The sword seller, dressed in red, deserves applause for the prankster.

When Chi Miao, his two companions, and Senior Brother Qiu Qi returned to Nine Swords Mountain, it was already a ruin. The excessively smooth and regular marks on the mountain were enough to show how terrifying the power that destroyed it was.

A desolate wasteland, barren of everything, leaving only traces of emptiness.

Revisiting the familiar place.

The four of them, plus Youying, were the candidates selected by Nine Swords Mountain to participate in the Ten Sects Training Camp. They should have been the pride of Nine Swords Mountain and would one day lead Nine Swords Mountain to rise again.

Unexpectedly... because of this opportunity, they became one of the few survivors of Nine Swords Mountain.

Senior Brother Qiu Qi spoke with a sigh, pointing to a spot in the ruins: "Chi Miao, Xiao Jin, it was right there that I introduced you to the sect. I never imagined that my junior brothers and sisters, who were just starting out back then, would be able to stand on their own now."

His talent is exceptional, and his temperament is even better, but he is still a level below top geniuses like Chi Miao and Jin Shengfei.

He hasn't even broken through to the Nascent Soul stage yet, and only two or three years have passed, but the changes are already so great.

That once arrogant and unserious girl has grown up to be this mature.

Chi Miao remained expressionless, looking at the ruins before him without lingering any longer.

"Let's go."

Once she saw it, she was able to steel herself and fight her way out.

Jin Shengfei choked back tears as he watched Chi Miao's retreating figure, clenching his fists.

Ying Wuhuo then floated a nearby boulder into the air, carved the three characters "Nine Swords Mountain" with his sword, and then planted the boulder into the ground.

"We will rebuild Nine Swords Mountain."

Chi Miao nodded with her back turned: "We will."

Most definitely.

All four turned their backs and refused to look any further.

I took just one step when a voice came from behind me:

"Chi Miao! Jin Shengfei!"

The sound was very faint.

Jin Shengfei took a deep breath, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably: "Chi Miao... I must be too heartbroken, I'm actually hallucinating."

Chi Miao: "Me too."

"Ying Wuhuo! And that random passerby too!!"

Senior Brother Qiu Qi clenched his fist: "I think I was hallucinating too, but why would it be some random passerby? My reputation may not be that earth-shattering, but it shouldn't be someone I can't even recognize!"

Ying Wuhuo frowned: "Perhaps it's not a hallucination."

Chi Miao agreed, but when she turned around, there was nothing there.

"Perhaps our deceased brothers and sisters felt wronged, and their will remains on this land, urging us to avenge them."

She was actually quite familiar with this routine, after all, that's how they always appeared in her previous life.

Practice makes perfect... and after a few tries, she suddenly produced three incense sticks and stuck them in the ground.

May the departed rest in peace, Amitabha.

"We will show you that your deaths are not meaningless."

Jin Shengfei couldn't hold back anymore and burst into tears, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Everyone from Nine Swords Mountain! You must be well in the afterlife!"

"I...I will definitely make sure Chi Miao avenges you!"

Chi Miao was taken aback: "What do you mean by supervising me? Aren't you going to join me?"

Jin Shengfei exclaimed "Ah!" and pointed at herself incredulously, "Should I go up?"

Chi Miao: "You want it! Don't you want to personally kill your enemy?"

Jin Shengfei: "I'm just a nobody in the Nascent Soul stage. I can manage to fight someone in the Mahayana stage, but someone in the Tribulation Transcending stage... am I supposed to be cannon fodder? Are you going to burn paper money for me next year?"

Chi Miao: "..."

That seems to make sense.

Jin Shengfei's actual combat strength is enough to fight against a Mahayana stage cultivator, but this time the enemy is clearly stronger. Sending Jin Shengfei to fight might really make him cannon fodder.

Chi Miao: "Then...then you stay here and comfort the souls of the dead."

As she spoke, it seemed that Jin Shengfei's body trembled slightly.

"Alright, stop shaking. Don't embarrass yourself. What kind of behavior is it to shake like this in front of your family?!"

Jin Shengfei: "I wasn't shaking!"

Chi Miao: "?"

"It's definitely not him shaking." Ying Wuhuo pointed to the ground beneath Jin Shengfei's feet: "It's the ground that's moving."

Chi Miao was suddenly jolted awake, and his spiritual power was rapidly released, ready to kill whatever was on the ground on the spot.

"Who goes there?!"

"If you move again, I'll kill you!"

Sensing the threat of death, the man on the ground trembled even more violently, his voice growing louder: "Damn it! Where is your humanity? Where is the law?! You're stepping on our heads and won't let us move an inch, so why don't you listen to us properly?!"

"You wouldn't respond when we called you, but now you're jumping on our heels to spout sentimentality? Are you even human?!"

The people below immediately launched a massive, devastating attack that broke through the defenses.

Chi Miao suddenly recognized the voice:

"Song Chenxing?"

They had met once before; the cross-dressing master who helped them calculate the Rongyue incident in "Heavenly Sword City" was the young sect leader of the Divine Mechanism Sect.

"Yes, it's me! Make way so we can climb up!"

After Chi Miao and his group left the land, a hand emerged from the soil, and another familiar face was also there.

Yun Yao.

Both of them were covered in mud and sand, looking rather disheveled, with Song Chenxing also having a large bump on her head.

These two did not enter the Heavenly Sorrow Cave together, so their opportunities were vastly different, and their current cultivation levels are only at the Nascent Soul stage.

This way of making an entrance is truly appalling.

Chi Miao and the others kept their eyes on the big bump on Song Chenxing's head, trying their best to hold back their laughter.

Hold it in!

This is no ordinary occasion! It's in front of the fallen heroes!

Chi Miao muttered under her breath, "Say 'Buddha forgive me'."

Chi Miao: "One."

Jin Shengfei: "Add one."

Qiu Qi: "Add one."

Ying Wuhuo: "..."

Hopeless.

The future of Miaohuazhou is bleak.

Song Chenxing broke down in anger, yelling, "What the hell! Are you even human? Not only do you not feel any remorse, you're laughing! Who do you think we're here for?!"

He couldn't even keep up the fake voice anymore, which shows how explosive his emotions were.

Chi Miao was taken aback: "For us?"

Song Chenxing wanted to vent his emotions, but Yun Yao stopped him. She walked up to the group and looked at Chi Miao.

Having spent nearly two years at Nine Swords Mountain, her aura has become increasingly gentle, no longer as cold as before.

She looked at Chi Miao, her eyes filled with anger and grievance.

But she didn't say anything, and quickly got back to the main topic:

"Yes, we are waiting for you to come back."

"Song Chenxing predicted that you would return to Nine Swords Mountain in the next two days. In order to avoid being noticed, we used earth magic to conceal our presence and stayed here to wait for you."

"I don't know how much you know about the current situation, but... I have something very important to tell you, something that Senior Brother Rongyue and the Supreme Elder asked us to tell you in person!"

What are the messages from Senior Brother Rongyue and the Supreme Elder?

Chi Miao became serious: "Go on."

Yun Yao spoke up: "Nine Swords Mountain... was not destroyed!"