True Lord Yuntian and several Peak Masters killed dozens of Blood Demons at the Heavenly Human Realm.
But the Blood Demon Clan still had several Heavenly Human Realm fighters on other battlefields.
They were trying to bully the weaker elders.
True Lord Yuntian and the others didn't kill them. Instead, they gave them a beating and temporarily imprisoned them.
Then the group moved across the battlefield, subduing every Blood Demon still alive.
When they were done, they looked up at the sky.
The battle at the Lin Dao Realm seemed to be over.
Rumble!
A figure crashed down from the sky. The ground split open in an instant, cracks spreading like a spiderweb as a crater several li across collapsed beneath him.
Before the rumbling had stopped, another figure slammed into the ground, followed by three more crashing down at once.
The entire ground had caved in for a thousand li!
Finally, the loudest crash of all rang out.
The Blood Demon Ancestor had been defeated. He lay on the ground, blood streaming from his seven orifices, his eyes vacant.
He... had been beaten senseless.
He was only one realm behind, yet he'd been thrashed so badly he'd lost all sense of direction.
He was no match at all.
He was the Blood Demon Ancestor...
I refuse to believe it...
Regret gnawed at him. He shouldn't have boarded Ghost Nether Mansion's pirate ship.
Who could have known that Kaoshan Sect had hidden such formidable strength?
The Blood Demon Clan was only a little weaker than the Holy Lands, lacking only their deep foundations. It had seven powerhouses at the Lin Dao Realm, and he himself was at the Lin Dao Realm Ninth Layer, practically standing at the very peak.
And yet today, he'd been utterly crushed.
By Daoist Xuanhe alone.
The Blood Demon Ancestor had the nagging feeling that Daoist Xuanhe hadn't even used his full strength...
Daoist Xuanhe reined in his aura and descended from the sky. Looking at the Blood Demon Ancestor, he raised a hand and sent a sigil flying.
The sigil entered the Blood Demon Ancestor's sea of consciousness, suppressed his Divine Infant, and carved in a Slave Seal!
"You'll never make me!"
"A true man can be killed, but never humiliated!"
The Blood Demon Ancestor roared.
Thud!
Daoist Xuanhe kicked him unconscious and snorted. "What a racket!"
Then he carved Slave Seals into the bodies of the other five Blood Demons, enslaving them completely.
Daoist Xuanhe finished.
True Lord Yuntian and the others had also carved Slave Seals into all the remaining Blood Demons.
The entire Blood Demon Clan was now under their control!
"Heh, you old geezer. You're already at the Heavenly Human Realm, yet you pretended to be at the middle stage of the Divine Infant Realm. Aren't you ashamed?"
"Hmph! You've got some nerve talking. Aren't you at the Heavenly Human Realm too?"
"Haha, we're even!"
The battle had ended in complete victory. Some elders teased one another, joking about how many realms each had hidden. The mood was warm and easy.
The only one who wasn't enjoying himself was probably True Lord Tianji.
Despite being at the Heavenly Human Realm Eighth Layer, he was actually the weakest.
Every one of them was too competitive.
Especially Enemy God. He hardly ever spoke, but who would've guessed he was the most competitive of all?
He was already at the Lin Dao Realm!
"Come on, come on. It's not that big a deal."
True Lord Gouyuan patted him on the shoulder, trying to comfort him.
"Get lost!"
True Lord Tianji roared.
"Enough."
Daoist Xuanhe stood with his hands behind his back and said calmly, "The battle's over. Clean up the battlefield and take everything valuable from the Blood Demon Clan."
"Once we're done here, we'll head to Ghost Nether Mansion. I expect the sect should be finished over there by now!"
On this day, the Myriad Races of the Eastern Domain were shaken.
Ghost Nether Mansion, ranked seventh among the Nine Great Immortal Sects of the Eastern Domain, had been wiped out!
The ancient sect had carried on for ten thousand years, yet the Blood Demon Clan had invaded its grounds. Daoist Guixuan and Mansion Lord Ghost Nether Son had both died in battle!
There was hardly a single survivor in all of Ghost Nether Mansion.
Corpses were piled like mountains, and more than half the sect's buildings had collapsed. A fierce battle had taken place.
Powerful cultivators came to investigate, hoping to retrace the events and piece together what had happened.
But the Heavenly Secrets in the world around Ghost Nether Mansion seemed to have been disrupted. The Karma Threads had been severed!
There was no way to find anything out.
A powerhouse at the Lin Dao Realm said, "It must have been the legendary Blood Demon Ancestor. He used Daoist arts to obscure the Heavenly Secrets and disrupt karma. If anyone insists on investigating, he'll surely sense them and come knocking!"
Every sect with any strength knew that the Blood Demon Ancestor was a top powerhouse at the Lin Dao Realm Ninth Layer!
If he set his sights on you, death was all but certain.
Under these circumstances, perhaps only the Holy Lands would dare to press on with an investigation.
But...
What did Ghost Nether Mansion's destruction have to do with the Holy Lands?
In the Cultivation World, sects were wiped out from time to time, swallowed by the river of history. It was perfectly normal.
Survival of the fittest had always been one of the Cultivation World's fundamental laws.
If the Holy Lands investigated every sect that fell, they'd never get anything else done.
The Blood Demon Clan was certainly despicable, but Ghost Nether Mansion had been too weak and suffered a crushing defeat.
An ancient sect with ten thousand years of tradition had been destroyed so easily. Its foundations were so shallow—perhaps the title of one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects wasn't deserved after all.
Someone spoke up mockingly.
They claimed Ghost Nether Mansion didn't deserve to be called one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects.
To think it had been wiped out without a sound... The news would make the other races laugh at them.
"The Blood Demon Clan is so brazen. Are they trying to recreate the ancient war?"
A sect elder asked nervously, afraid the Blood Demon Clan's next target would be his own sect.
In the immemorial era, the Blood Demon Clan, a branch of the Devil Race's Imperial Clan, had been powerful enough to enslave the Myriad Races and bring about a blood calamity.
In the ancient era, supreme powerhouses had led an assault on the Blood Demon Clan's Ancestral Land, sparking the ancient war.
The Blood Demon Clan was defeated and forced to abandon its Ancestral Land. Only a few young Blood Demons escaped.
The Blood Demon Clan of today descended from them. It had long since fallen into decline.
"They wouldn't dare. And I believe the two Holy Lands would never stand by and let the Blood Demon Clan run rampant!"
An old relic spoke, a single sentence quelling the fear of the Eastern Domain's great powers.
Indeed, with an event of this magnitude, the Yaoguang Holy Land and the Sun Moon Divine Cult, as the two leading powers of the Eastern Domain, couldn't possibly stand by and do nothing.
But...
Sun Moon Divine Cult.
At the entrance to the Ancestral Temple, a middle-aged man in black-and-white Daoist robes stood shrouded in holy aura, his features impossible to make out.
Three people knelt before him.
Li Chunxiao and his two sons!
The three knelt on the ground, terribly nervous. Their bodies trembled, their teeth clenched, and their backs were already soaked with sweat.
The middle-aged man in the black-and-white Daoist robes was the Sun Moon Divine Cult Leader.
A Holy Lord Level figure who struck terror into the hearts of the Eastern Domain.
"So Kaoshan Sect has more than one powerhouse at the Lin Dao Realm, and Xuancheng has actually reached the Lin Dao Realm Seventh Layer..."
The Sun Moon Divine Cult Leader fell silent for a moment, then glanced at the three of them and said, "Kaoshan Sect must have destroyed Ghost Nether Mansion and framed the Blood Demon Clan. If my guess is right, the Blood Demon Clan is now all but extinct..."
"The strength of Kaoshan Sect's Sect Master, True Lord Yuntian, and Daoist Xuanhe shouldn't have been enough to defeat the Blood Demon Ancestor."
"Exactly. Could it be that after the Blood Demon Ancestor repelled Kaoshan Sect's powerhouses, he realized his plan had failed and turned his attention to Ghost Nether Mansion, which had lost Ghost Nether Son and Daoist Guixuan?"
"It's possible..."
Li Chunxiao and the other two nervously glanced at the Cult Leader before offering their quiet explanation.
"Hmph!"
The Sun Moon Divine Cult Leader gave a low snort. "You idiots. Xuancheng had hidden six minor realms. Why couldn't Xuanhe have hidden his strength too?"
"Xuanhe is most likely also at the Lin Dao Realm Ninth Layer!"
"If we're bold enough to speculate, he may even have reached Perfection Level in the Lin Dao Realm!"
"He must be Kaoshan Sect's strongest powerhouse. That's why he secretly followed the expedition against the Blood Demon Clan instead of his junior brother, Xuancheng."
After hearing the Cult Leader's analysis, the three didn't dare argue.
But they truly didn't want to believe that a small sect like Kaoshan Sect could have two late-stage Lin Dao Realm powerhouses.
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