Sword Sovereign of the Celestial Emperor-Chapter 97, Return to the Sect

Cyan Smoke City’s beast tide has broken out! This time, the beast tide not only affects Cyan Smoke City but even encompasses several nearby cities.

In Cyan Smoke City’s beast tide, there are thirteen fifth and sixth-level demon beasts, twice as many as Ironfire City. There are even tens of thousands of fourth-level demon beasts, making Cyan Smoke City seem covered in a layer of black clouds.

The strongest demon beast among them is the sixth-level top-tier demon beast, the Thousand-eyed Falcon.

With a body over a kilometer long, when it flies in the sky, it obscures the heavens and covers the sun, piercing through the void. With a slight flap of its wings, two spiritual power storms surge, sweeping yellow sand all over, its pressure like a mountain, making the beasts below tremble in awe, not daring to raise their heads.

The City Lord of Cyan Smoke City, Zhang Yuan, is merely a True Dao Seventh Layer martial artist, fundamentally not a match for the Thousand-eyed Falcon. Just as the numerous martial artists were despairing.

A white-clothed swordsman appeared, with one person and one sword, blocking the Thousand-eyed Falcon outside Cyan Smoke City. It was the same white-clothed swordsman who appeared at the auction that day, whose power was no weaker than the Thousand-eyed Falcon.

Fortunately, Cyan Smoke City was holding an auction, attracting many martial artists, including many True Dao martial artists. Only then could they join forces to hold off the beast tide. During ordinary times, a single wave of attack would be beyond Cyan Smoke City’s capacity to withstand.

Amid the beast tide, Chu Ming constantly moves around the fourth-level demon beasts, annihilating all the surrounding beasts with one sword.

Since Li Huo was defeated by him, Li Huo seemed to leave Cyan Smoke City. Even with the beast tide occurring, Li Huo’s whereabouts are nowhere to be seen.

Chu Ming doesn’t know that after being defeated by him, Li Huo travelled through Cyan Smoke City. Whenever encountering martial artists, they would point fingers at him. With his arrogant nature, he couldn’t tolerate it and naturally left Cyan Smoke City early.

The martial artist’s time always flies by; unknowingly, a month has passed.

During this month, Cyan Smoke City lived through a period filled with fear and despair.

Beast tides occurred frequently, almost once every other day, and each beast tide was quite formidable.

Originally, Cyan Smoke City had nearly ten million martial artists. After a month of beast tides, only about eight hundred thousand remained – a true survival against odds.

However, slaughter leads to growth. Many martial artists overcame themselves in desperate situations, improving their powers, but such people were ultimately a minority.

In one month, Chu Ming killed no fewer than two thousand fourth-level demon beasts. His storage ring contained over forty demon cores, most of them top-tier fourth-level demon cores.

Although the generation of demon cores is random, the stronger the demon beast’s power, the higher the probability of generating a demon core—this is an unchanging truth.

One month of hunting demon beasts, Chu Ming’s cultivation faintly shows signs of breakthrough, even his body refining power has significantly improved.

"It’s time to go back!"

Chu Ming sighed inwardly. Now, with the demon cores and demon beast right ears in his storage ring, Contribution Points estimated to be nearly a million. In a few days, it will be time to challenge Cyan Yang Tower; Chu Ming plans to return and participate in this month’s Cyan Yang Tower challenge.

This time, his goal is the first place. In fact, a month ago, his power was already invincible on the Cyan Yang List. Although there was no real breakthrough this month, the slight power growth, the Cyan Yang List holds no more attraction for him.

Becoming the top of the Cyan Yang List is a necessary step to advance as a core disciple.

There are always ten core disciples. To become a core disciple, one must eliminate one of the weaker ones among them.

Upon reaching the top of the Cyan Yang List, each month, there is an opportunity to challenge the core disciples. Succeeding means advancing to core disciples, failing, remains as inner sect disciples.

After a month of beast tides, the frequency of the beast tide occurrences has slowed, and now is an excellent time to leave.

Riding the Blue Star Horse, Chu Ming galloped towards the Cyan Yang Sect, the scenery on both sides blurred, retreating rapidly.

In one day’s time, Chu Ming arrived at a village where he stayed for a month, at dusk.

"Oh, Qianqian left the village a few days ago, don’t know where she went!"

When Chu Ming inquired about Lu Qianqian’s whereabouts, the man sighed and said. Although he didn’t know why Du Ming knew Lu Qianqian, he understood this was beyond his scope to know.

Chu Ming remained silent, saying nothing.

One night passed, calm and peaceful. The next day, Chu Ming left right away. Before departing, he told the man to move to the city soon, not to stay in the village for long.

With the man left contemplating, Chu Ming left the village, galloping towards the Cyan Yang Sect, passing through Ironfire City. However, to Chu Ming’s astonishment, half of Ironfire City’s walls had collapsed, and countless craftsmen were hurrying to repair.

After casually asking a martial artist, Chu Ming learned that soon after he left, traces of a demonic organization were discovered in Ironfire City. Two Grand Elders from the Cyan Yang Sect joined forces to eliminate the demonic organization but unexpectedly discovered a blood demon.

In the ensuing battle between the three parties, Ironfire City’s walls were destroyed. Although the blood demon was ultimately slain, the Third Elder suffered severe injuries, returning to the Cyan Yang Sect.

After staying for a night in Ironfire City, the next day, Chu Ming continued towards the Cyan Yang Sect. Along the way, he saw no signs of people; the area was barren, blood light filled the sky.

Two days later.

At the foot of the Cyan Yang Sect, Chu Ming returned the Blue Star Horse to the horse farm, then ascended towards the mountain peak.

This time, the sect’s inspection was stricter, evidently due to the demonic organization’s traces in Ironfire City, making Cyan Yang Sect more cautious, fearing infiltration by martial artists from the demonic organization.

Entering the sect, returning to his small courtyard, after being unoccupied for a month, a thin layer of dust had settled. Chu Ming cleaned up and then headed towards the Task Hall.

To exchange demon cores and demon beast right ears for Contribution Points, one needs to find the Task Elder in the Task Hall.

Now Chu Ming is a renowned inner sect prodigy in the Cyan Yang Sect. Whenever an inner sect disciple sees him, they call out "Brother Chu!"

After the Great Yan Kingdom experienced the beast tide, many sect disciples joined in holding off the beast tide. After facing life and death, their youthful faces gradually faded, showing maturity.

Upon entering the Task Hall, it was still crowded and bustling; disciples were exchanging tasks. However, from the faint blood qi emanating from them, it was evident they had experienced considerable slaughter this month.

"You’re back." Task Elder said, after dismissing a disciple who was exchanging tasks, looking up at Chu Ming and asking indifferently.

"Yes, here are the demon cores and demon beast right ears." Chu Ming replied to the Task Elder, saluting, then taking out a snakeskin bag from his storage ring, placing it before the Task Elder.