Everyone in Starfall City had departed under Qi Ping's orders. Even Han Li and Zhang Da-niu had been forcibly sent away by him.
Qi Ping did not know what kind of enemies he would face next, or what the outcome for this identity of his would be.
If the ending was tragic and unsatisfactory, he wanted Han Li and Zhang Da-niu to take a sum of resources and leave the Qingtian Domain first.
For so many years, these two had worked tirelessly for him. Without their help, the difficulty of reaching his current position would have been several grades higher. He might not have even lasted until he finished comprehending the Heavenly Extinction Yin-Yang Array and the Five Elements Cycle Array before the conflict exploded. Naturally, Qi Ping did not want anything to happen to them.
Regardless of life or death in the coming move, he would face it alone!
Fortunately, the purge plan had been successfully completed. The spoils of war had already been taken away by the bees through several deep underground tunnels he had prepared in advance. No matter what the result was, with these items as a guarantee, Qi Ping would definitely not lose out.
Therefore, although Qi Ping was about to face a battle of unprecedented difficulty in his cultivation career, he was not panicked at all. Instead, he was exceptionally calm.
He still had one mandatory mission to complete: to attract more attention for the Little Stone Essence's breakthrough!
Inside Starfall City, clad in white robes that remained unstained by dust, Qi Ping sat cross-legged amidst the mountain of corpses and sea of blood he had personally created.
After an unknown amount of time, a figure with a terrifying aura suddenly appeared in the sky above Starfall City!
The moment this figure appeared, he seemed to become the center of the universe. An immensely powerful aura swept in all directions. Even a trace of the leaked pressure caused the cultivators temporarily camping outside Starfall City to tremble, unable to muster any thought of resistance!
Golden Core!
This was a Golden Core stage cultivator!
The cultivators outside Starfall City who hadn't gone far looked at that terrifying figure in horror.
Some knowledgeable individuals recognized the visitor's identity. It was the veteran Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator known as the Red Flame Daoist, Ye Yanwu!
Ye Yanwu was of the older generation. When he broke through to the Golden Core stage several hundred years ago, he had made quite a name for himself. Who would have thought he would reappear today?
And his reappearance was at the Golden Core Middle Stage!
Since Ye Yanwu was known for being a rule-breaker in his youth, his arrival made many cultivators worry for Qi Ping.
Could Qi Ping really survive against such a character?
Looking at Ye Yanwu's manic and furious figure, a pessimistic view rose in their hearts. It would be very difficult for Qi Ping to survive in Ye Yanwu's hands.
Just as the cultivators thought, Ye Yanwu was currently beyond furious!
Even his aura began to erupt in sync with his emotions. Wisps of fire spiritual energy began to explode in the air!
As Ye Yanwu looked at the scene within Starfall City, he could hardly believe his eyes!
His people were all dead!
In fact, it wasn't just his people; everyone related to his industries had been accurately identified and slaughtered by Qi Ping!
The mangled corpses were scattered in every corner of Starfall City!
"Gone... all gone!"
His heart was filled with extreme pain and rage!
He had spent hundreds of years building Starfall City from nothing in the shadows! It had taken centuries to gain the fame it had today! This place contributed a massive, steady income to him every year!
Yet, something he had poured so much blood and sweat into was now gone, just like that!
He remembered how many favors he had to trade and how many relationships he had to balance within the sect just to ensure the existence of Starfall City. Today, all of it had been destroyed by one person.
"Lin Ya!"
Ye Yanwu stared at Qi Ping, who sat unstained in the center of the city, forming a sharp contrast with the dead around him. A boundless intent to kill surged in his heart!
His angry roar caused countless cultivators' hearts to shake. The monstrous killing intent made them shiver uncontrollably!
However, facing such pressure and fury, Qi Ping only looked calmly at the nearly maddened Ye Yanwu, entirely unaffected by his aura.
The Slaughter Domain and heaven and earth power rising around Qi Ping blocked everything.
This reaction immediately made Ye Yanwu even more furious. Killing intent exploded from his eyes. Qi Ping's calmness made him look like a clown in comparison.
"Do you think I'll be afraid of the sect rules and won't dare to kill you?"
Looking at Qi Ping's calm face, Ye Yanwu laughed from extreme rage. His aura erupted, and a terrifying giant hand of fire instantly covered a portion of the sky. Beneath this hand, Qi Ping's figure looked like a mere ant.
"Even if those old fogies personally came today, they couldn't save you! I said it!"
His furious and domineering voice rang out, expressing his absolute determination to kill Qi Ping.
He had been unwilling to kill Qi Ping before, partly because Qi Ping had compromised, and partly because he feared being targeted by his rivals within the sect. It wasn't worth it. But now, he didn't care about any of that.
Facing the forming giant fire hand, Qi Ping finally stood up.
The moment he stood, his spirit reached its peak!
A wisp of steady but resolute killing intent shot from Qi Ping's eyes!
"Elder Ye, Disciple Lin Ya, invites you to die!"
As Qi Ping's calm yet cold words fell, the atmosphere of the entire world dropped to the freezing point!
Countless cultivators who heard this froze in place. Qi Ping's words nearly caused their brains to short-circuit.
It was something they had never expected. If anyone else had said it, they would have laughed at the person's insanity.
But since it was Qi Ping, they hesitated. Qi Ping's combat strength and methods had proven that he never spoke without reason.
Even the Golden Core Middle Stage Ye Yanwu frowned, unable to understand where Qi Ping's confidence came from. Like the others, he felt Qi Ping wasn't bluffing, yet it felt absurd. How could this be possible?
How could a Foundation Establishment brat threaten a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator like him?
The answer was revealed quickly. A previously hidden formation instantly took shape!
However, that wasn't the most critical part. The most critical part was that Yin-Yang and Five Elements power circulated through the formation, gathering an immense amount of heaven and earth energy!
Even more terrifying was that the spiritual energy pressure fused from the Yin-Yang and Five Elements was not weaker than that of a Golden Core cultivator!