"Rumble!"
The vast Apocalypse Continent experienced a massive tremor in an instant. Living beings in other regions felt a powerful aura descending upon the world. This aura was immensely strong, like a divine being's arrival, inspiring awe from the depths of their beings.
At that moment, a common thought arose in the hearts of all living beings on the Apocalypse Continent!
Supreme Path!
This was the aura of a Supreme Path Paragon, representing the ultimate power of humanity. Countless ancient emperors and great emperors of the human race once possessed the power of the Supreme Path. Wherever this aura descended, all beings revered it.
This was a Supreme Path Paragon!
"What's happening?"
The great tremor subsided in an instant, but the aura of the Supreme Path lingered, enveloping the entire continent and causing immense shock.
"Could someone have attained enlightenment? Is the strongest of this era about to emerge?"
Some living beings boldly speculated. The Apocalypse Continent was the final segment of the ancient Star Road. Since the existence of the ancient Star Road, there had been instances of powerful beings successfully attaining enlightenment before reaching the final Emperor's Gate.
The current aura of the Supreme Path was almost identical to what was recorded in ancient texts, so it was no wonder some people had such speculations.
At this moment, an area of hundreds of thousands of miles around Thousand Path Mountain had been leveled to the ground. Above, besides a massive black curtain wrapped like a rice dumpling, were the four sisters of the Sky Serpent Clan.
The four sisters were panting heavily, drenched in sweat, and their faces had turned extremely pale.
"Princesses, are you alright?" the Demon Sealing Board asked in their minds.
"We're fine!" Tian Yuanyuan responded weakly.
"Be cautious when using this sword formation in the future. If I hadn't promptly transferred energy into your bodies, you would have been drained dry by these four swords," the Demon Sealing Board cautioned.
"Understood."
The four sisters exchanged bitter smiles. The Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation was extremely powerful. That strike just now was probably difficult for even a true Paragon to withstand, but the consumption was too great. If the Demon Sealing Board hadn't lent a hand in time, they would probably have been the first to be drained dry by their own weapons, right?
At this time, Li Beifei sensed that the commotion outside had subsided and said to the cloak that had transformed into the black curtain, "Thank you for your hard work, Big Brother. Come back!"
"Buzz!"
The black curtain quickly shrunk, eventually transforming into a black cloak in Li Beifei's hands.
Ye Hongyi and the four Mu Qingyi girls immediately flew out of the Gathering Heaven Battleship and came to the four sisters of the Sky Serpent Clan.
"Are you alright?" Ye Hongyi asked with concern, looking at their pale faces.
"Eldest Sister, we're fine. It's just that our vitality is greatly depleted," Tian Yuanyuan said with a smile.
"You can't be so reckless next time," Ye Hongyi also breathed a sigh of relief, but still gently chided them in the tone of an elder sister.
"Hehe, wasn't I just displeased with him? He even wanted to devour his own close blood relatives. That kind of person is too inhuman," Tian Xiaoxiao said with a chuckle.
However, Ye Hongyi saw more in her eyes. Besides being displeased with Long San, there were probably more other reasons. But she didn't ask further, just nodded gently and didn't mention the matter again.
At this time, Li Beifei also came over and exclaimed, "I didn't expect the old guy to pass the real Immortal Slaughtering Four Swords to you. He's too biased."
"Second Senior Brother, haven't you been kicked enough by Master Uncle?"
Second Sister Tian Fangfang looked at Li Beifei with a smile.
"How did you know?" Li Beifei was stunned. The four sisters weren't on the Gathering Heaven Battleship at the time. How did they know he was kicked?
The four sisters smiled without saying a word. This matter couldn't be investigated too deeply, or Master Uncle would definitely punish them if he knew their strange thoughts at the time.
"Never mind him, let's go up and rest first," Mu Qingyi said at this time.
"Thank you, Qingyi Senior Sister-in-law!" the four sisters said with a smile.
So Ye Hongyi, Mu Qingyi, Liu Yanran, and Liu Yuran each supported one of the Sky Serpent Clan sisters and brought them onto the Gathering Heaven Battleship, leaving only Li Beifei and the Heavenly Peng Ancient Royal Prince behind.
"Hehe!"
The Heavenly Peng Ancient Royal Prince suddenly laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Li Beifei stared at him.
"It's nothing, I just thought of something happy." After saying that, the Heavenly Peng Ancient Royal Prince returned to the Gathering Heaven Battleship without looking back.
"…" Li Beifei.
He felt like he was being mocked, but he had no proof.
However, he didn't return to the Gathering Heaven Battleship, but went around to the back of the Gathering Heaven Battleship. At this moment, there were only dozens of survivors, and the lowest cultivation level was also a Saint. Those below the Saint level had already been crushed by the pressure formed by Long San's powerful aura.
There were a total of forty-seven people left, thirty-six of whom were Saint-level cultivators, and eleven of whom were Saint King-level cultivators, including three at the peak of the Saint King realm.
At this moment, they were in a state of confusion. Was this still Thousand Path Mountain? Where was the mountain? Why was there only a bottomless abyss that couldn't be seen to the end?
Also, where was Long San?
They had only felt a darkness before their eyes, and when they regained their sight, it had become like this.
"Everyone, are you all well?"
Li Beifei came to them with a smile, greeting them amiably and kindly.
Hearing Li Beifei's voice, everyone instantly came back to their senses. One of the Saint King peak cultivators asked, "Sword Immortal, is Long San… dead?"
His tone was full of uncertainty.
"Dead!" Li Beifei nodded.
"Hiss!"
Everyone gasped in unison. A Quasi-Supreme Realm expert, gone just like that?
"What are your plans next?" Li Beifei asked.
"This…"
For a time, everyone showed a look of confusion. Among them were humans, ancient races, and demon races, but they had a unified name on the Apocalypse Continent: People of Heavenly State!
If Long San hadn't lied, then Heavenly State had probably become a dead land, and their relatives and friends were no longer in this world. For a time, their Dao hearts, which they had cultivated for thousands of years and considered firm, were now extremely confused.
Their home was gone, where could they go?
"Sword Immortal, our lives were saved by you. You can speak frankly if you have any ideas," another Saint King peak expert asked. She was a young and beautiful woman, but at the moment her face was full of sorrow, and there were also a few strands of white hair at her temples.
"Since that's the case, then I'll be frank," Li Beifei cleared his throat and continued, "I've established a sect in the North Star, called the Seven Star Sword Sect. Now it's one of the two major forces in the North Star. If you don't have anywhere to go, you might as well come to my Seven Star Sword Sect for a while. Of course, if you join my Seven Star Sword Sect, I wholeheartedly agree."
On the deck of the Gathering Heaven Battleship, Ye Hongyi and others heard Li Beifei's words clearly.
"No wonder Junior Brother would protect them together. It turns out he's playing this idea," Ye Hongyi suddenly understood. Logically speaking, Li Beifei had no kinship with these people, and even in the secret realm they were competitors. He shouldn't have protected them. Now hearing Li Beifei's words, she understood.
"Young Master has changed!" Liu Yuran said at this time.
Liu Yanran also nodded in agreement, saying, "If it were before, Young Master would definitely have asked them to hand over the treasures on their bodies as the price for protecting them, and then let them leave."
"This shows that he is also growing, which is good," Mu Qingyi showed a gentle smile. No matter how hateful Li Beifei was in the eyes of others, he had never treated his own people badly.
She had never paid attention to other people's evaluation of Li Beifei.
On the other side, Li Beifei quietly looked at the others, waiting for their answer.
"This…"
Everyone looked at each other, and some of them showed a look of interest. North Star was the hometown of Sword Emperor Li Beichen, and there was a legend circulating on the ancient Star Road that Li Beifei was the reincarnation of the Sword Emperor. Following such a peerless genius, their status and strength would probably rise.
However, some people showed hesitation. They were still reluctant to leave their homeland of Heavenly State, and they still had a glimmer of hope in their hearts. What if their clansmen hadn't died at the hands of Long San?
Li Beifei saw everyone's expressions in his eyes. He said with a smile, "How about this, I will transmit the coordinates of North Star to you. If you are interested, you can go to North Star on your own."
After saying that, he sent out a divine thought, transmitting the coordinates of North Star to them, and then he returned to the Gathering Heaven Battleship.
These surviving Heavenly State people felt the extra information in their minds, and were filled with mixed feelings for a time. They were previously the ancestors of various families or sects in Heavenly State, but now… they were all alone.
"I've decided, I'm going to North Star and join the sect created by the Sword Immortal!" someone said with firm eyes. Since their relatives were no longer there, they would strengthen their Dao heart and climb to a higher Great Dao.
"Me too, how about we go together?" With the first person making a decision, there were immediately a second, a third, and more.
For a time, more than half of the people decided to go to North Star together and join the Seven Star Sword Sect, mostly Saint-level cultivators, with only four Saint Kings, but the woman with the peak Saint King cultivation was also among them.
The others had flickering eyes, considering and hesitating. In the end, seven more people wanted to join the Seven Star Sword Sect.
A total of thirty-two people decided to go to North Star, but they all decided to return to their homeland first to see if there were any surviving clansmen or sect disciples, and agreed to set off together in half a month.
The remaining fifteen people decided to go back and take a look before making other plans.
So everyone first expressed their gratitude to Li Beifei and others, and then left.
On the Gathering Heaven Battleship, the four sisters of the Sky Serpent Clan were in seclusion to recover their vitality, while the others were riding the Gathering Heaven Battleship to the nearest big city.
"I want to save their souls." These were Ye Hongyi's words.
He did not cultivate Buddhism, nor was he a member of the Taoist sect, but he had mastered the Salvation Scripture of the Taoist Saint Sect, which was specially used to save souls.
As for where this Salvation Scripture came from, it goes without saying.
……
In the eastern part of the Apocalypse Continent, in a Taoist temple full of spiritual energy, Li Ruoyu was lecturing to the young Taoist children in the Taoist temple. Before the great earthquake came, he felt it in his heart and used his great magic power to protect the Taoist temple, so that these future of Taoism would not be afraid.
"Such sword intent, could it be Brother Li? No, Brother Li's sword intent does not have such a great killing aura, could it be the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation of the Ancient Emperor?"
Li Ruoyu guessed in his heart. He had seen Li Beifei's sword intent, and he could be sure that Li Beifei's sword cultivation had surpassed everyone of the same era, and among the extreme aura he had just sensed, he keenly sensed the powerful and unparalleled sword intent.
However, the ultimate killing aura contained in the sword intent was different from Li Beifei's sword intent, so he thought of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.
The Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation is known as the first killing formation since ancient times, representing absolute destruction and killing. Only the sword intent exuded by the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation has a killing aura that makes people despair.
"Could it be Miss Honghong?" Li Ruoyu couldn't help but think of Ye Hongyi.
He knew that Ye Hongyi had also cultivated the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.
(In the plot where he met Gu Huaiyu, Gu Changsheng passed the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation to Ye Hongyi, the Heavenly Peng Ancient Royal Prince, Gu Xiruo, and Lin Tian to deal with the sea beast king, so Ye Hongyi also mastered the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.)
Li Ruoyu sat cross-legged on a bluestone, staring blankly in the direction of Tianzhou.
"Master, what are you looking at?"
At this time, a pink and jade-like little Taoist boy looked up at Li Ruoyu.
Li Ruoyu came back to his senses, and then smiled: "The teacher is thinking of a friend."
"Master, although we are not monks, we can't tell lies. Your eyes just now are exactly the same as when my father misses my mother."
The little Taoist boy's name is Shangguan Fei, and he is the heir of the local gentry family Shangguan family. A year ago, a monster was causing trouble here. Li Ruoyu passed by here and solved the monster casually. The local people were very grateful to him.
Li Ruoyu saw that the mountains and rivers here were beautiful, and it was a good place for cultivation and enlightenment and preaching, so he had the idea of building a Taoist temple here. Shangguan Fei's father learned about it and led the local people to build such a Taoist temple for him.
Li Ruoyu did not refuse.
The Taoist temple is not big, covering an area of two acres. In addition to Shangguan Fei, the other eight disciples, both male and female, are at least eight years old and at most Shangguan Fei, twelve years old.
Li Ruoyu accepts disciples without looking at qualifications or fate, only looking at whether the other party is willing to listen to his explanation of the Taoist scriptures.
At first, because of the magical methods used by Li Ruoyu to kill the monster, many people sent their children to the Taoist temple, hoping to cultivate successfully.
However, Li Ruoyu only explained the Taoist scriptures to the children and did not teach the method of cultivation at all. Over time, those people took their children back, because there was a fairy sect called Lingjian Sect here, which would go down the mountain to accept disciples every year, and only accepted those under the age of sixteen. They thought that letting their children spend their time here was better than sending them to Lingjian Sect to cultivate.
In the end, only nine children were left.
Li Ruoyu didn't care about this at all. As long as someone was willing to listen, he would explain the Taoist scriptures to them on time every day.
Not long ago, he finally accepted these nine children as disciples, and Shangguan Fei became the senior brother among the nine because of his age advantage.
But he is the most naughty senior brother.
Li Ruoyu looked at Shangguan Fei, this kid was obviously a boy, but he was pink and jade-like, and he almost thought he was a girl at first.
"You are quite good at understanding other people's eyes!" Li Ruoyu said with a smile.
Shangguan Fei smiled and said: "Master, to tell you the truth, my father taught me this. He said that in this world, you must learn to observe your words and actions, so that you can live a long time."
"Then see what the teacher wants to do now?" Li Ruoyu looked at him.
Shangguan Fei looked at him seriously and said, "He must be thinking about someone he likes."
"Wrong!" Li Ruoyu said with a calm face.
"Since you're wrong, you must accept the punishment. Go and copy the 'Scripture of Salvation' ten times. Remember, not a single word can be wrong. If you get one word wrong, you'll copy it ten more times."
"Ah... please no..."
"Twenty times!"
"I'll go copy it ten times right away!"
Shangguan Fei immediately ran away, causing the other eight junior brothers and sisters to snicker.
The 'Scripture of Salvation' isn't long, only a little over three thousand words in total, but for a twelve-year-old child, ten times would be a nightmare for the next few days.
Li Ruoyu looked in the direction of Tianzhou, closed his eyes, and said softly, "Recite the 'Scripture of Salvation' with me."
"Yes!"
The eight little disciples sat cross-legged on their respective prayer mats, closed their eyes, and began to recite the 'Scripture of Salvation' with their master, a scripture they were so familiar with.
After all, although they hadn't copied it as many times as their eldest brother, they had copied it a lot, and they had long since memorized it perfectly.
For a time, the Taoist temple on this mountain echoed with chanting, as if passing through time and space, falling upon Tianzhou.
On the Jutian Battleship, Ye Hongyi glanced eastward with a sense of feeling, then closed her eyes and began to deliver the countless souls of the dead in this great city.
