Everyone cried out when they saw Bai Lingxi was about to die and rushed toward her but were too slow.

Splash

Bai Lingxi's eyes widened in disbelief as blood splashed directly onto her face.

"Cough," the Pure Core Realm cultivator coughed a mouthful of blood as unbearable pain surged through his body. He looked down and saw a sword protruding from his stomach.

"I'm alive," Bai Lingxi said in disbelief, thinking she was dead for sure. She looked at the Pure Core Realm cultivator and saw him looking back, and her eyes widened when she recognized the figure.

"Feng Mei!" everyone shouted in surprise when they saw the woman.

"How!!! Damn it!!" the Pure Core Realm cultivator said through gritted teeth as he felt his life slipping away.

"It was pretty easy. All of you were exhausted, and you were too focused on killing her. I've been here for a long time and hid myself to sneak attack you," Feng Mei said with a mocking sneer as she twisted her sword in his body, causing him to cough more blood and scream in pain.

She had arrived a long time ago and kept watching the battle. Instead of joining the fight, she decided to strike when he became distracted and exhausted and it worked.

"Hah... great job," Bai Lingxi said as she fell on her butt on the ground in utter exhaustion.

Splash

Feng Mei smirked as she coldly cleaved the body of the Pure Core Realm cultivator in half, and the two halves fell to the ground with a thud.

"Sigh, finally it's over," Feng Mei said with relief. Honestly, there were many times she had wanted to act impulsively when she saw Bai Lingxi and the others getting hurt. If they had died because she didn't take action, she couldn't imagine how she would face Wang Ming.

"Feng Mei, you sneaky bitch," Zhou Huixin said with a smile as she arrived and patted her on the shoulder.

"Hey, is it really okay for you to speak like that to a disciple?" Feng Mei's lips twitched when she heard her words.

"Okay my ass, we just survived a disaster," Zhou Huixin said as she also sat on the ground, utterly exhausted.

"Looks like the other fights are also over," Shi Yu said as she sensed many powerful auras fading.

"What if those are Peak Masters?" Luo Li said unconsciously, and the whole circle fell silent upon hearing her words. Everyone glared at her.

"If you can speak, then don't open your mouth to curse others," Feng Mei said as veins bulged on her forehead.

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"Die!"

A scream tore through the air as Mu Feixu, Qin Mu, Jiang Hong, and Lei Ping, with their battered bodies, looked at the fight in the distance.

Feng Chang and Number 9 were clashing against each other, and the fight was nearing its end.

Jiang Hong looked at the sect and grimaced as he clenched his fist. "Damn, such devastation across the sect. It's going to take a lot of money and time to repair."

The others also looked grim but then sighed.

"At least not many of the sect members died," Lei Ping said, which lifted their moods a bit.

"Huh?" Everyone looked at Jade Peak and felt the aura of the Pure Core Realm cultivator vanishing.

"Looks like they won as well, but what's up with that other Pure Core Realm cultivator? When did Zhou Huixin hide such a powerhouse?" Qin Mu said as he blinked his eyes.

Honestly, after they had defeated their opponents, they wanted to rush over and aid them, but they could not even move their bodies, and by the time they could, the fight was almost over.

"That's no powerhouse, that's disciple Bai Lingxi, who advanced to the Pure Core Realm," Jiang Hong said bitterly and thought, 'Sigh, these monsters would give anyone an existential crisis'

When he first sensed it, he was happy that their sect gained another powerhouse to resist the Black Church, but he was also dumbfounded that Bai Lingxi had surpassed him in cultivation in just a few weeks, while he couldn't reach her level even after trying for years.

'Maybe I should leave the Black Bamboo Kingdom and broaden my horizon in the outside world,' Jiang Hong thought with a sigh.

"What!!!!?" Everyone who heard his words was first in shock except Lei Ping, who already knew, and their jaws dropped to the ground.

'Heavens, what kind of freaks are Disciple Wang Ming and his partners?' the Peak Master cried out inwardly.

'Sigh, that bitch is going to surpass my Peak in rankings,' Mu Feixu thought with a sigh and turned towards the fight, which was ending.

"Damn, I never expected that two more Pure Core Realm cultivators would emerge and the plan would fail," Number 9 said calmly. If not for Feng Chang and Bai Lingxi, they would have destroyed the sect, that's why they had even added more than one Pure Core Realm cultivator, but still failed.

"Now you can go to hell, bastard!" Feng Chang, who was covered in bruises and drenched in blood, raised her sword and swung it downwards.

Slash

Blood spurted as a head flew into the sky and landed in Feng Chang's hand, which she grabbed by the hair before looking around.

"Every member of the Black Church is dead, good." She was too occupied with the fight to notice she was the last to kill her enemy, and then saw the group approaching.

"Sect Master!" Jiang Hong shouted. The Peak Masters who were following froze, then looked between Feng Chang and Jiang Hong, and their eyes widened in disbelief.

"Holy... the Yang-Demon was actually the former Sect Master," Qin Mu said, his jaw hanging open, the others were in the same state. Jiang Hong, the current sect master, would only address the previous sect master as "Sect Master." They had no idea, they thought the former sect master was dead. Who would have thought the infamous Yang Demon was the former sect master?

"Looks like my secret's out," Feng Chang said to Jiang Hong, who smiled sheepishly.

"Anyway, go and ask the other sect masters about their condition, meanwhile I have something to do," Feng Chang said, and then her voice turned icy as she left, which made Jiang Hong nod a he understood her intent, he also showed a murderous intent.

"I'll go with you to hunt the traitors," Lei Ping said, but Feng Chang dismissed him. "No, you stay and help get the sect back under control. I am more than enough."

Feng Chang vanished before he could say anything. The traitors she meant were the elders and disciples who could fight but ran away from the sect during the attack, a grave crime. If the sect nurtures you, it's your obligation to defend it in a crisis, otherwise you get executed without mercy, as every sect enforces.