There was little more to say about what followed.
With Lian Guming dead and Qin Shujian, an Array Dao Grandmaster, looming over them, the Heavenly Corpse Sect collapsed into a full rout.
A sect's powerful sense of unity might make some people willing to die for it.
But even those willing to die for their sect needed to see some hope.
Now, Lian Guming had fallen.
And with their Sect-Suppressing Dao Artifact in the hands of the heavenly corpse Jiang Feng, they no longer had the means to contend with the Origin Sect.
Still.
Someone approached the heavenly corpse Jiang Feng, who had descended after killing Lian Guming and now stood motionless. The man dropped to his knees and kowtowed. "Sect Master Jiang, the Heavenly Corpse Sect is facing a crisis of life and death. Please intervene and save our sect!"
But—
The heavenly corpse Jiang Feng stood like a statue, without the slightest movement.
After kowtowing for a long time without receiving any response, the man reached out to touch him.
Yet the instant his hand touched the heavenly corpse Jiang Feng, a cold light flashed. The cultivator could not even resist before a single saber stroke beheaded him, sending a pillar of blood shooting into the air.
The sight frightened quite a few others.
Although the heavenly corpse Jiang Feng had killed Lian Guming, some of the older experts had still pinned their hopes on him.
But with that cultivator's death, their last remaining hopes were shattered.
Jiang Feng had died eight hundred years ago.
The heavenly corpse Jiang Feng before them was merely a zombie refined by Lian Guming, no longer the sect master he had once been.
Once they fully accepted that fact, those older experts abandoned all hope.
Qin Shujian killed a Sky-Soaring Realm cultivator