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

Reviving Nine Swords Mountain?!

Chi Miao's words caused everyone's brains to freeze for a moment, and they looked at Chi Miao in disbelief.

Girl, is that even human language?

Even the human leaders were starting to lose their composure, and Puning quickly sent a telepathic message at that moment:

"Chi Miao... I know Nine Swords Mountain is important to you, but... but the destruction of Nine Swords Mountain is an undeniable fact. Even setting aside the cost of resurrecting people, at least their souls are needed, right? We went to great lengths to collect the souls of Nine Swords Mountain, but we found nothing. You... you shouldn't be saying things that are hard to understand at this time!"

Everyone else was completely baffled.

Everyone knows that Nine Swords Mountain was destroyed; it was a tragic scene of annihilation. Even though Chi Miao has now rebuilt the mountain and sect of Nine Swords Mountain, the dead can never come back.

Even if she possessed extraordinary abilities, she couldn't simply be resurrected at will.

This concept was completely foreign to everyone. So, looking at Chi Miao's expression was like looking at a concubine driven mad in the cold palace.

However, Chi Miao smiled and said, "Don't be surprised. Since I've brought this up, it proves that I have my own methods to accomplish this, and I'm absolutely confident that I can do it."

As she spoke, a huge banner appeared behind her. The original dark purple banner had been transformed into a golden red after she changed it, making it look magnificent and grand. The character "魂" (soul) on it was also changed into the character "人" (person) that emitted a golden light.

She raised her hand and looked in one direction as if showing off, and that direction happened to be towards the Immortal Alliance members.

She spoke in a boastful tone:

"This banner is called the Human Emperor Banner. It is a Heaven-Rank magic weapon obtained by my senior brother, Ghost Cultivator Rong Yue, from Thunder Punishment Peak of Nine Swords Mountain. It has the ability to store souls."

"At that time, the Immortal Alliance thought it had destroyed Nine Swords Mountain, but little did they know that everything was within the expectations of Nine Swords Mountain. Even the power that destroyed the peak of Nine Swords Mountain was not the work of the Immortal Alliance, but a full-force attack from the Supreme Elder of Nine Swords Mountain, Tian Nu Jun."

"All those who perished at Nine Swords Mountain have souls that have been collected within this Emperor's Banner. With enough powerful and numerous souls, they can be resurrected, and Nine Swords Mountain can return to its former glory!!"

The moment Chi Miao finished speaking, the Emperor's Banner emitted a golden light that illuminated the surroundings, even dazzlingly so.

The people below were dumbfounded. This method didn't sound like a righteous practice; it sounded more like an evil magic!

"Fellow Daoist Chi... Chi Miao, although your idea is good, could you please explain why your Human Emperor Banner is emitting black smoke?"

Chi Miao frankly stated, "Because before this, this banner was called the 'Banner of Ten Thousand Souls Returning to Origin,' and it was an evil object."

Everyone: "???!!"

Huh? No, girl, who told you to be so honest? Are you out of your mind?!

The Immortal Alliance Leader, Zhan Wangtian, finally couldn't hold back any longer. He stood up, gritted his teeth, his eyes were bloodshot, and his whole body was covered in blood vessels.

He was forced to enter the coronation ceremony beforehand, and after witnessing it, he became insanely jealous. Now, hearing that a large number of souls are needed to resurrect the people of Nine Swords Mountain using evil magic, coupled with Chi Miao's previous rampage in the Immortal Alliance and the collection of souls from the Immortal Alliance allies who destroyed Nine Swords Mountain, even a fool could see why Chi Miao insisted on the Immortal Alliance's presence.

It wasn't just for showing off or flaunting power; more importantly, it was so that when they all became nourishment for the "Human Emperor Banner," their Immortal Alliance souls could be used to revive the people of Nine Swords Mountain.

How could he let Chi Miao have his way?

He stood up and roared, "What a wicked spell! Chi Miao, don't think that just because you have the support of some humans and the protection of the demons and beastmen, you can act with impunity. Humanity has no emperor who uses wicked magic! Using such means to satisfy your selfish desires will surely bring divine retribution!"

Chi Miao laughed: "Whether a technique is evil or not depends on who uses it... In the current Miaohua Continent, there isn't even a Heavenly Dao. Even if such a method is used, what being could possibly punish me with divine retribution?"

"Besides, I, Chi Miao, never do anything immoral or unethical. Whoever forced Nine Swords Mountain to its destruction, I will use their soul to appease my Emperor's Banner and welcome my family home!"

"The technique I use isn't called evil magic, it's called the Human Emperor's Technique!"

"So what if I am the only one who matters? Who can do anything to me?!"

After saying that, Chi Miao raised his hand, and hundreds of souls appeared around him!

These all belong to the Immortal Alliance: ten at the Tribulation Transcending stage and one hundred at the Mahayana stage.

Qin Yu finally understood why Chi Miao had kept all their souls—it was so that he could refine them now!

If their souls are refined, then there's no such thing as reincarnation! They have absolutely no chance of survival!

For the first time, Qin Yu felt such despair. She cried out to Zhan Wangtian, "Alliance Leader Zhan, please save us! For the sake of our hard work, even if we haven't made any great contributions, please save us! If we are refined into the banner, there will be no hope of ever being reborn!"

Chi Miao put one hand on his hip, turned to look at Qin Yu's soul and laughed: "He saved you? He's just a coward... You should remember this: we originally had no enmity. It was his bad idea to destroy the ten major sects, and it was he who ordered you to destroy my Nine Swords Mountain, which is why we became enemies."

"So... if you want to hate someone, then hate him. If you hate him, you can't hate me, okay?"

After saying that, Chi Miao found the whole argument so funny that she chuckled to herself.

"Of course, that's assuming you can still survive and hate people."

After saying that, Chi Miao directly used his spiritual power to wave the Human Emperor Banner on his back. An incredibly terrifying attraction appeared in the Human Emperor Banner. Although there was only a strong wind around, it was an absolute and irresistible attraction for souls.

The surrounding souls, desperately uttering words like "Save me" and "No," were instantly refined into the Emperor's Banner.

The Emperor Banner, having received the power of the soul, seemed overjoyed, its golden light becoming even more dazzling, almost visible to all of them.

Everyone present was choked with emotion, watching this scene with a mixture of shock and amazement.

"She refined the souls of those at the Tribulation Transcending stage and the Great Ascension stage so easily? That speed is simply too fast! If Qin Yu hadn't spoken up, I wouldn't have believed she refined them on the spot. Just how powerful is that ability?!"

"Is it an illusion? Is this all our imagination? She's in the mid-stage of the Mahayana realm, yet the power she unleashed is so immense that we can't even judge its true extent... I can't see through her power at all!"

Everyone was amazed by Chi Miao's excessive power, and for a moment they were stunned.

Zhan Wangtian felt the most terrifying threat of death he had ever faced, because... he saw Chi Miao, who had finished refining those souls, smiling at him.