With Shen Yi's assurance, Yun Jizi's body, already at its limit, finally could no longer hold on. Before everyone's eyes, he dissolved into specks of starlight.
"Great Elder!"
Though the Azure Cloud Sect had declined, it still had many loyal followers. Seeing Yun Jizi choose Liberation by Violence in exchange for their slim chance at survival, they could not help but feel deeply moved. One after another, they cried out, their grief-stricken voices echoing throughout the Azure Cloud Sect.
"The sect's destruction is already set in stone. Under this vast heaven and earth, there is no longer a place for us!" someone shouted, raising an arm high, bloody tears welling in his eyes. "Why not follow the Great Elder's example and take our own lives to show our loyalty!"
With that, the man reversed the weapon in his hand and decisively slashed it across his throat.
No fewer than thirty or fifty people followed after him. For a time, those disciples who had already been contemplating departure were all shaken, greatly startled. Yet the moment lasted only briefly before they turned toward Shen Yi and the others and bowed their heads to the ground.
"Sect Master, we are willing to join the Supreme Hall! In this life and the next, we will never regret it, even unto death!"
"In this life and the next, never regret it, even unto death!"
"Never regret it, even unto death!"
Watching their performance, their voices sounded somewhat piercing amid the empty Azure Cloud Sect. Shen Yi looked at those loyal men lying dead on the ground, then at these so-called disciples with their fawning faces, and said calmly:
"Too late. Cripple their cultivation and spare their lives."
Before his words had even faded, their faces changed again and again. Some could scarcely believe their