211: Jindan's first battle

“Senior? Senior Star Fiend?”

Midnight Gao Sou called out a few times, suddenly feeling uneasy.

Ever since he met Immortal Master Star Fiend, he had grown accustomed to having an old man guide him. Now, with one person suddenly missing, he felt a deep unease from the bottom of his heart.

He even started imagining a grand drama in his mind.

At that time, he was trapped in an infinite illusion, his Breakthrough stalled, and he could die at any moment.

Immortal Master Star Fiend immediately acted, using a secret method to help him achieve the Ninth-Grade Shattered Core.

However, Immortal Master Star Fiend had already fallen, and was merely a soul body. How difficult would it be to use a secret method to help someone else achieve Golden Core?

Therefore, Immortal Master Star Fiend could only sacrifice himself, using his soul body to draw upon the Heaven And Earth Spiritual Essence, only then could the secret method be completed, achieving the Ninth-Grade Shattered Core.

“Senior Star Fiend…”

As Midnight Gao Sou thought this, his voice even choked up a little.

He wiped away his tears, opened the System, and checked the latest messages.

Upon checking, his expression turned cold.

“Someone actually ambushed my other Immortal Cave where I was cultivating? Good thing Senior Star Fiend thought of everything.”

“Hmm? Someone is questioning if I ran off with the funds? Heh, if I return now as a Golden Core, what will they say?”

“An Shi Wa Mei De led a team to attack the Great Love Sect? Heh, it’s that blade Cultivator again. I couldn't beat him in the same Realm, but now that I’m Golden Core, does he still dare to come?”

Midnight Gao Sou sneered repeatedly, about to send a message to Jiang Yezi and others, but then he stopped.

The corners of his mouth curved up, and an interesting idea emerged in his mind.

Midnight Gao Sou lightly tapped his foot, instantly vanishing without a trace… Great Love Sect.

Jiang Yezi, dressed in a Daoist robe, led a group of players, gathered at a Formation eye, resisting the external attack.

“Brothers, hold on! As long as Midnight Gao Sou successfully achieves Breakthrough, these people won’t be enough to fight him!”

Jiang Yezi shouted, boosting morale.

However, the surrounding Great Love Sect players were worried:

“Acting Sect Master, it’s not that we don’t want to fight to the death, but there are too many players outside!”

“Damn it, I don’t know which cursed streamer sponsored them, but they brought a lot more players over.”

“They say the total attack count is already almost 500,000. Just at our Formation eye alone, there are tens of thousands attacking simultaneously.”

The players complained endlessly, feeling exhausted.

Jiang Yezi also felt a bit stifled. The number of players attacking the Great Love Sect was increasing, and their pressure was growing.

The Sect-protecting Formation wasn't something that could passively resist attacks. When the opponents found a crucial Formation eye, they could target it to break the Formation. At such times, they needed to actively sally forth and fight, otherwise they would have to invest massive resources to stabilize the Formation, and the consumption would be even more unacceptable than personnel losses.

Ultimately, the grade of their Formation was too low; it couldn't operate autonomously or provide all-around defense, and Cultivators were needed to fill the gaps.

“Everyone, hold on, stand firm. There will definitely be a way; they won’t be able to break in.”

Jiang Yezi once again raised his arm and shouted, but not many players around responded.

The Great Love Sect was on the defensive. After dying and respawning, they couldn't choose their own area, so if a player died, they had to slowly converge back to the Great Love Sect from outside. During this period, they were very susceptible to ambushes. Consequently, the number of Great Love Sect players was at a disadvantage, and the individual combat power of evil Cultivators was inherently lower. Thus, as the battle progressed, more and more Great Love Sect players were unwilling to continue fighting to the death.

Conversely, even if the attacking side died and respawned, they could easily follow the main force and continue the siege. The cost of starting a new character was low, and a multitude of Qi Refining and even Spirit Nurturing Cultivators, like dense ants, truly made the Great Love Sect uncomfortable.

Jiang Yezi looked at the shaky grand Formation, filled with emotion for a moment.

Damn it, why did these perfectly fine evil Cultivators establish a mountain stronghold?

Waiting to be besieged, huh?

“Sigh.”

Jiang Yezi let out a long sigh.

His thoughts were also the thoughts of many Great Love Sect players.

At this moment, they finally experienced the feeling of evil Cultivators being reviled by everyone.

Even the Mage observing from afar was surprised; he had misjudged. The Great Love Sect's decline was faster than he had imagined.

Although no high-level Cultivators made a move, there were hidden professional clubs secretly funding the attackers, allowing them to constantly gather manpower and use human wave tactics to furiously assault the grand Formation.

The strongest in the Great Love Sect was merely an Immortal Foundation, and a weak evil Cultivator Immortal Foundation at that. They could easily be stalled by the Foundation Establishment of the attacking side, allowing countless Qi Refining and even Spirit Nurturing ants to swarm the city.

“The Great Love Sect might fall today.”

The Mage sighed with emotion.

However, at this moment, he suddenly saw a figure abruptly appear above the Sect-protecting Formation.

No trace of flight was visible; it was as if he had instantly appeared by shrinking the ground into an inch.

The person wore a black robe, exuding blood mist and black smoke, clearly an evil Cultivator at a glance. But the aura emanating from him was unfathomable to the Mage, as if holding a great terror.

“This is…”

The Mage seemed to have thought of something, his eyes suddenly widening:

“Golden Core?”

“Midnight Gao Sou?!”

Countless players inside and outside the Great Love Sect looked up and saw the black-robed man. After seeing his face clearly, they all exclaimed in surprise.

Everyone knew that Midnight Gao Sou was undergoing a Breakthrough to Golden Core, and his daring to show himself on the battlefield could only mean one thing… He had truly succeeded in his Breakthrough!

“Midnight Gao Sou became a Golden Core?”

The blade Cultivator, An Shi Wa Mei De, stared at Midnight Gao Sou, his entire body frozen, somewhat surprised and uncertain.

Before this, all analyses had concluded that Midnight Gao Sou was bound to fail; he possessed no potential for a Breakthrough whatsoever.

Yet, Midnight Gao Sou had appeared.

“Let’s retreat first and observe the situation.”

An Shi Wa Mei De quickly made a decision, sending messages to all attacking players to temporarily withdraw.

However, just as everyone was retreating.

Midnight Gao Sou in the sky suddenly raised a hand.

Blood threads spread across his wrist, and blood mist diffused, quickly forming a dense cloud of crimson that covered the sky in a very short time, pressing down upon everyone's heads.

The players felt their scalps tingle, sensing that a great calamity was imminent.

An Shi Wa Mei De's expression also changed, not daring to linger, and hurried away into the distance.

But a Golden Core was a Golden Core. Even the weakest Golden Core had a qualitative difference compared to an Immortal Foundation.

Then Midnight Gao Sou softly uttered a single word:

“Annihilate.”

The next moment, the blood cloud pressed down, like the sky collapsing, its oppressive power thick, as if solidified.

Countless bloody hands stretched out from the cloud, tearing one player after another into fragments. Though the description sounds slow, in reality, each hand erupted simultaneously, and everything happened in an instant.

For onlookers like Jiang Yezi, they only saw a crimson expanse descend from the sky. Two seconds later, this crimson expanse filled the Heaven And Earth. Another two seconds, and everything vanished.

The bloody hands, the black mist, and hundreds of thousands of players, all disappeared.

Only puddles of blood remained on the ground.

Everyone stood frozen in place, unable to react.

Then Midnight Gao Sou laughed heartily, imitating the etiquette Immortal Master Star Fiend had once taught him, and transmitted his voice in all directions:

“Midnight Gao Sou of the Great Love Sect, today I have attained the Dao and achieved Breakthrough, becoming a Golden Core and earning the title of Immortal Master. I sincerely invite Fellow Daoists from all directions to gather at the Great Love Sect to offer sacrifices to the Heaven And Earth!”

The next moment, the Breakthrough phenomenon that Xiang Qing had helped him suppress could no longer be controlled. It instantly swept out, and a crimson pillar of light shot into the sky.