Ch 299: The Reversed Battle

Gai Yuanmo had been in secluded cultivation for many years, constantly striving to reach the Golden Core Realm.

Once he successfully achieved Core Formation, he would be the strongest cultivator within a radius of tens of thousands of li, and the Soul Burning Hall would be promoted to a seventh-rate sect in the Spirit Realm.

Unfortunately, limited by his aptitude and talent, although he had reached the threshold of the Golden Core Realm, he was always unable to cross it.

This time, if it weren’t for the sect’s all-out war against annihilation, he would still be continuing his secluded cultivation, striving for the Golden Core Realm.

Gai Yuanmo originally thought that with his own intervention, he could easily slay Bai Qiuhan, the Fire Cloud Sect Ancestor, and then annihilate the Fire Cloud Sect.

However, unexpectedly, Bai Qiuhan, cunning and shrewd, lured him into a killing formation that the Fire Cloud Sect had pre-laid.

Moreover, the power of this killing formation was far beyond his imagination.

“Damn it!”

Seeing the Spiritual Energy Giant Sword slowly descending from the sky, its Sword Intent pervasive, its imposing pressure shocking, Gai Yuanmo’s face turned pale, his heart filled with despair.

In his eyes, the descending Spiritual Energy Giant Sword was like a strike from a Golden Core Realm cultivator; its power was too strong, simply insurmountable.

“I’ll fight it out!”

Gai Yuanmo consumed a Qi Burst Pill, then spat a mouthful of Essence Blood onto his magical item.

The Qi Burst Pill is a spirit pill specifically used to enhance combat power; after consumption, a cultivator’s combat power will instantly surge.

For example, after Gai Yuanmo swallowed the Qi Burst Pill, the spiritual energy in his body surged wildly, his combat power comparable to that of a Golden Core Realm cultivator.

However, the cost of consuming the Qi Burst Pill is that after a hundred breaths, combat power rapidly declines, and the person is in a state of collapse.

If the opponent is not killed within a hundred breaths, they will be killed instead.

As for spitting Essence Blood onto a magical item, it’s a way to enhance the item’s power.

Obviously, Gai Yuanmo felt the deadly threat of the Nine Revolutions Absolute Killing Formation and was forced to use two self-harming methods to enhance his combat power.

In his opinion, as long as he could break out of the formation and then kill Bai Qiuhan, the Soul Burning Hall would still have a great chance of winning.

“Old Gai is ruthless; he’s going all out!”

Seeing Gai Yuanmo, trapped in the killing formation, desperately fighting, both Bai Qiuhan, the Fire Cloud Sect Ancestor, and Sect Master Han Qianshan became nervous.

“Success or failure depends on this!”

“Hopefully, this formation can withstand Gai Yuanmo’s attack!”

The other high-level members of the Fire Cloud Sect, watching Gai Yuanmo’s frenzied state, each held a sweat in their hands.

“Break for me!”

Gai Yuanmo roared, becoming one with his sword, transforming into a pillar of light, like a meteor striking Earth, colliding with the light net ahead.

“Break!”

Thousands of Soul Burning Hall disciples also roared in unison, cheering on their ancestor.

They knew that whether their ancestor could break through the formation was related to the success or failure of this battle.

If their ancestor fell in this killing formation, it would be a great disaster for the Soul Burning Hall.

“Not a true Golden Core cultivator; wanting to break through my formation, you’re still a little short!”

Qin An curled his lips, sneering endlessly.

“Boom!”

Gai Yuanmo, man and sword, collided with the light net of the killing formation, causing the light net to tremble violently, as if it were about to collapse and break at any moment.

However, the killing formation was extremely tough; after violently trembling for more than ten breaths, it finally held.

The Fire Cloud Sect side let out a breath, then each person showed a look of ecstatic joy.

The Soul Burning Hall side, however, was utterly disheartened, each person’s heart sinking to the bottom.

Gai Yuanmo was the soul of the thousands of Soul Burning Hall disciples. His failure to break through the formation dealt a blow to the morale of the disciples.

“Ah!”

Gai Yuanmo’s attack was fruitless. Knowing that things were going badly, in his rage, he lost his reason, his eyes bloodshot, his hair standing on end, and he once again launched an assault on the light net forming the killing formation.

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

…

Under Gai Yuanmo’s continuous impacts, the Nine Revolutions Absolute Killing Formation emitted a series of booming sounds, trembling on the verge of collapse.

At this time, the Spiritual Energy Giant Sword that had fallen from the sky was getting closer and closer to the top of Gai Yuanmo’s head.

The powerful imposing pressure and the intense crisis of life and death enveloped Gai Yuanmo, causing his attacks on the light net to become slower and more strenuous.

“Spare me!”

“Please, spare me!”

“I can promise you anything!”

Gai Yuanmo suddenly knelt down and pleaded loudly.

This action stunned everyone from both sects.

No one expected that a dignified Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer cultivator would be so afraid of death.

Only the high-level members of the two sects understood why Gai Yuanmo was like this; he was at a critical moment in his attempt to reach the Golden Core Realm; once successful, he could increase his lifespan by a hundred years, and he really didn’t want to die like this.

However, no one in the Fire Cloud Sect paid him any attention.

To not kill this person would be to raise a tiger as a threat!

“Bang!”

The Spiritual Energy Giant Sword fell mercilessly, forcefully breaking through Gai Yuanmo’s protective spiritual energy and landing on his physical body.

With a shrill, desperate scream, Gai Yuanmo instantly turned into a puddle of flesh.

From Gai Yuanmo entering the formation to being slain, the entire process lasted only twenty or thirty breaths.

A Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer cultivator, thus perished.

Looking at Gai Yuanmo’s disfigured corpse, the scene fell into a deathly silence.

Immediately afterwards, the disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect erupted into cheers.

The Soul Burning Hall side, however, were each like mourners at a funeral, their fighting spirit completely lost.

“Ancestor!”

Feng Youming, grief-stricken and heartbroken, his eyes bloodshot, roared out.

“Hahaha… Old Gai, you’ve finally met your match!”

After a moment of shock, Bai Qiuhan let out a long laugh, incomparably elated.

In the battle with the Soul Burning Hall, Gai Yuanmo was his most formidable opponent. Now that Gai Yuanmo had fallen, none of the remaining strong cultivators of the Soul Burning Hall were a match for him.

Although the full-scale battle between the two sects hadn’t yet begun, the Fire Cloud Sect had already secured victory!

“All disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect, listen to my command!”

“Today, we shall first annihilate the invading enemy, then destroy the Soul Burning Hall!”

“Kill!”

With Bai Qiuhan’s thunderous roar, thousands of Fire Cloud Sect disciples, wielding magical items, under Bai Qiuhan’s lead, swarmed towards the disciples of the Soul Burning Hall on the opposite side.

Qin An stood motionless.

With Bai Qiuhan and Han Qianshan making their move, the victory of the battle between the two sects was already decided, he was no longer needed.

He deactivated the Nine Revolutions Absolute Killing Formation, took a step forward, landed beside Gai Yuanmo’s corpse, reached out his left hand into the void, and Gai Yuanmo’s Storage Ring was already in his hand.

“Wow, there are quite a few good things!”

“Worthy of being a sect ancestor!”

Qin An injected a wisp of spiritual energy into the Storage Ring, checked the cultivation resources inside, his eyes lit up, his heart overflowing with joy.

The space within this Storage Ring was quite large; it was piled with a lot of good things: spirit pills, spiritual medicines, spirit stones, magical items, and so on, everything was available, and the quantity was quite large.

“Worthy of being a cultivator who lived for more than two hundred years; almost all of his lifetime’s accumulated cultivation resources are here!”

“With these cultivation resources, plus the two million spirit stones from before, I’ll have enough for a long time!”

Qin An casually threw the Storage Ring into his Space Ring.

I saved the Fire Cloud Sect; taking this Storage Ring as spoils of war isn’t excessive, right?

In front of the Fire Cloud Sect mountain gate, nearly ten thousand disciples from the two sects engaged in fierce battle.

“Avenging our ancestor!”

Feng Youming, driven mad by the death of his sect ancestor, charged into the Fire Cloud Sect’s ranks with a magical item, attacking wildly.

Although the other Soul Burning Hall disciples had lost their fighting spirit, since their sect master didn’t flee, they dared not flee either; they could only grit their teeth and fight.

Feng Youming’s cultivation was only at the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer.

However, Han Qianshan’s cultivation was now comparable to his, and Bai Qiuhan, the sect ancestor, had successfully advanced to the Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer.

Therefore, this battle, from its beginning, became a one-sided slaughter.

After dozens of breaths, Feng Youming was killed with one palm strike from Bai Qiuhan.

The other high-level members of the Soul Burning Hall were also slain by Han Qianshan and other high-level members of the Fire Cloud Sect.

The remaining Soul Burning Hall disciples, leaderless and terrified, either fled or surrendered.

In just over an hour, this battle ended with the Soul Burning Hall disciples nearly completely annihilated.

The Fire Cloud Sect side suffered minimal casualties, which were almost negligible.

“We won!”

“We won!”

When the battle ended, thousands of Fire Cloud Sect disciples, both crying and laughing, fell into unprecedented jubilation.