True Person Ning Shan and his party arrived a step too late. The moment they entered the Azure Fall Sect, they saw a corpse in the main hall. The dead man was middle-aged, with a hole torn through his chest.
Judging by the bleeding around the wound, he seemed to have been dead for some time. Yet traces of demonic qi still lingered in it, showing that the demonic cultivator who had wounded him possessed considerable strength.
They continued on for a while, but did not see a single disciple in the Azure Fall Sect.
True Person Ning Shan ordered Fang Hao and Li Wang to each take a group and search for survivors.
More time passed, but they still made no progress. Never mind survivors-they did not even find another corpse.
"True Person Ning Shan! There's an opening over here!" Fang Hao shouted.
Thick grass concealed the opening completely. If he had not probed with his divine sense and detected the jumble of auras there, he might have fallen in without noticing.
True Person Ning Shan pressed his lips together. "Let's go in and look."
As they followed the passage, they felt the demonic qi ahead grow increasingly dense. Occasionally, they spotted a corpse or two, and the closer they drew to the exit at the other end, the more bodies they saw.
Not far from the exit, a female Golden Core cultivator stood with her hair hanging loose and her face smeared with blood, locked in battle with a demonic cultivator using her Life-Bound Treasure. A closer look revealed that her Life-Bound Treasure was already more than half destroyed, yet she stubbornly held on, desperately protecting the last few hundred surviving disciples of her sect.
Ning Shan joined the fight without a word. The demonic cultivator facing her