With Xia Junchen dead, the Five-Gate Inversion Grand Array had no one to control it and naturally could not contend with the True Martial Sword qi. The five stone gates fell one after another, smashing deep craters into the ground. The thick, damp ghost mist also subsided beneath Heavenly True Boy's incantations, and the sky grew bright again.
By then, Cheng Xinzhan's true body had returned from Longzhou Danxia. He recalled his Incarnation and the Earth Book, then descended to join Heavenly True Boy. However, only the chief villains of the Red Heart Cult had been executed; a host of lesser demons remained. Seeing the grand array fail and both their sect masters disappear, these lesser demons knew disaster had come and fled desperately for their lives.
But these Demon Fiends had not fled earlier, and now that they finally thought of leaving, it was naturally too late. Cheng Xinzhan released his Spell Kerchief to seal the surrounding space, then brought out the Peach Capital and Red Wart, letting them slay the demons on their own. He himself repeated his earlier method, once again casting the Purifying Water Compassionate Light Sky-Filling Art to sweep away the evil atmosphere and search for living people.
Seeing this, the boy said nothing and released the True Martial Sword as well, letting it eradicate demons.
The Red Heart Cult was far weaker than the Bare Body Sect. Now that three Immortal Artifacts swept back and forth, facing only lesser cultivators of the Third Realm and below, the task was naturally effortless. Before long, they had slaughtered them all.
Moreover, the Red Heart Cult cultivated illusions and harvesting techniques. Though they too harmed people to cultivate their arts, conditions here were far better than in the Bare Body Sect. First, there were far fewer victims.