Evil Dao Calamity, Bloodthirst Tide
The crimson beam of light connected heaven and earth, its power immense, and spiritual energy rippled along with it.
Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators within a radius of several thousand kilometers could see the crimson light shooting into the sky.
If it is Golden Core Realm cultivator, the entire Ten Thousand Beast Mountain can sense it.
Even if Nascent Soul Realm cultivator is separated by half of Qin Province, they can still sense the subtle changes in the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
In an instant, the entire Heaven Severing Mountain Range was thrown into complete turmoil.
Ten Thousand Beast Mountain.
The Supreme Elder Song Huai, who had gone out to investigate, had returned to the main peak.
The burly man with short, graying hair and a dark red animal-skin robe stood before Ye Qianyuan and the group of elders, recounting what he had seen and heard. "I traced the nine auras back to where they appeared, and all the mortal towns and cultivator markets along the way were unharmed. Those nine fellow Daoists must have just been passing through."
Ye Qianyuan and the others exchanged bewildered glances.
One of the middle-aged female cultivators, dressed in a crimson robe, frowned and sneered, "Passing by? A passing cultivator, so brazenly releasing your True Lord aura?! How rude! If every passing Nascent Soul Cultivator acted like this, wouldn't Qin Province be in chaos?"
Ye Qianyuan gave a wry smile and advised, "Senior Sister Feng, calm down. Although they were a bit rude, we didn't suffer any losses. Let's just let this matter drop."
The others exchanged glances and nodded.
Those were nine Nascent Soul Late Stage experts!
If we were to investigate this matter thoroughly, it would benefit no one.
Now that there have been no losses under the jurisdiction of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, they can only tolerate the other party's rudeness and let the matter pass.
An elderly man with white hair and beard waved his hand and sighed helplessly, saying, "Alright, alright, everyone disperse. These past two days have truly terrified me. At my advanced age, I fear the sect will be destroyed in my generation."
The others also gave a wry smile.
Despite being a dominant force in Qin Province and a powerful sect in the entire Eastern Domain, the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain still walks on thin ice.
In the Immortal Realm of cultivation, there's always someone stronger, and no one dares to claim they can always walk sideways.
Just as everyone was about to disperse, a spiritual energy fluctuation, connected to the changes in heaven and earth, came from afar.
Ye Qianyuan and the others froze.
They exchanged a glance, then simultaneously vanished from their spot, returning to the skies above the main peak.
Although the abnormality deep within the Heaven Severing Mountain Range could not be directly seen from the location of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, the powerful and keen Divine Sense of the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators allowed them to immediately detect the source of the changes in the world.
"Heavenly materials and earthly treasures has appeared in the direction of the Heaven Severing Mountain Range!"
"Its spiritual energy is like fire, Fire Dao Principle are extremely concentrated... It's a supreme treasure of the Fire Dao!"
"Master, you stay here and guard the sect. We're going!"
Excitement was evident on everyone's faces.
Without a word, the several elders transformed into streaks of light and soared into the sky, their respective guardian beasts following closely behind, heading towards the direction of that heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Those are rare and heavenly materials and earthly treasures!
Even if they are not needed right now, they can be kept in the sect's treasury to increase the sect's resources!
No one would complain about having too many heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Ye Qianyuan reached out his hand, wanting to go with them, but then he thought of the sect and the events of the past two days.
He silently withdrew his hand, a helpless, bitter smile appearing on his face.
"Go on, go on, I'll stay home and guard the house."
Golden Rainbow Sword Sect.
Deep within the forbidden area, the spiritual mist still surged like a tide.
Qi Yunshu, Lin Xuanchen, and Han Qianshan also noticed the change in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth immediately.
The three transformed into golden light and soared into the sky above the forbidden area. Their gazes pierced through layers of void, as if they could directly see the crimson pillar of light rising into the sky from the depths of the Heaven Severing Mountain Range.
Han Qianshan grinned, a hint of eager anticipation flashing in his eyes. "It's so far, probably over 100,000 kilometers, right? Is that direction the Heaven Severing Mountain Range? Shall we go take a look?"
Lin Xuanchen immediately shook his head, a calm and composed smile on his face, "What's the point of going? These heavenly materials and earthly treasures are indeed impressive, but the concentration of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within our heavenly materials and earthly treasures area is in no way inferior. Let them fight and compete. We'll just sit back and watch the flowers bloom and fade."
Qi Yunshu nodded slightly and smiled, "Grandmaster Uncle is right. Moreover, these heavenly materials and earthly treasures are not supreme treasures of the Metal Dao or the Sword Dao, so they are useless to us."
Han Qianshan was initially quite eager to try.
Compared to the more composed Lin Xuanchen and Qi Yunshu, he was more warlike.
However, although Han Qianshan was warlike, he wasn't stupid. Naturally, he wouldn't be clinging to a treasure trove while also coveting things he couldn't use.
Han Qianshan shrugged. "Fine, if I don't want to go, I don't want to go."
Lin Xuanchen withdrew his gaze from the distance and turned to Qi Yunshu, his expression becoming more serious. He asked, "I heard from those youngsters from the Qin Household that Fellow Daoist Shiyi brought back three Evil Cultivators? One of them is even Golden Core Realm Evil Cultivator? What's going on?"
Upon hearing this, Han Qianshan frowned immediately, his initial fighting spirit fading, replaced by a look of seriousness in his eyes. "Evil Cultivator has reached the Golden Core Realm? How many people has he consumed?"
Using cultivators as the great medicine for cultivation is ultimately against the natural order.
For an ordinary Evil Cultivator to cultivate from Qi Refinement Refining to Golden Core, the amount of Essence Blood, and Spiritual Qi they consume along the way is unimaginable to most people.
Evil Cultivator who can reach the Golden Core Realm already possesses extraordinary methods.
Hearing their words, Qi Yunshu's smile faded slightly, and he slowly shook his head, saying, "We haven't gotten anything out of them yet. Fellow Daoist Shiyi and I have personally examined them. They both have an extremely strange Evil Dao restriction within their bodies. Forcibly Soul Search will only trigger a backlash from the restriction, destroying their very souls. As for torture, it won't work on them either."
At this point, Qi Yunshu paused, his voice slightly heavy, and said, "However, there must be something wrong with the Evil Dao Cultivation Method they practice. Consuming Blood Pills and spirit pills in such a short period of time should have caused them to suffer from Qi Deviation long ago, but the Spiritual Qi in these three people's bodies is still relatively stable. Moreover, there must be an organization behind them, and that Golden Core Realm Evil Cultivator is probably not the strongest."
Upon hearing this, both Lin Xuanchen and Han Qianshan fell silent.
While legitimate Evil Cultivator may pose some dangers, they do not have a significant impact on the cultivation world as a whole.
After all, the drawbacks of Evil Dao Cultivation Methods are undeniable.
The more Essence Blood Spiritual Qi one devours, the more unstable one's foundation becomes, and the more severe the intrusion of resentment becomes. Those who can cultivate to the Golden Core Realm are already extremely rare, let alone the Nascent Soul.
However, if an Evil Cultivator Cultivation Method were to emerge that could use living beings as a near-limitless elixir without causing Qi Deviation, then the problem would be much bigger.
After all, any cultivator who knows that they can improve their cultivation by absorbing the Qi and Blood and Spiritual Qi of others, who could resist the temptation of power?
If they eat one person today, ten people tomorrow... eventually, all the cultivators in the entire Canglan Realm will be eaten.
After devouring cultivators, they devour mortals; after devouring mortals, they devour other living beings...
In the end, the entire Canglan Realm will be completely devoured!
Lin Xuanchen slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, a cold glint appearing in his aged eyes. He said, "Then we must find their lair as soon as possible and eradicate them completely to prevent them from causing further disaster for the Evil Dao."
Qi Yunshu nodded slightly. "Okay."
Throughout the history of the Eastern Domain, there have been several instances of calamities Evil Dao.
The most severe of these was Bloodthirst Tide that occurred nearly a million years ago.
It is said that the disaster of that year caused the entire Eastern Domain to suffer a spiritual rupture for several years.
Seven out of every ten cultivators died, while nine out of every ten ordinary people died.
Of the original three Spirit Transformation Sects in the Eastern Domain, one was destroyed, leaving only two.
Many of the top forces at the Nascent Soul Realm were directly defeated, even having their lineages severed.
Not to mention the small Lineage and forces at Golden Core Golden Core Realm and below, who were nothing more than insignificant grains of sand back then.
That was an extremely terrifying and bloody period.
It is said that the Bloodthirst Tide had already begun to affect several other major domains, and it was only with the arrival of a large number of cultivators from other major domains that the Bloodthirst Tide was completely extinguished.
As for how the Bloodthirst Tide was formed and who was behind it, all the relevant records in the books were collected and destroyed by the two Spirit Transformation Sects.
The existing ancient books only contain simple fragments about that catastrophe.
That is why any instance of Evil Cultivator, even the slightest sign, must be given utmost attention!
The three remained silent for a moment.
The spiritual mist in the forbidden area surged endlessly beneath my feet, and the distant mountain peaks appeared and disappeared in the mist, like a painting outlined with a few strokes of light ink.
Qi Yunshu broke the silence first. He sorted out his thoughts and said, "Once that kid Liu Yifeng breaks through his cultivation, he'll be at the Late Golden Core. The 'Record of Bewitching the Mind and Forgetting Worries' has unparalleled Cultivation Method over the Dao of Divine Sense in our Golden Rainbow Sword Sect. Perhaps he can find out something from it."
Lin Xuanchen and Han Qianshan nodded silently.
Heaven Severing Mountain Range.
The sky grew increasingly overcast.
Thick, dark clouds, like an overturned inkwell, spread outwards from the center of the sky in all directions.
Purple lightning flashed between the clouds, occasionally bursting forth with a blinding white light that cast a ghastly white glow over the continuous mountain range below.
The air was thick with the muggy heat of an impending downpour, along with a strange, hot yet fragrant aroma wafting from the depths of the mountains.
The cultivator cities surrounding the entire Heaven Severing Mountain Range were in complete uproar.
Above each city, beams of light appeared one after another.
One by one, cultivators at the Golden Core Realm, and even the Nascent Soul Realm, soared into the air, transforming into streaks of light, and fled into the depths of the Heaven Severing Mountain Range.
The crimson pillar of light resembled a lighthouse suspended in the sky, attracting countless cultivators to flock towards it like moths to a flame.
Everyone rushed to be first, afraid of falling behind.
Amidst the surging tide of escape lights, many cultivators suddenly caught a faint white shadow flitting past from their side or rear in the corner of their eyes.
The white figure was incredibly fast; just moments before it was at the edge of the horizon, it had already overtaken it in the blink of an eye.
They instinctively turned their heads to look, and their eyes widened in shock as they stopped their escape in horror.
It was an ancient bronze chariot pulled by nine Cloud Flood Dragons, traveling on the clouds.
Cloud Flood Dragon's steps were neither hurried nor slow, his pace was calm and elegant, but his speed was indeed extremely fast, covering several miles in the blink of an eye.
The bronze chariot's body is covered with densely packed patterns that gleam with a pale golden light, creating a striking contrast with the gloomy sky.
The nine-tiered canopy was layered upon layered, with bronze tassels hanging from the edges of each layer, swaying gently in the wind.
The array on the canopy slowly rotated, blocking out the raging purple lightning and dark clouds.
From a distance, the entire ancient vehicle seemed to be enveloped in a pale golden halo, standing out against the gloomy sky.
It's like an immortal being on a journey!