Gao Yi Killed the Most Enemies

Exterminate my entire clan?

In the distance, Zhou Cheng heard the Prince of Southern Ming's hateful words and let out a cold laugh. He began rummaging through the medicine cabinets in the Demonic Cult's treasury. Among the hundreds of spiritual herbs, he actually found the dozen or so ingredients he had been missing to refine the Nine-Orifice Golden Pill.

Once found, Zhou Cheng began refining the pills using the Earth Cauldron, ultimately producing twenty Nine-Orifice Golden Pills.

Twenty Nine-Orifice Golden Pills might not be many, but they should be enough for him to break through to the Xiantian Realm.

He had already cleared all eight meridians; it would take him less than twenty days to fully break through to the Xiantian Realm.

After refining the twenty Nine-Orifice Golden Pills, Zhou Cheng began browsing the martial arts manuals in the Demonic Cult's treasury.

Currently, his progress in the Roaming Dragon White Tiger Fist was at 64 percent. He needed thirty-six more fist techniques to reach one hundred percent, so Zhou Cheng prioritized browsing the fist manuals first.

Zhou Cheng finished one book and immediately moved on to the second.

The night gradually faded away.

As the sky began to brighten, Zhou Cheng's Roaming Dragon White Tiger Fist reached 74 percent.

Just as Zhou Cheng was continuously practicing the Roaming Dragon White Tiger Fist, the system's voice suddenly rang out.

"Your progress in the Primordial Boundless Scripture has reached one hundred percent. You have broken through to the Spirit Wandering Realm."

Some cultivators spend years in meditation and stillness without necessarily reaching the Spirit Wandering Realm, yet Zhou Cheng had achieved it in a mere day.

Of course, this was also because the Primordial Boundless Scripture was one of the three great Daoist scriptures, and because Zhou Cheng had previously consumed the Marrow-Cleansing Pill and the Nine-Orifice Golden Pill, leaving his soul exceptionally powerful.

Furthermore, soul cultivation is related to the physical body; the body is the vessel and the matrix. The stronger the body, the faster the soul can be tempered.

"Congratulations to the host for breaking through to the Spirit Wandering Realm. You have received a realm breakthrough gift pack."

"Would you like to open it now?"

Hearing the voice, Zhou Cheng was surprised, but without hesitation, he willed it to open.

"You have obtained two Spirit-Condensing Pills."

"You have obtained one Spirit-Condensing Pill recipe."

The Spirit-Condensing Pill is a medicine used to nourish the soul.

Spirit-Condensing Pills? I wonder how effective these are.

Zhou Cheng swallowed one.

He immediately felt his soul grow a circle larger and become more solid. Zhou Cheng discovered that his Primordial Boundless Scripture had already reached 5 percent of the Spirit Wandering Realm.

It seems one Spirit-Condensing Pill can increase progress by 5 percent in the Spirit Wandering Realm. Five percent might seem small, but if added to the automatic cultivation of the Primordial Boundless Scripture, he would be able to break through to the Object Manipulation Realm in less than twenty days.

People like Yan Chengkun of the Peach God Sect—who among them hadn't spent decades in meditation and soul-nourishing to step into the Object Manipulation Realm?

Zhou Cheng sat in meditation, and his soul flew out from his Life Palace.

After breaking through to the Spirit Wandering Realm, his soul was vastly different from yesterday. Yesterday, in the Out-of-Body Realm, his soul felt as if it could be scattered by the wind at any moment, but now, it was sturdy, completely devoid of that fragile sensation.

Yesterday, after his soul left his body, he would soon feel cold, as if falling into an ice cellar, but now, even as a cold wind blew past, Zhou Cheng felt no chill.

Yesterday, his soul out of body was like a newborn infant, unable to walk at all, but now, having broken through to the Spirit Wandering Realm, Zhou Cheng's soul attempted to move.

One step!

Two steps!

Three steps!

However, a soul detached from the body is like a duckweed without roots or a fish without water; after taking just a few steps, he felt extremely exhausted and found it difficult to breathe.

After walking a few meters, Zhou Cheng allowed his soul to return to his Life Palace.

The Spirit Wandering Realm is divided into Night Wandering and Day Wandering.

In the future, as the soul continues to grow stronger and more solid, it can wander at night; this is Night Wandering.

Once the soul is even stronger and more solid, it can wander under the scorching sun like an ordinary person; this is Day Wandering.

After Day Wandering, the soul can drive flying swords, flying blades, and other objects to attack; this is the Object Manipulation Realm.

"Young Master, the Prince of Southern Ming and his men have cleared the secret passage again and intend to escape," Qin Meng reported at this moment.

After the secret passage was blocked, the Prince of Southern Ming and the Demonic Cult members exerted all their strength, taking an entire night to finally clear it again.

At this time, the Prince of Southern Ming was leading the Demonic Cult members as they continuously poured into the secret passage.

"Finally trying to escape, are you?" Zhou Cheng stood up, loosened his muscles and bones, and followed.

From then on, no matter where the Prince of Southern Ming and his group fled, they were always caught up by the three major sects and the Da Feng imperial family.

Although the Demonic Cult had the assistance of experts from the Mongol Kingdom, the Southern Border Kingdom, and the Peach God Sect, they were still vastly outmatched by the combined power of the three major sects and the Da Feng imperial family, being forced to flee in defeat every time.

Throughout the frantic flight, Demonic Cult disciples were either killed or captured.

The original force of thirty or forty thousand disciples was reduced to less than twenty thousand.

Even the Twelve Demon Generals, the Evil Blade, and the Prince of Southern Ming saw their injuries gradually worsen.

Four days later.

Under the continuous consumption of Nine-Orifice Golden Pills, Zhou Cheng opened his ninth meridian, the Earth Meridian, successfully breaking through to the ninth level of Qi Refining.

"Only one last meridian remains."

After opening the Earth Meridian, his internal energy had more than doubled in density.

With his current combat power, he could now easily slay a Xiantian second-level grandmaster.

Following behind the Demonic Cult's procession, Zhou Cheng cast his gaze toward the few Xiantian second-level experts within their ranks.

On the sixth day after the Prince of Southern Ming fled the Blackwater Mountain Range, the remnants of the Demonic Cult escaped into the Southern Border. Seeing this, the three major sects and the Da Feng imperial family finally turned back.

Zhou Cheng also returned to the Ten Thousand Stars Sect.

Because Zhou Cheng had been operating in the shadows, he did not travel with the rest of the Ten Thousand Stars Sect, who had arrived back at the sect a step ahead of him.

Just as Zhou Cheng was rushing back to the Ten Thousand Stars Sect, Su Huang looked at the disciples gathered in the main hall and smiled, "Everyone has fought bravely and endured much hardship during this campaign to eradicate the Demonic Cult."

He continued, "Now, I shall announce the results of your efforts in slaying the enemy."

"The one who killed the most enemies this time is Gao Yi."

His gaze fell upon Gao Yi, and he said with satisfaction, "In six days, Gao Yi killed three Demonic Cult disciples at the tenth level of Qi Refining, four at the ninth level, and four at the eighth level."

He raised his voice, "Gao Yi alone killed thirty-three Demonic Cult disciples of the Qi Refining realm!"

"Furthermore, Gao Yi even slew a Xiantian first-level grandmaster of the Demonic Cult!"

As Su Huang's words fell, the entire hall was stirred.

Xiantian grandmasters were extremely difficult to kill; Gao Yi had actually slain one while only at the tenth level of Qi Refining!

Su Huang went on to mention several other disciples and elders who had high kill counts, finally adding, "However, this time, Zhou Cheng did not kill a single Demonic Cult disciple."

"He didn't even show his face."

He then asked an elder nearby, "Has Zhou Cheng returned yet?"

"Reporting to the Sect Master, not yet," the elder replied hurriedly.

Gao Yi chuckled, "I reckon he's still out there sightseeing."

Shi Fei, Wu Shuo, and several other grand elders shook their heads.

"For the Patriarch to want such a person to take charge of the Ten Thousand Stars Sect in the future—I truly don't know what the Patriarch was thinking," Shi Fei remarked.