I have the face of a great demon.

Zhao Wuji wasn't struck by lightning; he was frightened unconscious by Liu Xingchen, which is why he woke up quickly.

During the time he was unconscious, the formation naturally stopped attacking him with lightning.

But after he woke up, the lightning in the sky began to stir again, gathering above his head, preparing to give him a baptism of electricity.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Wuji was so terrified that he nearly fainted and wet himself in fear.

Looking around, the buildings of Shuangjimen were almost all collapsed, leaving no place to hide.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and crawled into the secret passage.

In his last moments before fainting, he vaguely saw the great demon step over him and walk into the secret passage.

If he hadn't been forced into this situation by Lei, he wouldn't have been willing to risk going into the secret passage. Who knew if the great demon was still inside?

But now, the secret passage is his only way out of the formation. He has no choice but to take a gamble, hoping that the great demon has left through the secret passage and that it is safe.

Inside the secret passage, Zhao Wuji moved with trepidation, walking extremely slowly.

His nerves were on edge; the slightest movement would send him tumbling away, and he dared not quicken his pace.

He lingered in the secret passage for a long time until he finally saw the light of the exit and arrived at a secluded valley. By then, Liu Xingchen had already walked quite a distance.

Having escaped, Zhao Wuji breathed a sigh of relief, found a flat spot to sit down and rest, and began to heal his injuries by circulating his internal energy.

Before he could rest for long, Master Yu Chen and the others found him.

"Zhao Wuji, what are you doing here?"

When Zhao Wuji opened his eyes, he saw that it was Yu Chen Zhenren and the other people from the ten major immortal sects. His eyes immediately welled up with tears, as if he had seen his relatives.

"Master Yu Chen, you've finally arrived! Our Shuangji Sect has suffered a great calamity this time, you must avenge us!"

Zhao Wuji, tears streaming down his face, was about to rush over, but a single glance from Master Yu Chen stopped him abruptly.

"Wait a minute, I'm asking you, where is the great demon?"

Zhao Wuji was taken aback: "The Great Demon? I haven't seen him. He should have escaped long ago."

"Escape? Weren't you kidnapped by the great demon? Why are you saying you chased him away?"

Faced with everyone's questions, Zhao Wuji recounted how he planned to escape through the secret passage but encountered the great demon.

He was too embarrassed to say that he had been frightened unconscious by the great demon, so he cleverly packaged it as "unfortunately falling into a coma after a heroic resistance," after all, he still had to save face.

This only deepened everyone's suspicions.

When did the great demon become so kind?

Not kill, just knock someone unconscious?

So many people on Shuangji Mountain were exhausted and fainted from the formation, but you, although a little disheveled, were not seriously injured.

This looks exactly like collusion between the demon king and his followers to harm fellow cultivators.

Zhao Wuji was dumbfounded. He never expected that overnight he would become an accomplice of the great demon.

"This formation went out of control after He Taichou modified it, it wasn't me who set it up."

Zhao Wuji was so anxious that he jumped up and down and hurriedly tried to explain.

But He Taichou had already prepared his explanation: "I only changed the attack mode of the formation; the core of the formation is still controlled by you. If I had broken the formation, you could have simply stopped using it."

"But I've tried, and the formation just won't stop."

He Taichou completely absolved himself of responsibility, leaving Zhao Wuji speechless and unable to defend himself. In the end, he was captured and taken back, where he was severely interrogated as an accomplice of the great demon.

After a day and a night of interrogation, the ten immortal sects used every means at their disposal to finally confirm that Zhao Wuji was not lying and that he had indeed not colluded with that fearsome demon.

After all the commotion, everyone had to admit that Zhao Wuji was just an unlucky victim.

Therefore, the anomaly of this formation was attributed to the great demon's scheme; he modified the formation and used it to destroy the entire Shuangji Sect.

The Bipolar Gate is in a terrible state now. Not only are all the buildings destroyed, but these things can be rebuilt with a little effort.

The fatal flaw is that the spiritual veins of Shuangji Mountain have been drained by the formation, rendering them completely useless.

Without the spiritual veins, the Dual Extremes Sect had no chance of recovery and was thus wiped out.

Soon, news of the great demon appearing in the Southern Frontier and annihilating a small sect spread throughout the entire cultivation world.

The great demon is now not only killing people, but also destroying entire sects!

The entire cultivation world was thrown into panic, and the fear of the great demon deepened even further.

Everyone began to stick together more closely, guarding against the great demon.

Meanwhile, our great demon Liu Xingchen had changed out of his black robe and into the attire of a martial artist, blending into the crowd.

The strange occurrences on Twin Peaks were witnessed by ordinary people below, causing considerable panic.

When the martial artists who had gone up the mountain to take the assessment awoke from their coma, they descended the mountain in shock and fear, and the news spread.

People spread rumors that a great demon had attacked Shuangji Mountain and destroyed the immortal cave.

When these martial artists recounted their stories, they inevitably embellished them, making the image of the great demon even more terrifying.

The great demon that even the gods couldn't stop naturally became everyone's nightmare.

As a result, people around Shuangji Mountain packed their bags and fled to distant places with their families.

Liu Xingchen quickly realized something was wrong. He began to suspect that the great demon people were talking about might be referring to himself.

The Taoist he met at the Shuangji Sect that day clearly accused him of being a great demon.

Regardless of how the misunderstanding arose, Liu Xingchen realized that he had fallen into a huge mess.

The best course of action right now is to flee.

He and Tiezhu got separated and are now in different towns. He doesn't dare to go back to Shuangji Town, for fear of being mistaken for a great demon.

Fortunately, he and Tiezhu had made an agreement that if he could not join the Shuangji Sect, he would head south.

They met at the mountain where they had seen immortals flying on swords, a place they called Immortal-Seeing Peak, and continued their cultivation there.

Liu Xingchen made a quick decision, bought a horse, and hurriedly headed south with the flow of fleeing people.

Throughout the journey, Liu Xingchen was lost in thought.

The Dual Extremes Sect considers itself a great demon, and other cultivation sects are probably no exception.

He could no longer join any cultivation sect.

The path to immortality has been cut off, so he can only continue practicing martial arts.

The martial arts factions probably wouldn't tolerate him either, otherwise the Azure Sky Sect would come knocking on their door.

Thinking of this, he took out Sikong Chen's booklet from his pocket.

Since I can't join a martial arts gang, I'll just practice by myself using this booklet.

Even the greatest martial arts master in the world, if mastered, can make one invincible in the martial arts world.

Therefore, during this long journey, Liu Xingchen took advantage of every rest opportunity to carefully study Sikong Chen's martial arts manual.

His swordsmanship improved day by day through practice, and with each swing, he could feel his tacit understanding with the sword growing stronger.

A month later, when he saw the majestic outline of Jianxian Peak in the distance, Liu Xingchen's swordsmanship had been completely transformed.

His swordsmanship contained the essence of Sikong Chen's techniques, yet it also had its own style, becoming more agile and sharp.

Although we can already see Jianxian Peak, as the saying goes, "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death," there is still a long way to go before we actually get there.

So Liu Xingchen decided to rest in a nearby town first.