Chapter 916: Breaking the Array

An Earth Immortal-level cultivator defying a Heavenly Immortal, killing a demon race member across a major realm—and not just defeating, but killing.

The combat power of this can be imagined as extremely formidable.

Human cultivators, generally speaking, are often not the match of demon race members at the same level, after all, the demon race possesses an advantage due to their naturally powerful physical bodies and innate divine abilities.

The ones who can truly hold an advantage are those disciples of major sects, because they possess powerful Spirit Treasures, whether Innate Spirit Treasures or Post-Heaven Spirit Treasures, which can all enhance combat power.

Of course, Innate Spirit Treasures, even for disciples of major sects today, are almost never possessed unless they are Taiyi Golden Immortals or Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Post-Heaven Spirit Treasures, however, might be bestowed by the sect leader to some direct disciples of major sects once they cultivate to the Heavenly Immortal or Golden Immortal stage.

However, the Xuanmu Sect is not a major sect; the strongest is only a Heavenly Immortal.

Even that Heavenly Immortal ancestor does not possess any Post-Heaven Spirit Treasures, let alone Changkong Li, who is a disciple.

So his slaying of the Heavenly Immortal demon race member relied entirely on his Sword Dao, a path of slaughter belonging to a born sword bone and a born sword cultivator.

With an Earth Immortal slaying a Heavenly Immortal demon race member, from then on, this person had gained some fame in the Small Southern Domain of Nanzhan Buzhou.

And within a radius of one hundred thousand li of the Xuanmu Sect, Changkong Li was an existence known to all.

Seeing this person lead the way, Elder Xie and the other Elders could be imagined to be trembling in their hearts.

They knew this Changkong Li was a killing machine.

In these few hundred years, the number of demon race members he had slain was at least several hundred, and the number of cultivators who died under his sword was unknown.

Of course, Changkong Li was not a person who killed the innocent indiscriminately; he also had the heart of a knight. Slaying demon race members went without saying; as a human cultivator, slaying demon race members was a matter of course.

And those cultivators who died under his sword were mostly evil cultivators or demonic cultivators.

In the Earth Immortal world, there are not no demonic cultivators; some are cultivators who have gone astray or been invaded by heavenly demons.

Such demonic cultivators are even more terrifying.

They kill without reason.

They often slaughter mortal cities, no different from the demon race.

It is said that Changkong Li's family was slaughtered by demonic cultivators back then, so after he became an immortal, he conversely hunted down all kinds of demonic cultivators.

At this moment, the people of the Qiyuan Sect were somewhat afraid after learning of this person's arrival.

After all, this was a killing machine, and the original ancestor and sect leader of the Qiyuan Sect had traded with the demon race.

Although the ancestor was already dead,

who knew if Changkong Li believed it or not?

"Don't worry, we still have the seniors. The strength of the two seniors is unfathomable, absolutely more powerful than this Changkong Li."

Although Elder Xie was still somewhat afraid in his heart, he said on the surface with relative composure:

"Besides, our mountain-guarding array, the Six Harmonies Heaven and Earth Array, is not something an ordinary person can break."

However, just as Elder Xie finished speaking, he felt the earth shake and the mountains sway.

"What is happening?"

Everyone was shocked, then looked up to see a man in a cyan robe standing above the mountain gate.

He was seen holding a bronze longsword, facing the light of the mountain-guarding array in the air, constantly waving the longsword, and streaks of sword light slashed down.

The light curtain was shaken incessantly by these streaks of cyan sword light.

"Quick! Drive your Dharma power to protect the array!"

Elder Xie saw this and hurriedly roared.

His heart was also shaken and critical; this Xuanmu Sect was so strange. Before the battle, they didn't even say a word of nonsense and directly took action, catching them off guard.

It was simply disregarding the morality of the martial arts world.

At least they should have exchanged a few words and wasted some time.

"Changkong Li, our Qiyuan Sect and your Xuanmu Sect have no grievances, why attack our mountain gate?"

Elder Xie was wholeheartedly driving the mountain gate array, while another Elder couldn't help but roar.

Naturally, he hoped to stall the other party.

However, Changkong Li only replied with a single sentence: "The Qiyuan Sect colluded with the demon race, a crime that cannot be pardoned."

This extremely simple sentence was full of decisiveness in killing, clearly showing that the Xuanmu Sect or Changkong Li had discovered the secret of the Qiyuan Sect's original sect leader and the others.

So now they had brought people here.

In fact, this was indeed the case. Changkong Li had discovered the Qiyuan Sect's secret by accident. Originally, he intended to solve the problem of those people in the Qiyuan Sect by himself, but he didn't expect the Xuanmu Sect leader to find him.

He hoped that he would lead the Xuanmu Sect disciples to come together. After Changkong Li solved the sins of the Qiyuan Sect ancestor and sect leader, the Xuanmu Sect would just happen to swallow the Qiyuan Sect in one fell swoop.

For the Xuanmu Sect, this was a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

The spiritual land occupied by the Qiyuan Sect, although much worse than their Xuanmu Sect, was at least a spiritual land. After occupying it, for the sect, it meant an extra portion of spiritual land and thus more resources.

It could not be wasted in vain.

Regarding this, Changkong Li ultimately did not refuse. He wanted to slay those who participated in the trade with the demon race; as for the remaining people, he had no interest, and after he slew the Qiyuan Sect's ancestor and sect leader,

the Qiyuan Sect would also be about to disband. Without an Earth Immortal-level powerhouse sitting in charge, relying solely on a few Primordial Spirit-stage members, they would have no ability to protect the Qiyuan Sect's mountain gate.

In Nanzhan Buzhou, there were indeed many sects at the Spirit Refining stage. Such sects actually only had a few disciples, and then they occupied a mountain, not even having a spiritual land.

Calling this a sect is actually just gilding their own faces.

Without even a spiritual land, how can it be considered a sect?

The Qiyuan Sect is different; at least the Qiyuan Sect occupies a spiritual land, and although it is only a Yellow-grade spiritual land, it is still a spiritual land.

Only in a spiritual land can immortals cultivate.

Without a spiritual land, it is very difficult for immortals to cultivate; even at the Earth Immortal stage, they need the spiritual energy born from a spiritual land.

Post-Heaven spiritual energy can only be born in a general spiritual land; as for other places, the spiritual energy is just overflowing from the spiritual land and cannot supply Earth Immortals for cultivation at all.

Their Xuanmu Sect possesses one Xuan-grade spiritual land and six Yellow-grade spiritual lands.

Spiritual lands in Nanzhan Buzhou are divided into four grades: Heaven, Earth, Xuan, and Yellow, and if a spiritual land exceeds the Heaven grade, it is a Blessed Land.

Only those major sects possess mountain gates like Blessed Lands.

Spiritual lands can also ascend, but the conditions for ascension are also extremely harsh.

Once the Qiyuan Sect's Yellow-grade spiritual land loses its Earth Immortal-level presence, I am afraid it will not be long before it is occupied by other forces.

Therefore, Changkong Li did not refute the Xuanmu Sect leader's intention; instead, he gathered them. For those disciples, it was also a benefit.

After all, changing to another sect, and a more powerful one at that, for them, why wouldn't it be happiness?

Of course, outsiders did not know Changkong Li's thoughts.

At this moment, Changkong Li's few sword strikes made the Qiyuan Sect mountain gate tremble, and also made the Qiyuan Sect disciples pale, fearing that in the next second, Changkong Li would slash the array open. ===== CHAPTER 917 =====