60: Yuyang catastrophe, silver moon in the sky

The fires of war still raged fiercely on Cloud Gazing Peak, while the protective mountain array light barriers of Cuiyun Peak and Wuzhen Peak flickered precariously, like candles in the wind, threatening to extinguish completely at any moment.

The sickeningly thick smell of blood, mixed with the pungent scent of scorched earth and demonic Evil Qi, drifted wantonly in the cold night wind, making people's throats bitter and their hearts cold.

At this moment, more than half of the Disciples on Cloud Gazing Peak had perished.

Fragments of tattered green Dao robes and broken swords lay scattered among the blood-stained rocks and vegetation, silently narrating the tragic battle.

Elder Xuan Yi was covered in blood, resembling a Blood-Robed Figure.

He was Situ Ming's Junior Brother from the same lineage, and for a hundred years, he had assisted his Senior Brother in managing Cloud Gazing Peak, sharing a deep bond, as close as siblings.

Seeing Xuan Yi, scarred and his Aura weakening under the frenzied assault of a dozen ferocious Calamity-Grade Demons, Situ Ming could no longer suppress his emotions.

He abruptly turned to look at Immortal Master Xuan Qing, his voice hoarse, with a hint of desperate pleading: "Senior Brother!"

It was at this critical moment!

On the battlefield below, Elder Xuan Yi's Aura suddenly surged, and a resolute Sword Intent shot skyward!

His longsword slashed horizontally, and a thousand-meter-long, condensed sword light, like a fleeting glimpse, moved too fast for the eye to follow, vanishing in an instant!

Chii—!

Wherever the sword light passed, space seemed to be silently cut open!

Not only the Demons besieging Xuan Yi, but even the thousands of Demons attacking the barriers of the other peaks, all froze in unison!

The next second, their bodies exploded like lit firecrackers, turning into a sky full of blood mist and shredded flesh!

"Annihilation Void Sword!!" Situ Ming's eyes instantly became bloodshot as he stared fixedly in Xuan Yi's direction, letting out a beast-like roar.

As if responding to his Senior Brother's mournful cry, Xuan Yi's blood-stained white beard danced wildly in the violent gale. He laughed uproariously, his voice shaking the Nine Heavens: "Hahahaha! How exhilarating! How exhilarating! To eliminate Demons between Heaven and Earth, one sword to annihilate a thousand Demons! How splendid! How splendid! Senior Brother! Your Junior Brother will go on ahead! Cloud Gazing Peak... I entrust to you!"

"No—!!" Situ Ming's heart was torn with grief, already foreseeing the next moment, as he let out a heart-wrenching roar towards below.

However, Xuan Yi's mind was made up, without the slightest hesitation!

He merged his body with his sword, transforming into a resolute gray-white sword light, no longer bothering with the remaining enemies, but instead charging fearlessly towards the Calamity-Grade Demon horde still bombarding the various peak barriers!

Annihilation Void Sword, a forbidden technique of Cloud Gazing Peak!

It exchanged the burning of one's essence blood Origin and the reduction of one's Lifespan for a moment of earth-shattering power!

That single sword strike just now had consumed most of Xuan Yi's Lifespan.

Now, his continued charge into the Calamity-Grade horde was clearly meant to force the King-rank powerhouses of the Demon side into action, to make a final stand with his crippled body!

Sure enough!

Behind the Blood God Venerable King, a slender figure stepped out of the Void Realm, moving with incredible speed, carrying a strong King-rank Aura, and directly rushing towards the gray-white sword light that Xuan Yi had become!

Wherever Xuan Yi's sword light reached, it slew four more Calamity-Grade great Demons before being firmly intercepted by this King-rank Demon!

The two instantly clashed!

Xuan Yi, wielding the Annihilation Void Sword Intent, completely abandoned defense, every move a desperate, life-for-life strike!

The sword light was mournful, tearing through the night sky!

Even though this King-rank's strength was still above Xuan Yi's, for a time, it was actually suppressed and flustered by this Crazy Aura.

However, after failing to break through for long, Xuan Yi's life-burning power began to recede like a tide, his Aura visibly declining.

The King-rank Demon's eyes glowed fiercely, and it suddenly launched an attack!

The moment the two collided violently again, its left arm grotesquely twisted and deformed, instantly transforming into a terrifying long spike, as black as ink and gleaming with metallic cold light!

Puch—!

The long spike, with an incredible angle and speed, fiercely pierced through Xuan Yi's waist and abdomen!

"Human Race! You... are not bad!" The slender King-rank Demon spoke for the first time, its voice cold and devoid of emotion, yet carrying a peculiar respect for the Human Race powerhouse before it.

Xuan Yi was impaled on the cold black spike, blood gushing out.

Yet, he suddenly extended his left hand, his five fingers gripping the black spike that had pierced him like iron pliers, and a nearly triumphant smile actually spread across his lips!

A frantic warning rang in the King-rank Demon's heart! A sense of fatal crisis instantly seized it!

It frantically tried to shake off Xuan Yi, but Xuan Yi's left hand seemed to have merged with the black spike, veins bulging, unmoving!

Om!

A dazzling light suddenly lit up between Xuan Yi's eyebrows!

Boom—!!!

The next instant, an earth-shattering explosion erupted! A dazzling white light, too bright to look at directly, instantly swallowed everything, illuminating the entire Yuyang Mountain's night sky as if it were daytime!

A massive, swirling mushroom cloud of destructive energy rose into the sky at the location where the two had just clashed!

The extremely violent shockwave, like a world-ending torrent, swept across Heaven and Earth!

The viscous blood river was instantly vaporized, giving rise to endless bloody mist!

Countless towering ancient trees were bent and broken like straw! The swirling blood clouds in the sky were even fiercely torn apart, churning wildly!

As the white light gradually dissipated, only a blurred figure remained, with more than half of its body shattered and even its primordial elixir completely pulverized, falling straight down towards the murky blood river like a broken puppet... "Junior Brother—!!!" Situ Ming's eyes split open, two streams of bloody tears rolling down!

A century of friendship, watching his fellow Junior Brother perish in such a tragic manner, the grief and killing intent accumulated in his heart completely erupted!

He stomped heavily on the glazed tiles of the hall roof, merging his body with his sword, transforming into a dazzling sword light burning with endless fury, abandoning all defense, and resolutely charging straight towards the high and mighty Blood God Venerable King!

Immortal Master Xuan Qing was too late to stop him, letting out a sorrowful sigh, and could only follow closely, rushing out of the Zhenyang Peak barrier!

Xuan Lun, True Man Xuan Wei, and Li Miaoyi also had their eyes wide with rage, holding nothing back. They all brought out their strongest weapons, with the determination to perish together, and charged towards the Blood God Venerable King and the terrifying existence behind him!

Immortal Master Xuan Qing's Dao robe billowed like clouds, arriving before them!

The ancient longsword in his hand erupted with dazzling golden light, striking out fiercely!

The sword light transformed into a majestic Golden Crow with wings spanning a hundred zhang. Wherever it passed, the foul blood mist hissed, instantly vaporizing and dissipating!

It actually tore open a scorching gap within the Blood God Venerable King's thousand-mile blood sea Domain!

"What a Yuyang Sword Immortal! Interesting!" The Blood God Venerable King's palms suddenly clasped together, and the blood sea immediately surged and roared!

The viscous blood instantly condensed into eighteen colossal, grotesque blood-colored skeletons, whose eye sockets flickered with eerie blue Soul flames!

The Aura emanating from each skeleton had actually reached King-rank pressure!

Situ Ming's eyes were blood-red, and he charged into the battle like a mad tiger! His Natal Sword, "Flowing Cloud," sensing its Revered Master's boundless grief and anger, let out a desperate, mournful shriek!

Wherever the sword's edge passed, space violently vibrated, as if unable to bear the weight!

The Blood-Robed Figure, who had been silent behind the Blood God Venerable King, suddenly transformed into a blood shadow and flashed out!

A supremely condensed blood-colored long spear in its hand silently stabbed towards the vital point of Situ Ming's back!

Situ Ming, acting like a mad tiger, turned and slashed furiously with his sword!

The Flowing Cloud Sword erupted with unprecedented sharpness, and with a "chi la" sound, it instantly shattered the blood spear. The sword's momentum did not wane, cutting off a large piece of flesh and blood from the Blood-Robed Figure's shoulder!

The Blood-Robed Figure let out a strange low laugh, and countless wriggling blood threads instantly surged from the wound, recovering in the blink of an eye, as if it had never been injured!

"Junior Brother Situ! Watch your back!" True Man Xuanlun shouted a sharp warning. A Heavenly Eye, emitting silver light, had appeared between his eyebrows at some unknown point, and he had already "seen" that in three breaths, seven fatal blood spikes would attack Situ Ming's back from the Void Realm!

He swept his giant sword, which was like a door panel, horizontally, and the immensely powerful True Qi transformed into a terrifying Sword Qi that could split mountains and seas, instantly obliterating the seven newly formed blood spikes into nothingness!

True Man Xuan Wei's hair and beard bristled, and his hands rapidly formed seals! The Void Realm behind him hummed, and eighty-one green jade swords, shimmering with green light, suddenly appeared!

The sword array, like a mad Dragon emerging from the sea, entangled the two attacking King-rank Demons, and the sharp Sword Qi actually forced them to retreat repeatedly!

Li Miaoyi's pretty face was filled with killing intent, and she gently raised her slender hand, her exotic weapon, the "Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella," spinning rapidly!

As the umbrella opened and closed, thousands of golden needles, as fine as ox hair yet gleaming with golden light that could break through defenses, shot out like a rain of pear blossoms, specifically designed to penetrate the Demons' protective demonic Qi!

The Blood God Venerable King looked at the Yuyang Sect powerhouses fighting desperately in the blood sea, and a cruel, sinister smile spread across his lips: "Ants, struggle! Do you know what... the boundless blood sea is?!"

Before his words finished, the eighteen blood-colored skeletons surrounding them simultaneously exploded!

Boom!

The entire Heaven and Earth covered by the blood sea suddenly boiled! Endless blood-colored tides stirred up ten thousand zhang high torrents, carrying terrifying power that could devour everything and defile all things, surging towards the five Divine Sea powerhouses of the Yuyang Sect like a world-ending tsunami!

Immortal Master Xuan Qing swung his sword, only to feel the sword light sink into a viscous quagmire, incredibly sluggish!

Even his breath carried a heavy, bloody sweetness, making him nauseous!

But his cultivation was profound, and the Yuyang Sword Qi was supremely Yang and unyielding!

The majestic sword light still stubbornly broke through layers of blood waves, forcefully clearing a scorching passage directly towards the Blood God Venerable King's Main Body within the boundless blood sea!

"Heaven's Heart Reflects, All Phenomena Return to Truth! Break for me!" True Man Xuanlun roared, biting the tip of his tongue and spitting a mouthful of vital blood, containing immense primal essence, onto his Heavenly Eye!

Buzz!

The Heavenly Eye's silver light surged, like an eye opening the heavens. A condensed silver light pillar instantly pierced through layers of blood sea mist, accurately shining into the core of the blood sea—there, a crimson demonic heart, resembling a giant demonic drill and pulsating powerfully, clearly emerged!

However, at the moment of this core insight, True Man Xuanlun's entire body trembled violently!

In the fragments of the future reflected by his Heavenly Eye, there was clearly a cold and aloof… Silver Moon, silently falling from the Nine Heavens!

"Senior Brother, be careful of the Silver..." Xuan Lun was horrified and screamed a warning!

But before he could finish, the eerie Blood-Robed Figure had transformed into a hundred illusory blood-colored phantoms, entanglement coming like maggots to a bone!

Pfft!

As True Man Xuanlun was distracted, his left arm was instantly pierced by a cunning blood blade, causing agonizing pain!

"Get lost!" Situ Ming sensed Xuan Lun was in danger and let out a heaven-shaking roar!

His Flowing Cloud Sword suddenly erupted with a blazing white light even more dazzling than the sun! He recklessly activated a secret technique that burned his potential again!

The sword light's power instantly surged tenfold! It swept out like a storm, instantly shattering and evaporating the troublesome Blood-Robed Figure along with a large area of the surrounding foul blood sea!

However, the blood sea was boundless and endless, continuing to relentlessly besiege the Yuyang Sect's five Divine Venerables.

Just as this desperate stalemate continued—

A wisp of cold and aloof moonlight, without warning, pierced through the surging Blood Cloud!

Silver Moon Venerable King arrived, stepping on the moon!

His silver hair cascaded like a waterfall, his face was so handsome it seemed unearthly, and his entire being was enveloped in a cold, desolate Aura.

In his palm, he held a silver moon emitting a hazy lunar halo, yet subtly hinting at incompleteness.

True Man Xuan Qing's pupils suddenly constricted to pinpricks! His last shred of hope was completely shattered—the Silver Moon Venerable King had, after all, arrived!

"Lunar Eclipse." The Silver Moon Venerable King's gaze was indifferent, as if looking down on dust, as he softly uttered two words.

The incomplete silver moon in his palm transformed into a streak of light, faster than thought could grasp, silent yet carrying the desolate intent of freezing time, and shot towards True Man Xuan Qing!

Xuan Qing's hairs stood on end, and he fiercely blocked with his sword! His Yuyang Sword, carrying the majestic power of the Golden Crow, bravely struck the incoming silver moon!

Clang—!!!

A Soul-shaking clash of metal! True Man Xuan Qing felt an indescribably terrifying power surge into him along the sword!

His Yuyang Sword, a Legacy of hundreds of years, let out a mournful cry under the strain, instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks!

He was struck as if by an ancient divine mountain, spitting out a large mouthful of blood and sent flying like a broken kite!

The moment Xuan Qing was repelled, five King-rank Demons, who had been lying in wait, pounced with sinister grins like sharks smelling blood, seizing the opportunity to attack the already crumbling protective arrays of Cuiyun Peak, Wuzhen Peak, and Zhenyang Peak below!

True Man Xuan Wei's Azure Jade Sword Array was fully resisting the blood sea's impact and had no time to defend!

"Beasts! You wish!" Li Miaoyi's beautiful eyes were bloodshot, and she gritted her silver teeth, making a decisive choice! Her delicate hands formed a seal, and her Thousand Mechanism Umbrella exploded with a roar!

Boom!!!

A destructive storm, composed of thousands of armor-piercing golden needles, instantly swept over the five pouncing King-rank Demons!

At the center of the storm, two Devil Kings were caught off guard and instantly riddled with holes, their demonic bodies perforated!

However, their inertia before falling, and the other three Devil Kings enduring the impact of the golden needle storm despite injuries, resulted in several destructive attacks still fiercely striking the three exhausted Sect protection barriers!

Crack! Crack! Rumble—!

Sounds like shattering glass echoed one after another! The light screens of the three great protective arrays that had guarded the Yuyang Sect for a thousand years, exploded with a mournful wail, completely dissipating!

Countless Yuyang Sect Disciples, exposed, were instantly engulfed by the violent Evil Qi of the blood sea and the sinister grins of the Demons!

"Yuyang Disciples, heed my command!" True Man Xuan Qing forced out his last breath of true essence, retreating to the sky above Zhenyang Peak.

His blood-stained Daoist robe flapped in the fishy wind, and the cracked, dim Yuyang Sword floated above his head. His voice was mournful but carried a final resolve, "Form ranks... break through! At all costs... preserve my Yuyang Dao Legacy!"

"Hmph." The Silver Moon Venerable King took a step forward, his cold voice resonating through heaven and earth, carrying the indifference of a Dominator of life and death, "Since this Venerable has acted, after today, there will be no Yuyang Sect in the Yuan Realm."

"Dominator Realm?!" Xuan Qing's pupils trembled violently, feeling the overwhelming, Soul-freezing terrifying pressure!

He suddenly bit the tip of his tongue, and under the intense pain, he forcibly broke free from the terrifying Qi lock. The shattered Yuyang Sword above his head erupted with the last, most blazing light of his life, shooting straight into the Nine Heavens!

"Yuyang... Heaven-Opening!!!"

True Man Xuan Qing's hair stood on end. The remaining true essence, vital blood, and even the primordial elixir in his Sea of Consciousness, forged through a thousand trials, all shattered!

An indescribably terrifying and vast Divine Thought, forcibly squeezed out, surged into the broken Yuyang Sword like a bursting flood!

This was his ultimate strike, infused with all his life, all his cultivation, and all his will!

The Yuyang Sword's light instantly surpassed the sun, illuminating the entire world, enveloped by the blood sea and demonic clouds, with dazzling brightness!

The majestic Sword Intent seemed truly capable of opening up the heavens and earth!

The Silver Moon Venerable King quietly watched the dazzling light sword, which seemed to carry a Sect's thousand years of Luck and despair, his eyes still holding an unchanging, eternal calmness.

He seemed to recall some past events, letting out a faint sigh, with a hint of undetectable disdain: "Heh... The descendants of that old Daoist Tianxu are truly... worse with each generation!"

Before he finished speaking, the giant Yuyang sword, with its world-destroying Aura, fiercely slashed towards the Silver Moon Venerable King!

Silver Moon Venerable King's eyes suddenly flashed with silver light! An invisible ripple, at a speed beyond perception, instantly spread from beneath his feet, sweeping across heaven and earth!

Buzz—!

A colossal, spherical silver-white Domain, exuding a cold and desolate Aura, instantly materialized, enveloping the entire majestic Yuyang Mountain, along with all living beings on and around it—whether ferocious Demons or despairing Human Race—all within it!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Heaven and earth fell silent.

All beings, regardless of their strength, involuntarily looked up at the silver-haired figure in the sky, like a moon god descending from the Nine Heavens, dominating everything.

"Domain... a true Domain!" True Man Xuanlun looked at the silver-white sphere enveloping heaven and earth, his last shred of hope completely extinguished, leaving only endless desolation and despair.

He clearly felt that the true essence within him was like being trapped in frozen mud, suppressed by at least fifty percent! Had the cruelest outcome he foresaw finally arrived?

The next moment.

Within the Domain, the incomplete silver moon floating in the Silver Moon Venerable King's palm silently vanished.

In its place, a silver moon mark, curved like a new hook and condensed to the extreme, suddenly materialized at the core of the Domain!

It was fast!

Faster than thought, faster than light!

As if just a flicker of an idea!

Chirp!

The moon mark silently swept past the majestic hundred-zhang Yuyang Heaven-Opening Giant Sword... swept past True Man Xuan Qing's resolute standing figure... and finally, like a blade of heavenly punishment, gently swept past the summit of Zhenyang Peak below, which carried the Yuyang Sect's thousand-year Legacy... Time seemed to have been paused.

When the illusion of stillness disappeared.

Crack... crash!

The hundred-zhang Yuyang Giant Sword, like ancient glass weathered for ten thousand years, disintegrated inch by inch, transforming into golden light particles that scattered across the sky... A smooth, mirror-like silver line quietly appeared at True Man Xuan Qing's waist.

The light in his eyes, like a candle in the wind, instantly dimmed completely.

His upper body slowly slid down, separating from his lower body... Below, the majestic summit of Zhenyang Peak, along with the solemn and sacred Zhenyang Hall upon it, was diagonally cut by a massive, incredibly smooth incision!

The giant peak body, with a deafening roar, was sliding and falling down the mountain... In True Man Xuan Qing's unfocused pupils, the last reflection was no longer a scene of apocalyptic destruction, but a blurry afterimage from a hundred years ago... his Revered Master, on the Zhenyang Hall roof, facing the morning sun, robes fluttering, dancing with his sword in the clear breeze... Rumble... The colossal sound of the mountain sliding down was like the earth's lament.

Half of the broken Yuyang Sword body was impaled powerlessly into the blood-stained bluestone cracks in front of the Zhenyang Hall.

The sword tassel, covered in blood and dust, swayed slightly and weakly... in the fishy wind filled with blood and desolation.