A Sect from a Spirit Vein

Chapter 487: Chapter 437: Merciful Propagation of Miao Fa Celestial Monarch

Blood spurted from the slit throat, splattering over the square tripod!

With a strange smile, the burly man’s body maintained a kneeling posture, falling forward as if the most devout believer offering obeisance.

The flowing blood mixed with the hues on the jade altar, unfolding a sinister painting.

Beside him, Yan Beixing also knelt, his face full of resistance, his entire body trembling, yet he held a short sword, already pierced into his own throat!

Two streams of Golden Core Spiritual Pressure surged forth explosively!

A flash of light, Master Cangfeng had gripped Yan Beixing’s right hand that held the sword, pulling it outward forcefully. But during the interception, he was shocked to discover that Yan Beixing’s strength had inexplicably increased significantly, almost matching his own.

The short sword remained lodged in Yan Beixing’s throat, with blood continuously gushing from the wound. Accompanied by a harsh heaving sound like a bellows, bloody foam sprayed from his mouth as his windpipe had been severed!

Master Cangfeng’s eyes glinted with cold light, as tiny light swords condensed from the mist around him, flickering across Yan Beixing’s short sword.

With a crisp ding, the short sword broke in half, Yan Beixing’s eyes widened, releasing the hilt, reaching to grasp the blade.

But taking advantage of this pause, the Golden Core Power of the Master erupted, twisting Yan Beixing’s arm, dragging him off the altar.

Once removed from the altar, Yan Beixing’s struggling force suddenly diminished, and he clung desperately to Master Cangfeng’s arm, incessantly wheezing, with blood pouring forth.

He was pleading for help, his body growing cold.

Master Cangfeng swiftly drew out various Miraculous Elixirs and Pills, using profound Spiritual Power to extract the broken blade, seal the wound, and guide the Spiritual Mechanism.

He certainly couldn’t watch his Sect Leader’s Disciple die here.

”Lu Qian, be cautious with your defense!”

A five-colored light had already illuminated, enclosing Master Cangfeng and Yan Beixing within. Lu Qian was immensely solemn, deploying the Five Elements Grand Array while his Divine Sense unfurled fully, like a rippling lake, ready to detect any disturbance that might stir its surface.

It was hard to imagine what kind of power, what kind of attack, could make Yan Beixing and the burly man, one in Late-Stage Foundation Establishment and the other in Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment, silently kneel on the altar and forcibly slit their own throats.

The most crucial point was that neither of the Golden Core Masters had noticed anything!

Would Lu Qian have fallen for it too if he had been outside back then?

On the other side, Ye Xiao had restrained the burly man’s corpse, her face grave. In those few breaths, the burly man’s entire body’s blood had drained, turning him into a dried corpse.

It was as if some force had extracted all the blood!

She clenched her silver teeth, mobilizing Spiritual Power to lean the burly man’s corpse against the cave wall, far from the altar. Then, her figure flashed, already standing before the altar, her slender and powerful legs rooted to the ground, clapping her hands heavily together.

With a thunderous rumble, the entire mountain belly shook, two gigantic rock hands tumbling up from the ground, slamming toward the altar from both sides.

She couldn’t even care for the teetering mountain, aiming to destroy the altar outright!

However, just as the rock giants’ hands descended, the blood sprinkled on the altar radiated an eerie light, freezing the giant hands in the air.

In Lu Qian’s sight, Ye Xiao suddenly cried out, ”Who’s speaking?!”

But apart from the crackling sound spreading from the mountain body, no one was speaking.

Ye Xiao’s face turned more unsightly. She extended her palm toward the small temple, clenching it fiercely with a shout, ”Enough with the tricks!”

With a boom, vast Earth Spiritual Qi surged, the temple’s outer walls shattered instantly, but the surging earth wave halted a yard away from the statue, unable to approach any closer.

In that moment, the remaining few also heard a distinct male voice.

A playful and nonchalant male voice, seeming to whisper right by their ear.

”Possess my talisman, and be free of calamities.”

”Hold my method, and remain invulnerable to all tribulations.”

Master Cangfeng had just managed to halt Yan Beixing’s bleeding, suspending the heavily injured and unconscious Yan Beixing, shielding him behind.

At the instant the voice sounded, he and Lu Qian felt a chill run down their spines, simultaneously looking towards the statue.

According to legend, the seventh cultivator to ascend to immortality, one of the Ten Celestial Monarchs, the Merciful Propagation of Miao Fa Celestial Monarch.

He was an immortal known for his compassion, virtue, and love, who selflessly imparted the marvelous cultivation methods he had realized, elevating the overall level of the cultivation realm, once in a state of ignorance, significantly through his individual efforts.

In fact, these Ten Celestial Monarchs, as pioneers of the cultivation realm, each made great contributions, which earned their temples widespread reverence across the Divine Land of that time.

However, later, the True Immortal Calamity occurred.

It was an era when immortals ascended and could still manifest in the mortal world as sages. This era lasted until the thirty-third cultivator ascended as a True Immortal.

As, after the thirty-third immortal ascended to the Immortal Realm, the following twenty-three immortals formed an alliance, breaking away from the Ten Celestial Monarchs.

No one knows why the great war started.

Some say it was because the Ten Celestial Monarchs were too domineering, forcing the later immortals to resist.

Others claim the twenty-three immortals harbored malicious intent, seeking to seize the vast wealth acquired by the Ten Celestial Monarchs as pioneers.

In any case, this battle led to the heavens crashing, the earth shattering, the sun and moon losing their light, the sea overflowing, and the devastation of life, resulting in the deaths of over a hundred billion mortals.