Chapter 774: Quantao (I)
Li Xizhi had just stepped out of the grand formation when his eyes, infused with Heavenly Glow, saw a completely different world before him.
Baixiang Valley had once been bathed in a gentle winter sun, its hills lined with maple trees weighed down by snow as soft as white clouds, creating a scene of pure brilliance between heaven and earth. Now, it had turned a dim gray-black, and a hazy gloom stretched as far as the eye could see.
Black clouds now rolled through the sky, the snow had lost its luster, and dense shadows blanketed the forests. The dharma light surrounding the area was now only barely noticeable. Instead, beams of devilish light shot skyward, leaving one dark tail flame after another.
Baixiang Valley had been razed to the ground. Several lonely skeletons stood amid shattered tiles. Their heads had been severed and taken to be used as dharma artifacts. Gray-yellow dust drifted over the surface, and the bone-white remains were still stained with dried blood.
What a wretched land of demonic taint...
Li Xizhi fled swiftly along the mountain pass. A brief glance confirmed that the skeletons belonged to members of the Bai Family. When they had first arrived, the old Bai patriarch had expressed endless gratitude. Who could have thought Azure Pond Sect would use them to fend off the devil cultivators, and only not a single Bai Family member would survive in the end?
There was no time to think further. He opened his palm; what had once been a terrifying wound had now sealed like a small mouth, leaving only a few red seams. Li Xizhi shook out an exquisitely crafted spear from the sleeve of his feathered robe and gripped it tightly.
The spear was already thrashing wildly, its bladed tip flashing incessantly, shedding fragment-like glimmers of light.
As Li Xizhi soared faster and faster on clouds of Heavenly Glow, he formed seals with one hand, tapping the spear from the tail to the bright white center, and finally the thin, razor-sharp blade. Each strike lit up streaks of multicolored light.