Under the Heavenly Monarch's will, the entire Cultivation World of Tushan Central Court began to be shrouded in a faint crimson hue.
More than ninety thousand sword cultivators of Great Sun Long Sword Capital were mobilized. They often chose the dead of night to arrive outside certain cultivators' cave mansions, knocking on the door with rigorous courtesy and saying that there were some matters they needed to convey.
As for why Great Sun Long Sword Capital had over a hundred thousand sword cultivators, yet only a little over ninety thousand had been deployed?
It was because the internal purge had already been completed. In voluntary and fair sword duels, the condemned sword cultivators fought life-and-death battles against one sword cultivator after another who challenged them. Killing one opponent earned them several hours of rest to recover their spiritual power and divine sense.
Then another sword cultivator would challenge that condemned sword cultivator.
If no one dared challenge them any longer, several people would join forces to kill the condemned sword cultivator and carry out Tushan Law upon them.
—Such cases were almost nonexistent. Within a rising and vigorous group of sword cultivators, sword cultivators so fearful of battle could not climb to high positions or advance into the Nascent Soul Realm.
This cycle repeated itself until the condemned sword cultivator died.
In deserts, oceans, mountains and wildernesses, within formations that barred both entry and exit, the sword cultivators of Great Sun Long Sword Capital held one life-and-death sword duel after another. The blood of high-level sword cultivators flowed without cease, Natal Flying Swords fell to the ground with dimmed spiritual radiance, and another life vanished from this world.
Until at last, every condemned sword cultivator had died, and sword intent shot straight into the heavens.
Many sword cultivators' sword intent