Southern Border.
In a place of green mountains and clear waters, mist hung thick, and a mirage could vaguely be seen.
"We're here. Go!"
"Remember, only by killing everyone can you live..."
A gigantic earth-yellow ship arrived. Accompanied by a faint voice, great numbers of Earth Virtue cultivators plunged into the mirage like dumplings dropped into a pot, vanishing in an instant...
"Where is this...?"
Fang Wuchen steadied himself and discovered that he was already inside an underground palace.
Grayish-white stone paths lay on both sides, winding and twisting, leading who knew where.
"Who?"
A sound suddenly came from ahead. Yellow light flashed beneath his feet, and he seemed to shrink the earth to an inch. In the next moment, he saw a Qi Ingestion cultivator.
"Ah, spare me, my lord... I am a rogue cultivator from Ancient Shu."
A burly man in coarse hemp robes hastily fell to his knees and begged for mercy.
"Only by killing everyone can one live?"
Fang Wuchen murmured, "Sorry... I don't want to either."
Pff!
Even as he muttered, the burly man suddenly erupted into action. An earth-yellow dagger in his hand stabbed viciously toward Fang Wuchen.
Clang!
The dagger struck like it had hit rotten leather; it could not pierce him at all.
"After Dao Foundation, it is an entirely different realm from Qi Ingestion..."
Fang Wuchen looked at the dumbstruck man and could not be bothered with him. He casually flicked his sleeve.
Bang!
The man immediately transformed into earth and sand, exploding with a roar.
"This is bad... Cultivators here are slaughtering one another. It would be fine if Master encountered a Qi Ingestion cultivator, but if he encounters a Dao Foundation cultivator, wouldn't it be as easy as sweeping a sleeve, just like for me..."
Fang Wuchen's expression changed