Su Tiantian didn’t carry Chu Feng the way Xiao Qing did by grabbing him outright but instead held him in a princess carry, cradling him in her arms.
This…
Chu Feng asked if they could switch to a different position, saying it felt too embarrassing like this.
Su Tiantian refused outright, then carried him off as a streak of light.
This time, he didn’t feel like his brain was about to be shaken into mush. On the contrary, it felt soft, fragrant, and incredibly comfortable.
A moment later, Su Tiantian arrived at the top of a mountain and set the boy down from her arms.
Before them stretched a vast mountain range. Amid the rolling peaks, pavilions and towers stood scattered across the terrain. But the once grand and magnificent structures were now in ruins.
The Devouring Heaven Sect, as the legacy left behind by the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor, should never have fallen to such a state. Its location was chosen in a place rich with spiritual energy.
Yet for some unknown reason, its decline had been impossible to halt, each generation weaker than the last.
If not for a half-dead ninth-rank ancestor still lingering within the sect, it likely would have already been carved up by the surrounding forces. After all, a Great Emperor’s legacy would surely contain many valuable treasures.
After offending the Demon Empress, the Devouring Heaven Sect sought help from nearby powers. But all of them chose to stand by and watch coldly. It wasn’t that they were unwilling to help; if it were just an ordinary Demon King targeting the sect, they would certainly have taken action.
But this was the Demon Empress herself calling them out by name. An existence capable of personally slaying a ninth-rank ancestor. Even the top-tier superpowers were unwilling to wade into this mess.
Within the Devouring Heaven Sect, opinions split into two factions. One believed that the sect’s grand protective formation had been personally set up by the Great Emperor, and that the Demon Empress would never be able to break in.
The other faction argued that they should quickly evacuate the sect’s core disciples and treasures, relocating to the heartland of human-controlled territory.
Today, as five Demon Kings attacked the Devouring Heaven Sect simultaneously, it became clear they were utterly unable to resist. Before long, the outer defensive formations were breached by the demon forces.
“Damn it! Where’s the Sect Master? Where is he!?”
“Gone! No one knows. The Sect Master and several core disciples have all disappeared!”
“Could it be… the Sect Master abandoned us!?”
At every moment, both demons and humans were falling in battle. Standing atop the mountain, Chu Feng gazed at the scene unfolding before him in the distance.
So this… was the cruel reality of the cultivation world…
The law of the jungle and survival of the fittest was displayed here to its fullest. Every day, sects were destroyed, and new ones rose in their place.
The entire cultivation world was, at its core, a struggle over the distribution of cultivation resources.
If resources were truly limitless, who would be willing to fight to the death? After all, everyone had struggled to reach their current level of power.
As more and more powerful cultivators emerged, the limited resources were gradually monopolized. Newly risen experts had no choice but to wrest cultivation resources from the established powers; otherwise, their own progress would stagnate.
Naturally, the old powers were unwilling to relinquish what they held, as those resources were the foundation of their strength. A great battle between the two sides was inevitable.
“The Demon Empress! She’s here!”
“What?! The Demon Empress has arrived?!”
“It really is her!”
As Su Tiantian appeared, at that very moment, whether it was the Devouring Heaven Sect or the experts observing from the shadows, all attention converged on her.
At the same time, they also noticed Chu Feng by her side. But none of them suspected that he was the newly accepted disciple of the Bright Moon Sword Immortal.
Because after consuming Su Tiantian’s demon core, and with the passage of these past few days, Chu Feng now exuded a dense demonic aura. No one could have imagined that the Chu Feng they had been desperately searching for was standing right before them in plain sight.
The Vice Sect Master was struggling to hold on. Beside him, Li Jiuyue was operating the sect’s grand formation. Although the outer defenses had been broken, the inner formation could still barely hold.
However, the calm composure that once graced Li Jiuyue’s face was gone, replaced by a grave expression. The Devouring Heaven Sect had three cultivators at the eighth rank: the Supreme Elder, the Sect Master, and the Vice Sect Master.
Now that both the Sect Master and the Supreme Elder had disappeared, the Vice Sect Master alone could at most deal with the Demon Kings’ assault. If the Demon Empress herself took action, they would undoubtedly be unable to withstand it.
In truth, this was the consequence of Li Jiuyue’s own actions. The Holy Son he had casually killed was the grandson of the Supreme Elder. He had grown accustomed to acting domineeringly, forgetting that this was no longer the era where the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor ruled supreme alone.
“Demon Empress! What crime has my Devouring Heaven Sect committed to deserve this?! You would actually seek to exterminate us!”
The Vice Sect Master shouted unwillingly.
Su Tiantian stepped forward, her figure slowly rising into the air. With each step she took, the aura around her grew stronger.
She couldn’t be bothered to respond to the cries of mere ants.
Su Tiantian opened her right hand, and a mass of flames ignited, roaring as they burned. As the fire churned, even space itself began to melt away.
With a slight lift of her palm, the once tiny flame swelled instantly in the wind, transforming into a massive fireball like a miniature sun. It was so bright it was impossible to look at directly.
High in the sky, Su Tiantian lightly pointed with her finger, and the fireball descended slowly toward the sect’s protective formation, carrying the weight of a collapsing mountain.
As the fireball drew closer, some of the weaker cultivators’ bodies ignited on their own, turning into ashes.
Even worse, some had their internal true qi combust, causing their bodies to explode on the spot.
Chu Feng stared wide-eyed at the scene before him. Was this what it meant to destroy heaven and earth with a mere gesture…?
If the fireball fell, the entire Devouring Heaven Sect would be reduced to ashes.
At that moment, from deep within the ancestral grounds of the sect, a black-robed elder shot into the sky.
“Ancestor Xingtian. He’s come out of seclusion!”
Someone recognized the old man’s identity.
Facing the enormous fireball, black light surged from Ancestor Xingtian’s body, forming a dark shroud that wrapped around the blazing sphere.
And then—
“Explode.”
As Su Tiantian spoke, the fireball exploded instantly. In a single moment, several surrounding mountain peaks melted away, and a terrifying wave of heat swept across the land, splitting it into countless cracks.
Cultivators below the fifth rank were vaporized in an instant, and even the spiritual energy in the surrounding area was completely burned away, creating a temporary vacuum devoid of spiritual qi.
Ancestor Xingtian did not fare well either. His figure crashed down like a falling meteor, smashing into the ground and creating a massive crater.
The remaining members of the Devouring Heaven Sect, witnessing this scene, felt their hearts sink into despair. Even their Ancestor had been defeated by the Demon Empress in a single exchange!
Su Tiantian swept her gaze indifferently over everyone below. All of them felt an overwhelming pressure that left them unable to breathe. Too powerful…was this the might of the Demon Empress? Compared to her, a Demon King wasn’t even worthy of carrying her shoes!
“I gave you chances. I gave you time. And yet… this is the path you chose.”
Su Tiantian said calmly.
Ancestor Xingtian’s face turned deathly pale as he looked toward Li Jiuyue.
At this moment, even Li Jiuyue was powerless. In the face of absolute strength, everything else was nothing more than empty tricks. He could barely protect himself.
Ancestor Xingtian’s expression flickered uncertainly. In the end, he gritted his teeth and burned the last trace of his vital essence, his aura instantly weakening to an extreme degree.
“The Devouring Heaven Sect must not be destroyed!”
As he burned his essence, black light wrapped around the remaining members of the sect, splitting into nine streams of black light that scattered and fled in all directions.
Faced with this scene, Su Tiantian did not give chase. Instead, she let out a cold smile, then flipped her palm, summoning Samadhi True Fire that transformed into a gigantic hand descending from above.
Boom!
With the Devouring Heaven Sect at its center, cracks spread outward like a spiderweb. The massive fissures even caused the surrounding mountains to collapse, and the sect’s protective formation shattered after lasting only a single breath.
Now, there was no Devouring Heaven Sect left. Only a land of molten magma, forged by the Samadhi True Fire.
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