My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

Everyone's movements froze at that moment.

Tens of thousands of eyes turned in unison, looking in the direction from which the sound came.

All that could be seen was the entrance to the square.

A young man wearing a faded long gown.

They were walking slowly and steadily towards the platform.

The young man had a thin face and a gentle smile on his lips.

He was clearly an ordinary person with no strength to even kill a chicken.

But walking on the Blood Fiend Sect's plaza, filled with demonic energy, felt like strolling leisurely.

What's even more incredible is...

A vast, luminous, upright, and peaceful invisible aura surrounded the young man.

Wherever this aura passed, the chilling and piercing demonic energy instantly melted away, like snow meeting the blazing sun!

Make sure you see the person's face clearly.

Li Chen, who was hiding in a corner of the crowd, suddenly stiffened.

His eyes widened instantly, and his mouth opened so wide it could fit an ostrich egg.

A swear word that shattered all moral values ​​was uttered directly from his throat.

"Holy crap?!"

Li Chen rubbed his eyes hard, hardly believing what he was seeing.

"Ning Xiu?!"

"What's this scrawny bookworm doing here?!"

"And... what is that ghostly aura emanating from him?! It looks so much like the righteous spirit described in novels from my past life?!"

On the high platform.

Xing'er, who had been filled with despair, shuddered the moment she heard that familiar voice.

She opened her eyes and looked at the down-on-his-luck scholar walking towards her. Tears streamed down her face like a burst dam.

"Brother Xiu..."

Xing'er cried her heart out, shaking her head desperately and shouting loudly.

"What are you doing here! Get out of here! Get out of here! They'll kill you!"

Ning Xiu looked up at the girl crying on the stage.

His smile grew even gentler, and his eyes remained resolute without the slightest hint of retreat.

"Xing'er, don't be afraid."

Ning Xiu's voice was gentle and warm, "I said that I would marry you after I passed the imperial examination. Today, I've come to take you home."

These words caused an uproar in the room.

How could a mere mortal with no cultivation possibly run into the Blood Fiend Sect, where a Nascent Soul expert is in charge, to try and steal the marriage of a Golden Core elder?

This is like the old man hanging himself, tired of living!

"You ignorant ants!"

On the high platform, Elder Xue Li's face instantly turned ashen, and his eyes revealed murderous intent.

His wedding, a grand event for a Golden Core cultivator, was so provoked by a mere mortal. If word got out, where would he put his face?

"Guards! Break this madman's arms and legs and throw him into the Serpent Cave to feed the snakes!" Elder Xue Li roared.

"yes!"

Below the platform, dozens of Blood Fiend Sect disciples guarding the area drew their gleaming demonic blades and lunged at Ning Xiu with sinister smiles.

"No!" Xing'er screamed in despair.

Li Chen, standing in the crowd, also subconsciously clenched his fists, preparing to forcefully save this ignorant bookworm.

however.

What happened next shocked tens of thousands of cultivators present, including Li Chen.

I'm completely devastated and starting to question the meaning of life!

Facing dozens of ferocious demonic cultivator disciples.

Ning Xiu did not retreat even a step.

He maintained his gentle smile, simply standing quietly in place, watching the oncoming flashes of swords, and slowly opened his mouth.

The sound, like a grand and majestic bell, resounded throughout the heavens and earth!

"Heaven and earth possess righteous energy, which manifests itself in myriad forms!"

The voice just fell.

"boom--!!!"

An indescribable, immense power erupted from Ning Xiu's frail body in an instant!

This is neither true essence nor demonic energy.

Instead, it is a pure and powerful righteous spirit that is pure to the extreme and fierce to the peak!

This righteous energy transformed into a visible golden halo, radiating outwards from Ning Xiu's body in all directions.

Those Blood Fiend Sect disciples who rushed within ten feet of Ning Xiu.

The moment I came into contact with that golden halo.

The demonic blades in their hands shattered inch by inch!

The insidious demonic energy within their bodies seemed to have encountered a natural enemy, rampaging wildly through their meridians and launching a devastating backlash!

"ah!!!"

A heart-wrenching scream echoed across the square.

Dozens of demonic sect disciples in the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages were hit head-on as if by a high-speed train.

They all coughed up a mouthful of blood at once, their bodies flying backward like kites with broken strings, crashing heavily onto the white bone floor dozens of meters away, instantly losing their fighting ability!

Quiet.

A deathly silence.

In the vast square, tens of thousands of cultivators stared intently at the disheveled scholar standing unharmed in the center, as if they had seen a ghost.

A single line of poetry sent dozens of cultivators flying?!

What kind of sorcery is this?!

"presumptuous!"

On the high platform, Elder Xue Li was completely enraged.

He suddenly stood up, and the terrifying pressure of the early stage of Golden Core was like a heavy mountain, crushing down on Ning Xiu!

"A mere illusion, yet you dare to play tricks on me!"

"Kneel down!"

Wherever the Golden Core's pressure passed, even the air itself emitted a crackling sound as if it couldn't bear the weight. The guests with weaker cultivation levels around them were forced to breathe difficultly and retreat repeatedly.

However, Ning Xiu was at the very center of the oppressive aura.

Yet not a single hair on his head trembled.

The oppressive aura of the Golden Core, powerful enough to crush mortals into mincemeat, vanished without a trace when it approached within three feet of Ning Xiu, as if melted away by a gentle spring breeze and rain.

Ning Xiu didn't even change his expression.

He still gazed tenderly at Xing'er on the stage with those clear eyes.

"This...this is impossible!"

Elder Xue Li stared wide-eyed, as if he were seeing the most incredible monster in the world.

Li Chen stood in the corner of the crowd.

It has completely collapsed at this moment.

He gripped his hair tightly with both hands, his face contorted to an unprecedented degree.

"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!"

Li Chen internally roared a frenzy, like ten thousand alpacas stampeding.

"Upright and righteous spirit?!"

"This bookworm actually mastered Confucianism and Taoism?!"

"That day I was just spouting nonsense, piecing together random settings from online novels from my past life and making it all up!"

"He actually managed to create a completely new Confucian path in this world of cultivation with just a few words?!"

Li Chen looked up at the gloomy sky, a tear of grievance sliding down his cheek.

"Holy crap! This nerd's got some kind of cheat code?!"

"Is this world really this chaotic?! I can't play anymore!"

"God, I want to go back to the Tang Dynasty! I don't want to play with these cheating freaks anymore!"

Just when Li Chen's mentality completely collapsed and his values ​​were shattered.

The situation on the stage has changed dramatically once again.

He saw that his golden core's pressure had no effect on a mortal.

Elder Xue Li felt he had suffered an unprecedented humiliation.

"You charlatan! Today I will personally skin you alive and tear your soul apart, roasting it in demonic fire for a hundred years!"

Elder Xue Li let out a deafening roar.

He leaped directly down from the high platform, his withered claws transforming into a sky full of blood-red afterimages, carrying a terrifying demonic power capable of tearing through the void, as he personally clawed fiercely down towards Ning Xiu's head!

Meanwhile, the unfathomable Nascent Soul Sect Master of the Blood Fiend Sect remained seated in the main seat.

He remained expressionless as he watched everything unfold.

A chilling, dark light flickered in his eyes, as if he were watching an intriguing drama with a predetermined ending.

Facing the deadly attack of a Golden Core cultivator.

Ning Xiu remained unmoved and did not dodge or avoid the situation.

He slowly straightened his thin spine and put his hands behind his back.

Two dazzling golden holy lights burst forth from his eyes.

He took a deep breath and spoke again.

"Its nature is extremely vast and extremely strong..."

A cross-system war that will overturn the understanding of the cultivation world is about to break out!

And in the crowd.

Seeing the blood-red shadows about to fall, Li Chen gritted his teeth and slapped his thigh.

"Oh dear! What a tragedy!"

Two incredibly violent purple-gold lightning bolts suddenly erupted from Li Chen's eyes.