"I have come here today for only one purpose: to make your Qinglian Sect submit to me." A Yao's voice echoed between heaven and earth, and the pressure emanating from her made the faces of the Qinglian Sect members grow paler and paler.
"Who dares to offend my Azure Lotus Sect?"
Suddenly, a voice came from the underground palace deep within the Qinglian Sect.
The voice was old, but it rang out like a great bell. Elder Chen and Elder Bai, whose faces were pale, immediately perked up. Their grandmaster was finally going to make a move.
A figure appeared in mid-air; it was an elderly man with white hair, wearing a gray robe. He had long eyebrows and a beard, a lean build, and his eyes emitted a strange light. He exuded an extremely powerful aura, which caused Nangong Qi and the others from the Tianshan Sect behind A Yao to change their expressions.
Ye Qinghua, Xiao Yanyan, and Shi Xinyi, being cultivators at the Void Refinement stage, could sense the old man's terrifying power even more acutely. This... this feeling far surpassed the oppressive aura of a late-stage Void Refinement cultivator... this... this is...
The moment the word "fusion period" crossed their minds, their bodies couldn't help but tremble.
The Azure Lotus Sect still has experts at the Nascent Soul stage?!
A Nascent Soul stage expert? Aside from the Xu family member, there are no other Nascent Soul stage masters in the entire Central Continent. If the Azure Lotus Sect has a Nascent Soul stage expert in charge, doesn't that mean their Heavenly Mountain Sect is doomed to annihilation?
"Greetings, Grandmaster Uncle!"
In the compass, Elder Bai and Elder Chen bowed to the gray-robed elder. The Qinglian Sect members were shocked, wondering when the sect leader and elders had a grandmaster uncle.
The gray-robed old man, whose Taoist name was Jingxu Sanren, had been trapped in an ancient ruin for three thousand years. After he came out, he returned to the Qinglian Sect without alerting everyone. Currently, only the compass and Elder Bai and Elder Chen know of his existence.
The compass had dispelled the previous fear, and now he stood up straight.
He looked at A Yao with lewd eyes, thinking to himself: Once my grandmaster uncle captures you alive, I will definitely make you my concubine and my furnace.
With one hand behind his back, Jingxu Sanren looked at Ayao with a sharp gaze: "Little girl, do you dare to repeat what you just said?"
A powerful storm of divine sense erupted from Jingxu Sanren, heading straight for Ayao. Ayao smiled, and a similarly powerful storm of divine sense erupted from her. The two storms collided, creating ripples in the air.
Everyone was horrified.
Seeing A Yao's fearlessness, Jingxu Sanren was surprised.
How could someone at the late stage of the Void Refinement realm have their divine sense contend with someone at the early stage of the Body Integration realm? Before he could even finish his shock, he discovered that A Yao's spiritual pressure was rising, soaring from the late stage of the Void Refinement realm to the Great Perfection of the late stage of the Void Refinement realm, and then surging all the way up to the early stage of the Body Integration realm.
What? ! !
She's also in the early stages of fusion?
The hermit of Jingxu was shocked.
However, A Yao's spiritual pressure continued to rise, soaring from the early stage of the Fusion Realm to the peak of the early stage of the Fusion Realm. Under the astonished gaze of Jingxu Sanren, it directly soared to the middle stage of the Fusion Realm, and then from the middle stage of the Fusion Realm to the late stage of the Fusion Realm before stopping.
Not wanting to waste time, A Yao recovered ninety percent of the power of her other clones in the Central Plains and transferred it to her main body, causing her cultivation to surge dramatically, all in order to intimidate Jingxu Sanren.
It's very effective.
Jingxu Sanren's face turned deathly pale, his eyes wide open, as if he could not believe what ancient ferocious beast he had seen.
Fusion, late stage of fusion?
This female cultivator is actually in the late stage of the Integration Realm?!
How... how is this possible?
She's in the late stage of the Fusion Realm!!
Fear, fear like a shadow shrouding the entire world, made Jingxu Sanren tremble uncontrollably as he gazed at Ayao and felt the terrifying pressure emanating from her. A sense of aura, the aura of fear, was infused within Ayao's pressure.
A Yao smiled, her gaze piercing Jingxu Sanren's mind like a knife, causing this early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to experience a mental upheaval.
Perhaps feeling that her intimidation was not enough, A Yao walked forward step by step, and as she stepped through the void, huge phoenix wings unfolded behind her.
A sharp cry rang out, followed by the appearance of a phoenix, its body a thousand feet tall, in the sky behind her. This phoenix spread its wings, filling the entire heavens, and exuded an overwhelming aura of divine might, seemingly capable of destroying the world. The entire Central Plains continent felt a chilling aura, and countless living beings trembled.
Under the oppressive aura, everyone in the Qinglian Sect, including Jingxu Sanren, lost all will to resist.
Resistance will lead to death! !
"Surrender, or die?!" Ayao said coldly.
The girl in purple stood high in the sky, and as she spoke, countless bolts of lightning flashed across the heavens. Her voice was clear and cold, like the might of the heavens. The Qinglian Sect members were terrified, while the Tianshan Sect members stared at the girl in purple with unwavering fervor.
Even the three female cultivators at the Refinement stage, Shi Xinyi, Xiao Yanyan, and Ye Qinghua, were all staring at their sect leader with fervent expressions.
The hermit of Jingxu was drenched in cold sweat. He bowed deeply and said, "The Azure Lotus Sect is willing to submit!"
If even Jingxu Sanren was like this, then the person in the compass and everyone else were now trembling like leaves.
Ayao watched as Jingxu Sanren pointed his finger, and a red light enveloped Jingxu Sanren's body, slowly forming a mark on his forehead—the Slave Mark.
A slave mark is a brand that, once applied, means eternal impossibility of betrayal. A single thought from the other party can obliterate you. There are various types of slave marks; some merely enslave the person bearing them, while others can even turn your bloodline and descendants into slaves from birth.
Using slave seals to control captives is a common method in the Upper Realm. This method is not common in the Canglan Realm; instead, blood oaths, talisman oaths, and Dao oaths are used to bind disciples and clansmen. Even so, as a Nascent Soul cultivator, Jingxu Sanren immediately sensed the effects of the power invading his primordial spirit.
Jingxu Sanren instinctively wanted to resist, but he knew that resistance meant death. He could only suppress the urge to resist and was branded with the slave mark.
A red mark resembling a phoenix with outstretched wings formed on his forehead.
After imprinting the slave mark, A Yao didn't even glance at Jingxu Sanren. With a wave of her hand, a beam of red light flew out and scattered into tens of thousands of beams, landing on every male cultivator of the Qinglian Sect. In an instant, all of these male cultivators were imprinted with the slave mark.
The compass still held the two elders who were looking at her with suspicious eyes. In the past, she would have killed such people, but now she had their uses.
Even a mosquito's leg is still meat. When the war with the demons begins, send them to the front line. When their magic power is exhausted, make them all self-destruct.
As for why female cultivators of the Qinglian Sect are not branded with slave marks, it's because their master said they should be more tolerant of women.
Of course, even without using the slave seal, Ayao would still make them all swear an oath.
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