Marching all the way!
The Chixia Beacon was full of people.
At a glance from afar, tens of thousands of cultivators were like a torrent of steel, fearless.
Qin Li mingled among them, occasionally striking up conversations with the surrounding cultivators, side-stepping some important information.
Yun Shiyu came over and whispered, “Have you noticed that the names of their realms are different from the later generations. Immortal Kings are called Spirit Kings, Immortal Zuns are called Spirit Zuns, and Immortal Lords are called Spirit Lords ……”
Qin Li replied, “Not only that, in this era, Immortal Power is called Man Power, Immortal Stone is called Yuan Stone, and the Four Directions Immortal Realm is called Four Directions Region.”
Yun Shiyu laughed, “This is an era of change, something big must have happened that caused the winds to shift and history to be rewritten.”
The two were chatting furiously.
Suddenly!
Villages appeared ahead.
From afar, smoke curled up, a peaceful scene.
If one looks closer, the village is burning, the flames are all over the place, and the villagers are not putting out the fire, they are just sitting on the ground with a numb face, their eyes are lifeless, and they seem to have lost hope in life, and there are dozens of dry corpses around, being drained of their blood and dying, with the despair of the pre-mortem lingering on their faces.
Suddenly!
A villager exclaimed:
“They’re here, the cultivators are here again!”
All the villagers were scared, no matter men, women, and children, all of them were horrified, hiding behind the dilapidated thatched huts, shivering.
An aged village chief with white hair and beard knelt on the ground, old tears streaming down his face as he begged, “Please, Lord Cultivator, spare our Wild Grass Village!”
“The original population of three thousand has already been eaten by you with only three hundred left. Earlier, a group of adults came to plunder, and the village’s newborn children were all eaten up, you’d better go elsewhere!”
Sniffing!
Qin Li was creeped out.
Cannibalism, how sinful, but in the Dark Ages, it was an extremely common thing. Seeing it with his own eyes was extremely shocking.
He couldn’t help but recall the Eternal Life Sect deep within the White Iron Vein, where there were many porcelain altars containing pregnant women and babies, all of which were alchemy materials, and couldn’t imagine how desperate and painful it was for the weak and small of this era.
“Old Abbot, you’ve misunderstood!”
The Purple Hammer Spirit King arched his hand and explained, “Only blood cultivators eat people to cultivate, we spirit cultivators, eat and drink dew ……”
“Heh!”
The old village chief laughed miserably:
“Many spirit cultivators call themselves peaceful, but in the end, they are still wantonly eating people.”
“You cultivators are all butchers, just like the demon race, eating people for a living, and your sins are deep. One day, the ‘Immortal’ will descend again, and just as the Demon Race was once exterminated, he will also exterminate the cultivators!”
Two lines of blood tears unexpectedly flowed silently from the old village chief’s dry eyes, tears of endless hatred and despair. In his withered hands, he clutched a jade figurine in death, reciting words under his breath.
The statue is very rough, it should be humanoid, but there is no carving of the details of the five senses, barely distinguish the head, body and feet, the interesting thing is that the statue lifted a hand and stretched out a finger, which is carefully carved, and can not help but be reminiscent of the “immortal pointing out the way”!
“Let’s go!”
The Purple Hammer Immortal King sighed.
Tens of thousands of cultivators set off, still marching in silence, a torrent of steel.
Qin Li fell into deep thought, he was very interested in the “Immortal” that the old village head spoke of, he couldn’t help but find a cultivator and asked:
“Fellow Daoist, what’s the deal with ‘Immortal’, and what does that statue symbolise?”
The cultivator was dumbfounded, “You don’t even know that, Immortality is an ancient belief and the ultimate dream of all cultivators!”
“Legend has it that millions of years ago, the demon race was rampant, and three great true spirits were born, with ferocious might, while the human race was nothing more than domestic animals, at the mercy of the demons. Suddenly, one day, a True Immortal descended from the sky and killed the three Great Spirits with a single finger, and since then, the Demon Race has been in chaotic infighting, and the Human Race has been able to rise!”
True Immortal!
Killed the three great true spirits.
Qin Li shocked goosebumps all over his body, the true spirit is equal to the immortal king above, the true phoenix is one of the three great true spirits, surprisingly was killed by a finger, could it be that there is a true immortal in the world, eternal and immortal, supreme.
“Since there are True Immortals, why didn’t they leave behind half a trace?”A doubt bubbled up in Qin Li’s heart and he pursued.
The cultivator laughed, “I also think it’s bullsh*t, but there’s another version of the legend. The so-called Immortal, is a collection of good wishes, or possibly a proxy for, age, after all, there is no eternity in the world, and age mercilessly beheads the true spirit!”
Qin Li nodded, this explanation made much more sense.
Suddenly!
A bloody odour came.
“There’s an enemy attack!”The Purple Hammer Spirit King droned.
The faces of tens of thousands of cultivators changed as they drew their blades and prepared to defend themselves against the enemy.
In the distance, a blood cloud steamed, wrapped in evil power, staining the earth red and invading, filling the air with a nauseating fishy smell.
Above the blood cloud, stood tens of thousands of cultivators, all eyes red, body surface has blood tattoos, the flow of light, and the previous trial encountered the same blood demon. Leading the front, was a white-robed Immortal King, with sword brows and starry eyes, a decent face, but a fierce light in his eyes.
“Bai Ren Spirit King, I can’t imagine that you’ve fallen too, actually betraying the spirit cultivators and becoming a blood cultivator!”The Purple Hammer Immortal King was shocked and angry.
Bai Ren Spirit King laughed, “Purple Hammer Spirit King, why do you need to cling to the corrupt spirit cultivation system, as long as you have enjoyed the taste of human blood, that thrill of skyrocketing cultivation, you will surely let go of your prejudices and regret joining the Everlasting Life Sect too late!”
“What a bunch of nonsense!”
The Purple Hammer Spirit King droned with bravado:
“Heaven’s justice is clear, Qiankun is clear, your maiming of your fellow clansmen and cannibalism in cultivation are nothing more than a mere evil path, which is not tolerated by the Great Dao. Nowadays, the Yuan Dan Realist, the Four Weapons Realist is rising strongly, it is the heaven’s will that is revealed to exterminate the Everlasting Evil Cult.”
Bai Ren Spirit King snorted coldly, “Stubborn things, today I will eat all of you, the blood and flesh of cultivators is a nourishing medicine.”
“All of you, get on me and partake of them!”
An order was given.
Tens of thousands of blood cultivators swarmed up.
They rode the blood clouds, enveloping a side of the territory as if it was raining, crazily pouring out blood-coloured flying blades and blood-coloured demonic light.
This was a kind of evil power, extremely powerful, if one was rubbed through the skin, it could instantly suck out the cultivator’s blood, vicious and abnormal. Many cultivators couldn’t react in time and were directly sucked into dry corpses, forever to the next.
“Quickly contract the defence!”
The Purple Hammer Spirit King shouted, commanding the team.
“You’d better care about yourself!”A pair of blood-coloured bat wings unfolded behind the White Ren Spirit King’s back, which imprisoned tens of thousands of grievous souls, and with every incitement, they emitted a wail of resentment that was bizarre to the extreme.
“You brute, the Blood Bat Demon Wings, it requires the slaughter of a hundred thousand innocents in order to cultivate them successfully.”The Purple Hammer Spirit King was furious and rushed forward.
The White Ren Spirit King swung his blood wings and gave a return attack.
The two great Spirit Kings engaged in battle!
The Purple Hammer Spirit King clearly fell into a disadvantage.
Not only that, facing the suppression of tens of thousands of Blood Cultivators, the team of the Red Xia Beacon was retreating, and it was only a matter of practicality before a total rout.
Yun Shiyu couldn’t help but ask, “Gold, should we make a move to help?”
“If we don’t make a move, we won’t even reach Chessboard Mountain!”Qin Li brazenly struck out, his body covered in golden light, tearing through the blood clouds and manifesting a side of light.
In the distance, Mu Yuege raised her jade hand, and a round of bright moon rose early, blossoming into a cool white mist, seemingly a silver knife, cutting down hundreds of blood cultivators.
The eleven members of the Ao Tian Immortal King were not willing to show weakness, and each of them used their own means to kill, harvesting large swathes of blood cultivators.
“How is it that there are sixteen Spirit Kings hidden in my team!”The Purple Hammer Spirit King’s jaw dropped, his face full of disbelief.
“Oh no, there’s a trick!”The White Ren Spirit King instantly reacted, his heart in a state of panic as he violently opened his blood wings and was about to flee.
“Departing Flame Sword Pupil!”
Yun Shiyu’s eyes glared.
Ever since receiving Qin Li’s teachings, she had studied intensely and had finally learnt something. As soon as she opened her eyes, she shot out a four-foot sword light that was as fast as thunder and heavy as a thousand pounds, instantly piercing through the White Ren Spirit King’s brain.
A great battle!
It came and went quickly.
The Purple Hammer Spirit King was pleasantly surprised, “A few fellow Daoists, looking unfamiliar, I don’t know why they’re mixed up in my group.”
Qin Li explained, “We cultivate in the mountains and do not ask about world affairs. Nay, the world has changed and evil cultivators are in power. For this reason, we decided to come down from the mountain just to assist your benevolent and righteous team.”
The Purple Hammer Spirit King laughed out loud and patted his thighs, “Good, good, the way to gain is more helpful than the way to lose, a few of you, quickly head to Chessboard Mountain with me.”
After some good conversation, the team set off.
A few hours later!
Arriving at Chessboard Mountain.
Qin Li glanced around, and despite the vast ocean, he still recognised that this was the terrain near the Seven-coloured Pagoda, with a large lake in the centre of the waves, and a huge island on top of the lake.
On the island were eighty bars of great flags, fluttering in the wind, the Purple Hammer Immortal King flew over and inserted a bar of red-hued great flags.
Up to this point!
The eighty-one beacons had gathered.
The wheels of history were in full swing, about to begin the Two Immortals’ Felling of the Sect.
