Chapter 133
At this moment, every single sword burst forth with a pillar of blood-red light.
Centered on Alex, the eighteen pillars of light flew directly into his body. His eyes snapped open. The veins on his forehead bulged hideously.
"Good..."
"What majestic, boundless spiritual energy!"
Under the illumination of the blood-red light, Alex’s figure was as dazzling and radiant as the sun itself.
The tyrannical aura radiating from his body caused the very air currents to reverse. Heavy dark clouds enveloped his surroundings, thunder rolled, lightning crackled.
After about half the time it takes an incense stick to burn, the pillars of light gradually faded.
The swords reverted back into the Purple Cloud Demon Sword and floated into Alex’s hand.
He slowly opened his eyes. His gaze now even sharper and more piercing than before. Looking at his own two hands, his eyes gleamed brilliantly.
An excited, fanatical smile curled at the corners of his mouth.
"I have been trapped at the seventh level of the Supreme Realm for hundreds of years."
"To think that the power of merely a single Heaven-Turning Peak would help me break through to the eighth level of the Supreme Realm?"
"This is truly... far too wonderful!"
Breaking through to the eighth level wasn’t just a minor realm advancement for Alex. More importantly, it shattered a lingering concern he had always held in his heart, leaving him feeling incomparably refreshed.
In the original novel, Alex was at the seventh level of the Supreme Realm from the moment he debuted. Right up until he was finally killed by Knox at the end, he was still at the seventh level.
Originally, Alex worried whether Knox’s Protagonist Halo would lock his cultivation base.
Making it forever impossible to advance even a single step. But looking at it now, this Protagonist Halo wasn’t so unreasonable to that degree.
The fact that he could actually break through filled his heart with boundless excitement.
If I can break through to the eighth level of the Supreme Realm today, I can break through to the ninth level tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, it will be the Saint Realm. The day after that, the Emperor Realm.
Alex could almost see a smooth, limitless future for himself and the Hale family waving right at him.
"Hahahaha, how utterly satisfying!"
"Purple Cloud Demon Sword, you truly are a rare and excellent treasure."
"I will definitely cherish you properly and put you to excellent use!"
While throwing his head back and laughing loudly, Alex steered his floating cloud and soared away.
Only after flying far away did he casually wave his hand, withdrawing the restriction barrier that had been enveloping the airspace above Heaven-Turning Peak.
Once the barrier vanished, the thick, pungent stench of blood from Heaven-Turning Peak, along with the Yin energy and resentment of tens of thousands of dead souls, instantly drifted out. Permeating the air.
In a short while, it spread across all Ten Great Main Peaks, the thirty Inner Sect peaks and the three hundred Outer Sect peaks.
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Early hours of the morning, before dawn.
The nine remaining elders gathered at Sunblaze Peak. Sitting around a circular table to hold an emergency meeting.
An elder with completely white hair and beard sat in the main seat. His complexion was heavy. His expression solemn.
This was the head of the Ten Sword Elders and the second-in-command of the Divine Blade Sect, Vincent.
Sect Master Magnus was usually obsessed only with sword techniques and ignored the sect’s political affairs. Therefore, matters big and small within the sect were all handled by Vincent on his behalf.
He was a man deeply skilled in political maneuvering and strategy. Even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, he could remain unruffled and calm.
But today, upon learning the news of Rorin’s death and the annihilation of Heaven-Turning Peak, he was struck with overwhelming terror and completely at a loss.
Thus, Vincent had no choice but to urgently summon the other eight elders.
"Junior Brothers, you should all know by now." Master Vincent narrowed his eyes, his voice deep.
"Last night, a bloody, tragic massacre occurred."
"The entire Heaven-Turning Peak, nearly twenty thousand disciples. All slaughtered without a single survivor."
"And our Junior Brother Rorin was also crushed to death inside the Peak Master’s Hall. Not even a corpse or bone left behind."
The eight elders all lowered their heads, silent.
This matter was truly far too massive. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it the greatest tragedy since the founding of the Divine Blade Sect.
No matter how unfathomable and composed they usually acted, at this moment, terror and unease were inevitable.
Vincent sighed helplessly. "Junior Brothers, all of you speak. How do you view this matter?"
Silence held for another moment before Loris spoke up. "Senior Brother, during the first half of the night yesterday, I actually went to Heaven-Turning Peak to borrow twenty bottles of Bone-Strengthening Pills from Senior Brother Rorin."
"At that time, around the beginning of midnight, Heaven-Turning Peak was still perfectly harmonious and peaceful, nothing out of the ordinary."
Everyone’s expressions changed. Right now, it was only the beginning of the mid-night.
In other words, within the short span of few hours, the murderer had washed the entire Heaven-Turning Peak in blood.
Wiping out nearly twenty thousand disciples. Furthermore, all the disciples had been evaporated into bloody ash.
Not a single intact corpse left behind.
Even the most elite and formidable army of the Heavenly Flame Dynasty couldn’t possibly possess such terrifying strength. Couldn’t execute such a bloody, brutal method.
Nerin frowned deeply. "Senior Brother, I believe the absolute priority right now is to immediately lock down all the peaks, and then carefully search for any suspicious strangers within the sect."
"To be able to slaughter the entirety of Heaven-Turning Peak within few hours means the perpetrators are definitely not just one or two people."
"It is highly likely a terrifyingly powerful organization."
"Nerin’s proposal is good." Aerin agreed.
"I suggest we shouldn’t just search the various peaks of our Divine Blade Sect. We must search the entire Hundred Thousand Great Mountains."