On the other side.
By now, Chen Qingxue had already fought her way into the valley's core.
She shook the blood from her sword, her expression cool and composed.
All around her lay the corpses of demonic cultivators.
Some had been at the Body Refining Realm, while others had reached the Profound Mastery Realm.
Although this was only a small outpost, there were at least three or four hundred demonic cultivators here.
"Something's not right!"
"How have I made it this far without running into a single demonic cultivator at the fourth level of the Profound Mastery Realm?"
Chen Qingxue glanced around, her expression full of suspicion.
The demonic cultivators who had fallen to her sword—
The strongest among them had only been at the third level of the Profound Mastery Realm.
Not a single expert from the Demon Sect stationed at this outpost had appeared.
"Forget it. I'll keep going."
"Once I destroy this outpost, they'll show themselves sooner or later."
Chen Qingxue tightened her grip on her sword and leaped forward again and again.
At one point, she stopped in the very center of the valley.
Before her stood a black wooden tower.
The tower's aura was strange, and it rose nine stories into the air.
This had to be where the demonic cultivators at the Profound Mastery Realm were stationed.
She had just started toward it when—
Rumble!
The black wooden tower's doors burst apart!
For a moment, earth and stone exploded, and splinters flew everywhere!
Then a tall, broad-shouldered figure strode out of the tower.
He wore a black robe, and his pupils were a deep red.
In his hand was a blood-red spear. Killing intent spilled from his brow, and his presence was fearsome.
He took only a few steps, yet his aura grew more terrifying with every one.
By the time he stood before Chen Qingxue, his presence crashed over her like raging waves.
He had suppressed the entire field!
Even Chen Qingxue, at the sixth level of the Profound Mastery Realm, felt immense pressure.
"Eighth level of the Profound Mastery Realm!"
Chen Qingxue's gaze turned grave.
The intelligence she'd received had been wrong.
The man before her wasn't at the sixth level of the Profound Mastery Realm. He was at the eighth!
What's more, his aura was strangely unsettling.
Somewhere deep inside, she felt a terrifying sense of danger.
"This man really is powerful."
Chen Qingxue knitted her brows.
Whoosh!
In the next moment, figures flickered around her.
Nine people landed all around her, surrounding her on every side.
Every one of them was at the sixth level of the Profound Mastery Realm!
Chen Qingxue looked around at them, her expression cool as understanding dawned on her.
So they had been hiding all along, waiting for her to walk right into their trap.
"Outer Sect disciple of the Mystic Blade Sect, I've been waiting for you."
The burly figure with the blood spear spoke slowly.
His voice was sharp, like iron scraping against stone.
Chen Qingxue frowned at his words.
Had these demonic cultivators received word beforehand and set a trap here, waiting for her to walk into it?
"Hm? Wait, are you..."
A moment later, the burly man with the blood spear stared intently at Chen Qingxue.
Then a flash of inspiration seemed to cross his mind. Delight spread across his face, and he grew visibly excited.
He quickly ordered someone to bring him a black scroll.
It was filled with portraits, mostly of the more talented Inner Sect disciples of the Mystic Blade Sect.
Chen Qingxue's portrait was among them, of course.
"Hahaha, good! Very good!"
"My wait here was worth it. I've really landed myself a big fish."
The burly man roared with laughter, his voice shaking the surroundings.
The Demonic Fiend Palace wasn't foolish. After someone destroyed one of its branch palaces, it knew that much of its information had been exposed.
So it turned the tables, sending powerful demonic cultivators to guard its various small outposts.
They had stationed a great many demonic cultivators at this particularly well-hidden outpost.
If the Mystic Blade Sect dared to send disciples here, they would strike without hesitation and slaughter them!
"Chen Qingxue, the Seventh Princess of the Great Cloud Dynasty?"
"I never thought I'd get my hands on someone as important as you, Blood-Drinking Spear Fiend!"
The burly man's gaze turned cold.
"Your master went mad the other day and destroyed one of our Demonic Fiend Palace's branch palaces all by himself."
"You'll pay for that with your life!"
"Blood-Drinking Spear Fiend?"
Chen Qingxue's expression darkened.
She had indeed heard of this name.
Over the past year, the Blood-Drinking Spear Fiend had committed a string of heinous crimes across the Great Cloud Dynasty, abducting many young women to cultivate his demonic arts.
It was said he also had a younger kinsman known as the Asura Blade Demon, whose cultivation was at the sixth level of the Profound Mastery Realm.
Both men possessed a forbidden technique. When used together, its power was astonishing.
They had once joined forces to kill a royal expert at the ninth level of the Profound Mastery Realm!
Things were getting more and more troublesome.
Seeing that the situation was dire, Chen Qingxue took a deep breath, then leaped into the air, trying to escape.
After all, she had no intention of dying here.
If she could live, why throw her life away?
"Trying to leave? You're staying right here!"
The Blood-Drinking Spear Fiend looked furious at the sight and roared.
"Seize her!"
At his command, the nine demonic cultivators at the sixth level of the Profound Mastery Realm attacked at once.
Whoosh!
In an instant, blades and swords flashed everywhere.
Blood red and night black shone together.
The air reeked of blood.
Chen Qingxue was, after all, an Inner Sect disciple of the Mystic Blade Sect, with a distinguished background and formidable strength.
She had cultivated a Mysterious Grade sword technique. Though she hadn't mastered it, it was more than enough to deal with demonic cultivators at the same level.
Gradually, she seized on their flaws. Her sword flashed, spraying dazzling streams of blood and grievously wounding several of them!
The Blood-Drinking Spear Fiend's expression darkened at the sight.
"Die!"
The next moment, he gave a cold snort, gripped his blood-red spear, and charged forward!
Chen Qingxue's expression changed.
Even with her extraordinary strength, she could only fight desperately to hold the Blood-Drinking Spear Fiend back. She was no match for him.
Spurt!
As blood blossomed, one demonic cultivator after another collapsed lifelessly to the ground.
Su Yun watched coldly as he flicked the blood from his blade's tip.
Before him stood a red wooden tower, now reduced to rubble.
He had already slaughtered every demonic cultivator inside it.
Corpses lay everywhere around him.
More than a dozen of them had been at the Profound Mastery Realm alone.
His Blade Momentum had also grown stronger and stronger.
By now, he had killed every demonic cultivator in the inner perimeter by himself.
So he started toward the core.
At one point,
he killed another demonic cultivator at the Profound Mastery Realm, beheading him with a single strike.
Just then, a voice rang out in his mind.
"Extreme Shadow Fiend Blade has slain one hundred demonic cultivators in a show of overwhelming force, achieving a hundred kills. Excitement surges, inspiration erupts, and Blade Momentum successfully rises to seventy percent!"
Seventy percent!
Su Yun's expression shifted.
Once any Martial Dao Momentum reached seventy percent, it entered the Great Accomplishment stage, undergoing an astonishing transformation!
At one hundred percent, it would be completely perfected!
At that moment, countless insights into blade techniques surfaced in Su Yun's mind.
His skill with the blade began to rise without pause.
The Blade Momentum radiating from him also grew more and more terrifying.
After a while, Su Yun finished absorbing the insights and slowly opened his eyes.
Rumble!
The moment he opened them, the trees around him creaked and cracked, unable to withstand the aura of his Great Accomplishment Blade Momentum.
Then they exploded, splinters scattering in every direction.
"So this is the power of Great Accomplishment Blade Momentum?"
Su Yun looked at the scattered splinters and the enormous slabs of blue stone cracked like a web across the ground. A faint smile touched his lips.
Blade Momentum at Great Accomplishment was a qualitative leap!
It brought his strength to a level that would make anyone shudder.
His cultivation was only at the first level of the Profound Mastery Realm.
But with his Great Accomplishment Blade Momentum and Extreme Shadow Fiend Blade, he should be able to kill some warriors at the ninth level of the Profound Mastery Realm.
That was the insight that came to him after his Blade Momentum reached Great Accomplishment.
"Keep killing demonic cultivators!"
Steeling himself, Su Yun continued forward.
A moment later, a blood-red wooden tower appeared before him.
Su Yun looked up.
Boom!
Almost instantly, the blood-red tower before him exploded!
Then a figure wreathed in blood stepped out of the wreckage.
He wore a ghost-mask and held a broad blood-red blade. Killing intent billowed from him as he walked toward Su Yun.
"Is he at the sixth or seventh level of the Profound Mastery Realm?"
Su Yun watched him, secretly surprised.
He hadn't expected to run into a demonic cultivator at this level.
"You're an Outer Sect disciple of the Mystic Blade Sect. How can you be this strong?"
The Asura Blade Demon looked at the corpses on the ground, then at the Outer Sect uniform Su Yun wore. His voice was icy.
He'd been at a crucial point in his cultivation, which was why he hadn't joined his elder kinsman in killing Chen Qingxue.
Besides, his elder kinsman wasn't alone. An elder of the Demonic Fiend Palace was secretly stationed there, too.
There shouldn't be a problem.
"Brat, who are you?"
"I, the Asura Blade Demon, don't kill nameless nobodies!"
He stood atop a bloodstone, slowly tightening his grip on the blood blade.
He stared down at Su Yun with a cold, condescending gaze.
But his only answer was a terrifying blood-red blade arc!
This blade light stretched ten zhang, like a blood-red dragon roaring through the heavens.
The moment it appeared, it lit up the surrounding darkness!
The Asura Blade Demon was startled and tried to dodge at once.
But just then, Su Yun unleashed his Great Accomplishment Blade Intent, striking directly at the other man's mind.
Rumble!
Under the influence of the Great Accomplishment Blade Intent, the Asura Blade Demon's mind trembled violently, and cold sweat poured from his body.
"This is... Great Accomplishment Blade Intent!?"
His lips quivered, his blood-red eyes widened until they nearly burst, and he could hardly believe it!
But no matter how hard he struggled, even using a forbidden technique, he couldn't escape the effects of the Great Accomplishment Blade Intent. His body simply wouldn't move.
In the next instant, his pupils contracted!
The blade light, like a blood-red dragon, tore through the deep night sky and pierced straight through his body!
Shhk!
In an instant, blood splattered across the ground.
The Asura Blade Demon was dead!
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