That sword qi pierced into the thunder cloud like a giant beast tearing it apart.
To the people of Thousand Spirit City, it felt like a thunderbolt to the soul.
"One sword… destroys pill lightning?!"
All eyes were fixed on that single, shocking slash.
Even some cultivators gained insight from witnessing it.
Xu Yaozi was stunned.
"That's… insane…"
He forced himself not to kneel on the spot.
At least the pill was preserved.
Above the sky, Zhang Tianran's expression changed.
Even they hadn't dared charge into pill lightning with so many people.
They had slowed deliberately—
And yet in a blink, the tribulation cloud was destroyed.
"Could that be Lin Ye's sword qi?" Zhang Tianran muttered.
Survivors had described the same sword qi used to kill Zhu Jianxu and others.
But Zhang Tianran was the Myriad Symbols Hall master.
He wouldn't be scared by strength alone.
"No pill lightning? Even better."
"Surround Five Spirit Manor."
With one order, more than ten Moon Wheel experts moved first, sealing the area with mystic energy.
Boom!
An invisible wall rose—blocking all entry and exit.
Xia Wei's face paled.
"What are these people?"
The Blacksteel Panther roared and charged the wall.
Even at Fifth Rank, it couldn't shake Moon Wheel mystic energy.
It was bounced back violently.
Xu Yaozi sighed, shaking his head.
"Plum Blossom Sword Sect…"
"I don't know the details either. But they are a dominant power—there's nothing I can do."
If it were a different sect, Xu Yaozi might have enough influence to speak.
But before the Plum Blossom Sword Sect, the Hundred Spirit Medicine Sect counted for little.
Their entire sect could barely gather three or four Moon Wheel experts.
Sending them here would be feeding meat to a tiger.
Xu Yaozi felt bitter hatred.
Damn it—why couldn't they arrive later?
Just a little later, and he might have already obtained that Seventh-Rank pill.
In his heart, he now hated the Plum Blossom Sword Sect.
Lin Ye… might be finished.
Fang Yiyi's mind was a mess.
Moments ago, she was still in shock that Lin Ye could refine Seventh-Rank pills.
Now, over forty Moon Wheel experts had arrived and sealed the manor.
Nobody could get in.
Nobody could get out.
She could only pray Lin Ye survived.
But that hope was almost nonexistent.
Inside Five Spirit Manor—
Lin Ye's lips curved slightly.
"Sun Palace Pill."
"Seventh-Rank pill."
Two crimson pills landed in his palm.
At first, he worried the pill's rank might be too high and somehow negate the cauldron's doubling effect.
Fortunately, the cauldron remained reliable.
Lin Ye stored the two Seventh-Rank low-grade Sun Palace Pills, then looked up.
Over forty figures formed a formation in the sky.
At the center stood one man with a cold, judging gaze—like he ruled life and death.
Zhang Tianran lowered his chin slightly.
"Lin Ye."
"Do you admit your guilt?"
His voice rolled down like world-shaking thunder.
The sound itself became pressure, crushing toward Lin Ye.
But such tricks meant nothing to Lin Ye.
Bang!
All pressure vanished within fifty meters of him—shattered effortlessly.
Their so-called terrifying aura couldn't even touch him.
"Too much nonsense," Lin Ye said, shaking his head.
He invoked the Moon Wheel power within his qi sea.
Boom!
His aura erupted like a colossal star crashing into a quiet sea, detonating an enormous storm.
It surged straight toward the people above.
Zhang Tianran sneered.
"Overestimating yourself."
"An ant trying to shake a tree!"
"Kill him!"
He had originally wanted to keep Lin Ye alive—force him to refine pills for the Plum Blossom Sword Sect.
Pill lightning meant Lin Ye's pill quality was exceptional.
Such talent was worth exploiting.
He had planned to offer Lin Ye a chance:
Reveal the mastermind behind the slaughter, and he could live.
Zhang Tianran wanted to know which force dared strike the Plum Blossom Sword Sect.
But Lin Ye didn't value that chance.
So Zhang Tianran chose annihilation.
Kill everyone connected to Lin Ye.
Then the mastermind would be forced out.
Forty-two Myriad Symbols Hall experts—excluding Zhang Tianran—combined their mystic energy into one overwhelming seal.
A sky-covering giant imprint slammed downward.
Boom!
Five Spirit Manor was smashed into rubble.
From Zhang Tianran's view, it looked complete.
He sneered.
"Pathetic."
Then—
A blood explosion sounded among the formation.
Bang!
A familiar Myriad Symbols Hall expert was blown into flesh and gore.
Zhang Tianran's heart jolted.
"What?!"
Lin Ye had survived.
And he had counterattacked.
Then Lin Ye, holding the Calamity Ghost Sword, rushed into their ranks like a lion entering a flock of sheep.
He circulated the Fourth Layer of the Nine Revolutions Asura Art.
Three Moon Wheel Second Layer experts near him felt their blood and qi suddenly dragged and disrupted.
In that instant, Lin Ye's sword flashed.
Three heads flew.
Their mystic armor was like paper before him.
Then a storm of sword qi locked onto Lin Ye.
Asura Blood Armor.
Bang!
All sword qi shattered on impact.
"Blood Slaughter Nine Executions!"
"Eight Desolations Blood-Butchering Force!"
Blood-colored sword qi ravaged the air like giant palms striking from every direction.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Many weaker experts were erased without even screaming.
Anyone struck by Calamity Ghost Sword qi was torn apart like countless demons ripping them to shreds.
And the sword qi only grew stronger as it drank blood.
In that first burst of slaughter, Lin Ye had already killed over ten.
The survivors finally reacted.
"Set a trapping formation! Don't duel him alone!" Zhang Tianran roared, charging forward.
With his Moon Wheel Seventh Layer strength, he could suppress Lin Ye—
But Lin Ye refused to meet him head-on, weaving through the battlefield with ghostlike movement, hunting the weaker first.
Zhang Tianran nearly exploded with rage.
"Fight me face-to-face!"
Instead, Lin Ye broke through four defenders, pierced two with one thrust, then kicked a man who tried to self-detonate.
The self-detonating elder flew into his own allies.
Boom!
A Moon Wheel explosion shook the sky.
Lin Ye stood inside Asura Blood Armor, unhurt.