121: Chapter 7: Invincible Grotto Heaven 121: Chapter 7: Invincible Grotto Heaven “Boom—”

Muffled thunder faded, black banners wafted, and within the chilly wind mingled the plaintive wails of women and children.

Upon closer examination, one would discover.

This flagpole, inserted atop the mountain and towering dozens of zhang high, was inlaid with desiccated skulls.

The Crimson Array covered the mountain gate.

Those mundane souls sacrificed through Blood Refining had, after death, turned into Yin Sha spirits.

As the black banners fluttered, they wailed with the wind.

The main sect of Yin Mountain had indeed sealed itself off.

However, there were many disciples under its banner, and cultivators of the Demon Sect seldom followed rules.

As for those disciples unwilling to seal themselves off with the main sect, Yin Mountain naturally wouldn’t stop them—

If they didn’t wish to stay in Yin Mountain, they could go elsewhere to establish their own sects!

Thus, at the time of the sealing.

Daoist Chi Hun took Jin Yuan with him, leaving the main sect to come here and establish their own faction.

These two Evil Cultivators were quite powerful, with Jin Yuan being at the eighth layer of the Cave Heaven Realm.

As for Daoist Chi Hun, there was no need to mention his strength.

He had already reached Perfect Cave Heaven a decade ago, and over the years, many had suspected… Chi Hun could break through at any moment, becoming a great cultivator of the Yin God Realm!

Setting aside their own power.

Backed by Yin Mountain and a disciple of White Ghost… even if some stronger Demon Sect cultivator who could defeat Daoist Chi Hun passed by, they would most likely give face to the reputations of Yin Mountain and White Ghost and show some courtesy.

But of late, things had been far from peaceful.

A Sword Cultivator lad, come from who-knows-where, started a massacre within Jin Yuan’s territory!

This matter naturally caught the attention of Daoist Chi Hun.

However, Daoist Chi Hun didn’t take it too seriously… Righteous cultivators, every few years, would enter the Southern Border to kill some Evil Cultivators, as part of what they call “cleansing demons.”

He heard that those Evil Cultivators who died these past days were of very low levels of cultivation, mostly Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment.

Almost none from the Qi-controlling Realm.

This also suggested that the Sword Cultivator kid was probably only around the strength of Qi Control.

To the so-called “cleansing demons” actions of the Righteous Path, those Evil Cultivators naturally loathed them.

If they met “Righteous Cultivators” within their territory, they were sure to surround and eradicate them.

But the prerequisite was that they could kill cleanly and leave no trace.

Since the Sword Cultivator lad appeared out of nowhere, and moreover had not come to his own territory, Daoist Chi Hun thus turned a blind eye.

The matter should be handled by his junior brother.

But tonight, Daoist Chi Hun felt the long-absent “unrest in the Heart Lake.”

He sat in the main hall, listening to the music from behind layers of curtains, amidst the noise of rain and the murmuring of flowing water… This should have been an “elegant affair.”

Yet, the sound of strings and bamboo grew more and more chaotic—

It was not that the music was disordered, but his Heart Lake was.

“Enough, let’s end it, everyone leave.”

Daoist Chi Hun simply waved his hand to dismiss the musicians and maids, then he took out the Yin Mountain Order to communicate with his seventh junior brother, inquiring about the outcome of the Sword Cultivator lad’s extermination.

However, after retrieving the Yin Mountain Order.

Daoist Chi Hun was stunned.

The communication token housing the soul was now dim.

“Jin Yuan junior brother… is dead?”

Daoist Chi Hun stared blankly at the token, finally understanding the reason for his unease in the Heart Lake!

Jin Yuan was dead!

“Master!

Something terrible has happened!

Terrible!”

The token shook violently all of a sudden!

A young Disciple’s voice emerged, urgent to the extreme: “The southern part of the sect has been breached, someone has stormed in, they kill on sight without question!”

The mountain gate occupied by Daoist Chi Hun was several times larger than that of Jin Yuan!

He usually cultivated at the main peak.

The “Soul-devouring Banner” of the main peak enshrouded a full ten li around, the array extremely stable!

Ordinary Cave Heaven cultivators simply couldn’t break it!

“???”

Without needing the Disciple to say more, Daoist Chi Hun could already sense the anomaly in the array.

He abruptly stood up, his face darkened as he asked, “Who is the intruder?”

“Don’t know, only saw it was a young man.”

The Disciple, covered in blood, spoke with a piteous voice: “He has a Flying Sword!”

“A Flying Sword!”

Daoist Chi Hun bellowed, “With so many of you, can’t you stop a single Sword Cultivator?”

“His sword is too fast.”

The Yin Mountain Disciple was on the verge of collapse: “Master, he’s nearly killed all the brothers at the gate!”

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Daoist Chi Hun’s sect was already a scene of bloodshed.

Amidst the blustering wind and rain, the hills flowed red.

A lone Flying Sword, a figure in black robes, stood in the midst of a great blood pool.

Xie Xuanyi had long set his sights on this place…

But before reconstructing the Cave Heaven Realm, acting too brazenly would surely attract attention, which is why he chose the mountain gate of “Jin Yuan.” Even each time he drew his sword, he suppressed his Sword Qi, not daring to kill indiscriminately.

Wandering for a month, he only killed a bit more than three hundred Evil Cultivators.

For Xie Xuanyi, this was really nothing.

“Truly a proud Disciple of White Ghost.”

Xie Xuanyi looked at the corpses strewn across the mountains, muttering to himself: “It must be that many followed Daoist Chi Hun in leaving with Yin Mountain’s seal… Coming here to reestablish a new stronghold.”

Just stepping into the mountain gate, the Evil Cultivators he killed were already equal to the entire month’s toll.

Perhaps even more.

Xie Xuanyi’s Divine Thought swept over.

A brief glance.

There were at least four to five hundred corpses, shattered by Silent Annihilation, lying haphazardly at the mountain gate.

As for the Yin creatures refined by the Yin Mountain Disciples, there were two to three thousand of them, with Yin Crows being the most numerous.

Xie Xuanyi moved forward, all became silent around him, leaving behind a desolate scene of Corpse Mountain and Sea of Blood.

“The sect of Daoist Chi Hun must have at least five thousand people.”

Xie Xuanyi looked up at the highest main peak.

The dark clouds overhead were already teeming with countless minute black shadows flowing through them; he knew that with the mountain gate array broken, Daoist Chi Hun must have been alerted, and next, the entire subsidiary sect of Yin Mountain would mobilize their full might to attack him… Those dense black shadows were likely the Yin Crows refined by Yin Mountain.

Xie Xuanyi withdrew his gaze.

He didn’t care about the Yin Crows.

Those Qi Refinement, Foundation Establishment Realm ants… were really not worth noticing.

Before, in breaching the mountain gate, those who dared meet his gaze, or those who ran slower, all died under his Flying Sword.

He dared to come alone to assault the Yin Mountain sub-sect.

That meant…

no matter how many Shadow Crows there were, it was all in vain.

Xie Xuanyi’s entire spirit was focused on a single person.

Daoist Chi Hun.

With a bang!

A trail of crimson light burst forth from above the main peak, like a shooting star, hurtling towards Xie Xuanyi’s position.

Xie Xuanyi looked up.

Even from miles away, his garments billowed from the force of the wind—

After ten breaths’ time, that streak of blood-light, like a cannonball, heavily slammed into Xie Xuanyi!

Xie Xuanyi swung a sword Qi with the back of his hand.

A flash of golden light erupted!

With a clang, Daoist Chi Hun staggered back, Xie Xuanyi also retreated, and both were pushed back fifty zhang.

A hundred zhang away, the blood-light dissipated.

Daoist Chi Hun dismissed the Protective Gang Wind around him, his eyes red as he surveyed the carnage strewn about.

How long had it been?!

From the moment the mountain gate’s formation was breached to his own arrival, it had been at most a hundred breaths!

All the cultivators guarding the gate had been slaughtered!

Not only that, but even those shadow creatures had not left a single survivor…

Was this the unremarkable Sword Cultivator youth mentioned in the Jin Yuan intelligence reports?

This was clearly a living King Yama!

He was a killer even more sinister than an Evil Cultivator!

“You’ve gotten fatter.”

The voice of the youth was rich like aged wine, spreading out amidst the bloody storm, carrying a hint of the sentiment found in reunions of old friends.

Daoist Chi Hun was stunned.

He raised his head, staring intently at the youth before him.

Underneath the bamboo hat were a pair of unfamiliar eyes.

Yet the scene, reminiscent of a living King Yama…

reminded him of an “old acquaintance” from many years ago.

Daoist Chi Hun shivered.

No.

Impossible.

That person had long since died.

If he were truly still alive, how could there have been peace for ten years?

And how could he himself have survived until now?

To confess an rebellious thought.

If that person were still alive, and had returned to the Southern Border seeking revenge, his beloved master “White Ghost” would surely have set off on the road to the afterlife even earlier than himself.

“Who are you!”

No matter what, Daoist Chi Hun still saw a shadow of someone familiar.

“Who I am is not important.”

Xie Xuanyi said softly, “I’ve long heard of Daoist Chi Hun’s great name, and that you’re invincible in the Cave Heaven Realm.

I wonder if that’s true or false?”

With that,

he slowly expanded his Grotto Heaven.

“Woosh!”

In the curtain of rain, a golden Cave Heaven blazed into existence above Xie Xuanyi’s head.

The Flying Sword “Silent Annihilation” did not appear; only the Primordial Energy within the golden Cave Heaven burned ferociously, illuminating the entire gate.

Daoist Chi Hun, tightly wound until now, relaxed slightly at the sight of the golden sword energy Cave Heaven expanding amidst the rain.

Although the intelligence was incorrect, the error was not too great.

Fortunately, this youth was merely in the Cave Heaven Realm.

Not a Yin God…

And certainly not the person he feared.

“If you wish to die, I shall fulfill your wish.”

Daoist Chi Hun also expanded his Grotto Heaven.

Above his head, a Crimson Cave Heaven several times larger than Xie Xuanyi’s golden Cave Heaven slowly emerged.

As soon as this Grotto Heaven opened, numerous foul winds gushed out, along with the constant wails of women, and most eerily…

amidst the foul wind and wails, there was even the elegant sound of music, like lofty mountains and flowing water, played on a stringed instrument.

Ten years ago, he had reached Perfect Cave Heaven Realm!

Just one step away from ascending to Yin God!

That step was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

But Daoist Chi Hun was not stuck before the threshold of the Yin God Realm.

He refrained from breaking through, all in pursuit of a greater “opportunity”…

This Grotto Heaven was known as “Avici Cave Heaven.”

In earlier years, White Ghost had killed a major cultivator of the Hehuan Sect and obtained the refining methods for this Grotto Heaven, which he then bestowed upon Daoist Chi Hun.

This Grotto Heaven could continuously devour the flesh and resentment of living beings, expanding itself in the process!

With the Blood Refining Skill, Daoist Chi Hun’s cultivation speed in the Cave Heaven Realm was extraordinarily fast…

However, after witnessing Xie Xuanyi’s astonishing combat ability in the battle of the North Sea, even as an Evil Cultivator, he was deeply shaken.

As a cultivator of the same Yin God Realm, not even one sword strike from Xie Xuanyi could be withstood!

Master White Ghost told him that the reason for Xie Xuanyi’s formidable strength lay in the fact that during the initial condensation of his Grotto Heaven, he had created a gap between himself and others.

After advancing to Yin God, the Grotto Heaven would no longer expand.

Xie Xuanyi’s Sword Qi Cave Heaven…

was said to be twice the size of other Sword Cultivators’!

Daoist Chi Hun, having gone through the battle between heavenly beings and humans, gritted his teeth and abandoned the Yin God advancement that was within arm’s reach.

He too wanted to become someone like Xie Xuanyi.

Not to speak of overcoming boundaries in battle, but at least to be unrivaled within the Yin God Realm!

Thus, Daoist Chi Hun began his mad pursuit of the “quality” of his Grotto Heaven, continually employing the Blood Refining Skill to fill the Avici Cave Heaven.

And indeed, he had some talents, his Grotto Heaven did not disappoint, ever expanding…

until after ten years, it gradually approached its limit!

Daoist Chi Hun was certain.

Once his Avici Cave Heaven advanced, it would exhibit an extremely exaggerated combat power!

The newly ascended Yin Gods couldn’t compare to him, not even “a match within one move.”

As for the Grotto Heavens…

they need not even be mentioned.

Even ten years ago, his opponents were no longer those in the Cave Heaven Realm.

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