Chapter 659: The Hundredth Year: The Tribulation Lightning in the Qingxuan Cave Heaven

"One demon can create billions of acts of slaughter; this is the cruel world of cultivation."

Immediately, Ye Qingxuan shifted his thought.

"Boom!"

The earth churned, burying all the remaining human corpses beneath the ground.

Most of these corpses were ordinary humans, useless to the Green Demon Clan, which is why they had been carelessly scattered everywhere.

Having done all this, a cold light flashed in Ye Qingxuan's eyes as he spoke in a chilling voice: "Those not of my kind must be exterminated!"

With that, Ye Qingxuan flew toward the distance.

Since Ye Qingxuan's true body had entered a deep seclusion and gathered most of his consciousness,

except for his external avatar, the City Lord of Dongxuan City,

most of his ordinary avatars had fallen into silence, retaining only a sliver of consciousness to sustain their forms and unable to maintain peak combat power.

Among the ordinary avatars, only this one wandering the Endless Sea retained sufficient sub-consciousness to support it, capable of unleashing combat power at the Kongming Realm level.

After witnessing scene after scene of hell within the Endless Sea,

this avatar of his, besides the mission to arrange cultivation inheritances within the Endless Sea, also formed the intention to track and hunt the Green Demon Clan hidden within the Endless Sea.

Indeed, tracking and hunting the Green Demon Clan responsible for boundless slaughter within the Endless Sea had become the primary mission of this avatar.

Whether as a being of the Di Xuan Realm or of human origin, he could not ignore the wanton slaughter committed by these Green Demons within the Endless Sea.

Although relying solely on the abilities of this avatar, he could not completely exterminate all the Green Demons hidden within the Endless Sea,

yet every Green Demon slain was one less.

For every area of Green Demons cleared, another pure land emerged within the Endless Sea.

Ye Qingxuan had made up his mind: until the Green Demons within the Endless Sea were completely slain, this avatar would never leave the Endless Sea.

As time passed year by year,

some Tribulation Crossing Realm experts who had gained little within the four regions of the Di Xuan Realm also turned their gaze toward the Endless Sea.

More and more Tribulation Crossing Realm experts flooded into the Endless Sea, constantly pushing deeper into its depths.

Under the personal investigation of human Tribulation Crossing Realm experts,

in every area where these human experts descended, almost all Green Demons whose tracks were revealed were met with retribution by these Tribulation Crossing Realm experts.

For a time, many areas of the long chaotic Endless Sea welcomed a long-overdue peace.

However, due to the devastation of the demon calamity in recent years, the human population within the Endless Sea had nearly decreased by two-fifths.

Had it not been for the Di Xuan Realm Alliance dispatching a large number of cultivators to station in the Endless Sea years ago, organizing the Di Xuan Realm Alliance's Twelve Sub-Alliances to integrate and coordinate the human forces within the Endless Sea,

stabilizing the situation in some areas of the Endless Sea significantly,

the decline in the human population within the Endless Sea today would have increased dramatically.

Within the vast and boundless Endless Sea, it was further divided into various seas of different sizes.

The formation of these divisions and names for different seas

was mostly because cultivators living in these seas dwelt in isolated corners, unaware of the true heavens and earth.

They regarded the seas they lived in as the true heavens and earth and named them accordingly.

Later, even when some cultivators grew to a certain level, left their home seas, and discovered a broader, more magnificent world,

to distinguish the different regions within the Endless Sea, the names of these seas were retained.

Over time, the vast and boundless Endless Sea was divided into seas of varying sizes.

At this moment, in the deep eastern part of the Endless Sea lay a sea named 'Star Glory'.

A figure suddenly appeared in the high sky above the Star Glory Sea, standing against the wind and looking down at the sea, speaking in a low voice: "Is this the Star Glory Sea, one of the large seas in the deep Endless Sea?"

This person was none other than Liu Tai'an of the Xuan Tian Sect.

Since leaving the Xuan Tian Sect, Liu Tai'an had ventured deep into the Endless Sea.

In these years, relying on the auxiliary immortal artifact temporarily bestowed by Cen Zhe, he had tracked and hunted down many Green Demons within the Endless Sea.

He cleared the long-raging demon calamity from many seas within the Endless Sea.

The Star Glory Sea where Liu Tai'an now descended was his next destination for hunting Green Demons.

According to the jade slips within the Xuan Tian Sect regarding the Endless Sea,

as one of the large seas divided within the Endless Sea, the vast Star Glory Sea surprisingly contained no large continents.

Even medium-sized continents were few and far between.

Only a handful of small continents, along with millions of islands scattered like stars throughout the Star Glory Sea, existed.

Precisely because of this, although the Star Glory Sea was one of the large seas in the deep Endless Sea,

its resources were relatively scarce, and it had not nurtured too many experts to station there.

Let alone experts of the Kongming or Tribulation Crossing realms, even Dao Void Realm cultivators were extremely rare within the Star Glory Sea.

With the number of Dao Void Realm cultivators in the Star Glory Sea, guarding such a vast territory was absolutely a case of stretching resources too thin in terms of top-tier power.

Furthermore, the location of the Star Glory Sea was far from the Di Xuan Realm Alliance sub-alliances established within the Endless Sea.

From this, it could be inferred that in the Star Glory Sea, which lacked sufficient high-level cultivators to sweep through it, the Green Demons ravaging or hiding within must be numerous.

This was the main reason Liu Tai'an had descended here.

High in the sky, Liu Tai'an shifted his thought, and a compass emitting five-colored starlight immediately floated before him.

This compass emitting five-colored starlight was the Low-Grade Immortal Artifact, the Star Heaven Compass, temporarily bestowed upon him by Cen Zhe.

As a special auxiliary immortal artifact, the Star Heaven Compass contained a trace of the Heavenly Mechanism Great Dao law, making it exceptionally skilled at divining heavenly mechanisms and tracking information.

Compared to those offensive or defensive immortal artifacts, auxiliary immortal artifacts like the Star Heaven Compass, skilled at divining heavenly mechanisms and tracking information, were extremely rare within the Di Xuan Realm.

This was also the key reason Cen Zhe helped Liu Tai'an shorten the time to break through to the Tribulation Crossing Realm, confident in allowing Liu Tai'an to compete for the eleven Mahayana Realm Green Demon corpses.

His gaze shifted slightly, and Liu Tai'an flipped his palm, causing a wisp of demonic qi to instantly appear in his palm.

Drive this wisp of demonic qi into the Star Heavens Compass, then infuse a stream of spiritual power to activate it.

The Star Heavens Compass contains a large quantity of supreme spirit crystals prepared in advance by Cen Zhe as an energy source, so activating it does not require Liu Tai'an to consume too much of his spiritual power.

Liu Tai'an only needs to infuse a burst of energy to activate it; the Star Heavens Compass will then absorb the energy from the supreme spirit crystals to operate on its own.

"Hum!" "Hum!" "Hum!"

As Liu Tai'an's spiritual power flowed in, the Star Heavens Compass hovering before him immediately trembled slightly, emitting dazzling five-colored starlight.

Then, the components within the Star Heavens Compass began to rotate rapidly.

Under the operation of the Star Heavens Compass, the emitted five-colored starlight changed and reorganized quickly, gradually forming a massive three-dimensional star map around Liu Tai'an.

Within the star map glowing with starlight, hundreds of black dots emitting fluctuations of demonic qi floated. Seeing this, Liu Tai'an's expression immediately darkened as he said:

"I didn't expect that so many Green Demon Clan members, or outposts established by the Green Demon Clan, are actually hidden within the Star Glory Sea Region?"

A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and Liu Tai'an immediately flew toward the black dot closest to him.

After arriving at a body of water, Liu Tai'an stopped but frowned slightly.

"Strange, why is there no trace of the Green Demon Clan?"

In the star map displayed by the Star Heavens Compass, the black dot closest to him was right here.

However, under the coverage and sweep of his spiritual sense, he did not discover any trace of the Green Demon Clan in this water area.

Without the Star Heavens Compass in hand, Liu Tai'an might have left this place immediately after failing to detect any trace of the Green Demon Clan.

But now, with the calculation and tracking of the Star Heavens Compass, how could Liu Tai'an give up so easily? Seeing that he still could not find any trace of the Green Demon Clan after investigating this water area for a moment, Liu Tai'an shifted his mind.

"Boom!"

In an instant, Liu Tai'an's spiritual sense moved with his will, stirring up wind and clouds within a ten-thousand-li radius of this water area and shaking the space of this region.

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"Boom!" "Hum!" "Hum!" "Crash!"

Accompanied by a thunderous sound of heaven and earth, Liu Tai'an's spiritual sense power surged, stirring up the heavens and the earth.

The space within a ten-thousand-li radius began to tremble and shake continuously.

The sea area of this region instantly surged, raising towering waves that swept in all directions.

After lasting for a few breaths, Liu Tai'an detected an anomaly in a certain area deep beneath the seabed; his expression immediately shifted as he realized:

"So it is hidden within a spatial node beneath the ocean. No wonder I could not detect any trace."

The next second, Liu Tai'an's figure moved slightly and vanished.

When he reappeared, he had arrived at a small space where demonic qi churned and many Demon Origin Trees were planted.

The Demon Origin Trees planted in this small space were silently devouring the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the Earthly Mystery Realm, converting it into the exclusive demonic qi of the Green Demon Realm.

"Who? Damn, it's a human expert. We've been discovered."

Not long after Liu Tai'an appeared.

A Green Demon Clan member of the Void Penetration Realm, who was leading this space, sensed something was wrong, turned his head sharply, and looked at Liu Tai'an's figure with a grim expression, saying:

Unfortunately, before this Void Penetration Realm Green Demon Clan member could resist.

"Hmph!"

With a cold snort from Liu Tai'an, his overwhelmingly powerful spiritual sense power, interwoven with the Five Elements rules of the Mahayana Realm, surged out.

Within this space, all twenty-seven Green Demon Clan members, including that Void Penetration Realm one, had their consciousness forcibly erased; their life force scattered on the spot, and they perished, their Dao extinguished.

After these twenty-seven Green Demon Clan members lost their life force.

A token hanging at Liu Tai'an's waist flickered slightly, and the number recorded within it instantly changed.

This token was the one Liu Tai'an had obtained from the headquarters of the Earthly Mystery Realm Alliance before coming to the Endless Sea Region, specifically designed to record the points earned from hunting Green Demon Clan members.

Although Liu Tai'an had delayed for a few years due to breaking through to the Tribulation Crossing Realm.

Relying on the Star Heavens Compass in his hand, Liu Tai'an had caught up from behind; the points he earned from hunting Green Demon Clan members were about to rank within the top fifteen of the entire Earthly Mystery Realm.

After clearing out the Green Demon Clan members hiding in the Star Glory Sea Region, Liu Tai'an's point ranking would surely see a significant increase.

However, the few Tribulation Crossing Realm experts ranked at the top were not slower than Liu Tai'an in their rate of point accumulation.

So, without realizing it, Liu Tai'an could not help but feel a slight pressure.

After eliminating the Green Demon Clan's spatial outpost, Liu Tai'an collected the corpses of the Green Demon Clan members and casually destroyed the Demon Origin Trees they had planted in this space.

He immediately left this space and flew at extreme speed toward the next black dot manifested in the Star Heavens Compass.

Time passed; in the blink of an eye, more than five years had gone by.

In the hundredth year of Ye Qingxuan's seclusion.

Now, only ten years remain until the competition for the eleven Mahayana Realm Green Demon Clan corpses concludes.

Within the Green Mystery Cave Heaven.

"Boom!"

Terrifying lightning power gathered again on a seventh-grade spiritual vein in a certain area of the Green Mystery Cave Heaven.

Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cailier, who had sensed the commotion, gathered together once more, gazing at the area where the tribulation lightning was forming from outside the tribulation.

"It is another cultivator under the Young Master's command striving for the Void Penetration Realm. I wonder who is breaking through this time?"

Hearing Ye Zhaoyu's words, Ye Zhaoheng also said in confusion:

"Strange, haven't Liu Feifeng, Jiang Yinyin, Li Mu, Jiang Wen, and others under the Young Master's command already attempted to break through to the Void Penetration Realm?"

"Could there be another of the Young Master's subordinates in the Green Mystery Cave Heaven currently in seclusion, breaking through to the Void Penetration Realm?"

"But besides Liu Feifeng, Jiang Yinyin, Li Mu, Jiang Wen, and others, I didn't hear the Young Master mention anyone before he entered seclusion?"

Hearing the exchange between Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, standing nearby, furrowed her delicate brows; a thoughtful look appeared in her eyes, yet she had no leads.

Previously, with Ye Qingxuan's permission, Liu Yun'er and Liu Cailier had traveled to Dongxuan City.

Therefore, Liu Yun'er and Liu Cailier knew most of the experts under Ye Qingxuan's command, or at least had heard of them.

But in Liu Yun'er's impression, the cultivators under Ye Qingxuan's command who had broken through to the foundation of the Void Penetration Realm should have already undergone their tribulations one after another.

She truly could not figure out who, at this moment, was still secluding themselves within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven to break through.

However, compared to the confusion and contemplation of Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, and Liu Yun'er, Liu Cairei carelessly waved her hand and said:

"Whoever it is that breaks through, it doesn't matter; they are all under the Young Master's command."

"I hope he or she succeeds in breaking through, adding a high-level combat force to the Young Master's ranks!"

Hearing this, Liu Yun'er, standing nearby, smiled gently, patted Liu Cairei's head beside her, and said softly:

"Cairei is right. The Qingxuan Cave Heaven was opened by the Young Master; without his permission, ordinary people cannot enter the Qingxuan Cave Heaven."

"Whoever breaks through must be someone granted permission by the Young Master, and thus beneficial to him."

"As the Young Master's attendants, guarding this person and relieving the Young Master of his worries is our duty."

Hearing Liu Yun'er's words, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu nodded slightly in agreement.

Time passed. Under the gaze of the four, the thunder tribulation brewing in the sky ahead grew stronger and stronger until it fully reached the level of the Void Penetration Realm.

"Boom!"

Accompanying the fall of the first three-colored thunder tribulation, a graceful figure shot up into the sky, flying to meet the thunder tribulation.

(End of this chapter)