Crumbled beams and broken walls—an Immortal Dao Sect that had once stood at the height of prosperity had now completely drawn its curtain.
Looking at the Shangqing Sect's mountain gate, now utterly reduced to ruins, Li Qing fell silent for quite a while before finally sighing with deep emotion.
"Even the strongest sect will one day meet its end. Such is the cruelty of the Cultivation World."
His divine sense swept over the area, and his heart remained tranquil.
Who could have imagined that those Lingyun Sect disciples who had once fled Qingling Region in wretched disarray could now so forcefully wipe the Shangqing Sect from the map?
True Person Yang Tian's Golden Core self-destruction had been immensely powerful. Even Core Formation cultivators like them had needed to retreat for the moment.
Thus, there were not many Shangqing Sect disciples left at this time. Only a small number of quick-witted ones had immediately fled far from the mountain gate when they saw the situation turning bad.
As for the heads of the Cultivation Families who had come to attend the Core Formation ceremony, perhaps because they had long struggled at the bottom, their judgment of the situation had been remarkably sharp. Most had left the Shangqing Sect's mountain gate early on.
Those Shangqing Sect disciples who had died in the aftermath of the Golden Core explosion could only be called unlucky. They had trusted their sect ancestor too much and thus misjudged the power of a battle between Core Formation cultivators.
"That works out well enough. It saves us the trouble of another purge."
"Still, some fish slipped through the net. If we do not deal with them, something like today may very well happen to my Lingyun Sect in the future."
"We must cut the weeds and pull out