Chapter 782 - 703: Ascend to the Peak 102
Tan Shuangshuang couldn’t bear to look back, took a deep breath, and the Thousand Silk Entanglement tossed down an Evil Cultivator who was bound so tightly that his mouth was gagged. This was a survivor Tan Shuangshuang deliberately left alive during her earlier attack, the very Evil Cultivator who had abducted Sha Qionghua and her team members.
Initially, Tan Shuangshuang intended to let Sha Qionghua kill this Evil Cultivator to avenge herself, but now it was a fitting chance for these pitiful women to personally exact revenge.
The Evil Cultivator had all his power sealed and couldn’t even twitch a muscle, reduced to nothing more than a helpless lamb to be slaughtered, with no threat remaining. Thus, Tan Shuangshuang confidently turned away and left the area to these tortured women.
Behind her came the women’s furious and murderous screams, accompanied by the Evil Cultivator’s anguished, heart-wrenching howls. No one cared about his suffering. Compared to the women’s pain, they only cursed that the Evil Cultivator wasn’t suffering enough.
The noise from behind persisted for a long time; everyone patiently waited as both the women’s screams and the Evil Cultivator’s howls gradually weakened and eventually faded away.
Subdued sobbing sounds reached from behind — it was Sha Qionghua. After a while, the sobbing stopped. A disheveled Sha Qionghua approached, her face and a large portion of her front stained with blood, even her lips and teeth.
Sha Qionghua’s eyes were red and swollen, with tears forming rivulets through the blood on her face. Her blood-stained hands trembled incessantly, fingers covered in torn flesh, making for a picture both eerie and pitiable.
The subsequent process was unpleasant, as the variety of cruel scenes within each cage weighed heavily on everyone’s spirit, heightening their fury toward the Evil Cultivators, surpassing even their hatred for the Demon Clan.
Though humans and the Demon Clan were inherently incompatible, with continual life-or-death battles, there was hatred but no indignation toward their cruelty, as the Demon Clan was naturally an enemy of humanity, and enemies being cruel was to be expected.
But Evil Cultivators were different. Being human, they originated from the same source as humans but adopted methods more brutal than the Demon Clan to treat their kind. This was what made people intolerably angry; being human, they couldn’t be forgiven!
Fortunately, not everyone trapped in this underground palace was dead; some survived. These individuals were placed by Tan Shuangshuang in the Flying Heaven Palace, intending to send them to the nearest country after overthrowing the Evil Cultivator’s stronghold in the Blood Mist Desert.
After rescuing the last survivor from this underground palace, Tan Shuangshuang chose to violently destroy it and then, led by Sha Qionghua, the group continued towards the next Evil Cultivator’s lair.
The Evil Cultivators prospering blissfully in the Blood Mist Desert met their nightmare as one lair after another was discovered and destroyed by Tan Shuangshuang, with none escaping the Thousand Silk Entanglement in her hands.
Even if some Evil Cultivators narrowly escaped, they would encounter Tan Feiyu, Lu Tianyi, Bai Sheng, and Fei Hu intercepting them, ensuring not a single Evil Cultivator escaped alive.
Each destroyed Evil Cultivator lair liberated many people who were tortured to the brink of death, and of course, the group also acquired numerous treasures from these lairs — spoils taken by Evil Cultivators from cultivators, a massive quantity of Blood Sand Stones, and countless Spirit Stones and Spiritual Pearls.
These were all unearthed from the Evil Cultivator lairs under the leadership of Lu Tianyi. Some Magic Artifact Weapons, usable only by Evil Cultivators, were destroyed, while all valuables were collected.
Lu Tianyi didn’t gather these out of greed; primarily, Tan Shuangshuang had saved so many people that the Flying Heaven Palace was opened to its utmost limits. It had become a colossal entity, meant to accommodate those rescued from the Evil Cultivator lairs by Tan Shuangshuang.
So many people, severely wounded, required substantial Spirit Stones for healing and recuperation. Though rescued, they lacked combat capability temporarily, and supporting them until their cultivation was restored also demanded a huge sum of Spirit Stones.
To truly save these survivors, sustaining them until they could be self-reliant, though everyone wasn’t short on money, they couldn’t afford to support so many. Hence, Spirit Stones and Spiritual Pearls from these Evil Cultivator lairs became quite useful.
The Evil Cultivators committed innumerable sins; using their legacy to somewhat compensate those they harmed was but meager relief from their manifold crimes.
Maybe it was due to not being pursued by the righteous for so long, or perhaps too much faith in the Blood Mist Desert for safety, many Evil Cultivators’ lairs, though hidden, operated overtly, even boastfully. Consequently, many people knew their whereabouts.
Among the people rescued, many knew several Evil Cultivator lairs. Relying on routes provided by the rescued, Tan Shuangshuang overthrew those Evil Cultivator lairs one by one in the Blood Mist Desert.
Initially, the Evil Cultivators didn’t react quickly, coupled with Tan Shuangshuang’s swift and ruthless attacks, they couldn’t even relay messages to others before being annihilated by her.
However, the number of Evil Cultivators in the Blood Mist Desert exceeded Tan Shuangshuang’s expectations. Destroying one only led to encountering another, and each lair contained prisons whose dreadful scenes weighed heavily on everyone’s hearts.
Killing many, inevitably some Evil Cultivators managed to send distress signals before dying, notifying others. Initially, such alerts didn’t hinder Tan Shuangshuang’s purge but led to futile attempts of gathering forces against her.
These Evil Cultivators who approached were naturally no match for Tan Shuangshuang and met their demise. But as the kills mounted, the Evil Cultivators grew afraid, ceased their dreams of revenge, and hastily fled.
Tan Shuangshuang didn’t fear revenge-seekers, confident they’d meet death. However, their escape posed a problem. Lacking omnipresence, once they fled, she was powerless. Even speeding up the purge, some would inevitably escape alive.
Fortunately, Tan Shuangshuang acted quickly, and after a few failed attacks on her, about seventy percent of the Evil Cultivator lairs in the Blood Mist Desert were toppled. Under her relentless pursuit, at least half of the remaining Evil Cultivators were killed or injured, with only a few escaping. However, those few could no longer assemble on such a large scale to harm people.
Tan Shuangshuang and her group wreaked havoc in the Blood Mist Desert for a month, purging every discovered Evil Cultivator lair. Then, they began to determine how to settle those rescued from these lairs.