The old swordsman was shocked, he realised that his opponent was holding back when they had fought, he felt humiliated but he cannot do anything to relieve his anger since his attacks are useless.
Shadowslash knew that his opponent was feeling humiliated, this wasn't his plan, he just wanted to know how different their swordsmanship compared to this world, he already have some idea on how to improve the sword path of this world after watching how the sect disciples fight.
He stop flying up, he looks at the struggling old swordsman and let go of him before kicking him with all of his strength, the sound of bones cracking could be heard as his foot landed on his opponent's chest.
Since his opponent is a respectable swordsman, he'll send him off with his true sword art, he grabs the handle of his two swords and his entire bearing change, turning into like a sharp and silent sword hiding on its sheath.
Nitoryu, Taiyo to tsuki no kami no shuppatsu (Two Sword Style, Sun and Moon Divine Departure)
He flaps his wings and arrive in front of his opponent, he unsheathes his two swords at an incredible speed and slashed his opponent, the powerful sword Qi broke the old swordman's body and the earth below, such sharp attack stunned the powerhouses that came from other forces.
There were no impact nor powerful blow, just one sharp slash, it was silent but looking at the large crevice in front of them, they knew the attack would definitely kill any of them, the old swordsman with a Saint Realm cultivation couldn't even resist.
Shadowslash then look at the retreating sect disciples and an idea came on his mind, he silently appeared at one of the sect disciples and killed him in a silent manner before summoning his clone and have it transform into an exact copy of the sect disciple.
He then threw the clone towards the passageway, the dying sect disciple on his hand was captured, he then use his powerful spiritual sense and invaded the disciple's spiritual world and absorb his memory.
Sadness flash on his eyes as he saw the memories of the sect disciple on his hand, he sighed and use his Qi to send him off peacefully, he started praying and use Grim's ability to guide soul and help the soul of the deceased ones to rest in peace.
He sighed, he saw the life of the sect disciple that he had killed and knew that he lived a very pitiful life, he was an orphan and lived in an orphanage, because he had a spiritual root, he was deemed to have a potential to become a cultivator.
He had trained hard to achieved peak Bone Tempering Rank, he had thought that he could obtain sect points by joining in the exploration of this world, who would have thought that they would face a world that has an existence like Shadowslash.
They have been feeling extremely joyful thinking that they could conquer this realm but their happiness were short lived, Shadowslash could only sigh on the sad fate that this sect disciple has, if only their sect elder agreed on a peace talk they wouldn't have been killed.
Such as fate, the soldiers then received some kind of order and their killing rate started to decrease greatly, the sect disciples are too panicked to notice this, but a girl with a blue hair sensed something was amiss but she didn't say anything.
She is too focused escaping the soldiers' assault, she managed to get away, she quickly use her footstep technique to run towards the passageway, while she was feeling excited, she was also confused.
She had a feeling that the soldiers have deliberately let them escape, there are some that were killed but they are the weakest members, the elites managed to escape, they quickly fled towards the passageway just like her.
More than half of the sect disciples were killed and only about 20% of them managed to retreat back to their world, the only reason that many of them managed to escape is because of Shadowslash, he ordered the soldiers to hold back.
He wasn't giving any mercy to his enemies but he wanted his clone to infiltrate the other world, judging how the old swordsman dress up and also all the sect disciples, the world behind this passageway is a cultivation world.
This belief was further strengthened when he saw the memories of one of the sect disciples, he then shouted "General Bai! I want you to tell the residents of this land to build a stronghold in front of this passageway for our soldiers!"
One of the generals saluted him and rode his horse, the powerhouses that were watching the battle earlier finally approached, they quickly bowed to him and greeted "Greetings to Great Lord Shadowslash!"
Hearing how they call him, Shadowslash couldn't help but smile bitterly, he said calmly "You can call me by an another title, Great Lord is something that my subjects calls me because I am their ruler but I am not the ruler of this world, so please call me in an another title."
The powerhouses were startled, but they realised that they are too used by the fact that hearing Shadowslash's name in great admiration, one of them then bow once again and spoke "Greetings to Great Dragon-Fox Shadowslash!"
Everyone who heard this couldn't help but become stunned but seeing that the target wasn't saying anything, the foreign powerhouses also greeted him with the same title.
Shadowslash knew that the title of Great Dragon-Fox would definitely stay on his name for an extremely long time but he was okay with this, he nodded at the foreign powerhouses as a form of greeting.
He then quickly said "I know the reason why all of you have come, do not worry, the Thousand Race Empire wouldn't monopolize this world, you can send your subordinates here but you need to write the ones participating in the exploration."
The other powerhouses couldn't help but brighten up when they heard this, but they knew that they have to abide by the Thousand Race Empire rule if they wanted to take a bite of this pie, this is only possible because of how generous Shadowslash is.
If it was any other forces, no one would be able to enter the passageway, the soldiers of the Thousand Race Empire started returning back to their temporary camps, some of them would return while there are also that would stay.
The soldiers are firm believers of the Great Summoning God Religion, they aren't afraid of death as much as normal soldiers do, their souls would be guided by their lord towards the reincarnation cycle with ease, they would also carry their good luck towards their new lives.
Shadowslash is already capable on doing this with the help of Grim, they could also fool the Yama Kings with Chaos and Harmony, besides ordinary souls wouldn't attract any attention of the powerful divine beings.
At the present, Shadowslash returned back to Thousand Race Empire, he orders Amethyst to feed him pills while he would be busy with the infiltration plan, he took control of the clone that is now disguised as the sect disciple he had killed.
He looks around and he started absorbing the energy in the world he is currently in, just as expected, the spirit Qi in this world is quite abundant but his clone isn't able to absorb any Qi, he became confused.
He started absorbing once again and he once again failed, he knew that his clone wouldn't be able to store any energy without his main body but they could at least absorb energy to fuel their beings, he became confused, he looks at the surviving sect disciples and saw that they are doing just fine.
They don't have any problem absorbing any energy from their surrounding, he then realised something, some sect disciples are absorbing at a much faster rate compared to the rest, he started investigating the memory he had received.
He quickly had an idea what was preventing his clone from absorbing this world's Qi, spiritual root, this world needs spiritual root to absorb Qi, he quickly started experimenting on his clone.
After a long time, he finally managed to absorb energy but he had to create some sort of core inside his body to absorb the Qi, he use his spiritual sense that he had connected with his clone to investigate the other sect disciples' body.
He started transforming his core to become a bit similar to what the people of this world called 'spiritual root' just as he was busy with his own experiment, a handsome young man stood up and started speaking "I am Zhang Fei an inner rank disciple, I'm sure many of you have heard my name."
The other sect disciples stop their meditation and looks at Zhang Fei, Shadowslash also looks at him but he was uninterested, he looks around trying to assess his current situation.