Grandmaster swordmaster.

When everyone present heard the title, pretty much every felt their hopes collapsed.

They were all disciples of different top sects, they knew what a Grandmaster Swordmaster was.

Someone who was able to utilise their very own environment as their own sword.

Some even call it a sword domain, a miniature world where they cut anything that came close.

Seeing the girl in front of them who looked as if she was only 20, they couldn’t believe it.

At such a young age, to have created her own sword domain. From the very start, they haven’t seen her take out her sword!

Any lingering bravado they had collapsed in that moment.

There was no way they could go through her, they would die at a single touch. It doesn’t even matter if they were hollow spirit realm or at the nascent soul realm.

She was going to cut through everything.

Behind them was Lin Zhaoyue and her beast, a bunch of unkillable force.

Ahead of them was Fang Lian, simply waiting for them like a fire to a moth.

They scattered instantly, fleeing in every direction, no longer caring about dignity or coordination.

Streams of light shot across the sky as cultivators abandoned one another without hesitation.

Those at the Nascent Soul Realm were the first to fall.

They couldn’t keep up nor could they even see what killed them.

Their bodies halted mid-flight, parted cleanly, as though the world itself had drawn a line through them.

Even their Nascent Souls never had the chance to emerge. They vanished along with the cut, erased before they could struggle free.

Panic deepened into despair.

For those who had scattered towards the eastern side. Another girl stepped into their path, holding twin daggers spinning lightly in her hands.

Her figure was slight, almost playful but the moment she moved, the air filled with streaks of silver.

Each step was fluid, each turn precise.

Her daggers traced arcs so smooth they looked harmless until bodies began to fall apart in her wake.

Limbs separated. Torsos slid cleanly away. Blood followed her movements like ribbons trailing a performer.

To her, they were no different from soft tofu.

At the same time, the Western side had also clashed into another one.

Although... compared to the others, his presence was noticeably weaker.

He was currently clashing against a mid stage hollow spirit cultivator with his fist.

Unlike his other two senior sisters, he wasn’t able to cut through them like tofu.

His breathing was uneven, his movements strained as he clashed against the cultivator.

Each exchange pushed him back, his defense barely holding under the relentless assault.

"Help me kill the boy!" his opponent roared, sensing opportunity.

The fleeing cultivators hesitated.

They didn’t know when the others would come over to this side.

"What are you guys doing! Can’t you see him clearly struggling? Help me kill this guy already!"

But just as they considered helping, the temperature around the place suddenly dropped.

Frost spread through the air in an instant, crystallizing moisture into glittering shards.

And a small petite figure rose before them. With ice spiraled outward in a dazzling display.

"Remember this!" she shouts, voice sharp and proud. "My name is Xiao Bai—Xiao Bai!"

"The one and only Xiao Bai!"

Her aura surged as she reveals herself to be another Hollow Spirit Realm.

When they saw her cultivation base, they freeze, they felt their throats tightened and breaths stalled.

"Looks like... we were misinformed..." someone muttered, voice trembling. "This... this is clearly a middle realm..."

It was the only explanation they could cling to now.

A middle realm was strong enough to host a spirit severing realm expert or two.

And judging by their strength, a hidden Spirit Severing expert had to be supporting them...

It had to be.

Xiao Bai didn’t give them time to think further as she attacked.

Blades of frost carved through the air, sharp and merciless.

Where they passed, bodies split apart as cleanly as if cut by divine steel.

Defensive techniques froze mid-formation, shattering before they could complete.

Even Hollow Spirit cultivators found themselves unable to resist against her.

As they fall down one by one, their only regret was not fighting them properly in the higher realm.

The moment they had stepped foot into the lower realm, they were already subjected to a suprression from the world will.

They had thought of it lightly because of the fact that they were told this was a lower realm.

No hollow spirit realm expert could be threatened in a lower realm even with the suprression.

But now that was the cause of their dead, they had been careless.

Within this realm, even those at the peak of Hollow spirit realm could barely exert the strength of an initial-stage cultivator.

Also... there was also the fact that the world will helps increased the strength of those who were natives during an invasion.

To go up against a peak Hollow Spirit expert with that condition, they indeed stood no chance of survival.

Xiao Bai swept through them like a winter storm, every motion decisive, every strike final.

My Wing staggered back, stunned, as he watches the opponents being carved apart before his eyes.

As for those who managed to slip past the encirclement...

They do did not see freedom.

Du Juan descended like a shadow, her strikes silent and precise, ending lives before awareness could catch up.

Lu Yi, with a wine pouch in hand, cut down any living creatures that ran his way.

And as for Xiao Pei... holding tight to the crimson spear Fang Yuan gifted to him, he knocked out every cultivator he saw before throwing them over to Lu Yi’s side.

"You think we can meet second brother after this?" Lu Yi asked as he cut down another one flying towards him.

Xiao Pei rested the spear on the ground after seeing that everyone who was likely an invader was dead, and said, "Yeah, remember when you called him a cockroach saying he doesn’t know when to die?"

Lowering his voice to a hurried whisper, Lu Yi hastily shushed Xiao Pei.

"Hey! We agreed to never speak of that! Zhaoyue is going to kill us if she hears how we used to treat second brother!"

"What do you mean we?" Xiao Pei shot back.