The Jiang Family did not deliberately suppress the news, and it soon spread through every major faction in the Northern Region.
For a time, all the major factions were shaken.
Jiang Yifei, once the Jiang Family's foremost prodigy, and the Jiang Family's Grand Elder had actually died!
This was undoubtedly explosive news.
Upon hearing it, quite a few factions secretly rejoiced.
With the Jiang Family's strongest prodigy and Grand Elder both dead, wouldn't the Jiang Family now decline completely?
But when they learned that Jiang Yifei had been slain by Jiang Xuan, all the major factions fell silent again.
Hadn't Jiang Xuan only returned to the Jiang Family recently?
Wasn't he supposed to be some insignificant Dao Palace Realm nobody?
How had he, after merely a few days, become capable of slaying Jiang Yifei, the Azure Heaven Tyrant Body?
Wasn't this fucking cheating??
Upon receiving such news, the prodigies of the Northern Region's major factions all felt a measure of despair.
One Jiang Yifei had barely left, and now another Jiang Xuan had appeared?
Did the Jiang Family insist on keeping them suppressed?
Yet among those prodigies, there were also those who refused to accept it, believing that the Jiang Family was exaggerating Jiang Xuan's abilities.
How could someone make such tremendous progress in such a short time?
Even the Great Emperors of antiquity could not have done it, could they?
Within the Heavenly Demon Sect.
Sect Master Lian Nishang received the news and quickly informed Leng Lingshuang.
When Leng Lingshuang learned of it, she was thoroughly startled. Her flawless face furrowed slightly between the brows, revealing her surprise.
When she had seen Jiang Xuan in that secret realm before, he had been an ant who had only just entered the Dao Palace Realm. How had he suddenly transformed into someone capable of slaying Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators? This change was far too great, wasn't it?
"Ling Shuang, that brat Jiang Xuan slew Jiang Yifei. His momentum within the Jiang Family has already formed. If you want revenge against him, you truly need to deliberate carefully."
Lian Nishang softly reminded Leng Lingshuang.
"To reach this point in such a short time, that little thief Jiang Xuan truly is no ordinary person."
Leng Lingshuang nodded. A cold glint flashed through her eyes as she added,
"However, just because he can slay Jiang Yifei does not mean he can slay me."
Boom!
As her words fell, space trembled, and Leng Lingshuang's cultivation aura erupted in an instant.
Dragon Transformation Third Heaven!
In just a few days, Leng Lingshuang had broken through several realms in succession!
"Ling Shuang, how did your cultivation rise so quickly? Don't tell me you cultivated some kind of forbidden demonic art?"
Seeing Leng Lingshuang's current cultivation, Lian Nishang was abruptly shocked and instinctively asked.
"Sect Master, aren't we a demonic sect? Why should we care about such things?"
Leng Lingshuang smiled sweetly. Her beauty was dazzling and radiant enough to make even the Nine Heavens lose their color.
In an instant, the cold and gloomy hall seemed to gain several degrees of warmth.
"That may be so, but our demonic sect is not made up of people who commit acts that outrage Heaven and harm reason. Otherwise, the major factions of the Northern Region would have long joined forces to wipe us out."
Lian Nishang's expression turned stern as she spoke earnestly,
"Furthermore, cultivating forbidden demonic arts will affect a cultivator's future limits. In severe cases, it may even ruin one's own future... Ling Shuang, you must never do anything foolish..."
"Sect Master, rest assured. I know my limits. The reason I broke through so quickly is that I recently gained some insight."
Leng Lingshuang said with a faint smile.
"That is good. Ling Shuang, you possess the Nine-Revolution Spirit Phoenix Body and extraordinary talent. Your future is immeasurable. The Northern Region is not your destination. You should cast your gaze farther ahead and measure yourself against the truly exceptional geniuses."
Hearing this, Lian Nishang was much relieved and softly spoke to Leng Lingshuang.
"Mm."
Leng Lingshuang nodded. Red light flickered in her eyes, yet she thought, Even those geniuses will eventually pale before me.
"Ling Shuang, cultivate well. In the struggle of the great era, prodigies rise together. Only by constantly strengthening yourself can you stand out from the flock."
After offering Leng Lingshuang several words of instruction, Lian Nishang left her palace.
Watching Lian Nishang's departing figure, Leng Lingshuang smiled faintly and murmured to herself,
"Sect Master, with me in the Heavenly Demon Sect, we will reach the summit within ten years!"
"As for Jiang Xuan, I will personally cut him down!"
Leng Lingshuang's cool voice echoed through the empty palace, brimming with incomparable confidence.
Meanwhile, in the Eastern Wilderness beside the Northern Region, a massive upheaval had already erupted.
The Heaven-Mending Sect, a great sect with a legacy spanning thousands of years, had actually been utterly destroyed within just two hours.
Even entire stretches of palaces had been uprooted and reduced to ruins!
This shocking news threw the entire Eastern Wilderness into an uproar. The major factions were filled with unease, all guessing at which terrifying expert had destroyed the Heaven-Mending Sect.
Very soon, however, they learned that person's identity.
Because that person revealed it himself!
It was none other than Jiang Wuhui, the current Family Head of the Jiang Family, an imperial clan of the Northern Region.
The man known as the White-Robed God King!
Once they learned that it was the White-Robed God King who had destroyed the Heaven-Mending Sect, the major factions instead fell silent.
Especially the leaders of the major factions. After their brief shock, they quieted down and even ordered the cultivators within their factions not to discuss the matter!
The younger generation cultivators of the various factions were initially bewildered by this.
But once they learned of Jiang Wuhui's exploits in his youth, enlightenment struck them in an instant.
Jiang Wuhui, the White-Robed God King, was a Killing Fiend in his youth, his might shaking both the Northern Region and the Eastern Wilderness.
If anyone dared provoke him, they might find their entire sect exterminated one day.
For a time, the major factions of the Eastern Wilderness trembled in fear and chose silence, all afraid of catching Jiang Wuhui's eye.
When news of Jiang Wuhui destroying the Heaven-Mending Sect reached the Northern Region, every major faction besides the Jiang Family immediately became obedient as well.
They, too, began to tremble in fear.
The only ones delighted by this sect-destruction massacre were the Jiang Family and some of its affiliated factions.
They all shouted the name of the White-Robed God King. Each was boiling with passion and incomparably excited, as though the person who had destroyed the Heaven-Mending Sect had been themselves.
At this time, Jiang Xuan had already begun closed-door cultivation.
An unfathomable aura enveloped his entire body.
That aura carried wisps of chaotic energy, making Jiang Xuan appear incomparably divine, like a child of the Great Dao.
Before him lay a pile of resources. Drawn by a thread of Jiang Xuan's spiritual power, they transformed into incomparably pure energy and fused into Jiang Xuan's body at an astonishing speed.
Jiang Xuan's cultivation was rising steadily at a pace visible to the naked eye!
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