Wang Longwen watched the three corpses below with cold eyes. He felt no ripples in his heart for these three withered lives, only a stillness like water, undisturbed.
For those of the demonic path, killing was merely the simplest means in their daily lives.
...
After easily dispatching these three overconfident disciples of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, Wang Longwen took everything from the Half Moon Sky Lake, including the Golden Dragon Whisker Fish and the Luan Piao Five-Colored Spirit Chicken, in one fell swoop.
He slaughtered them all, leaving none behind, a deed even more ruthless than Wu Tao's.
Following that, Wang Longwen casually walked around the edge of the Half Moon Sky Lake and found several spiritual herbs and grasses.
Afterward, Wang Longwen even unleashed a demonic fire, burning the forest around the Half Moon Sky Lake into a barren wasteland.
This tactic of draining the pond to catch the fish, leaving nothing for those who came after, truly embodied the selfish and self-serving nature of the demonic path to the extreme.
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The Ice Snow Immortal Mountain was the coldest peak within the Huangji Taiyi Secret Realm, reaching over nine hundred zhang in height, its summit piercing the clouds.
The temperature at the peak was well below minus a thousand degrees Celsius.
The accumulated snow never melted.
On the Ice Snow Immortal Mountain, snowflakes fell like a tempest, creating a vast and lonely scene of a thousand miles of ice and ten thousand miles of snow.
Fierce winds howled, wildly bringing bone-chilling cold, so cold it made one shiver uncontrollably.
Many outer disciples from both the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect who had come "treasure hunting" in the past, upon ascending this Ice Snow Immortal Mountain, had not prepared sufficiently. Within a short time, the biting cold invaded their bodies, causing frostbite to their internal organs and their blood to freeze...
In the end, they all turned into ice and snow sculptures, forever preserved in this world of ice and snow.
Within the Ice Snow Immortal Mountain, there were many "ice-attribute" heavenly materials, earthly treasures, and rare exotic items.
Such as Extreme Cold Ice Marrow, Snow Ice Soul, Ice Essence Grass, Ice Spirit Snow Fruit, Cold Jade, Hundred Mile Speckled Bamboo, Azure Ling Crystal Grass, and so on, all of which were extremely valuable.
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Amidst the sky-obscuring blizzard, a colossal silver-backed snow-white giant ape blocked the path of "Zhuge Yuejun," widely recognized as the foremost outer disciple of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
The silver-backed snow-white giant ape stood over fifty zhang tall, its entire body covered in pure silver-white fur, devoid of any other color, even its eyes were silver-white.
The silver-backed snow-white giant ape, as a whole, resembled a giant carved from ten thousand-year-old solid ice, dozens of zhang high.
The silver-backed snow-white giant ape possessed a natural water attribute talent, and its size was even larger than an ordinary small mountain.
Its nature was ferocious and brutal, its arm strength weighing tens of thousands of jin. Its intelligence was comparable to that of an eleven or twelve-year-old child.
This silver-backed snow-white giant ape was the most powerful demonic beast on the Ice Snow Immortal Mountain, its actual combat power ranging between the early to middle stages of the Foundation Establishment realm.
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In the icy, snowy terrain.
The silver-backed snow-white giant ape advanced step by step towards Zhuge Yuejun, its ferocious silver eyes flashing with cold, cruel, bloodthirsty light.
As it approached its prey, the growl from its throat became increasingly low. With each step, the snow-capped peak trembled slightly.
On the other side.
Zhuge Yuejun's blue robe fluttered with the wind and snow. His pupils contracted sharply. The peak cultivation of the Qi Refining realm and his intense killing intent merged, unleashing his full power without reservation.
The auras of Zhuge Yuejun and the silver-backed snow-white ape erupted simultaneously, rising into the sky, their two surging battle intents intermingling.
...
"Boom!"
Suddenly, thunder rumbled on flat ground.
A sharp, piercing, and incredibly powerful cold light, as if capable of tearing through the sky, suddenly flashed into existence at that spot. It shot out from behind Zhuge Yuejun.
As the sharp and powerful cold light fell to the ground, it revealed a broken bronze halberd, eight chi and six cun long.
This halberd was a remnant treasure from the primeval era, named the "Dragon Xuan Sky-Splitting Demon-Slaying Halberd."
Zhuge Yuejun extended his right hand and slowly grasped the inserted
Dragon Xuan Sky-Splitting Demon-Slaying Halberd in front of him.
With the Dragon Xuan Sky-Splitting Demon-Slaying Halberd in hand, Zhuge Yuejun's entire aura transformed. With every movement, he exuded a power that seemed capable of splitting heaven and earth asunder.
"Beast, die!"
A cold voice, devoid of any emotion, suddenly rang out.
Like the sharp edge of dawn cutting through the heavens, it manifested directly, carving out a dozens of zhang long, snow-white halberd light.
On the other side, the silver-backed snow-white giant ape was equally fierce.
The silver-backed snow-white giant ape possessed innate divine strength. Each punch it threw generated a force of at least tens of thousands of jin. Such punching power, combined with the absorption of surrounding water-attribute spiritual energy, resulted in truly terrifying attacks.
The residual shockwaves from the battle between this human and beast caused the surrounding air to distort, emitting a "buzzing" sound.
The mountain body of the Ice Snow Immortal Mountain also trembled violently. The next moment, it sounded as if it were collapsing, with a "hu la la" sound...
"Boom boom..."
"Boom boom..."
"Rumble!" A series of continuous, enormous collapsing sounds echoed, and the snow mountain shook even more violently.
In an instant, heaven and earth shook.
Many cracks, tens of zhang wide, split open on the peak of the Ice Snow Immortal Mountain. Large amounts of accumulated snow broke away, forming a terrifying avalanche.
The silver-backed snow-white giant ape beat its chest and slammed its belly, raising its enormous arms, tens of meters thick. Water-attribute spiritual energy surged wildly, absorbing all the surrounding ice and snow essence, forming a colossal glacier nearly thirty zhang in size, obscuring the sky.
A blinding cold light once again ignited from the Dragon Xuan Sky-Splitting Demon-Slaying Halberd. Killing intent and battle intent merged, spilling out forcefully. Ancient runes flickered incessantly on the bronze halberd.
Zhuge Yuejun raised the Dragon Xuan Sky-Splitting Demon-Slaying Halberd again and struck directly. The terrifying sharpness seemed to be about to cleave the entire world in two.
"One Halberd Cleaves Heaven and Earth!"
The halberd light swept forward with destructive force, directly cleaving the colossal glacier, nearly thirty zhang in size, into two.
Zhuge Yuejun entered the Taiyi Immortal Sect at the age of nine. After only nine years, at the age of eighteen, he reached the peak of the Qi Refining realm.
During his outer sect trials, he unexpectedly obtained an ancient inheritance. Relying on his once-in-ten-thousand-years immortal cultivation aptitude and this ancient inheritance, Zhuge Yuejun advanced rapidly, distinguishing himself from tens of thousands of outer disciples to become the undisputed foremost outer disciple of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
Zhuge Yuejun's combat power had long been able to contend against opponents of higher realms. With his Qi Refining cultivation, he could easily slay Foundation Establishment cultivators.
"Battle, battle, battle..."
The halberd in Zhuge Yuejun's hand unleashed boundless power.
Before the first incredibly sharp halberd light, which struck towards the silver-backed snow-white giant ape, had disappeared, another halberd light appeared.
Then followed a dense stream of halberd lights, hundreds of them converging together, transforming into a white rainbow. Carrying immense power, it surged towards the silver-backed snow-white giant ape.
"Ahhh..."
The colossal body of the silver-backed snow-white giant ape was shattered inch by inch by the halberd lights. Its skin, flesh, bones, and internal organs cracked apart one by one. Subsequently, its entire body was torn asunder, scattering into countless pieces of flesh and blood across the silver-clad, frozen snowy land.
Blood, brain matter, internal organs, broken bones...
These messy substances stained the snow-covered ground red, and a thick smell of blood permeated the area. On this Ice Snow Immortal Mountain, another incomplete, ice-sculpted corpse was added.
...
After resolving the silver-backed snow-white giant ape, Zhuge Yuejun ventured deeper into the Ice Snow Immortal Mountain. At the summit of the Ice Snow Immortal Mountain, he found a cold spring that continuously flowed with spiritual energy water.
Diving over ten thousand meters deep into the cold spring, Zhuge Yuejun discovered the Thousand-Year Ice Snow Lotus at the bottom, along with several pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Jade.
...
Speaking of which, the outer disciples from the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect who participated in the Huangji Taiyi Secret Realm this time could be broadly divided into three categories!
The first category consisted of those with extremely weak strength, whose cultivation techniques were only at the twelfth, eleventh, or even tenth layer.
Their reasons for entering the Huangji Taiyi Secret Realm varied greatly. Some had no choice but to comply, some were forced to come, or they harbored a glimmer of hope and intended to muddle through in the secret realm, seeking profit amidst the chaos.
However, regardless of their objectives, their status remained unchanged.
They occupied the lowest rung of the Huangji Taiyi Secret Realm, destined to play the role of those fleeing in panic and being slaughtered.
Often, after a month, with the exception of a few of the most cunning or those with special life-saving means, these individuals with excessively weak strength would be tacitly eliminated by the stronger cultivators, with few surviving in the end.
The second category was like the group with the burly, bearded man. Their spiritual power was not weak, but they themselves knew their overall strength was far inferior to other masters, and they were resigned to not obtaining "heavenly materials and earthly treasures." They were unwilling to risk their lives against top-tier Qi Refining masters to seize spiritual herbs or treasures.
Driven by greed, they instead set their sights on the first category and individuals of their own kind, intending to seize this opportunity to kill for treasures and make a fortune quietly.
These individuals were most active in the first two months within the Huangji Taiyi Secret Realm, often forming alliances to hunt others.
However, starting from the first day of the third month, these opportunists would disappear and cease to show themselves.
This was because they were well aware that the third month was the day of fierce confrontation among top elite outer disciples. During this period, if they encountered a particularly troublesome expert, these individuals of above-average strength would face certain death.
Of course, there were also those who were arrogant or had an inaccurate assessment of their own strength.
They would blindly plunge into the vortex of competing for spiritual herbs, grasses, and treasures, ultimately meeting a fate where not even their bones remained.
The final category was the rarest in the Huangji Taiyi Secret Realm.
They were at the apex of the pyramid, the most elite outer disciples from both the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect who had entered the Huangji Taiyi Secret Realm.
They were also the ones entrusted with the highest hopes by the higher echelons of both sects. As for their fellow disciples, they were, at best, cannon fodder!
These elites possessed profound spiritual power and were equipped with incredibly potent top-tier magical artifacts! Their sole objective was to seize a sufficient quantity of spiritual medicines and treasures!
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