As the nine powers began to overlap, their power rapidly multiplied from twofold to eightfold, then sixteenfold...

This was the Nine Absolute Fist's most terrifying aspect: it could merge nine powers and multiply its strength.

Lingqiong Jing was shaken after seeing such an ordinary fist technique unleash such devastating power. A strong sense of unease surged through him as Liu Wuxie had long since exceeded his understanding.

Just as Liu Wuxie had said, how could Lingqiong Jing dare to use such garbage immortal arts? The Nine Absolute Fist was a powerful immortal art, far stronger than Lingqiong Jing's immortal arts.

Lingqiong Jing's aura at the fifth-level Heavenly Immortal Realm did not affect Liu Wuxie. After breaking through to the Quasi-Immortal Realm, Liu Wuxie's aura had become strong and unfathomable, and his immortal runes had grown incredibly strong.

Whether it was immortal energy, laws, or immortal runes, Liu Wuxie could easily overpower Lingqiong Jing's clone. That meant the clone was useless unless Lingqiong Jing descended himself.

"Patriarch, what should we do next?" Everyone from the Lingqiong Clan began to panic. They all possessed high cultivation, and they could tell that their ancestor had fallen into a disadvantageous position. If their ancestor lost, it would become a nightmare for the Lingqiong Clan.

They also knew that Liu Wuxie would surely massacre them all.

"Retreat!" Lingqiong Gong said after realizing something was wrong. He immediately ordered his clansmen to retreat as far as possible.

"Liu Wuxie, you're too arrogant!" Lingqiong Jing roared and began forming seals, opening a crack as boundless laws from the celestial realm poured out to increase his combat strength.

His main body sent a portion of power to his clone.

"Be destroyed!" Liu Wuxie naturally would not give him the chance. The Nine Absolute Fist surged forth and formed a giant vortex that imprisoned Lingqiong Jing within it. He did not just want to kill Lingqiong Jing; he wanted to refine him alive.

Since treasures in the mortal realm could no longer help him reach the Immortal Realm, the only path forward was to refine immortals, the more the better. Only by refining enough immortals would he be able to break through to the Immortal Realm.

As an immortal from the celestial realm, Lingqiong Jing naturally possessed countless laws of the celestial realm inside him. If Liu Wuxie could refine Lingqiong Jing's clone, he believed he would reach the first-level Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Once he reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm, he could kill cultivators even at the high levels of the Heavenly Immortal Realm if they came.

If Lingqiong Jing knew what Liu Wuxie was thinking, he would probably cough up blood from rage. But that was the truth. With Liu Wuxie's ability, killing him would be easy. He had purposely dragged out the battle with the intention of refining Lingqiong Jing's clone.

With a series of explosions from the collision of the nine different powers, Lingqiong Jing took hundreds of punches head-on that riddled his body with holes.

"ARGH!" A miserable scream escaped Lingqiong Jing's mouth and traveled far into the distance. Every member of the Lingqiong Clan had retreated far away, and they were covered in cold sweat. This was not the outcome they wanted.

They had stormed into the Heavenly Dragon Sect with full confidence, believing they could finally seize control of the sect now that their ancestor had arrived. Who would have expected Liu Wuxie to return at this moment and suppress their ancestor?

"Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, it's up to you now," Liu Wuxie murmured. He summoned a massive black hole that devoured both the Nine Absolute Fist and Lingqiong Jing, leaving Liu Wuxie standing proudly in the sky.

"Retreat immediately!" Lingqiong Gong roared, urging his clansmen to flee. As long as they could escape back to their lesser realm, Liu Wuxie would not be able to do anything to them.

"Where do you people think you're going?" Liu Wuxie knew it would take time to refine an immortal, and he wanted to use this chance to slaughter everyone from the Lingqiong Clan.

With a flicker, he charged into the Lingqiong Clan like a tiger among sheep and began his massacre. He fixed his gaze not on Lingqiong Gong, but on Lingqiong Yu. It was time to end the feud that had lasted from the True Martial Continent to the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain.

He unleashed his domain power once more, enveloping a radius of tens of thousands of meters. Only a small number of Lingqiong Clan members managed to escape, while the majority remained trapped inside his domain, unable to break through, no matter how they attacked it.

With that, a massacre began. Many innocent people were also caught inside the domain because they had stood too close; they lay on the ground, hoping Liu Wuxie would spare them.

Liu Wuxie activated Ghost Pupil and left his imprint on every member of the Lingqiong Clan. He crossed ten thousand meters in the blink of an eye, and Lingqiong Yu froze in place, unable to move.

"Liu Wuxie, I curse that you die a miserable death! Our ancestor, Lingqiong Tian, will avenge Ancestor Lingqiong Jing! He will surely send down stronger immortals! Wash your neck clean and wait for death!" Lingqiong Yu roared.

The black cloak covering his body had vanished, revealing a face covered in festering sores that gave off a vile stench. Heaven and earth had cursed him, and he looked like a massive lump of flesh.

Liu Wuxie remained unmoved by the threat. As long as the Spirit Sealing Institute activated the Heavenly Sealing Array, immortals would find it impossible to return to the mortal realm.

Liu Wuxie looked at Lingqiong Yu with an amused expression, in no hurry to kill him. "Lingqiong Yu, I bet you didn't expect this day would come, did you?"

Not only Lingqiong Yu, but no one else had expected this either, including the cultivators from the other forces. Who could have imagined that Liu Wuxie would rise from a lowly slave to a powerhouse in just a few years? Even Hua Feiyu sometimes felt like he was dreaming.

Liu Wuxie had taken only three years to grow to this point. Many disciples who had joined the Heavenly Dragon Sect in the same batch as Liu Wuxie were still struggling in the outer sect.

"Liu Wuxie, you won't live long if you kill us. I advise you to submit to our Lingqiong Clan obediently! Our ancestor, Lingqiong Tian, has recently advanced to the Immortal Emperor Realm. If you're willing to submit to us, I will promise you a spot in the celestial realm," Lingqiong Yu said, his tone softening compared to before.

After undergoing rebirth once, he did not want to die so quickly, especially after learning that their ancestor had founded the Spirit Jade Heaven. He believed that as long as they could enter the celestial realm, they could rise as Lingqiong Tian's descendants.

Liu Wuxie sneered. "So what if he's an immortal emperor? Is it that impressive?"

After rebirth, Liu Wuxie had discovered that while he had been strong in his previous life, he had also pursued too many desires. He also knew that even immortal emperors were not truly immortal or undying.

As his last word fell, Lingqiong Yu exploded. Demonic flames then appeared and evaporated every droplet of his blood. Since his body contained a vast amount of cursed energy, Liu Wuxie extracted it and poured it into the Great Curse Mythical Art.

One after another, members of the Lingqiong Clan began to die, bursting apart and forming crimson fireworks in the sky.

Lingqiong Gong watched with fury. He suddenly felt fortunate that he had sent his two sons away earlier, or they would also have died there.

The slaughter lasted only ten breaths. By the time Liu Wuxie finished with the Lingqiong Clan, nearly a hundred people had died, aside from the dozen or so who had escaped earlier.

Liu Wuxie then turned his gaze to Bai You and the elders who had submitted to the Lingqiong Clan. However, he did not take their lives. The Heavenly Dragon Sect could punish them.

According to the sect's rules, elders who betrayed it at a crucial moment would be given a death sentence. However, they belonged to the older generation of the Heavenly Dragon Sect. Considering their contributions over the years, the sect would spare them the death penalty, but it would not let them escape punishment.

As for their punishment, Liu Wuxie would leave that to his master, Hua Feiyu.

After being nourished by the liquid spiritual energy, Hua Feiyu had fully recovered from his injuries. When he emerged from the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, his aura was stronger than before.

When refining Lingqiong Jing's clone, Liu Wuxie had injected a portion of the laws into Hua Feiyu. Although Hua Feiyu remained at the first-level Heavenly Immortal Realm, he was now stronger than ordinary cultivators at the second level.

"Wuxie, it's fortunate that you came back in time," Hua Feiyu sighed with lingering fear after emerging.

If Liu Wuxie had arrived a moment later, the consequences would have been unimaginable, and the Heavenly Dragon Sect would have drowned in blood.

"Master, I plan to enter seclusion for a period of time, and I'll leave everything else to you. There's no need for the Lingqiong Clan to exist in this world any longer. You can wipe them out," Liu Wuxie said before entering the Heavenly Dragon Sect's lesser realm. He planned to enter seclusion and refine Lingqiong Jing's clone.

Less than a month remained until the immortals returned, and Liu Wuxie had to seize every moment to increase his strength.

"Sect Master, we were wrong! Please give us another chance!" Bai You was the first to drop to his knees, as he had been the first to betray the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

The twenty-odd elders also dropped to their knees and pleaded for the sect master's forgiveness. Greed had blinded them, and they had believed Lingqiong Gong's honey-coated words. Now that Lingqiong Jing had fallen, regret naturally gnawed at them.

"Too late," Hua Feiyu said. His gaze turned cold as he looked at them. These elders had not only betrayed the sect but also acted against Dong Wu. No one could brush this matter off as mere betrayal any longer.

His words sounded like a death decree. The elders behind him also looked sad. They had all joined the sect around the same time and shared deep bonds, but these people had chosen the wrong side at the final moment.

If Bai You and the others received another chance, they naturally would not make such a foolish choice again.

"Sect Master, considering our contributions to the sect, I hope that you can spare our families," Bai You said, his face filled with dejection.

He knew no sect would spare a traitor, and he only hoped the sect master could spare his family after his death.

"Rest assured that I won't make things difficult for your families," Hua Feiyu said calmly. While he would not lay his hands on the innocent, he would not spare a single traitor either.

"Good!" Bai You said, a hint of relief appearing on his face. He did not hesitate to slap his forehead, taking his own life and marking the end of a quasi-immortal.

The other elders soon followed. They knew Hua Feiyu would kill them if they did not take their own lives.

Liu Wuxie's refusal to deal with them did not mean the sect master would spare them. After all, Liu Wuxie was still a disciple in name, while Hua Feiyu was the sect master and held authority over the lives and deaths of everyone in the sect.

It did not take long before all the elders who had betrayed the sect ended their lives. These experts could have been considered members of the upper echelons in a second-tier sect, and with so many experts, they could have built a sect themselves. But the Heavenly Dragon Sect felt no regret over losing them.

Although the deaths of so many elders would temporarily weaken the Heavenly Dragon Sect, it would also strengthen their unity and overall power. With the rapid growth of elders during this period, new elders would soon take their places.

In addition to the two teams, the Heavenly Dragon Sect's overall strength had multiplied several times over. It was just that the outside world did not know about it. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

After Liu Wuxie entered the Heavenly Dragon Sect's lesser realm, he went straight to his master's cultivation ground. No one would disturb him there, and traces of the life-and-death tribulation still lingered in this place after Hua Feiyu's recent breakthrough.