Although Ye Tianze was severely injured on the mountain, it was a blessing in disguise.
After his body was crushed and repaired several times, it was even tougher than before. Not everyone had such an opportunity.
Although he was only at the peak of the mid-heaven realm, his strength could easily crush a half-step Great Emperor.
Sun Qiqi looked at the one-sided battle in front of her and suddenly thought of Hu Ben's high spirits during the battle.
"As expected, like general, like soldier."
Sun Qiqi thought to herself, "Even these Nine-level Pagoda cultivators can be like Hu Ben under his command."
The battle lasted for half a stone city before it ended.
He killed more than eighty cultivators from the two factions. These eighty people were the cream of the crop at the top of the mountain. They were all lawless people at the bottom of the mountain.
The number of prisoners was even more. He captured more than a hundred cultivators from the Nine-level Pagoda, and suppressed more than two hundred of them.
The strength of these cultivators ranged from one star to eight stars. There were ten nine-star elders, and two of them were grand elders from the Black Lotus and Panwang Hall respectively.
"Gongsun Hong, you dare to detain us? Do you know what you're doing now is going against the Heavenly Academy?!"
The grand elder from Panwang Hall said, "Is the Nine-level Pagoda prepared to offend everyone and become the target of public criticism?"
"Yes."
Ye Tianze calmly replied.
This Supreme Elder was immediately rendered speechless. The other Supreme Elder of the Black Lotus Church originally wanted to agree. However, when he heard this word, he immediately swallowed the words he was about to say.
Seeing that they were silent, Ye Tianze glanced at them and said, "The Nine-level Pagoda welcomes those who are willing to leave Panwang Hall and Black Lotus. If you don't want to, I won't force you."
"Humph, you'd better let us go. Otherwise, you'll be openly making Panwang Hall and Black Lotus your enemy. Your Nine-level Pagoda won't be able to bear it!"
A nine-star elder said.
After he finished speaking, the nine level pagoda cultivators were a bit worried. Although there were some disputes between the three great powers on the mountain, they had never reached the point where they would fight to the death.
However, to openly poach Panwang Hall and the Black Lotus Society, it was to push the Nine-story Tower and the two forces to the point where they would not rest until one of them was dead.
However, that Nine Stars Elder had only just finished speaking when the nine-storied pagoda came crashing down. Accompanied by the Regulations of Power, that Nine Stars Elder was directly crushed into a pulp.
The captive cultivators were dumbfounded. Even the cultivators on the nine-story pagoda felt goosebumps all over their bodies. This was an old monster who had cultivated for over a thousand years, a Nine Stars Elder!
He died just like that!
Ye Tianze scanned the cultivators and said, "I'm not done yet. If you're not willing to join the Nine-floored Pagoda, I won't force you, but don't even think about leaving here alive."
After he finished speaking, all of the cultivators present lowered their heads. Not a single one dared to look him in the eye.
"Are the two of you willing to join the Nine-story Pagoda?"
Ye Tianze said. "Don't worry, I won't force you."
The two Supreme Elders subconsciously shuddered. Wasn't this what it meant to be forced?
"Yes, I'm willing …"
"I … I'm willing too."
The two of them lowered their heads and trembled.
"That's good."
Ye Tianze sent them into the Nine-story Pagoda and subdued them with his God-Intimidating Eyes.
The remaining elders who were unwilling were killed by Ye Tianze right away, while the rest surrendered to the Nine-story Pagoda. The Eight Stars and Nine Stars Elders were subdued by Ye Tianze with his God-Intimidating Eyes.
Ye Tianze was not interested in the remaining elders, nor did he bother subduing them.
He knew that as long as he controlled the highest level of power, the remaining forces would have little chance of resisting.
However, when he was about to subdue one of the Nine Stars Elders from Panwang Hall, something unexpected happened. The Nine Stars Elder's will was beyond his expectations.
"What are you?" Ye Tianze stared at him and asked.
The cultivator was trembling all over. He looked at him gloomily but did not speak.
"Looks like you're from Orchid Valley," Ye Tianze said. "Am I right?"
"You're not Gongsun Hong!" The mysterious cultivator said. "You're the one who refined the Nine-story Pagoda? I'm warning you, you'd better hand over the Nine-story Pagoda, or else … "
Ye Tianze raised his hand and cast a Five-Blow-Thunderstruck. With his current strength, his Elemental Force had turned into Spiritual Force. Coupled with his Thunder Spiritual Force talent, the power of this Five-Blow-Thunderstruck was much stronger than that of Gao Canyun, a cultivator who majored in Thunder Spiritual Force.
"Or else what?" Ye Tianze sneered when he saw the cultivator trembling. "Are you going to eat me up?"
"An ant like you will never understand how powerful Orchid Valley is!" The cultivator was hit, but he did not relent.
Instead, his eyes flashed with even more ferocity.
"Mm!"
Ye Tianze fell silent. "Then tell the power behind you that an ant like me will find them sooner or later!"
Even as the words left his mouth, Ye Tianze slapped him. However, the man's fleshly body was smashed into pieces, then transformed into a clump of black mist, which then began to surge about in all directions within the pagoda.
With a thought, Ye Tianze used a spell formation to imprison the black smoke. Shockingly, he found that there was a complete soul within it.
Ye Tianze suddenly thought of the Nine-story Pagoda's possession mechanism. Once one reached the peak and became the Pagoda Master, they would also become the fruit.
"Looks like Orchid Valley has already sent people up. You're a cultivator from Panwang Hall. That means there are still people from your side in Panwang Hall?"
Ye Tianze thought.
The soul was spouting nonsense, but it couldn't make a sound. Ye Tianze activated the spell formation and crushed the soul into pieces.
However, what he did not expect was that after the soul was shattered, it left behind a black bead the size of a fingernail.
There was a pure dark energy within the bead.
"What is this thing? It actually has such dark energy!"
Ye Tianze was very surprised. He was worried about how to find a dark-type treasure. He cultivated his dark-type spirit blood.
However, he did not immediately use it to cultivate. This thing was very strange. Although it was filled with dark energy, it was hard to guarantee that it was not a trap.
"These guys from Orchid Valley have mysterious origins. They have nothing to do with Xuan Ye. Where did they come from?" Ye Tianze put away the bead.
After controlling all these cultivators, Ye Tianze put away the Nine-story Pagoda.
Sun Qiqi asked, "What are you doing?"
"What else can I do? Naturally, I'm going to take down the Panwang Hall and the Black Lotus together to prevent future troubles!"
Ye Tianze said, "If all the cultivators on this mountain are controlled below the Nine-story Pagoda, wouldn't we have experts?"
Sun Qiqi suddenly understood Ye Tianze's goal. Diva was not surprised at all. In her opinion, these cultivators on the mountain should have been taken in long ago.
They could not be taken in, nor could they be allowed to live.
When the cultivators of the Nine-story Pagoda heard that they were going to pick the Panwang Hall and the Black Lotus, they were all dumbfounded. Their faces were filled with unwillingness.
However, they soon discovered that none of the higher-ups of the Nine-story Pagoda objected.
Even the two Supreme Elders who had just surrendered did not object. They looked as if they were following the Pagoda Master's lead.
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