A Yao's red-clad clone formed hand seals, causing the Vermilion Bird Zither to shimmer with light. All the immortal power filling the cave was absorbed into the zither. Then, A Yao's clone rapidly cast thousands of ancient runes, and she spent a month refining the Vermilion Bird Zither into a celestial artifact.
After refining the Vermilion Bird Zither, the red-clad Ayao stored it within her primordial spirit, then left the cave, transforming into a long red rainbow and speeding westward.
She traveled westward and arrived in the Western Regions more than two months later.
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Western Regions.
The vast expanse of yellow sand stretches across the Gobi Desert, where withered wild grasses swirl in the wind.
Suddenly, dozens of long rainbows appeared from afar. At the front of these rainbows were about a dozen beautiful female cultivators. All of them were wearing the same white gauze dress. Their cultivation levels ranged from Nascent Soul to Foundation Establishment. Each of them was injured and their faces were filled with fear.
Following them was a group of male cultivators dressed in black robes, each with a lewd expression on their face.
The two groups were clearly from different factions, and the dozen or so female cultivators fought and fled at the same time.
A female cultivator at the late Foundation Establishment stage was struck by the light emitted from a magical artifact. She screamed and fell onto the yellow sand. Before she could recover, a male cultivator with a hooked nose and wearing a black robe grabbed her with a lewd grin.
"Let me go! Let me go!"
"From now on, you will be my furnace, hahahaha..." The hook-nosed male cultivator was at the late Golden Core stage, and the Foundation Establishment stage female cultivator was no match for him.
"Help! Help!"
The late Foundation Establishment stage female cultivator cried out for help, and a mid-Golden Core stage female cultivator heard her cries and called out, "Rong'er!"
She forced back a Golden Core cultivator who was fighting her with her long sword, and wanted to go over to save the person. Before she could fly more than ten feet, she was surrounded by five male Golden Core cultivators.
The other female cultivators also had their own powerful enemies, and they were all struggling to protect themselves, let alone have the strength to save the female cultivator named Rong'er.
"My beauty, let's cultivate together right here!" the hook-nosed male cultivator laughed.
With a ripping sound, Xue Rong's clothes were torn open, revealing her fair skin. The hook-nosed man pinned Xue Rong down, about to assault her, when suddenly an extremely terrifying aura enveloped the area, causing everyone to tremble and freeze in place.
The aura of the Void Refinement stage made everyone's blood seem to freeze instantly.
With a single note of a zither, all the male cultivators on the yellow sand, whether they were at the Golden Core, Nascent Soul, or Divine Transformation stages, instantly had their primordial spirits shattered and perished one by one.
Xue Rong stared wide-eyed at the hook-nosed male cultivator lying on top of her. Disgusted, she shoved the hook-nosed corpse aside and, like the other female cultivators, looked up at a certain spot in the sky.
A girl in red appeared in the sky at some unknown time. She looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, with her black hair casually draped over her shoulders. A chain adorned her smooth forehead, and a jade-green gemstone hung between her eyebrows.
Her skin was as white as snow, her eyebrows and eyes as beautiful as paintings, and her beauty was so stunning that she could be described as peerless and unparalleled in the world.
The girl in red held a seven-stringed zither in her hands, emanating the aura of a cultivator at the Void Refinement stage. Even though they were women themselves, Xue Rong and the other female cultivators from the Flying Flower Sword Sect were stunned for a while before they came to their senses.
After regaining their senses, the rescued female cultivators of the Flying Flower Sword Sect flew towards the red-clad A Yao in the sky and bowed deeply to her in unison.
"Thank you so much for saving me, senior!"
"Who are you people? And who are those men?" Ayao asked.
A wounded female cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage cupped her hands and said:
“Junior Xie Nanyan, we are all disciples of the Flying Flower Sword Sect. Those male cultivators are from the Boundless Sect. Our entire Flying Flower Sword Sect is composed of female disciples. Several months ago, our ancestor passed away, and the sect leader of the Boundless Sect asked us to merge the entire Flying Flower Sword Sect into the Boundless Sect.”
"The Boundless Sect wanted us to join them, simply to use us as furnaces for their cultivation, which we naturally refused. So, they attacked our sect by force. Our female disciples were either killed, captured, or fled."
Speaking of this, Xie Nanyan's eyes welled with tears and hatred as she recalled her fellow disciples who had died tragically.
The other female disciples of the Flying Flower Sword Sect also had tears and hatred in their eyes.
Ayao released her divine sense, which covered an area of tens of thousands of miles, and scenes appeared before her eyes:
In a valley, several female cultivators from the Flying Flower Sword Sect stubbornly resisted using an array, while outside the array stood dozens of grinning disciples from the Boundless Sect; in the sky, several female cultivators from the Flying Flower Sword Sect were engaged in fierce combat with a group of disciples from the Boundless Sect; in a forest of stone pillars, two female cultivators from the Flying Flower Sword Sect were cornered by several male cultivators from the Boundless Sect...
Ayao reached out and plucked the Vermilion Bird Zither. With a clear "zheng" sound, four Vermilion Birds suddenly appeared in the sky. These four Vermilion Birds were formed from flames and were enormous, each a hundred feet tall. After a cry, the four Vermilion Birds flew off in all directions.
These four Vermilion Birds were faster than lightning. In the instant they spread their wings, they swept across tens of thousands of miles like four storms in the blink of an eye.
In a valley dozens of miles away, several female cultivators of the Flying Flower Sword Sect, who were putting up a last-ditch effort, looked on in despair as the magic array shattered. Just then, a giant Vermilion Bird flew across the sky, and its falling fiery feathers burned the bodies and primordial spirits of dozens of male cultivators from the Boundless Sect who were grinning evilly to ashes.
A hundred miles away in the sky, the female cultivators of the Flying Flower Sword Sect, who were fighting fiercely with the male cultivators of the Boundless Sect, heard a Vermilion Bird cry. They saw sparks fly and it seemed that hot fire feathers pierced through their bodies, but for some reason, none of them were injured. However, all the male cultivators of the Boundless Sect who were fighting with them turned to ashes.
In the stone forest a thousand miles away, two female cultivators from the Flying Flower Sword Sect, who were about to self-destruct, watched with wide eyes as a fiery Vermilion Bird descended from the sky and burned their enemy to ashes.
Within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, all the male cultivators dressed in the robes of the Boundless Sect perished in two breaths.
All the female cultivators from the Flying Flower Sword Sect who were rescued looked bewildered, while Xie Nanyan, Xue Rong, and the others standing in front of A Yao stared at her in shock, feeling excited, grateful, and incredulous.
Ayao smiled and said:
Where is the Boundless Sect?
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The Boundless Sect is one of the most powerful forces in the Western Regions. Although the Boundless Sect is not a demonic sect, what they do is no different from that of demonic cultivators.
Their leader, Geshu, was cruel and lecherous, and often abducted beautiful female nuns from other forces in the Western Regions to be his concubines.
Small sects are simply robbed; medium-sized sects are made to surrender voluntarily, or they are wiped out. They're supposed to be concubines, but once you're in the Boundless Sect, whether you become a concubine or a furnace is none of your business.
The Flying Flower Sword Sect's influence in the Western Regions was actually quite strong. Although it couldn't compare to the Boundless Sect, it was still among the top sects in the middle ranks. However, after the Flying Flower Sword Sect's patriarch passed away, its status immediately plummeted.
The Flying Flower Sword Sect is entirely composed of female cultivators, many of whom are beautiful, and they have long been targeted by others.
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