Xiuxian: I studied abroad in modern times

Chapter 559 With a legitimate cause, the campaign was swift and decisive.

"Nine Mountains Sect, what are you trying to do?"

A disciple of Haori Mountain mustered his courage and shouted towards the sky, and the rest of Haori Mountain people joined in the commotion.

A slender, graceful figure with a long sword at her waist flew out from the glowing portal and stood before the fleet.

It was Xie Qingxue.

Her sword aura surged through the air, causing the Haori Mountain disciples to immediately fall silent and retreat quietly.

Xie Qingxue ignored them, and instead, with a serious expression, announced to all directions:

"By order of the leader of the Hundred Immortals Alliance, the Divine Firmament Legion of the Nine Mountains Sect shall march on Hao Ri!"

The sound was like the clash of swords, resounding and echoing through the mountains.

The disciples of Haori Mountain were all meek and submissive at this moment, but an old man flew over from a distance, his face full of indignation: "How dare the Nine Mountains Sect bully my Haori?"

"Elder Yun!"

The other Hao Ri disciples couldn't help but move closer to the old man, as if they had seen a savior.

This person is a corpse-dissolving cultivator from the Yun Clan, and is considered the person with the highest status and cultivation in Haori Mountain in this area.

Seeing that important figures had also arrived at Haori Mountain, the clever rogue cultivators seemed to realize that this place was not safe to stay for long and hurriedly fled to the rear.

Behind them came Xie Qingxue's reply: "This action is to help Haori Mountain to set things right and eliminate corruption!"

"Xie Qingxue, as a sword cultivator, do you even believe what you're saying?"

Those independent cultivators couldn't help but feel strange upon hearing this:
A top disciple of the Tianhe Sect, following orders from the Jiushan Sect, sets Haori Mountain free from chaos.
To everyone's surprise, Xie Qingxue chuckled softly:
"Of course I believe you!"

"Shameless!"

"Take it out!"

With a soft shout from Xie Qingxue, a dozen or so exhausted cultivators were escorted out by the disciples of the Nine Mountains Sect, standing dejectedly before everyone's eyes.

The expression on the face of the Yun Clan's corpse-dissolving technique changed slightly.

"It seems you know him."

"Nonsense, I don't know him!"

"But they said they were ordered by the elders of Haori Mountain to plunder our Hundred Immortals Alliance!"

Some of the independent cultivators, out of curiosity, turned around and were all astonished.

"Isn't this Master Wu? No wonder I haven't heard from him lately."

"Old Monster Chen, Sect Leader Qian... these are all well-known Nascent Soul cultivators in the Haori Mountain region, how come they were captured by the Nine Mountains Sect?"

"What else could it be? Who could mobilize so many people?"

The crowd exchanged bewildered glances, and in their hearts, they couldn't help but believe the Nine Mountains Sect to some extent. It seemed that Hao Ri Mountain was indeed provoking the Hundred Immortals Alliance.

Hao Ri Shan probably never expected that the Nine Mountains Sect would actually dare to retaliate!
Not to mention Haori Mountain, even they were puzzled—although they had vaguely heard about the great battle in Xuanwei Sea, in the minds of most people, the strength of Jiushan Sect was still far inferior to that of Haori Mountain, one of the four old sects.

These people were indeed the rogue cultivators sent by Haori Mountain.

Many people have been recruited; these are either stubborn and unrepentant or heinous criminals.

"Who knows where you captured these people? You're here making baseless accusations." The Cloud Clan Corpse Disciple's expression shifted repeatedly, knowing that he couldn't admit it no matter what. "Besides, none of them are disciples of Haori Mountain. How can their words be trusted?"

"How absurd it is to condemn Haori Mountain based on the ignorant words of a few rogue cultivators!"

Xie Qingxue fell silent for a moment, seemingly speechless.

The Cloud Clan Corpse Dissection member had a hint of pride on his face. Back then, when they sent out this group of people, they weren't afraid of the Hundred Immortals Alliance causing trouble!
He was about to speak again when Xie Qingxue spoke up:

“My Nine Mountains Sect didn’t trust them to begin with… We’ve been holding these people captive for over ten years, but we’ve never truly blamed Hao Ri Shan.”

"..."

The Cloud Clan's corpse dissection revealed a slight change in expression, as if sensing something amiss. Xie Qingxue spoke up:

"We thought, how could someone as noble as the leader of the Haori Mountain Immortal Sect, a paragon of righteousness, possibly resort to such conspiracies and tricks?"

She praised Haori Mountain in her words, but her tone revealed no respect whatsoever, and even a hint of disdain.

"Moreover, my Nine Mountains Sect and Haori Mountain have made an alliance. Could it be that Haori Mountain is a villain who breaks the alliance?"

"..." The elder of the Yun clan opened his mouth, his face full of discomfort, and finally he could only say dryly, "If that's the case, then why is your Nine Mountains Sect so unwise today?"

"Despite trusting the people of Haori Mountain, my Nine Mountains Sect has not given up investigating these individuals." Xie Qingxue bowed to everyone, her face grave. "This investigation has uncovered something truly significant!"

Seeing that the Nine Mountains Sect seemed quite reasonable, the rogue cultivators gathered at a distance, listening curiously and buzzing with discussion:
"What did the Nine Mountains Sect find out?"

"Who knows? I think they really have some evidence, otherwise they wouldn't have kept it bottled up for decades before it finally came out."

"Is that true?"

The old man from the Cloud Clan, who had undergone corpse dissection, coldly asked, "May I ask what your Nine Mountains Sect has discovered?"

"So it turns out that Haori Mountain wasn't behind this!"

"Since Haori Mountain is innocent, what are you doing here?"

"No, Haori Mountain is also a victim! It has been infiltrated by the Demon Ancestor, which is why internal strife has broken out within my immortal sect!"

The old man from the Yun clan felt his head buzzing for a moment.

No, how could the Demon Ancestor be the one who plotted against the Nine Mountains Sect?
Xie Qingxue clapped her hands again.

The disciples behind her brought over several wooden boxes. Xie Qingxue opened the boxes, which contained Gu worms, blood pills, and white bone artifacts.

A dozen or so Gu worms were tearing at each other inside the wooden box, black energy was emanating from the white bone artifact, and the blood pills emitted a rich fragrance.

Even if you don't know the origin of these things, everyone can see that this item is definitely closely related to the Demonic Sect.

"Based on the clues they provided, our Nine Mountains Sect conducted a thorough investigation and discovered that these things originated from the Creation Demon Ancestor, the Gu God, and the White Bone Demon Ancestor!"

"And these things came from those Haori Mountains!"

The Yun Clan's dismemberment seems even more absurd.

Yes, these things are available in Haori Mountain Market.

Yes, these people are also from the Haori Mountain Sect.

But what is the connection between these two things?
"Therefore, my Nine Mountains Sect has come to understand that there were already spies of the Demonic Sect lurking in Haori Mountain!" Xie Qingxue's voice was like a sword. "As a member of the Immortal Sect, and having suffered greatly from the Demonic Sect, and with the Six Sects Alliance in place, our expedition to Haori Mountain today is not out of disrespect for Haori Mountain, but to eliminate the demons and protect the righteous path!"

The elder from the Yun clan still hadn't reacted.

But the rogue cultivators behind them seemed to understand:

"I see. The alliance of the six factions seems to be about jointly attacking the Demonic Sect?"

"Is there really a Demon Ancestor on Haori Mountain?"

"What Fairy Xie said sounds very convincing. She even brought out elixirs and magical artifacts. I think it's plausible."

The Cloud Clan elder, who had undergone corpse dissolution, finally spoke: "Utter nonsense!"

"You dare swear on your inner demons, dare gamble your path, that there is no Demon Ancestor on Haori Mountain?"

The Yun clan elder was speechless, while some Hao Ri disciples behind him, unaware of the truth, began to whisper among themselves.

After all, the matter of the Demon Ancestor is a top secret in Haori Mountain.

Xie Qingxue drew her Qingping Sword and pointed it directly at Haori Mountain:

"Disciples of Haori Mountain, listen up! Those who block my Nine Mountains Sect are all colluding with the Demon Ancestor! If you wish to prove your innocence, get out of my way!"

The elder of the Yun clan looked even more ashen. He still couldn't understand how the matter of the Demon Ancestor had been leaked. Those rogue cultivators captured by the Nine Mountains Sect couldn't possibly know about this!
To outsiders, this seemed perfectly logical, but he knew it was far more complex than that.

Hao Ri Mountain has a demon ancestor, but before he could do anything bad, he was framed.

Behind them, some disciples actually spoke up and asked:
"What should we do? Go back to the mountain and exorcise the demon?"

"do not know……"

His face darkened further.

At this moment, how the Nine Mountains Sect knew about this matter is no longer important. With this news, the people of Haori Mountain are probably in a state of panic.

If the Nine Mountains Sect is targeting Haori Mountain, then the disciples of Haori Mountain will naturally be united and determined.

But now, the Nine Mountains Sect, under the pretext of eliminating demons and protecting the righteous path, has shaken the resolve of some disciples and is even enough to tear Haori Mountain apart.

Tearing?

Yun Clan Corpse Dissection's heart stirred, and he looked at Xie Qingxue, only to see Xie Qingxue looking at him with a cold smile, her eyes conveying only one message:

The one who first made the figurines has no descendants.

Xie Qingxue felt a sense of satisfaction. She had gotten this vanguard job from Zheng Fa, all to pin down Hao Ri Shan and make him bear the crime of colluding with the Demon Ancestor!

She wanted Hao Ri Shan to experience the same chaos that Lu Yao had caused in Tianhe Sect back then.

Seeing that the Yun Clan was about to speak after their corpse disintegration, Xie Qingxue drew her Qingping Sword and said loudly, "Divine Firmament Legion, listen to my command!"

Behind her, a thousand warships simultaneously lit up with purple lightning.

"Follow me to slay the demons! Those who dare to obstruct us are nothing but traitors of the demonic sect; show them no mercy!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the Qingping Sword in her hand transformed into a rainbow of light, heading straight for the Yun Clan's corpse disintegration at Haori Mountain.

"I have already sent a message through the gate to stop them!"

"Yes!"

The Yun Clan's Corpse Disintegration technique could not retreat so easily. Although he was no match for Xie Qingxue, he was confident that he could delay her for a while.

As for those warships, he had just seen them. There seemed to be a lot of them, but most of the people on board were Foundation Establishment cultivators. Compared to his own disciples, they were not a threat.

The people of the Nine Mountains Sect thought that the competition among cultivators depended on the number of people.

As long as I can hold Xie Qingxue back...

"Elder!"

A scream came from behind him. He dodged Xie Qingxue's sword light, turned around, and felt a chill run down his spine.

In just half a cup of tea, three or four tenths of the Haori disciples behind him had been lost!

The disciples of Haori Mountain fell like rain down onto the mountains below.

Those warships... those Foundation Establishment disciples...

He then realized that these warships were not fighting independently, but rather in groups of ten, with a flagship in each group carrying Golden Core disciples.

These ten warships moved in unison, obeying orders without question.

"aim!"

A cold shout came from a fleet of Divine Firmament warships, and a beam of light flew from the ground toward the flagship. On the top of the flagship, a slightly concave bronze mirror appeared.

The beam of light gathered on the mirror and shot out at a panicked Nascent Soul disciple from Haori Mountain, severely injuring him with a single blow!

The Divine Firmament Fleet is the mobile force of the Divine Firmament Legion. Ten ships form a squadron, and the squadron leader is a Golden Core cultivator. Moreover, they are not ordinary Golden Core cultivators—but Golden Core cultivators who use the Divine Firmament warship as their natal magic weapon.

This flagship is his signature weapon, adept at transformation.

The main function of the remaining nine warships was actually to form an array, allowing the flagship to manipulate the underground magnetic field.

Compared to the Yuanci Mountain Range, these warships are naturally less powerful, but they are more agile and convenient.

In fact, its power was not small. A fleet of Divine Firmament warships, with the help of the Thick Earth Magnetic Array, could exert power comparable to the late Nascent Soul stage.

Seeing the power of the Divine Firmament warship, the rogue cultivators all stopped in their tracks, staring with their mouths agape.

Compared to what's happening right now, escaping seems less important.

"How come these Golden Core cultivators from the Nine Mountains Sect are so strong?"

"Those warships are stronger!"

"No matter what the reason, the Nine Mountains Sect can use Golden Core cultivators as Nascent Soul cultivators, no wonder they dare to attack Haori Mountain."

They do have good eyesight. The most powerful aspect of the Divine Firmament Fleet is that Golden Core cultivators, when combined with a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators, can be used as Nascent Soul cultivators under the protection of the Thick Earth Magnetic Array!

But what they didn't know was that this was not the limit of the Divine Firmament Legion!
Seeing his disciples dying one after another, the Cloud Clan Corpse Master panicked. He transformed into mist, obscuring Xie Qingxue's vision, dodging the Qingping Sword, and grabbed at the Divine Firmament Fleet with his palm.

The clouds in the sky rolled and gathered into a cloud dragon, hundreds of thousands of feet long, with horns, whiskers, scales and claws, all as if it were alive.

This dragon seemed to be the embodiment of the Cloud Clan's corpse disintegration. At the same time as him, it stretched out its huge right claw, grabbing straight at the Divine Firmament Fleet.

"Raise the shield!"

A loud shout came from deep within the Shenxiao Fleet.

A thousand Shenxiao warships lit up with blue light.

The streams of light converged in the sky, forming a vast blue shield that protected the thousand warships of the Divine Firmament Fleet.

The light cover is faintly connected to the underground magnetic field.

The moment the giant dragon's claw touched the light shield, the entire dragon was thrown back into the distance, crashing into the air and disintegrating inch by inch into wisps of cloud.

"..."

The Cloud Clan Corpse Dissection expert froze in mid-air upon witnessing this scene.

Can the Nine Mountains Sect really rely on its large numbers to stop me?
He looked at the light shield and felt the magnetic force within it, his expression grim—although the cloud dragon was not his full strength, this fleet of warships was by no means the full strength of the Nine Mountains Sect!
Even the most prestigious high-ranking members of the Nine Mountains Sect only sent Xie Qingxue!

Only now did he suddenly realize that the Nine Mountains Sect was completely different from any other sect he had encountered over the past tens of thousands of years.

They probably do have the power to overturn Mount Haori!

Just as he was filled with anxiety and about to send a message into the door, a sword beam pierced through his chest from behind.

Seeing his wide-eyed expression, Xie Qingxue's eyes flashed coldly: "Someone will accompany you."

The Cloud Clan Corpse Dissection opened its mouth, but upon seeing the hatred in its eyes, its face instantly turned ashen.

With the elder killed, the disciples of Haori Mountain lost all will to fight. Some fled, while others were captured. In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the battle here came to an end.

After the lightning dissipated, the wind howled through the mountains, and only the scorched earth on the ground, and the mangled remains of Hao Ri disciples on the scorched earth, told the story of the fierce battle that had just taken place.

Xie Qingxue glanced at the captured Haori Mountain disciples. Seeing that few of the Nine Mountains disciples were injured, she didn't care. Instead, she turned to look at the rogue cultivators, her murderous aura slightly subdued.

"Our Nine Mountains Sect has come here to eliminate demons and protect the righteous path. Except for those who stubbornly resist and have their hearts turned to the demonic sect, everyone else can live as usual and there is no need to panic."

The group of independent cultivators glanced at the corpse of the Yun Clan elder.

The man lay dead on a mountaintop, his eyes wide open, spiritual energy gushing out from a large hole in his chest, turning into a blood mist.

From the moment Xie Qingxue made her move to the annihilation of hundreds of disciples from Haori Mountain, less than half an hour had passed. The Nine Mountains Sect's offensive was utterly devastating.

These rogue cultivators dared not say anything more, only nodding in fear and obsequiously responding to Xie Qingxue, yet inexplicably sharing the same feeling in their hearts—

The sky over Haori Mountain is about to change.

(End of this chapter)