Under the Heavenly Lord's will, the entire cultivation world of Tushan Central Court began to be shrouded in a faint crimson hue.
More than ninety thousand sword cultivators of the Great Sun Longsword Command Sword mobilized in full force. They often chose to arrive outside certain cultivators' cave abodes in the dead of night, knocking on the door with grave courtesy and saying that there were certain matters they needed to inform them of.
As for why the Great Sun Longsword Command Sword had only a little over ninety thousand sword cultivators out of its hundred thousand?
That was because its internal purge had already been completed. In voluntary and fair sword duels, sword cultivators sentenced to death fought one challenger after another to the death. Killing one person earned them several hours of rest to recover their spiritual power and divine sense.
Then another sword cultivator would challenge the condemned sword cultivator.
If no one dared challenge them again, multiple people would join forces to kill the condemned sword cultivator and carry out the Tu Shan Code upon them.
—Such cases were nearly nonexistent. Within a rising and ambitious group of sword cultivators, any sword cultivator so fearful of battle could never climb to a high position or advance into the Nascent Soul Realm.
The cycle continued until the condemned sword cultivator died.
In deserts, upon seas, amid mountains and wilderness, and within formations that sealed off inside and out, the sword cultivators of the Great Sun Longsword Command Sword held one life-and-death sword duel after another. The blood of high-level sword cultivators flowed without cease, while the spiritual light of their bonded flying swords dimmed as they fell to the ground. Another life vanished from the world.
Only when every condemned sword cultivator had died did sword intent