Traveling the Heavens in Thunderbolt

Chapter 43: The Demon Sect's Dramatic Change
Just when the white-collar martial arts world was alarmed by the appearance of the two rising stars of the Yinkui Sect, "Blood Hand" Li Gong and "Witch Girl" Kan Kan, news came out from Cihang Jingzhai, the head of the white-collar martial arts world, that the successor of this generation would set foot in the martial arts world and choose the master of the world for the people.

After examining the figures from all parties, the one who is chosen will receive the world's most precious treasure "He Shi Bi" kept in Jingnian Zen Temple. He will be respected as the master of the world and receive the support of the two major martial arts holy places.

As soon as this news came out, it was officially announced to the world that the struggle between the Yinkui Sect and Cihang Jingzhai was about to begin again.

Just when everyone in the martial arts world thought that this battle would end like decades ago with Cihang and Jingnian joining forces to suppress the Yinkui Sect.

Just three days after Cihang Jingzhai announced that it would "choose the master on behalf of God", news came from Zhen Chuandao that "Bloody Hand" Li Gong came to challenge. Sect leader Zuo Youxian and Bi Chen joined forces, but were still no match for "Bloody Hand" Li Gong and were defeated by him.

The two were forced to surrender after being defeated, which symbolized that the True Chuan Dao, one of the two sects of the Six Paths of the Demon Sect, was officially incorporated into the Yin Kui Sect and became its branch.

As soon as the news spread, Fan Qinghui, the master of Cihang Jingzhai, began to feel uneasy, because the various sects of the Demon Sect had always fought alone, and except for Shi Zhixuan, who was the leader of both Huajian Sect and Butian Pavilion, there had never been a precedent of any sect annexing another sect. Without absolute strength, it would be impossible to make other sects of the Demon Sect submit.

Over the years, the only chance the Demon Sect had was when the "Evil King" Shi Zhixuan, who was so powerful and created the "Immortal Seal", had this opportunity.

Thanks to the fact that Junior Sister Bi Xiuxin fed the demon with her own body, this man's mind was damaged. He was then defeated by Ning Daoqi and disappeared from the scene. Only in this way was the rise of the Demon Sect suppressed.

The fact that Zhen Chuandao joined the Yinkui Sect seemed to foreshadow something to her, that the Demon Sect seemed to be beginning to unify again.

If the Demonic Sect were to unite, the energy they would unleash would far exceed the current combined power of Cihang Jingzhai and Jingnian Zen Temple.

Just when Fan Qinghui was worried, bad news came one after another, gradually confirming her premonition.

Shortly after the True Chuan Dao was merged into the Yin Kui Sect, Xi Ying, the "Tianjun" of the Mie Qing Dao, announced that he had officially joined the Yin Kui Sect, thus reducing the number of the Eight Demon Sects.

Afterwards, it was reported that the current leader of the Huajian Sect, "The Passionate Young Master" Hou Baixi, who was on good terms with the righteous path, and his female disciple Mengdie, who was in charge of protecting the sect, were killed by Li Gong, and their bodies were found on the cruise ship.

Because the Huajian Sect has always been a single-line sect, the deaths of Hou Baixi and Mengdie symbolize that this branch of the Demon Sect has been destroyed on the surface.

At this point, Fan Qinghui was almost certain that the Yinkui Sect wanted to unify the Demon Sect, and Zhu Yuyan relied on Li Gong, whom she had always treated as a junior.

Now it seems that Li Gong’s strength is no less than that of the Evil King at his peak.

Now that he had seen through the Yinkui Sect's purpose and reliance, Fan Qinghui immediately began to plan a countermeasure. Since Zhu Yuyan relied on Li Gong, he only needed to get rid of this person to suppress the Yinkui Sect's tremendous momentum.

Having a plan in mind, Fan Qinghui first sent his disciples from Jingzhai into the martial arts world to gather information about Li Gong.

After finding out that Li Gong liked to be alone and went towards Bashu.

On the one hand, he wrote to Yu Lekong and Ning Daoqi, hoping that they could keep an eye on the Yinkui Sect so that Li Gong would not be able to get help from his own sect in Bashu.

On the other hand, the news of Li Gong's entry into Shu was revealed to the Tianlian Sect and the orthodox Shengji Sect of the Demon Sect. These two sects would certainly not watch the Yinkui Sect unify the Demon Sect so easily and would definitely send people to surround and kill it.

At the same time, he sent people to the Duzun Castle, a tyrant in Shu, to let its hidden ally (licker), the castle lord Jie Hui, secretly cooperate with the two factions of the demon sects to surround and kill Li Gong.

But what she didn't expect was that the plan was on the verge of failure just as it began.

This was because the first thing Li Gong did when he entered Sichuan was to massacre Duzun Fort, killing all the members of the Xie family, including the fort owner Jie Hui and his son Jie Wenlong. Except for Song Yuhua, the eldest daughter of "Heavenly Blade" Song Que, who was married to Jie Wenlong and survived because she was out for something, Duzun Fort, the overlord of Sichuan and Shu, was officially destroyed.

Later, Li Gong deliberately showed up to attract the Tianlian Sect and the Shengji Sect to join forces to kill him. In the battle, Li Gong not only defeated An Long of the Tianlian Sect and You Niao Juan of the Shengji Sect, but also killed Ding Jiuzhong, Zhou Laotan, Jin Huanzhen and all the disciples of the Shengji Sect. This also caused An Long, the leader of the Tianlian Sect, and Miao You Niao Juan, the only one of the Shengji Sect, to surrender. From then on, the two sects were officially merged into the Yinkui Sect.

This also means that among the demonic forces, except for the missing descendants of the Butian Pavilion and the Moxiang Sect in the Turkic region, the demonic forces in the Middle-earth have almost been unified by the Yinkui Sect.

What shocked Fan Qinghui even more was that the spies she sent to follow the two factions, when investigating the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, discovered that You Niaojuan's unique weapon, the heavy "one-legged bronze man", had been smashed into more than a dozen pieces by Li Gong with his bare hands.

The spy brought back a piece of it. Fan Qinghui looked at the marks on the fragment, and the more she looked at it, the more frightened she became. This was because a heavy weapon like the "One-legged Tongren" could be made no less hard than any other magical weapon in the martial arts world under the blessing of the internal strength of a master like You Niaojuan.

And Li Gong was able to break the weapon with his bare hands without the help of any magic weapon, and also twisted it into this shape. This skill is rare in ancient and modern times, and it is definitely not something that Ning Daoqi and others can match.

This also forced Fan Qinghui to adjust his strategy. On the one hand, he sent people to contact Kong and Ning Daoqi, asking them to be careful so as not to be defeated by Li Gong one by one. He also notified all the allies of Cihang Jingzhai to be careful of Li Gong's attack.

On the other hand, he sent people to Tianshidao, along with the broken piece of weapon, to deliver it to Ling Donglai, hoping that he could fulfill his promise and help Cihang Jingzhai get rid of this great enemy.

But the people who returned from Tianshidao brought back another piece of bad news.

Ling Donglai, the "Supreme Master" who Fan Qinghui has high hopes for, has now gone far away to the frontier because he is worried about the war in Middle-earth, which will give foreign races an opportunity to take advantage of.

He wanted to eliminate the foreign masters headed by "Martial Master" Bi Xuan and "Master of Sword" Fu Cailin, in order to weaken the courage of these foreign races and prevent them from invading Middle-earth at this time.

This also means that Ling Donglai will not be in Central Earth for some time in the future, and will be unable to provide effective assistance to Cihang Jingzhai.

Just when Fan Qinghui was having a headache because of the rise of the Demonic Sect, Ling Donglai, whom she had been thinking about, was at the foot of Liaodong City.

The person he was facing was one of the targets of this trip, Fu Cailin, the patron saint in the hearts of the Goguryeo people.

The two men stood facing each other, but where they stood was a ground full of bones. Among them were countless huge pyramid-shaped mounds made of skulls and mud. These were the places where the Goguryeo people built the Jingguan for the soldiers who died in China after repelling Yang Guang's three expeditions to Goguryeo. The empty eyes of the bones on the mounds seemed to be telling the sky about this inhumane tragedy.

Ling Donglai had a purpose in challenging Fu Cailin here. He wanted to kill the spiritual symbol of Goguryeo here to pay tribute to the heroes of this place.

His expression was cold, yet he was extremely angry yet calm. Fu Cailin could feel from him how turbulent the undercurrent was beneath the calm lake.

Then Ling Donglai said grimly, "I came here today to avenge your disciple who caused chaos in the Central Plains and this place."

There was no trace of murderous intent in his words.

Fu Cailin knew that this battle was irreversible. Judging from his tone and the locations he chose for this battle, it was a fight to the death.

Although his martial arts skills were the culmination of those from the Mainland, the Western Regions, and Goryeo, and had improved over the years, he was definitely no match for the man in front of him who had defeated two great masters three years ago.

The outcome of this battle was certain death. But he still said unwillingly: "The soldiers here all died because of Yang Guang's tyranny and extortion. How can we blame the people of Goguryeo?"

But Ling Donglai laughed when he heard this, and then said, "."

(End of this chapter)