The other cultivators turned pale with terror when they saw Qin Huaian kill their leader, an Early-stage Immortal Venerable, with a single sword strike.
Some turned and fled. Others instinctively reached for their Communication Beads.
After killing the Early-stage Immortal Venerable, Qin Huaian did not hesitate for an instant. He flicked his sword a few more times.
Several sword beams plunged into the remaining cultivators. Before they could flee even a hundred zhang, they had become silent corpses.
Though Qin Huaian had killed each of them in a single move, the fight had taken place within the range of Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's warning array. The surges of energy had already disturbed it.
Qin Huaian looked into the distance. Nearly a million li away, several teams of cultivators were flying toward him.
On the peaks closest to him, other cultivators had also risen into the sky.
Most of the cultivators flying out from those nearby peaks had not reached the Golden Immortal Realm. None of them could see through Qin Huaian's cultivation.
They had left their halls, but not one dared fly toward him.
Qin Huaian sneered. He collected the Storage Rings of the cultivators he had just killed, then flew without hesitation toward the nearest peak.
Qin Huaian wore a disguise mask, so the cultivators did not know who had come. They immediately flew back into their halls. As they did, Defensive Arrays sprang up around the peaks, as though preparations had already been made.
The peak nearest Qin Huaian was not so fortunate. Just as its array was about to close, a powerful scarlet sword beam descended from the sky and slammed into the gap.
The array shattered. Hundreds of cultivators scattered, fleeing the peak in every direction.
Qin Huaian swept his flying sword through the air. Countless