For a cultivator in the False Core realm, burning oneself can temporarily elevate one’s cultivation to the level of a Golden Core Master, and there’s even hope of surpassing a Master’s conventional level.

But it can only grant a moment of breathtaking peak, without enduring power.

Compared to a sustainable output from the Golden Core level, it resembles more of a disposable nuclear weapon, which is also the origin of the ’false’ in Fake Pill.

After Daoist Qian Yuan pushed himself to the extreme, his aura quickly receded, his once half-white hair turned entirely white, and his appearance aged by decades within an instant.

"Pfft!"

He spat a mouthful of fresh blood; at that moment, his body even appeared with many cracks, like porcelain dropped on the ground, ready to shatter at any time.

"I... can still fight!"

Daoist Qian Yuan forcefully summoned his last breath of primordial qi, intending to mobilize the giant stone sword to continue fighting.

’Whoosh!’

A beam of black light tore through the long sky, surpassing the world’s utmost speed, landing on Daoist Qian Yuan, causing him to explode entirely, turning into countless blood rains falling down.

After injuring the royal clan’s Great Demon, Daoist Qian Yuan’s cultivation fell significantly, unable to avoid it, and thus he perished.

The giant stone sword lost its master, its radiance flashed and reverted to a three-foot original form, falling powerlessly.

Seeing Daoist Qian Yuan sacrificing for the sect, all the disciples inside the sealing mountain formation were immensely shaken.

"Elder Qian Yuan..."

"If I don’t die today, I must avenge Elder Qian Yuan!"

As the master of the Qian Yuan small world, Daoist Qian Yuan had quite a reputation in the sect; stories of him flaunting his might in the Northern Domain in his younger days were also well-known.

Unfortunately, due to insufficient sect resources and lack of luck in the abyss, Daoist Qian Yuan, at the age of two hundred, only attained the third level of the Spirit Platform, with slim hopes of overcoming heavenly tribulations, he decisively abandoned the Golden Core path and chose the Fake Pill path, knowing it was a dead-end road.

Only until now, he had been safeguarding the sect for over four centuries.

At the moment of Daoist Qian Yuan’s death, the Qian Yuan small world was filled with flashing lightning and rumbling thunder, heavy rain poured, and many areas experienced earthquakes.

In the Zhao Kingdom, at the largest Daoist temple dedicated to Daoist Qian Yuan, the meticulously crafted iron statue that had stood for centuries was now covered with dense cracks.

In the Zhao Kingdom’s martial world, the leaders of the four great factions, the Haoran Sect, Yunkong Temple, Tyrant Sword Manor, and Wenxin Valley, each of whom had cultivation famously close to a Grandmaster, could not help but feel a wave of unease and melancholy at this time.

Wanma Country, National Teacher’s Mansion.

In the hidden chamber, a burly middle-aged man wearing a golden crown and a yellow robe suddenly opened his eyes, rays of brilliance flashing through.

"In this world, some peculiar changes have just occurred; I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse for me..."

Mu Yun, the only Grandmaster in the Qian Yuan small world, as the child of luck in this world, felt it more distinctly.

Main world, Northern Domain, the area where the Corpse-Driving Sect is located.

The black light that just attacked and killed Daoist Qian Yuan swiftly flew back to the Black Tiger Great Demon, transforming into the unicorn on its forehead, flickering with a chilling light, with a bright red hue still visible on the horn’s tip.

"Qian Yuan!"

Daoist Cang Yu roared angrily, burning his remaining essence, the aura around him began to rise rapidly.

Meanwhile, his blood-connected Golden Corpse naturally erupted as well.

Its eyes emitted brilliant red light, black energy billowed all over its body, with a demonic presence, forcibly suppressing the injured Silver Ape Great Demon, making it retreat continuously, and stomping deep pits akin to valleys on the ground.

The Silver Ape Great Demon, burdened by the wound on its chest, could only exert a portion of its strength and was even worse off when its wound was repeatedly targeted by the Golden Corpse, feeling utterly stifled.

"Senior Brother Qian Yuan!"

Two other large Fake Pill giants from the Corpse-Driving Sect erupted.

A surge of dazzling milky-white beams burst from their bodies, with their auras instantly soaring by several levels, quickly reaching a level similar to Master Cang Yu.

"Thousand—Sun—Melting—Furnace!"

One raised a hand, causing countless red lights between heaven and earth to converge into his palm as if worshipping a monarch, soon forming a dazzling red copper furnace, emitting unparalleled high temperatures, causing the surrounding void to tremble uncontrollably.

Subsequently, the high-temperature copper furnace flew out of his hand, slicing through the space, and struck the giant Scorpion Demon with a thousand-length-long tail!

"Ao!!"

The Scorpion Demon let out a thunderous wail, with its island-sized red hard back melting in the middle, taking with it a large portion of its inner skin and flesh evaporated, causing billowing white steam to rise like wolf smoke to the sky, showing how severely the Scorpion Great Demon was injured!

"Innate Wood Sword!"

Another extremely exalted Fake Pill, rapidly forming complex gestures with his hands, muttered magic spells, making all the wood element beings like trees, flowers, and plants within a hundred miles move with him, at his command.

The next moment, the countless essences of wood from trees, flowers, shrubs, and thorns shot up into the sky, converging into a green light sword engraved with numerous innate patterns.

’Whoosh!’

It focused its fingers to strike, and the Wood Light Saber seemed to split the void in an instant, fiercely slashing toward the Black Tiger Great Demon, which had just killed Daoist Qian Yuan!

The Black Tiger Great Demon, although instinctively evaded, was still caught off guard and had half of its hind leg slashed off, causing its face to twitch in pain, roaring to the sky, almost driven to tears.

The two Fake Pill giants risked their lives to erupt, severely wounding the two Great Demons meant to bolster the array in an instant.

As a result, even though the remaining three Fake Pills did not go all out, they still made the other Great Demons maintaining the array extremely wary, not daring to push too hard at the moment.

Although they were confident they wouldn’t be easily slain by a Fake Pill, even an injury would affect their future path, making it a losing trade that they absolutely could not do.

The two forces were in a standoff for a moment.

The two recently erupted Fake Pill experts, one was killed by the blood-colored Python Demon, and the other fell from mid-air with his fate unknown.

Along with the decline in Master Cang Yu’s aura, it was difficult to suppress the silver giant ape.

The combat power of the Corpse-Driving Sect had fallen to the bottom.

"I will slaughter your entire sect!"

The silver giant ape pounded its chest furiously and roared in anger.

The wounds on its body had already scabbed over, no longer fearing the close combat of the Golden Corpses. With a swipe, it crushed the opponent’s chest, green blood spurting, as the body uncontrollably fell and collided with the Corpse-Driving Sect’s sealing formation!

"No!"

Master Cang Yu saw this, his eyes reddened, desperately trying to control the Golden Corpse’s body, making it fall to the side as much as possible.

However, the true form of the silver ape had already arrived in front of the Corpse-Driving Sect’s sealing formation, with its arm as long as a giant dragon’s, crashing down hard!

"Die!!"

In this critical moment, the massive golden dragon of fortune from the sky above Zhao Kingdom returned with incredible speed, diving into the bowl-shaped sealing formation, causing its golden light to flare up and its defense strength to skyrocket at this moment!

One of the remaining three Fake Pills erupted again, summoning a large number of meteors from beyond the heavens to smash down on the silver ape’s body.

The silver ape had to withdraw a large part of its focus to resist this magic, but still managed to land a surprise strike on the sealing formation.

’Boom!’

The white bowl-shaped sealing formation trembled violently under the silver ape’s strike, emitting a tsunami-like roar.

Although it did not ultimately explode, a large amount of pressure was transmitted down, entering the internal area of the Corpse-Driving Sect!

’Rumble!’

In an instant, the thirteen peaks of the sect all suffered varying degrees of impact, with Guest Welcoming Peak, Feishi Peak, and Disciple Peak being the most affected.

Guest Welcoming Peak split from its highest point, cracking vertically in half from top to bottom.

A third of the area above Feishi Peak crumbled down.

Disciple Peak was most heavily damaged, its body riddled with holes, eventually beginning to disintegrate, turning into massive rocks rolling down!

"Run quickly, don’t stay on the peak, you have to hide in the underground caves!"

"Senior Brother Liu, where are you, Senior Brother Liu?"

"Wanrong, wake up! Wanrong, wake up, Wanrong, Wanrong, ah ah ah ah ah!!"

The damage to the three peaks was relatively insignificant, but at that moment, many disciples of the Corpse-Driving Sect were injured or even fell.

Facing the aftermath of the Golden Core battle, even Foundation Establishment Elders struggled like ants to survive, let alone those disciples mostly at the Qi Cultivation Stage?

Each of them had great prospects and youthful vigor, originally capable of enjoying a centenary birthday even if they couldn’t break through to the next realm.

But at this moment.

Some disciples fell from the thousand-foot-tall peaks, turning into a mass of flesh.

Some were buried in the rolling rocks, their fates unknown.

Others were pierced by the flying rocks, their internal organs exploded, beyond the help of even immortals!

The disciples of the Corpse-Driving Sect, in a single underpowered strike from the great silver ape, suffered deaths numbering in the hundreds!

"Quickly, go hide in the underground caverns!"

Bi Yaoyao and You Qingyi were holding each other’s hands tightly now, spiritual power and spiritual essence bursting out with all their might, desperately fleeing toward the Sect Leader Peak.

Below the Sect Leader Peak, there was a large cave created long ago by the Corpse-Driving Sect, meant for refuge.

They had only heard about it in elder lectures before and never took it seriously, not expecting it to be used today!

’Rumble!’

’Rumble!’

Another wave of intense tremors came from above.

Two more peaks of the thirteen peaks were affected, one collapsed, and one cracked open from the middle.

The space between heaven and earth was momentarily filled with rapidly shooting flying stones, shattered wood, swirling gray dust, howling gales, and rolling white waves of air.

"I can’t do it anymore, Qingyi, you go on." Bi Yaoyao covered her blood-soaked abdomen, her face pale, weakly said to You Qingyi, "When Liumutou comes back, remember to tell him, I..."

Unlucky just a moment ago, hit by a speeding flying stone, Bi Yaoyao was severely injured, feeling utterly dejected, even having her last words ready.

"Don’t give up, we will survive!" You Qingyi cut off Bi Yaoyao’s words, wearing an expression of determination, gripping her arm even more tightly.

Fortunately, she had broken through to the Foundation Establishment level, her spiritual essence robust, finally managing to fly with Bi Yaoyao into the large underground space below the Sect Leader Peak.

Many other Corpse-Driving Sect disciples were not so lucky and perished at that moment.

The Corpse-Driving Sect, on this day, encountered the greatest calamity in a thousand years!

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