Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 706: Chapter 449: March

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Time passed swiftly, in the blink of an eye, three months had gone by.

Three months later, at the Longhai Security Bureau, in the director’s office.

Nie Hailong looked at the computer, tapping his fingers on the desk, his thoughts in disarray.

“Demon Dragon Ridge!”

“Blood Cloud Cave!”

“Wuji Sect!”

“Mysterious Desire Mountain!”

“Heaven ExtinguishingPeak!”

“In three months, five sects have been annihilated.”

“White Jade Capital, Li Xuanyuan!”

“Temple of War God, Martial Frenzied Rascal!”

“Mingxiao Taoist Temple…”

“Zhou Family, Liu Family, Bai Family…”

His murmured words were followed by increasingly furrowed brows and eyes filled with inextricable worry.

Three months earlier, after the annihilation of Demon Dragon Ridge, those people didn’t stop; like the overflowing Yellow River, uncontrollable, they successively destroyed Blood Cloud Cave, Wuji Sect, Mysterious Desire Mountain, and Heaven ExtinguishingPeak.

That is to say, in a mere three months, they had wiped out five major Demonic Blessed Lands, and with ruthless methods, they slaughtered all the high-tier cultivators of the five sects in the tribulation, with only a few low-tier disciples lucky enough to escape.

The calamity bore heavenly will as well as human intent; those not perishing in the thunder perished at the sword.

That white-robed swordsman also made his appearance, revealing his identity.

White Jade Capital—Li Xuanyuan!

What is White Jade Capital?

And who exactly is Li Xuanyuan?

No one knows.

All that is known is in these three months, he single-handedly pushed forward, obliterated the five major Demonic Blessed Lands, over a dozen Deity Transformations, nearly a hundred Nascent Souls, and many more Golden Cores, with numerous Demon Path cultivators falling to his sword.

Not a single match for him!

Not a single sword able to withstand!

Slaughtering Deity Transformations as if butchering dogs, Nascent Souls and Golden Cores were like mere weeds!

His sword showed no return, ruthlessly extreme, and many Demon Sect cultivators who knelt and begged for mercy after luckily surviving the tribulation were still slain by his sword, even the pitiable female cultivators of Mysterious Desire Mountain were not spared a single life.

Ruthless and relentless, he would not rest until they were dead!

Such methods, such might, made everyone feel threatened.

The situation became increasingly chaotic, the crisis escalated, and parties on all sides faced immense pressure.

If things continued this way, how could the situation be controlled, how could it be managed?

Nie Hailong did not know, and it was precisely because he did not know that he felt such distress.

Just then…

“Director!”

A knock on the door interrupted his train of thought.

Nie Hailong’s brows furrowed as he looked up, “Come in!”

As the words had hardly fallen, the door was pushed open and two people came in side by side.

The two people, one was the assistant secretary holding files, the other was…

“Ning Qing?”

Nie Hailong’s brows furrowed, looking at the newly promoted deputy director Ning Qing, then turned his gaze to his assistant, “What’s the matter?”

“The headquarters has sent orders, requesting us to dispatch personnel to support other sub-bureaus. Besides that, they have also requested an increase in pill allocations…”

After the assistant’s explanations, Nie Hailong’s frown deepened.

These requests, seemingly routine, actually concealed ulterior motives and represented the attitude of various parties.

A cornered rabbit will still bite, what more the ancient sects of the blessed lands?

In three months, annihilating five sects without leaving any path of survival, everyone who survived the Heavenly Tribulation, who knelt and begged, was slain by the sword; such ruthless methods had exceeded mere intimidation and pushed all the major blessed lands into a corner, prompting various forms of retaliation.

Most especially those of the Demonic Blessed Lands, they bore the greatest pressure and their actions were the most vehement.

But how to retaliate?

To slay Li Xuanyuan?

Clearly impractical; if they had the capability, they would not be cornered.

Forget Li Xuanyuan, even the other two were difficult to deal with.

Facing them head-on was not an option, so they could only engage in indirect actions, engage in underhanded tactics.

Thus, the pressure came down on him, landing on the shoulders of a minor character like him.

The outer disciples of those Demonic Blessed Lands, using the power at their hands to perform various actions, even binding the public, coerced the Federation, with an attitude of mutual destruction, in an attempt to force the trio into concessions and compromises.

But how could the trio compromise?

The trio divided the work among themselves, Li Xuanyu and Shi Jian continued to destroy temples and sects, while Martial Frenzied Rascal dealt with the subtle and overt schemes of various forces.

And the method of dealing with it was simple and crude—kill whoever caused trouble!

Thus, several great families and powers were annihilated, and the Federation too faced a shock, with a large turnover of high-ranking personnel.

Truly ruthless!

If it were an ordinary family, they would have been scared off long ago, but these were not ordinary families; they were the outer disciples of the ancient Demonic Sects, completely controlled by their sects, and such slaughter could not make them submit, but rather, they retaliated more fiercely, continuing to coerce and bind, adopting an attitude of mutual destruction.

How to coerce, how to bind?

There were ways!

Manipulating prices, coercing people’s livelihoods, and even allowing Heretic God Sects to run amok, igniting warfare everywhere…

This proved the old saying right—a Son of Heaven governs the world with his officials: you have wise stratagems, I have the means to scale walls. These great families and local tyrants had too many methods, making the situation chaotic.

You won’t make concessions?

Then don’t concede, let’s all turn the tables together, see who can withstand it?

You three can’t kill the entire world, can you?

Under the tit-for-tat, overt and covert retaliation from both sides, an already difficult situation worsened further, and some areas even saw a collapse of order, causing extremely severe damage.

This was coercion, this was binding!

Although Martial Frenzied Rascal was ruthless, killing countless, he still couldn’t control such a situation.

With such progression, the collapse of the Federal government, a ramshackle troupe, was just a matter of time.

Once the Federation collapsed and each territory became its own ruler, the situation would certainly become even more decayed, and those Heretic God Sects would surely grow stronger amidst the chaos.

Chaos, chaos, chaos!

This was the retaliation of those Demonic Blessed Lands.

While the Demonic Path made such moves, other blessed lands and ancient sects also didn’t step forward to stop them.

After all, everyone was feeling threatened; the actions of the trio were indeed outrageous, and they had to bear the backlash of the entire world.

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