78: Stars from outer space fell

On the scorched earth.

After swallowing two Essence Restoration Pills, Yu Xuzi began to meditate to recover his mana.

Embracing Star and Soaring kept watch within a radius of dozens of miles.

Having killed so many demons, Yu Xuzi did not feel the slightest bit of excitement.

Aside from the fact that his heart was filled with more anger after witnessing the tragic scene, it was also because there were no gains.

Two hours later.

Yu Xuzi stood up and began to clean up the battlefield.

Most of the corpses had been completely burned away by him, with only a few skeletal remains left.

"What a loss."

"Perhaps only these demon corpses might be of some use? For refining Puppets?"

"As for the Spiritual Vein underground, it must have been contaminated by the demons. I don't know if it can still be used."

Yu Xuzi returned to his old trade once again.

Digging up Spiritual Veins!

The reason these demons chose to spawn new ones here, with five second-tier demons guarding them, was that there was a second-tier Low Grade Spiritual Vein underground.

There was originally a massive city here, perhaps once a famous immortal city market in the Fei Chen Realm.

Of course, it was now in ruins... A few days later.

Having hollowed out the Spiritual Vein, Yu Xuzi set off toward the northwest of the continent.

Fortunately, the contamination of that Spiritual Vein by the demons wasn't complete; he eventually dug out about forty to fifty thousand Spirit Stones, which was quite a windfall.

He planned to go to the northwest of the continent to find the last Cultivators of this realm and search for Cultivation Techniques, ancient records, opportunities, and legacies.

After that, he prepared to retreat and make his escape.

Aside from the demons he killed along the way, he did not intend to go looking for trouble with them on his own.

In this wretched world, there were likely few Mortals left. Seeing as it was about to be swallowed by demons and completely ruined, it naturally held no value for Yu Xuzi.

He had no intention of saving the world.

Working himself to exhaustion for no benefit at all.

If he just wanted to dig for Spiritual Veins or find Spirit Medicine, couldn't he just dig in the Thousand Islands Realm?

The Thousand Islands Realm didn't have so many disgusting demons.

Furthermore, according to what Venerable Yun Miao had said before, they suspected that there might even be a third-tier Demon King within the demon army.

In that case, Yu Xuzi was even less inclined to court such trouble... lunar calendar year twelve, February 15th.

Yu Xuzi had already ventured deep into the northwestern plateau of the Fei Chen Continent. He encountered more and more demons, and he could often see dense armies of demons marching northwest on the ground.

Even the world barrier, which had been far on the horizon, now seemed to stand majestically right before his eyes, stretching beyond sight.

It was a colossal white wall that reached from the heavens to the earth.

It made it impossible to see outside the realm.

On the surface of the plateau, a semi-circular mountain range stretching for hundreds of miles appeared in Yu Xuzi's sight.

Although the mountain range wasn't long, it was extremely high; peaks of a thousand zhang were everywhere, forming a natural line of defense with the world barrier behind them.

Moreover, the foot of this mountain range had become sheer cliffs, as steep as if carved by a knife, with surfaces as smooth as mirrors and no place to climb.

Clearly, this was a "Natural Fortress" enclosed after Cultivators had cast their spells!

Even the lowest points between the valleys were two to three hundred zhang high!

A massive Formation covering hundreds of miles within was rumbling in operation. The Formation's spiritual light was relatively stable; even from hundreds of miles away, Yu Xuzi could feel its power.

"This must be a third-tier Formation, right?"

"It seems this is the last hope of this realm."

He shifted his gaze from the grand pass and looked beyond the barrier.

There, an overwhelming army of demons stretched as far as the eye could see, like an ocean of interwoven black and scarlet.

The roars of tens of thousands of demons converged into a terrifying wave of sound, making heaven and earth tremble.

"Fortunately, I made it in time; it hasn't been breached yet."

Just as Yu Xuzi was about to find a way to approach, the sky suddenly darkened.

A sudden change occurred.

"What's happening? Why has the sky changed?"

Yu Xuzi suddenly looked up, his pupils instantly constricting.

"That is..."

A deathly silence suddenly fell over heaven and earth.

"Crack—!!!"

A deafening sound of shattering echoed through the world.

The sound was so loud it felt as if the entire world was collapsing.

Countless remaining Cultivators clutched their ears in pain, and even the demons stopped their roaring, looking at the sky in terror.

On the world barrier high in the sky, a massive crack suddenly appeared, as if torn open by an invisible giant hand, spreading rapidly.

Beyond the crack lay the endless Chaos of the Void Realm.

Pitch black and profound.

"Crack— Crack—"

The sounds of shattering grew more frequent, and the cracks became larger.

In the blink of an eye, the world barrier was covered in dense cracks, like a giant spider web.

"Boom!!!"

Finally, the world barrier shattered with a roar.

A silver giant hand that blotted out the sun emerged from the void. It was entirely silver-white, with starlight-like brilliance flowing over its surface, each finger as massive as a mountain of ten thousand zhang.

"This... what is this..."

Within the Heavenly Pass, a remaining Cultivator of the Fei Chen Realm asked with a trembling voice.

No one answered.

Everyone was stunned by this terrifying scene.

The next instant.

"Tai! Hua!!!"

A furious roar rang out from beyond the heavens, and the entire Fei Chen Realm shook violently.

A Blood-colored Devil Dragon of unknown length emerged in the Chaos, instantly knocking away the silver giant hand and revealing the scene of the void outside the world.

But immediately afterward, a silver star several hundred zhang large appeared behind the giant hand, rapidly falling from the Chaos.

Its speed was so fast that Yu Xuzi couldn't react at all; in an instant, it crashed directly outside the Heavenly Pass on the plateau.

"Rumble—!!!"

The silver star crashed into the demon army.

At that moment, heaven and earth seemed to stand still.

Then, a terrifying shockwave swept out for a thousand miles in all directions, centered on the star.

Wherever the shockwave passed, the earth cracked, mountains collapsed, and demons were turned to dust.

The third-tier Formation on the Heavenly Pass shattered instantly, and the hundreds of miles of mountain range began to collapse.

When the turmoil subsided slightly, the once-dense demon army had vanished, replaced by a massive crater dozens of miles in diameter.

In the center of the crater, a brilliant seven-colored light erupted, and a two-hundred-zhang-tall humanoid phantom emerged.