The Centipede Celestial Lord's life force vanished completely.
And not just here. Within three breaths of his true body's death, the nascent Causality of Metal carried by the Metal-Extinguishing Sword followed the link between his true body and his divided souls, spreading to every corner.
At that instant, a thread of vivid blood-gold appeared on the foreheads of seven cultivators across the world—one of them from the Primordial Law-Heaven Commandery—and sixteen Demon Race cultivators. The markings were cold and chilling.
The Causality of Metal confirmed it again and again: these were lives formed when a wisp of the Centipede Celestial Lord's divided soul had devoured another's soul. Many of them had not even known it themselves.
Then those human and demon cultivators fell without a sound, their souls utterly destroyed.
So many deaths in public left the cultivators nearby terrified.
Many reported the deaths to the authorities without hesitation, bringing in cultivators from the Great Sun Longsword Commandery. These sword cultivators handled nearly every killing-related task in the Tushan Central Court. Hunting down murderers and the like was their specialty: good work at a low price, high efficiency, and excellent service.
They had little choice. The Tu Shan Code forbade them from killing people at random to practice their swordsmanship, and it did not permit death duels among their own ranks either.
If someone did break the rules, the Tushan Maid Corps would step in and kill him.
The sword cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Sect worried their hair white searching for opponents. They threw themselves into restricted sword duels whenever they could, and the moment a task to kill an enemy under the Tu Shan Code appeared, their eyes practically glowed green.
Fortunately, there were still some such tasks.
A cultivator's power belonged to the individual, and there