Chapter 464 - 462: Dead End

Chapter 464: Chapter 462: Dead End

A whole forest of corpses, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. They were packed so densely you couldn’t see where they ended!

Without being there in person,

it was simply impossible to imagine the cruelty of it all!

Everyone present, including Shen Changchuan, fell silent.

Admittedly,

even they, followers of the Righteous Dao, couldn’t avoid slaughter in their struggles for Cultivation Resources along the Path of Immortal Cultivation.

Although they called themselves the Righteous Dao,

their actions and dispositions were not always truly righteous.

The Immortal Cultivation Realm had never been short on all kinds of schemes and sordid dealings.

But at least,

they weren’t like Demon Cultivators,

committing massacres and using vast numbers of people as cultivation fodder!

The villains of the Demon Dao,

were to be hunted down and killed by all.

This was no empty saying!

The Demon Dao was called the Demon Dao not because they were some losers in a power struggle,

slandered in history books written by the victors.

It was because every single person who practiced a Demon Secret Technique had hands dripping with blood!

The vast majority of Demon Secret Techniques were not only utterly cruel but also anti-human. Almost all of them used humans as fodder, and could only be successfully cultivated by piling up human lives!

In fact, the more people one killed, the better the "materials" one accumulated, and the greater one’s power became!

And for this very reason,

though the Nanyue Kingdom was no smaller in area than the Tian Nan Domain’s Immortal Cultivation Realm,

its population and the number of low-to-mid-level Cultivators were far, far smaller!

The reason was simple:

the "surplus" population had almost all been reduced to Cultivation Resources for those great Demons.

The corpse forest before their eyes,

was clear proof of this!

"These corpse trees... they seem to have the aura of Gu Insects on them."

"Could it be? Is this corpse forest related to the Flying Heaven-Splitting Spirit Ants?"

"If that’s the case, I’m afraid that thing won’t be easy to get!"

"Indeed. If it were just a simple Gu Technique, it wouldn’t matter. But if these Flying Heaven-Splitting Spirit Ants need to be nurtured with human bodies, then it falls completely into the category of a Demon Secret Technique..."

In any case,

the Yuqing Immortal Sect was, after all, part of the Righteous Dao.

Within its sphere of influence, Demon Secret Techniques were to be suppressed.

And what was a Demon Secret Technique?

It was a Secret Technique that used humans as Cultivation Resources and required the commission of large-scale, bloody atrocities to be successfully practiced!

High in the air,

Shen Changchuan said nothing.

He silently performed the hand seals for a Technique.

BOOM!!!

Between heaven and earth,

immense Spiritual Qi gathered at this moment.

The powerful fluctuation of Magical Power drew everyone’s attention. They stopped their conversations and turned to look.

Shen Changchuan remained silent,

merely performing the hand seals, mobilizing the boundless power within his body, and drawing upon the Magical Power of the world before pointing a finger down toward the corpse forest.

"Go!"

Thousand Shadows Cyan Mist Sword Rain Technique!

In that instant,

the winds and clouds surged between heaven and earth.

Countless longswords materialized in the void around him,

filling the sky,

forming a Sword Domain that stretched for thousands of feet in every direction!

Then,

SWISH SWISH SWISH!!!

Streaks of cyan Sword Shadows

fell from the sky like a torrential downpour, blanketing the corpse forest below!

While still in mid-air, the Sword Shadows split—one into two, two into four, four into eight...

In the blink of an eye,

the entire world was covered by these endless Sword Shadows!

The terrifying sight

made everyone around them gulp, a look of shocked terror appearing on their faces.

It was no wonder they reacted this way.

As cultivators at the Soul Emergence Realm, they could clearly perceive that

of the Sword Shadows that filled the sky,

every single beam of sword light possessed the might of the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer!

And under such a dense, terrifying, and seemingly endless rain of swords,

they feared even a Cultivator at the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer would find it hard to endure!

"Is this another Tier Two Top Level Skill?!"

Someone who seemed to recognize it

couldn’t help but gasp in shock.

Just five days ago, in that major battle, Shen Changchuan had used a Tier Two Top Level Sword Dao Technique to turn the tables and kill the Mu Lan Brothers, ultimately deciding the outcome of the entire conflict!

And now he’d revealed another?

Just how many Tier Two Top Level Skills did this man have at his disposal!

Weren’t Skills of that level supposed to be incredibly difficult to cultivate? Weren’t they hard to master even for a Cultivator at the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer?

How could he just casually pull out another one?!

For a moment,

everyone present was overcome with a sense of awe and terror!

He was truly worthy of being called the peerless Demon of the Tian Nan Domain, a talent seen only once in a thousand years.

Truly astonishing!

Shen Changchuan was unaware of the thoughts racing through the minds of those around him.

Under his direction,

the endless sword rain swept over the entire corpse forest like a torrent.

The living corpses that were fused with the trees,

under the assault of the countless beams of sword light,

were turned to ash and smoke along with the eerie trees.

’Rest in peace now. Don’t worry, your enemies will likely be joining you soon enough.’

Shen Changchuan thought to himself.

With his Divine Soul Perception, how could he not know that the Living Corpses fused with the eerie trees had once been living people?

Because of those eerie trees,

their physical bodies had not perished.

But their consciousness,

had been completely ground down and shattered by endless torture.

Hundreds of thousands of people had died by such cruel means.

This made even Shen Changchuan, who didn’t consider himself some champion of justice,

feel a surge of killing intent toward the entire Li Family.

"Let’s go. Don’t let the Li family escape."

As he spoke,

Shen Changchuan’s figure floated toward the largest palace in Heaven’s End Valley.

...

The advance from every direction

was unstoppable, meeting almost no resistance.

And so,

before long,

the various forces that had split up to attack from all sides converged at the main hall in the center of Heaven’s End Valley.

Behind them,

Cultivators at the Qi Introduction Realm were also flooding in through the breaches.

Without a doubt,

at this very moment,

the Li Family of Heaven’s End Valley was at a dead end, with basically no chance of making a comeback.

But one thing was suspicious,

and it made them cautious.

As they had fought their way into Heaven’s End Valley, none of them—not Shen Changchuan, Jian Wuheng, nor Gu Xuanqing—had encountered much resistance.

They hadn’t encountered any desperate, last-ditch fighting.

Moreover, none of the Li Family’s core figures at the Soul Emergence Level had shown their faces.

With the outskirts of Heaven’s End Valley completely surrounded,

they had to consider

whether the Li Family was preparing some ultimate move, waiting for them to lower their guard and relax their Heart Spirits before striking a vicious blow.

This forced even Shen Changchuan to be extremely cautious as he advanced.

Fortunately, however,

these worries vanished when they arrived at the main hall inside Heaven’s End Valley.

At this moment,

inside the great hall,

bodies were strewn everywhere.

Deep red blood was splattered on the floor and walls.

And the bodies lying on the ground

were undoubtedly the high-ranking clansmen of the Li Family from the Soul Emergence Realm!

But strangely,

the corpses of these Li Family Members were all withered and desiccated, as if all their Essence Qi had been sucked dry, leaving them like mummies.

"What... What happened here?!"