Chapter 51: Bold Claims

After the “Nine-Curved Sharp Gold Formation,” which had originally formed a unified attack space, was broken, only eight smaller formations remained, each covering an area of a hundred miles. As a result, Golden Cauldron Peak was no longer protected by the formation. The severely damaged cultivators, with red eyes and fury as if ready to spew flames, all took to the air and rushed at Golden Cauldron Peak.

At this moment, True Man Red Gold was no longer calm; his face was filled with anxiety and even more anger. He was anxious because, after the leader of the Golden Cauldron Sect left, only two cultivators at the late stage of exiting the body remained, while the other experts were no match for the cultivators at all. He was angry because he wanted to know who had destroyed the Nine-Curved Sharp Gold Formation and longed to find that culprit immediately and crush them to pulp.

However, with the fierce cultivators charging in, True Man Red Gold did not dare to pursue the one who had broken the formation. He could only first protect his sect’s disciples to prevent the Golden Cauldron Sect from being wiped out in one battle.

“Disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect, form a sword formation and drive away these demons!” True Man Red Gold drew his magical weapon, the Golden Sparrow Sword, and with a loud shout, he flew straight at the cultivators.

As the Golden Sparrow Sword was swung, a giant golden sparrow glowing with golden light appeared in the air, blocking the cultivators’ advance. With a powerful flap of its wings, it emitted a hundred beams of golden sword energy, slashing at the cultivators.

Hmph! Hmph!

Immediately, hundreds of cultivators were injured by the golden sword energy, losing a great deal of vital energy and their combat strength dropping significantly.

Realizing True Man Red Gold’s strength and seeing that he was protecting Golden Cauldron Peak, the cultivators quickly flew to the other side and approached the peak from a different direction, then engaged directly with the disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect.

Most of the disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect were at the Yuan Ying stage. If they fought alone, they would surely be slaughtered quickly. So, they grouped together in teams of ten and formed a “Ten Hearts, One Strike Sword Formation.” By combining their vital energies, they created a single beam of sword energy whose power was comparable to that of those at the early stage of exiting the body.

As a result, the cultivators on Golden Cauldron Peak could not easily deal with the disciples for a while.

Seeing this situation, especially those cultivators from the Three Cauldron Sect who had followed Wei Yan from the beginning, they also gathered together and formed groups of thirty, using combined spells. “Blood Pool to Demon,” “Flesh Essence to Gold,” and “Heaven-Shattering Ice Pops”—these three spells were immediately unleashed on Golden Cauldron Peak. Ten giant blood demons, twenty tall pale gold giants, and ten hundred-meter-long ice pops attacked the various sword formations of the Golden Cauldron Sect.

The power of this Blood Demon, the Pale Gold Giant, and the Ice Stick was equivalent to that of those in the early stages of leaving their bodies, slightly stronger than the “Ten Hearts, One Strike Sword Formation.”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Blood Demon collided with the True Energy Sword Qi, the Pale Gold Giant’s True Energy condensed qi collided, and the Ice Stick collided with the True Energy Sword Qi, creating earth-shaking noises on Golden Cauldron Peak. Immediately afterward, the Blood Demon, the Pale Gold Giant, and the Ice Stick all shattered, while the disciples forming the sword formations of the Golden Cauldron Sect were also beaten to the point of spitting blood and scattering.
The disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect didn’t even have time to form a sword formation for defense again.
The following cultivators of evil magic, seeing the sword formations broken, immediately flew over, wielding their magical treasures and violently attacking.
Ah! Ah! Ah!
Hundreds of disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect who couldn’t fly away in time let out screams before turning into flesh paste; not even their Yuan Ying could escape.
Seeing that the sword formations on which the disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect relied for survival had been destroyed, Red Gold True Man’s white hair fluttered instantly, his anger surging. He flew forward with his Golden Sparrow Sword, a beam of golden light sweeping toward the pursuing cultivators of evil magic.
Hundreds of those cultivators were also shattered to pieces, their Yuan Ying completely destroyed.
At this moment, Red Gold True Man was like a god of slaughter. He had originally been wary of the hidden experts at the Divided Mind stage, but seeing the lack of resistance from the disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect, he could no longer maintain his calm and acted immediately.
With the Golden Sparrow Sword drawn, a golden sword light swept across the area. Those caught in the sword light had no chance to resist and died miserably in agonized screams.
“All cultivators of evil magic, gather together and attack Red Gold!”
The Northern Envoy, seeing Red Gold True Man’s fierce courage, urgently shouted. At this point, Red Gold True Man, who was still in the early stages of the Divided Mind stage, was invincible among the cultivators of evil magic. Only by uniting their defenses could they withstand him.
After sacrificing the lives of over two hundred cultivators of evil magic, they gathered again and jointly cast spells to resist Red Gold True Man’s powerful attacks.
“Hmph, you cultivators of evil magic think that with your numerical advantage, you can act recklessly in our Golden Cauldron Sect. Today, I’ll make you understand that the cultivation world is one where strength reigns supreme. All of you insignificant pests will end up inside my sea dragon’s belly,” Red Gold True Man declared proudly, floating above the cultivators of evil magic.
With that, he raised his Golden Sparrow Sword, his gaze sharp, ready to deliver his final strike.
“Golden God, Transform into a Thousand!”
Red Gold True Man shouted, and then the Golden Sparrow Sword slashed downward. A golden sphere emerged from the blade’s edge, instantly splitting into a thousand golden spikes that flew toward the gathering place of the cultivators of evil magic.

“Golden Shield!” “Wooden Spirit Entanglement!” “Waterly Softness!” “Flame Explosion Gathering Sphere!” “Stone Gathering into Golden Stele!” …
Over eighty cultivators at the Outward Emergence stage, along with more than two thousand demon cultivators, jointly cast spells to fend off a thousand golden spears—just barely managing to hold back the attack. Yet each of them felt suffocated in their chests, overwhelmed by pressure.
In the air, as True Man Red Gold unleashed “Golden God, Transform into a Thousand,” the leader of the hidden demon cultivators finally appeared—he had been waiting for this moment.
Once True Man Red Gold acted, the demon cultivator leader had no chance to defend himself. He had been waiting for this opportunity all along, and now it had come.
“Red Gold, you’re done!”
The moment the demon cultivator leader appeared, he held a blue Dragon Bone Sword, upon which faint crystals of cyan true energy already glowed.
Immediately afterward, he appeared beside True Man Red Gold like a ghost, plunging the Dragon Bone Sword into his body. All the true energy on the sword flowed into True Man Red Gold’s body.
“Hmph, Red Gold, struck by my Cyan Crystal Sword, and you still don’t die?” The demon cultivator leader looked at the stunned True Man Red Gold with triumph.
True Man Red Gold had been extremely cautious. Before delivering the fatal strike to the demon cultivators, his spiritual sense had scanned the surroundings and found no trace of any cultivators at the Divided Attention stage. That’s why he had confidently used “Golden God, Transform into a Thousand.” Who would have thought the demon cultivator leader’s invisibility technique was so advanced?
“You’re quite bold. Do you really think you can kill me so easily?” Blood welled at True Man Red Gold’s lips, but he smiled scornfully.
Things turned bad—the demon cultivator leader sensed danger and tried to fly away.
But True Man Red Gold, resolute in his death, detonated himself.
A cultivator at the early Divided Attention stage, in his final moments, unleashed a massive burst of golden energy capable of tearing through space, blasting in all directions.
The demon cultivator leader reacted quickly, forming a blue true energy shield around himself to block this blinding golden explosion. Eventually, he managed to withstand it, though he was severely injured and spat out blood several times.
However, on Golden Cauldron Peak, the demon cultivators and disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect were greatly affected by True Man Red Gold’s explosion.
The demon cultivators at the Outward Emergence stage and the demon cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage quickly cast spells to attack the incoming energy waves, but to no avail. Soon, everyone was engulfed by the energy waves. After they passed, only a thousand demon cultivators remained, while none of the Outward Emergence stage demon cultivators died—though ten sect leaders at the early Outward Emergence stage perished.
Among the disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect, a thousand died instantly, reducing their numbers by half.

“Kill them, kill all these people from the Golden Cauldron Sect.” The last thousand demon cultivators became enraged.
With the spatial energy surging, the disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect could not teleport at all and had to bravely endure the attacks of the furious demon cultivators.
Without any suspense, the enraged demon cultivators became even more ferocious, sweeping aside all the disciples of the Golden Cauldron Sect with mere swings of their arms.
All the elite members of the Golden Cauldron Sect perished. It could be said that it would be extremely difficult for them to recover from this setback.
The leader of the demon cultivators briefly healed his injuries before flying over to the Southern Envoy, Northern Envoy, and the other demon cultivators, looking triumphant.
“Southern Envoy, Northern Envoy, you’ve worked hard. As long as we head to the Sea of Immortals and Demons and kill all the leaders of the ten major sects there, the entire Tianfeng Planet will belong to us, the demon cultivators,” the leader declared confidently, radiating an air of self-assurance.
At that moment, the ten demon cultivators—Southern Envoy, Northern Envoy, Bai Yan, Wei Yan, Hai Gui Xin, Jiao Ling, Wu Hong, Xiong Guan, Lang Qiang, Long Zhan—along with thirteen subdued sect leaders and fifty demon cultivators who had reached the early stage of Soul Emergence, suddenly attacked simultaneously. All of them raised their Yuan Ying above their heads, and the seventy-three Yuan Ying emitted their true energy together, creating a space filled with true energy. Various spells were unleashed within this space to attack the leader of the demon cultivators.
The leader of the demon cultivators never expected such a turn of events. Why would the Southern Envoy and the others attack him?
In a hurry, he also sent his Yuan Ying out, quickly forming a spell that created a vortex of void wind around him, as if creating a separate realm, thereby blocking all seventy-three spells from reaching him.
“Hmph, you traitors!” the leader shouted angrily. Then he formed another spell, making the void wind spin, and instantly reflected all seventy-three spells back at them.
The seventy-three people, including the Southern Envoy, spat out mouthfuls of blood from their Yuan Ying before quickly returning them to their dantians, their faces pale.
However, the leader of the demon cultivators also looked grim. His true energy had been greatly depleted, and his existing internal injuries had worsened. It would take him about twenty years of rest to fully recover.
Furious, he glared at the seventy-three people and raised his crystal-blue sword, ready to slay them all.
“Hmph, Leader of the Demon Cultivators, if you want to kill people, have you even asked your master?” Suddenly, Qu Yi appeared before him.
At that moment, the leader of the demon cultivators realized that his subordinates were under Qu Yi’s control. His entire plan was in Qu Yi’s hands, and all his achievements had been stolen by him.

“I’ll kill you!” The leader of the demon cultivators trembled violently, holding up his crystal-blue sword, determined to chop Qu Yi to pieces. But Qu Yi merely wore a faint smile as he activated a spirit talisman in his hand—one obtained from the Spirit Talisman Cave, namely the “Destroy All Before It Withers Talisman.” This talisman possessed the power of a mid-stage Divination Realm cultivator. Although Qu Yi was only in the late Yuan Ying stage, by channeling all his vital energy into it, he could unleash power equivalent to that of an early Divination Realm cultivator. A wave of putrid evil energy, filled with intense notions of death, erosion, and destruction, enveloped the leader of the demon cultivators. As expected, the leader stared with wide eyes, shooting out the most poisonous curses in the world, before his entire body began to rot and disappear, even his Yuan Ying being destroyed. Seeing that the leader was dead, Qu Yi pursed his lips, gave a faint smile, then turned to the 73 people, including the envoy from the south. “From now on, the Three Tripods Sect can establish itself on Tianfeng Star. In the future, the entire cultivation world will also belong to our Three Tripods Sect,” Qu Yi declared boldly. The 73 people were shocked by his words, feeling an inexplicable sense of pride surge within them. Episode 4: Swords from All Directions