Slay the Evil Cultivator Alliance
Lin Shi found a secluded cave deep in the mountains and forests, where she secluded herself for a month to cultivate and stabilize her cultivation before venturing out again. The advantage of her cultivation advancing to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage in one fell swoop was that Lin Shi could now swagger through the major cities of the Yuan Shu Realm without any cultivator daring to give her a second glance, let alone show any malice or contempt.
Lin Shi went to Xuantian City again.
In the southeastern corner of Xuantian City lies a low mountain called Tianwu Mountain. At its foot stretches a continuous network of buildings, numbering over a thousand courtyards, the territory of the Luo family, a powerful cultivation clan. The overall architectural style and layout of the Luo family's residence closely resemble the Dragon Valley Sect, where Lin Shi had spent several years. Within the misty, ethereal Tianwu Mountain, cultivators from the Lower Realm Hunter Alliance have resided for centuries. In addition, there are also some evil cultivators who use the essence of living people to craft vicious magical artifacts, who love killing and plundering, and who also live in the Luo family's buildings at the foot of Tianwu Mountain.
Lin Shi openly and honestly raided the lair of the Lower Realm Cultivator Hunting Alliance, rounded up the cultivators inside one by one, and wiped them out completely. Their black souls were also scattered, losing any chance of rebirth. After Lin Shi accomplished all of this alone, the golden light of merit on her primordial spirit became dazzlingly bright, almost solidifying.
That day was an ordinary one. The weather was clear, the sky a deep blue, without a single cloud. A female cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage, clad in a pristine white robe, flew through the air and landed on the rooftop of the tallest building in the Luo family compound at the foot of Tianwu Mountain. Her eyes were bright and kind, her face gentle, yet she radiated a cool and pure spiritual energy, like a celestial maiden descending to earth. Surrounding her were flying swords gleaming with a cold light, forming concentric circles around her, exuding a strong aura of killing intent. When her sword energy slashed through the sky, it created a fierce gust of wind, and the air seemed to part automatically in its path.
"Who goes there?" Some cultivators in the Luo family compound at the foot of Tianwu Mountain sensed the aura of an unfamiliar high-level cultivator and came out. However, as soon as they stepped out of the courtyard, they saw the beautiful female cultivator standing on the roof and immediately scattered and fled in panic.
Lin Shi, observing the panicked figures of the cultivators below, calmly activated the upgraded Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, which surrounded the entire Tianwu Mountain and the Luo family's affiliated buildings at its foot. From Tianwu Mountain to the outer edge of the buildings near the river, a thick white barrier rose up. A thick spiritual energy shield also formed both underground and in the air. The surrounding spiritual energy continuously converged onto the formation's shield. Lin Shi's natal sword, the Evil Slaughtering Sword, became the formation's core, while the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, the Immortal Trapping Sword, and the Immortal Severing Sword guarded the four directions, each gleaming with dazzling, cold sword light.
Once the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation was fully activated, screams of agony echoed from the encircled area. The evil cultivators and the cultivators from the Lower Realm Hunting Alliance were all pierced through by the sword energy of the Demon Slaughtering Sword, their physical bodies annihilated. Before their black souls could escape, they were scattered into specks of light by the sword energy, transforming into spiritual energy that was returned to the Yuan Shu Realm.
The cultivators with slightly higher cultivation levels withstood the chaotic barrage of demon-slaying sword energy, gathered together, and launched an attack on Lin Shi from the air. Like a swarm of bats descending from the sky, they exuded a dense aura of evil, black and gray mists, and the stench of blood, roaring, "I will kill you!" as they attacked Lin Shi from all directions. Their angry roars echoed like muffled thunder across the valley, rough, deep, and unpleasant. Their faces were ferocious, their fleshy cheeks twitching, their eyes bloodshot like those of bloodthirsty beasts, and the thick, pungent stench of blood emanating from them followed.
Lin Shi remained calm and composed, her gaze fixed firmly on the various cultivators who were attacking her. She coldly replied, "You cultivators who wantonly slaughtered ascended cultivators from the lower realms, used living cultivators to refine magic weapons to enhance your cultivation, and killed countless people, all of you deserve to die! I am acting on behalf of Heaven!" As soon as she finished speaking, she channeled the spiritual power around her and killed all the attackers.
In the end, the three early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators from the Lower Realm Cultivator Hunting Alliance were forced out. Surprisingly, they were cultivators Lin Shi knew: the brothers Luo Kun and Luo Peng, and Luo Kun's wife, Li Chan.
The Luo family of Xuantian City is a large cultivation family with numerous disciples. The first member of the Luo family that Lin Shi met was Luo Cheng, whom she had encountered a few times. She didn't see him in person the first time in the secret realm, but on the next two occasions, he and his Nascent Soul stage elders forced Lin Shi to travel from the Yuan Shu Realm to the Fu Tian Small World and the Lie Tian Small World through the ascension passage in the lower realm.
Fueled by both new and old grudges, Lin Shi's Demon-Slaying Sword illuminated almost the entire Xuan Tian City.
Luo Kun launched the first attack, his figure flashing like a ghost, his longsword transforming into a crimson streak aimed straight for Lin Shi's throat. Luo Peng followed closely behind, attacking Lin Shi from behind, intending to pierce her heart through her back. Luo Kun's wife, Li Chan, who was also at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, threw out her magic weapon, the Immortal Binding Rope, attempting to restrain Lin Shi's movements.
Lin Shi remained calm and composed, her footsteps light and agile, as if strolling leisurely, easily dodging the three's fierce attacks. Simultaneously, she formed hand seals and chanted incantations, transforming the magical artifacts bestowed upon her by the Heavenly Dao of the Lie Tian Small World into array stones, setting up a combined killing array. As soon as the array stones were in place, the killing array shone brightly, and thick, resilient pillars of light rose from the ground, trapping Luo Kun, Luo Peng, and Li Chan within each of the massive pillars.
Instantly, Luo Kun, Luo Peng, and Li Chan were enveloped in an extremely dense aura of black energy and blood. Under the attack of the formation, they were actually forced to reveal the aura of evil cultivators.
The three men, their faces contorted in rage and surrounded by crimson halos, roared furiously, "Lin Shi, you actually borrowed the power of the demon cultivator's Heavenly Dao from the Lie Tian Small World and even obtained his magical artifact! We won't let you succeed in killing us and seizing our territory!" As soon as they finished speaking, they simultaneously chose to destroy their own primordial spirits, attempting to perish together with Lin Shi. Their surging spiritual energy scorched the pillars of light that had been binding them, causing them to teeter on the brink of collapse. They wildly brandished their longswords, causing the air around them to ignite, the flames spreading raging throughout the pillars of light.
Lin Shi watched Luo Kun, Luo Peng, and Li Chan's actions, but simply took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. In an instant, she mobilized the spiritual power within her body, directly extracting the layer of merit halo on the surface of her primordial spirit, causing her aura to instantly surge, emitting an aura and pressure like that of an immortal. The Demon-Slaying Sword in her hand instantly shone with a cold light, its brilliance intensifying. The black rhombus-shaped patterns engraved on the sword's blade lit up one by one, emitting a dazzling golden light, releasing the surging righteous energy of merit and the vast immortal aura inherited from the Heavenly Dao of the Lie Tian Small World for hundreds of thousands of years. Dark clouds immediately filled the sky, thunder roared, and thick bolts of purple lightning struck down, accurately hitting the heads of the three evil cultivators present.
Luo Kun, Luo Peng, and Li Chan let out painful roars. They struggled to escape, but their bodies, dantian, and primordial spirits were quickly purified by the dazzling golden light, like sunlight, and dissipated into pure spiritual energy. After the three of them died, inside the buildings at the foot of Tianwu Mountain, all the cultivators with gray or black souls, except for those with pure white souls, were immediately annihilated by the massive formation, including Luo Cheng, who tried to escape.
Afterwards, a timely rain fell on Tianwu Mountain and the Luo family compound at its foot. The land and buildings, once polluted by evil cultivators, were washed clean of all traces of their sins by the rain. After the rain stopped, the sun shone through the clouds once more on the earth. Flocks of birds flew to Tianwu Mountain and chirped joyfully for a long, long time.
No cultivators from Xuantian City came out to stop the fight. The onlookers either stayed at home and used their spying mirror-like magical artifacts to watch the battle, or they stayed far away, concealing themselves and standing in the air to watch silently.
In the cultivation world, strength is paramount. Lin Shi, a rogue cultivator, single-handedly wiped out the Lower Realm Cultivator Hunting Alliance and the Luo family with his own Nascent Soul stage cultivation at the Great Perfection stage. Thus, their territory automatically became Lin Shi's.
For a long time afterward, the evil cultivators of the Yuan Shu Realm lived like rats or cockroaches in the sewers, hiding during the day and venturing out at night. They would flee at the mere mention of Lin Shi's name or the sight of her. Some of the more powerful evil cultivators, having no other choice, desperately sought ways to escape to other middle worlds via teleportation arrays between them.
Lin Shi also set up protective formations at the exits of the ascension passages of the various small worlds within the Yuan Shu Realm. For the next several hundred years, no cultivator in the Yuan Shu Realm dared to break the formations, let alone ambush and hunt down cultivators from lower realms.
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