"Big brother." Second Brother steadied himself before speaking. "That Yu Lin is also in that group. I saw that he seemed to want to pass some kind of message to us, but he never found the opportunity."
Yu Lin.
The three brothers stared at Yu Lin in the water screen.
He clearly looked extremely anxious, his fingers making slight movements.
This was… telling them to leave as quickly as possible?
The black-faced man frowned.
Now that the Sacred Flower had already taken root so deeply in Luo Hua Mountain, how could they leave?
Even if they were holy land disciples, they could only fight it out!
"These people are gathered together, it'll be hard to make a move. It's best to break them up one by one," the black-faced man said coldly. "Separate them first."
"They're about to reach the range of the array flags. Once they enter, I'll immediately activate the trapping array. At that time, they'll be scattered one by one. We'll first join forces to eliminate the holy land disciples, then everyone else will naturally be nothing to fear. The ones staying with Yu Lin should be people from Yuehua Sect. Holy land disciples have always disdained cooperating with others, these Yuehua Sect people are probably just guides they brought along. Yuehua Sect cultivators aren't very strong. Third Brother, I'll leave them to you. Second Brother and I will deal with those holy land disciples first."
"Yes." Third Brother let out a long sigh of relief. Facing holy land disciples still put tremendous psychological pressure on him!
"Let's go. Everyone will move separately," the black-faced man said, a cold light flashing in his eyes.
He didn't want to face disciples from major sects either. At this point, they were being forced to.
As long as they wiped these people out and offered their flesh and blood to the Sacred Flower, the Sacred Flower should be able to mature completely. Then they would immediately take the Sacred Flower and leave. Once they joined Blood Dao Sect, there would be no need to fear them anymore.
So what if they were the four great holy lands?
In today's world, wasn't it still the Demon Clan that ran rampant, with evil cultivators running wild?
They merely wanted to pursue greater power.
The group continued upward.
Just as they were about to reach the mountaintop, walls of stone suddenly rose before them, splitting them apart into groups of two or three.
Yun Jin, Yu Songnian, and Jin Yu were grouped together.
The others were also split up in pairs or trios, completely separated by stone walls.
A harsh voice rang out in the air, "Since you sought death yourselves, don't blame us for being ruthless. I've long wanted to test holy land disciples."
The black-faced man deliberately isolated Duan Yiwei alone.
Locking onto Duan Yiwei's position, he hurled a golden wheel from his palm, sending it straight toward Duan Yiwei.
The black-faced man told himself.
This is a disciple of Qingxiao Pavilion, but he's only at Soul Transformation Stage, while he himself is already at Fusion Stage, even just one step away from Tribulation Crossing Stage.
Even if he is a holy land disciple, with such a vast cultivation gap, there's no way he could be his opponent.
Duan Yiwei merely let out a cold laugh.
If this was a normal peak Fusion Stage cultivator, he would still be wary.
Unfortunately.
This person's spiritual power was unstable, clearly forcefully elevated through external means.
Such a Fusion Stage was nothing more than a pseudo-Fusion Stage.
"Sure enough, evil cultivators," Duan Yiwei said, suddenly extending his fingers and directly clamping onto the golden wheel.
The black-faced man's heart leapt with joy.
This is his natal artifact, into which he had poured all his spiritual power and refined for several hundred years.
For this man to be so arrogant, he's simply courting death!
The black-faced man was already eagerly waiting for the scene of the golden wheel slicing off Duan Yiwei's head.
Yet the next instant.
The golden wheel was actually firmly caught by Duan Yiwei.
In that moment, his fingers gleamed with silver light, becoming incomparably hard.
The golden wheel couldn't move at all.
The black-faced man's expression slightly changed.
How is this possible?
He is an entire major realm higher, and had attacked with full force, yet it was blocked so casually?
"Here, take it back," Duan Yiwei raised an eyebrow and casually tossed the golden wheel back.
The black-faced man instinctively tried to retrieve the golden wheel.
But in that instant, the golden wheel seemed to completely lose control. Not only did it refuse to obey him, it instead erupted with its most ferocious attack directed straight at him.
Caught completely off guard, the golden wheel directly sliced off the black-faced man's head.
The man's Nascent Soul burst out from the crown of his head, instinctively trying to flee into the distance.
But it was already too late. The fully out-of-control golden wheel crushed straight down onto his Nascent Soul. The black-faced man's soul scattered, utterly annihilated.
Yun Jin narrowed her eyes as she watched the scene in the sky.
So this is a holy land disciple.
No wonder they dared to say that outside the holy lands, all were ants.
This level of combat power was on an entirely different tier from ordinary cultivators.
Jin Yu raised an eyebrow and said calmly, "This man cultivated a wicked technique. His spiritual power was artificially boosted and highly unstable, which is why Duan Yiwei was able to kill him in a single strike. If this was a genuinely cultivated Fusion Stage cultivator, even if he could defeat him, it wouldn't have been so effortless."
Yun Jin nodded, her smile sweet and cute, "In any case, Senior Brother Jin is definitely far stronger than him."
Jin Yu smiled faintly, thinking that this little junior sister really did have a pleasant way of speaking.
"Big brother!"
In the sky, seeing the black-faced man fall, the remaining two roared and were about to attack.
Jin Yu let out a cold laugh. The sword in his hand suddenly soared into the air.
Golden light flashed. In an instant, the remaining two were reduced to nothing but bones.
Their two Nascent Souls drifted out in a daze.
They looked at these people in terror.
Holy land disciples, were they truly this terrifying?
Even when they were an entire major realm lower, they could still crush them so easily?
"Senior Brother Jin, leave their Nascent Souls for now. We still have questions to ask later," Yun Jin quickly said.
Jin Yu nodded, took out a porcelain bottle, and collected the two Nascent Souls inside.
The next moment.
Everyone stopped concealing their cultivation.
Wave after wave of terrifying auras surged forth.
Inside the jade bottle, the two Nascent Souls trembled violently.
No.
What's going on here?
Just moments ago, they could only sense Soul Transformation Stage auras.
All of a sudden.
Fusion Stage, Tribulation Crossing Stage, Mahayana Stage auras all burst out in a cluster!
The two screamed inwardly.
What were they trying to do?!
This lineup was enough to wipe out an entire branch of evil cultivators, yet it was used just to deal with them?
Wasn't this a bit like using an ox-cleaver to kill a chicken?
Before their despairing eyes.
The experts from Yuehua Sect unleashed spell after spell. Before long, all the arrangements on Luo Hua Mountain were completely destroyed.
Then.
Following the lingering aura, they found the hidden cave.
They went all the way to the innermost depths, only to discover that it was a world unto itself.
The innermost part of the cave was far more spacious than the outside.
A gigantic flower stood there.
Its stem was thick and sturdy, thicker than the combined waists of four or five adults.
Its height stretched all the way to the cave ceiling, more than ten meters tall.
What the flower was rooted in was not soil, but a blood-colored lake.
Within the lake, multiple corpses floated and sank. Some were reduced to bare bones, some had only half their flesh remaining, some were nothing but a head, an utterly shocking and horrifying sight.