Chapter 1100 - 1200: The Price of Victory

Master Taichu looked in front of him. The spiraling red aura rising skyward was slowly about to transform into the shape of the external creature from earlier.

This means that after a bit more time, the external creature will be able to completely resurrect right where it stands.

However, suddenly Master Taichu realized something: it seemed like the resurrection time of this external creature was somewhat too long.

Perhaps the Xiaoyao Sword had indeed inflicted some harm on this external creature.

If the Xiaoyao Sword hadn't harmed this external creature, then its resurrection wouldn't have taken so long. From the appearance of the spiraling red aura to the current moment, as its body approached reformation, several minutes had passed. In previous major events within the world of cultivators, the monsters researched from external creature corpses resurrected instantly, taking mere seconds.

Thus, it suggests that the Xiaoyao Sword is effective against this external creature; perhaps one execution can allow resurrection, but repeated execution could prevent resurrection.

It might also be because the Power of Elimination on the Xiaoyao Sword has already affected the demonic qi, evil qi, and other negative auras within this external creature. However, the effect remains incomplete elimination. Therefore, this external creature is still able to resurrect.

Master Taichu came to this realization and, without waiting for the complete resurrection of the external creature, directly used the Xiaoyao Sword again, infusing it with a large amount of spiritual power, then fiercely slashed toward the external creature that was about to restore itself.

Under the gaze of the people, a brilliant white sword qi erupted from the Xiaoyao Sword, sharply slicing through the external creature nearing restoration.

Next, Ye Tianfan saw the external creature turn into ash when encountering this sword qi. Just like earlier, it directly became ash. Ye Tianfan did not know why Master Taichu suddenly used the Xiaoyao Sword to slash at this external creature. Ye Tianfan speculated that Master Taichu might want to conduct an experiment.

Then, Ye Tianfan watched to see if this external creature would resurrect again.

The crowd thought the same as Ye Tianfan, assuming Master Taichu was experimenting to see whether the external creature could still resurrect. Some clever individuals had already realized that this external creature's resurrection time seemed overly extended.

Given the lengthy resurrection time, it seemed Master Taichu's earlier strike had an effect, and this time resurrecting again might just be Master Taichu wanting to experiment to see if his prior attack really had an impact.

If the previous attack indeed had an effect, then this external creature might still be able to resurrect, but the resurrection time might be even longer.

This external creature might also directly die. After all, the lengthy resurrection time might have already harmed the fundamental essence of this external creature. If this external creature can still resurrect, then Master Taichu would only need to attack several more times; eventually, the external creature would be killed.

Master Taichu indeed thought the same. If his previous attack truly was effective, then it meant that continuous attacks might eventually result in the complete death of the external creature.

Furthermore, Master Taichu was calculating in his heart to see how many times it would take to completely kill this external creature.

In the eager eyes of the crowd, they waited for a long time without noticing signs of resurrection from the external creature, and even in the place it turned to ash, no red aura was generated. This suggests the external creature may already be completely dead.

Ye Tianfan too believed the external creature was dead, but he wanted to verify, so he used the energy transformation ability of the Chaos Treasure Lotus to try and convert the demonic qi, evil qi, and other negative auras remaining at the site of the external creature's death.

However, to Ye Tianfan's delight, he didn't sense the presence of demonic qi, evil qi, or other negative auras at the external creature's death site.

Then it might prove that the external creature has completely died.

It seems that dealing with external creatures isn't as difficult as imagined. Master Taichu merely needs to kill it twice. This means that the Xiaoyao Sword must be used twice to completely kill the external creature. Of course, it could be due to Master Taichu's overwhelming power triggering the abundant Power of Elimination that resulted in this occurrence.

If Ye Tianfan were to use the Xiaoyao Sword, perhaps it would require dozens of strikes to completely kill this external creature.

Of course, this is just a guess. Ye Tianfan hasn't actually experimented, so he doesn't know.

However, Ye Tianfan did not plan to test this situation, because if he wanted to experiment, he'd need Master Taichu to remove his mark from the Xiaoyao Sword and then to refine it again so that he could use it himself.

Using the Xiaoyao Sword here would be of little use to Ye Tianfan. It's highly likely that Master Taichu could use the Xiaoyao Sword to kill a large number of external creatures with a single strike.

Then Master Taichu could strike again, completely eliminating the previous batch of external creatures.

Whereas if Ye Tianfan were to use it, he'd likely need to exhaust all his spiritual power to kill just one external creature, and wouldn't even have the strength to strike a second time. Additionally, the sword qi unleashed by Master Taichu carries the Power of Elimination innate to the Xiaoyao Sword, whereas Ye Tianfan might exhaust all his strength and still be unable to channel the Power of Elimination.

This is the difference between Ye Tianfan and Master Taichu: one can fully wield the Xiaoyao Sword, while the other cannot. Master Taichu can casually unleash a strike with it, whereas Ye Tianfan might spend all his spiritual power and consume additional spiritual power pills just to imitate a strike.

Although everyone presumed the external creature to be dead since there were no signs of resurrection despite waiting a long time, they cautiously watched the site where the external creature died, not daring to approach.

Even a cultivator proficient in arrays set up an array at the place of the external creature's death, such that if it revived again, the array would alert the cultivator who set it.

Upon seeing the array deployed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They had initially believed the external creature to be completely dead, yet it unexpectedly revived again. Although it didn't cause any harm, if it resurrected again when they weren't on guard, it might kill some of them.