Over three thousand cultivators who were surrounding and attacking the Dead Star Region in the name of settling scores with the Lord of the Dead Stars.
In the end, they were settled by the Lord of the Dead Stars, who killed Du Jiang.
This should also be considered settling scores, right?
After the cultivators from the Seven Great Sects returned, they refused to talk about this incident, and even forbade disciples of the sects from privately discussing it. It was obvious they were avoiding this issue.
But if you don't talk about it, there will always be people who want to talk.
For example, the Li family started aggressively spreading propaganda, just short of directly asking when the Seven Great Sects would start holding memorial services.
Li Yang from the White Sun Galaxy Sect was sheltering the Li family, so they did not fear the Seven Great Sects.
Although Li Yang said he had severed ties with the Li family, a deeply ingrained lifetime relationship cannot be severed that easily.
If he really wanted to sever ties, he would not have come to help Li Yue and stood up for the Li family this time.
The two sides have accumulated grievances.
But the focus this time was not the grievances between the Li family and the Seven Great Sects.
Rather, it was the Lord of the Dead Stars who killed Du Jiang right in front of three thousand cultivators.
A cultivator who was present at the encirclement described it in one sentence:
"Raising his hand to darken the sky was like a god."
When the Lord of the Dead Stars appeared and darkened the sky with a raise of his hand, he felt as tiny as an ant without the slightest thought of resisting.
Luckily the Lord of the Dead Stars only killed the yelling Du Jiang.
It was considered settling clearly distinguished grievances.
The others of course did not dare linger and successively fled.
This is the perspective of ordinary cultivators, who only felt the Lord of the Dead Stars was as unattainably high as a god.
Cultivators of higher standings see even further.
For example, Li Yang previously asked that old Heavenly Completion Stage sword cultivator if he saw through the background of the Lord of the Dead Stars.
The old Heavenly Completion Stage sword cultivator shook his head, first keeping silent for a while, then honestly said:
"I can't see his cultivation level, but his combat strength is higher than mine."
This was high praise.
After all, when this old sword cultivator was at the White Sun Galaxy Sect, he never admitted anyone had higher combat strength than him.
Sword cultivators generally like to pretend to be tough. Even if your combat strength is a bit higher than his, a sword cultivator still won't admit it.
Unless your combat strength is much higher than the sword cultivator's.
Looking at it this way, the combat strength of this Lord of the Dead Stars should be much higher than the old Heavenly Completion Stage sword cultivator's.
But now there were also doubts.
Li Yue said the Lord of the Dead Stars was once an elder of the Blue Sky Sword Sea and had ties with the Li family.
But such a great cultivator having ties with the Li family, Li Yang would be impossible not to know, let alone he was an elder of the Blue Sky Sword Sea.
With combat strength surpassing even the Heavenly Completion Stage old sword cultivator and having been an Blue Sky Sword Sea elder, that would have been at the level of the supreme elders of the Blue Sky Sword Sea.
But she had never heard of a cultivator meeting those criteria.
There were indeed quite a few doubts.
Unable to figure it out, Li Yang could only drop the issue for now and wait until she personally reached Heavenly Completion Stage to go inquire inside the Dead Star Region.
The current issue was Li Yue and the entire Li family.
The statement that Li Yue would be hunted down by the Seven Great Sects was quite meaningful.
The Seven Great Sects generally would not do something like this, hunting down young geniuses from other factions, as that would represent irreconcilable vendetta against that faction.
The Seven Great Sects were currently in a period of stable ascent and had no need to make enemies everywhere.
Of course, it was not ruled out that someone had lost their mind and insisted on hunting her.
More likely, Li Yang felt someone was plotting behind the scenes, letting matters escalate from small to big until conflict erupted between the two families.
This was indeed a very commonly used scheme.
Li Yang rubbed her nose, slightly helplessly. She only wanted to cultivate and set foot on the emperor's path. She did not want to tangle with these sinister plots and convoluted schemes that were annoying enough to drive one mad.
Thinking of this, Li Yang couldn't help but recall someone.
Chen Xia.
In her impression, Chen Xia never cared about these convoluted things. Anyone who did not submit, he would beat into submission.
He could be considered to have beaten half the Blue Sky Sword Sea into submission. And the other half, their cultivation was not high enough. Later there was the great purge, so he did not get the chance to beat them.
If Chen Xia had not perished along with the Blue Sky Sword Sea, he would probably still be the leader of the young generation now, right?
The corners of Li Yang's mouth lifted in a helpless smile. Indeed, if you did not submit, there was no choice. Among the Fourteen Children of the Blue Sky, Chen Xia was the fiercest in crossing realms to fight.
Battling across five or six realms was common for him. The key was not only could he fight, he could also win.
This made him even more terrifying.
Among the Fourteen Children of the Blue Sky, no one besides Chen Xia could be so terrifying.
So much so that the Fourteen Children of the Blue Sky were very convinced by Chen Xia.
No need to elaborate on who was most convinced. Naturally it was Emperor Capital and Qiu Li, who were personally beaten up by Chen Xia. They now held the position of supreme elder, at the ninth layer of the Heavenly Sea Stage. They would probably be able to reach Heavenly Completion after another millenia.
Li Yang had chatted with them recently and they inevitably talked about the Blue Sky Sword Sea and unanimously brought up Chen Xia.
"It's a pity he's dead," Emperor Capital almost burst out laughing sadly when he said this, unable to keep up appearances.
"Fortunately he's dead," Qiu Li sighed.
As fellow members of the Fourteen Children of the Blue Sky, Chen Xia had always seemed so out of place among them.
To be reasonable, they were all children of the great emperor, there was no need for him to stand out so much. When they were still outer disciples, Chen Xia had already taken the position of Fourth Law Enforcement Elder.
Who could get along with someone like that?
Was he on stimulants?
If Chen Xia had not died, the reputation of the Fourteen Children of the Blue Sky perhaps really could not compare to his. Those from the same generation as him like Emperor Capital and Qiu Li could only have been background characters.
What would their introductory words be when going out?
Something lame like I was beaten up by Chen Xia?
So fortunately Chen Xia died.
Li Yang felt regretful instead. As the last of the Fourteen Children of the Blue Sky, she was not from Chen Xia's generation, so was not embarrassed.
Aside from Emperor Capital and Qiu Li, Li Yang had also been in contact with other members of the Fourteen Children of the Blue Sky. Some who ranked higher had already reached Heavenly Completion Stage and become sect masters.
Two had become loose cultivators, wandering the star regions.
It was only their identity as members of the Fourteen Children of the Blue Sky that still tied them together.
Aside from the Fourteen Children of the Blue Sky, many talents had also risen in the star regions.
The new chieftain Jia Feng of the Great Desolate Barbarian God Tribe had cultivation at the seventh layer of the Heavenly Sea Stage. His innate divine ability extremely excelled at killing. He had made quite a name for himself over the past century.
The new chieftain Chi Yu of the Three Thousand Flame Feather Crows Tribe had the status of a supreme being. Now he was only one step away from matching the children of the great emperor.
He was from the same generation of Blue Sky Sword Sea disciples as Emperor Capital and Qiu Li, and was even on good terms with Chen Xia. Now he was swiftly rising to prominence in the star regions, bringing great fame to the marginal Three Thousand Flame Feather Crows Tribe that he led.
The current star regions could be said to be filled with heroes that had risen together, outstanding talents that had emerged, all competing for their own positions.
And after several tens of thousands of years, this kind of competitive strife should cease.
Because by that time, the next Blue Sky Sword Sea would appear, becoming the new hegemon between the star regions.
The former Blue Sky Sword Sea had now become a forbidden land. Cultivators who entered seeking opportunities never came out again.
From Grand Vehicle Stage to Heavenly Completion Stage, literally not a single one came out again. The soul flames of those who remained in the sect directly perished, without even a chance for their souls to return.
The ruins of the Blue Sky Sword Sea were directly labeled an absolute forbidden zone.
You could enter, but if you entered, you were guaranteed to die.
At least Heavenly Completion Stage cultivators would be unable to avoid this.
And another forbidden zone was the largest Dead Star Region to the right of the Blue Sky Sword Sea.
The reason the Dead Star Region was set as a forbidden zone was mainly because there were too many ghosts inside, making it unsuitable for the living to approach.
Though no cultivators had actually died inside the Dead Star Region. Most cultivators who wandered in accidentally always managed to safely leave after several decades, though with somewhat bewildered expressions. They generally emerged unharmed.
The only cultivator to die because of the Dead Star Region
was Du Jiang a couple days ago.