"Long live the dean!"
"My Battle Spear City is eternal, my Warspear Academy is eternal!"
"General, please lead us to slaughter our way to the Nine Heavens and kill all the crooked paths!"
… …
The cultivators of Battle Spear City looked at the peerless woman in battle attire like soldiers looking for their general. Their blood boiled as they stood up and waved their flags. Their eyes were filled with grief and determination as they prepared to follow their female general and fight the Dark World to the death.
Gu Qingyan was shrouded in grief as she walked out of the Central Sacred Mountain step by step. She looked at the once prosperous Battle Spear City, which was now in ruins and full of corpses. Blood gathered into a river on the streets as thousands of vengeful souls wailed in pain. Her heart was filled with hatred and self-blame.
Because of her incompetence, her territory was massacred by the Dark World.
The young students, the respected elders, the ordinary teachers, and the innocent residents of the city … Their corpses lay in pools of blood that spilled all over the city, reflecting the color of blood in her clear eyes.
I'm sorry!
I'm sorry …
Gu Qingyan's eyes reddened as she silently said sorry in her heart.
Every time she said sorry, her aura became sharper. In the end, a will that contained monstrous anger and endless hatred enveloped the entire Battle Spear City. Everyone in the city, including the cultivators of the Dark World, was secretly shocked.
At that moment, in a trance.
Gu Qingyan seemed to no longer be that ethereal, aloof, and beautiful woman who shocked the world, but an extreme madwoman who was on the verge of going berserk.
"Very angry?"
A faintly discernible yet boundlessly vast and divine voice suddenly rang out, reverberating between the heavens and the earth.
Above the clouds, an imposing figure walked out of the demonic sea. That figure wasn't tall, but everyone felt a sense of majesty in their hearts. A sense of reverence and awe rose in their hearts subconsciously. Even the cultivators of the Warspear Academy couldn't control their emotions.
That figure was like the monarch of heaven and earth, a god above the Nine Heavens, causing people to involuntarily prostrate themselves in worship.
Some of the ordinary residents of Battle Spear City were already prostrating on the ground uncontrollably, their heads touching the ground as they trembled.
Even if they didn't want to, they couldn't control their bodies.
Sage!
Only a peerless Saint could have such a terrifying aura, as if the heavens had descended upon the mortal world.
Only the monarch of heaven and earth could make people look up to him without any resistance.
"Sage!"
"Greetings, Sage!"
"The heavenly might of the Saint Monarch is vast and mighty, unrivalled in the universe."
… …
The cultivators of the Dark World fell to their knees and prostrated themselves on the ground. They looked at the monarch above the Nine Heavens with burning eyes.
A supreme saint was much more honorable than a country's emperor. They were the true sons of the heavens.
In the Cloud Mountain County City, the Quasi-Sage clans and sects of the Xiling Nation all narrowed their eyes and tensed up their bodies. They anxiously looked at the peerless saint on the screen and didn't even dare to breathe.
The atmosphere was so solemn that even the drop of a needle could be heard. They were afraid that even the slightest bit of commotion would allow an absolute saint to discover them from thousands of miles away.
Sage!
That was a taboo term.
That was an existence that all the clans and sects in the entire Xiling Nation could not afford to offend.
When the cultivators of the Dark World saw their own saint appear, they were all excited and cheered.
When Gu Qingyan appeared and killed a Quasi-Sage with one strike, the cultivators of the Dark World were indeed terrified and their morale was severely damaged.
However, the appearance of the saint instantly raised the morale of the Dark World cultivators to the peak. They were all filled with killing intent and laughed wantonly.
There was no need for the saint to say or do anything.
The two words' sage 'were the greatest calming pill.
That was because he was a supreme existence, the pinnacle of heaven and earth.
With his hands behind his back, the Devil's Heart walked step by step to the sky above the Warspear Academy. He looked down at Gu Qingyan and said lightly, "No matter how angry you are, no matter how determined you are, no matter how much you struggle, you will not be able to change the outcome in the face of absolute power.
"However, considering that your talent is hard to find and cultivation is not easy, I can give you and the Warspear Academy a way out."
The Devil's Heart's voice echoed faintly between heaven and earth. It contained endless majesty, like the voice of heaven and earth.
Hearing this, the cultivators in the Warspear City were all shocked. What did the Devil's Heart mean? Was he not going to destroy the Warspear City?
For a moment, many people were angry at the Devil's Heart's words and had a glimmer of hope.
Gu Qingyan was expressionless and his eyes were cold and merciless.
"It's very simple. You submit to me and let me brand you with the law slave mark. You will be loyal to the Devil's Heart Palace forever. Also, the Warspear Academy must be merged into the Devil's Heart Palace and become a member of the Dark World."
The Devil's Heart said lightly, his eyes indifferent and arrogant.
In his eyes, the entire Warspear Academy was not as good as Gu Qingyan alone. Because Gu Qingyan would definitely become a saint and touch the Divine Path.
If he could control her, the power of the Devil's Heart Palace would greatly increase in the future.
As for the Warspear Academy, those treasures that had been accumulated for thousands of years were indeed very tempting. However, the Devil's Heart also knew that the treasures of the Warspear Academy were not things that he could take for himself because there were other saints present.
"You only have one chance. You have to grasp it well." The Devil's Heart said faintly.
In his eyes, the Warspear Academy had no choice. Otherwise, it would be destroyed.
The entire Warspear City was extremely silent. Everyone looked at Gu Qingyan. Even the sound of breathing could not be heard. The battle had long stopped and was divided into two camps.
Because to fight or not.
At this moment, the decision was up to Gu Qingyan. If she surrendered, then the fate of the Warspear City would go in another direction.
In the Yunshan County, the imperial family and the imperial preceptor's family were extremely nervous as they stared at Gu Qingyan.
If the Warspear Academy surrendered, then the entire Xiling Nation would be greatly affected. It was even possible that in the near future, because of the Warspear Academy's betrayal, the Underworld would completely control the Xiling Nation and make it another Underworld Nation on the continent.
The cultivators and residents of the Warspear City were even more nervous. The Yuantian Sect, the Firetop Sect … all of them looked at Gu Qingyan with worried eyes.
If the Warspear Academy chose to surrender, it did not mean that they would be able to escape this calamity.
On the contrary, their fate would be even more miserable. There was no hope at all because the Underworld would not let them go.
They were not the Warspear Academy. In the eyes of the saints of the Devil's Heart Palace, they had no value at all.
Gu Qingyan raised her eyes and looked at the Devil's Heart. She suddenly smiled. That smile was like a thousand-year-old snow lotus on a snowy mountain. It was very beautiful, very otherworldly, and also very cold. It emitted a chill that could freeze the world.
"Devil's Heart, I didn't expect you to be so naive to be able to cultivate to become a saint.
Since the founding of the Warspear Academy, we have never compromised and will never fear war.
Moreover, who do you think you are, Devil's Heart? How dare you speak such nonsense here. "