Starforce Warriors-Chapter 914: Leaving (2)

They were no stronger than the Blood Mist Sect founder. There was no reason to believe they could defeat Li Xiaofei. The combat instincts unique to the Reapers quickly brought them to the same conclusion.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

Beams of light tore through the sky. They attempted to flee, but they were stopped. At some unknown point, a colossal white lotus had bloomed in the sky.

It floated high among the clouds, beautiful and sacred. Its petals were as translucent as crystal, shimmering like immortal jade. Vivid and ethereal, the lotus leaves turned slowly, as if brushed by a celestial presence. Thin threads of silvery-white sword qi flowed from each lotus petal, drifting outward like divine vapor.

These fine and long sword qi threads descended like drifting willow fluff. They fell from ten thousand meters in the sky, settling across the land and enveloping the entire Mount Heavenly Drum in a shimmering veil.

It looked as if the mountain had been draped in a delicate, silken canopy. Yet that seemingly thin white veil repelled the fleeing founders as if they were mosquitoes slamming into steel. Each one was knocked back with a shriek.

They tried again and again, but they could not pierce through the silver-white veil. They turned and desperately hurled themselves toward the crowd. But golden and silver sword qi rose to meet them.

Whoosh.

The sound was like tearing silk. One by one, the so-called ancestral founders of the immortal sects were struck down. These beings that had once seemed unimaginably powerful to the onlookers now appeared as weak and helpless as insects.

The parts of their bodies that mimicked human form turned to scarlet dust and vanished the moment the sword light passed through them. Their true Reaper forms were strange and varied in shape. None were large in size, so they likely belonged to the higher-tier wild-type Reapers, possessing a degree of intelligence.

Soon, aside from the seven crimson beams still furiously ramming into the blade-and-sword prison, every other ancestor had been slain. Then, with another strike from Li Xiaofei, those seven crimson streams were extinguished as well. The sect master tokens shattered into powder.

“Master...” Yu Ge rushed to the blade prison, her voice choked with sorrow.

But she understood clearly, it was only because of Li Xiaofei’s intervention that the transformed monsters like Granny Bai had been confined, preventing Envoy Zou’s forbidden art from taking effect within their bodies.

With the deaths of Envoy Zou and the false ancestors, Granny Bai and the others had, in a strange twist of fate, survived. Yet the question of how to remove the demonic nature from within them remained a grave and difficult one.

Countless immortal sect cultivators gazed at Li Xiaofei, who now appeared like a god, like an immortal being, with dazed, uncertain eyes.

After this battle, the entire foundation of the immortal path had been utterly shattered by this man.

What now?

Will the immortal sects still exist?

How will we continue our cultivation?

A flood of unanswered questions surged into every heart. Li Xiaofei lifted his head and looked toward the sky.

“I told you... I would reveal the true face of this world. Brother Ji!” As he spoke, he shouted Brother Ji’s name.

Far above, the massive silver-white sword lotus trembled slightly, then transformed into a beam of sword light hundreds of meters wide and shot toward the heavens.

Boom!

The sword light cleaved straight through the sky. Violent energy erupted and clashed, sending shockwaves rippling across the heavens. Then, layer upon layer of ripples spread outward as if the very fabric of space had been shattered. Countless fractures appeared at the epicenter where the sword light had struck.

It was like a mirror being smashed apart as the sky was laid bare. A pitch-black starry void stretched across the sky, seemingly no different from the night skies they had always known.

But hundreds of metallic orbs, each the size of a large basin, became visible within that starry expanse. Those eerie metallic spheres looked like massive eyes, densely packed across the firmament, all pointed toward the land below. They were watching, surveilling, and endlessly probing.

Then, those with more advanced cultivation could see even farther. Beyond the spheres, deep in the darkness, structures resembling starships drifted silently in formation, their presence looming like monstrous beasts in the depths of an endless ocean. It was terrifying beyond words.

What is this?

What exactly are we looking at?

Isn’t the world beyond the sky supposed to be the mythical realm of chaos?

Isn’t it supposed to be empty, an absolute dead zone, a forbidden land of death?

Why... why are such things hiding there?

“Do you see the true face of this world now? There is no so-called chaotic realm. Beyond the sky lies the universe and the stars. But that starry sky has been occupied by the sworn enemies of our human race.

“What you’re seeing are their surveillance satellites, their space fleets, and the armed forces they’ve stationed around this world. For every second of every day in the past, they have been watching us like mortals monitoring the pigs in their pens.”

“The so-called sect founders... were nothing more than traitors planted in this world by those monsters known as Reapers. They have guided you... and corrupted you. One day, when you’ve grown fat and ripe, they will come for you like livestock raised for slaughter.”

Li Xiaofei’s voice echoed in the ears of every disciple of the immortal sects. The weight of his words sent waves of shock through them and left many breathless. Some felt as though they couldn’t breathe, unwilling to accept what he had said. Unwilling to believe it.

But then they thought back to everything that had just happened. Especially the so-called supreme immortal treasure that had once been in Envoy Zou’s hands. Now, in hindsight, its appearance was strikingly similar to those metallic spheres drifting in the void beyond the sky.

Intuition told them that what Li Xiaofei said was true. Yet the truth was far too shocking, far too heretical. It was something they instinctively resisted.

To fall from the lofty heights of immortals, only to realize they were nothing more than pigs raised in a pen. Who could endure such a blow? Even the old monster felt his mouth go dry, his tongue heavy in his mouth.

“Uhh... Master, what should we do?” He swallowed hard and asked, “Do we... still have a path forward?”

Is there still a path forward?

That question echoed the unspoken thoughts of every single cultivator present.

Li Xiaofei nodded and replied, “There is.”

The old monster’s eyes widened instantly. Every gaze turned toward Li Xiaofei.

He said, “Uplift the true human Immortal Dao. Confront our destined enemy. Fight to the final chapter.”

In this galaxy, only by completely defeating their enemies could their race hope to survive. They had to completely eradicate monsters like the Reapers, who were cancers of the universe, for true peace to ever be a possibility.

***

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed. The Myriad Immortals Conference had long since ended. The rift in the sky above Heaven Drum Mountain had also returned to its original state. The heavens had become whole once again.

What took Li Xiaofei and Liu Shaji slightly by surprise was that the Reapers had not launched any attacks on the continent, nor had they carried out any military action.

Once the concealment formations were restored, the world had regained its former appearance. That astonishing scene beyond the heavens had only been witnessed by those within the sects atop Stone Drum Mountain.

However, as time passed, the sweeping changes within the immortal sects of the world became perceptible even to ordinary mortals. Many mortal kings and royal courts suddenly discovered that they could no longer reach the state-endorsed immortal sects. At first, they panicked, but soon, some began to feel a secret joy.

They had received fragments of information about the Myriad Immortals Conference beforehand, so they could not help but speculate, Did the immortals fall in a chaotic battle at Heaven Drum Mountain, resulting in mutual destruction?