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South of the ruins of Bin Pass, beneath the thick barrier over the Chu Army Camp, Qingjiang stared unblinkingly at the battle raging in the northern sky. The immense pressure radiating from it filled her with a deep, instinctual fear.

WHOOSH—

An almost inaudible sound of something tearing through the air suddenly echoed by her ear. It was the Dust Light Technique, unleashed by an Earth Vein Cultivator. She saw a sky full of dust and sand surge upward, but the instant it began to devour the world’s Spiritual Qi, a golden palm from the opposing side shattered it. As the dust cloud broke apart, it spread across the surrounding land.

Some of the dust penetrated the massive boulders from the collapsed mountains ahead, striking the surface of the Barrier Light Curtain above the camp and creating ripples. Just as Qingjiang breathed a sigh of relief, the dust passed through the barrier. She subconsciously reached out with her frost-covered right hand to block it.

CRACK!

The frost on her hand shattered, and a splash of fresh blood appeared in her vision.

She opened her palm. In it was ordinary sand, but it carried a distinct Earth Vein Aura. What had shattered the frost on her hand was the Earth Vein Energy carried by the sand. This energy made the sand spin at high speeds, turning each grain into a tiny, hard knife.

"Ah!"

Pained screams rang out.

The ordinary soldiers lacked her power, and the unlucky ones were inevitably hit. One of the Three Realm Earth Vein Cultivators who had stayed behind to maintain the barrier shouted, "Find cover behind a wall!"

Qingjiang didn’t take cover. She kept staring at the battle ahead, trying to find her master’s figure. But the rampaging energy not only blocked her line of sight, it even blocked her spiritual sense.

Suddenly, a familiar aura washed over her. She looked up subconsciously and saw the Bronze Greatsword that had flashed by earlier reappear. Her eyelids twitched violently.

’She hadn’t supported a frontal assault. According to her plan, they only needed another month to wear down the Court’s army in Pingzhou Road. Then, they could have taken Pingzhou without shedding any blood.’

’She knew that taking Pingzhou Road wasn’t the main objective of her mission. The real goal was to erect Golden Body Divine Statues of the Xiao Shan Lord throughout Pingzhou Road to collect the incense offerings of its people, thereby forging a more stable Heaven and Earth Fortune for the Xiao Shan Lord.’

’Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes. She hadn’t expected her master to fly into such a rage over the True Yang Mountain affair, completely disrupting her original plan.’

"This way, we can conquer Pingzhou Road in just three days!"

The excited voice came from a young Daoist beside her, dressed in a greyish-white, wide-sleeved robe. He exuded a Wood Spirit Aura and his body was enveloped by the Energy Barrier of an Armor Talisman. He was a Second Realm Taiyan Cultivator, as well as Xiu Yu’s second disciple, Pingtian Taoist.

He was the one who had goaded Xiu Yu into changing Qingjiang’s plan!

"That Spirit-Control Banner you’re refining will lead you to eternal damnation sooner or later," Qingjiang retorted coldly. She knew this junior brother of hers had goaded their master into deploying Third Realm Cultivators for a frontal assault, all to refine the Spirit-Control Banner in his hands. It required absorbing a sufficient number of twisted Spirit Bodies.

"You don’t need to worry about that, Senior Sister. On the contrary, you’ve been increasingly out of sync with Master lately. Do you really not know what Master wants? Do you honestly believe your ideas are better than his?"

Pingtian Taoist’s final words carried a deep, cautionary tone. "For the sake of our friendship, from when you guided me into the sect, I must remind you: Master is not the same as he once was!"

Qingjiang took a deep breath, suppressing her frustration. She looked up at the battle in the sky, and at that very moment, the rumbling between heaven and earth abruptly ceased. Then, from within the rampaging energy, a cyan Array rose. A dense Water Spirit Qi immediately manifested, suppressing the violent energy and dispelling the turbidity in the air.

It was as if the world had been cleansed in that instant, making the morning winter sun seem especially blinding. Beneath the dazzling sunlight, she could see that parts of space were distorted, rapidly repairing themselves under the influence of the Heaven and Earth Rules.

"Send people to clean up the contamination on the ground and repair the chaotic spiritual energies!"

Xiu Yu’s voice rang in the ears of both Qingjiang and Pingtian Taoist. They immediately sensed his familiar Primordial Spirit aura and looked over at once. They soon saw Xiu Yu standing under the clear sky, a Bronze Longsword in his right hand and his left hand held in the Dao Finger sign.

"Yes!"

The two of them cupped their fists in a salute at the same time.

Afterward, Pingtian Taoist flew impatiently toward Pingzhou Road, while Qingjiang gathered all the Entering Cultivators and Second Realm Cultivators. After assigning them detailed tasks, she led her two disciples, who were also Entering Cultivators, and headed toward Pingzhou Road as well.

The moment she flew out of the barrier, she immediately felt the violent energy flowing through the space. This energy was mixed into the air, causing a dull ache in her lungs as she breathed it in. It nearly caused the Spirit Veins in her body to surge uncontrollably.

It wasn’t just her. All the Mystic Sect Cultivators who flew out of the barrier, whether from orthodox or unorthodox sects, nearly had their Spirit Veins surge uncontrollably. They stopped in front of the barrier, shaken, their previously orderly battle formation falling into disarray.

Qingjiang glanced back at the other cultivators but said nothing. Once she had stabilized her Spirit Veins and Qi Sea, she again took the lead, flying toward Pingzhou Road with her two disciples.

Passing over the mountain ruins that obscured her view, the first thing Qingjiang noticed were two distinct sword marks on the land below. They had completely overturned the ground of Pingzhou Road, cutting off its dense network of waterways. The very life force of the earth seemed to have been severed by them.

Then, she noticed something strange about the sunlight. At this moment, the sun’s rays were unusually harsh, feeling as if they were eroding the flesh and Spirit Veins beneath her skin.

Some Second Realm Water Cultivators knew what was happening. They rose into the sky in groups, casting spells together to form clumps of white clouds. Other Earth Vein Cultivators immediately began clearing the ruins of Bin Pass, attempting to reopen the way between Yunjiang Road and Pingzhou Road. Meanwhile, the Wood Spirit Cultivators hovered over the ruins of Bin Pass, and after a moment of shock, began contemplating how to restore the destroyed ecosystem.

Qingjiang picked up her pace, landing beside what she remembered as Huangde Prefecture City.

Now, only ruins remained of Huangde Prefecture. At the edge of the ruins was a bottomless sword-gash. Qingjiang stood at its edge and peered down. It was at least a thousand feet deep and several thousand feet wide!

Her two disciples behind her stared blankly at the scene.

"This... I’m afraid Grand-Master will hold us accountable for this!"

one of the female disciples whispered.

Qingjiang turned to glance at her disciple, her eyes filled with a warning. Then she crouched down and grabbed a handful of dirt. It reeked of blood. When she let the dirt fall from her hand, her palm was stained with specks of it.

There were no people to be seen in the city’s ruins, nor were there any bodies—only the bloodstains left on the ground and clothes dyed red with it.

’Qingjiang tried hard to control the inappropriate thoughts rising in her mind.’ Just as she was about to summon the Earth Vein Cultivators to discuss repairing the ground, she suddenly felt an aura above her, one that made her want to prostrate herself in worship.

"All of you, await orders here. Xiu Yu, return to the Six Heart Sect at once!"

It was the voice of Wan Zhi Daoist from the Earth Cave Sect.

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