Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal-Chapter 635 - 621 Cultivation

Gu Jinlai was now adept at swiftly eradicating any faction.

Creation Gate, as the overlord of Baofeng Plain, governed four kingdoms and over a thousand cities of various sizes, with a total population approaching three hundred million.

But whether it was Qiantian or the Holy Dynasty, both had far more personnel and larger territories than Creation Gate.

When he said he’d clear the air of Creation Gate within a month, it wasn’t an empty promise.

At this time, in a mountain forest north of Baofeng Plain, Gu Jinlai was traveling above the mountains in a large palace pulled by six large flying birds.

Below, disciples with Primordial Spirits soared on swords, battling through forests, and slaughtering a major sect hidden in the mountains.

This sect was known as Qian Ye Sect, supported by the Ye Family, specializing in doing the dirty and nefarious deeds.

In the internal struggles of Creation Gate, some True Inheritors or Protectors and Elders who blocked the Ye Family disciples’ path to growth would suddenly meet accidents or disappear, thanks to the covert assassinations by Qian Ye Sect.

After extensive investigations, and with the Piloting Ye Qingzhu seeing the true colors of others, persuaded by Ye Bingyu, he stepped forward to redeem himself. This is why Gu Jinlai personally led the team to exterminate Qian Ye Sect now.

Within Qian Ye Sect, there was one Void Immortal, and hundreds of Mahayana Saints and Returning Void Celestials.

However, faced with the overwhelming number of Creation Gate’s forces, they were inconsequential.

The Void Immortal was blasted on the spot by thunder summoned by Gu Jinlai in their first encounter.

Following that, Gu Jinlai spared no energy from within his body, thunderclouds covering the sky, obliterating untold numbers of Mahayana Saints and Returning Void Celestials to spirits lost under the barrage of thunder.

Few Mahayana Saints and Returning Void Celestials survived the storm of thunderclouds, but when faced with the Battle Formations composed of Creation Gate’s Protectors and True Inheritors, they were quickly overwhelmed.

The war was now drawing to a close.

The Primordial Spirit Cultivators, Returning Void Celestials, and Mahayana Saints of Qian Ye Sect lost the will to resist and fled in all directions at great speed.

However, the Primordial Spirits of the Creation Gate were riding dragons’ blood treasure horses. How could those escaping Mahayana Saints and Returning Void Celestials, on only two legs, outrun those on four?

In addition, Gu Jinlai himself was present in the sky to suppress them. The experts from Qian Ye Sect who survived the battle had very little True Yuan left in them. Relying solely on flight, they could not outlast those on horseback.

Soon, these Mahayana Saints and Returning Void Celestials were caught up to and encircled by the Primordial Spirit Cultivators of Creation Gate, who were riding horses, and were killed.

...

"Reporting to the Sect Leader, everyone from Qian Ye Sect has been eradicated."

Yu Xu arrived on controlled sword and reported to Gu Jinlai with a salute.

"The next target."

Gu Jinlai nodded.

"There are no Void Immortals residing in the next city. There’s no need for you, Sect Leader, to take action personally. Elders like myself are more than capable," said Yu Xu.

"Even a lion uses its full strength when hunting a rabbit. Although I am clearing our Sect, we have also uncovered quite a few spies from other forces during this time. These spies’ backers might be lurking somewhere, so my personal presence ensures nothing goes wrong," said Gu Jinlai, waving his hand. "No need for more words, let’s go."

Yu Xu felt a tinge of emotion upon hearing this.

His own Sect Leader was truly decisive. After spending a month purging the internal forces of Creation Gate, he still didn’t stop his campaign and resolutely turned his attention to the kingdoms and cities within Creation Gate’s jurisdiction.

On his journey so far, he had purged dozens of cities, dealing with all the major criminals on the spot.

This included members of the Imperial Family governed by Creation Gate.

Moreover, he acted with high efficiency.

Often upon arriving at a city, he didn’t bother investigating; he would directly kill villains. It seemed like indiscriminate killing of the innocent at first glance.

But according to their subsequent investigations, those killed by the Sect Leader were all supremely wicked, with not one innocent among them.

This realization made the Elders like Yu Xu revere while speculating that the Sect Leader must have a very powerful intelligence network. It was precisely because of this network that he could obtain evidence of these peoples’ crimes in time, and directly deal with them upon arriving in these cities.

The existence of this organization made the Elders respect it and also made them more cautious with their own words and actions.

Moreover, with the Sect Leader’s practice of swift justice against evil...

They started to discipline their own descendants as well.

Compared to before, the order within the entire Creation Gate was now fundamentally different.

...

Four months later, Gu Jinlai completed the sweep of the entire four kingdoms and over a thousand cities within Creation Gate’s territories.

The reason it took longer than the forty-nine days to purge the Holy Dynasty, even though there were less than three hundred million people, was ultimately due to the dispersed population within Creation Gate.

It couldn’t be helped, as large cities in the Profound Immortal Realm only tend to emerge around Spirit Veins. In the vicinity of Creation Gate, for example, tens of millions of people gathered.

Unfortunately, Spirit Veins in the Profound Immortal Realm were too scarce to support too many cultivators.

In such circumstances, places without Spirit Veins naturally held no value.

If not for the fact that only a vast population base could nurture enough cultivators with Spirit Roots, Creation Gate would have preferred only to guard the land within ten thousand miles centering on it.

This was also the reason they were willing to let some nations govern these cities.

But even these Creation Gate cities, which appeared to have little value, were not spared by Gu Jinlai.

He methodically purged them one after another.

Even though some of these cities did not possess a single Returning Void Celestial or Primordial Spirit Cultivator, with the strongest possibly being just Core Formation cultivators or Innate Martial Artists, Gu Jinlai still showed no mercy as he carried out the killings.

However, it was exactly because of these trifling cities that the cleansing operation was delayed by an extra four months.

Adding on the one month spent purging the Creation Gate, Gu Jinlai had been acting as the Creation Gate Sect Leader for five months already.

...

After resolving all matters big and small within the confines of the Creation Gate, Gu Jinlai returned to the Creation Gate.

As the flying palace he was riding on swept across the skies above Creation Gate, a wave of cheers suddenly erupted from the disciples below.

"Sect Leader! The Sect Leader has returned!"

"I heard that the Sect Leader went out this time to cleanse the atmosphere of the various nations within our Creation Gate’s jurisdiction!? That’s wonderful!"

"In my hometown, corrupt officials were countless, and I don’t know how many people were ruined by them. At that time, I thought that as soon as I achieved some success in my cultivation, I would return directly, kill the officials and rebel. Even if I died in the end, as long as I killed enough corrupt officials, it would be enough to deter the others from being so shamelessly corrupt."

"In the past few months, I’ve found it unbelievable. When did we disciples start getting a full allocation of Cultivation Elixirs? And there are no more senior brothers and sisters from the Ye Family collecting ’protection fees.’ Some of us ordinary disciples even get a turn at the spirit springs?"

"Isn’t that so? Just a few months ago, I found out that we could actually obtain a Spiritual Artifact for free as a True Inheritor of Primordial Spirit of our Creation Gate!? All these changes came after Sect Master Yu Feng took up his position! I really hope that Creation Gate can continue like this indefinitely."

Diverse discussions and comments were continuously spreading among the disciples.

In a few months’ time, the changes that Gu Jinlai’s cleansing efforts had brought within the Creation Gate were beginning to take effect.

Without the need for the elders to propagate it, those ambitious disciples and protectors started to support Gu Jinlai of their own accord.

As for those who were previously loafing around in their positions and those who, despite their incompetence and inaction, occupied prime positions due to their family elders, every single one was thoroughly investigated.

Many who abused their power to oppress others were executed on the spot.

In such a situation, they had no outlet to curse Gu Jinlai, the Acting Sect Leader.

...

"When a place is filled with light, darkness has nowhere to hide, but when a place is shrouded entirely in darkness, then the Light Burners will be persecuted to death as anomalies."

In the main hall, Gu Jinlai looked down at the Void Immortal Elders below him and spoke slowly.

The elders also nodded their heads in agreement, one after another.

Compared to the thirty-four elders in the previous meeting, there were now only twenty-nine left.

This was not to say that only five elders had been dealt with.

In reality, in the first month alone, Gu Jinlai personally tried and executed as many as twelve elders.

Twelve Void Immortals, each one a pillar of the Sect.

Yet, Gu Jinlai executed them without any hesitation.

The reason there were still twenty-nine Void Immortal Elders present was that the secluded elders had all emerged from their seclusion, bringing some much-needed vitality back to the main hall, which would otherwise have become much quieter.

"The Creation Gate inside and outside has been cleansed thoroughly, but to make the Sect rise, merely purging the corrupt elements within the Sect is far from enough. The Sect must develop new progress and systems," Gu Jinlai said calmly.

"I plan to hold a Sect-wide competition in a year from now, which will be led by you elders! The competition will be divided into three levels: Primordial Spirit Cultivators, Returning Void Celestials, and Mahayana Saints. Each level will have two groups, a youth group and an adult group. The adult group goes without saying, whereas the youth group is for cultivators below the age of forty, sixty, and a hundred respectively. Anyone who wins in the competition will receive generous rewards."

With that, he paused for effect: "In addition to elixirs, the winning Primordial Spirit Cultivator will be granted a Spiritual Artifact! A Returning Void Celestial winner will be granted a thousand pieces of top-notch material for casting a Sacred Body, and a Mahayana Saint will be directly awarded a Dao Artifact!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the hall erupted into an uproar.

"A Dao Artifact! To grant a Dao Artifact to a Mahayana Protector!? Isn’t this...isn’t this too extravagant?"

"A thousand pieces of top-notch material!? My heavens! Their value must not be inferior to that of a Dao Artifact, right!?"

"May I ask the Sect Leader, how many places are there for the winners?"

The elders began to speak, one after another.

Earning a Dao Artifact for a Mahayana victory was too tempting for most of these elders, who possessed only one Dao Artifact each.

"The number of winners is not fixed, and it won’t be overly strict, mainly to select a batch of disciples worth cultivating," Gu Jinlai said, then looked toward the elders in the hall once more: "I said that this event would be led by you elders, which means you may cultivate Mahayana, Returning Void, and Primordial Spirit disciples and bring them into your ranks. For every victory achieved by members of your ranks, depending on their level, you will receive one, three, or ten points, respectively."

Smiling slightly, he added: "In this competition, the five elders with the best performance will not only be provided with top-notch materials by the Sect for casting Immortal Bodies, but Creation Heaven Dao will also be activated exclusively for you ten, five, three, two, or one times to assist you in condensing the Dao Fruit and reaching the stature of a True Immortal!"

"Provide materials for casting Immortal Bodies!? And the Sect will expressly activate Heavenly Dao for us, assisting us in Enlightenment to Perfection and condensing Dao Fruit!?"

As these words were released, the elders couldn’t help but widen their eyes: "Sect Leader, are these words true!?"

"Activating Heavenly Dao eighteen times for the top five elders!? Nearly a hundred thousand top-notch materials, does the Grotto Heaven really have so many Spirit Mechanisms and resources?"

"Of course, it does," Gu Jinlai replied with a smile: "So, in the next year, you all have time to select and cultivate the disciples you fancy. This process must not be coerced. Elders choose disciples, but disciples can also choose an elder."

Having said that, he waved his hand: "Elders, you may leave now. I look forward to seeing the outstanding performance of the disciples you select a year from now."