novelraw Chapter 191
Chapter 191
Chapter 191: Driven Despair
In just a few short days, two major events had taken place in the Northern Spirit Domain. The first was the great upheaval within the Sacred Land of Lingxu. Internal problems had erupted, followed by a massive purge. More than a dozen Union Realm Ancestors had fallen. As for the detailed intelligence, only a handful of people were aware of it.
Even so, this alone was enough to shake the entire cultivation world. Some powerful sects had already begun to stir restlessly.
The second event concerned the Sacred Land of Baiyuan, the Sacred Land of Qinglan, and the Sacred Land of Yincang. The three Sacred Lands had merged into one, establishing the Qingyuan-Yincang Sacred Sect.
The three Sacred Lands shared resources and exchanges freely, and from that point on, there was no longer any distinction of Sacred Land among their disciples.
At the same time, the border regions between the three Sacred Lands and the Sacred Land of Lingxu had been completely sealed off. The other sects and cultivation families throughout the Northern Spirit Domain all sensed that the sky of the Northern Spirit Domain was about to change.
The Sacred Land of Lingxu.
After Li Tianwei broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, he spent some time stabilizing his cultivation.
In Li Tianwei’s view, the current Sacred Land of Lingxu had already been mostly cleaned out. Even he had not expected that so many of the Ancestors of the Sacred Land of Lingxu would have gone astray.
Now, he had successfully set things right again.
“However, it does not matter. Inside the soul banner, properly cleanse your sins and accumulate more merit. That way, you will still have a chance at rebirth.”
Li Tianwei looked at the Saint Soul Banner planted inside his cave residence as decoration and thought so.
As for how rebirth would occur, Li Tianwei already had an excellent idea. That was to let the Scripture of Supreme Virtue and Radiant Purity carry out a thorough cleansing upon it, just like the Celestial Souls within the Forbidden Land of Taixu.
After being washed clean and returning to heaven and earth, would that not be good?
Inside the soul banner, because it housed the divine souls of more than a dozen Union Realm Ancestors, shrill cries of vengeful ghosts could still be heard from time to time. However, the increasingly distinct golden wheel upon the soul banner seemed to proclaim that it was gradually changing toward another direction.
Visible to the naked eye, the black-green coloration within it continued to grow. With the Cave Heaven constructed inside using the Fragment of Taixu, the Eighteenth Level of Hell operated nonstop, exactly as Li Tianwei had planned.
All of this was for the good of the cultivators inside who had committed mistakes.
Li Tianwei projected his consciousness inward. The Eighteenth Level of Hell stood tall, everything operating as he had arranged.
At the same time, Li Tianwei discovered that several more ordinary soul entities had appeared within the soul banner. His gaze turned toward the Judge’s Brush and the Book of Life and Death that had been formed earlier.
“Someone has already arrived?”
Looking at the Book of Life and Death, where several names had already been crossed out, Li Tianwei understood that among the several hundred thousand people he had rescued in Jing’an City, some had already reached the end of their natural lifespan.
Li Tianwei was not surprised by this. He was not yet a True Immortal, and those people had already endured immense torment during the process of being trafficked.
Even though Li Tianwei had used spells to heal them and provided shelter and food, after so many years, they had long since lost the appearance of ordinary people.
It was normal for some of them to be unable to withstand the burden on their origin lifespan.
“Haah.”
Seeing this, Li Tianwei could not help but shift his attention to the newly added soul entities. Watching them work diligently within this constructed Eighteenth Level of Hell, earnestly cleansing the sins from those cultivators, it did not seem bad at all.
Soon, Li Tianwei arrived at the first level. At this moment, those Union Realm Ancestors who had just been taken into the Saint Soul Banner earlier had already gone through the Eighteenth Level of Hell several times and returned to the first level once more.
Because their divine souls had been split into countless fragments to experience various forms of torment, they were unaware that Li Tianwei had already arrived beside them.
Looking at these Union Realm Ancestors, Li Tianwei’s expression did not change in the slightest. He extended his hand and waved it toward them.
In an instant, their divine souls rapidly condensed, emerging from the prior agony. When they regained their senses, they saw Li Tianwei standing before them.
“Li Tianwei…”
These Union Realm Ancestors no longer had their former arrogance. Their faces looked exceptionally grim.
Some still harbored uncontrollable hatred, but more of them dared not meet Li Tianwei’s gaze.
The torment of the Eighteenth Level of Hell had instilled a faint fear of Li Tianwei within them. They had completely regretted it. Why had they bothered to contend with Li Tianwei at all, this demon?
“First Seat Li, release us! Give us a quick end!”
“By calculation, I am still an Ancestor of your lineage!”
Several of them could no longer restrain themselves and directly knelt beside Li Tianwei, begging.
“Indeed, you are my Ancestors.”
“Treating you like this is indeed somewhat excessive.”
Seeing this, Li Tianwei squatted down slightly and spoke with a smile in his eyes.
Hearing Li Tianwei’s words, those Union Realm Ancestors who were begging felt as if a great burden had been lifted from their bodies, their emotions stirring with faint excitement.
“First Seat Li, then… then what do you want us to do?”
“We are willing to do anything.”
Seeing them like this, Li Tianwei slowly stood up.
“Anything?”
“As expected of my Ancestors, those who came out of the Sacred Land of Lingxu. That is exactly what I thought. The Sacred Land of Lingxu is a righteous Sacred Land. How could it be full of nothing but despicable people?”
Li Tianwei slightly turned his head and carefully examined the divine souls of these Union Realm Ancestors from top to bottom.
As Li Tianwei’s gaze swept over them, even in their divine soul state, the Union Realm Ancestors felt a sense of unease.
“The Scripture of Supreme Virtue and Radiant Purity.”
“Since you are willing to do anything, then accept my cleansing.”
Li Tianwei silently recited the words. Immediately after, an incomparably pure power of supreme virtue erupted from behind him.
In an instant, pure white radiance, tinged with threads of five-colored strange light, illuminated the entire Eighteenth Level of Hell.
“No, no, Li Tianwei, what are you trying to do!”
Seeing the change in Li Tianwei, the faces of those Union Realm Ancestors changed drastically, but it was useless.
The energy of Supreme Virtue and Radiant Purity, which radiated to all beings, gathered all under one dominion, and cleansed everything, had already begun surging toward them.
Faced with Li Tianwei’s erosion, they did not even possess the ability to resist. Their consciousness sank as endless goodwill and pure intent radiated forth from their bodies.
“Virtue…”
Those Union Realm Ancestors gradually lost the light in their eyes, kneeling prostrate on the ground and chanting in unison.
Yet deep within their consciousness, they remained fully awake, continuing to endure the torment of the Eighteenth Level of Hell, while watching their own divine souls be manipulated by Li Tianwei at his whim.
Li Tianwei considered himself not someone who wasted resources. These people were Union Realm cultivators. The current Sacred Land of Lingxu was lacking manpower and still needed these Union Realm Ancestors to help.
But if he let them help freely, would that not mean granting them freedom? Thus, Li Tianwei could only allow their consciousness to continue enduring the torment of the Eighteenth Level of Hell, while the other side maintained its original rationality.
In this way, their usefulness could be maximized.
He would squeeze out everything they had, wasting not a single bit. Before comprehending the half-extreme numerical Dao Intents, Li Tianwei could not accomplish this, but now it was different.
With the increase of Dao Intents, Li Tianwei’s Scripture of Supreme Virtue and Radiant Purity had also received an epic-level enhancement.
“No, Li Tianwei, you… you…”
Still retaining their own consciousness, yet forced to watch their divine souls fall under Li Tianwei’s control, those Union Realm Ancestors could not help but curse loudly.
Unfortunately, Li Tianwei could not hear them.