The Immortal Wife Is Like A Cloud - Chapter 1039: Sword Land Eliminated

Chapter 1039: Sword Land Eliminated

“They have cooperated on this matter, and Jian Xin probably told you everything you wanted to know. Let them go. Killing them won’t do you any good.”

Seeing the heavy expression on Su Jingzhen’s face, Huo Huang couldn’t help but speak up again.

Her words caused all the conscious Sword Land disciples to turn their eyes to Su Jingzhen. 

Some looked cold, while others had a glimmer of hope. 

However, including Jian Xin, none of them had any fighting strength left. 

They couldn’t even move their bodies. If they could live, who among these talented geniuses would want to die?

“Originally, I wasn’t here because of the treasure vault. But now that the Sword Land disciples are no longer capable of exploring it, I’ll give you one incense stick’s worth of time to leave. 

I’ll pretend that you were never here. As for the Divine Shepherd Sect’s treasure vault, it now belongs to the Divine Dan Sect.”

After a moment of thought, Su Jingzhen turned to Jian Xin and the others. 

Although they felt humiliated, they nodded silently.

Although they were severely injured, it wasn’t impossible for them to recover enough to leave on their own within the burn time of an incense stick.

However, Jian Xin couldn’t help but feel a pang of regret. 

Th𝑖𝗌 𝙘h𝒶pƚℯr 𝘪𝗌 p𝘰ʂ𝘵ꬲ𝒹 bʏ Ҡ𝙞𝐭𝕖ṉ𝙤𝗏ꬲ𝖑

If he had just told Su Jingzhen everything when he had shown a friendly attitude earlier, things might not have turned out this way. 

At the very least, Su Jingzhen would have owed him a favor, and the treasure vault would still be in Sword Land’s possession.

For the past few days, they had been working tirelessly to decipher the array seals left on the treasure vault by the Divine Shepherd Sect. 

They were so close to success, only for it to end like this. 

Looking back, Jian Xin realized that the information about Zhang Xiu wasn’t even a big secret among the core disciples of Sword Land. 

Telling Su Jingzhen wouldn’t have been a grave sin against the sect. It wasn’t worth it.

But now, all he could do was sigh inwardly. The decision had been made and the facts were set in stone. Regret was useless.

Compared to the Great Zhou Immortal Sect and the Nethergod Sect, Sword Land hadn’t lost a single person. 

Although they might be eliminated from the Divine Shepherd Sect event, the outcome was still acceptable. 

Thinking about this, Jian Xin and the other Sword Land disciples felt a little better. After all, everything in the world ultimately came down to comparison.

For the disciples of the Divine Dan Sect, this outcome was enough to make their blood boil. 

The Treasure Vault of the Divine Shepherd Sect! 

It was as if they were about to open the treasure vault of the Divine Dan Sect itself. 

When Su Jingzhen had been friendly with Sword Land earlier, they hadn’t expected this result.

Now that they had the information they wanted, Su Jingzhen didn’t care much about Jian Xin and the others. 

Whether they lived or died didn’t matter to him. His attention shifted from them to the treasure vault in front of him.

Jian Xin and the others seized the opportunity to recover as much as they could within the time of an incense stick’s burn.

On a distant hill, the elders of Sword Land sighed deeply, but also felt a sense of relief. 

Although Jian Xin and the others weren’t the only geniuses among the younger generation, talents like Jian Xin were rare. 

Losing them all at once wouldn’t cripple the younger generation, but it would still be a significant blow.

“Jian Xin is sometimes too rigid. If he had agreed to Su Jingzhen’s demands after being defeated, he could have avoided nearly losing some of his fellow disciples. 

It’s not against one’s Dao heart to bend a little in the face of life and death. I hope this experience will help him grow.

“In fact, these young people have always had a bias against the cultivation world and an inherent arrogance about their status. 

They’ve forgotten that the essence of being a cultivator or a sword cultivator isn’t unyielding pride. The most important thing is to learn how to survive.”

The elders of Sword Land couldn’t help but lament, and many of the older generation in the Emperor’s Realm nodded in agreement. 

Just this one event in the Divine Shepherd Sect had already claimed too many lives due to pride.

 Su Jingzhen alone had taught many in the Emperor Realm the importance of respect.

“This boy’s way of handling things is something we can really feel comfortable with. He knows when to be firm and when to be lenient. 

When it’s time to kill, he’s decisive. When it’s time to let go, he maintains complete control. 

Many of the older generation might not have handled it as well as he did in his position.”

On another hill, where the elders of the various forces of the cultivation world had gathered, Cheng Xian and others couldn’t help but marvel. 

The elders of the Divine Dan Sect were beaming with pride. 

Su Jingzhen’s actions over the past two days had brought immense honor to the Divine Dan Sect. 

The moment Su Jingzhen defeated Sword Land’s giant battle formation, Cheng Xian and the others felt more exhilarated than if they had broken through to the Immortal King realm themselves.

The time of an incense stick’s burn passed quickly. 

By then, Jian Xin and the others had recovered somewhat. Most of them could suppress their injuries enough to be able to at least stand and walk.

The dozens of Sword Land disciples took one last look at the multi-storied treasure vault in front of them, their eyes filled with unwillingness. 

From the day the Divine Shepherd Sect fell, Sword Land had set their sights on the treasure vault. None of the other forces in the Emperor’s Realm had tried to compete with them for it.

But although the Divine Shepherd Sect had fallen, the arrays and seals protecting these important places hadn’t been destroyed by the elders of the Emperor Realm. 

This was a deliberate test left for the younger generation.

“The victors rule, the losers fall. Let’s go.”

Understanding the thoughts of his fellow disciples, Jian Xin could only sigh and quietly urge them to leave. 

With their injuries, they could barely hold themselves together. 

Without special healing methods, it would take a long time for them to fully recover. 

In other words, they had already lost their competitiveness in the Divine Shepherd Sect event.

If they tried to force themselves into another fight, even a team from a second-rate force-let alone one as strong as the Nethergod Sect-could easily wipe them out.

After Jian Xin spoke, the disciples reluctantly followed him. They had been completely eliminated. Their retreating figures looked desolate.

Su Jingzhen didn’t even glance back at them. This time, he didn’t ask Bai Suzhen or Little Green to help him. 

During the time it took for the incense stick to burn, he had studied the arrays surrounding the treasure vault.

In his right hand, the Seven-Colored Purifying Flame ignited once more. In his left hand, the familiar devouring power swirled.

Seeing this, the disciples of the Divine Dan Sect grew even more excited. 

The arrays and seals protecting the treasure vault were far more numerous and powerful than those set up by Sword Land earlier.

Without hesitation, Su Jingzhen threw both the Seven-Colored Purifying Flame and the Devouring Power at the arrays.