"The thing I hate most is someone like you who speaks without using your brain."
Gu Yao was immensely arrogant, yet he suddenly heard a woman's voice by his ear.
Abruptly, his pupils constricted as he saw a spatial tear appear beside him. A woman in white suddenly arrived before him, stabbing toward him with a black iron rod in her hand.
It turned out that woman was Kaguya.
Within the Misty Cloud Sect, Kaguya had suddenly sensed the aura of an enemy appearing, so she had decisively made her move.
To capture the bandits, one must first capture their leader; she intended to capture this Gu Yao first.
"A Nine-Star Dou Venerate? That's impossible!"
Gu Yao was startled. This Misty Cloud Sect was merely a rabble of a force, so how could it have a Nine-Star Dou Venerate holding down the fort?
He quickly dodged, avoiding the strike of the All-Killing Ash Bones, and flicked his storage ring, grasping a long spear in his hand. After continuously parrying several black iron rods, the tip of his spear condensed powerful Dou Qi, releasing tens of thousands of ferocious beasts that fiercely blasted toward Kaguya.
"Myriad Beast Spear Technique!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lions, tigers, giant bears, starving wolves, wild dogs, fierce eagles, and all sorts of Dou Qi phantoms roared endlessly in the sky, boundlessly and inexhaustibly shrouding Kaguya.
Yet it had no effect on her whatsoever. Her body instantly vanished into nothingness, causing all of Gu Yao's attacks to miss completely. Afterward, Kaguya emerged once again from space on the other side.
This display terrified Gu Yao and the others. Being able to traverse space at will—this was a capability that probably only Dou Saint powerheads could achieve!
"Gu Yao-dage, what should we do?"
Third Commander Yang Hao and Second Commander Lin Xiu were both startled by Kaguya's methods. Their opponent actually had a Nine-Star Dou Venerate powerhouse, so they were simply no match for her at all.
"What do you mean, what should we do?" Gu Yao glared angrily at Yang Hao and the pair, saying, "Once the Black Annihilation Army comes out, the world submits. A mere Nine-Star Dou Venerate—this commander has his own ways of dealing with the enemy. You only need to clean up these small fry."
Gu Yao possessed a variety of high-grade Ancient Clan combat skills, and fighting above his rank was a breeze for him, so how could he possibly fear a Nine-Star Dou Venerate like Kaguya?
Yet the moment his words finished, reality slapped him in the face, because Saber also appeared before everyone at this very instant.
Two Nine-Star Dou Venerates.
The members of the Ancient Clan were struck as if by lightning. This was terrible now; they shouldn't have rashly walked out of the Ancient Realm. What on earth should they do now?
"Retreat!"
Gu Yao let out a resentful cry. The appearance of two Nine-Star Dou Venerates instantly caused him to nurture the intention to retreat.
These people had just been arrogant beyond bounds, but now, like stray dogs, they were fleeing at high speed right behind Gu Yao, which was simply utterly laughable.
"You come to the Misty Cloud Empire to run amok, and you want to leave just after making a ruckus?"
Saber slashed down with a single sword, her supreme and ultimate golden sword intent shattering the vault of heaven, her streams of sword qi cutting through everything like decayed wood.
"Ah, ah, ah!"
The ten Dou Venerate powerhouses of the Black Annihilation Army were struck by this irresistible sword intent. All of them sprayed mouthfuls of blood and plummeted to the ground, smashing countless deep craters on Misty Cloud Mountain in a gruesome sight.
Gu Yao was both terrified and furious, his eyes splitting in anger and his entire body's blood qi surging as he said, "Misty Cloud Sect, don't go too far! My Ancient Clan has many Dou Saint powerhouses within it, and we are not people you can afford to provoke. You have already courted a monstrous disaster, yet you still dare to strike?"
Gu Yao was now like a fish in a net, meat on the chopping block; all his life and death were controlled in the hands of others.
He regretted not coming hastily to the Misty Cloud Sect to stand up for Gu Xun Er. If he had known the Misty Cloud Sect possessed two Nine-Star Dou Venerates, he definitely would have brought the Ancient Clan's message-transmitting jade slip.
Listening to Gu Yao's words, Xiao Yi Xian coldly snorted and said, "When you can't beat us, you want to run. When you can't run, you pull out your backers to scare people. Trash like you is something I've seen plenty of. You're truly disgusting."
Medusa and Yun Yun also nodded in agreement with Xiao Yi Xian's viewpoint. "These people from the Ancient Families probably all have this exact virtue!"
"Bitch, shut up, shut up!" Gu Yao cursed vehemently, pointing angrily at Xiao Yi Xian and the others as he said, "My Ancient Clan's dignity is sacred and inviolable!"
Xiao Yi Xian was not frightened of Gu Yao either, exerting her sharp-tongued ability as she said, "Still sacred and inviolable, my foot! The people you brought are all beaten to a pulp right now, yet you still have the face to talk big. You're truly shameless."
"You..." Gu Yao was so angered that his face turned the color of a green ghost, almost coughing up a mouthful of blood. He wished he could tear Xiao Yi Xian's tongue right out of her mouth.
"Kill this fellow first and talk later." Kaguya and Saber launched their attacks in tandem, heading straight toward Gu Yao.
Both of them were Nine-Star Dou Venerates, and how could Gu Yao possibly be their match? In an instant, he was beaten until he couldn't tell north from south, attacking the surrounding air haphazardly like a mentally unstable madman.
"Great Nirvana Finger!"
"Emperor Seal Art!"
The two combat skills erupted unceasingly, the vault of heaven trembling violently as energy storms churned and clashed wildly in the upper air. Even a Nine-Star Dou Venerate powerhouse would not dare to receive these moves casually.
Yet Kaguya was different. Relying on her own special ability, her body slipped into space every single time, and Gu Yao's combat skills simply couldn't hit her.
As for Saber's fighting style, it was one of unswerving momentum. She used her long sword to completely slash apart all the various combat skills before her, finally charging right up to her opponent's close quarters and delivering a direct horizontal slash toward Gu Yao's body.
"Crack!"
Suddenly, Gu Yao felt his body lighten, and he unexpectedly discovered that his upper body and lower body had completely separated from the waistline, having actually been cleaved into two halves by the opponent's sword.
That lower body fell to the ground with a thump, and one could see the nerves in the two legs still twitching, while the upper body still floated in the air. A large quantity of intestines poured out from within, and his internal organs also tumbled out with a slosh, accompanied by fresh blood, scattering all over the ground.
"Ah, ah, ah! It hurts me to death!" Gu Yao hugged his head with both hands, weeping and howling loudly, wanting his soul to leave his body and escape, but he hadn't expected to have his soul origin shattered by a single sword strike. In the end, his eyes rolled back, and he fell to the ground... dead.
He who had just been arrogant to the point of despising everything had now become a battered and broken corpse, full of ironic meaning.
Regarding this tragic state of death, no one would feel pity for him, because the things he had done were far too vicious. He had actually slaughtered innocent civilians, so he thoroughly deserved to die.
At that very moment, Qing Lin and Mo Youyou transformed into two gusts of wind, arriving before Gu Yao's corpse. They plucked off the storage ring on Gu Yao's hand and brazenly began splitting the spoils.
"Wow, this Myriad Beast Spear Technique is actually Earth-grade high-tier, and this Great Nirvana Finger is Heaven-grade!" Qing Lin produced two scrolls, giggling. "I want these two combat skills."
Mo Youyou jutted out her lower lip, rummaging for a long time before putting away a large pile of medicinal pills and holding a Heaven-grade cultivation method called the Ancient Emperor Treasure Codex in her embrace like a treasured object.
The Ancient Clan members were shocked and angry. Two little lasses who hadn't even reached Dou Wang were actually dividing up the Ancient Clan's cultivation methods and combat skills right before their eyes—they deserved to die!
"Kill these people too!" Medusa pointed at the injured Black Annihilation Army below, making her suggestion.
If you cut weeds without eradicating the roots, the spring wind will make them grow again. Since they had already fallen out with the Ancient Families anyway, keeping these people around would sooner or later spell trouble. Rather than that, they might as well make a clean job of it and hack them all to pieces to feed the dogs.
"What? This woman wants to kill us?" All the people of the Ancient Clan trembled all over.
This group of bitches had just hacked Gu Yao to death with a single sword without regard for his status, and now they wanted to kill them too.
"Don't kill them."
Suddenly, Yun Yun hastily intervened to stop them, negating Medusa's proposal as she said, "They cannot die."
"Why?" Medusa's slender brows furrowed in incomprehension.
Yun Yun said, "It's enough to have killed that Gu Yao, but as for these people, it's better not to kill them."
Hearing Yun Yun's dissuasion, a group of Ancient Clan members felt a sudden wave of joy in their hearts. It seemed this woman still knew just how terrifying the Ancient Clan was, which was why she didn't dare to kill them.
"This young lady is right. Gu Yao didn't know what was good for him and angered the young ladies of the Misty Cloud Sect; he suffered what he deserved. But we are different from Gu Yao. The Misty Cloud Sect is magnanimous, so please spare us!" Yang Hao hurriedly stated his stance, indicating that he and Gu Yao weren't close.
Lin Xiu also hastily said, "Indeed, we shouldn't be killed. Killing us would only soil you young ladies' hands. Once we return, we will immediately report the ins and outs of the whole matter to the clan, and we will surely publicize this bastard Gu Yao's crimes here so everyone knows just how magnanimous the Misty Cloud Sect is."
Yang Hao and Lin Xiu endlessly flattered them, and the other Ancient Clan members all followed suit, heavily criticizing Gu Yao's towering crimes and practically cursing Gu Yao into becoming a sinner through the ages.
Flattery was flattery, but every single one of these people harbored a stifled breath of foul Qi deep in their hearts. They secretly swore to themselves that if they could return alive today, they would definitely muster the forces of the Black Annihilation Army, leave not a single blade of grass behind in this Misty Cloud Sect, strip all these bitches of their cultivation, and after growing tired of toying with them, send them off to the filthiest slave pens to be ravaged and bullied by those lowly slaves.
"You want to let them go?" Xiao Yi Xian felt a trace of dissatisfaction. She felt that Yun Yun's behavior was a bit too timid and far too weak.
If these people were let back, the Misty Cloud Sect would inevitably suffer a major calamity. When facing this kind of matter, one had to be decisive in killing and eradicate the roots; only then could they endure long-term.
Yun Yun shook her head and said, "We've just advanced to the Dou Venerate realm, and we cannot control our Dou Qi realms for the time being. As for these people, they all sustained heavy injuries just now, and their current strength is about on par with ours. We can use them precisely as practice tools."
"Practice tools?" The various women were uncomprehending.
"That's right, practice tools," Yun Yun continued. "There are ten of them in total, and there are ten of us. Each of us gets one to completely eliminate, which can also be considered a test of the results of our cultivation this time around."
Medusa strongly agreed with Yun Yun's viewpoint, as she had just advanced to the Dou Venerate realm and hadn't yet experienced the true power of a Dou Venerate. "This suggestion is great. Then this king will go first, and kill two for fun."
The Ancient Clan crowd: "Ah!"