Besides the various sects' Supreme Elders, more than ten others had been hiding in the shadows. After Gu Qingfeng wiped out dozens of Supreme Elders with a wave of his hand, these ten-plus individuals no longer dared to remain concealed and all rushed out.
At this moment, they hovered in mid-air, their complexions growing increasingly unsightly, their expressions more and more terrified, their gazes filled with deepening apprehension, and the spiritual auras emanating from their bodies growing ever more intricate.
However, within their spiritual auras, there was a unique, turbid breath.
This turbid breath was none other than the breath of reincarnation. In other words, these individuals were all reincarnated beings—great powers who had reincarnated and were lying low within the Nine-Hua Alliance to cultivate in seclusion. Wan Huaiyu, Qin Hao, and others were among them.
Everyone knew that reincarnated beings were all Immortals in their previous lives. Even after reincarnating and rebuilding their foundations with mortal flesh, they were incomparable to ordinary people because they retained memories of their past lives, possessed a deeper understanding of the Immortal Dao, and did not need to comprehend various Immortal arts anew. Most importantly, the souls of reincarnated beings did not perish; their heart-minds, divine senses, and spirits were innately powerful beyond measure.
With this, even if their cultivation levels were not high, they could effortlessly obliterate so-called Daozuns.
In the current era, there were countless instances of reincarnated beings at the Golden Core cultivation level slaying Daozuns. Not to mention Golden Core cultivators, even reincarnated youths who had only been reborn for five or six years and had not yet cultivated had slain Daozuns on numerous occasions.
Do not doubt it—reincarnated beings were absolutely capable of this.
However, now, facing Gu Qingfeng in this place, these reincarnated great powers felt nothing but deep apprehension, with the rest being sheer terror and dread.
Take action?
None of them dared. None had the courage.
Besides these dozen-plus reincarnated beings, there was another group of five or six individuals within the area. These five or six were also special, possessing unique spiritual auras, but not the breath of reincarnation. Instead, they radiated a radiant, holy breath.
In this world, the radiant, holy breath symbolized both nobility and status.
Because without exception, those possessing a radiant, holy breath were undoubtedly members of the Immortal Dynasty.
Indeed, these five or six were indeed Immortal Dynasty personnel. The leading middle-aged man was none other than the alliance leader of the Nine-Hua Alliance, Hua Xiong.
According to rumors, Hua Xiong hailed from the renowned Hua Family, a famous Immortal family in this world.
So-called Immortal families were descendants of Immortals. Their ancestors were Immortals, and their descendants all considered themselves Immortal progeny. Because their ancestors were Immortals, the bloodlines of the family's descendants more or less contained Immortal essence, allowing them to cultivate much faster than ordinary people.
In this world, Immortal descendant families were not numerous, but they were certainly not few, and most existed attached to the Immortal Dynasty.
The Immortal Hua Family was the same.
It was said that this Hua Xiong was not only a scion of the Immortal Hua Family but also a Three-Star Immortal Official bestowed by the Immortal Dynasty, possessing three Rings of Radiance for protection.
The power of the Rings of Radiance was immense.
Previously, Ma Qian, with just one Ring of Radiance, had rendered Zi Yang helpless against him. Consider that Ma Qian's Ring of Radiance was already so powerful without being nurtured or tempered. If nurtured and tempered, ordinary people would be utterly unable to shake it. Moreover, ordinary people lacked the courage to challenge an Immortal Official. Offending an Immortal Official equated to disrespecting the Immortal Dynasty. The Immortal Dynasty was the ruler of this world—who would dare show it disrespect?
However.
The existence of the Rings of Radiance was not merely a symbol of an Immortal Official's status, nor just a powerful Immortal protection. The Rings of Radiance contained pure spiritual essence within. It was said that nurturing this thing over time could not only prevent the danger of cultivation deviation but also purify the heart-mind, making future tribulations half as effortful for twice the result. Achieving Immortalhood was just around the corner.
This was also why many people dreamed of becoming Immortal Officials.
Alas, the conditions for becoming an Immortal Official were akin to scaling the heavens for ordinary people.
In the ancient era, only scions of Immortal families were qualified to become Immortal Officials.
In the current era, although the Immortal Dynasty had opened up recruitment to the outside, one still had to pass layer upon layer of selection. Unless one was a heaven-defying genius, there was simply no hope of becoming an Immortal Official.
Of course, if one made contributions to the Immortal Dynasty, they could also receive rewards. For example, for the Nine-Hua Alliance of the Four Directions Great Region, to subdue this place and win over hearts, the Immortal Dynasty had long promised various sects that within a hundred-year period, it would bestow several Immortal Official positions.
For this reason.
As the alliance leader of the Nine-Hua Alliance, Hua Xiong had been making preparations, waiting for the hundred-year period to arrive. Then he could become the undisputed ruler of the Four Directions Great Region and even be promoted to a Four-Star Immortal Official.
He simply never imagined that just as the hundred-year period was about to arrive, a mysterious and bizarre Gu Qingfeng would appear out of nowhere.
An unmovable true body.
An indestructible force.
A vast, boundless Golden Core.
A mysterious, bizarre identity.
A merciless, slaughterous method.
The reverence of the Chixiao People, the kneeling obeisance of the Huo Wu Family, Little Immortal Valley, and Cloud-Heart Hall—all of this filled him, the Nine-Hua Alliance leader, with immense apprehension.
"Just what are you!"
Hua Xiong's face was dark as he stared fixedly. For some reason, under the gaze of Gu Qingfeng's deep, dark eyes, he felt as if he had fallen into an endless abyss. His heart-mind trembled, and his soul was gripped by fear. He tried to take a deep breath, but it was useless. The deeper he breathed, the more his heart-mind trembled; the more his heart-mind trembled, the more his soul feared.
Knowing the white-robed man standing in the air opposite was mysterious and bizarre, Hua Xiong had already summoned his three Rings of Radiance the moment he rushed out from hiding. At this moment, the three Rings of Radiance bloomed with milky-white radiance around him, a radiance truly pure beyond compare, blossoming like three pristine white lotuses, protecting him.
Perhaps because Hua Xiong hailed from an Immortal family, his Nascent Soul aura seemed particularly powerful, containing a spiritual breath akin to Immortal might—that should be his Immortal bloodline.
"Was that Seed of Radiance in Ma Qian given by you?"
Gu Qingfeng's voice came, entering Hua Xiong's ears, causing his body and mind to tremble. His complexion grew even more unsightly. Suppressing the fear in his heart, he said, "That was Ma Qian abandoning darkness for light, a reward from the Immortal Dynasty to him."
"Does his father's death have anything to do with you?"
Gu Qingfeng's voice came again. Hua Xiong didn't even think before shaking his head in response. "No!"
"Since it has nothing to do with you, why does your Nascent Soul contain Dragon-Elephant Blood-Killing Aura?"
If radiant holiness was the symbol of the Immortal Dynasty, then Dragon-Elephant Blood-Killing Aura was the symbol of the Chixiao People.
In other words, if Hua Xiong's Nascent Soul contained Dragon-Elephant Blood-Killing Aura, then it was certain he had used the blood of Chixiao People to temper his Nascent Soul.
Thinking of this, Zi Yang and the other eleven Chixiao People immediately flew into a rage, shouting, "Hua Xiong! Did you use Old Ma's blood to temper your Nascent Soul?"
Hua Xiong did not respond, flashing to flee. The moment he moved—Roar!—a dragon's cry and elephant's roar echoed as Zi Yang and the other Chixiao People instantly charged over to block his path.