Chapter 65 Expanding the Sect...Harem
"First, stay here and perish along with Tianyin Temple."
"Second, join my Tai Xuan Sword Sect, and from then on leave Buddhism to cultivate Taoism."
He paused, then added:
"I will only say it once, and I will only wait three breaths."
After he finished speaking, Zhou Tian stopped talking and just watched them quietly.
Three breaths is a very short time.
But for these nuns, it felt like three years had passed.
They looked at each other, their eyes filled with struggle.
Now... all the powerful figures in the temple are dead, the mountain gate is broken, and Tianyin Temple is finished.
Staying means certain death.
"I...I do!"
A nun who looked to be in her early twenties and had a pretty face was the first to react.
She knelt down with a thud and kowtowed to Zhou Tian:
"I'm willing to join the Tai Xuan Sword Sect! Please spare my life, senior!"
With one person taking the lead, the other nuns also reacted one after another.
"I'd like to too!"
"Please, senior, take me in!"
"I am willing to switch to Taoist practices!"
More than twenty nuns knelt down and respectfully kowtowed to Zhou Tian.
They're not stupid.
Someone capable of annihilating all the powerful figures of Tianyin Temple with a single sword strike would find killing them as easy as turning one's hand.
Now that we've been given a way out, what's there to hesitate about?
Seeing this, Zhou Tian's lips curled into a satisfied smile.
"very good."
He nodded, and with a flick of his sleeve, a gentle spiritual force lifted the nuns up.
"From this day forward, you will be outer disciples of my Tai Xuan Sword Sect."
"Come back to my clan with me."
After saying that, Zhou Tian turned around, returned to the top of the pagoda, and embraced Lin Qingyu again.
"Senior sister, let's go home."
Lin Qingyu nodded gently and rested her face on his shoulder.
With a thought, Zhou Tian summoned the Immortal Execution Sword beneath his feet, which transformed into a gray sword light that lifted him and Lin Qingyu up.
Then, he looked down at the nuns and said calmly:
"Keep up."
As soon as he finished speaking, a sword light shot into the sky and flew towards the Tai Xuan Sword Sect.
The twenty-odd nuns dared not be negligent and all summoned their flying magical artifacts.
The group left the now-ruined Buddhist holy site in a grand procession.
......
Tai Xuan Sword Sect, Mountain Gate.
As the sun sets, the evening glow turns blood-red.
In the square in front of the main hall, eight senior sisters—Liu Ruyan, Zi Ling, Zhao Qinglian, Chu Hongxiu, Bai Qian, Su Wan'er, Long Ling'er, and Qin Ruoxue—gathered together.
Master's wife, Su Meili, stood at the very front, her red dress fluttering gently in the evening breeze.
Her stunning face carried a hint of languor, but deep in her eyes lay a barely perceptible worry.
"Master's wife, is my junior brother... alright?"
Long Ling'er tugged at Su Meili's sleeve nervously and asked in a low voice.
Su Meili gently ruffled her hair and whispered:
"Don't worry, that kid's tough as nails."
Even so, her hand gripping her sleeve tightened unconsciously.
Tianyin Temple was, after all, a sect with a peak-level Nascent Soul cultivator presiding over it. Although Zhou Tian's strength had increased dramatically, he was going there alone...
"I'm back!"
Just then, Chu Hongxiu suddenly looked up, pointed to the sky, and exclaimed in surprise.
Upon hearing this, everyone looked up.
In the distance, a gray sword light was seen flying towards the mountain gate at an astonishing speed.
Following the sword light were more than twenty faint points of light.
"It's my junior brother!"
"Senior Brother Zhou Tian is back!"
"And Senior Sister Lin too!"
All the women's faces lit up with joy.
As the sword light fell, Zhou Tian, with Lin Qingyu in his arms, stood steadily in the center of the square.
"Junior brother!"
Whisper!
The women immediately surrounded him, bombarding him with questions.
Zhou Tian gently put Lin Qingyu down and smiled at the senior sisters:
"Don't worry, fellow senior sisters, I'm fine, and Third Senior Sister is fine too."
Lin Qingyu's emotions had calmed down by now. Although her eyes were still a little red, she had regained her usual cool and aloof demeanor.
She nodded slightly to the senior female disciples:
"I'm sorry to have worried my senior sisters."
"It's alright, it's alright."
Liu Ruyan stepped forward, took Lin Qingyu's hand, and looked her over carefully.
They breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that she was alright except for being a little weak.
Zi Ling walked to Zhou Tian's side, her alluring eyes sweeping over him, then suddenly wrinkled her nose:
"Junior brother, you... smell strongly of blood."
Zhou Tian smiled wryly:
"Second Senior Sister, I just razed Tianyin Temple to the ground and killed dozens of Nascent Soul and Deity Transformation cultivators. How could the stench of blood not be strong?"
These words, spoken casually, caused all the women to gasp in shock.
Flatten Tianyin Temple?
Killed dozens of Nascent Soul and Deity Transformation cultivators?
Although they knew Zhou Tian was incredibly powerful, they still felt a chill run down their spines upon hearing these words.
That's Tianyin Temple!
A major Buddhist sect that has stood for ten thousand years!
Can you just flatten it like that?
At this moment, the twenty-odd nuns also landed one after another.
Looking at the group of stunningly beautiful women with different temperaments before them, and then at the dilapidated yet still majestic palaces around them, they felt both apprehensive and curious.
Is this the Tai Xuan Sword Sect?
"Zhou Tian" (周天).
Su Meili's voice suddenly rang out.
She walked slowly to Zhou Tian, her phoenix eyes sweeping over the group of nuns behind him, a complex emotion flashing in them, before she gave him a cold, disdainful look.
"I haven't seen you for only one day, and you've already given me such a big surprise."
Her tone carried a hint of reproach, a touch of helplessness, and a hint of...resentment?
Zhou Tian touched his nose and gave a dry laugh:
"Master's wife, these are all nuns from Tianyin Temple. I saw that they had decent aptitude and were all pitiful people, so I brought them back to expand the sect's strength."
Upon hearing this, Su Meili rolled her eyes at him again: