inspire-indiana Chapter 2708 The Sage of Taihua
Chapter 2708 The Sage of Taihua
"Is this Ningwang City?"
The Sage of Taihua was an old man with an air of otherworldly grace. He wore a silver robe with dragon patterns, and his long silver hair was tied back with a gold ribbon. He exuded an air of nobility.
However, at this moment, the Taihua Saint frowned. He was one of the three Saints of the Azure Sky Immortal Kingdom, a top expert in the late Mahayana realm, and also the father of Prince Ning. Naturally, he had been to Prince Ning's City.
However, the Ningwang City at this moment was very different from the Ningwang City he remembered.
Although the seventh-order spiritual veins here are not considered good, they shouldn't be as depleted of spiritual energy and as thin of laws and Daoist principles as they are now.
The once prosperous Ningwang City has almost been reduced to ruins. All the valuable spiritual objects in the entire Ningwang City have disappeared. Even the floor tiles used to pave the Ningwang Palace have been taken away, and the city walls of Ningwang City have also been demolished.
"What on earth happened here?" Even though the Taihua Saint was a top cultivator who had seen the world, he had never encountered anything like this before.
Suddenly, he waved his right hand, and a drop of his blood appeared in the air. He then formed a hand seal, and the blood in front of him began to burn eerily.
The pool of blood turned into a bloodline, but the bloodline just kept spinning in place.
"Ning'er's soul fragment is clearly not shattered, so why can't we find his location through his bloodline? Unless he has already been killed and his soul has been imprisoned!"
The Sage of Taihua considered a possibility, a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and a strong killing intent emanated from his body.
In an instant, all the Qi Refining cultivators within a radius of ten thousand miles of Ningwang City who sensed this intense killing intent exploded and died, while the Foundation Establishment cultivators also coughed up blood and fainted.
Only a small number of Golden Core cultivators were able to remain conscious, but their faces all turned extremely pale.
These cultivators who did not leave Ningwang City ultimately paid for their actions with their lives. Before they died, they all regretted not listening to Sun Yi's advice.
The Sage of Taihua did not care about these dead humans at all. To him, killing these cultivators was as easy as stepping on an ant.
With a sway of his body, the Taihua Saint arrived above the seventh-tier spiritual vein. He frowned as he observed the aura of this seventh-tier spiritual vein.
He reached out with his right hand and grabbed at the air, and a strange aura gathered in his palm.
"Such a strong aura of heavenly tribulation! Someone is undergoing tribulation here, and it's a tribulation for someone advancing from the half-step Void Refinement stage to the Void Refinement stage. There are quite a few of them!"
"No wonder the spiritual energy and laws of heaven and earth here have become so thin; it turns out they have been consumed by others."
"But why are so many cultivators at the half-step Void Refinement Realm suddenly here to undergo tribulation?"
As a late-stage Mahayana expert, the Sage of Taihua discovered some clues through a short period of observation.
But that wasn't enough. He reached down and grabbed at the void below with his right hand. In an instant, thousands of Golden Core cultivators who were hiding in the seventh-order spiritual vein were lifted up as if controlled by an invisible hand.
The thousands of Golden Core cultivators were filled with terror. The Taihua Saint in the sky was like a sun shining in all directions, and his terrifying aura almost suffocated these Golden Core cultivators.
They felt their lives were completely under the other party's control, and their hearts were filled with despair.
"Please spare me, sir! I only wanted to use the spiritual vein for cultivation; I didn't do anything wrong."
"Please be lenient, sir. I am just an ordinary rogue cultivator."
These Golden Core cultivators all begged for mercy, now filled with regret, wishing they had left earlier.
The Sage of Taihua coldly looked at these Golden Core cultivators who resembled insects, and calmly asked, "Who can tell me what exactly happened in Ningwang City?"
"My lord, half a year ago, a group of ascended cultivators broke into Ningwang City and wiped out all the royal family members and the major forces that were affiliated with the royal family." A Golden Core cultivator quickly spoke up.
"That's an ascendant sect called the War Sect, with a total of over two thousand members."
"They have more than three hundred experts at the Void Refinement stage, and the rest are all experts at the half-step Void Refinement stage."
"All of these warrior cultivators are peerless geniuses. The highest level they have is only at the early stage of the Void Refinement Realm, but they can easily rival cultivators at the late stage of the Void Refinement Realm."
"That's right, even a cultivator at the half-step Void Refinement Realm can defeat a cultivator at the mid-stage Void Refinement Realm."
"By the way, the sect leader of Zhanzong is only at the early stage of the Void Refinement realm, but he can easily kill cultivators at the Great Perfection of the Void Refinement realm."
"I personally witnessed him easily kill more than a dozen seniors at the Great Perfection of the Void Refinement stage in Ningwang City. His strength is extremely powerful."
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The group of Golden Core cultivators were filled with fear. In order to save their lives, they immediately revealed the information they knew. Upon hearing this, the Taihua Saint frowned instantly.
"A mere two thousand ascended cultivators can take over Ningwang City? Do you think I'm so easily fooled? Are the Ningwangs so useless that they can't even handle this group of ascended cultivators at the Void Refinement stage and half-step Void Refinement stage?" With a wave of his right hand, the Taihua Saint instantly caused dozens of Golden Core stage cultivators to explode and die.
If the Taihua Saint were to directly search the soul, he could obtain the information he wanted. However, a cultivator at the late Mahayana stage like him would not dare to search the soul casually, because the Heavenly Tribulation was the biggest obstacle to his advancement to the Tribulation Transcending stage, and he absolutely did not want to increase the power of his Heavenly Tribulation.
"My lord, spare us...my lord, spare us...what we said is absolutely true. At that time, Prince Ning and some other experts were not in Ningwang City."
"Hmph, even if they're not in the city, does that mean the Ningwang City formation isn't being controlled? With the power of the Ningwang City formation, even a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator wouldn't be able to break through it in a short time. How did they manage to do it?" The Taihua Saint sneered.
"My lord, I know the inside story. The sect leader of the War Sect has mastered the ability of spatial teleportation. The formation of Ningwang City was destroyed by him before it could even take effect."
"It is said that he first destroyed the spatial teleportation array in the city, then used the Golden Flame Shield to seal off Ningwang City, and only then did he begin the killing spree within the city."
"Yes, yes, yes, that Sect Leader Sun's strength is terrifying, far surpassing that of other cultivators of the same level."
"And the most terrifying thing is that each of the more than two thousand cultivators of the War Sect is simultaneously controlling at least a dozen sixth-order spiritual artifacts."
"When they made their move, tens of thousands of sixth-tier spiritual artifacts appeared in the sky above Ningwang City. The scene was terrifying," a Golden Core cultivator exclaimed.
The Sage of Taihua was stunned. He stared at the Golden Core cultivator who had spoken and asked in a deep voice, "Are you saying that a group of ascended cultivators who are half-step into the Void Refinement Realm can each control more than a dozen sixth-order spiritual artifacts? And all of them are the same? Do you think I'm easy to fool?"
The Sage of Taihua was naturally skeptical. He knew very well how difficult it was to simultaneously control more than a dozen sixth-order spiritual artifacts. One's soul and magical power needed to meet certain requirements. Such a peerless genius was extremely rare in the entire Azure Heaven Immortal Kingdom.