In less than ten hours, more than half of the three thousand-odd Jade Great Radiance Church cultivators who had entered the array had been slain.
Fewer than eight hundred remained.
The other cultivators had either fled with Qing Ehua True Person long before or already found ways to escape with evasion arts and hide elsewhere in Golden Autumn Garden.
The only ones still fighting fiercely were Liu Fugui's group and Liu Mingqing's Jade Hall disciples.
After the Dragon Head Annihilation Art, nearly five or six hundred Jade Great Radiance Church disciples had been drawn into Lin Ke's saber on the spot.
Yet at the center of the circle formed by the dragon head, the jade Buddha statue still stood.
Every so often, it manifested Extreme Cold Gang Qi to disperse the Dragon Pearl's flames.
At other times, it burrowed underground to evade the blue threads Lin Ke manifested.
When Liu Fugui caught sight of Lin Ke again, he saw him standing in midair, hovering several dozen feet in front of his forehead.
His robes were spattered with blood from head to toe, and the saber's blade had changed from its original bright, metallic blue to a blue-green hue.
It looked like a sapphire freshly hewn from deep in the mountains.
The strand of killing intent condensed upon it made the pupils of Liu Fugui and the others contract at once.
Nine voices drifted from the blood-colored arhat's mouth, seeming to speak together, yet also in harmony without being identical: "Amitabha."
"Benefactor, do you wish to damage your own lifespan with such slaughter?"
"Such evil deeds will surely bring Heaven's punishment."
Of course, Lin Ke knew what consequences such slaughter would bring.
But he also knew something else: after refining this killing intent with Spiritual Qi, he could reverse the Lu