This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable-Chapter 691 - 23: Secret of That Year_2
If he remembered correctly, after the exposure of his identity, the Chang Geng Sect Leader was escorted to the Rinsing Spirit Sect by the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master.
Later, he also asked his master about how the Rinsing Spirit Sect handled the aftermath.
The news he received was that on the day the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master escorted the Chang Geng Sect Leader to the Rinsing Spirit Sect, the sect did not hide their dirty laundry, but instead chose to mercilessly sever ties.
In front of most of the high-level cultivators and thousands of Inner Gate disciples within the sect, they executed a public execution and personally executed the Chang Geng Sect Leader.
The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master personally witnessed the execution.
Under the watchful eyes of this spiritually cultivated cultivator whose cultivation reached the skies, there was no possibility of any covert manipulations.
It could be said that at that time, the Chang Geng Sect Leader was as dead as one could possibly be.
So how could it be that three years later, the matter of the Chang Geng Sect Leader could still turn over a new chapter?
"Not all cultivators who have colluded with the Underworld are from the Underworld," seeing Lu Qingshan’s confusion, Ximen Lie patiently explained, "There are also cultivators who merely have a collaborative relationship with the Underworld.
They divulge some ’minor’ information they consider to be of little impact or help the Underworld in some ’minor’ matters to exchange for substantial benefits."
As he spoke, Ximen Lie’s voice became increasingly serious and solemn, "The Chang Geng Sect Leader was one such person, he was not an Underworld Cultivator and had no direct subordinate relationship with them.
However, he did reveal a lot of information to the Underworld and did many things for them, in exchange for numerous resources, which then allowed his cultivation to advance continuously, and ultimately he even became one of the top three leaders of our sect.
According to him, he was merely in what’s called a cooperative relationship with the Underworld.
But in our eyes, his actions were even more detestable than those of Underworld Cultivators."
"Because at least Underworld Cultivators are thoroughly bad and know they are not good.
But people like Chang Geng Sect Leader are playing both sides, deceiving themselves on the surface that they are still Human Cultivators, yet the harm they do to the Human Race behind the scenes is far greater than the former kind of people."
Speaking of the sect’s tragedy, this senior from the Rinsing Spirit Sect seemed not at all apprehensive, appearing very open and even freely criticizing the former Sect Leader.
This made Lu Qingshan respect the Rinsing Spirit Sect even more — making mistakes isn’t scary, what’s scary is the lack of courage to face one’s errors and instead choose self-deception, pretending not to hear and see.
Since they had the courage to face their mistakes, they were able to learn from these experiences, and after the pain, they became even stronger.
This is perhaps one of the reasons why the Rinsing Spirit Sect has grown increasingly powerful over the past twenty thousand years.
"At that time, to purify our sect’s atmosphere and set an example, we chose to execute him on the spot to demonstrate our sect’s zero tolerance towards collusions with the Demon Race."
Ximen Lie continued: "Afterward, the matter was not yet concluded, because those who acted must have left some traces.
Therefore, we thoroughly reconsidered the life of Chang Geng Sect Leader, examining the slightest clues.
Upon reviewing, we discovered that Chang Geng Sect Leader had been sent to Anping Prefecture in Han State due to a sect assignment and then after returning to the sect, he started his sudden rise.
Clearly, there was trickery involved.
We then followed this lead, sent people out with the task he had undertaken as a clue, and tracked all the way in Anping Prefecture, eventually discovering the location of this Underworld Sub Temple."
"Of course, this Underworld Sub Temple is only the first that Chang Geng Sect Leader got in touch with.
After this, he certainly got in touch with the real high-ranks of the Underworld.
After all, to elevate him to the level of Sect Leader of our sect, a mere district-level Underworld Sub Temple was not capable of doing that.
Regrettably, the clues afterwards became tangled and unclear, leaving us at a loss on how to proceed.
Our Rinsing Spirit Sect, although never giving up the pursuit, also knew quite well that we are not likely to find anything in the short term.
Lately, we have been contemplating changing our approach, to see if we could use this Underworld Sub Temple as a breakthrough..."
So that’s how it is...
After understanding the specifics, Lu Qingshan couldn’t help but fall into contemplation.
It seems that it was the discovery of Asura in Debate Dao City by the Great Rat King which led to the exposure of Chang Geng Sect Leader and the subsequent chain of events.
In this way, in terms of the conflict between humans and demons, the trend of the plot is more like a snowball — one good event triggers another, gradually growing, rather than what he had been concerned about — an inexistent good event causing another non-existent bad event.
This undoubtedly gave him a bit more confidence.
.......
On this side, the encirclement by the cultivators of the Tower of Knowledge had been silently and completely set up.
"Action!" After confirming without a doubt, the lead cultivator of this mission uttered in a low voice.
The next instant, spiritual light blossomed, centered on the Snow Peak of the Netherworld. A ripple-like spiritual light transformed into a barrier, like an inverted jade bowl, enveloping the entire Snow Peak within it and forming a sealed off space.
This was an Air Ban Barrier, its purpose was to isolate the spatial teleportation nodes within the barrier.
This barrier was specifically aimed at teleportation arrays because only the power of spatial teleportation through arrays was based on nodes.
— This Snow Peak had always been uninhabited; if people frequently moved in and out, it would have been extremely easy to be exposed, so there must have been an existing teleportation array within this branch of the Netherworld, for their use.
This was the judgment of the Tower of Knowledge.
Immediately after, a layer of dark black light screen almost appeared simultaneously with the Air Ban Barrier, covering the previous layer, stacking over one another.
Three cultivators from the Tower of Knowledge were sitting within it, maintaining the existence of this dark black light screen.
Night Control Barrier, a wide-range group suppression barrier.
As soon as the two barriers were formed, the other cultivators from the Tower of Knowledge, including Lu Qingshan, all rushed into the barriers.
They were prepared to work with the suppressing power of the barriers to search for and eradicate the Underworld cultivators hidden within the belly of Snow Peak.
In just a few moments,
The sounds of explosions started to occur incessantly as figures of Underworld cultivators burst out from within the mountain, looking at Lu Qingshan and the others who suddenly launched the attack, utterly astonished.
The cultivators from the Tower of Knowledge didn’t give the Underworld cultivators too much chance to react, they charged with bitter killing intent towards the group caught off guard.
The situation was overwhelmingly one-sided.
Just a few dozen moments later, the Underworld cultivators had already suffered more than thirty percent casualties.
Rumbling rumble rumble!
Just then, a terrifying sound of earthquakes and mountains shaking suddenly came.
Lu Qingshan, who had yet to make a move, subconsciously looked towards the direction of the sound.
Only to see in the belly of the mountain, five hundred zhang long serpent necks sticking out.
Atop the serpent necks were five massive, inverted triangular heads, as large as towers, with eyes like millstones, looking fiercely menacing.
The five serpent necks intersected and writhed about.
Dark black serpent saliva continuously dripped from the serpent mouths, unbearably foul-smelling; once it fell on the ground, it would make a sizzling sound, corroding a massive pit on the surface.
This was a demon beast raised by the Underworld cultivators, a fifth grade Perfection Realm variant fierce creature, extremely formidable.
If it were allowed to rampage even for a short while, it would certainly cause significant casualties among the cultivators here.
Seeing this scene, the lead Divinity Transformation cultivator controlling the field quickly made this judgment in his mind.
With a thought, he formed hand seals and was about to unfold his spell to eradicate this demon beast.
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But just as his spell was about to be unleashed, a chillingly sharp intent of destruction suddenly arose, coming fiercely fast.
Destruction True Intent, the primordial intent of offensive combat.
A flash of sword light, faster than his spell by a step, or even two steps wouldn’t be an exaggeration, shot towards the serpent demon beast, whose body had not yet completely emerged.
The sword light was as sharp as slicing through vegetables, piercing through one of the serpent heads and then disappearing into it, vanishing from sight.
After a brief calm, a thousand sword lights, sword Qi burst forth from the five serpent heads and necks of the demon beast.
The demon beast’s formidable physical body and the various strange abilities of the Demon Race were utterly useless before the sword carrying the Destruction True Intent.
Immediately, the massive body of the serpent demon beast simply disintegrated into countless pieces of tiny flesh fragments, exploding in the air, forming spectacular bursts of blood and flesh like fireworks.
What a merciless sword!
What a swift Sword Cultivator!
The Divinity Transformation cultivator from the Tower of Knowledge silently retracted his half-unleashed spell, feeling somewhat complex.
