Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

He habitually fortified his Stealth Breath Technique.

After eliminating four fellow sect disciples that day, he kept an even lower profile.

When it came to cleansing missions, he muddled through whenever possible, avoiding competition and sticking to the role of an unnoticed passerby.

In the end, relying on the heads he had taken, Wang Chen had already achieved his basic performance target.

Today marked the fifteenth day of the Cloud Sun Sect’s Cleansing Realm Operation.

Over the past half a month, the flying warship he was on had traveled thousands of miles, investigating nine Loose Cultivator strongholds one after another.

And among the Sunset Peak disciples in the same room as Wang Chen, nearly one-fifth were gone!

It was common for Loose Cultivator fortresses to collude with thieves and Evil Cultivators.

Some fortresses were outright bandit dens, with inhabitants living as Loose Cultivators tending to their fields and hunting, only to go out and become Thief Cultivators every now and then.

Many were secret worshippers of the Evil God or Cultivators afflicted by Evil Wraiths.

The targets of the cleansing were rarely easy to deal with.

At life-and-death moments, they would often unleash terrible power.

Quite a few Sunset Peak disciples met their end at the hands of these Loose Cultivators, suffering both physical death and soul annihilation.

And the three Purples Mansion Superiors leading the team, overseeing the disciples from their seats on the warship, were reluctant to take action!

In such circumstances, casualties were all too normal.

Some faces Wang Chen had seen before, but not remembered distinctly, had already vanished.

The atmosphere in the cabin was incredibly tense.

Although everyone still formed groups and stayed together, all had lost the interest in speaking.

Some looked solemn, while others were numb.

There were also disciples with fierce eyes, emanating an aura of Blood Fiend Energy!

Everyone waited in silence.

For the next destination.

Suddenly, the image displayed on the cabin wall captured everyone’s attention.

One flying warship after another appeared in the vicinity, the sight of them Wind Riding the clouds was astonishing!

Everyone was surprised and at the same time excited.

The Cloud Sun Sect controlled a territory spanning tens of thousands of miles beyond its gates, an expansive area with countless Loose Cultivator strongholds.

Although the sect had mobilized almost all of its flying warships for this Cleansing Realm Operation,

to investigate so many places was still an incredibly time-consuming and arduous task.

Previously, the flying warship Wang Chen was on had always operated alone.

Yet today, a fleet had unexpectedly assembled.

This was going to be a major operation!

The fleet of five flying warships sailed through the clouds, and only after half a two-hour-period did they gradually lower their altitude and slow their speed.

They finally hovered over a region shrouded in dense mist.

After another half an incense stick had burned, a faint golden light arose from the surface of each warship, brightening especially at the bow.

The atmosphere in the cabin suddenly turned tense, with everyone feeling the imminent approach of a great battle.

The next moment, all five flying warships adjusted their positions.

The sterns tilted high, pointing like unsheathed swords towards the ground as thick beams of light, like python-sized pillars, shot out from the bows, instantly piercing through the mist below.

The target of the five beams striking was incredibly the same spot!

Boom!

The ground shook violently, with rumbles resounding in everyone’s ears.

A soul-stirring blast!

An invisible storm, centered where the beams had struck, swept outwards in all directions.

In the blink of an eye, the thick mist was cleansed away!

A giant Ruined City was exposed for what it truly was.

In the center of the ruined city appeared a square hole, ten zhang in length and width, the depth of which could not be seen. All around it were dense cracks, and a large area had been leveled to the ground.

This was clearly the result of the simultaneous firing of five flying warships!

Wang Chen felt that even the Golden Core True Persons would probably be unable to withstand such a catastrophic blow.

The flying warship truly lived up to its reputation as a sect’s tool for conquest!

The question was, what on earth did the Superiors controlling these warships have in mind?

They couldn’t possibly have nothing better to do than come here and fire away just for the sake of it, could they?

The Sunset Peak disciples in the same cabin were all staring in shock.

It’s worth mentioning that although the flying warship was currently in an upright position in the air, with its head down and tail up, the people inside the cabin did not fall downwards; everyone’s rear ends were firmly glued to the floor.

And the bird’s-eye view from high above was incredibly thrilling!

Shortly thereafter, the bows of the five flying warships began to glow again, clearly charging up for another volley.

Bang!

In the center of the ruined city, where the flying warships had just bombarded, the ground suddenly swelled upward and a fiendish giant burst forth, swinging its huge arms and roaring angrily at the sky.

“You, you broke your promise!”

This giant stood close to seven zhang tall, and its body was still expanding; its dark brown skin resembled old tree bark, and upon closer inspection, was covered in twisted human faces.

It had only one intact right arm, the left arm along with part of the shoulder was missing, and from the wound, black fog swirled as a copious amount of dark yellow, foul-smelling sludge poured out.

“Honor?”

An old voice descended from the sky, filled with indescribable sarcasm, “Do we need to keep our promises to evil wraiths?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the five flying warships once again shot out beams of light containing destructive power.

They attacked different parts of the ground giant!

“Ahh~”

The giant opened its mouth and spat out a ball of dark light that shot straight towards the Cloud Sun Flying Warship above.

At the same time, its body suddenly retreated backward.

Attempting to dodge the assault from the sky.

However, its massive size severely hampered the giant’s speed, and three beams struck its chest, right shoulder, and left leg, instantly creating three terrible holes.

Both the right arm and left leg were severed!

And the ball of dark light the giant spat out also hit the dodging warship, creating a violent explosion.

This flying warship was blasted tens of zhang away, its surface scorched extensively, but did not sustain structural damage.

But the ground giant was in a dire state.

It was left with, at most, half of its body, and it had also lost its most important limbs, the arms.

The dreadful evil wraith howled miserably, fell to the ground and curled into a ball, rolling thunderously forward as it fled.

It rolled up waves of black fog, its speed comparable to an arrow leaving a bowstring!

“Thinking of running away?”

The old voice came again: “Fellow Daoists, follow me and slay the evil!”

The three flying warships in the sky immediately changed direction to pursue the retreating giant.

The other two flying warships did not follow and instead opened their hatches.

One of these was the flying warship Wang Chen was in.

He and the other cultivators in the cabin had just received orders from the Elders above — to thoroughly sweep the evil nest below.

For capturing Yin Qi Pearls, or other Yin Sha materials, the reward would be double the Merit Points!

One after another, the Sunset Peak disciples leaped out of the flying warship, descending towards the ground.

This mission was much simpler than checking on evil cultivators and thieves.

With the lord of the evil nest already driven off, the remaining evil wraiths were naturally easy to deal with.

If one wanted to obtain merits, now was undoubtedly the best opportunity.

Therefore, each one of them eagerly threw caution to the wind!

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The first update is here.