Volume 1, Chapter 341 – Slaughter

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Howling sword qi churned the heavens. Tens of thousands of sword shadows tore shrill screeches through the void, sharp enough to pierce metal and split stone, as though they meant to punch through the entire expanse of space.

The sword qi blanketed the whole battlefield without discrimination, pouring down like a rain of startled souls.

Though the sword momentum was immense, its power was far more dispersed. Not a single person on the field was easy to deal with. One after another, they displayed their methods, seeking to shatter the rain of swords filling the sky.

Whoosh, whoosh!

The countless sword shadows shattered, but the divine phoenix true fire wrapped around them did not vanish. Instead, it swelled wildly in the wind and swept out into a sea of flames.

“Ah…”

“This is demon fire!”

Dozens of martial artists were caught off guard and swallowed by the divine phoenix true fire. Their blood essence ignited throughout their bodies, and even their powerful physiques were burned away. After only a few breaths, they vanished into the void without leaving behind so much as a trace of blood.

After watching for a moment, Shi Lan had already noticed that the blood essence of the martial artists who had died in the previous melee had disappeared for no apparent reason. That made her vaguely uneasy, so she directly burned those martial artists to ashes with true fire.

This place felt increasingly ominous to her.

All eyes gathered on Shi Lan, everyone’s expression grave. By now, they already regarded her as the greatest enemy on the field.

Even the Sacred Martial Immortal Sect group in the distance temporarily withdrew from the fighting and looked over from afar.

Shi Feng looked as though he wanted to speak, but before he could do anything, that Sacred Martial Immortal Sect elder directly sealed him and led the group away from the battlefield.

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Seeing this, the young man standing not far in front of Shi Lan froze for a moment, then stepped aside and silently retreated to one side.

In the distance stood an old man surrounded by golden light, his hands clasped behind his back as he stared at Shi Lan with killing intent filling his eyes. One of his younger kinsmen had already died at Shi Lan’s hands.

“A tree that rises above the forest is bound to be broken by the wind. If you don’t even understand such a simple truth, then it is only fitting that you be buried here today!”

“Everyone, kill this woman first, then divide the hidden treasury!”

“Slaughter her!”

Shouts instantly rose all across the field as half the martial artists made their move. Countless martial divine arts caused heaven and earth to collapse, while billows of the laws raised towering waves in the void and swept across the sky.

Though the cries were all directed at Shi Lan, the martial artists who struck also dragged Tianwu Yangyu beside her into the attack. Clearly, they intended to kill him as well.

Faced with such a terrifying scene, Shi Lan slowly closed her eyes as though awaiting death.

Tianwu Yangyu drew his long saber. Blood and qi boiled around him like magma, scorching the void until it twisted.

His saber aura shot skyward, splitting apart endless rays of light. A trace of imperial aura coiled around his body, as though the figure of the Tianwu Emperor had reappeared.

A ferocious gleam flashed through Tianbai’s eyes. Behind her, the phantom of a vicious beast seemed to roar as she followed with an attack of her own.

Bang!

In the span of a finger snap, two figures were blasted back. Their bodies split open and blood poured from them. There were many great cultivators on the field. Tianwu Yangyu only had Myriad Phenomena Realm cultivation after all. Even though he possessed the power to fight above his level, he still could not defy the heavens. In a single exchange, he was already wounded.

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Tianbai was still weaker than Tianwu Yangyu, and her injuries were even more severe.

Meanwhile, Shi Lan’s consciousness had already sunk into her sea of consciousness. A radiant figure sat cross-legged atop a flawless Dao foundation, its body wrapped in illusory fluctuations of the laws, with the rise and fall of galaxies faintly visible.

As her Spirit Infant entered Spirit Transformation, Shi Lan’s soul power surged by far more than mere dozens of times.

The Spirit Transformation Realm allowed the spirit to leave the body. In a single day one could roam the universe, visiting the North Sea at dawn and Cangwu by dusk, wielding unimaginable great divine abilities. Upon stepping into this realm, Shi Lan could now be called a great cultivator on the path of immortality without the slightest exaggeration.

Within her sea of consciousness, the nameless immortal scripture emitted dazzling radiance. Profound scripture-meanings flowed forth, and countless immortal divine abilities and Dao arts sank deep into her soul, ready to be used as easily as plucking something to hand.

Shi Lan opened her eyes, bit her fingertip, squeezed out a thread of fresh blood, and branded it into the void. Within a breath, countless radiant spirit patterns leapt into being upon it.

Geng-Metal Talisman, Azure-Wood Talisman, Kui-Water Talisman, Li-Fire Talisman, Gen-Earth Talisman…

As though influenced by the spiritual blood within Shi Lan’s body, the power of the talisman seals surged dramatically. The spiritual qi of the five elements was drawn ceaselessly out of the void, condensing into five talisman seals that circled around Shi Lan’s side, generating and restraining one another, their baleful aura overwhelming.

The five talisman seals transformed into five barriers, protecting an area three zhang across. Without exception, all power of the laws was blocked outside the barriers.

“What?!”

“This…”

The gathered martial artists were horrified, as if turned to stone. Even if only half of them had attacked, that was still no fewer than several hundred martial artists, including Nascent Soul Realm great cultivators. Even an ordinary Heaven-Man Realm mighty figure would not dare receive such an attack head-on.

Before they had time to think further, Shi Lan lightly raised her finger. The five talisman seals rose into the sky like five giant palms, shattering the void and directly crushing the bodies and souls of dozens of martial artists into powder.

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The divine phoenix true fire followed close behind, sweeping through the void and burning the remaining blood clean away.

These five talisman seals came from an offensive Dao art: the Five Elements Heavenly Fiend Seal. Its power was terrifying, several grades stronger than the Heaven Extremity Seal Shi Lan currently cultivated.

Drawing talismans in the void and raising a finger to suppress the heavens was nothing more than this.

Quite a few people on the field frowned when they saw the divine phoenix true fire. In the eyes of some, Shi Lan’s method of burning the corpses after killing people was a little too vicious.

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Shi Lan’s expression remained calm, but the fingers hidden beneath her sleeves would not stop trembling. How could the combined strike of several hundred martial artists be so easy to withstand? Her internal organs had already split, and the true essence within her body was in utter chaos.

Swallowing down the blood that was almost spilling from the corner of her mouth and forcibly suppressing the severe pain in her organs, Shi Lan glanced at Tianwu Yangyu to one side and transmitted her voice:

“Do you know something? Where is the exit?”

“I don’t know much. If I had known this place was Great Emperor Linglong’s tomb, I would never have come here.”

Tianwu Yangyu let out a light sigh, his expression somewhat worn.

“This is a great calamity brought about by my Tianwu clan…”

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Chengtian Domain, at the entrance to the Langya Grotto-Heaven.

More than a dozen strands of Emperor laws rose together, reflecting one another and faintly forming an encircling formation.

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At this moment, the entrance had already been sealed off by numerous great powers, and outsiders were no longer permitted to enter. To these great powers, the more people went in now, the greater the uncertainty. The ownership of the opportunities within would become even harder to determine.

Those who arrived later after hearing the news could only be stopped outside the entrance, gazing enviously at the distant Linglong Residence.

A gaunt youth dressed in black stepped out from the crowd and walked straight toward the curtain of light, treating the gathered Human Emperors around him as though they were not there.

He did not head for the weak point cut open by the Heaven Extremity Blade. Instead, he walked directly toward the curtain of light itself.

Someone soon noticed the youth’s movement, but paid it no mind.

Then, before everyone’s eyes, the gaunt youth arrived before the curtain of light. A layer of radiant light suddenly lit up around his body, and under its protection, he passed through the curtain of light without the slightest obstruction and crossed into the realm.

“This…”

“How is that possible?!”

Even the gathered Human Emperors could not remain calm. Their faces were filled with shock.

The Heaven Extremity Blade, as the foremost Sovereign Weapon of slaughter of the post-ancient age, had only managed to open a tiny gap in the curtain of light. Yet a barrier that even Human Emperors could not shake had just been crossed by someone without the slightest obstruction?!

Bang!

One Human Emperor, full of doubt, struck out. Just as expected, all of his Emperor laws were blocked outside the curtain of light.

“Who is that boy?!”