"Who on earth is targeting our Fire Python Sect? If I find out, I will tear them to pieces!"

Seeing tens of thousands of Fire Python Sect disciples flee and scatter like frightened birds, on the verge of collapse, Shi Chengjin swore angrily to the heavens.

"Sect Master, could this be related to Luoxia Village? Or rather, to the forces behind Luoxia Village?"

Cui Zhenren suddenly spoke.

Shi Chengjin recalled that many strong and elite disciples of the sect had fallen in Luoxia Village before. The two sides were already enemies like fire and water, forged in a deadly feud. Now, as the Fire Python Sect faced disaster, Luoxia Village might seize the opportunity to take advantage of the situation; it wasn’t impossible.

"Let’s go, go and take a look at Luoxia Village! This village has killed many of our sect’s disciples, truly detestable. Regardless of whether they are responsible for this matter, we cannot tolerate their existence!"

Shi Chengjin gritted his teeth and said hatefully.

His heart was already filled with rage due to the migration of the entire sect and the fleeing of disciples. At this moment, hearing the words "Luoxia Village," old grievances and new hatred surged anew, and he felt extreme loathing toward the villagers of Luoxia Village.

To him, Luoxia Village was like a thorn in his side, unbearable unless removed.

Cui Zhenren had the same intention, immediately agreeing.

Li Lingfeng initially wanted to suggest that the priority should be finding a new location and rebuilding the sect, avoiding unnecessary complications. But seeing the passionate emotions among the disciples of the Fire Python Sect, he feared saying anything discouraging would only displease them, so he refrained.

So under the leadership of Shi Chengjin, over ten thousand disciples of the Fire Python Sect turned their direction and flew towards Luoxia Village.

However, when the mighty team reached Luoxia Village, they found it deserted, not a single person in sight.

Cui Zhenren spread his Divine Sense over the entire Luoxia Village, not missing a single house, hoping to find something, yet the result was greatly disappointing.

"Where... did everyone go?"

Cui Zhenren murmured.

The over ten thousand strong members of the Fire Python Sect came with aggressive momentum, intending to massacre and vent their accumulated grievances, only to find no opponent.

This feeling was akin to throwing a full-force punch only to hit a cotton pile, with nothing to connect to, leaving them extremely displeased.

"Disperse, search everywhere, don’t leave even a trace behind!"

Shi Chengjin said with a grim face.

Thus, over ten thousand Fire Python Sect disciples scattered, meticulously searching the surroundings.

They searched a radius of a thousand miles, finding some items that might have been left behind by villagers from Luoxia Village and discovered traces of several hundred villagers migrating.

Upon hearing this, Shi Chengjin ordered several disciples to release flames, burning Luoxia Village to the ground. Leading tens of thousands of disciples, they tracked those traces, only to find themselves drawing closer to Fire Python Mountain.

"Strange..."

Upon entering the thousand-mile range of Fire Python Mountain, Shi Chengjin was the first to sense that the temperature there had unknowingly returned to normal, no longer scorching. The Spiritual Energy permeating the world also returned to its previous richness.

Shi Chengjin, full of doubt, led the high-ranking members of the Fire Python Sect flying towards the direction of the Magma Lake, only to find that the Magma Lake caused by the descending Spiritual Fire had disappeared.

"This..."

Shi Chengjin and the high-ranking members of the Fire Python Sect were speechless.

They couldn’t comprehend, in less than ten days, how the Magma Lake could just disappear. Could it be that the Spiritual Fire that caused the Magma Lake could move on its own, shifting to another place?

In any case, the disappearance of the Magma Lake was a good thing for Shi Chengjin and other powerful members of the Fire Python Sect as at least they didn’t have to keep searching for a new location to rebuild the sect.

The previous descent of the Spiritual Fire and the appearance of the Magma Lake caused all the Spiritual Medicine planted within a thousand-mile radius by the Fire Python Sect to wither and die. But for a sect as deeply founded as the Fire Python Sect, the loss wasn’t considered significant.

"It will only take a hundred years, and everything here can be restored to its original state."

Standing at the edge where the Magma Lake had vanished, Shi Chengjin excitedly waved an arm, saying as for him, not having to relocate was a great fortune.

"Sect Master, something’s not right! There seems to be someone in the direction of the Sect Master Hall."

Li Lingfeng said suddenly with a strange expression.

Shi Chengjin’s smile froze, his Divine Sense diffusing outwards towards the Sect Master Hall a hundred miles away. Sure enough, they discovered numerous people up and down the mountain, numbering in the hundreds. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Judging by their attire, they appeared to be a group of rural villagers, with generally weak strength.

And within the Sect Master Hall where Shi Chengjin once resided, there were even a dozen children playing, one naughty boy climbing up onto the majestic stone chair in the hall and urinating on it.

"Damn it!"

Seeing this scene, Shi Chengjin’s nose almost twisted in anger. He shouted loudly, stomping hard on the ground, propelling his body dozens of meters high, landing on the summoned Spiritual Artifact, transforming into a stream of light, rapidly flying towards the Fire Python Peak where the Sect Master Hall was located.

Being a Sect Master, having the Sect Master Hall occupied and desecrated by outsiders was absolutely intolerable for Shi Chengjin.

He prepared to crush the hundreds of rural villagers into dust, shattering them to alleviate his anger.

"It’s those rogues from Luoxia Village! They are seeking their own destruction..."

Cui Zhenren also saw the hundreds of figures on Fire Python Peak, recognizing them as villagers from Luoxia Village. He cursed, retracting his Divine Sense, ascending on his Spiritual Artifact.

The powerful members of the Fire Python Sect never expected that a small Luoxia Village’s villagers would dare to come to the sect’s territory, and with a posture of ’occupying the mountain as kings,’ they found it ridiculously amusing.

Some insightful Fire Python Sect disciples connected the events of the past days, feeling that this matter was extraordinary, as if someone was driving it from behind.

"All disciples listen to the order! Surround Fire Python Peak, don’t let a single person escape!"

Li Lingfeng did not hurry to storm Fire Python Peak but instead issued orders to the tens of thousands of disciples of the Fire Python Sect around.

Li Lingfeng was also furious about the ’cuckoo takeover’ by the hundreds of villagers from Luoxia Village. He knew that if even one of the Luoxia Village villagers escaped today, it would be an enormous disgrace to the Fire Python Sect.

Fang Bai had already known about the arrival of Shi Chengjin and the other powerful members of the Fire Python Sect, immediately activating the Defense Array set up in recent days, enveloping the entire mountain.

That day, after Fang Bai created the Magma Lake, he watched tens of thousands of Fire Python Sect disciples leave and, with Dragon Maiden and Zhuge Lian, ambushed and killed some elite disciples of the Fire Python Sect on the way.

After the Fire Python Sect went far, Fang Bai let Dragon Maiden and Zhuge Lian return to Luoxia Village to mobilize the villagers to migrate to the Fire Python Sect, while he himself arrived at the Fire Python Sect first to retrieve the Red Silkworm and Nether two clusters of Spiritual Fire, restoring the environmental conditions around the Fire Python Sect to their original state.

Hundreds of villagers from Luoxia Village, coming from a tiny village to the territory of a top-notch sect, were extremely excited, immersed in joy and excitement for several consecutive days.