Those Who Deserved Execution

"Insolence."

As the formation rose, under Qin Yueying's command, the Blood Nightmare Sect's two Nascent Soul Elders soared into the air from Panshan City. Before they arrived, their furious roar had already reached them.

Two figures appeared in midair. One was a burly man clad in a red robe, his face ferocious and his eyes seemingly steeped in poison—no one dared meet his gaze directly.

The other was a thin old man, his face wrinkled and deathly, holding a soul banner. Black qi wreathed his entire body as he stared fixedly at Li Tianwei with overwhelming evil intent.

Sensing Li Tianwei's Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation, both men's faces instantly turned cold.

Neither of them understood why Qin Yueying had made such a tremendous fuss, dispatching two Nascent Soul Elders against a mere Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.

The cultivators trapped within Panshan City by the grand formation finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the Blood Nightmare Sect's two Nascent Soul Elders take action.

"Look, that's Elder Xie Ku at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Elder Yan Shan. Both are Nascent Soul Great Powers. With their strength, resolving this matter should be as easy as turning over one's hand."

"With the Blood Nightmare Sect's two elders here, the disaster in Panshan City should soon pass."

"Did you notice that the one who set up this grand formation is only at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage?"

"Perhaps he concealed his cultivation."

The cultivators below raised their heads to watch the battle in midair, which was on the verge of erupting.

Elder Xie Ku and Yan Shan also found it strange that Qin Yueying had sent the two of them to deal with Li Tianwei. With Qin Yueying's warning, they too believed that Li Tianwei had concealed his cultivation.

"Boy, what sect or school are you from? Don't you know this is Blood Nightmare Sect territory?"

Yan Shan stared hard at Li Tianwei. Combined with his appearance, his icy words were rather terrifying.

As for Elder Xie Ku beside him, his expression did not change in the slightest. He held the Evil Soul Banner, black qi rising from it.

Li Tianwei merely glanced at them and saw countless sins entwined around their bodies. Their hands had been stained with the blood of innumerable innocent lives.

"The Blood Nightmare Sect? The one I'm dealing with is precisely the Blood Nightmare Sect. Do I need a reason to deal with demonic cultivators and evil demons like you?"

"In short, I shall eliminate demons and defend the Dao. You all must die."

Li Tianwei had already made up his mind. Naturally, he had no intention of reasoning with these people.

In an instant, Li Tianwei no longer concealed his aura, and a wave of pressure spread forth.

At the same time, the Sacrificial Dao Undying Body activated. Various Explosive Secret Methods began raising Li Tianwei's cultivation in an instant. Before long, all manner of secret methods—Burning Blood, melting flesh, dissolving bones, severing souls, extinguishing intent, Life Shortening...—erupted from him.

Li Tianwei's original Foundation Establishment Realm aura surged upward without pause, his Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation rising to the Golden Core Late Stage.

At this moment, everything that could be sacrificed had been sacrificed. Facing an entire city of demonic cultivators, Li Tianwei knew full well that he had to go all out.

Elder Xie Ku and Yan Shan had not expected Li Tianwei to erupt into action the moment he finished speaking.

As demonic cultivators, how could they lack explosive methods of their own? At a glance, they saw through Li Tianwei's condition.

"These are the Black Mystic Secret Method, the Life Shortening Art, the Bone Marrow Extraction Grudge Soul Method..."

Elder Xie Ku had lived a long time, so he naturally recognized some of the secret methods Li Tianwei had employed.

He was somewhat dumbfounded. These were all life-risking methods of the evil path, techniques that could kill their user. He found it difficult to imagine how so many secret methods could be layered upon one person without that person collapsing.

This child must be hiding an enormous secret.

"What kind of secret method raises one's cultivation by an entire major realm? Is this fellow trying to stake his life on it?"

"Boy, hand over the secret methods in your possession."

Elder Xie Ku lightly tapped the air with his soul banner. Nascent Soul pressure emerged, and immediately afterward, a Dharma Manifestation rose behind him.

Countless resentful souls coiled around that Dharma Manifestation. Dense evil intent and Evil Thoughts blanketed it. With a sweep of the Evil Soul Banner in its hand, innumerable evil souls surged forth and descended straight down, darkening more than half the sky.

Rumble...

In an instant, heaven and earth fell silent. Yan Shan, unwilling to be outdone, also revealed his Dharma Manifestation.

A terrifying, bizarre giant evil beast appeared behind Yan Shan.

As the two erupted at once, Nascent Soul pressure poured down from above.

The people of Panshan City below looked at the three figures who had suddenly erupted in the sky, shock appearing on their faces.

Under this invisible oppression, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and even Golden Core cultivators found it difficult to move.

Clearly, the battle in the air was completely beyond the reach of people like them.

Facing the pressure of two Nascent Souls, Li Tianwei seemed entirely unaffected. Instead, he looked coldly down upon all of Panshan City as spiritual power surged around him, and said icily,

"I am the senior disciple of Tianmen Peak of the Lingxu Sacred Land. Seeing that all of you are shrouded in sin, you deserve execution."

His voice echoed through all of Panshan City. Bolstered by spiritual power, those words fell directly into the ears of every cultivator—and even ordinary people.

Meanwhile, Liu Qi and the others, who had just entered the city below, heard that familiar voice. They could not help raising their heads toward the sky. When they saw Li Tianwei standing in midair, their faces filled with shock.

"That is..."

Seeing the aura radiating from him, Liu Qi and the others did not know why, but they all felt that Li Tianwei truly possessed the power to change everything.

As for the evil cultivators and demonic cultivators of Panshan City, hearing the name Lingxu Sacred Land made their scalps tingle.

The older demonic cultivators in particular still remembered the Lingxu Sacred Land's demon-slaying campaign a hundred years ago. The Lingxu Sacred Land had fought one cult and two sects single-handedly, deploying all its elite forces. Only after the Kunmo Cult intervened did the Lingxu Sacred Land withdraw.

More than a dozen Spirit Transformation Great Powers had fallen in that battle, along with nearly a hundred Nascent Souls. The rest were too numerous to count.

It had to be said that after Li Tianwei announced that name, even Yan Shan and Elder Xie Ku's hands trembled. As for the ordinary demonic cultivators of Panshan City, there was no need to mention them—they feared that the Lingxu Sacred Land had come to attack once more.

Yet before they could finish panicking, Li Tianwei raised a hand and swept it toward the heavens. Five great Dao intents appeared, and the Vengeful Curse activated.

Black-purple demonic flames instantly ignited the dark clouds overhead, while an incomparably heavy demonic nature enveloped Li Tianwei's entire body.

Combined with Li Tianwei's state of unity between man and heaven, the distracting thoughts within the surrounding spiritual qi, along with the bizarre broken forms formed from heaven-and-earth Remnant Souls and Remnant Soul Fragments, circled around him, half-hidden and half-visible as they gave strange, wicked cries.

At the sight, many people in Panshan City fell silent.

They looked rather dazed. Just moments ago, they had truly feared that the Lingxu Sacred Land had come attacking, but now Li Tianwei was emanating such overwhelming demonic nature.

If you said he was a disciple of the Lingxu Sacred Land, would you dare believe it?

Quite a few people were already inwardly mocking Li Tianwei. When demonic cultivators killed other demonic cultivators and feared getting into trouble, they indeed claimed to be righteous cultivators and made others take the blame—but at the very least, shouldn't he conceal the evil nature of his techniques first?

Unfortunately, Li Tianwei had no idea what they were thinking.

As for Elder Xie Ku and Yan Shan, seeing this scene had already enraged them.

"Presumptuous! Insolent..."

The two shouted in unison.

"You think raising your cultivation to the Golden Core Late Stage through secret methods means you can contend against us? Laughable."

"Come die!"

"Hand over the secrets on your body."

Now that Li Tianwei had used explosive secret methods, the two knew that he had not concealed his cultivation. He was truly only at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

In their eyes, someone with cultivation like his was not even qualified to kneel before their disciples, yet he dared spout such wild nonsense at them.

"Evil Soul Banner, make him wish he were dead!"

"Heh heh heh..."

At their command, the two Dharma Manifestations crushed toward Li Tianwei.

At the same time, Elder Xie Ku waved the Evil Soul Banner in his hand. Fierce ghosts and evil ghosts filled the sky, surging toward Li Tianwei like a tidal sea—several thousand of them at least.

How terrifying was the power of two Nascent Soul cultivators?

At this moment, Li Tianwei had also reached the Golden Core Late Stage through the eruption of his secret methods. Combined with the manifestation of his five intents and the surging demonic flames, his imposing might was no less than theirs.

But for Li Tianwei, this was only the beginning. He raised his hand.

"Heavenly Absolute Yin Fiend."