"It looks that way."
Huang Que nodded with a frown.
As he enlarged the image of the Sword Tomb's entrance, Xu Taiping immediately saw the heads piled there like a small mountain.
"How could this man be so ruthless?"
A flicker of anger crossed Xu Taiping's eyes.
The intelligence they had received yesterday had only said that he had trapped the Heavenly Blade Sect's disciples; they had not known his methods were so cruel.
"We didn't expect it either."
Huang Que frowned.
In the past, years would pass without a single cultivator breaking into True Martial Heaven from the Several Heavens. Even those who came mostly did so to smuggle some gold essence stone back, and would never dare slaughter True Martial Heaven cultivators so openly.
"Eldest Brother Huang Que, according to the book you just gave me, cultivators in Youyun Heaven have almost no difficulty breaking through before the spirit refining realm, and even an ordinary sect elder is at least in the spirit refining realm. Is that right?"
Xu Taiping questioned Huang Que while keeping his eyes on the silver mirror.
"Judging by our dealings with those walkers from Youyun Prefecture, cultivators from Youyun Heaven are indeed a stage above our True Martial Heaven cultivators overall."
"The most striking difference is that any reasonably large sect in Youyun Heaven has a transformation realm cultivator presiding over it. Among the Seven Immortal Dynasties, Three Great Sects, and Five Great Aristocratic Clans, there may even be high-rank cultivators within the transformation realm."
Huang Que's expression was grave as he spoke.
Hearing this, Xu Taiping finally understood why the Nine Prefectures were so desperate to obtain Youyun Heaven's fortune.
*There isn't a single transformation realm cultivator in all of True Martial Heaven. Once the barrier opens, even a somewhat larger sect