"Master!" Jiang Rongyi's eyes were red, and he rushed over like a madman.
"Sect Leader!" The Sword Sect disciples were stunned by the sudden turn of events.
Lin Qingling had just killed the dying Sect Master of the Liuyue Sect. Turning around, she saw Meng Yifei's body slowly falling, and her pupils contracted sharply.
Meng Yifei???
A man who constantly spoke of checks and balances, and of interests, was now standing in front of Li Shuang.
Was what he did in line with his interests?
Li Shuang's expression was a little dazed.
Lin Qingling couldn't understand, and neither could she.
"Sect Leader..." Li Shuang's lips trembled, and she was speechless for a long time.
Meng Yifei coughed softly, then suddenly smiled: "What, touched?"
Li Shuang's eyes were red, and she blindly injected spiritual power into Meng Yifei's body, wanting him to hold on a little longer.
But they all knew.
All of this was in vain.
Meng Yifei smiled and said, "You don't have to thank me. I said, the interests of the sect are paramount. For the Sword Sect, you are more important than me."
The way of checks and balances, if it only checks and balances others, what kind of true way is it?
He himself was also in it.
Li Shuang was more important than him, so exchanging his life for Li Shuang's was well worth it.
The interests of the Sword Sect are always paramount.
Li Shuang shook her head, just continuing to inject spiritual power. However, Meng Yifei's life force was still rapidly draining away.
Even if everyone rushed over and desperately injected spiritual energy into him, it was already impossible to sustain him.
Meng Yifei smiled: "Li Shuang, actually, I am not selfless, but I have done the most selfish thing in the world."
Li Shuang just shook her head.
Meng Yifei coughed twice and looked at his most proud disciple: "Disciple, although the path is the same, everyone has their own unique understanding. Your path is similar to mine, but also different from mine. Follow your own will and go forward."
Jiang Rongyi nodded with tears in his eyes.
Meng Yifei's gaze searched through the crowd, then found Lin Qingling. He used his last strength to take out the sect leader token from his懷, and threw it to Lin Qingling: "The next sect leader of the Sword Sect, Lin Qingling."
Lin Qingling subconsciously caught the token, her expression still a little dazed.
"Don't be lazy anymore," Meng Yifei sighed.
Then.
His aura completely disappeared.
Meng Yifei, the sect leader of the Sword Sect.
Fallen.
Li Shuang knelt there, motionless for a long time.
Lin Qingling gently patted her shoulder, a hint of complexity flashing in her eyes.
Meng Yifei said that his action was not selfless, but selfish.
Li Shuang understood this sentence, and he also understood it.
The events of those ten years had already passed in Li Shuang's heart, and she had never resented anyone else.
But.
For Meng Yifei, it had never passed.
He was always worried that Li Shuang would not have a sense of belonging to the Sword Sect, and that she would become alienated from the sect because of the grievances she suffered in those ten years.
So.
He used this method, the most selfless and most selfish.
He used his life to gamble on the future of the Sword Sect.
The interests of the sect are paramount...
Indeed, the interests of the sect are paramount...
Meng Yifei calculated everything so well.
Lin Qingling wanted to scold him, but for some reason, her eyes turned red.
She had scolded Meng Yifei many times.
Scolding him for only enduring, scolding him for still smiling cheerfully even when he was bullied.
But now.
Meng Yifei gave her the sect leader token.
Even though she hadn't officially taken over the position, this heavy sense of responsibility was slowly surfacing.
To be a sect leader.
From now on, one cannot act recklessly, nor can one laugh and scold.
Personal honor and disgrace are no longer important.
Everything... for the sect?
Lin Qingling was not sure if she could become such a sect leader.
But...
She looked at Meng Yifei, who had peacefully closed his eyes, and slowly dried the tears from the corners of her eyes.
She had to try.
With Yan Zhonghe's death, the remaining demonic cultivators were no longer a threat.
All the traitors who had succumbed to evil were executed.
Some disciples of the Tyrannical Sect had become corrupted, while others were merely puppets of demonic entities, harmed by cultivation techniques.
Therefore, some disciples of the Tyrannical Sect were killed, while others were temporarily detained for further investigation.
Three days later.
Cangyuan Sect.
The originally shattered plaza had been mostly repaired. Laughter filled the plaza again, and everything seemed to be back on track.
Except that the sect competition could not proceed due to this upheaval.
Everything else seemed unchanged.
These three days.
Li Shuang entered the Myriad Law Eye once and informed Yujin of the situation here.
With the super-class demonic entity eliminated, Yujin also breathed a sigh of relief.
The Tribulation Transcenders of the Southern Azure Continent were almost all wiped out in this battle.
Yujin, to commend their sacrifice, also issued many resource rewards, which Li Shuang brought back.
With these resources, in another hundred years, the Southern Azure Continent should fully recover.
In addition.
Yujin also invited cultivators from the Southern Azure Continent to come to the Central Continent as soon as possible.
Because of their contributions in this battle, she had already arranged sect strongholds for the cultivators of the Southern Azure Continent in the Central Continent. They could settle down at any time after arriving.
However.
Yujin said that she could not replenish Li Shuang's Thunder Marrow for the time being.
One Thunder Marrow was one Thunder Lightning Avatar, and she still needed time to refine the avatar.
Yujin was not obligated to provide her with Thunder Marrow forever, so Li Shuang naturally had no objections.
After leaving Myriad Law City, she distributed the resources rewarded by Yujin to each sect.
The generosity of these rewards astonished the various sects.
However.
Considering that they had eliminated a super-class demonic entity, these rewards were quite normal.
After Elder Linghua's demise, the construction of the cross-continental teleportation array, which was being built by her puppet, was temporarily halted.
This time.
All the demonic spies had been eliminated, and the cultivation world of the Southern Azure Continent was at its most united.
The Sword Sect naturally had no more reservations and proactively shared this array.
All the sects worked together to build layers of formations around this cross-continental teleportation array, turning the entire Sword Sect into an impenetrable fortress.
At this moment.
In front of the cross-continental teleportation array, powerhouses from various sects gathered.
Yun Qingyu said with some emotion: "I never thought that in my lifetime, I would have the opportunity to go to the Central Continent."
She couldn't help but look at Li Shuang.
If it weren't for Li Shuang, the Southern Azure Continent would probably have been swallowed by demonic entities, and it would have been impossible to build a cross-continental teleportation array.
With such a disciple.
The Sword Sect will become the backbone of all sects in the Southern Azure Continent in the future.
The leading position of the Cangyuan Sect... will have to be relinquished.
Yun Qingyu accepted this calmly.
With the Tribulation Transcenders falling one after another, the most important task for the various sects now was to recuperate.
After going to the Central Continent, there would be a long time before they could return, so the various sects had to prepare first.