Ripples from the Aftermath Reached Far

Two days later, news that stunned even the first-rate sects began to spread through the region.

Working together, Falling Star Valley, Azure Wind Sect, and Six Plates Hall had taken little more than a day to uproot four equally powerful factions: the Cangyu Sect, Snowmoon Wolf Clan, Rending Wind Clan, and Night Fox Clan.

The Great Elder of the Rending Wind Clan, Lie Changfeng, had even reached the Pseudo-Nascent Soul Realm, yet he had not escaped. Driven into a corner, he had burned away every last trace of the power at the heart of his devil core.

He had gravely wounded the Third Elder of Six Plates Hall and blasted off a section of its Second Elder's arm, but a Pseudo-Nascent Soul expert had fallen all the same.

That had been possible because Tian Xingzi of Falling Star Valley had destroyed his physical body three days earlier, leaving him unable to bring out the true strength of a Pseudo-Nascent Soul cultivator.

The Great Elder of Six Plates Hall and Feng Moru of Azure Wind Sect had slain the other two Golden Core cultivators from the Rending Wind and Night Fox Clans.

Meanwhile, Lin Xinghe and Qing Yu had respectively slain the late-stage Golden Core cultivators of the Snowmoon Wolf Clan and Cangyu Sect.

The news caused an uproar among the sects. Golden Core cultivators had fought Golden Core cultivators, and seven had fallen in a single clash—enough to shake the entire region.

These were no stray cats and dogs. Everyone knew how hard it was to kill a Golden Core cultivator; it could take several cultivators of the same rank joining forces.

And all of it had happened in little more than a day. Few believed the news at first, but as the four factions vanished, it became a revelation