Wu Li knew his Yin Fire was both sticky and invisible to the naked eye; once it adhered to someone, it could neither be shaken off nor extinguished. It had to burn until the skin blistered and flesh rotted away, leaving nothing but ashes in the end.

Shi Feiyang reached out and grabbed it all, then rubbed it between his hands, destroying it completely.

This left Wu Li in utter disbelief. How could this be possible?

He cursed under his breath and tore a strand of hair from his head, chewing it up before rapidly forming a spell with his hands. Then he pushed forward, immediately sending a burst of red Mars shooting out.

Shi Feiyang saw that he was overexerting his life force to unleash Prohibition Techniques, releasing those Mars covered in the invisible Yin Fire. Shi Feiyang flicked a ball of his self-cultivated Void Evil Fire.

The Void Evil Fire was a dull black-brown and looked unimpressive. Once it flew out, the force of Gang and Evil within it instantly caused everyone's scalp to tingle and body hair to stand on end, almost sucking away objects held in their hands.

Maoguan Taoist Si Taixu clutched his flying staff, shocked to his core.

Wu Li's four disciples had earlier released their Flying Swords to flee. After Si Taixu descended from the sky, they returned, but they did not retract their Flying Swords, which stayed in front of them for protection. Now, as if attracted by a strong magnet, all four swords uncontrollably flew towards the Fireworks.

That ball of Void Evil Fire absorbed Wu Li's Mars, the invisible Yin Fire, and the four Flying Swords. On contact, they exploded into a fiery ball about ten feet in diameter. Under Shi Feiyang's control, it dissipated into thousands of tiny fire sparks, sweeping back toward Wu Li!

Wu Li's Yin Fire and the four Flying Swords became the "lamp oil" fueling the Void Evil Fire's strength. Wu Li, seeing a swarm of fire sparks coming at him, quickly cast a spell to defend himself, creating a magical barrier in front of him.

However, his spells barely hindered the Star Fire before they melted through and dissipated, then surged towards Wu Li, igniting in a "whoosh" into a large fireball that enveloped him.

Wu Li, contorting his hands, resisted the fierce flames scorching his body while flying straight up into the sky, hoping to use the clouds and Gang Wind to erode the Evil Fire.

But this substance was named "Evil Fire," and it actually contained full measures of Gang and Evil. Influenced by the Nine Heavens Gang Wind, the originally black-brown flames began to show red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo lights, casting a bizarre glow across a vast expanse of the sky.

Wu Li's four disciples realized this was bad. Seeing everyone looking up into the sky, thinking Shi Feiyang was unprepared, they exchanged glances and suddenly acted. Each holding a small flag, they took positions in the four cardinal directions and vanished to set up the same Two Yi Qimen Formation, aiming to trap Shi Feiyang and the other two within it.

Shi Feiyang, far more adept in Qimen numerology than Zhu Changyuan, stepped in front of one disciple and slapped him across the face, knocking him to the ground with a "wah." He then stepped back to the left and in front of the second disciple, slapping him down as well...

With four successive slaps, all four were left bleeding and sprawled on the ground, dazed and spinning, their Primordial Spirits shaken and unstable, and they were unable to get up for a while.

Si Taixu called out, "Show mercy," but by the end of his four-word plea, Shi Feiyang had already finished. Si Taixu raised his staff, its tip already emitting poison smoke. Shi Feiyang stepped forward, seizing the staff. Si Taixu cast a spell, and the staff went limp like a poisonous snake, coiling around Shi Feiyang's arm, biting towards his neck, while Gan Yun's Disciple sent a strand of crystalline spider silk shooting his way.

Shi Feiyang forcefully snatched the staff away and, with a backhanded grab, caught the spider silk meant to bind his neck, quickly retreating.

Si Taixu, furiously shouting, struck with his Flying Sword. Shi Feiyang, unconcerned about the sword light severing his wrist, used the staff to wrap around Si Taixu's Flying Sword, forcibly suppressing the sword light.

Si Taixu never expected him to be so formidable. Fearing his Flying Sword would be taken, he ejected True Qi and with a tearing sound, his own Flying Sword sliced his staff into more than a dozen pieces, and the yellow smoke burst out. Si Taixu still attempted to direct the yellow smoke at Shi Feiyang.

Shi Feiyang swept his hands together, employing a Heavenly Book technique, gathering all the yellow smoke into his palm to form a tiny yellow pearl, which he flicked at his Disciple Gan Yun.

Knowing the potency of his own yellow smoke, he bellowed, "Yun'er! Retreat quickly!"

Gan Yun also knew the power of his master's yellow smoke and desperately fled. However, he was struck by the yellow pearl and with a "bang," it exploded back into a yellow cloud around him. Feeling light in his chest, something had been snatched away. Shocked to his core, he frantically tried to retrieve it but was enveloped in yellow smoke, like being in a dust storm, filled with minute particles of yellow dust, within which lay unseen Yin Fire. It scorched and abraded him, threatening to crush, burn, and erode him into ash. Fortunately, it was his master's Treasure that was promptly retracted.

"Wah!" Gan Yun spat out blood and fell to his knees, severely injured. Looking up, he saw Shi Feiyang holding a glittering large spider.

Gan Yun, originally named Gan Yun, had his spider, a love of three lifetimes, who had been wronged by enemies and reborn in a spider's form. The woman was extremely volatile and jealous, usually clinging to her husband's chest, refusing to go anywhere else. Should she encounter strangers, especially females, she would manifest to declare her territory. Sometimes, in high spirits, she would show up to kiss her husband.

The spider she became was a Primordial Species, with a thousand years of Dao Level. The spider silk she spun was very lethal, nearly infallible when she used it to attack others covertly. Once entwined, one became immediately immobilized as if bound by Immortal Binding Ropes, compelled to submit and beg for her mercy before she would release them.

Yesterday, she tried to ambush Shi Feiyang with spider silk and ended up kicking an iron plate. At first, when she saw Shi Feiyang grab the spider silk with his bare hands, she thought she had succeeded. "You naive young man, unaware of the peril," she thought to herself, "wait until I bind your limbs and hang you upside down from a tree for a good repentance."

Little did she know that Shi Feiyang had already seen through her tricks, using some unknown spell that not only stopped the spider silk from entangling him but also forcibly pulled her away from her husband's chest.

Shi Feiyang held in his hand a basin-sized spider, its body crystal clear as if carved from crystal. Its eight legs thrashed about, with the two front pincers, the longest, lunging at Shi Feiyang's eyes. Just as they extended, Shi Feiyang seized the pincers, snapping them off with brute force, and then tore off all eight legs, leaving only the spider's head, thorax, and rotund, chubby abdomen.

Shi Feiyang was about to throw the "spider pig" to the ground when it ungratefully sprayed poison smoke at his face; he used one of the pincers to pierce and lift the spider's belly.

"Don't!" Gan Yun, the spider deity, coughed up blood and knelt on the ground, unable to help but cry out for mercy, "I implore you to spare my life…"

From the moment Wu Li's four disciples launched a sneak attack to the plea for mercy from Gan Yun, it was a mere matter of seconds. While Shi Feiyang was toying with the spider, Jiang Shu released the Broken Jade Hooks to engage Si Taixu, and the heavens rained down curses as Wu Li burned with Void Evil Fire.

Wu Li had become a human torch, entirely engulfed in brightly colored flames, flailing from east to west, from south to north, yet unable to escape the burning fire. His True Qi had been burnt through, and now the flames scorched his flesh to the point of unbearable agony.

Si Taixu, who had watched Zhu Changyuan take action, initially thought they were disciples of Geng Kun, the Independent Immortal of East Sea, causing trouble in Central Earth. After seeing Shi Feiyang's move, he could only sense an unfathomable power, far surpassing his own, but he couldn't discern any specific details.

But then, seeing Jiang Shu's action, Si Taixu immediately recognized it as the authentic legacy of Tian Dou's Ming He— not only the same swordsmanship but also Taiyin Divine Thunder!

He was puzzled at first, not knowing why the conflict had arisen. He knew Wu Li was stubborn and self-willed, and his disciples were all trouble-makers. Usually, he didn't think much of them; when conflicts arose, he would first inquire about the facts, judging right from wrong. If Wu Li was at fault, he would advise him to back down and not to bully others by taking advantage of his position.

Now, he finally understood what was happening, and he hastily deflected the Broken Jade Hook with his Flying Sword, calling out loudly, "Jiang, my Daoist friend! Is it you, Jiang, who has returned? Hold your hand for a moment, and hear what I have to say!"

Jiang Shu, slightly surprised, summoned back the Broken Jade Hooks and asked with a stern face, "What do you have to say?"

Si Taixu looked at Jiang Shu with a complicated expression, "You are Jiang, my Daoist friend, aren't you? The famous Demon Suppression True Master of yesteryear? The successor of the two ancestors from Tian Dou's Ming He?"

Jiang Shu nodded, "You know of me too?"

Si Taixu glanced at Wu Li, plunging from the sky ensnared in Five-Colored Flames, and spoke to Shi Feiyang, "I ask you, my Daoist friend, to kindly spare Daoist Wu Li. We will cede Golden Whip Cliff to you."

Had Jiang Shu come forward directly demanding Golden Whip Cliff, neither he nor Wu Li would have agreed. Wu Li, especially, would have cursed and slashed with his sword.

But now, his own side was utterly defeated. They had no room to refuse without the risk of getting their entire sect exterminated.

Originally, Si Taixu was a cautious Independent Immortal, never committing evils, but rather accumulating good deeds with his disciples, and generally a decent person.

Shi Feiyang did not plan on a massacre this time; after all, assisting Jiang Shu in claiming Golden Whip Cliff wasn't exactly the most righteous of causes. Hearing Si Taixu plead, he waved his hand and withdrew the Void Evil Fire.

Wu Li, completely charred, fell into the stream with a crash, passing out.

Si Taixu sighed, "Jiang, my Daoist friend, if you wished to reclaim Golden Whip Cliff, you could have simply come directly to us instead of resorting to such chaos!"

Shi Feiyang replied, "I calculated that a treasure was buried here and went to great lengths to deduce its precise location. As soon as we began digging, they came to contest it, speaking insultingly and launching their Flying Swords to kill us. When you courted death yourselves, what could we do?"

Si Taixu and Wu Li had heard about Zhu Mei and Jiang Shu's intentions to inherit their master's will and reclaim their mentor's old dwelling to establish Qingcheng Sect. They were prepared; ready to argue their case or fight with swords when confronted, as they would not easily surrender the cave residence that they had managed for many years.

Although Tian Dou and Ming He had established the two caves on Golden Whip Cliff, Qingcheng Mountain had been a cultivation site for immortals since ancient times, with many ruins. Golden Whip Cliff was where the wealth god Zhao Gongming hid his whip, and it had passed through several owners, with Tian Dou and Ming He only rebuilding on the prior foundations.

Discussing the true ownership could lead to a complex debate, and Si Taixu's side had their own claims to make.

But now, they were completely without a case. Any further debate could cost them their lives, risking the annihilation of their entire sect.

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