When a person breaks through to the Xiantian realm, the spiritual energy baptism that follows cannot be stopped or concealed.
Any martial artist with a bit of understanding would immediately know that someone had broken through to Xiantian.
No matter how hard True Person Feihe tried to suppress the news, they could only control information, not completely hide the fact that dozens of spiritual energy baptisms had occurred in their sect during this period. Moreover, with so many people witnessing these phenomena, it was impossible to guarantee that no one would leak the information.
Thus, after less than half a month.
The relevant news had already been spread by outsiders.
Both the Demonic Sect, other nearby sects, and even the three top sects and the imperial court received related news. Fortunately, they didn't take it seriously because the news seemed too outlandish.
If the Jade Flower Sect had shown signs of one or two spiritual energy baptisms, they might have believed it, thinking the sect had gained a couple more Xiantian Grandmasters.
But seventy-odd signs of spiritual energy baptisms?
Was this a joke?
Were Xiantian Grandmasters handed out like cheap goods, bought in bulk?
Therefore, most of them reprimanded the messengers and dismissed the matter. Furthermore, the Jade Flower Sect did not wish to be too conspicuous at this time, nor engage directly with the Demonic Cult, nor be perceived as a threat by the imperial court and the three top sects.
They had been continuously restraining the elders who had recently broken through, keeping them within the sect to consolidate their realms.
They were told not to wander around and attract attention.
From True Person Feihe's perspective, this low-profile situation was best maintained until they had consumed all the remaining more than a hundred Xiantian Golden Pills within the sect.
Only then could the sect's safety be thoroughly secured.
However, this was merely the sect's plan. Ding Yun, on the other hand, was already impatient to find a secluded place to consume the fully developed Jade Flower Sacred Art skill fruits and nine new internal energy fruits that had been cultivated.
And to avenge her son.
Regarding this, Sect Leader Feihe was reluctant to let Ding Yun seek revenge alone. This was because although the sect's other three alchemists could refine Xiantian Pills, the quality of the pills they produced could not be compared to those Ding Yun made.
Given a better option.
He naturally preferred to continue using the Xiantian Golden Pills refined by Ding Yun, and only reluctantly resort to using pills from other alchemists after Ding Yun's passing.
However, due to Ding Yun's firm resolve to seek revenge.
And her insistence on avenging him herself.
Coupled with her discovery that the Demonic Cult elder who had previously killed Lu Dongtian had recently been injured and was recuperating at a Demonic Cult branch not far from their Jade Flower Sect, with no other Demonic Cult elders assisting him, only one Xiantian was present there.
Given Ding Yun's perfect Xiantian realm.
The probability of successfully killing him was quite high.
However, to be absolutely safe, Elder Feihe sparred with Ding Yun until he was satisfied with her combat ability before reluctantly agreeing to let her seek revenge alone. Still, before Ding Yun left, he couldn't help but give her some hidden weapons, poisons, and a protective armor.
He urged her to wear them and be well-equipped.
If she was outmatched, her life was paramount.
At worst, they could send more people to surround and attack later.
After gaining permission, Ding Yun entrusted True Person Feihe with the care of her daughter-in-law and granddaughter before hastily departing the Jade Flower Sect. She traveled directly into the deep mountains and forests until she entered a dense forest area, ensuring that no one was within dozens of miles, before she felt at ease to take out the fully developed Jade Flower Sacred Art skill fruits and the other nine fully developed Jade Flower Sacred Art internal energy fruits.
As Ding Yun consumed all ten golden fruits.
The secrets of the Jade Flower Sacred Art's further breakthroughs to Grandmaster and Heavenly Human realms were rapidly mastered by her.
The most remarkable thing was that the internal energy fruits grown from the complete Jade Flower Sacred Art not only increased twenty years of pure internal energy per fruit, but the purity of the increased internal energy far surpassed that of Xiantian internal energy, reaching the level of Heavenly Human. Coupled with Ding Yun's sufficiently strong spiritual power and high realm, there were no bottlenecks to worry about. Therefore, as she digested the nine internal energy fruits and gained one hundred and eighty years of pure internal energy,
She smoothly bypassed the Grandmaster realm and directly reached the Heavenly Human realm, and not just an ordinary Heavenly Human realm, but the perfect Heavenly Human realm, only a hair's breadth away from the legendary Land Immortal realm.
Currently, there were no reports of Land Immortals in any sect, and even Heavenly Human realm cultivators were unheard of in any sect. It was only suspected that the top sects might still have some ancient Heavenly Human realm cultivators who had not died and were hidden as their foundation.
Currently, the strongest publicly known cultivators were Grandmasters.
Each of the three top sects had one, the Demonic Cult had two, and the imperial court was said to have two, one visible and one hidden.
No one knew who the hidden one was.
Therefore, Ding Yun was very safe now. Let alone eliminating a Demonic Cult elder, even annihilating the Demonic Cult would not be a problem. Thus, in the next moment, she immediately flew away from where she had just broken through, without a moment's delay, heading directly towards the location of the Demonic Cult branch.
Upon arrival, Ding Yun did not need to deliberately capture anyone for interrogation. She could clearly sense that within the Demonic Cult branch, which was disguised as the largest escort agency in the area, there was only one stronger individual. He was not a Demonic Cult elder, so who else could he be?
Having found her target, Ding Yun immediately gathered all her internal energy without hesitation, transforming it into surging sword qi. With her finger as a sword, she unleashed thousands of sword lights. In less than a moment, the sword lights turned the person she sensed, and the room he was in, into dust, leaving only thousands of sword marks emanating a terrifying aura.
As for the remaining junior members of the Demonic Cult.
Ding Yun did not eliminate them all. She casually unleashed dozens of sword strikes, killing those she recognized and knew for certain to be evildoers, and then turned and flew away as if riding the wind.
She returned to the Jade Flower Sect.
She had not yet decided on a method to increase her influence and imprint herself into the world's origin, so she was not in a hurry to gain fame.
After all, Heavenly Human realm cultivators lived for three hundred years.
She was only in her early fifties.
Calculated based on the average human lifespan of one hundred years, she was equivalent to a sixteen or seventeen-year-old ordinary person.
She was still very young, no need to rush.
However, while Ding Yun left after completing her task, the impact she created spread rapidly throughout the land within a few days, or rather, the martial arts world was shaken.
Because her undisguised aura and the residual sword qi left at the scene were enough to prove that the perpetrator was a Heavenly Human realm expert, and one who was young and strong, far from reaching the limit of their lifespan.
This undoubtedly caused anxiety and a sense of threat among the three top sects and the imperial court, who knew they did not have young Heavenly Human experts and that their few existing Heavenly Human experts were in decline and barely surviving.
Because of this matter, the three top sects, in a rare move, reconnected privately and decided to hold a meeting. The imperial court also sent representatives to participate.
Of course, all this was done in secret.
And due to the distance between them, it took another half a month after their decision.
Before they could finally gather and formally meet.