323 Astonishing
Just like that, massacres continued the whole night. This was a huge battle between the Homicide Department and Night Dove. all the nonhuman races and allies who came paid attention to this matter.
The night curfew of the Homicide Department was imposed over almost the whole city. What was even more shocking was that Yanyan’s name had spread throughout the Homicide Department disciples. As long as they called her sister-in-law, she would give them pills and spirit stones.
Whenever they encountered danger, she would immediately arrive on the large octopus. With the Golden Core guarding her, she was unstoppable.
Due to Yanyan, the Homicide Departments didn’t have many casualties in this battle.
As for the number of Night Dove members killed, it was rather astonishing. Over 4,000 Night Dove members who had gathered from the entire Nanhuang Continent were either captured alive or had their heads cut off and hung on the city walls after resisting.
The next morning, when the main city returned to normal operation, one could still see the remnants of blood in many places. After this night of killing, the Homicide Department became the place where the gazes of the various forces in the Seven Blood Eyes gathered.
Although most of the Night Dove cultivators were at the Qi Condensation Realm and it was the same for the Homicide Department, to these foreign forces, they naturally didn’t look at the cultivation of these low-level cultivators but the cruelty hidden in their bones under the Gu-nurturing system.
This cruelty caused many nonhuman races and allies to increase their evaluation of the Seven Blood Eyes. If all the low-level disciples were like this, then the mid-level and higher-ups who climbed up from the bottom would clearly be even more savage.
After all, the one who could rise from the wolf pack was definitely the Wolf King.
At the same time, they wanted to observe Xu Qing as well.
However, Xu Qing was too low-key. After the battle with Sima Ling, he didn’t appear again and rarely left the Homicide Department’s prison. This made it difficult for the various forces that were paying attention to him to get any information.
Last night, because of Yanyan’s participation, Xu Qing didn’t need to make a move.
Regarding this, Xu Qing also felt a little strange. There was a period of time when Yanyan came to look for him many times but after he repeatedly rejected her, she disappeared. Xu Qing originally thought that the other party wouldn’t disturb him anymore.
However, he didn’t expect that Yanyan would actually participate in the operation to capture Night Dove.
As for Yanyan’s comments, they also reached his ears. However, seeing how enthusiastic Yanyan was in helping, Xu Qing didn’t mind too much.
He was waiting for his last two magic apertures to be opened and light the third ball of life fire. He was also nurturing his little black bugs and increasing their might.
He was also waiting for the time when Night Dove’s headquarters, which was concealed in the Seven Blood Eyes, was forced out. That would be the time for him to make a move and exterminate them.
Hence, Xu Qing was lying low and no longer came into the limelight. Instead, he was doing his best to increase his combat strength and cultivation.
The destruction of Night Dove’s strongholds wasn’t something that could be completed in a night. Hence, this operation was carried out for the next few days and nights.
Just like that, several days passed as the Homicide Department used madness and iron will to make an example of Night Dove. The Sea Corpse Race finally arrived!
The person who came was Marquis Anzuo. His cultivation was in the Nascent Soul realm. This was the only time in the next sixty years that he was allowed to go out as the defeated party.
Accompanying him was the Golden Core boy, Ying Ling, whom Xu Qing had seen that day, as well as… Miao Chen, who would be kept in the Seven Blood Eyes as a hostage.
He didn’t want to come but there was nothing he could do. Only his Sequence identity could become a hostage of the Sea Corpse Race. He felt extreme humiliation.
However, he could only endure it.
He also hated Xu Qing to the core but there was nothing he could do.
The arrival of the Sea Corpse Race also caused this celebration banquet to reach its peak. As the sect’s bells rang, Xue Lianzi’s face appeared in the sky and looked down.
As the representative of the Seven Blood Eyes, a Peak Lord met with the group of the Sea Corpse Race. Under the attention of countless nonhuman races and the Seven Sects Alliance, the Sea Corpse Race’s Marquis Anzuo humiliatingly handed over the declaration of defeat and compensation.
There was also a bamboo slip recording Dao oaths of all cultivators at and above the Golden Core realm.
The transfer of the Sea Corpse Race’s Ancestral Corpse Statues would be done on the Sea Corpse Race’s territory.
In the Sea Corpse Race’s territory, there were still two peak lords of the Seven Blood Eyes who had yet to return.
They were setting up a huge teleportation array.
The goal of this array formation was to teleport those two huge ancestral corpse statues back to the Seven Blood Eyes.
Although everyone felt that the statues were useless outside of the Sea Corpse Race’s territory, it was obvious that they were the most precious things of the Sea Corpse Race. Hence, they could understand the Seven Blood Eyes’ demand.
Any other race would also demand the same.
Because the distance was too far and the Seven Blood Eyes didn’t want to transit through the merfolk island, they were setting up the teleportation array to directly transfer the statues back to the sect.
According to the judgment of everyone, this teleportation array would be completed before the celebration banquet ended.
The surrender of the Sea Corpse Race pushed the Seven Blood Eyes’ celebration banquet to an even higher level. It became the focus of the visiting nonhuman races and allies. For a moment, even the popularity of the various peaks being challenged by the Seven Sects Alliance to establish their might was suppressed.
The war contribution rewards were also distributed by the sect. With the war rewards and the harvest from Sima Ling’s storage ring, Xu Qing had an unprecedentedly high number of spirit stones.
His mood was brighter than usual.
He wasn’t the only one. All the disciples who got the war rewards were in a very good mood. They started buying a large number of resources that could increase their cultivation and combat strength.
However, the joy of the disciples only lasted for a few days as the heaven’s chosens of the Seven Sects Alliance started challenging again.
This challenge wasn’t just from the heaven’s chosens of the various sects.
Other than Huang Yikun from the Mystic Nether Sect, the other heaven’s chosens didn’t come alone. Not only did they have Dao Protectors following them, but they had also brought some outstanding talents from their sects.
These outstanding talents began to challenge the disciples of the various peaks who weren’t highnesses. There was victory and defeat, but overall, the Seven Sects Alliance was still superior.
However, no one challenged Xu Qing.
During this period of time, Night Dove’s strongholds had been destroyed in large numbers. With so many people captured, Xu Qing’s cultivation became increasingly smooth. He wasn’t far from opening the 89th magic aperture.
He also bought a large amount of poisonous grass and tried to refine the poison pill again. At the same time, he continued to fuse the little black bugs into the poison pill, creating a third batch of venomous bugs.
There were only six venomous bugs in this third batch.
They couldn’t be seen by the naked eye. Only by relying on his perception and the resonance with his blood could Xu Qing sense their existence. The color change of the third batch of surviving venomous bugs was even more obvious.
Their color was very light and their heads were much smaller. However, the toxicity contained in them had increased greatly and there was even a hint of the characteristics of the poison pill’s poison.
This made Xu Qing feel as though he had obtained a treasure. He carefully borrowed the bodies of the Night Dove cultivators to raise these six seed bugs.
He also had many new ideas in his research. He planted more medicinal herbs and poisonous grass in the bodies of the Night Dove members to change their flesh and blood, causing the third batch of small bugs that were constantly recovering to be even more outstanding.
To Xu Qing, this process was like learning. He observed seriously and recorded everything. Every time he made some gains, he would be pleasantly surprised.
However, to the Night Dove cultivators in the prison, his actions were like a scene from hell they had never experienced in their lives. Before this, most of them felt that they were already ruthless enough. However, after seeing Xu Qing’s actions, they felt that they were nothing.
In their lives, they had tortured and killed those disobedient treasure-nurturers, and even toy with them when they felt like it. Now… the karma came to bite them back.
Mournful cries and wails rang out time and time again in the Homicide Department’s prison. Although most of the disciples outside were already used to this, they still didn’t dare to get too close.
This was especially so since Xu Qing was the overall person-in-charge of the Night Dove Operation and had established his might during the suppression of Sima Ling and with the curfew. As such, there wouldn’t be a situation where the other peaks’ Homicide Departments didn’t give prisoners.
Every day, a large number of criminals would be sent over from the various peaks’ Homicide Departments. At the same time, the main city was sealed and Night Dove couldn’t escape. They could only continue to hide, so the arrests continued.
One could imagine that after this, Night Dove’s losses in the Nanhuang Continent would definitely be extremely great.
Just like that, with enough Night Dove cultivators, Xu Qing’s research progressed very quickly. As for the souls of those Night Dove cultivators, Xu Qing didn’t waste them. Even though their soul power was almost negligible individually, there was still some effect when there were a lot of them. After he refined them, they became the power to open his magic aperture.
His infamy had also reached a shocking level in the main city because of the mournful cries in the Homicide Department’s prison.
While Xu Qing continued to focus on his research and wait for his combat strength to have a qualitative transformation, on the huge battle square on the First Peak, Saintly Star calmly spoke.
“You guys are too weak.”
His voice was calm with a hint of disappointment. Eight First Peak’s highnesses were lying around him.
Wu Jianwu was among them. Their faces were pale and they had many injuries. They looked at Saintly Star, who was standing under the moonlight, with shock and complicated gazes.
The sound of wind spread from the canopy above Saintly Star. There was also Miemeng – with its green body and red tail – stirring up black wind that swept in all directions.
Not far away was the First Peak’s eldest highness who had just come out of seclusion.
His face was pale and there was blood flowing out of his mouth.
His cultivation base had broken through to the Heavenly Palace Golden Core realm, but he, who had just broken through, had no choice but to come out of seclusion and fight before he could nurture the Heavenly Palace. The nurturing time would take a long time, but the current First Peak… had already been suppressed by Saintly Star alone.
However, even he lost.
What was most humiliating was that Saintly Star suggested that the nine highnesses attack together and even then, all nine of them were defeated.
They didn’t have a chance!
“This is boring.”
Saintly Star was expressionless. He felt that these challenges were boring. He looked toward the Seventh Peak and shook his head.
He turned and left the First Peak, walking toward the distant Phoenix Forbidden.
Behind him, the three Golden Core Dao Protectors silently followed.
“That kid has some brains, he knows to keep a low profile. I hope he can grow up quickly. Only then will it be a tasty snack.”
Right before Saintly Star left, on the Seventh Peak, under the moonlight, Huang Yikun of the Seven Sects Alliance’s Mystic Nether Sect was walking on the mountain steps with a proud expression.
“Today, I, Huang Yikun, challenge the Seventh Peak!”