Gu Qing Shan was looking forward to Guang Yang sectâs treasury quite a bit.
This was a cultivation world whose civilization far surpassed that of the cultivation world.
Gu Qing Shan brought Shannu, Qing Rou and Wan Er flying towards Xiong Ji Hall together.
On the way, they didnât run into a single person.
Gu Qing Shan glanced around.
Aside from the four of them, there wasnât anyone on the entire island.
This wasnât only limited to Guang Yang sectâs floating island
A strange sense of stifled silence filled every floating island in the sky.
Every sect had forced their cultivators to stay only in certain areas.
Truthfully, there was no need for them to hide since the quarantine formation protects them.
But every sect still enforces this on their disciples during âDanger Hourâ
This was a standard iron-clad rule that was established through many painful experiences.
Of course, Qi Yan wasnât limited by this rule.
As the son of the sect master and one of three Hallmasters, he was entitled to certain perks.
âWan Erâ
Gu Qing Shan suddenly stopped and called out Wan Er.
âIâm here, young masterâ
âWhatâs going on there?â
Gu Qing Shan pointed in a certain direction.
Wan Er was a bit surprised and followed to look where Gu Qing Shan was pointing.
Some dark-colored lights were glowing in the sky not too far away from where they were.
The dark-colored lights formed sharp jagged teeth that kept multiplying more and more.
The mouths full of jagged teeth were about 4-5 stories tall, opening and closing their mouths as if anticipating something.
They were the realm demonâs unconscious offshoots.
These offshoots were quickly surrounding a floating island not too far away.
Seeing this, Wan Erâs expression changed greatly.
She couldnât help but back off, grabbing onto Qing Rouâs arm.
âItâs fine, thereâs no need to fearâ
Qing Rou softly hugged Wan Er and consoled her.
Wan Er was trembling in extreme fear, sticking close to Qing Rou unable to utter a word.
âYoung masterâ Qing Rou looked at Gu Qing Shan and explained: âThe realm demonâs unconscious offshoots senses and observes for the presence of spirit energy. Theyâre currently surrounding that place to waitâ
âWhat are they waiting for?â
âWaiting forâââ
Before Qing Rou finished, the situation changed
The unconscious offshoots had already fully surrounded the island.
An airship was dashing out of the island.
Accurately pin-pointing a gap, the airship sped up abruptly and escaped the encirclement of the offshoots.
Gu Qing Shan squinted his eyes to observe it closer.
The light of 7-8 different formations could be seen flickering on the airship, so theyâve obviously taken the necessary safety measures.
One of the formations made the air right outside the airship ripple.
This was the sign of the quarantine formation when activated.
It was thanks to this formation and some others that the realm demonâs unconscious offshoots couldnât sense their existence.
The airship flashed as it disappeared high in the air.
Countless desperate voices came from the floating island.
âNo!!!â
âSect master, you canât leave us behind!â
âYou stole everything the sect has left, you arenât worthy to be sect master!â
âWang Bi Shi, I wonât forgive you even if I become a ghost!â
Such voices rang out all over the island.
The rest of the light that surrounded the island started to collapse into nothingness.
All their formations had disappeared.
The unconscious offshoots who had been waiting all went into a frenzy.
Opening their large jaws, they all rushed towards the floating island.
A second later, a blinding light shot through the sky.
ââboom!
All the unconscious offshoots were blasted away.
A middle-aged man stood in midair, undoing his hand seal.
The spirit energy waves he gave off was similar to that of Ye Ying Mei and Zhao Wu Chui.
He was a Virtualized realm late stage cultivator.
Even in this world, he was considered quite a powerful person.
Despite blasting all the offshoots away in an instant, the middle-aged man wasnât the least bit happy.
He shouted worriedly: âAll Elders and disciples, take out any spirit stones you may have stored away and activate the formations quickly, otherwise everyone is going to die!â
The cultivators on the floating island hurriedly scrambled to get their spirit stones.
âYoung master, theyâre too lateâ Qing Rou told him in a low voice.
âWhy?â Gu Qing Shan asked.
He saw that even Qing Rou whoâs always had an aloof expression was now fearful.
She answered: âThe realm demonâs conscious offshoots are here, the realm demon had discovered themâ
Wan Er struggled to speak: âLook, young master, thatâs the realm demon great treeâ
Gu Qing Shan looked where she pointed.
Trees of flesh that reached so high they fully covered the sky started to grow from below.
The fleshy trees came from the realm demon.
These trees of flesh quickly grew and became stronger, thicker.
There were so many branches that grew.
Then bright red, juicy fruits began to grow from the branches.
Pop!
The fruits exploded one by one,
Humanoid fleshless bags of skin came out from them, hovering in midair.
Despite being so thin that they were flat, the skin acted like actual cultivators, swinging their limbs around to fly.
As a bag of flesh saw the floating island, it began to laugh uncontrollably.
His laughter contains endless grudges as well as endless joy.
âGood. Good!!â
The flesh spoke.
Behind it, the other bags of skin also broke out into frenzied laughter.
âGood, good!â
They all exclaimed.
âFinally, new souls! More people to bear this eternal suffering together with us!â one of the bags of skin spoke.
From the ground, a world-shaking roar came.
The roar seems to be urging them.
The bags of skin all shut up.
Turning into lightning-fast afterimages, they invaded the floating island.
The island fell into chaos.
None of the cultivators managed to be as fast as the bags of skin.
As one of them flashed, it had already wrapped around a cultivator.
In mere seconds, all the flesh on the cultivatorâs body was gone, turning into a new bag of skin.
The bag of skin that came from the realm demon great tree was now holding a large bag.
This bag contained that cultivatorâs flesh, power and soul, the crystallization of his life.
Through mere contact, a cultivator was already killed.
In the blink of an eye, the entire island had been massacred.
The bags of skin brought their spoils of war back to the realm demon great tree.
The tree opened up gaps to let the bags of skin back in.
The only person left alive was the Virtualized cultivator in the sky.
Groups of bags of skin were being blasted away by him.
âNo! It wasnât supposed to be this way!â
While having the clear advantage, the middle-aged man was screaming in despair and frenzy.
No matter where he wanted to escape to, more bags of skin would come up to stop and encircle him.
For the past while, the middle-aged man hadnât been able to escape, and the bags of skin couldnât touch him.
Wan Erâs look of fear became even worse.
Gu Qing Shan was busy staring at the battle in the sky so he didnât notice that.
Shannu looked over to Wan Er and asked: âWhatâs with you?â
âThe realm demon main body is about to attack, itâs about to attack!â
Wan Erâs voice was still shaking.
âDonât be scared, Wan Erâ Qing Rou quickly consoled her, âthereâs only one cultivator left, the realm demon wonât actâ
âReally?â
âThereâs only a single person left, the realm demon wonât waste strength on him, donât worry, little Wan Erâ
Qing Rou hugged her close and said.
Wan Er didnât stare at the sky anymore, instead hiding her face into Qing Rouâs chest.
She was very seriously trembling in fear.
Seeing Gu Qing Shan and Shannu glancing over, Qing Rou silently gestured to them with her eyes.
She also sent her voice to explain: âThe people of Wan Erâs world were once used by Guang Yang sect as sacrifices to probe for the realm demonâs reactionsâ
âWan Er was the only survivorâ
âHow did she survive?â Gu Qing Shan asked through his inner sight.
âGuang Yang sect decided to stop probing the realm demon, so she was the only lucky survivorâ
âStopped probing?â
âThatâs right, Guang Yang sect found that this type of probing was useless and any method they used were unable to let them escape from death, so they gave up on this type of meaningless actionâ
Out of nowhere, the earth began to shake.
A furious roar echoed across the world.
The smell of death in the air became even thicker.
It was now that the Virtualized realm middle-aged cultivator calmed down.
He laughed bitterly, raising one hand to the sky.
âI, Zhang De Dao, swear to the heaven and earth, through this life and all others, towards the traitor of the sect Wang Bi Shâââ
His oath wasnât even finished.
But countless suction cups had stuck onto his body.
These suction cups that came from the realm demonâs body moved at a speed to fast no one could catch them before they stuck onto the Virtualized realm cultivatorâs body.
This time, even Gu Qing Shanâs expression changed.
So fast!
Even the Virtualized realm cultivator couldnât react at all.
With such frightening speed, no one would ever be able to escape the realm demonâs pursuit.
The cultivator was still struggling with all he had.
But when the suction cups stuck everywhere on his body, they started to writhe intensely.
The very next second, the Virtualized realm cultivator was nowhere to be seen anymore.
He was fully devoured by the suction cups, not leaving even his skin behind.
Seeing such a horrifying scene out of nowhere, Gu Qing Shan and Shannu both became speechless.
Qing Rou on the other hand, sighed from relief.
âLittle Wan Er, itâs overâ
The patted Wan Erâs head, softly telling her: âLook, the realm demon didnât go mad, thereâs nothing to fearâ