Bang!
Xuanhe Daoren kicked him unconscious with one foot, then snorted coldly. "What a racket!"
Afterward, he carved Slave Seals into the bodies of the other five Blood Demons, completely enslaving them.
Once Xuanhe Daoren had finished all this,
Yun Tian Zhenren and the others had also carved Slave Seals into the remaining Blood Demon Clan members.
The entire Blood Demon Clan was now under their control!
"Hehe, you old bastard. You're already in the Celestial Realm, yet you disguised yourself as being at the middle stage of the Spirit Infant Realm. Aren't you ashamed?"
"Hmph! You've got the nerve to talk about me? Aren't you in the Celestial Realm too?"
"Hahaha, we're birds of a feather!"
The battle had ended perfectly. Some elders joked with one another, teasing each other for hiding so many cultivation levels, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
The least harmonious one was probably Tianji Zhenren.
Because despite being at the eighth level of the Celestial Realm, he was actually the weakest.
Every last one of them was far too driven.
Especially that fellow Dishen. Usually, he never said a word, but who would have thought he was the most driven of them all?
He was already in the Approaching Dao Realm!
"Alright, alright. What's the big deal?"
Gou Yuan Zhenren patted his shoulder and comforted him.
"Get lost!"
Tianji Zhenren roared angrily.
"Enough."
With his hands behind his back, Xuanhe Daoren said calmly, "The battle is over. Clean up the battlefield and take everything valuable from the Blood Demon Clan."
"Once things are settled here, we'll head to Nether Ghost Palace. The sect's side should have finished by now!"
On this day, the myriad races of the Eastern Region were shaken.
Nether Ghost Palace, ranked seventh among the Nine Great Immortal Sects of the Eastern Region, had been destroyed!
The ancient sect with a ten-thousand-year legacy had been invaded by the Blood Demon Clan. Gui Xuan Daoren and the Palace Lord, Nether Ghost Master, had both died in battle!
There was almost no one left alive in the entire Nether Ghost Palace.
Corpses had piled up like mountains, more than half the sect's buildings had collapsed, and a brutal battle had taken place.
Experts went to investigate, hoping to deduce and reconstruct the course of events.
But the heavenly secrets in the world surrounding Nether Ghost Palace seemed to have been disturbed, and the Causal Threads had been severed!
There was simply no way to uncover anything.
An Approaching Dao Realm expert said, "The legendary Blood Demon Ancestor must have used Dao arts to conceal the heavenly secrets and disrupt causality. If anyone insists on investigating, he will surely discover it and come knocking at their door!"
Every capable sect knew that the Blood Demon Ancestor was a peak expert at the ninth level of the Approaching Dao Realm!
If he set his sights on them, they would almost certainly die.
Under such circumstances, perhaps only Sacred Grounds would dare grit their teeth and investigate.
But...
What did the destruction of Nether Ghost Palace have to do with the Sacred Grounds?
In the cultivation world, sects were destroyed from time to time, vanishing into the river of history. That was perfectly normal.
Survival of the fittest and natural selection had always been among the fundamental laws of the cultivation world.
If the Sacred Grounds investigated every sect that was destroyed, would they not be worked to death?
The Blood Demon Clan was certainly detestable, but Nether Ghost Palace had also been too weak and met a crushing defeat.
An ancient sect with a legacy of ten thousand years had been wiped out so easily. Its foundation was so poor that the title of one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects seemed somewhat undeserved.
Someone spoke mockingly.
They believed Nether Ghost Palace was unworthy of being called one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects.
It had been destroyed without a sound... If word spread, the other races would laugh at them.
"The Blood Demon Clan is being this arrogant. Do they want to reenact the ancient war?"
An elder of a sect spoke fearfully, terrified that the Blood Demon Clan's next target would be them.
During the primordial era, the Blood Demon Clan, as a branch of the Devil Race's imperial bloodline, had possessed formidable strength. They enslaved the myriad races and created a bloody calamity.
During the ancient era, supreme experts had led an assault into the Blood Demon Clan's Ancestral Land, igniting the Ancient War.
The Blood Demon Clan had been defeated, abandoned their Ancestral Land, and only a few young Blood Demons escaped.
The Blood Demon Clan of today were their descendants and had long since ceased to be a force to reckon with.
"They would not dare. Moreover, this old man believes that the two great Sacred Grounds will absolutely not stand by and allow the Blood Demon Clan to run wild!"
An ancient old monster spoke, and with a single sentence, suppressed the fear of the Eastern Region's experts.
Indeed, with such a major incident occurring, Yaoguang Holy Land and the Sun Moon Divine Church, the two leading powers of the Eastern Region, could not possibly stand idly by.
But...
Sun Moon Divine Church.
At the entrance to the ancestral temple stood a middle-aged man in a black-and-white Daoist robe. Holy aura enveloped his entire body, obscuring his appearance.
Three people knelt before him.
Li Chunxiao and his two sons!
The three knelt on the ground, extremely nervous. Their bodies trembled, their teeth were clenched tight, and their backs were already soaked through.
The middle-aged man in the black-and-white Daoist robe was the Sect Leader of the Sun Moon Divine Church.
A Sacred Lord-level figure who struck terror throughout the Eastern Region.
"Backer Sect actually has more than one Approaching Dao Realm expert. Xuan Cheng has even reached the seventh level of the Approaching Dao Realm..."
The Sect Leader of the Sun Moon Divine Church fell silent for a moment, glanced at the three of them, and said, "Nether Ghost Palace must have been destroyed by Backer Sect, with the blame pinned on the Blood Demon Clan. If this seat's guess is correct, then the Blood Demon Clan now exists in name only..."
"The strength of Yun Tian Zhenren, the Sect Leader of Backer Sect, and Xuanhe Daoren should not have been enough to defeat the Blood Demon Ancestor."
"That's right. Could it be that after the Blood Demon Ancestor repelled Backer Sect's experts, he realized that this scheme was already beyond saving and turned his blade toward Nether Ghost Palace, which had lost Nether Ghost Master and Gui Xuan Daoren?"
"That is possible..."
Li Chunxiao and the other two nervously glanced at the Sect Leader and explained in low voices.
"Hmph!"
The Sect Leader of the Sun Moon Divine Church snorted. "Pig brains. Xuan Cheng hid six minor realms, so why could Xuan He not have hidden his cultivation too?"
"Xuan He is very likely an expert at the ninth level of the Approaching Dao Realm as well!"
"If we dare to guess even more boldly, he may be at the completion level of the Approaching Dao Realm!"
"He should be Backer Sect's strongest expert. That is why, during the campaign against the Blood Demon Clan, he followed them in secret rather than his junior brother Xuan Cheng."
Hearing the Sect Leader's analysis, the three did not dare refute him.
But they truly did not wish to believe that a tiny Backer Sect possessed two late-stage Approaching Dao Realm experts.
The Sect's Ancestral Land Needed Fresh Blood
"You were able to survive because Xuan Cheng gave the Sun Moon Divine Church face."
The Sect Leader of the Sun Moon Divine Church looked at the three and said, "If our church did not possess an Ultimate Emperor Armament, this seat is certain that you would have had no chance of survival!"
"But we are an Ultimate Sacred Ground. Even without an Emperor Armament..."
The Sect Leader of the Sun Moon Divine Church pointed a finger.
Li Qingchang, who had spoken, immediately collapsed to the ground. There was a bloody hole between his brows, blood flowing from it, and his divine consciousness had suffered grave damage.
"Sect Leader!"
"Please show mercy!"
Li Chunxiao and Li Qingping hurriedly begged for mercy.
Had the Sect Leader of the Sun Moon Divine Church used even a little more force, Li Qingchang would already have died!
"Hmph!"
"If you are foolish within the church, I can show mercy. But what about outside the church?"
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