Chapter 22: Void Sect Master: Jun Tianling

After Jiang Che stood up, he also channeled his Spirit Power; a giant sword condensed from Spirit Energy fell from the sky, pierced the Demonic Beast's skull, and pinned the head tightly to the ground.

"Boom!"

Lin Feng then made his move; under the agitation of the zither music, several rays of light flickered, and Wind Blades danced wildly, slicing the Demonic Beast into several segments.

A golden-yellow round pellet flew out from the Demonic Beast's body; that was the Demon Core.

This Demon Core is also of great use to cultivators; although one would become a demonic cultivator after consuming it, the growth in power is unimaginable and irresistible.

"Boom!"

But Lin Feng did not hesitate; he directly plucked the zither strings, and a Wind Blade blasted that Demon Core into powder.

"Young Master Lin and the others have extraordinary skills."

After everything calmed down, Jiang Xun looked at Lin Feng and smiled.

"Not at all, not at all. Compared to you, Senior, we are still far behind." Lin Feng put away his zither, stood up from the ground, and bowed with cupped hands, smiling.

"I must thank this Sister Liu for her help just now; otherwise, I would have rolled on the ground a few times." Lu Yingying turned to look at Liu Ruoyun, bowed, and smiled.

Speaking of rolling a few times, Jiang Che also touched his head in great embarrassment.

He really hadn't expected that tail to be so powerful.

"It was Master who told me to save you," Liu Ruoyun said with a smiling, crescent-eyed expression.

Hearing this, Lu Yingying couldn't help but look at Jiang Xun, and when she met Jiang Xun's gaze, she lowered her head unconsciously.

'Strange, he's clearly an old man, why would I feel shy?'

Lu Yingying also began to mutter to herself in her heart.

"You just destroyed that Demon Core like that? Bringing it back could have at least allowed your Spirit Sound Sect to gain another Golden Core, maybe even a Nascent Soul," Gu Qing said, looking at Lin Feng.

"As sect disciples, how could we practice such crooked and evil arts? To avoid harming others, it is better to destroy it," Lin Feng said, waving his hand.

Jiang Xun did not say much to them; after all, in the battle just now, Lin Feng and Lu Yingying's favorability toward him had not increased in the slightest, which showed that they were still very guarded against Jiang Xun and the others in their hearts.

"Everyone, rest for a moment. Once the Demonic Qi weakens, we will continue up the mountain."

Jiang Xun sat cross-legged on the ground and said softly.

Everyone nodded and sat on the ground to regulate their breathing.

About an hour passed, the Demonic Qi in the air gradually dissipated, and fluctuations of Spirit Power came from the mountaintop; it seemed those sect disciples had already continued forward.

Jiang Xun stood up after sensing it, and the others understood.

Without much talk, the six of them rushed up the mountain, keeping the maximum distance for a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator's spiritual sense detection along the way so they wouldn't be discovered by those in front.

A moment later, the group arrived at the mountaintop.

Many corpses were lying here.

It seemed that when the Demonic Qi erupted, a fierce battle had occurred here as well; some rogue cultivators who arrived early and some sect disciples had already died before they could even enter the Secret Realm.

"These few are disciples of the Shanhai Pavilion. I remember they were all above the Nascent Soul Stage; how could they die here?"

Lin Feng walked up to the corpses on the ground wearing white clothes, squatted down to identify them, and said with a frown.

Hearing this, Jiang Xun also walked over, looked down at the corpse, and discovered there were sword wounds on its body.

"Perhaps after being infected by the Demonic Qi, they were killed by disciples of other sects." Jiang Xun squatted down to lift the corpse's eyelids, discovered the eyeballs were red, and said so.

"Those over there are disciples of the Leiming Temple; it seems those two parties fought each other," Gu Qing said, looking at the corpses nearby.

Both the Shanhai Pavilion and the Leiming Temple were among the Ten Great Sects.

"This Demonic Qi is truly formidable; even Nascent Soul cultivators find it hard to resist."

Lu Yingying couldn't help but look at the cave entrance with some worry.

That cave entrance was emitting an eerie black-purple light.

The cave entrance was about three meters high, and the collapsed rocks at the entrance had already been cleared away by those in front.

When the Void Sect was destroyed years ago and the Sect Master sealed the Void Sect, the entire mountain collapsed, burying the Void Sect tightly under the rocks, including the Sect Master himself.

The Void Sect Sect Master was originally a Great Vehicle Stage cultivator, a Saint-level figure rare in the world.

He possessed countless Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, and even more supreme techniques in his hands.

In this Secret Realm, the most valuable things were likely the Storage Ring and Storage Bag on the corpse of this Void Sect Sect Master.

"Senior Lin, shall we go in quickly?" Jiang Che came to the cave entrance, looked back at Jiang Xun, and asked.

"Alright." Jiang Xun nodded, then looked down at the corpse again; as expected, the Storage Bag or Storage Ring on the corpse had already been taken.

Afterward, Jiang Xun stood up and, without any fuss, went directly to the front to clear the path.

The interior of the cave was dim, so Lin Feng took out a Dharma Artifact for illumination, making the area around them bright.

The cave was full of rubble and dust, as well as footprints left by other cultivators who had entered.

Judging from these messy footprints, the number of cultivators who had entered the cave was definitely not small.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the six of them passed through the cave, and a vast space appeared before them; beneath their feet was a cliff.

Six thick iron chains connected from the cliff beneath their feet to the opposite side, which was hidden in darkness and invisible.

This was once the first barrier to enter the Void Sect.

The Six Paths Iron Chains.

Each iron chain had different spell traps, and one needed the person on the opposite side to dispel the spells to pass through safely.

Moreover, there was a Formation in the sky before, so one could not use Wind Control or sword flight and could only walk across the iron chains.

But now, that was no longer necessary.

The six of them flew directly over the hundred-meter-long Six Paths Iron Chains and landed on the opposite side.

A mountain gate appeared before the six of them; it was tall, towering, and imposing.

"This is the location of the Void Sect," Lin Feng said with a sigh as he looked at the mountain gate.

"Looking at your expression, could it be that you have been to the Void Sect before?" Jiang Xun asked upon seeing this.

"No, no, no, this junior has only been cultivating for less than five hundred years, how could I have ever seen the Void Sect?" Lin Feng waved his hands repeatedly: "What about you, Senior, have you ever seen it?"

"I have not." Jiang Xun shook his head.

When the Void Sect was exterminated, Jiang Xun had not even been born yet.

It was likely eight or nine months after the Void Sect's extermination that Jiang Xun was just born, so how could he possibly have seen the Void Sect?

"That is a pity." Lin Feng nodded: "Before coming here, this junior studied some books about the Void Sect; they recorded that the Void Sect was incomparably powerful back then, so much so that the Ten Great Sects joining forces were no match for them, with a momentum even stronger than the current Tianwu Sect."

"It is just a pity that they walked the demonic path, so seeing this mountain gate makes me feel a bit sentimental."

"How could such a powerful sect fall into decline?" Gu Qing could not help but ask upon hearing this.

"The Sect Master of the Void Sect, Jun Tianling, fell in love with the then-Sect Master of the Baihua Sect, Tang Ying, which broke his cultivation and caused him to suffer from Qi deviation; the Ten Great Sects took advantage of the situation, forcing Jun Tianling into a dead end, and while suffering from severe, incurable injuries, he buried himself along with the Void Sect and set up a Formation."

"Tianling, Tianling, using the heavens as a mausoleum; his way of dying is quite fitting for his name."

Lin Feng said.

"... A generation of Great Vehicle demonic lords ruined a lifetime of cultivation just for the sake of love? This..." Gu Qing widened her eyes upon hearing this, truly finding it unbelievable.

"That is how it is written in the records." Lin Feng nodded.

"Does that mean that when Jun Tianling buried himself back then, no one saw him die with their own eyes? He wouldn't still be alive, would he?"

Liu Ruoyun frowned and said.