Chapter 781 - 702: Ascend to the Peak 101
In the Blood Mist Desert, direction is hard to discern. After entering it, Tan Shuangshuang relied on her ample reserves, practicing wherever she stopped, without choosing any direction.
Tan Shuangshuang has planned that when she wants to leave, she’ll set the Flying Heaven Palace to travel in a straight line at full speed, ensuring an exit from the Blood Mist Desert, as people may lose direction, but a Magic Artifact won’t.
Now, everyone needed to find their way to the lair of the evil cultivators, and Sha Qionghua was the only one who could lead them. Initially, they intended for her to recover in the hot springs before guiding them to eradicate the evil cultivators.
Unexpectedly, Sha Qionghua hated those evil cultivators deeply and worried about her team members, believing finding the lair early might save a few lives. She insisted on leading everyone there immediately.
Unable to sway Sha Qionghua, and eager to reach the evil cultivators’ lair faster for possible rescues, they let her lead the way to identify the direction, while Tan Shuangshuang drove the Flying Heaven Palace.
Sha Qionghua, heavily injured from her escape, couldn’t travel far, leading the group quickly to the evil cultivators’ lair.
The evil cultivators’ lair was well-hidden beneath the dunes, with an Array outside blocking Divine Sense detection, which only Tan Shuangshuang with her strong Divine Sense could uncover.
Though underground, the lair was opulent, like a vast underground palace, with winding passages and numerous evil cultivators. The one who captured Sha Qionghua lived here with substantial status.
This was a pleasant surprise; so many evil cultivators were here. Regarding potential incompleteness in attacks, Tan Shuangshuang assured them her Thousand Silk Entanglement could handle groups.
Only a Martial Venerate might escape her Thousand Silk Entanglement, yet Tan Shuangshuang sensed no Martial Venerate level presence in the lair.
Tan Shuangshuang’s assault was as brutal as ever. Her Thousand Silk Entanglement surged, breaking into the underground palace beneath the sands, ripping apart defenses, and dragging out and slaughtering the surprised evil cultivators.
Hua Qingcheng had earlier confirmed these evil cultivators had killed countless people, with no redeemable traits. Tan Shuangshuang’s Divine Sense scouting revealed many horrific dungeons in the palace, resembling a Hell, galvanizing her swift and ruthless action.
Evil cultivators built their cultivation on lives, targeting both ordinary people and cultivators, becoming public enemies like the Demon Clan. Had they been able to survive the Abyss, they might’ve joined the Demon Clan already.
These evil cultivators practiced very cruel cultivation methods, absorbing Spiritual Power till the Spirit Mansion shattered, considered the mildest approach. Other grotesque methods stirred rage just witnessing them.
Tan Shuangshuang’s assault came so suddenly, although the evil cultivators anticipated righteous cultivators might find and besiege their lair, thus building numerous twisting exits enhanced by a Maze for defense. They fought incoming righteous cultivators or retreated safely, showing foresight.
They didn’t expect Tan Shuangshuang, with her formidable Combat Power, to independently overturn the underground palace.
The evil cultivators, panicked, began fleeing madly, without success. Tan Shuangshuang’s attacks reached everywhere, leaving them no escape. One by one, they were dragged from the palace and met their end.
Tan Shuangshuang led the attacks, while Tan Feiyu, Lu Tianyi, Bai Sheng, and Fei Hu occupied the four corners of the palace, intercepting stragglers. However, the four barely participated as the action concluded swiftly.
After confirming all evil cultivators were purged, Tan Shuangshuang and her companions hadn’t yet entered the palace. Sha Qionghua was first to descend from the Flying Heaven Palace, rushing inside, still concerned for her team.
Tan Shuangshuang extended her hand, shrinking the Flying Heaven Palace to palm-size, storing it in the Storage Stone. They followed Sha Qionghua into the underground palace, heading toward the prison cells.
The first imprisonment site belonged to an evil cultivator practicing human blood cultivation. Inside, they found dozens hanging upside down over a large stone pool, with giant wounds on their necks.
The pool was filled with blood, its thick scent nauseatingly overpowering. Blood streamed from the suspended people’s neck wounds, merging with the pool, reminding Tan Shuangshuang how her Thousand Silk Entanglement caught the evil cultivator soaking in the bloody pool.
The hanged individuals were dead, their blood long drained, leaving only trickling drops. No trace of life remained. Tan Shuangshuang sighed, lowering them, intending to bury them in the dunes away from this filthy place, even if Magic Beasts devoured the bodies.
After that cell came a second, where Sha Qionghua rushed, more gruesome. A corner piled with bones, with women bound or crucified, covered in scars of abuse.
Their bodies had no intact skin, worse still, Tan Shuangshuang’s senses revealed their Spirit Mansions were shattered, devoid of Spiritual Energy, organs severely damaged.
Lacking Spiritual Energy and gravely wounded, standard Elixirs couldn’t heal them, as their broken bodies couldn’t handle the Spiritual Power from Elixirs.
And ordinary healing methods were futile, leaving the women doomed to death despite breathing. Now, their spirit and hate for the evil cultivators kept them alive.
Sha Qionghua covered her mouth, sobbing as she carefully freed the sorrowful women. Her every move evoked a rasping scream from them.
When finally everyone was freed, Sha Qionghua’s fingers trembled, unable to touch them further. Their skin completely tattered, any contact a torment.
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