Chapter 266: Equality Above the Self

"Shut up!"

True Person Li Hai suddenly flew into a rage, interrupting his words: "You are merely a Golden Core of a tiny minor realm, your knowledge is narrow and shallow—how could you possibly know of the affairs of the Immortal Sect!"

"The Immortal Sect embraces all rivers, and it is great because of its tolerance; thus, it achieves such heights and distances. It has never lacked great beings who originated from minor realms!"

"Could this matter be false?"

"Do not speak such nonsense again!"

"Do not forget where the Blood Longevity Pills came from, and what the consequences will be if the Eastern Ji Mo Men finds out!"

The three transparent, hazy figures said nothing more, watching him with cold, gloomy gazes.

A group of aerospace fighter jets soared through the sky.

The overlords of the sky patrolled a radius of ten thousand miles, never falling.

On the ground,

In the three kingdoms, in three different directions.

The Tianhai Sect, Gumu Sect, and Heishi Sect each formed groups consisting of one Foundation Establishment cultivator and fifty to sixty Qi Refining cultivators. Divided into one hundred small squads, they were equipped with monitoring magic tools and detection magic tools, sweeping through every city and every town in the Li Kingdom.

The three sects meant three hundred squads, each riding flying boat magic tools, not letting a single place where people gathered in the Li Kingdom escape.

Orderly and well-trained.

If they discovered Qi Refining stage demonic cultivators, they would eliminate them on the spot; seizing any potential Compassionate Guanyin statues would earn them a Yellow-tier minor merit.

If they discovered Foundation Establishment stage demonic cultivators, they would gather disciples from the same sect, combine multiple Foundation Establishment squads, and kill them.

If they discovered even more, it was an even greater delight; they only needed to summon the Immortal Envoys in the sky to destroy them.

Sweeping city by city, within a short two months, vast swathes of the Li Kingdom's land were cleared. A large number of demonic cultivators died, and the demonic disaster caused by the spread of demonic cultivation arts was rapidly quelled.

Besides battle merits, there were also merits for restoring people's livelihoods, managing floods and droughts in key areas, and repairing water conservancy projects.

Among these miscellaneous tasks, the one most competed for, and which yielded the most merit, was the clearing of folk cults.

It was also simple: mobilize the mortal martial artists and the army to search for cultists, eradicate the belief in the Compassionate Guanyin Sect among the people, and turn in every Guanyin statue encountered.

The cultivators of the three sects gained quite a lot of merit.

The key was that the danger was very low.

Except for a very small number of Foundation Establishment cultivators who harbored hidden worries, everyone was full of joy.

Another month passed.

Within the Li Kingdom, all cults and all demonic cultivators, except for the very few hiding in the deep mountains and old forests, had been cleared away. The cult beliefs were severed, and people's livelihoods were restored in an orderly fashion.

The seized cult Guanyin statues were piled into small hills; all of them were belief nodes capable of directly connecting to the evil god's divine kingdom through incense.

"Incense data collection progress: 100%."

"First Provisional Aerospace Legion, request: Array Spirit of the Canghai Steel Floating Island Base, deduce the location of the evil god's divine kingdom."

High in the sky, Jin Lingfeng said excitedly.

"Request approved."

The Array Spirit's voice came through.

"Please wait, currently deducing for you. It is estimated to take 72 hours, 3 minutes, and 50 seconds. Please wait......"

Three days passed in a flash.

"The evil god's divine kingdom, codenamed 'Namo Compassionate Guanyin', is located at coordinates (......)."

A line of coordinates appeared in the legion channel.

"The Li Kingdom capital!"

Scanning it once, Jiang Ding immediately correlated it with the position on the military map: "At this location, the three sects' Dao soldiers have swept through many times, and the monitoring videos showed no signs of deliberate indulgence... It is underground."

The aerospace fighter jet group swept past, taking less than a day to arrive in the sky above the Li capital.

The spiritual child radar formed by the Tier 3 military array scanned the ground meticulously.

"It is indeed underground."

After a long time, An Siyan judged: "Deep underground, hundreds of meters beneath the Li capital, there exists an underground karst cave. The thick layers of soil and rock blocked the spiritual sense scan. It is normal that the three sects' Foundation Establishment cultivators did not discover it. If our Tier 3 military array does not pay close attention, it will also ignore this place."

"A karst cave hundreds of meters underground, and it is unusually vast......"

Many students frowned.

This was precisely the terrain that the Immortal Sect's aerospace fighter jets found difficult to handle.

True Person Li Hai was indeed a veteran who had fought outside the realm for many years; his responses in all aspects were very seasoned.

Generally, in this situation, one would send Dao soldiers deep inside to investigate.

However, the effect was usually not very good. Even Golden Core Dao soldiers were far from comparable to the Immortal Sect's Golden Core cultivators in terms of realm and strength.

From time to time, there would even be crushing and slaughtering by a major realm.

"The lives of scouts are also lives......"

Jiang Ding was speechless.

Amidst the expectant gazes of his classmates, he flew into the sky above the Li capital. His spiritual sense and sword intent scanned continuously, and he immediately detected many cave entrances naturally concealed by thick soil, giant rocks, and the like.

He did not choose to enter through these entrances.

Finding a rooftop, he sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

Swish!

The Taiqing Flying Sword concealed its form and arrived above a layer of thick rock and soil. The thin sword body pierced into the soil and disappeared.

He felt almost no resistance. Neither the soil nor the rock layer, over a hundred meters thick, caused the Taiqing Flying Sword to consume even a sliver of extra magic power. Its speed was neither fast nor slow.

Taiqing Divine Iron and Law-Breaking Immortal Gold naturally possessed powerful concealment capabilities.

Even if there were detection spells pre-arranged by Li Yun demonic cultivators in the nearby karst cave, they could not detect a single thing.

After passing through hundreds of meters of soil, the field of vision suddenly opened up.

This was a karst cave over a hundred meters wide and dozens of meters high, with cave entrances spreading to other places in all directions.

"A good place for tunnel warfare."

Jiang Ding, with his spiritual sense attached to the Taiqing Flying Sword, praised.

Concealing the sword body, he chose a cave entrance at random and flew close to the top of the karst cave, not even causing a subtle turbulence in the air.

Ten-plus minutes later.

He had searched every place within a four-to-five-kilometer radius of the karst cave, but found nothing.

The Taiqing Flying Sword pierced upward through the soil layer and returned to the surface.

Jiang Ding changed to another place and continued to investigate with the Taiqing Flying Sword.

After doing this six or seven times, Jiang Ding sat cross-legged on the roof of the Taihe Hall in the Li Kingdom's imperial palace. The Taiqing Flying Sword pierced into the ground from the gap between the stone slabs and disappeared.

"Found it!"

Jiang Ding's spirit lifted.

The Taiqing Flying Sword concealed its sword body and flew cautiously along the top of the karst cave.

Faint spiritual sense fluctuations came through.

"That mortal said he wants sunlight, wants to bathe, wants vegetables......"

Two Li Yun Sect Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators were hiding on the rock wall of the karst cave using Earth Escape Arts. They sneered via voice transmission: "Many fellow disciples have already died, and our future is uncertain. Where would we have the time to do these things for him?"

"This mortal is a piece of trash, useless."

Another person sighed: "I thought he was also an Immortal Envoy, claiming to be from some Equality Society, and I thought he had a massive force that could maneuver for us...... He is completely useless. We should have killed him long ago."

The Taiqing Flying Sword did nothing to them, passing by not far away and entering deeper.

Passing through layers of restrictions and detection spells, laughter and chatter came through.

"Immortal Envoy, come play......"

"I am here, right here......"

Flying closer, the Taiqing Flying Sword paused for a moment.

A young man with an ordinary appearance was blindfolded, hugging and holding onto a group of laughing, beautiful Qi Refining stage maidservants. He was filled with fragrance, drinking a mouthful of wine from time to time, laughing heartily without stop.

He was completely unaware of the disdain and disgust that could be easily seen in the eyes of the maidservants.

Nearby, Li Yun Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators watched coldly, a trace of manic killing intent flashing from time to time.

"This is the Equality Sect......"

"Equality for Immortal Sect practitioners above the self, clear hierarchy for those below the self."

The spiritual sense on the Taiqing Flying Sword whispered, ignoring them, and continued to fly deep into the karst cave.

Next two chapters tonight.

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