Volume 1, Chapter 446 – Slaughter

Sword qi crisscrossed the starry universe, shattering the vault of the starry sky.

Because the battlefield was far too close, the entire Qiongluo Realm was trembling, and countless mountains, rivers, and deep valleys collapsed.

After slashing out that one sword strike, the Sword Emperor did not stop. Brilliant rosy light surged from the Emperor Sword, and sword qi shot skyward like a vast rainbow, enveloping the entire starfield.

“He wants to kill everyone!”

Emperor Yuan’s heart jolted. Sweeping his gaze across the surrounding starry universe, he saw that the sword qi reaching from heaven to earth had already transformed into an incomparably vast prison, sealing all the remaining Supremes inside.

All except Yang Venerable, who had already retreated to the corner of the starfield the instant the Sword Emperor appeared.

Curled up atop an extinguished dead star, he had already sealed off his five senses. A deathly gray sheen covered his skin, and not the slightest fluctuation of blood and qi emanated from him, making him look like a corpse drained completely of its origin qi.

Yang Venerable’s aura had already merged into the entire dead star. Even if a Supreme examined it from close range, they would not detect the slightest anomaly.

Sword qi ran rampant through the starry sky. The tyrannical sword domain spanned several starfields, utterly collapsing the void. Spatial passages could no longer be opened. There was no way in and no way out.

Clearly, the Sword Emperor intended to kill every Supreme on the battlefield and delay the arrival of any stronger enemies who might come later.

The Supremes of the Heavenly Dao Alliance no longer possessed their former divine majesty. Within the sword domain, they fled desperately for their lives. Some refused to wait for death and tried to fight to the bitter end.

Yet before they could come within a hundred zhang of the Sword Emperor, the razor-sharp sword qi shattered their Dao Fruits, and their Supreme bodies were crushed into bloody paste.

They had only just stepped into the Supreme domain. The gap in strength between them and the Sword Emperor was as wide as heaven and abyss. They had no power to resist at all.

Boom! Boom!

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Rain after rain of blood drifted through the air as the starry sky wept blood, sounding the elegy of fallen Supremes.

The battle-axe in Emperor Yuan’s hand withstood the sword qi crashing down in wave after wave, but it could not contend with the edge of the Emperor Sword and shattered apart.

Without his war weapon, his fleshly body could no longer block the Emperor Sword in the slightest, and within a few breaths, he was torn apart.

In less than half a quarter-hour, all the Supremes had been slain. The last one to hold out was Cloud Saint.

He brought forth a fragmentary text, a broken passage from the scripture of a sage of the Confucian Dao. It possessed no offensive power, but it could protect him with the righteous qi contained within.

That fragment of holy text did not protect him for long. It merely let him live for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea longer.

Boom!

Sword qi swept past, drowning the towering righteous qi. Blood rained down in torrents, and the resplendent holy light of the Confucian Dao gradually dimmed before vanishing without a trace.

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At the instant those Supremes fell, the various armies within the Qiongluo Realm all sensed it in their hearts, and fear swept through every living being like a storm.

The defeat of Reincarnation Hall’s Supremes meant that their own fates had reached the end.

Before a Supreme, they were no different from ants.

Among them were some beings who were not reincarnators, and thoughts of surrender had already arisen in their minds. They were not subject to the Main God’s control, so even if they surrendered, they would suffer no punishment.

Many figures at the commander level went deathly pale in an instant. They were basically all reincarnators, with not even the chance to surrender. Their final outcome could only be death.

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A disturbance suddenly broke out in the army. Someone cried out for surrender, only to be cut down on the spot by several reincarnators in the blink of an eye.

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The aura of a Supreme had always hung high in the heavens like a great sun.

Whenever one Supreme fell, it was like a great sun going dark, something that could be sensed with ease.

As one Supreme after another fell, the remaining living beings in the Qiongluo Realm also grew increasingly alarmed.

It was too horrifying. Even Supremes were falling one after another, enough to prove that a terrifying upheaval had already taken place beyond the starry sky.

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Mutilated corpses drifted through the starry sky. The Sword Emperor still wore his azure robes, and as his gaze swept across the starfield, it paused for an instant on a dead star.

A trace of killing intent rose in the sword qi filling the starry sky, then subsided again in an instant.

He did not strike again. Drawing back the sword domain, he sent the falling blood rain, together with the shattered remains of the Supremes, into the Qiongluo Realm.

Terrifying origin qi fluctuations exploded within the Qiongluo Realm, and the origin qi throughout all heaven and earth began to surge wildly at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Weng!

A wave of Dao aura spread out from within him and covered the entire Qiongluo Realm.

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The vast continent stretching for hundreds of millions of li began to shrink little by little.

Starting from the edges of the continent, countless mountain ranges, giant peaks, oceans, and river valleys were seized by an invisible giant hand and gradually drawn inward.

After the Heavenly Dao collapsed, the Qiongluo Realm’s origin qi had remained in a constant state of dissipation. This land had already lost the very foundation needed to retain its origin qi.

If left alone, the Qiongluo Realm would soon begin to degenerate rapidly and ultimately turn into a barren, desolate continent where origin qi was unimaginably thin.

But now, as space compressed and condensed, the dissipation of heaven and earth origin qi came to a halt, and its density began to rise steadily.

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On the continent below, Shi Lan sat cross-legged beside the Giant Spirit King’s corpse. Streams of faint blood-colored current, visible to the naked eye, flowed in and out through her mouth and nose.

After the Heavenly Dao collapsed, that faint sense of rejection from heaven and earth had already vanished without a trace, and her Innate Spiritual Body had returned to its normal state.

With each of her breaths, the surrounding heaven and earth fell into a strange rhythm. As it rose and fell, tides were stirred up.

Within her sea of consciousness, the golden primordial spirit sat at the center, slowly growing and gradually nearing the limit of nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang.

The Extreme Dao Rune Seal still radiated residual heat, continuing to drive Shi Lan’s cultivation upward.

Suddenly, the heaven and earth origin qi in the surroundings surged sharply, and under the pressure, a faint spiritual mist spread through the air.

Shi Lan sat within the spiritual mist, and behind her, an illusory vision unfurled. The faint roars of strange beasts could be heard within it.

Vast origin qi poured into her body, bringing with it a swelling pain beyond imagination. Even with her current physique, it was somewhat hard to bear.

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The concentration of Supreme blood was rising, bringing with it an immense burden.

At the same time, her cultivation was also soaring, and her primordial spirit began to grow at an astonishing speed.

Crack—

Cracks began appearing across Shi Lan’s skin. The explosive swelling of her golden primordial spirit was making it difficult for her fleshly body to endure the strain.

After her primordial spirit broke past nine hundred zhang, every further increment of growth was, for her, a tremendous transformation.

For ordinary Nascent Soul Realm martial artists, the golden primordial spirit was at most between nine and twelve zhang. Even for Heavenly Prodigies, with secret methods to suppress their realm and solidify the foundation of their primordial spirit, the most they could do was grow it to somewhere between a hundred-odd zhang and three hundred zhang.

After that, one had to break into the Heaven-Man Realm and rely on a small world and lightning tribulation to continue increasing one’s cultivation. Only then could the power of the primordial spirit continue to advance.

For someone like Shi Lan to possess such a powerful primordial spirit while still in the Nascent Soul Realm—let alone in the current Lingyang Realm—even in antiquity, there had not been many like her.

For the Nascent Soul Realm, this power was simply too great. Even though she had already succeeded in the second layer of the True Martial Undying Body, it was still difficult for her to bear such a powerful primordial spirit.

Shi Lan kept her eyes closed and flipped her hand, taking out countless spiritual materials and spreading them all around her.

Then she raised her hand and opened up a pool, drawing out a stream of pure Supreme blood from the void, diluting it slightly with spiritual liquid before pouring it into the pool.

She was going to temper and refine her physique with Supreme blood and push her primordial spirit to the absolute peak in the shortest time possible!

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