No one would have found this surprising.
Over the past four hundred years, more than a dozen Ascension Realm cultivators had already died at the hands of the Heaven Stabilizer Devil Lord.
The Dao Integration Realm cultivators he had casually crushed to death were beyond counting.
Or rather, the Heaven Stabilizer Devil Lord had been hunting down the powerful cultivators of every cultivation faction in the Immortal Origin Land all along.
Because of Yin Ji, the territories of many outside cultivation sects had been reduced to a scattering of chicken feathers.
Their Ascension Realm True Persons and Dao Integration Realm cultivators were slaughtered one after another, leaving those outside cultivation factions no choice but to retreat, or even leave the Immortal Origin Land altogether.
However bitterly they resented it.
For precisely this reason, the Heaven Stabilizer Devil Lord's name resounded throughout the Immortal Origin Land.
Merely hearing him mentioned was enough to strike terror into those outside Immortal Cultivators.
But everyone had believed Yin Ji would only pick them off one by one.
No one could have imagined that the Heaven Stabilizer Devil Lord would make such an entrance at the greatest gathering of Sword Cultivators in the Immortal Origin Land.
A headless corpse lay on the sword demonstration platform.
Blood welled from the severed neck, spreading silently along the cracks in the bluestone paving.
Xu Shuo, whose Daoist title was Honed Edge True Person.
He was the second Ascension Realm cultivator in the entire history of the Starpoint Sword Sect.
Great hopes had rested on him for thousands of years, and now he had finally been able to attend the Sword Chief Trial at the Ten Thousand Swords Assembly.
By passing this trial, he would become the Sword Chief.
He would become a great Sword Cultivator acknowledged by every