176: Chapter 176 Eradicating the Roots and Destroying the Holy City, Devouring Spiritual Veins to Break Through to the Late Stage

The eight Soul Transformation Yao Race kings watched helplessly as the projection of the Heavenly Demon Emperor, whom they worshipped, was destroyed by Ye Qing with a single strike of his hunyuan ruler. They felt as though all their strength had been drained, collapsing to the ground with faces filled with despair and disbelief.

The final pillar upon which their faith rested had collapsed.

Ye Qing did not give them much time to wallow in despair.

Holding the hunyuan ruler, his cold gaze swept over the eight Soul Transformation Yao Race kings kneeling on the ground. His tone was flat, yet carried unquestionable killing intent: "The Heavenly Demon Emperor is dead; it is time for you all to go on your way."

Before the words had even faded, his figure flickered like a ghost, appearing before the Blazing Lion King who was closest to him.

The Blazing Lion King roared, attempting a final desperate struggle. The crimson battle axe in his hand ignited with raging flames as he slashed fiercely at Ye Qing!

Ye Qing did not even look at the battle axe. The hunyuan ruler in his hand, like the scythe of the Grim Reaper, gently swung.

Puchi!

A lion head, filled with unwillingness and anger, soared into the sky! Blood sprayed like a fountain from the smooth, mirror-like severed neck!

The Blazing Lion King of the Late Stage Soul Transformation Realm was dead!

After killing the Blazing Lion King, Ye Qing did not pause at all. His figure flickered again, appearing before the Nether Fox King.

The Nether Fox King's face turned deathly pale. Knowing that escape was hopeless, a flash of ferocity crossed her eyes. She opened her mouth and spat out a pitch-black bead that emitted a cold, eerie light. The bead expanded in the wind, transforming into a dense mass of black mist that seemed to swallow all light, shrouding toward Ye Qing!

Ye Qing did not even look at the black mist; he simply extended his left hand and grasped into the void!

An invisible force of space instantly descended, imprisoning the black mist and the black bead together in mid-air!

Then, he squeezed gently!

Bang!

The black bead, along with the black mist, shattered like a bubble!

The Nether Fox King groaned. As her mind was connected to her Lifebound Treasure, the destruction of the treasure caused her to suffer severe injuries instantly, and her aura withered immediately!

Ye Qing did not give her any chance to catch her breath; the hunyuan ruler in his hand swung again!

A beautiful head, filled with terror and despair, rolled to the ground!

The Nether Fox King of the Late Stage Soul Transformation Realm was dead!

The time that followed felt like an endless nightmare for the Heavenly Demon Holy City from which they could never wake.

Ye Qing, like a cold and ruthless executioner holding the hunyuan ruler, launched a one-sided slaughter within the Holy City.

Those Soul Transformation Yao Race kings, who were usually high and mighty, were as vulnerable as clay chickens and pottery dogs before him!

Whether they begged for mercy, fought desperately, or even tried to detonate their Nascent Soul to take him down with them, all resistance was destined to be futile in the face of Ye Qing's absolute overwhelming strength.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the remaining six Soul Transformation Yao Race kings were all executed!

With this, the twelve Soul Transformation Yao Race kings stationed in the Heavenly Demon Holy City, along with the projection of the Heavenly Demon Emperor, had all been slaughtered by Ye Qing!

The entire Heavenly Demon Holy City fell into dead silence.

Those Yao Race Cultivators hiding in the shadows and peeking were now trembling, not daring to even breathe loudly.

Their Holy City, of which they were so proud, and the powerhouses on whom they relied for survival, had been completely slaughtered by a single Human Race Cultivator in less than an hour!

This was a nightmare that completely subverted their perception!

After killing the last Yao Race king, Ye Qing did not even look at the corpses covering the ground. With a wave of his hand, he collected the bodies of the twelve Soul Transformation Yao Race kings, along with their storage treasures and personal weapons, into his Cave Heaven World.

Then, he cast his gaze toward the center of the Holy City, at the golden palace that had lost the projection of the Heavenly Demon Emperor and had become dim.

He could clearly sense an extremely vast and pure energy fluctuation hidden deep within that palace.

That should be the location of the true Legacy and Treasure Trove of the Heavenly Demon Imperial Court.

He stepped forward and walked toward the golden palace.

The palace gates opened automatically before him.

He stepped inside, as if entering an independent Small World.

The interior of the palace was magnificent, with carved beams and painted rafters; everywhere was inlaid with fist-sized night-luminescent pearls and various brilliant gemstones, emitting a soft and bright light.

But Ye Qing's gaze did not linger on these luxurious decorations. Instead, he locked onto the center of the great hall—a Legacy Tower suspended in mid-air, carved from a single huge piece of crystal emitting seven-colored light!

The Legacy Tower was about nine zhang high, divided into nine levels, and cast entirely from a seven-colored crystal he had never seen before that seemed to contain the power of the stars, exuding an ancient and mysterious aura.

The surface of the tower was inscribed with countless dense runes that looked like some kind of ancient Yao script. These runes flowed slowly on the surface of the tower like living creatures, emitting profound and unfathomable fluctuations.

"Is this the core of the Heavenly Demon Imperial Court's Legacy? It is indeed extraordinary."

A flash of interest crossed Ye Qing's eyes, but he did not touch the Legacy Tower immediately.

He could feel that this Legacy Tower had an extremely close connection with the entire Holy City and even the deeper Spiritual Veins. If he touched it rashly, it might trigger unpredictable consequences.

He first cast his gaze toward the treasures displayed on the jade platforms around the Legacy Tower, which were emitting lights of various colors.

Every one of these treasures was a rare item that was hard to see in the outside world.

There were ten-thousand-year-old vermilion fruits shaped like infants, emitting a rich aura of life; Void Realm Divine Iron that was pitch-black but seemed to absorb the surrounding light; star core fragments that were as brilliant as stars and seemed to contain a starry sky within; and several high-grade Magic Treasures emitting powerful energy fluctuations...

Ye Qing did not stand on ceremony and collected all these treasures into his Cave Heaven World one by one.

Only then did he turn his gaze back to the nine-level Legacy Tower.

He extended his right hand and pressed it gently against the tower body.

Weng—!!!

The moment his palm touched the tower body, the entire Legacy Tower shook violently!

A vast, complex stream of information, containing the cultivation insights and Law comprehensions of countless Yao Race sages, surged into his mind along his arm like a burst levee!

This stream of information was extremely vast; if it were an ordinary Soul Transformation Cultivator, their Sea of Consciousness would likely have been blown apart instantly!

But Ye Qing's Divine Soul, having been strengthened by the heavenly dragon soul crystal and having broken through to the Spirit Severing Realm, had long since become incomparably tough!

He kept his mind clear, operating the Hunxu Yandao Scripture to refine, absorb, categorize, and organize the incoming stream of information bit by bit.

This information contained the Cultivation Techniques, Divine Abilities, and secret arts of the successive Heavenly Demon Emperors, as well as their unique understanding of the Laws of Heaven and Earth.

Although most of these techniques and Divine Abilities were more suitable for the Yao Race to Cultivate, the Law comprehensions contained within, as well as the experience in exploring higher Realms, were extremely valuable wealth for Ye Qing!

Like a sponge absorbing water, he greedily absorbed this knowledge, constantly enriching his own foundation.

After an unknown amount of time, when he had roughly browsed and recorded most of the information stored in the Legacy Tower, he slowly withdrew his palm.

Deep in his eyes, there seemed to be a hint of enlightenment, and his understanding of the Spirit Severing Realm became even more profound.

"The Legacy of the Heavenly Demon Imperial Court truly has its unique features. Although I cannot copy it directly, the Law comprehensions contained within have great reference value for perfecting my own Chaos Dao."

He thought to himself, then, no longer lingering on this Legacy Tower, he cast his gaze beneath the palace, at the giant Spiritual Vein that supported the entire Heavenly Demon Holy City floating above the Nine Heavens, which was as huge as a giant Dragon!

This Spiritual Vein was far larger than any Spiritual Vein he had swallowed before! The Spiritual Qi contained within was so pure that it had almost liquefied, like a real underground river surging and flowing beneath the Holy City!

"After swallowing this Spiritual Vein, my Cave Heaven World will surely take another leap! My cultivation can also take this opportunity to break through to the Late Stage of the Spirit Severing Realm in one fell swoop!"

A sharp glint flashed in Ye Qing's eyes. Without hesitation, he sat cross-legged and pushed the swallowing power of his Cave Heaven World to the extreme!

An invisible, terrifying suction force, like a black hole, centered on him, spread madly toward the giant Spiritual Vein below!

The giant Spiritual Vein, like a giant Dragon, seemed to feel a fatal threat and began to struggle violently, emitting a deafening roar! The entire Heavenly Demon Holy City shook violently amidst this struggle!

But in the face of Ye Qing's Spirit Severing Realm level swallowing power, its struggle was destined to be futile.

Rumble—!!!

Amidst an earth-shaking roar, the giant Spiritual Vein that had supported the Heavenly Demon Holy City for tens of thousands of years was forcibly extracted from the ground by Ye Qing, and like a roaring giant Dragon, it was sent into his Cave Heaven World!

Having lost the support of the Spiritual Vein, the entire Heavenly Demon Holy City began to shake violently, huge cracks appeared on the ground, and countless buildings began to collapse! This golden giant city, floating above the Nine Heavens, was heading toward destruction!

And Ye Qing's Cave Heaven World, after swallowing this giant Spiritual Vein, underwent earth-shaking changes once again!

Its area broke through the five million zhang mark in one go! The earth became thicker and more vast, and the mountains and rivers became more realistic! In the sea of stars, countless stars became more brilliant, and even began to evolve some simple prototypes of galaxies!

On the Floating Landmass, those few stalks of dragon transformation grass, after absorbing a massive amount of pure Spiritual Qi, saw the dragon saliva fruit condensed at their tips become more crystal clear, emitting an intoxicating, strange fragrance!

In some areas of the Cave Heaven World, even more Advanced life forms began to appear—some energy creatures that looked like small animals, composed of pure energy, capable of moving autonomously!

And Ye Qing's cultivation, driven by this unimaginably vast and pure Spiritual Qi, also broke through the Bottleneck of the Middle Stage of the Spirit Severing Realm like a hot knife through butter, stepping into the Late Stage of the Spirit Severing Realm in one fell swoop! Furthermore, he was only one step away from Spirit Transformation Consummation!

He slowly opened his eyes, the divine light within his pupils restrained, as if they contained a chaotic Universe slowly evolving.

He stood up, took one last look at the collapsing and sinking Heavenly Demon Holy City, and his figure flickered, turning into a ray of light, soaring into the sky, and speeding toward the western horizon.

The Heavenly Demon Holy City was destroyed, but the forces of the Heavenly Demon Imperial Court had not been completely eradicated.

The place he was going to was the last ancestral land of the Heavenly Demon Imperial Court—the legendary Demon Emperors Mausoleum, where the first Heavenly Demon Emperor was buried and the ultimate secret of the Yao Race was hidden.