Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 391 - 391 0286 Even The Fake Mountain was Knocked

Chapter 391: Chapter 0286: Even The Fake Mountain was Knocked Down_2 Chapter 391: Chapter 0286: Even The Fake Mountain was Knocked Down_2 The Chi Di royal family, against their typical behavior, organized this operation. Naturally, they did it because they managed to cling to a powerful ally and there was a significant practical benefit involved.

When Qi Tian broke the banishing array that held back the barefoot male cultivator and others, the barefoot male cultivator emerged from the earth along with numerous zombie demonic beasts, returning to the human world. They all faced the same problem: how to restore their cultivation. The barefoot male cultivator was not just trying to restore his cultivation, but also thinking about how he could advance further.

While these zombie demonic beasts could restore themselves by sucking blood, they still had to select whose blood to draw from. If it was a mundane person, even if they drained all the blood from an entire city of ordinary people, the power they could restore would be insignificant. Only the fresh blood of cultivators, especially powerful ones, could allow them to quickly return to their peak.

Upon leaving the earth, they split up and hunted down cultivators, each reaping their own harvest and regaining some strength. But they were still a long way off from regaining their peak strength.

The situation for the barefoot male cultivator was even more complicated. He could not restore his cultivation by simply sucking the blood of a cultivator, he required more, and more complex, resources for cultivation.

After leaving the earth, the White Zombie Tiger died at the hands of Qi Tian. Despite his hunting being unsuccessful, the barefoot male cultivator had significant gains. Several cultivators became his captives. From their mouths, the barefoot male cultivator learned about the Six Demons of Soul-Stealing Sect setting up the Wanhun Condensed Pill Array. The barefoot male cultivator immediately realized that the Six Demons of Soul-Stealing Sect held something he needed.

The barefoot male cultivator first tried to find out the whereabouts of the Six Demons of Soul-Stealing Sect on his own, but the effect was negligible. Therefore, the barefoot male cultivator decided to seek cooperation from a powerful force, and he set his sights on the Chi Di royal family.

The barefoot male cultivator chose the most direct approach, breaking into the Chi Di Imperial Palace with force, injuring many Chi Di royal family recruits and their self-cultivated experts. The current Chi Di Emperor, who was also Prince Kang Ke’s father and a Gold Core cultivator, personally attacked alongside another Gold Core Ancestor from the royal family. Still, they could not defeat the barefoot male cultivator. The Chi Di Emperor was severely injured, and the Gold Core Ancestor fell directly, his flesh and blood forcefully plundered by the barefoot male cultivator.

The Chi Di Emperor, after grasping the strength of the barefoot male cultivator, knelt down unhesitatingly and surrendered to the barefoot male cultivator.

The barefoot male cultivator thus took control of the Chi Di royal family and the Chi Di Emperor. Afterwards, the Chi Di Emperor summoned the Crown Prince, ordering Kang Ke to cooperate with the barefoot male cultivator’s actions as much as possible.

The barefoot male cultivator promised Prince Kang Ke that once they found the Six Demons of Soul-Stealing Sect, he could assist the prince to advance to the Gold Core Stage.

Kang Ke was well aware of the difficulty in advancing from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Gold Core Stage. The barefoot male cultivator claimed he could help him progress to the Golden Core, so Kang Ke naturally had more faith in the barefoot male cultivator and took his orders more seriously. Kang Ke did not care at all about whether obeying the barefoot male cultivator’s orders would cause any harm to the cultivation world of Chi Di. With the barefoot male cultivator around, even if all the cultivators in Chi Di died out, it would not matter at all.

Qi Tian did not know the story behind all of this, but it did not affect his heightened alertness towards the barefoot male cultivator and his group. The only thing he was relieved about was that the barefoot male cultivator and the Crown Prince were not moving with his group. Otherwise, he would not have had a chance to escape.

The area of the Chi Di Capital was quite large, with just the West City covering more than 30 square kilometers. They were heading to an inconspicuous courtyard situated at the very end of a small alley. Anyone wanting to enter normally had to go through this small alley. Whatever was going on in the alley, the people in the courtyard could easily have a clear look.

The royal family’s devotee who was acting with Qi Tian this time was a Half-step Golden Core. Together with the zombie demonic beast that resembled a wolf, they suppressed Qi Tian’s group so no one dared to speak carelessly. This royal family’s devotee was not a fool who only knew how to cultivate. When organizing manpower to surround and capture that small courtyard, he did it very methodically, dictating who would be in the front, who would be in the back, who was the main attacker, who was responsible for support, and other such things.

To everyone’s dissatisfaction, the strongest forces of their team, the royal family devotee and the so-called spirit beast, did not choose to charge forward but were placed in a supporting position. As soon as someone brought up a doubt, the royal family devotee shut it down with a murderous look.

Qi Tian was unlucky enough to be assigned to the main attacking group. He was one of the first to charge ahead and reach the courtyard. If he encountered anyone from Soul Snatching Sect’s Six Demons, he could not hold back; he needed to deliver his most powerful attack and seriously damage the Six Demons.

This task was extremely dangerous, and Qi Tian had no chance to protest. He had to accept it. Over a dozen other cultivators also took up the same task. Most of them were in the Foundation Establishment Stage while a few were still in the Qi Cultivation Period. A group of such people with no prior combined training storming in together to ambush the powerful Six Demons of the Soul Snatching Sect had an almost certain chance of total annihilation.

Qi Tian’s eyes flickered; he realized his opportunity had come. When the royal family devotee issued the attack command and the others were still hesitating, Qi Tian was the first to charge.

The Heavenly Dao Engine had already sensed that there were indeed people in the courtyard, including a powerful Half-step Golden Core. Qian Tian, due to his solid foundation, had the strength of a Foundation Establishment Stage Seven even though he only had a cultivation level of a Foundation Establishment Seven. He was not intimidated even in the face of a Half-step Golden Core.

However, Qi Tian’s proactive charge was not done to gain merit but to escape. Pretending to be a third-level cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Stage, the gap with a Half-step Golden Core was a gulf that could not be bridged.

His reckless charge immediately alerted the Half-step Golden Core. The Half-step Golden Core, extremely vigilant, immediately emerged from the building, intent on escaping. But at that moment, Qi Tian was already charging towards him, slapping a palm towards the Half-step Golden Core.

It was impossible for the Half-step Golden Core to let Qi Tian catch him off guard, so he exerted 70% of his strength and returned a palm to Qi Tian.

The two palms collided, creating a dull ‘boom’ sound. Qi Tian immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, his body flying backward like a kite with a broken line, crashing into a courtyard nearby. He even collapsed a rockery. At once, Qi Tian lay unmoving on the ground, seemingly heavily injured, unconscious, or possibly even dead.

Upon seeing Qi Tian’s aggressive charge, the other cultivators assigned to the assault all cursed inwardly at their bad luck, but they had no choice but to brace themselves and rush forward, howling.

The royal family devotee did not expect the approach to be so smooth; the target was forced out as soon as the operation started. He gestured, directing all the cultivators to press forward, aiming to trap and capture the Half-step Golden Core.