Martial Cultivator

In the next moment, the Sect Master of the Rongshan Sect directly raised the peachwood sword and slashed at that spear with a single strike.

The collision of the two was like a stretch of violet clouds crashing into a burning river.

Hissing sounds rang out continuously. Sparks scattered without cease. The expression of the Sect Master of the Rongshan Sect was incomparably grave.

In his clash with that gigantic Fire God dharma idol, there was no doubt that the Sect Master of the Rongshan Sect had already fallen into a disadvantage from the very beginning.

He had underestimated this dharma idol.

He had originally thought that this was merely the method of some Fuyun Realm cultivator, but now it seemed that was not the case.

Although he did not know exactly what this dharma idol was, it was at least no longer something that could be defeated by a Fuyun Realm cultivator.

The Sect Master of the Rongshan Sect felt somewhat bewildered. After cultivating the Dao for countless years, from the beginning of his journey until now, he had already become one of the few strongest experts in the world. Yet when facing this dharma idol, he still felt his own insignificance.

Like a frog at the bottom of a well that only saw the vast heavens after climbing out of the well.

He wanted to warn the sect members behind and below him that if they could leave, then they should leave. If even a few of them could escape, it would count as leaving behind one or two seeds for the Rongshan Sect.

But after thinking about it, the Sect Master of the Rongshan Sect still shook his head.

In front of an existence like this, wanting to leave was merely an unrealistic fantasy.

The cultivators on the ground all had their hearts in their throats. The Sect Master of the Rongshan Sect was destined to be the strongest existence in the Rongshan Sect. If even he could not stop this deity, then no one else had any hope.

In other words, if the Sect Master of the Rongshan Sect was defeated, then from this day onward, the Rongshan Sect would cease to exist.

"Everyone, today the sect faces a great calamity. Even if we die, we cannot die like this!"

Within the mountain gates of the Rongshan Sect, a cultivator rose to his feet. Without any hesitation, he swept toward the sky.

Behind him, one Rongshan Sect cultivator after another transformed into streams of light and crashed toward the heavens.

The three of them had actually remained silent the entire time. Only now did Yu Xiyi speak and ask, "Little Chen, that Rongshan Sect Sect Master can't win, right?"

Actually, judging from the result, even if the Rongshan Sect Sect Master defeated that gigantic dharma idol, he would still lose to whatever existed beyond it, because the Rongshan Sect was destroyed because of this. But when Yu Xiyi asked the question, he was really only hoping to hear a different answer.

But Chen Chao could not give him one.

There was only one circumstance in which the result could be changed.

That was before the matter had reached its conclusion.

But this was something that had happened countless years ago. It could no longer be changed.

Chen Chao did not speak. He merely looked at the sky.

He watched that gigantic burning spear descend.

At this moment, the firelight within the sea of fire in the sky became even brighter.

It was as though the entire sky had caught fire.

"He lost."

Looking at the sky, Chen Chao said, "He didn't win."

After a pause, Chen Chao shook his head, "But they aren't deities. Absolutely not."

The body of the Rongshan Sect Sect Master was swallowed by the sea of fire, and those burning meteors began to fall continuously.

Countless streams of light rose from the ground and headed toward that sea of fire in the sky, but they were like stones sinking into the ocean, unable to change anything.

It was as though the might of heaven truly could not be opposed.

"Zhu Xia, you have to live on."

At some point, Bei Geng had appeared beside the three of them. The youth in white glanced in the direction of the medicine garden, then turned back and looked up at the sky. There was a trace of determination in his eyes. He smiled to himself, "There's no need to cultivate anymore, but I am a little reluctant."

Before his words had even finished, this young genius of the Rongshan Sect also transformed into a stream of light and crashed into that sea of fire!

"No!"

Looking at Bei Geng's departing figure, Zhu Xia burst into tears and completely lost control of herself.

Chen Chao suddenly felt that he was being cruel.

Perhaps this was the one thing Zhu Xia least wanted to experience a second time in her life, yet because of him, she had experienced it once again.

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Countless burning meteors fell to the ground, smashing apart the mountain protecting grand array of the Rongshan Sect, reducing the buildings here to ruins, and destroying everything belonging to this sect.

And in the sky, the sea of fire was still burning, though it had become very calm.

Those deities could no longer be seen, and that gigantic dharma idol had also dissipated. But Chen Chao could clearly sense that there was still a divine sense within the sea of fire.

That divine sense tirelessly searched through everything in the Rongshan Sect, confirming that there was no one left alive here.

When that divine sense swept across the medicine garden, Chen Chao frowned. But he had not expected that the divine sense did not pause at all and would merely sweep past it.

The two immortal medicine seedlings seemed utterly insignificant before that divine sense, not even worthy of a moment's attention.

No one knew how much time passed before the burning sea of fire in the sky dissipated and the sky returned to its normal color.

It was as though nothing had happened, yet it was also as though everything had happened.

Only after a long time did Yu Xiyi come back to his senses and ask, "With such a huge commotion, could it be that the other sects didn't see it? Even if they didn't have any friendship with the Rongshan Sect, at the very least they should have sent people to take a look..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yu Xiyi had already reacted himself. He said somewhat incredulously, "The same thing... happened above every sect in this world on that same day, and even in every place?!"

Chen Chao did not speak.

Even if this was not the truth, it was not far from it.

Destroying a sect was not a difficult matter. Just like the Glaze Temple and Green Algae Sect that Chen Chao had previously destroyed, it was not particularly difficult. But if one wanted to make it so that almost no evidence of an era could be found, to seal that period of history beneath the dust of time so that no one knew of it, then that was very difficult.

The only method was for that group of deities, and others of their kind, to seek out every sect and every cultivator in the world.

And kill them all.

When all of those cultivators were dead, many things would naturally cease to exist as well.

This was the simplest and most direct method, but it was also the most difficult method.

Yu Xiyi no longer knew what to say. He became very silent.

From the perspective of cultivators, when all cultivators had died, that era could be said to have been destroyed as well.

Yu Xiyi still found it hard to believe. "What exactly are these so-called deities? Why did they kill all the cultivators in the world?"

This definitely was not a simple grudge. If it were a grudge, killing the main culprit would have been enough. If the hatred still remained unresolved, then killing the main culprit's relatives and friends would have sufficed. No matter how far it extended, there would still be a limit.

For example, in mortal dynasties, at most nine familial degrees would be implicated, and in the historical records there had only ever been a single case of ten familial degrees being implicated.

On that day, nearly all cultivators in the world had been exterminated, and the perpetrators were existences resembling deities... Now they had seen the answer, but they had an even greater question.

Why did they do it?

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