Prince Xiao’s Mansion was annihilated.
Not a single soul in the entire Prince Xiao’s Mansion was left alive.
Xiao Jing was the last to die.
He watched with his own eyes as the son in whom he had placed such high hopes had his limbs hacked off and his eyes gouged out.
As Xiao Jing watched Jiang Qingyi crush his son’s eyes under her foot, she finished him with a final sword strike that severed his head.
He saw it with his own eyes and heard it with his own ears: Jiang Qingyi on a rampage inside the Xiao Mansion, sparing no one, just as he had once done to the Jiang Mansion.
When only Xiao Jing remained, Jiang Qingyi dragged him out of the Xiao Mansion and held him suspended in the air above the Imperial City. There, in front of all its citizens, she sliced every last piece of flesh from his body, one cut at a time!
After Jiang Qingyi left, all that remained of Xiao Jing was a bloody skeleton.
With her revenge complete, the knot in Jiang Qingyi’s heart that had tormented her for years unraveled. Her thoughts became clear, and she broke through to the Jade Realm.
After obtaining the Sword Bone, Jiang Qingyi advanced from the Golden Core Realm to the Nascent Soul Realm, and then from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Jade Realm, all within a single day.
Whether any would come after her was unknown.
But this was an absolutely unprecedented miracle.
Returning to the Longquan Sword Sect, Jiang Qingyi continued her slaughter.
She had learned from Ye Sandao that the Longquan Sword Sect and Prince Xiao’s Mansion were in collusion, jointly controlling the entire Liang Kingdom.
It was the Sect Leader of the Longquan Sword Sect who had told Xiao Jing that Jiang Qingyi possessed an Innate Sword Bone.
This time, however, Jiang Qingyi did not massacre the entire Longquan Sword Sect.
Jiang Qingyi simply left them with a single sentence: "Those who follow me shall live; those who oppose me shall die."
And indeed, not a single one of the Longquan Sword Sect Cultivators who defied Jiang Qingyi was left alive.
After killing the Longquan Sword Sect’s Sect Leader, she set a great fire.
Finally, Jiang Qingyi sat in the courtyard on Lingqian Peak, watching as the entire Longquan Sword Sect was engulfed in a sea of flames.
When the fire died down, the Longquan Sword Sect was no more.
In the end, only five hundred Cultivators from the Longquan Sword Sect chose to follow Jiang Qingyi.
"From this day forward, this place shall be called the Wanjian Sect."
Jiang Qingyi announced slowly to the five hundred disciples.
’Wanjian Sect...’
Xiao Mo recalled Yan Shanao mentioning that an Elder Huang from the Wanjian Sect would be coming to the Liang Kingdom, and that he was supposed to receive them personally.
But it was just a passing thought for Xiao Mo.
’In my view, the two Sects can’t possibly be the same one. It must just be a coincidence of name.’
With a great power like Jiang Qingyi in the Jade Realm at its head, the Wanjian Sect developed rapidly, soon becoming the number one Sect in the Liang Kingdom.
Jiang Qingyi’s Realm also grew higher and higher.
She was admired by more and more people.
Moreover, in the eyes of the Wanjian Sect disciples, their Sect Leader was not only powerful but also exquisitely beautiful.
Her world-toppling beauty even earned her a place on Tianjin City’s List of Beauties.
Although the List of Beauties had no official ranking,
in the hearts of many, their Sect Leader deserved to be first.
Yet this woman, who could captivate the world, had never once been seen to smile.
Lingqian Peak, once an ordinary mountain in the former Longquan Sect, was now the main peak of the Wanjian Sect.
But on Lingqian Peak, there were only two wooden cabins.
A male Elder who admired Jiang Qingyi, hoping to win her favor, proposed tearing down the cabins to build a grand palace.
As a result, that male Elder was slain by Jiang Qingyi with a single sword strike in front of everyone.
From then on, everyone knew that Lingqian Peak was untouchable; not a single blade of grass or twig could be moved.
Lingqian Peak had to remain exactly as it was before.
One year, five years, ten years passed.
As an observer, Xiao Mo watched Qingyi train day after day, and search day after day for a way to resurrect a Divine Soul.
But time and time again, Jiang Qingyi returned in disappointment.
Besides cultivating and searching for Magic that could resurrect a Divine Soul,
the thing she did most was sit in a daze in the courtyard at the summit of Qianling Peak.
She read through book after book, trying method after method, all to resurrect one person.
One day, she came across the Heaven-Continuing Technique.
Finally, she understood everything.