The smoke cleared, leaving the black storm that just roared completely gone without a trace.
The Cold Crow King still flapped its wings, but the dense flock of Cold Crows was no longer visible.
Unable to resist, it looked downwards; beneath it, the Demon Wind Valley had leveled into a plain, scattered with countless Cold Crow corpses.
In just a mont, the ho it took pride in was gone, leaving only itself in the flock.
The ebony bird face of the Cold Crow King showed a human-like lingering fear and disbelief.
To be fair, Gu Hong Taoist could really understand its thoughts, and even couldn’t help but curse inwardly—Is Jiushan Sect this outrageous?
To speak without exaggeration, Jiushan Sect was practically using countless flying swords to physically block the Demon Wind Valley.
Just within less than a quarter of an incense stick’s ti, they nearly exhausted ten thousand flying swords, turning a treacherous land into a plain.
This kind of tactic is too—no, makes even demons envious.
The question Lady Qian Ji wanted to ask just now wasn’t different from his own doubt either—Whether it’s Nine Mountains Departnt Store or Shenxiao Army, Jiushan Sect’s flying swords seed to explode whenever spoken against, as if they cost nothing.
Perhaps to reply to Lady Qian Ji’s doubt, Han Qi lightly chuckled and shook his head, "To us, flying swords are valuable, but the lives of disciples are more valuable."
Gu Hong Taoist and Lady Qian Ji’s faces both showed so confusion.
Han Qi couldn’t explain much either. As the manager of Nine Mountains Departnt Store in Northern Continent, he actually understood the sect’s philosophy well.
Even the aggressive Zhang Taishang wouldn’t be willing to waste the lives of disciples—for Jiushan Sect, disciples, or rather people, are the most precious.
As the Sect Leader says, we can produce hundreds of flying swords in just a year, with the largest consumption being a bit of spiritual material.
But fostering a qualified disciple isn’t so easy.
Within Jiushan Sect, there has now erged a new thought—a person, or cultivator itself, is the highest creation and also Jiushan Sect’s costliest and most rewarding accomplishnt. Even at Jiushan Sect’s educational pace, the cultivation ti for a cultivator is counted in centuries, needless to ntion effort and resources.
Of course, this doesn’t an that training disciples is not worthwhile, quite the opposite, Jiushan Sect’s astonishing manufacturing capability today is thanks to nurous disciples.
Not to ntion the innovative ability of cultivators—contrary to the views of most sects in Xuanwei, Jiushan Sect believes that no matter how powerful, a magical treasure cannot bring fundantal progress.
Therefore, in Jiushan Sect’s value system, whether it be Magic Artifact or resources, neither should be placed above the life of disciples.
Saving a bit of spiritual material and Magic Artifact while risking disciples—it’s unacceptable for Jiushan Sect.
Under the drive of such thoughts, the entire Jiushan Sect’s battle thod gradually ford a style of injuring the enemy with vigor and overwhelming attacks.
Seeing Gu Hong Taoist unable to understand, Han Qi changed his wording, "To us, flying swords aren’t particularly precious..."
Now Gu Hong Taoist understood—Jiushan Sect burns money!
...
Having lost its advantageous terrain, the Cold Crow King seemingly knew it was in trouble, spread its wings, and fled into the distance, intending to escape.
Xie Qingxue seed to have beco cautious again, not pursuing at all.
Part of the Shenxiao Warship fleet flew out, landed on the ground, and began collecting those Cold Crow corpses, preliminarily organizing them before directly transporting them to East Continent.
Watching this scene, Gu Hong Taoist was moved again, recalling the previous demon race individuals killed by Nine Mountains Departnt Store, looked at Han Qi and asked, "Is Jiushan Sect... still profiting?"
Han Qi smiled, not answering, but his silence was the answer.
Gu Hong Taoist muttered, "No wonder your Jiushan Sect is so generous."
About the sect’s economic intricacies, Han Qi naturally couldn’t answer, but Gu Hong Taoist’s guess was about right.
At first glance, Jiushan Sect’s attack on the demon race utilized a lot of resources, but most demon race corpses have their value, the higher the cultivation of the demon race, the more valuable their leftover bodies are, highly sought after by cultivators,
especially with Jiushan Sect’s manufacturing capability, all demon race corpses can be utilized nearly 100%.
If not for this, Jiushan Sect wouldn’t insist on attacking the Peacock Demon Country.
Once the spoils were sent away, Xie Qingxue set sail again, flying towards Peacock Demon Country.
At this point, Gu Hong Taoist truly understood why Xie Qingxue was confident enough to level Peacock Demon Country within three months.
They truly spent money!
This war was completely different from what he imagined or experienced.
...
"Ahead is Purple Clouds Mountain, within there is an Independent Immortal Tiger Demon who is highly skilled in dueling, having killed nurous cultivators of Northern Continent."
As they spoke, a tiger demon rose with the wind, charging at the Shenxiao Fleet.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the sky, a crystal-clear tiger skeleton fell to the ground, with the distant Purple Clouds Mountain now halved.
"In that azure pond, there’s a water-based Dragon Clan variant that rampages unchallenged in water..."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The vast azure pond disappeared from the ground.
"...This is..."
Boom...
Lady Qian Ji fell silent, what more could be said, her speaking speed couldn’t match Jiushan Sect’s rapid strikes.
By now, she and Gu Hong Taoist finally understood — Jiushan Sect intended to use such tactics from the start.
She looked at Han Qi, and after a long silence, finally said, "The outco of this war was decided from the start."
"Jiushan Sect isn’t waging war relying on cultivator duels."
"As long as there’s no gap in cultivation level, no force can contend against such a Jiushan Sect."
Han Qi’s face showed surprise, Lady Qian Ji’s words indeed clarified Jiushan Sect’s fundantal strategic thought.
Simply put, Jiushan Sect doesn’t encourage cultivator duels and isn’t particularly fond of individual bravery either.
Take these demon cultivators for example, they’ve lived for countless years, experienced life and death, their combat will, mastery over spells or Divine Skills, response in battles, has practically beco instinct.
No matter how Jiushan Sect trains its own disciples, in Jiushan Sect’s environnt it’s impossible to surpass such opponents in a short period.
Thus, Jiushan Sect’s war thod is actually an overflow of Jiushan Sect’s industrial ability—using the Heavenly Inference Array Plate to calculate positions, cost-unlimited, overwhelming attacks.
This thod imposes low requirents on cultivator duel quality or cultivation, while demanding extrely high logistics capability, calculation ability, and manufacturing ability, unsuitable for other sects but highly fitting for Jiushan Sect.
...
Jiushan Sect is advancing rapidly.
Within half a month, Jiushan Sect occupied almost eighty percent of the southeastern border strongholds of Peacock Demon Country.
Two months later, the Shenxiao Fleet had penetrated deep into the Peacock Demon Country territory, with more than three Independent Immortal demon races died under their swords, and a True Immortal Demon Clan mber was severely injured by Xie Qingxue and retreated, no longer daring to show face.
The process only grew more dull, even becoming tireso.
Yet Gu Hong Taoist and the others exchanged glances, remaining silent, feeling this battlefield was unspectacular, uninteresting to the bone, chillingly tedious.
This war, devoid of highs and lows, far from thrilling, only indicated one thing—Jiushan Sect is truly formidable, strong enough to encounter no effective resistance along the way.
So powerful that any genius cultivator, any cultivation technique or Divine Skills, any exotic species seed to lose their original brilliance, turning into cold calculations and ruthless slaugter, the so-called duel becoming a thing of the past.
Though Peacock Emperor hadn’t made a move, Jiushan Sect only deployed a Shenxiao Fleet with one Supre Elder!
Han Qi eyed their expressions, not saying much more, only laughing silently within.
Inviting Gu Hong Taoist to observe the battle was originally to showcase power, letting them understand one thing:
The era has changed.
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