The fire of hatred penetrated the soil, burning on Li Ye's roots, and also transmitted their memories to Li Ye—

It was a eternally gray grotto heaven world.

All qualified children enjoyed the best resources and treatment from birth, cultivation techniques, pills, magical artifacts... everything was readily available.

And what they had to do was to cultivate.

From body forging to divine techniques, they had to meditate and cultivate at every moment.

As soldiers of the Spirit Refining Sect, they underwent absolutely stringent training from a young age, all for the sake of giving their all—just to defend the sect's prestige.

But they never expected that when they were dispatched to a certain place, it turned out to be a trap set by the Hell Path.

Their true bodies were captured, used as "culture media" for the growth of an exotic fruit, and the existences born from the exotic fruit, possessing similar memories, were utilized by the Hell Path as the best soldiers to rush into various battlefields.

By rights, that should have been the end.

But this was just the beginning. Each cloned exotic fruit doppelganger would transmit their dying or magical duel experiences back to the true body, like forcibly stuffing lessons in raising poisonous insects.

"What is your intention in telling me all this?"

Li Ye remained calm.

He was already summoning his army of spirit pets through the Eight Trigrams Celestial Plate and had notified the outside, though it might lead to the collapse of the Bronze Years Array, given the situation, it was best to first detain the senior brother.

Anyway, that Old Mr. Qiu didn't seem capable of stirring up any waves.

The senior brother smiled slightly, "Born of the earth, return to the earth."

"Junior brother."

"The Earth Emotion Technique is a divine technique passed down by a great power, precisely because we were born from the essence of the earth that we can communicate so smoothly with it."

"But what happens when the earth is polluted?"

He didn't even need to say it.

Li Ye could already feel the heaps of bones and blood soaking into the earth, starting to destroy the Earth Emotion Array he personally established.

The once calm and stable earth began to grow restless and uneasy as blood and bones integrated into the soil, making it more fertile but also breeding some... flowers red as sunset.

Night Face Flower.

He had seen this flower when newly arrived at Dongcang Town, before finding Yang Sha, didn't expect them to appear again, seemingly linked to the earth's change.

He looked at the increasing number of soldiers and the still-smiling senior brother, softly saying:

"So this was your goal."

"Using these soldiers, incarnated from the exotic fruit, to influence my roots with their emotions and memories, consequently affecting the entire Earth Vein Array."

"But how do you know I can't hold on?"

At this moment, Li Ye had some suspicions in his heart—it was quite odd. Logically, such matters affecting the Earth Vein Array should remain buried within, right?

Yet this "senior brother" was openly telling him now, as if deliberately revealing this secret.

Given the astonishingly talented mentors of the Four Seasons Sect, once they knew the principle, they should easily patch this flaw—or did he have such confidence that he'd manage to keep him here?

He demonstrated his determination through actions, the roots of Jianmu painstakingly extending, with spiritual qi surging out, appearing ready to contend with the senior brother to the end of time.

The senior brother looked up at the sky, a trace of frustration on his face.

"Truly irritating."

Suddenly.

From outside the sky curtain supported by Jianmu came a voice: "Let me in!"

Upon hearing the voice, Li Ye did not hesitate to open a crevice in Jianmu, then a dazzling sword light descended from the sky, wrapped in a bronze-colored aura.

Imposing presence.

The figure within was Wei Qingye.

He wielded a bronze longsword, directly charging into the ranks of the Profound Armor Soldiers. With one sweep of the sword, a blinding sword qi pulverized tens of thousands of Profound Armor Soldiers.

The sword cultivator stood with arms crossed, facing the replenishing tide-like army, long hair fluttering in the wind, possessing an imposing martial demeanor as if one man could hold the pass against ten thousand.

Li Ye: "..."

Thank you!!!

The resentment qi from the deaths of tens of thousands of Profound Armor Soldiers entered the earth, severely damaging his roots, as if he was scalded, couldn't help but want to jump up.

"You're welcome."

Without looking back, Wei Qingye tossed a bronze branch to Li Ye, saying, "This is a branch from the three-star divine tree of my sect. With it here, you should be able to accommodate more people."

Originally intending to speak more, Li Ye immediately shut his mouth.

He accepted the branch and absorbed the continuous power of bronze from it, immediately feeling his previously perilous time sky curtain stabilized.

Once stable, Li Ye planned to use the sect jade talisman to rally people, even hoping to summon the master, so that the senior brother couldn't possibly escape.

Anything to say could be discussed behind closed doors!

But he ultimately underestimated the senior brother's capabilities.

The senior brother, sitting steadily in the central command, stood up, looking at the sword cultivator, then at the complexly glittering spatial array in the distance.

He unhurriedly spoke:

"Junior brother."

"I learned all the master's inheritance."

"Guess which chapter of the Nine Songs I learned?"

——In the next breath, Li Ye knew exactly which chapter he learned.

Drums and bells, dancers in plain clothing, and fragrant plants appearing flourishingly nearby, Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum spirit plants blooming within sight, bringing a solemn yet grand musical sound.

"Endlessly and eternally."

In just the briefest moment.

Li Ye felt his spatial array forcibly terminated, along with the Earth Vein Array he maintained using the Emotion Song deteriorating, even the power of Compassion was constrained or forcibly removed.

No.

Not just these powers.

The spiritual qi surrounding him seemed extracted, the spiritual qi that should have been endless from the Earth Vein began depleting.

The branches of Jianmu started to yellow.

Leaves drifted downland yet turned to dust mid-air, vanishing silently in the wind.

The once lively demon spirits lost their luster on their wings, weakly falling onto Jianmu's branches, clutching them, with soft sobs.

The bamboo wood ant constructed walls collapsed, each ant's golden wheat ears began to virtualize, seemingly disappearing completely.

"..."

"The Requiem?"

How could he not recognize the terrifying might of this chapter?

In the Nine Songs, this was the final chapter, the song to bid farewell to the gods after their offerings, the ultimate chapter.

If its power had to be described, it was capable of creating a "ritual site" that expelled all spiritual qi, at its activation, everything was under the senior brother's control.

"This is not right." Even Wei Qingye was cautious now, retreating in front of Li Ye, his spiritual sense throbbing intensely, warning him not to advance recklessly.

Otherwise, death was certain.

"Why are you doing this?" Li Ye's doppelganger began destabilizing, anger brewing in his eyes: "Don't you know what will happen if the Earth Vein Array shatters?"

He knew asking such an embarrassing question, but he was indeed furious, the Earth Vein Array already fractured, without the help of array masters or grandmasters, it couldn't be repaired.

But where could he find array masters or grandmasters now?

The response was the senior brother's casual words: "Try your best, soon... chaos is inevitable."

The damage to the Earth Vein Array had altered celestial phenomena, scorching sunlight and biting snowstorm emerged simultaneously, eerie moonlight flitting uncertainly.

Buildings collapsed with the shaking earth.

The ground painfully cracked open.

Images akin to doomsday started to unfold, the only stable entity was Jianmu, into which Li Ye had transformed.

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