For a moment, Su Mo remained silent. If Wu Taeyong hadn’t threatened him about taking over Qingxi’s body. He might have been interested in storing his soul inside the Green Ring and turn him into a Ghost Servant.

But now, he doesn’t deserve it. Death is the best option.

Right then, a familiar electronic voice sounded in his mind.

[Ding! You have defeated a Contender!]

[Ding! Heavenly Dao has marked you! You have gained a new title!]

[Contender: You are contending for the throne, the legendary gate.]

"???"

Su Mo’s mind went blank for a moment.

Marked by the Heavenly Dao?

What exactly is that throne? A chair? Or a position?

And the gate...

Is that a metaphor, or is that literally a gate?

He tried asking the system.

But no matter how much he questioned it, the system gave him no answer.

Helpless, Su Mo could only put the matter aside for now.

After all...

Wu Taeyong might be dead.

But the Pishacha Army was still here.

---

Outside the sect, the situation was far from good.

Regardless of the resistance put up by the sect members, the Pishacha army was simply too vast.

Even when they killed and repelled wave after wave of Pishachas, more continued to arrive from different parts of the Frostspine Mountains.

"Elder Song! We can’t hold on for much longer! We have to find a solution! When will the reinforcements arrive?"

Song Meilin was just about to swallow another Dharma Pill to recover her exhausted spiritual energy when she heard the elder’s question.

Her fists clenched.

Looking at the increasing number of fallen sect disciples, she couldn’t help feeling helpless inside.

"Elder Zhu, we have no choice."

"We must hold on!"

Zhu Shan looked at her in distress.

There were many things he wanted to say, but none of them came out.

He knew the situation very well.

At a time like this, he couldn’t say something that would damage everyone’s morale.

But the wounds covering Song Meilin’s body made his heart ache.

Seeing her prepare to rush toward the frontline once again, Zhu Shan finally gritted his teeth.

"It’s all because I’m too weak."

"If I had been stronger, I could have taken some of your burden instead of staying at the back and handling logistics."

Song Meilin paused.

She turned toward him with a serious expression.

"Elder Zhu, you’ve already been a great help."

"Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to leave the injured sect members in your care and rush to the frontline without worrying about them."

Zhu Shan’s eyes became slightly red when he heard that.

Those words were the acknowledgment of the person he had always admired...and loved.

’If we survive today...I’ll definitely propose to her.’

Unfortunately, Song Meilin had no idea what was going through his mind.

She felt the spiritual energy she had recovered from the Dharma Pill and immediately rushed toward the frontline once again.

By now, she had already killed hundreds of Pishachas.

Unfortunately... Their numbers seemed endless.

At some point, she had advanced too far into the battlefield alongside several other sect members.

Now, they were surrounded by numerous Grade Two and Grade Three Pishachas.

Despair slowly began filling Song Meilin’s heart.

’Can we survive this?’

’Qingxi... Su Mo...’

’Just how long are you going to make me wait?’

’I don’t think I can hold on anymore.’

Right then, the voice of an elder beside her suddenly rang out.

"What’s that?"

Song Meilin looked up.

Amidst the heavy snowfall and dark clouds, a beam of light emerged from within the sect.

The visibility was too poor for her to clearly see what was happening from this distance.

But she sensed that familiar aura.

Her heart immediately relaxed.

’Su Mo... Did you win?’

The corners of her lips curved upward.

"Everyone!"

"Just hold on a little longer."

"The reinforcements are here!"

Su Mo floated above the White Moon Sect, his body shining with a bright golden light.

The snowfall was so heavy that even his vision was somewhat obstructed.

But he didn’t care.

He spread his spiritual sense across the surrounding area.

’Hm?’

’More than ten thousand Pishachas?’

Su Mo’s expression became strange.

’Damn, Wu Taeyong...’

’How many people did you kill to create this many?’

He was about to use his Light Manipulation Technique to begin eliminating them when another thought suddenly occurred to him.

’Killing them like this would be such a waste.’

Thinking of his pets and subordinates, Su Mo changed his mind.

"I should just capture them."

The moment he finished speaking, his figure disappeared.

The next instant, he appeared at another location on the battlefield. Then vanished again.

Every time Su Mo appeared, a strange vortex would emerge.

The vortex swallowed the surrounding Pishachas.

One after another, the monsters disappeared into the Void Space.

Before the Cultivation Experience Card’s duration ended, Su Mo had already captured all ten thousand Pishachas.

The war that everyone had been struggling desperately to survive...

Ended almost instantly after Su Mo made his move.

When he finally reappeared before the sect members, many of them didn’t recognize him.

But after hearing Elder Song’s earlier words and witnessing his overwhelming display of strength, they understood that this person was their reinforcement.

Their hearts had already been conquered by his strength.

Su Mo appeared beside Song Meilin.

"Everyone."

He addressed the surrounding cultivators.

"The war is over."

"The King of Pishachas is dead."

"From now on, there won’t be any more Pishachas appearing in the Frostspine Mountains."

He paused.

"You have won."

For a moment, the battlefield was silent.

Then—

"We won!"

"We survived!"

"Hahaha!"

Cheers erupted throughout the area.

The cultivators who had been fighting for their lives moments ago finally released the tension they had been carrying.

Su Mo looked toward Song Meilin.

"Sister Song, have everyone return to the sect."

"There are many things you need to handle."

Song Meilin nodded.

Before she could ask him anything else... Su Mo had disappeared.

She shook her head helplessly before turning toward the sect members and arranging for everyone to return to the Sect.

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