Chapter 204: Phoenix Cry! (Two-in-one, please subscribe)

Valkyrie Kong, having fully unleashed her innate ability, gained the recognition of this Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon.

She then pulled this Bronze Short Sword out in one go.

It was a pity that the Bronze Short Sword had long since lost all its spiritual power due to previous battles.

It could not create any phenomena to liven things up for its new master.

Valkyrie Kong did not care about this lack of excitement.

The instant she obtained the Bronze Short Sword and completed the mission, she used a Teleportation Talisman and vanished directly from this underground karst cave.

She appeared directly before Su Ping and entered the Pot Heaven.

Su Ping followed closely behind, entering the Pot Heaven to begin studying this divine weapon of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

The Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon discovered at once that its master had changed.

Just as it was about to resist, the humming sound stopped abruptly after only a single ring.

Because this Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon realized, somewhat muddled, that the talent of this new master before it... seemed quite good as well?

Su Ping had gained the recognition of the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon.

He then calmed his heart and slowly began to communicate with this divine weapon.

As the communication deepened.

Su Ping learned that when the sword spirit of this divine weapon was born, it was in a hazy, chaotic environment where even it could not distinguish where it was.

And by the time it saw the light of day again.

It had already fallen from the sky and was embedded on the peak of a high mountain.

The founding ancestor of the Heavenly Sword Sect discovered it first and, by analyzing the Immortal script on the sword's body, created the early version of the Heavenly Sword Technique.

Following that, because of this divine weapon, this ancestor suffered pursuit, had to flee to Nanhuang, and after deep reflection, founded the current Heavenly Sword Sect.

He then made this Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon the sect's heirloom sacred object, passing it down to the next Sect Master.

Because of this, the sword spirit also recorded the insights of generation after generation of Sect Masters or Supreme Elders.

Naturally, these insights all went to Su Ping's benefit.

Su Ping did not have much interest in the sword techniques inside; after all, he already possessed the North Star Greedy Wolf Divine Art, which was not inferior to any ultimate skill.

However, the sword arrays within this did pique Su Ping's interest.

The Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon recorded over ten sword arrays, among which was the Evil-Slaying Ten Thousand Sword Array from the battle at Yunshan!

Su Ping used his Divine Sense to forcibly memorize the knowledge of these sword arrays.

He felt that even the worst sword array among them was at least a Third-Tier Array.

The Evil-Slaying Ten Thousand Sword Array... was at the level of at least a high-grade Fourth-Tier Array.

Theoretically, if it could truly reach the level of ten thousand swords, it might even touch the level of a Fifth-Tier Array.

Fifth-Tier, in the Cultivation World, signifies the Transformation Realm.

And this is already the highest realm that cultivators in the current Cultivation World can reach.

Currently, the only publicly recognized Transformation Realm cultivators are Chiyuan Xianren and the divine monk of the Great Golden Light Temple, both of whom are genuine Transformation Realm cultivators.

As for the Transformation Realm power of other Immortal Sects, it can only be considered temporary means created through various secret methods and foundations; they do not count as true Transformation Realm cultivators.

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While Su Ping was studying the divine weapon in the Pot Heaven.

Outside the cave where Valkyrie Kong had vanished, disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect appeared in the sky.

The female Golden Core sword cultivator in the lead finished asking her questions and immediately transformed into a streak of Golden Light, entering the cave.

Yet she only saw a sword pit.

She immediately realized that the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon had been taken away.

Her first reaction was that it was impossible!

She immediately took out a Sword Talisman and crushed it.

In an instant, dozens of pale blue Sword Shadow phantoms flew out, spinning and dancing in all directions.

These Sword Shadows were projections of the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon.

They had a natural connection with the main body.

They were also one of the methods the Heavenly Sword Sect used to find the divine weapon.

But now, these Sword Shadows spun and spun, yet could not find the location of the main body.

This left the Golden Core female sword cultivator stunned, as she thought of a terrifying possibility.

The sect's town-guarding divine weapon had been snatched away by an unknown Immortal Sect powerhouse whose foundation was not inferior to the Heavenly Sword Sect... no, far exceeded the Heavenly Sword Sect!

And they had heavily sealed it away in some Cave Heaven Secret Realm!

Otherwise, even if it were taken to a Secret Realm.

The Sword Talisman would still be able to find a trace or two.

How could it be like this now, where nothing was found at all!

In grief and indignation, this Golden Core sword cultivator summoned a streak of golden sword light.

In the blink of an eye, she slaughtered all the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators who were still in the vicinity and had not yet left.

She still felt it was not enough and intended to slaughter the families or sects of these Foundation Establishment cultivators.

She was finally dissuaded by the few male companions at her side who had reacted in time.

This was not Nanhuang, where there was no law and order and the sects below were treated like pigsties and sheepfolds.

Above them, there were still the Immortal Sects and the Great Golden Light Temple watching.

If things got too rowdy, it would ultimately not look very good.

Thus, a great fire was used to hide all traces of the atrocities.

These Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators left in a hurry.

Families and small sects that had lost their Foundation Establishment cultivators.

They no longer had the time to search for the murderer.

Not long after the Heavenly Sword Sect departed.

This region near Yunshan began to experience constant earthquakes.

Furthermore, the frequency and intensity of the earthquakes were increasing.

To the extent that the mountain-protecting arrays of many settlements began to have problems.

In a Market that possessed a First-Tier Spiritual Vein.

The Market Master had just discovered that the Soul Lamp of his eldest son, whom he had sent to search for treasure, had vanished, and he was in the midst of grief and indignation.

He suddenly discovered an anomaly beneath his feet.

The entire Spirit Vein seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Following that, Evil Qi surged into the sky, replacing the Spirit Qi and filling the surroundings of this Market.

Boom, boom, boom!

A massive earthquake struck, accompanied by the wailing and shattering of the Market's array.

At the foot of the mountain, a bottomless pit suddenly caved in.

That Market Master steered his Flying Sword into the high sky, and his scalp went numb just from glancing at the pit.

After shouting for everyone to run, he fled into the distance without even bothering to pack his valuables.

Inside the pit, Evil Qi surged up as if it had substance.

Seen from afar, it looked like black sludge crawling out as if it were alive.

This black sludge quickly covered the entire mountain peak where the Market was located.

It took only a few minutes.

In this Market, apart from that Market Master who managed to escape, everyone else was melted into one with the sludge!

Such situations were constantly occurring in Markets or family settlements in various directions around Yunshan.

Their common characteristic was that their Spirit Veins were connected to the earth vein beneath Yunshan.

Following the recovery of that Artifact Heart Sect Supreme Elder under the Sword Elder's final sword strike.

This Avatar of the Evil God instinctively began to spread continuously along the underground, devouring all living beings along the way.

The more it ate, the more powerful it felt itself becoming.

The sense of fulfillment, growing rapidly and seemingly without bottlenecks, made this Supreme Elder constantly affirm that his choice had not been wrong.

At the same time, even without earth vein connections.

The surroundings of Yunshan were gradually being eroded by the pitch-black sludge.

Although the speed was much slower.

Every other day, one could still see large tracts of land covered by the pitch-black sludge, turning into Forbidden Lands reeking of Evil Qi.

Su Ping returned from the Pot Heaven.

After perceiving this situation at the first moment.

Su Ping sighed and immediately ordered the entire Jiuye Mountain Market to prepare for migration.

Afterward, Su Ping himself flew into the high sky, meeting several Foundation Establishment cultivators who were running over as if fleeing from a disaster.

These were all Market Masters or small sect leaders from the vicinity of Yunshan.

At the same time, most were Guest Ministers of the Artifact Heart Sect.

When the Evil-Slaying Ten Thousand Sword Array was activated, everyone had contributed their efforts as well.

It was just that when the Artifact Heart Sect ran away, they clearly did not take them along.

At first, they were still glad that they had escaped a disaster.

As a result, before they even had time to meditate and recover their Dharma Power, they discovered that the terrifying Evil Qi was catching up, and they could only flee in a hurry.

Fortunately, their settlements were not on the earth veins, so they were able to bring their trusted family members along to flee.

After Su Ping exchanged a few words with them, he declined their invitation to flee together with their valuables.

He had too many secrets, and it would be more convenient to run away alone when the time came.

As for those people in the Jiuye Mountain Market.

All Su Ping could do was send out a Memory Illusion to look after them a little.

Seeing that Baihe Zhenren was unwilling to accompany them, these people did not insist and bid farewell one after another.

After nightfall, the sludge at Yunshan was still spreading, the Forbidden Land was constantly expanding, and there was no sign of it stopping on its own.

Over at the Jiuye Mountain Market, the groups of nearby mortals finally gathered, carrying torches.

These groups, consisting mainly of abandoned mortals with only Loose Cultivators and martial artists maintaining Order.

Had all heard of the reputation of the kind and benevolent Jiuye Mountain Market Master, and in their indecision, they chose to actively seek refuge.

Hurrying along, these mortal groups breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Jiuye Mountain Market still had signs of life.

They were terrified that the big shot at Jiuye Mountain would also abandon them and leave Jiuye Mountain to fend for itself.

And seeing that Jiuye Mountain still had Order, one could tell at a glance that the big shot was still at Jiuye Mountain!

The stewards of Jiuye Mountain Market also received Su Ping's order and led men to receive these fleeing mortal groups.

They prepared carriages, tents, food, and hot water for them.

Afterward, they were organized into groups and entered the migration procession of Jiuye Mountain.

During this process, for the sake of efficiency, many decent methods had to be used.

Those who did not give the stewards decency were all given decency.

Some who wanted to fish in troubled waters, upon discovering that Nine Leaves Mountain was not to be trifled with, tacitly became honest and good-natured people.

Su Ping had originally thought that Nine Leaves Mountain was far enough away to give them a bit more time to prepare.

Yet he discovered that as that pitch-black sludge spread,

it was not just the ground that had been polluted.

The Secret Realms relying on that region were also affected, unable to maintain themselves and thus revealed.

And it was not just the entrances and exits that appeared.

Some that could not maintain the Secret Realm space directly surfaced in the sky and then crashed down as if dozens of mountain peaks had appeared out of thin air.

Those Evil Spirits originally imprisoned within the Secret Realms were also released along with them.

Before the sky was fully bright, Su Ping sensed several proactive Evil Spirits running over, following the scent of human life.

They were then intercepted in advance by the Exorcist Mage Yunkong he summoned, who froze them into ice sculptures.

Then, after beating them into wreckage, he collected them with a Storage Bag.

"Let's go, we can't stay at Nine Leaves Mountain!"

"Other regions won't do either; I feel like a big thunderclap is still hidden at Chiyuan Main Peak."

"Then... we can only go to the overseas islands first!"

Su Ping opened the map to take a look, his gaze resting on the islands near the coast of Nanhuang.

That place was also a land with thin Spirit Qi.

Furthermore, it was far from the Jinzi Domain Yunshan area and that stretch of sea with the Beidou Qixing Sect Secret Realm.

The route was also sparsely populated and resource-poor.

There were no large sects or large-scale Markets.

So there was little worry about encountering large sect Cultivators on the way who might intervene and have designs on him.

As for the small sects and factions,

Su Ping felt he still had the ability to make them reasonable.

After Su Ping gave the order to begin the evacuation,

he directly summoned the Purple Gourd and sat upon it.

Then, with a shift of his thoughts, Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui led hundreds of Elite rats to act as Scouts, spreading out in all directions.

Afterwards, the team began to move under the sound of shouts and commands.

Su Ping had enough carriages and horses, and there were Loose Cultivators who had received distributed Pills to replenish Dharma Power to help resolve emergencies.

Although the team was massive, the speed of their advance was not slow.

Along the way, they even absorbed several other migration teams they encountered.

These teams came from far-sighted Qi Refining families.

Lacking Foundation Establishment leaders, once they saw this massive caravan, the leaders knelt on both legs without a word to beg for shelter.

Su Ping did not mind having more Cultivators.

As long as his Divine Sense scanned them and they were not evil cultivators, he turned no one away.

Midway, the ground once again set off waves of violent tremors.

This caused the marching team's pace to unconsciously quicken a little more.

Su Ping had been meditating with his eyes closed, only opening his eyes and rising when the Scouts discovered something amiss.

Three days later, as the team camped to silently boil water and gnaw on dry rations,

Su Ping suddenly sensed that the sky in the direction of Yunshan in the distance had suddenly lit up!

A sense of trembling emerged from Su Ping and every other Cultivator in the vicinity.

"This is..."

"Finally, a Great Ability has found the time to deal with the Yunshan matter?"

Su Ping had a feeling in his heart, muttering to himself.

Boom!

Thunderous sounds suddenly appeared at the edge of the sky.

Then the thunder became increasingly frequent and violent.

Awoo!

Even though they were already thousands of miles away from Yunshan,

Su Ping's side actually heard the cry of a phoenix from the edge of the sky.

It was also after this sound arrived that

the Cultivators who were once Outer Sect Disciples of the Immortal Sect flushed red and let out exclamations:

"It is the cry of the Red Kite!"

"It is Chiyuan Xianren who has taken action!"

"With the Immortal taking action, the Heavenly Demons and evil paths will surely have their Divine Souls destroyed in this battle!"

These Outer Sect Disciples, who grew up reading legends of Chiyuan Xianren, all felt an emotion called hope welling up in their hearts.

In fact, it was not just them, but even those mortals who had been abandoned time and again and had experienced so many great disasters.

From the old to the young, upon learning that it might be Chiyuan Xianren who had emerged,

they all had the thought emerge that with Chiyuan Xianren taking action, everything would get better.

Su Ping released his Divine Sense to sense the energy fluctuations drifting from afar.

Yet in his heart, he knew it was not that simple.

After thinking for a moment, Su Ping increased his altitude, summoned the Memory Illusion Exorcist Mage Yunkong, and then had it use a Teleportation Rune to appear directly at the Transmission Point near Nine Leaves Mountain.

There, an innocent Wen Bird stayed inside a birdcage.

Sensing danger, it desperately tried to escape, but was blocked firmly by the reinforced birdcage.

After teleporting to this location, Exorcist Mage Yunkong did not linger, instead relying on his fearlessness to rush to the edge of the scene.

On the way, Su Ping quickly noticed that the pitch-black sludge had already spread to a place less than a hundred miles from Nine Leaves Mountain.

This rate of expansion... it was no wonder the Immortal Sects could not help but take action.

After all, it was also a Forbidden Land.

In Mu Zi Yu, Evil Qi only constantly emerged from the area where the Evil God descended.

In the eyes of the Immortal Sects, it belonged to a temporarily controllable polluted zone.

But this area around Yunshan was equivalent to a tumor that was expanding crazily and growing larger every day!

Facing such a tumor that was growing larger every day.

If there were any priorities, this was inevitably one of the highest priority matters!

Su Ping could see the sky, which was originally half blood-red and half pitch-black.

The blood-red side had already turned into white light.

Under the radiance, the pitch-black sludge was visibly cracking and collapsing.

Some Evil Spirits that escaped were even turned into Mysterious Remains, scattered across various places.

Afterwards, these remains were covered by beams of Golden Light and sucked into the white light.

Exorcist Mage Yunkong looked toward the white light in the high sky.

Vaguely, one could see a monk and a Daoist sitting above that white light.

Both the monk and the Daoist were Avatar projections, not their true bodies.

They looked extremely blurry, making it difficult to even distinguish their facial features.

The monk held a Purple Gold Alms Bowl in his hand; the white light and the Golden Light that collected the remains all came from this Spirit Treasure.

The Daoist held a Long Sword with both hands placed flat.

The Long Sword was snow-white, with only the hilt carved from dark red Precious Jade.

Roar!

In the deep pit of Yunshan, that Supreme Elder turned into a pitch-black giant hand once again, wanting to grab at the projections above the white light.

But this time, the pitch-black giant hand could not even rise to half its height.

Following a phoenix cry, a sword light slashed out.

The entire pitch-black giant hand collapsed in an instant into countless fragments, then clattered back down into the deep pit.

In the deep pit, mixed with the angry roars of different people, wails were incessant.

The white light, however, took the opportunity to expand again, actually pushing the pitch-black sky back.

If one looked further into the distance.

One could see that the airspace where the white light was located had already pushed over the Dahai, above the island where the Secret Realm was located.

"Wait... wait!"

It was also at this moment that the Supreme Elder of the Artifact Heart Sect, who had just turned into a sludge monster and poked his head out of the deep pit.

Suddenly revealed a terrified expression and issued a plea:

"I can handle it, they didn't come in person, they are just two Avatars!"

"No, it cannot be, this is not what was said..."

The voice could not finish.

The aura of the sludge monster had already changed drastically, and after its appearance twisted for a while, it turned into the appearance of the Evil God Nicu that Su Ping had once seen in the Underground Mausoleum of the Secret Realm.

Clearly, having sensed the Great Ability of the Cultivation World taking action, Evil God Nicu chose to personally take the field using the body of that Supreme Elder.

As for any promise of being an independent individual.

Evil God Nicu naturally would not break his word; if there were an opportunity, he would not mind copying the relevant memories to one of his Avatars in the future.

"..."

Evil God Nicu raised his head and flew out of the deep pit.

Seeing the projections in the white light, he grinned:

"Chiyuan Xianren, the most powerful intelligent individual in this world?"

"Finally, I can cross hands with you, although it is a pity that it is only an Avatar."

"But I am also just an Avatar; Avatar against Avatar, this battle of ours... is still quite fair!"

Swish!

The Daoist above the white light suddenly stood up.

His right hand gripped the Long Sword and slashed out a sword strike fiercely toward the bottom.

A sword light even more dazzling than the one that had shattered the pitch-black giant hand before suddenly appeared in the air.

And in the next instant, the sword light expanded to the extent of blotting out the sky and sun.

Leaving Evil God Nicu with a stunned expression.

In his mind, there was only one thought:

"Wasn't it said that the strongest individual in this world was only at the fifth rank?"

"You call a monster who has comprehended such a supreme technique a fifth rank!"

The sword fell and all things shattered!

Accompanied by the phoenix cry resounding through the ten-thousand-mile sky.

The deep pit of Yunshan was filled with the purest sword Qi.

And under the sword Qi, the earth was continuously torn apart and sank.

And finally... reached the location of the earth vein!

The earth vein beneath Yunshan had already manifested into a pitch-black sphere with a diameter exceeding one thousand meters.

Facing the sword Qi, this sphere merely developed cracks before immediately recovering.

Clearly, even the sword Qi of Chiyuan Xianren could not wear away this earth vein!