novelraw Chapter 246 : Reincarnation Is Also a Kind of Surrender, Isn’t It?
Chapter 246 : Reincarnation Is Also a Kind of Surrender, Isn’t It?
Chapter 246: Reincarnation Is Also a Kind of Surrender, Isn’t It?
“In the Sacred Land of Yincang surrendered?”
“As expected, just like the rumors say—without a shred of backbone, a bunch of groveling, profit-chasing scum.”
The disciples and elders of the Sacred Land of Lingxu, upon hearing this voice, instead felt not the slightest bit of joy. They had still wanted to vent a bit more.
After all, up to now they had only fought one battle with the Sacred Land of Qinglan, and it had not been satisfying yet! The Sacred Land of Baiyuan had fled, and now the Sacred Land of Yincang had surrendered.
Who would have thought that they had enthusiastically launched a grand campaign within the Sacred Land of Lingxu, never expecting it to end in such a whimpering, anticlimactic manner.
“Go! Take over the Sacred Land of Yincang.”
Li Tianwei’s consciousness probed over. Only after confirming several times that the cultivators within the Sacred Land of Yincang had indeed abandoned all resistance did he issue the order.
“Surrendering doesn’t mean it’s over. Crimes aren’t so easily pardoned. How could there be such a cheap thing?”
“I beat you once, killed a pile of people, and now I come knocking again. You surrender without fighting—how could it be that simple?”
A glint of cold light flickered in Li Tianwei’s eyes. At this moment, he had already made his decision.
Under the gaze of the disciples and elders of the Sacred Land of Yincang, Li Tianwei led the disciples and elders of the Sacred Land of Lingxu as they descended into the Sacred Land of Yincang.
Seeing Li Tianwei’s arrival, many people lowered their heads one after another, not daring to meet his gaze head-on.
As for the Sacred Lord of Yincang, upon seeing Li Tianwei appear without launching a massacre, he finally let out a breath of relief.
He immediately strode forward, arriving before Li Tianwei, took out a banner and a storage ring, and said with a fawning expression, where there was not the slightest trace of a Union Realm great expert’s demeanor.
“Lord Li Tianwei, this is the main banner of the Sacred Land of Yincang’s sect-protecting grand formation, as well as the keys and secret commands to the various treasure vault resource points of our Sacred Land of Yincang.”
Li Tianwei did not take them, but instead had Tian Gang Shangren receive them.
Seeing that it was Tian Gang Shangren who took them, the Sacred Lord of Yincang did not feel anything amiss, and instead completely relaxed.
Because in his view, since Li Tianwei and the others had accepted the items, they most likely no longer intended to kill anyone.
They had taken the things, so they probably would not kill people anymore. It was impossible for them to lack even this little bit of moral principle and kill prisoners of war.
How would the Sacred Land of Lingxu continue to survive in the future?
In the Sacred Lord of Yincang’s eyes, that was how it was. Unfortunately for him, the one he was facing was Li Tianwei.
After arriving at the Sacred Land of Yincang, Li Tianwei began to survey everything around him.
Almost all the disciples and elders of the Sacred Land of Yincang were inspected by Li Tianwei one by one.
The chill in Li Tianwei’s gaze grew colder and colder.
Because on these disciples and elders of the Sacred Land of Yincang, Li Tianwei saw endless sins—far more terrifying than those on the disciples and elders of the other two Sacred Lands.
It could be said that only on demonic cultivators and evil cultivators would one feel such a thing.
“The Sacred Land of Yincang? Why is it called Yincang?”
Li Tianwei was actually filled with doubt about the name Sacred Land of Yincang. His gaze fell on the Sacred Lord of Yincang as he asked directly.
“Well… that’s because the predecessor of the Sacred Land was the Yincang Divine Sect, originally a demonic sect, but we have now abandoned darkness and turned toward the light.”
The Sacred Lord of Yincang had not expected Li Tianwei’s first question to be this, but he immediately answered anyway.
After speaking, the Sacred Lord of Yincang could not help but wipe the nonexistent sweat from his forehead, while cautiously lifting his eyes to glance at Li Tianwei.
In his heart, the Sacred Lord of Yincang was still extremely uneasy. After all, although their Sacred Land of Yincang had switched allegiance, the cultivation methods they used were still from the former demonic cultivator lineage.
Thus, when the disciples of the Sacred Land of Yincang cultivated, more or less they would do some unspeakable things.
But in the Sacred Lord of Yincang’s view, there was nothing serious about that. After all, which cultivator had never done such things?
Even the most upright Sacred Land of Lingxu—could they really say that their disciples and elders had not a drop of innocent blood on their hands?
When fighting and dueling outside, innocents would inevitably be affected. After all, those who died were mortals. At worst, one could just compensate them with a few spirit stones.
Therefore, in the Sacred Lord of Yincang’s view, Li Tianwei saying this was merely a way to demand more.
“Lord Li Tianwei, as expected, nothing can be hidden from you! Our Sacred Land still has an immortal array hidden within the demonic sect territory. This, I am willing to offer as well.”
The Sacred Lord of Yincang immediately grasped the meaning, inwardly giving his own reading comprehension a thumbs-up.
“No need. I can get it even if you’re dead.”
“And reincarnation is also a kind of surrender, isn’t it?”
Just as the Sacred Lord of Yincang was feeling gratified by his own cleverness, Li Tianwei finally spoke.
“Ah! What…”
The Sacred Lord of Yincang was stunned on the spot and could not help but cry out in shock, his face full of confusion.
And at this moment, Li Tianwei’s hand had already landed on the Sacred Lord of Yincang’s body.
“Nothing much. Surrender? How could there be such a cheap thing.”
Boom…
In an instant, spiritual power erupted from Li Tianwei’s body, and a terrifying Manifestation rose behind him.
The pressure descended directly. The disciples of the Sacred Land of Yincang, who had just been relaxing because the Sacred Land of Lingxu had accepted their surrender, were completely unable to react to how such a sudden change could occur.
Some disciples looked toward the Sacred Lord of Yincang, hatred in their eyes, as if asking whether the Sacred Lord had said something he should not have said.
Naturally, the Sacred Lord of Yincang could no longer sense those gazes. At this moment, he looked at the hand that had pierced through him, and at the power throughout his body that was constantly dissipating.
“Why? We already surrendered, yet you don’t follow martial virtue.”
“Virtue? With evil cultivators like you, do I still need to reason with you? Enter my soul banner and slowly be reformed there!”
Li Tianwei directly pulled out the Saint Soul Banner, and dense evil aura erupted completely.
The disciples and elders of the Sacred Land of Lingxu at the side, upon seeing this scene, were thoroughly excited as well.
“Kill, kill…”
With Li Tianwei taking the lead, a complete campaign of exterminating demons and eradicating evil began.
The disciples of the Sacred Land of Yincang, who had already lost the will to fight, never understood why, after surrendering, they still had to face such an outcome.
“S-Sacred Lord! Did you say something wrong?”
Even at this stage, these people still blamed everything on the already-dead Sacred Lord of Yincang.
As for the Sacred Lord of Yincang, he died with his eyes wide open. After all, he had planned that after surrendering to the Sacred Land of Lingxu, they would merge into it and gradually integrate into the Sacred Land of Lingxu.
When the time came and they needed manpower to develop further, once Li Tianwei ascended, they could then corrupt the Sacred Land of Lingxu, parasitize them—this would also have been a good ending.
Unfortunately, Li Tianwei was a guy who completely did not follow moral principles.
The things had been taken, the prisoners were being accepted, so why suddenly erupt? You had clearly already won.
Yet in Li Tianwei’s line of thinking, the cultivators of the Sacred Land of Yincang before his eyes were drenched in sin, so deep it was almost inconceivable.
A sect that had turned “upright” from an evil sect, yet still cultivated evil methods even after becoming part of the righteous path—one could easily imagine that the methods of properly cultivating demonic arts were such that no one would dare to stop them.
They were almost all extremely evil existences.
Thus it followed that the people of the Sacred Land of Yincang were not people, and therefore did not deserve human treatment, nor the treatment given to surrendered prisoners of war.
Moreover, entering the banner to wash away sins was also a kind of surrender, wasn’t it? You merely lost your physical body—your soul was still inside, suffering torment. How did that not count as surrender?