Chapter 141: Our Human Cultivators Do Not Believe in Heaven

More than ten minutes later, the once wildly noisy pool was reduced to nothing but the roaring sound of the waterfall cascading down.

The fresh water vapor had now been replaced by a thick, reeking stench of blood, making one nauseous.

Zhang Yunlu's face was pale; one hand braced against a large rock as she struggled to calm herself.

Behind her, countless severed limbs and organs floated upon the water's surface; the entire pool had been dyed red, like a hellish realm.

Paired with that thick, pungent stench of blood, it was enough to make any normal person vomit the instant they saw it.

She had once thought that after enduring countless life-or-death battles in the trial space, she had grown accustomed to such scenes.

But she had overestimated herself.

Unlike in the trial space, where wounds turned to gray mist, seeing actual blood and severed limbs piled before her still made her stomach churn uncontrollably.

Huh~ After a long while, she exhaled deeply and finally regained her composure.

Then she turned back, continuing to stare at the pool, now covered in severed limbs and shattered organ fragments.

Since she had identified the problem, she needed to overcome it as soon as possible.

Forcing down her discomfort, she began recalling the data on the Fifth Jiajiao Clan.

'Chiyu Star System, Chifeng No. 47 Star System, Fifth Jiajiao Clan.'

'Discovered twenty-seven years ago by the Returning Void cultivator Li Wang of the Xiang Jianzong's Sword Hall.'

'After witnessing Li Wang's supreme power, their clan king submitted the entire tribe to humanity and signed a pact.'

'Since then, human star traders have been free to visit this star system, exchanging their carried goods for the planet's unique resources.'

Star traders are mostly cultivators without sect affiliation.

By trading with alien races across the stars, they earn substantial returns, so many free cultivators flock to the profession.

But because they are free cultivators, their realms are generally low; most are Jin Dan, and even the highest-ranked star traders reach no higher than Soul Transformation.

'Beginning a year ago, star traders began disappearing on this planet; initially, no one paid attention.'

The stars are vast; anything can happen. The disappearance of a few Jin Dan traders is not unusual.

'But as time passed, more and more traders vanished from this star system, until someone finally noticed something was wrong.'

'And half a month ago, they reported this anomaly to the Xiang Jianzong.'

'The Xiang Jianzong immediately dispatched a Soul Transformation sword cultivator to investigate.'

'Three days later, the Xiang Jianzong's Soul Transformation sword cultivator sent back a message: 【Chiyu Star System, Chifeng No. 47 Star System — Clan rebellion. Unknown method used to nullify the pact. Nearly a hundred star traders were devoured by them】.'

'After the message was sent, the Xiang Jianzong's Soul Transformation sword cultivator went missing; his soul lamp extinguished.'

'Through the soul lamp, the Xiang Jianzong glimpsed the truth: the Soul Transformation sword cultivator was killed by the combined forces of three alien royal beings and a biological weapon core.'

'Li Wang, enraged, personally pursued them to Chifeng No. 93 Star System, reduced the three alien royals and eighteen Soul Transformation-level biological weapons to ash, extracted their soul essences, and cast them into a star, intending to roast them for a thousand years with stellar flames.'

'Then, within the Xiang Jianzong, a mission to purge the rebellious alien clan was issued.'

This was an old tradition of the Xiang Jianzong—or rather, of all the Gedaxian Sects.

After eliminating the enemy's top-tier forces, the rest is left to the Xiang Jianzong's young disciples, treated as a trial.

Looking at the severed limbs and organs nearby, though she no longer felt as nauseous as before, she still instinctively recoiled.

It was a physiological instinct, hard to fully suppress.

'Was her past experience like this trial?'

Previously, hearing that Chi Jiuyu had quelled planetary unrest at Jin Dan, Zhang Yun had merely thought her impressive.

But now, seeing it…

She truly was impressive.

'First, summon the spirits to ask.'

Zhang Yunlu took out a talisman and walked to the edge of the pool.

A thread of true energy flowed into it; the yellow talisman ignited with an eerie blue glow.

With a light flick, the entire talisman became a drifting wisp of blue flame, floating to the center of the pool.

Though the air was thick with vapor, it did not affect the rising flame.

The sinister firelight twisted and flickered; beneath its glow, dozens of cold, vacant, phantom figures appeared.

In truth, spirit-summoning works best when using the victim's head as a medium—it yields far better results.

But when fighting enemies, Zhang Yunlu always felt safer if she crushed their skulls, so she never left any intact.

The reason the pool looked so horrific was largely because she had chopped the Fifth Jiajiao Clan's heads into such tiny pieces.

'Where are your king and the biological weapon core?'

Zhang Yunlu probed with her spiritual sense.

'The King is the Chosen One!' 'Humans taste delicious!'

'Atululu!'

'The King!'

'The Greatest King!'

'Gaya Tu!'

Dozens of voices erupted at once—shrill shouts, low complaints, piercing questions, all tones overlapping.

Some were pure, meaningless howls.

But not a single voice answered her original question.

'…'

It seemed that lacking a head as a medium had a significant impact.

She raised her hand and fired a burst of true energy, shattering the blue flame; the cold, vacant phantoms vanished with it.

'I'll have to be more careful next time.'

At the very least, leave behind a head.

…………

Meanwhile, in the Thirty-Seventh Chifeng Star System, the Third Planet.

Third Jiajiao Clan's Wang Cheng! Once magnificent and glorious, the Wang Cheng was now shattered and ruined; its former millions of Third Jiajiao inhabitants had dwindled to fewer than a hundred.

A vast abyss, nearly a hundred meters deep and tens of thousands of meters long, had nearly split the Wang Cheng in two.

Boom!

A brilliant swordlight, like the Tianhe pouring from heaven, plunged into the earth.

In an instant, as if a ground dragon leapt upward, dust and waves surged thousands of meters high, blotting out the sky and sun.

The already ruined Wang Cheng was nearly erased from existence by the terrifying power of that swordlight.

Before the Wang Zuo, in the royal palace, one figure looked up at the sky, his eyes filled with despair.

He had only dark brown carapace on the back of his right hand, and a small bump on his forehead—his spiral horn was gone.

He was the king of the Third Jiajiao Clan; around him, many Third Jiajiao looked at the sky with the same despair.

Too strong! Even in my peak state, I could never be a match for this terrifying human.

Only a Sovereign…

No! Even a Sovereign might not be a match for this terrifying human.

"Great Sacred Clan, I beg you to protect my people! Send down holy punishment to punish this damned human! I offer my loyalty and soul!"

The Third Jiajiao king knelt and prayed.

In this desperate plight, he had no other choice.

As if his prayer had truly taken effect, a young voice entered his ears.

"Thirty-Seventh Chifeng Star System, Third Jiajiao Clan: you have slaughtered human star traders and murdered disciples of the Xiang Jianzong. Your crime merits total annihilation. Sentence carried out."

Human language?

The Third Jiajiao king looked up. A young human woman slowly descended from the sky, holding in her hand an ancient, simple longsword of blue-gold.

Chi Jiu Yu! "How was that? Did my words sound good?"

She'd thought long and hard to come up with them.

"Human!" Fury flooded the Third Jiajiao king's eyes, turning them red. He roared in human language: "The humans we killed amount to less than a thousandth of what you've just slaughtered among my people!"

"Are you trying to reason with me now?" Chi Jiu Yu blinked.

The alien king froze, then his expression turned tragic and furious: "One life for ten thousand! We killed humans by mistake and brought this retribution upon ourselves—it is our due. But heaven favors life—can you not spare even a single drop of our blood?!"

He hoped to persuade this terrifying human: even if all his people died, as long as he lived, with the aid of the Great Sacred Clan, all might yet be regained.

"You alien speaks in such polished phrases," Chi Jiu Yu flicked her sword.

Just as the alien king thought he had hope and opened his mouth to speak further—

Shhh! Brilliant swordlight drowned every remaining Third Jiajiao.

"No. Human cultivators do not believe in heaven."

Then Chi Jiu Yu turned gracefully and vanished into a streak of swordlight, soaring toward the heavens.

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