Ren Yufeng stared at the huge Bixuan Court under his feet. There were several hundred scattered cultivators standing inside, but none of them had dead aura.
His face couldn't help but twist as he glared at the two elders in front of him. "Old women, you ruined my plan!"
Elder Qingmiao stood with her whip in hand. Her face under her gauze hat was cold. "Devil cultivator, you're about to die, yet you still dare to be so arrogant!"
"About to die?"
Ren Yufeng cast them a contemptuous glance, and a hostile look appeared on his face. "Even if I'm about to die, you'll still be my scapegoat!"
"Hmph!"
Elder Qingyi stared at him coldly and lowered her hand that was covering her chest. "Since we can kill you, what's the big deal about us two old women dying?
You killed my disciple and destroyed my Bixuan Court — we martial sisters will properly settle this debt with you today! "
Ren Yufeng was arrogant. "Haha!
That depends on whether you have the ability or not! "
Elder Qingyi and Elder Qingmiao no longer said anything. The two of them glanced at each other then began to cast spells.
Their bodies emitted a bright red light that was as strong and gloomy as blood. The light became brighter and the color of blood also became more and more intense. Gradually, the light on their bodies fused together.
Upon seeing this, Ren Yufeng didn't dare to be careless.
He'd been fighting with the two elders for a while. He thought he could defeat them quickly with his divine technique, but in the end, he was surprised to find that he was still at a disadvantage.
Although his mind wasn't normal, he didn't become stupid. He immediately understood that the two elders must've cultivated some kind of secret technique in the Dao-Achieving Pagoda, which was why their power could reach such a high level in just twenty years.
Nevertheless, he didn't admit defeat. With the "divine dragon's breath," he would soon advance to the Nascent Soul realm, then the Deification realm, move unhindered in the human world, and ascend to become an immortal!
What were these two old women? He could definitely kill them!
With that thought in mind, the dead aura on Ren Yufeng's body surged, and his face under the black aura became increasingly ferocious.
In an instant, the three of them moved. The two elders released their spiritual aura inside the red light, and Ren Yufeng's dead aura also surged towards them.
The magic weapon the two elders refined for four years was called the Soul-Restraining Whip.
Ren Yufeng basically couldn't be considered a human anymore; he was as thin and withered as a skeleton. He basically didn't care about ordinary physical injuries, so they came up with this kind of magic weapon.
This kind of magic weapon was specialized in attacking one's primordial spirit, so it was very difficult for Ren Yufeng to defend against it. His dead aura could protect his physical body, but it couldn't protect his primordial spirit. Just now, he'd already suffered many losses.
The two elders advanced and retreated, but they no longer attacked and defended like before. Instead, they completely gave up on defense and attacked with all their might.
The fight in the air was intense, and the people watching from below couldn't take their eyes off it.
The outcome of this battle concerned their future.
Would they continue to be enslaved, or would they be able to live like humans?
Of course, he would choose the latter, but now was not the time for them to choose. They could only wait for the outcome of this battle.
The red light and the black gas grew brighter and brighter until they could no longer see anything else. Many people were suffocated by the pressure.
Wei Haolan glanced at them then shouted, "Junior Martial Sister Xia, Junior Martial Brother Tang, take them to a place farther away!" Most of these people only had Aura Refining cultivation level, so how could they withstand this kind of pressure?
Xia Qing and Tang Shen obeyed.
However, before they could move, they saw Ren Yufeng, who was in the sky, suddenly stop. As if he heard Wei Haolan's voice, he turned around and rushed down.
The two elders immediately followed him, but Ren Yufeng's speed was extremely fast, so they couldn't stop him for a while.
Wei Haolan was shocked to see Mo Tiange in that direction, so she shouted, "Elder Mo?!"
Mo Tiange could already feel the surging dead aura. Without saying anything, she took out another Poison-Resisting Talisman and stuck it on her body. The White Silk Handkerchief was summoned, which instantly expanded to the size of a mat and floated towards Ren Yufeng.
When Ren Yufeng saw her, a trace of hatred appeared on his face covered by the black gas. He actually didn't look at anyone else and rushed towards her.
Mo Tiange hastily retreated. With the White Silk Handkerchief in front of her and her Cloud-Treading Boots, she heard faint sounds of wind and thunder. In an instant, she disappeared from her original spot and reappeared several dozen feet behind Ren Yufeng.
This was the Teleportation Technique engraved on the stone wall in Ziwei's Immortal's Cave. Wanderer Ziwei had perfected it, so Foundation Building cultivators could also practice it. It was the only complete technique on the stone wall.
In the past twenty years, Mo Tiange had been comprehending it for a long time, so she could finally use it.
Ren Yufeng obviously hadn't seen it before, so he was stunned for a moment. Right at that moment, the two elders caught up to him. Their Soul-Confining Whips attacked Ren Yufeng at the same time.
"Ah!" Ren Yufeng couldn't concentrate and was hit head-on, causing him to scream miserably.
After being hit, he turned around and glared fiercely at Mo Tiange. His dead aura surged.
Nevertheless, the two elders didn't give him any time to rest. They used their secret technique at the same time. The Soul-Confining Whips flashed with a blood-red light and struck him again.
Ren Yufeng refused to accept his death. He gathered his dead aura and started to fight again.
Mo Tiange quietly landed. When she saw that all the low level cultivators around her had retreated, she heaved a sigh of relief. She signaled Wei Haolan, and the two of them also retreated a bit further.
They were very clear about the cultivation levels of the two elders — they were already at the peak of the Core Formation realm. As for the dead aura on Ren Yufeng's body, it was obviously much denser than it was twenty years ago.
This battle could be said to be the fiercest among cultivators below the Nascent Soul realm. It was no longer something cultivators at their level could meddle in.
They couldn't even clearly see how the two sides fought. They could only see the dead aura and the red light entangling with each other, and the spiritual aura fluctuations were frighteningly strong.
Mo Tiange couldn't help but recall the scene during Martial Uncle Xuanyin's Nascent Soul Ceremony. Martial Uncle Zhenyang and her master joined hands to fight against Master Song Feng. Although their momentum wasn't as strong, the intensity of their fight was much higher.
After all, Nascent Soul cultivators cherished their lives, but today, they were fighting with their lives on the line!
"Look!" Wei Haolan pointed at the sky.
The three people who were fighting were emitting a bright red light, completely enveloping the black aura.
Mo Tiange and Wei Haolan glanced at each other. Both of them were delighted.
However, the black aura slowly spread and almost overwhelmed the red light.
This battle was in a stalemate, causing Mo Tiange and Wei Haolan to tremble with fear.
What if they lost?
They didn't dare to think about the consequences.
If they lost … the two elders would die, Bixuan Court wouldn't be able to be rebuilt, and they would experience another bloodbath …
As she thought about this, Mo Tiange lowered her head to look at her hands.
The dead aura on her body had already dissipated, so if the situation wasn't good, she could enter the Virtual Sky World to hide.
However, they'd been in trouble together for twenty years, and she'd witnessed the two elders losing their lives — she didn't want this to be the end.
"Elder!" Wei Haolan suddenly called out.
Mo Tiange looked up and saw that the black aura in the sky was getting thicker and thicker, making her heart tighten. At the same time, she prepared herself. If … if the two elders really lost, she'd take Wei Haolan into the Virtual Sky World to hide for a while!
However, just as the red light was being compressed to the point where there was almost no space for it to exist, it suddenly exploded. At the same time, they heard Elder Qingyi shout, "Die!"
The red light was like blood. It sprayed forward and suddenly exploded the black aura.
"Ah!"
Ren Yufeng screamed. He couldn't control the black aura on his body anymore. Like ink dissolving into water, it slowly faded away.
"Puff! Puff! Puff!" In midair, the three of them fell one after another.
Their momentum dispersed, and their spiritual aura gradually dissipated. They no longer had the spiritual aura pressure of a peak stage Core Formation cultivator.
Mo Tiange and Wei Haolan watched for a while, but the three of them remained motionless. In the end, they couldn't help but run over.
"Elder!
Elder! "Wei Haolan rushed over.
Her gauze hat fell off. Her withered face didn't have any luster; it was like a withered old tree, rough and dim.
Elder Qingyi opened her eyes with difficulty and looked towards Ren Yufeng. When she saw that the black aura on his body had dissipated and he was motionless, she finally revealed a smile. She glanced at Elder Qingmiao, who was also speechless, then both of them closed their eyes with smiles on their faces.
"Elder!" Wei Haolan shouted loudly with grief in her eyes.
Mo Tiange stared at Mo Tiange then pressed her shoulder and shook her head at her.
The two elders were beyond saving.
How could Wei Haolan not know?
She just found it hard to accept.
Seeing her like this, Mo Tiange knew she needed time to accept, so she retreated and walked towards Ren Yufeng.
Before she met Ren Yufeng, she never thought she'd be suppressed by a person to the point where she practically had no way out.
A cultivator without any background and even without any talent actually made her spend twenty years with no way out.
She mustn't look down on anyone. In this cultivation world full of variables, maybe an Aura Refining cultivator you looked down on would be much stronger than you in the future.
She heaved a long sigh then picked up Ren Yufeng's Qiankun Bag then threw out a fire talisman, burning Ren Yufeng's corpse into ashes.
She then raised her head to look at the dead aura that hadn't dispersed yet and frowned.
This dead aura wouldn't disperse in a short time. Apparently, it would be a very long time before other people could set foot in this place.
Xia Qing and Tang Shen ran over. When they saw the two elders' corpses, they were both dumbfounded. "Elder …"
Wei Haolan stood up and calmly wiped the tears on her face. "Elder's done what they wanted to do. Now, it's our turn."
"Senior Martial Sister …"
"Junior Martial Sister Xia, collect the elders' corpses and send them to the Dao-Achieving Pagoda.
Junior Martial Brother Tang, regardless of whether they're Bixuan Court disciples or not, tell everyone to gather at the monastery gate. "
"… Yes." Xia Qing and Tang Shen both stood up and did as Wei Haolan ordered.
"Elder Mo."
Wei Haolan looked at Mo Tiange. "The two elders already passed away, so you're the only elder left in Bixuan Court now. Please come with me to comfort the disciples."
"… Alright, I'll naturally obey."
Tang Shen moved very quickly. Within the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn, all the cultivators in Bixuan Court had already arrived at the monastery gate.
Some people cheered jubilantly, while some people were anxious and fearful.
The ones cheering jubilantly were the former Bixuan Court disciples who'd been tortured for the past twenty years and had finally waited for this day.
The ones who were anxious and fearful were the individual cultivators accepted by Ren Yufeng. Almost all of them were male cultivators. When Bixuan Court was still around, although they weren't bullied or humiliated, they didn't have the chance to stand out.
At first, they were happy about Bixuan Court's extermination, but later on, they discovered that having a cultivation group wasn't so wonderful.
Wei Haolan's expression was cold. She was flying in the air, overlooking the numerous cultivators below her. She said, "Disciples, Bixuan Court has gone through a calamity, but in the end, Elder Qingyi and Elder Qingmiao sacrificed their lives to eliminate our enemy!
From today onwards, Bixuan Court will be re-established, and all of you will return to the cultivation group. "
Before she could finish speaking, the Bixuan Court disciples below her already started cheering.
They'd been waiting for this day for too long!
Wei Haolan raised her hand, silencing their voices. "In addition, as the Sect Head of Bixuan Court, I hereby announce that Bixuan Court is no longer a cultivation group for female cultivators. Regardless of whether they're male or female, as long as they pass the test, they can become official disciples!"
This news instantly caused an uproar among the crowd. All the male cultivators who weren't Bixuan Court disciples stared fixedly at Wei Haolan.
Among them, the former Bixuan Court Foundation Building female cultivators even cried out involuntarily, "Senior Martial Sister Sect Head!"
Wei Haolan merely glanced at them indifferently. "These are the two elders' final orders."
She then turned towards the others. "For those who aren't Bixuan Court disciples, we'll let bygones be bygones as long as they didn't bully us!
Two days later, Bixuan Court will hold its reconstruction ceremony, and at the same time, we'll recruit new disciples! "