In the sky, a bloody hue blanketed the night.
A terrifying aura rippled from the void into the Great Qian Dynasty. The aftershocks of the battle between the two half-step Tribulation Transcendence Realm powerhouses stirred up a massive tempest, nearly obliterating the royal capital.
Had the city-protecting array not been activated in time, tens of thousands of mortals and cultivators would have likely been annihilated in the aftershocks.
In the void of the outer realm,
two mountain-like figures clashed frantically in the sky.
Their bodies towered tens of thousands of zhang high, as if trying to pierce the clouds and reach the ends of the heavens. Every single attack was like a storm between heaven and earth, with violent forces sweeping in all directions. The resulting aftershocks rolled out like raging waves, causing the world itself to tremble.
Even the stars were fragile before this immense power, shattering one after another and scattering into specks of starlight.
“Are top cultivators fighting?”
“What on earth is going on?”
The people stared in terror at the spectacle in the sky, their hearts filled with doubt and dread.
“Demon cultivators are attacking! Demon cultivators are attacking!”
Suddenly, someone cried out, their voice laced with endless panic.
The news spread like wildfire. Amidst their shock, the hundreds of millions of citizens were instantly overwhelmed by endless dread.
A battle between half-step Tribulation Transcendence Realm powerhouses, even when observed from afar, was enough to make anyone feel a world-destroying, terrifying power.
As everyone panicked, a voice echoed in their minds.
“Everyone, do not panic. To protect this paradise of ours, His Majesty is fighting a bloody battle against the demon cultivators. Please, do not lose your composure.”
“His Majesty!”
“His Majesty is protecting us!”
“Everyone, do not worry and throw yourselves into chaos!”
“Yes! This is our home, our paradise! We cannot back down!”
The soldiers Tang Yan had already stationed in the crowd cried out. As one confident voice after another rang out, most of the people's doubts were dispelled, and they began to chime in.
“Indeed, His Majesty is in the half-step Tribulation Transcendence Realm. Who in this world could harm him?”
“His Majesty is fighting a bloody battle, so how can we just cower and try to survive!”
“Everyone, we are all citizens of the Great Qian Dynasty, all subjects of His Majesty! How can we let our home be stolen by mere demon cultivators!”
“Yes!”
Cries and resounding voices echoed under the blood-colored night sky, completely shattering the anxiety lingering in everyone's hearts.
Clad in silver armor, Tang Yan stood atop the city wall. Looking at the peerless figure fighting in the distance, he sighed softly. “Your Majesty, you have already grown to a height I can never reach. Forgive me for my lack of ability to fight by your side.”
“State Protector, a massive tide of demon beasts has appeared outside the royal capital!”
Tang Yan stared at the demon beast army approaching under the cover of night. In a deep voice, he said, “Our Sovereign is fighting with all his might for the common people and for eternal peace! We must never disgrace His Majesty's prestige, and we must never compromise with a pack of beasts!”
“Never compromise!”
“Never compromise!”
The soldiers were filled with righteous indignation, their blood boiling.
Tang Yan drew his blade and pointed it at the invading demon beasts, declaring passionately, “Where His Majesty's sword points is where our hearts shall follow!”
“Kill! Kill! Kill!”
“Kill! Kill! Kill!”
An opening was made in the city-protecting array. Countless soldiers, clutching cold, sharp weapons, surged out of the city. They swore to protect their homeland to the death.
Roar!
The demon beast army lunged forward, roaring and snarling as they threw themselves into the crowd. Relying on their sharp teeth, razor-sharp claws, and powerful bodies, they clashed fiercely with the humans.
It was a chaotic war of blood and fire, an entanglement of claws, fangs, and weapons.
The dark earth was stained a deep crimson.
At the same time...
Boom!
A massive rumble resounded through heaven and earth. A single sword strike sliced through the world, tearing open the void as if returning it to chaos. The laws of the Great Dao were severed at this very moment.
The Floating Island City in the Sky, where the Murong family resided, fell like a kite with a broken string. Having lost its gravity, it plummeted from tens of thousands of meters in the air along with several stars.
A phantom of a True Immortal, seated upon a silver-white lotus, materialized. As its eyes opened and closed, an immortal sword intent permeated the air, and its entire body was enveloped in the laws of the Great Dao.
With her entire body wrapped in immortal aura and the laws of the Great Dao interwoven around her, Xiao Hongye looked at the falling stars and the floating island, and swung her sword once more.
Clang!
Interweaving sword intent and tens of thousands of sword qi enveloped the floating island city, grinding it to dust. Together with a shower of blood, the debris rained down upon the royal capital.
“Xiao Hongye! That is the Law Manifestation of Xiao Hongye from Dongzhou's Heavenly Martial Immortal Sect—the Heaven-and-Earth Slaughtering Body!”
“The strongest cultivator in the Nine Provinces, a half-step Tribulation Transcendence Realm powerhouse!”
“We're saved! Someone is helping His Majesty!”
Below, cultivators cried out in shock, their excitement beyond words.
Who in the entire Nine Provinces did not know of the Heaven-and-Earth Slaughtering Body?
It was a Law Manifestation renowned throughout the endless ages as the ultimate offensive form!
A peak powerhouse who had risen to fame a thousand years ago, the cultivator with the highest hope of glimpsing the True Immortal Realm in the past millennium, and the goal that countless contemporary cultivators strove to chase.
“There's more?!”
“Look, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire!”
“Another peak cultivator of the continent?!”
“That is Senior Su Qian's Law Manifestation, an existence I deeply admire!”
As the laws of heaven and earth interwove, a crimson lotus bloomed. An immortal aura gathered within its pistil, igniting a cluster of blood-colored Dao fire. Atop each of its thousands of petals sat a tiny crimson figure, their entire bodies burning with endless karmic fire.
This was the Karmic Fire Law Manifestation, rumored since ancient times to be capable of burning away the very Dao itself.
Leng Ning'an and the other four were still in a daze, unclear of what was happening, when they were enveloped by Xiao Hongye's mana and swept out of the Murong family estate.
Su Qian approached Xiao Hongye's side, holding a tens of zhang tall immortal ship in her hand. It was shrouded in laws, making it impossible to see inside.
“Time is of the essence. You go first; Master will catch up shortly.”
Before they could speak, Xiao Hongye tossed them into the immortal ship.
Then, Su Qian and Xiao Hongye combined their strength, pouring the purest spiritual energy into the immortal ship to boost its speed, and hurled it toward Dongzhou with all their might.
“Senior Su, Senior Xiao.”
Murong Fu and Ruan Xia arrived at their side.
“The immortal ship is shielded by laws, so there is no need to worry,” Su Qian said, guessing what the couple was anxious about.
“Thank you.”
“No need for formalities. The main issue now is how to close the teleportation channels,” Xiao Hongye said with a solemn expression.
She had never expected the entire Murong family to have fallen. Murong Hai had sacrificed the lives of everyone in the estate to open a channel to the demonic path's domain.
No wonder when they first stepped into the Murong family estate, wisps of demonic energy had been drifting through the entire residence. It turned out a magic circle had been carved into it.
After the Floating Island City in the Sky was completely obliterated, a black beam of light shot into the sky from the ruins. It expanded and eventually erupted, spewing out thousands of strands of Great Dao laws and condensing into hundreds of teleportation arrays within the royal capital.
Black mist drifted from them as several Nascent Soul demon cultivators emerged. Just as they took a step out, Su Qian clenched her hand. The power of karmic fire converged into a fist print, carrying the laws of the Great Dao as it blasted toward the exit.
Rumble!
A heavy, muffled boom echoed within the channel. A shower of blood diffused from it and rained down upon the earth.
“You court death!”
A massive hand reached out from another black channel, attacking Su Qian directly. The arm was shrouded in black mist, radiating a bizarre aura. Countless lightning bolts interwove around it, and as if touching some taboo, heaven and earth rumbled, bringing down a bolt of tribulation lightning.
“Scram!”
Xiao Hongye's Law Manifestation moved slightly. With every lotus came sword intent; lotuses bloomed across the sky as immortal sword intent permeated, and thousands of sword qi swept forward to strangle the foe.
The arm was enveloped by endless sword intent. Only flashes of sword light could be seen, not a single shadow of the blade. In the span of a breath, the black arm was shredded into bloody pulp and bone meal.
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