The detached, indifferent voice of the divine spirit echoed through the void.

“From here on, you act as you see fit.”

“Anyone who obstructs, may be killed!”

“Ascendants included!”

Within the temple, an icy cold beam of light shot out and landed on the enormous statue that was a thousand feet tall.

As the divine light touched the back of the statue, the immense stone figure, which stood a thousand feet high, began to shrink and slowly took on the hue of flesh.

When it had shrunk from being a thousand feet tall to merely ten feet high, its entire body regained the flesh and blood that living beings possess, turning into a pale-faced, stern-looking man.

And the divine light on his back transformed into a divine sword.

Bowing deeply on the steps, the sound of the divine sword on the man’s back resounded with a clank.

“Respectfully obeying the divine decree!”

Li Muyang was still unaware of the changes happening in the dark void.

He was on his way to Yunxiao City, not daring to stop even for a moment, pushing his speed of flight to the limit.

Should his mana deplete midway, he’d take a few elixirs to replenish himself, all to see Yan Xiaoru as quickly as possible.

To Li Muyang, Yan Xiaoru’s attempt to gather the leftover forces of the Refinement Demon Sect and raise its banner was tantamount to seeking death.

Nowadays, both the immortal and demon paths were looking to divide up the spoils of the Refinement Demon Sect, and Yan Xiaoru, merely a Purple Mansion stage elder, dared to stand out. This was equivalent to opposing the major sects of both immortal and demon paths simultaneously.

Those powerful experts from the immortal and demon paths could target Yan Xiaoru, a Purple Mansion stage elder, at any moment.

Li Muyang was terrified of arriving too late and failing to meet Yan Xiaoru.

He simply could not fathom what had gotten into Yan Xiaoru, making her commit to such an unprofitable and enormously risky feat.

However, Li Muyang had yet to reach Yunxiao City when he came across dreadful news on the road.

“What? Yunxiao City is gone?!”

The news mentioned by this passerby cultivator exploded next to Li Muyang’s ears like a clap of thunder.

He abruptly stopped his rapid motion and flew towards two demon cultivators who were flying by while chatting hundreds of feet away.

These two demon cultivators, apparently from outside, were likely here to fish in troubled waters under the jurisdiction of the Refinement Demon Sect.

Initially discussing the changes in Yunxiao City, they were suddenly startled by someone jumping out at them.

After recognizing Li Muyang’s form, the two demon cultivators’ scalps went numb and they hurriedly paid their respects with reverence.

The “senior” before them, his body surging with malevolent energy and feet stepping on a powerful flight light, clearly a Void Travel stage demon cultivator.

Yet, with such high cultivation, he appeared as a mere child.

However, the child’s visage was malevolent and sinister, completely unendearing. Under Li Muyang’s overwhelming sinister energy, the form of a two-year-old child appeared even more terrifying.

It was a well-established rule in the cultivation world: when out and about, the weirder the appearance of a demon cultivator, the more terrifying their connections.

Both demon cultivators were chilled to the bone, fearing they might have caught the eye of this sinister senior demon cultivator.

As soon as Li Muyang asked his question, they spilled everything they knew like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

They left no detail unsaid.

But after listening to their explanations, the sinister energy on Li Muyang’s face dissipated quite a bit.

His previous vexed and angry expression now carried a hint of speechlessness.

“…So it’s gone just like that?” Li Muyang felt ten thousand alpacas stampeding through his heart.

He finally understood what Yan Xiaoru was really playing at.

Yan Xiaoru, how ruthless!

On the surface, she wanted to continue the legacy of the Refinement Demon Sect and used the prestige of the Law Enforcement Elder to gather the remaining cultivators of the sect at Yunxiao City, intending to uphold the banner of the sect.

It was said that experts from other demonic sects who were sent to kill her were already on their way.

But just last night, under the name of the Law Enforcement Elder in Yunxiao City, Yan Xiaoru, who had been summoning Refinement Demon Sect disciples for a long time, led the summoned disciples to a vacant area outside the city and suddenly activated a large array.

Tens of thousands of Refinement Demon Sect disciples, including many city lords who responded to the call, were all refined by the array, with no one escaping.

It was said that after refining these cultivators, Yan Xiaoru wanted to go to Yunxiao City and refine the cultivators there as well.

As the news spread, all the loose cultivators gathered in Yunxiao City fled.

Yan Xiaoru’s ruthlessness as an elder of the Refinement Demon Sect exceeded everyone’s expectations.

Crucially, she had been stationed in Yunxiao City for so long, who knew if she really had set up an array in the city.

No one dared to stay in Yunxiao City to gamble; everyone fled.

Many loose cultivators who escaped knew that there were no more cultivators from the Refinement Demon Sect in the city and even rushed into the streets and residences to loot, turning the entire Yunxiao City into a place filled with dark smoke.

By then, Yunxiao City was ablaze with soaring flames and smoke filling the air.

After a night of chaos, even the common people had fled.

And the fire within Yunxiao City grew wider, now spreading throughout the city, with no one daring to put out the fire.

Both cultivators and commoners had left the place, as if avoiding a plague.

Yunxiao City, once the bustling grand city of the Refinement Demon Sect, followed in the footsteps of the sect’s destruction and turned to ashes in less than a month.

These two cultivators had escaped from Yunxiao City.

After hearing their account, Li Muyang was relieved yet speechless.

Yan Xiaoru’s ruthlessness was beyond his imagination.

Using her own prestige to gather all the disciples who trusted her, and then capturing them all at once… The Yan Xiaoru of the past was not so vicious and cunning.

If Yan Xiaoru had been like this from the start, Li Muyang would have been doomed back in Demon Sword City.

This young woman, could she have been driven mad by his disappearance…

But it’s also true, aside from his disappearance, the loss of hope for prolonging life with the Divine Spirit Heart was a huge shock to her.

After the upheaval in the Refinement Demon Sect, the body of the Thousand-Eyed Blood God disappeared, leaving only an eyeball following the mad Ancestor Demon Refinement.

This meant that Yan Xiaoru’s plan to sustain her life with the Divine Spirit Heart had completely failed.

Under such shocking changes, it was reasonable that Yan Xiaoru’s personality had drastically changed.

“Where is Yan Xiaoru now?” Li Muyang asked with a grim face. “Does anyone know where she went?”

Under the sunlight, the malevolence on the two-year-old child intensified, as if he was about to devour someone in the next second.

These two cultivators, terrified, turned pale and their bodies trembled like sieves.

But they couldn’t answer.

Because since last night’s incident, no one had seen Yan Xiaoru, the Refinement Demon Sect elder, and it was even less likely that anyone knew her whereabouts.

Yan Xiaoru, who had refined tens of thousands of Refinement Demon Sect disciples, had vanished as if evaporated from the earth, completely disappearing.

Hearing the frightened responses of the two cultivators and seeing them trembling like sieves, Li Muyang wore an expressionless face.

Annoyed, he waved his hand and dismissed the two timorous cultivators, continuing his troubled flight towards Yunxiao City.

He hadn’t expected Yan Xiaoru, who always had a tough exterior but a soft heart, to create such a huge mess.

Now things were interesting, after Yan Xiaoru created a big mess she too played the disappearing act, along with the similarly missing Li Yuechan, Guan Xiaoshun, and Cheng Feiyang…

Those referred to as Li Muyang’s friends and family had all vanished.

At this moment, Li Muyang, lonely journeying over the land, once again became a solitary figure.

Looking around, there was no longer a single friend or relative.

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