearts of all martial artists.
Unfortunately, the martial path is too difficult, and immortality is so distant. Gradually, many martial artists forgot this grand goal.
They each developed their own smaller goals and spent their days fighting and scheming for power and profit.
Ling Xiao himself had once been lost and trapped in such confusion.
But at this moment, he achieved enlightenment.
Even if the sky collapsed and the earth shattered, it had nothing to do with him.
Standing there, he was an immortal treasured sword, an immortal divine statue.
In this moment, he entered a realm of controlling heaven and earth. He could sense every blade of grass, every tree, even every single element around him. It felt as if he had truly become an immortal existence within heaven and earth.
Such a state of mind was truly rare.
At the same moment, no one noticed that besides lava, the volcano had also erupted an immortal and indestructible terrifying sword intent.
This sword intent was powerful and unmatched.
It did not need to show any dominance, yet it could make countless living beings submit.
Many martial artists, ignoring the danger, chose to kneel on the ground and chant words under their breath.
This terrifying sword intent did not belong to a mere Saint Dynasty Immortal Island.
Its power was even more frightening than that of martial artists on the Immortal Court Continent or the Hell Continent.
Moreover, when this immortal sword intent soared into the sky, two other slightly weaker but still terrifying auras were released at the same time.
People could see a vast golden light in the sky, weaving together into a gigantic golden crow.
Another patch of sky, originally bright, turned pitch black. Darkness wove into a terrifying heavenly demon.
Boom!
The golden crow and the heavenly demon collided in the sky.
The terrifying force completely levelled Black Fire Mountain to the ground.
Only a single point of light still hovered in mid-air amid that dreadful explosion.
Within that light stood none other than Ling Xiao.
The immortal sword intent kept him completely unharmed in this insane collapse of heaven and earth.
“Who is it? Who actually released the battle intent of the Primordial Golden Crow and the Primordial Heavenly Demon?”
In the largest palace complex on Saint Dynasty Immortal Island,
a group of powerful martial artists all had extremely ugly expressions.
One of them, with white beard and hair, stared at the distant Black Fire Mountain that had been flattened.
His face did not look good at all.
In the past, when their lineage separated from the Saint Dynasty and came to this island,
the first group of powerful martial artists discovered the secret of Black Fire Mountain.
That was why they settled here, multiplied their descendants, and founded the sect.
Every certain period, Black Fire Mountain would release a terrifying battle intent.
This battle intent would not harm people, but it could greatly increase the speed of cultivation.
Because of this, Saint Dynasty Immortal Island developed extremely quickly.
The original Four Immortal Islands became Five Immortal Islands.
However, the secret of Black Fire Mountain had always been kept by the Ji family.
Now, the battle intent of the Primordial Golden Crow and the Primordial Heavenly Demon had actually been released.
What did this mean?
It meant someone had comprehended that immortal and indestructible sword intent.
That giant sword condensed from sword intent was left behind by an unparalleled expert of the Ji family tens of thousands of years ago.
That expert had now gone to the Immortal Court Continent.
But the sword intent he left behind remained immortal and indestructible.
Before leaving, he said one sentence: whoever could comprehend the immortal sword intent would obtain the battle intent of the Primordial Golden Crow and the Primordial Heavenly Demon.
How much one could comprehend depended on their aptitude.
That was a precious legacy left by their ancestor for the later generations of the Ji family. Now that someone else had obtained it, Saint Dynasty Immortal Island would lose its advantage in the future.
“Investigate!”
The old man roared, “No matter who it is, whoever takes something from our Ji family must return it!”
“Yes!”
With the old man’s order, experts from all branches of the Ji family on Saint Dynasty Immortal Island set out one after another.
Countless figures flew out from the Ji family, heading straight for Black Fire Mountain.
This was a terrifying calamity.
It was an apocalyptic scene!
Although most martial artists had already fled from Black Fire Mountain, so there were basically no casualties,
Black Fire Mountain had been completely flattened. Seeing this, all the martial artists, including Ji Mengmeng’s group, were panting heavily, too tense to speak.
Even the island lord of Saint Dynasty Immortal Island, that white-bearded old man, was shocked by this earth-shaking sight.
How much more so for these ordinary martial artists?
They saw Black Fire Mountain levelled to the ground.
They saw the golden crow and heavenly demon battling fiercely in the sky.
In the primeval jungle, there were sometimes violent storms and sometimes swirling sand and dust.
The martial artists could not believe the scene before their eyes.
“Is the Profound Realm about to collapse?”
“Is the sky going to fall?”
“Or is Saint Dynasty Immortal Island going to sink?”
Every person’s heart was filled with fear and worry.
The scene in front of them was simply too terrifying. They had no courage at all to face it.
If even they felt this way, then Ling Xiao, who was right in the middle of it, was even more shocked.
By now, he had already awakened from his cultivation.
Looking at the apocalyptic scene around him, he was truly stunned.
What on earth had happened?
How could this be?
He wanted to ask others, but no one could answer his question.
