[In the 872nd year, a Large Blessed Land was discovered near Jiancheng. All the factions of Jiancheng fought over it, and the Sky Domain Sect slaughtered every Ye Family Direct Lineage member sent to investigate, including your friend Ye Mingyue.
While you were in secluded cultivation, the Lineage juniors urgently informed you of the news. Upon learning what had happened, you flew into a towering rage, emerged from your secluded cultivation, and headed for the Large Blessed Land.
Meanwhile, as the Sky Domain Sect prepared to occupy the Large Blessed Land, someone learned that you were rushing there in great haste and immediately reported the matter to the Sky Domain Sect Grand Elders stationed there.
The Spirit Condensation Realm Great Powers of the Sky Domain Sect were also extremely helpless about this matter. Their subordinates had acted without knowing the gravity of the situation, killing so many members of the Ye Family without first clarifying the circumstances. They immediately gathered the Heavenly Origin Sect Martial Artists nearby and waited for your arrival. Your speed was indeed swift; not long after they had assembled, you arrived at the Blessed Land.
The leading Grand Elder of the Sky Domain Sect stated that the Large Blessed Land they had discovered already belonged to them. As for the actions of his subordinates, he expressed regret and said they would compensate you afterward.
Though he spoke of compensating you, his expression was filled with utter disdain, without the slightest hint of apology.
At the same time, he once again urged you to put the greater good first. He bluntly stated that although you had the backing of the Blazing Sun Holy Land, your true strength was inferior to his. If you retreated now, they would refrain from attacking you.
As you looked at the three incomparably arrogant Spirit Condensation Realm experts of the Sky Domain Sect and the eight Void God Realm Martial Artists of the Sky Domain Sect surrounding you, the fury in your heart grew even fiercer.]
["Very good! Very good! Very good indeed!!! You killed members of my Ye Family, yet you still urge me to put the greater good first! What tremendous prestige you have!"
Hearing the strange edge in your words, Sky Domain Sect Grand Elder Zhang Quanjian warned, "Fellow Daoist, reaching the Spirit Condensation Realm is no easy feat. Now that all three Spirit Condensation Realm Grand Elders of my Sky Domain Sect are here, I hope you will not court your own destruction. We know you have someone in the Holy Land, but a county magistrate is not as powerful as the official in charge. If we surround and kill you in a place like this, what can your son in the Holy Land do to us? And what of the lives of the rest of your Ye Family? Will you not care about them?"
Faced with Zhang Quanjian's warning, you did not answer. Instead, you asked, "The Ye Family sent these people only to investigate. They had no intention of fighting for it. You clearly could have spared them, so why did you slaughter every last one of them?"
Before the three Grand Elders could speak, a Late Void God Realm martial artist below burst into laughter. His face was full of contempt as he mocked, "Did you cultivate your Spirit Condensation Realm cultivation into your ass? Let me tell you why. When you step on an ant to death on the road, do you care about the ant's feelings? You really are..."
Before he could finish, a Void God Realm martial artist beside him said, "Stop wasting words on him. This man's head clearly does not work right. Keep him here too. Who cares what Holy Land disciple he is? It is all bullshit. Who would know we killed him? When the time comes, they can only blame this man for being too stupid."
The moment he finished speaking, Zhang Quanjian slapped him flying. "Is the Holy Land something you can gossip about? If you do not know what should and should not be said, then today I will clean house for the sect."
After speaking, Zhang Quanjian paused before continuing, "Though this fellow Daoist is somewhat unable to sort things out, he is still in the Spirit Condensation Realm. Do you understand respecting the strong? Hurry and apologize to Fellow Daoist Ye!"
The Void God Realm martial artist who had been knocked to the ground did not dare reveal any displeasure, but he showed no intention of apologizing either.
Zhang Quanjian warned again, "Fellow Daoist, it is merely the strong devouring the weak. Though you have given me little face, I am still willing to give you one chance. Leave now, and I will pretend you were never here! Otherwise, stay, and we will kill you here. At the same time, tonight, your entire Ye Family will be slaughtered. Not even a dog will be left alive!"
His words were decisive as iron, leaving no room for reconciliation.]
[Faced with Zhang Quanjian's words and the ugly faces of these people, you suddenly understood that this world was, in the end, not a peaceful era. The strong devoured the weak—what a real sentence that was.
At last, you held back no longer. In the blink of an eye, a colossal figure appeared behind you. Unlike the illusory form from the Void God Realm, this figure was solid and tangible.
The figure was incomparably towering. Though you were only at the Mid Spirit Condensation Realm, compared to Zhang Quanjian's Late Spirit Condensation Realm figure, the Phantom Body you summoned was more than three times larger.
Every person's Phantom Body was different. It was not solely related to cultivation realm, but only to strength. A Phantom Body could reveal very directly whether someone was powerful. Yet without exception, every Spirit Condensation Realm expert whose Phantom Body was larger than those of others at the same realm was an outstanding figure within that realm.]
[Seeing the enormous Phantom Body behind you, the expressions of the three Sky Domain Sect Grand Elders all turned grave. Their earlier casualness vanished completely; something beyond their expectations had occurred.
The battle unfolded in a flash of lightning and sparks from flint. The instant your Phantom Body appeared, you had already struck. The eight Void God Realm Martial Artists surrounding you fell from the sky in an instant. Seeing this, the three Grand Elders felt their scalps go numb. They had not even seen how you attacked before they saw a Blade Light sweep across everyone's throats.
That was because after Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow and Mountain Shaking Fist had broken through to the realm of Return to Simplicity, your physical attributes had already surpassed anything Spirit Condensation Realm Martial Artists could match.
Once the battle began, there was none of the bitter struggle you had imagined. Even joining forces, the three of them were slain by you after an hour. Not one escaped.]
[After this battle, the high-level members of the Sky Domain Sect were severed in a single stroke. The rest of the sect's disciples fled in panic. As for those who had not participated in slaughtering your Ye Family clansmen, you did not continue killing them indiscriminately. However, every Heavenly Origin Sect disciple who could leave Jiancheng was forced to make a Martial Oath that they would not oppose your Ye Family.
Faced with your overwhelming force, the other two major factions immediately abandoned their fight for this Large Blessed Land, offering the Blessed Land to you with both hands and no longer daring to compete with you.]
[Inside the Sky Domain Sect treasury, you were inventorying the gains from this venture when you found a Secret Sect Scripture of the Sky Domain Sect off to one side. From its records, you saw the history of the Sky Domain Sect. It had been established for more than thirty thousand years and was an extremely ancient sect.
The first-generation Sky Domain Sect Sect Master had possessed only Heavenly Origin Realm cultivation. It was not until thirteen thousand years later that Void God Realm experts began to appear. As the ages changed, exceptional geniuses continued to emerge, and Spirit Condensation Realm Great Powers began appearing after nineteen thousand years. Compared to other factions, the speed at which they produced Spirit Condensation Realm Martial Artists was already exceptionally fast.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this that they held everyone and every faction outside the official powers in extreme contempt. They handled matters viciously and without mercy, making countless enemies. Among the factions they had offended, no fewer than thirteen possessed Spirit Condensation Realm experts. Over the generations, they had destroyed more than twenty Void God Realm factions.
The Secret Sect records of the Sky Domain Sect also showed that the Sky Domain Sect was a faction that had risen by stepping atop heaps of bleached bones. The number of factions without Void God Realm experts that had fallen behind it was beyond counting, and the sins it had committed could not be tallied. It could not be said that the entire sect had no good people, but ninety percent of the Sky Domain Sect high-level members were utterly wicked, their hands stained with vast amounts of blood. Perhaps this was also one reason they had grown so powerful!]