130: The sword tip slays demons, the imperial might is overwhelming!

"It's useless! Give up!"

"In front of my Boundless Sea of Blood, you so-called Righteous Path Cultivators are nothing more than lambs waiting to be slaughtered!"

His laughter was full of smugness.

Watching as the thousand-zhang blood wave had already broken through all defenses,

and was about to engulf the flagship of the entire Azure Dragon Legion.

On the fleet, everyone's heart... sank to the bottom.

Could it be that today, their hundreds of thousands of Righteous Path allied forces were truly going to be forced back by a mere Demonic Path Cultivators?

However, right at this critical moment.

Chen Xu made his move.

Surprisingly, he did not summon any Spirit Treasure, nor did he activate any incantation.

He also did not summon the Immortal Artifact fragment.

He merely slowly raised his right hand.

The next second.

Buzz—!!!

The entire world seemed to quiet down at this moment.

An ancient and vast golden Great Seal phantom, seemingly carrying the history of the rise and fall of the Human Race through the ages,

quietly appeared in Chen Xu's palm.

The phantom was only the size of a fist at first.

But in the blink of an eye, it swelled rapidly against the wind!

Ten zhang!

A hundred zhang!

A thousand zhang!

Finally, it transformed into a golden Divine Seal that obscured the sky and covered the sun.

It floated above the entire fleet!

The instant it appeared!

A supreme Imperial Dragon Qi immediately erupted!

Ten thousand zhang of golden light, like the sun,

instantly pierced through the dark red Devilish Qi covering this area!

Illuminating the entire battlefield as bright as day!

The golden light was so warm and so sacred.

Under the illumination of that golden radiance.

All Righteous Path Cultivators felt as if bathed in a spring breeze.

The Spiritual Power within their bodies, which had been sluggish and stagnant, instantly flowed smoothly again!

Even the distracting thoughts in their hearts caused by shock,

were cleansed by this golden light, and their state of mind became completely clear!

"This... What is this?!"

"Such... Such a powerful aura!"

"It's the Alliance Leader! The Alliance Leader has made his move!"

Everyone raised their heads in astonishment.

Looking at the golden Great Seal in the sky radiating Divine Might.

Their slightly trembling hearts,

were stabilized at this moment.

The endless golden light formed by the Imperial Dragon Qi did not pause at all.

It was like golden sharp swords,

fiercely stabbing into the filthy Boundless Sea of Blood below!

Sizzle—!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!!!

Like boiling oil poured onto snow!

Or like a red-hot iron searing flesh!

The filthy Sea of Blood, which had rendered all Righteous Path Cultivators helpless, under the golden light's radiance,

actually began to violently boil and evaporate!

The thousand-zhang blood wave that was about to engulf the flagship let out a sharp shriek the moment it touched the golden light,

and was instantly evaporated into nothingness!

Large swathes of blood turned into billowing black Qi,

dissipating between heaven and earth.

Revealing the ruins of the city below, which had been soaked in blood for several days and was already dilapidated.

But this was not the most shocking thing!

An even more incredible scene occurred!

The three million vengeful souls of Mortals struggling painfully in the Sea of Blood, bound by resentment,

under the golden light's illumination, the twisted expressions on their faces instantly vanished.

Replaced by peace and liberation.

They seemed to have been awakened from an endless nightmare.

The next moment.

The three million souls uniformly turned around.

And bowed deeply towards the human emperor seal phantom radiating Divine Might in the sky!

That bow was one of gratitude.

It was liberation.

It was the highest respect from the Human Race's subjects to their Sovereign!

After the bow.

The three million souls did not dissipate, nor did they enter Reincarnation.

Instead, they transformed into three million golden specks of light!

Turning into the Power Of Faith!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The sky full of golden light specks frantically poured into the human emperor seal phantom in the sky!

Buzz—!!!

Having absorbed this tremendous Power Of Faith, the radiance of the human emperor seal phantom

surged once more!

The ancient patterns on it became clearer and more profound!

The sovereign majesty of ruling the world and controlling the Human Dao,

also became even more terrifying!

"No!!!"

"This is impossible!!!"

Above the Sea of Blood, Jiang Bai, the Sect Master of the Blood Fiend Sect, watched the unbelievable scene unfolding before him.

His eyes were filled with disbelief!

The smug and rampant smile on his face instantly froze.

"My Sea of Blood! My Boundless Sea of Blood!"

He could feel that the mental connection between him and the Sea of Blood was being forcibly severed by an irresistible mighty force.

Forcibly severed!

The source of his power was instantly cut off!

Puff—!!!

Under the backlash of power, Jiang Bai violently spat out a large mouthful of black blood!

His entire aura began to plummet wildly!

Half-step Soul Transformation!

Great Perfection Nascent Soul Stage!

Late Nascent Soul Stage!

In just a few breaths of time, his cultivation, which had been at the Peak, infinitely close to Soul Transformation,

fell back to the bottom!

He was even weaker than before he performed the blood sacrifice!

His originally tall and mighty physique, which had swelled due to the expansion of power, rapidly withered, returning him to the appearance of that sinister old man.

His face was deathly pale, and only terror remained in his eyes!

How could this be?!

What kind of power is this?!

Why... Why was the Domain Divine Ability, Boundless Sea of Blood, which he had cultivated at such a huge cost,

so utterly vulnerable in front of this man?!

Why did his strongest reliance... turn into the opponent's supply instead?!

He couldn't understand!

He simply couldn't comprehend it!

The entire battlefield, at this moment,

instantly fell into an eerie silence.

The hundreds of thousands of Cultivators of the Righteous Path Alliance all stared blankly at the scene before them.

Their minds were blank.

They watched the Sea of Blood rapidly dissolving.

They watched the deceased souls being purified... and transforming into the Power Of Faith.

Finally, their gazes all converged on the bow of the flagship.

On that figure.

Chen Xu had turned the enemy's strongest reliance into his own strongest supply!

He not only purified the Sea of Blood and liberated the deceased souls, but he also used the Power Of Faith generated by the death of these three million Mortals to make the power of the human emperor seal surge again!

This... This was simply unbelievable.

At this moment, Chen Xu stood at the bow, bathed in golden light.

Like a deity walking among Mortals.

His eyes calmly watched the Sect Master of the Blood Fiend Sect below, whose aura had plummeted,

and whose face was filled with shock.

His gaze was entirely that of looking at a dead man.

The next second.

Chen Xu slowly raised his other hand.

Buzz—!

A broken sword tip, emitting an ominous purplish-gray aura,

appeared in his palm.

It was precisely the immortal slaying sword tip!

That supreme killing Qi, born specifically to slaughter Immortals and gods,

erupted violently!

Chen Xu looked at Jiang Bai below, who was completely stunned, and slowly spoke: "Now... do you have any last words?"

This voice reverberated throughout heaven and earth!

As the words fell, the pupils of Jiang Bai, the Sect Master of the Blood Fiend Sect, suddenly contracted?

Last words?

Facing death, this man actually asked him if he had any last words?!

Overwhelming rage instantly surged into his heart.

Jiang Bai had dominated the Demonic Path for hundreds of years, relying solely on the word "ruthless"!

Ruthless to himself, and even more ruthless to his enemies!

If he couldn't live, then they would all die together!

"Chen Xu!!"

A roar exploded from Jiang Bai's throat!

His deathly pale old face instantly flushed crimson.

Streaks of bloody cracks... started from the crown of his head and rapidly spread across his entire body!

He was actually burning his Nascent Soul!

Turning the Nascent Soul he had painstakingly cultivated for over a thousand years into fuel!

Boom!

A violent bloody Devilish Qi

soared into the sky!

Jiang Bai instantly transformed into a dazzling bloody streak of light!

But his target was not the bow of the flagship,

that god-like figure!

He knew very well that he could not kill Chen Xu!

Since he couldn't kill him... then he wouldn't try!

The bloody light swerved, bypassing Chen Xu, moving at a speed that surpassed everyone's reaction limit.

It charged directly towards the Vermilion Bird Legion on the flank!

That was where the entire fleet's logistics and support were located!

It gathered the most female Cultivators in the entire Central Prefecture!

Before he died, he wanted to drag those hundreds of warships, along with the tens of thousands of delicate female Cultivators aboard, into Hell, turning them into his burial sacrifices!

"Oh no!"

"Protect the Legion Commander!"

On the flagship of the Vermilion Bird Legion, the beautiful face of Liu Ruyan, the Sect Master of the Illusory Sound Immortal Sect,

instantly turned ugly.

The Elders around her screamed,

subconsciously summoning their Magic Treasures, attempting to block him!

But it was too fast!

The speed gained by a Half-step Soul Transformation expert burning everything,

was so fast that even Divine Thought couldn't capture it!

The bloody light, like a fallen Demonic Star, instantly crossed a distance of several thousand zhang and appeared before the Vermilion Bird Legion!

That violent aura

made all the female Cultivators feel a sense of despairing suffocation!

However, just as the bloody light was about to smash into the formation of the Vermilion Bird Legion.

A voice carrying supreme Heavenly Might... slowly rang out.

"In front of this Seat."

"You don't even have the qualification to choose how you die."

The moment the voice sounded, Chen Xu, standing at the bow of the flagship, had a slight movement of his mind.

The item quietly suspended in his palm,

the immortal slaying sword tip radiating endless malevolence, vanished.

It did not turn into a stream of light, nor did it tear space.

It just disappeared into thin air, as if it had never existed.

The next moment, the bloody streak of light, which was rushing toward the Vermilion Bird Legion with the momentum of thunder, suddenly stopped!

Time, at this moment, seemed to have been paused.

Jiang Bai, the Sect Master of the Blood Fiend Sect's face, instantly froze.

The malice and delight in his eyes completely solidified.

A hint of terror instantly submerged him.

The next moment, he realized with horror that he couldn't move!

The surrounding space was no longer void, but had transformed into indestructible profound ice, locking him tightly within it!

The desperate speed he gained by burning his Nascent Soul, at this moment, was as slow as a crawling snail.

Domain?!

No!

It was more terrifying than a Domain!

This was absolute suppression at the Law level!

He wanted to roar and struggle... but he couldn't even transmit a single thought. He could only watch helplessly as a speck of purplish-gray light slowly emerged in his pupil, growing larger and larger.

That light was so insignificant,

yet it carried a supreme killing Qi capable of making even Immortals and gods tremble!

Pfft~!

A soft sound.

The speck of purplish-gray light passed through Jiang Bai's glabella, and then exited through the back of his head.

Then, it vanished again.

Jiang Bai's burning Nascent Soul, the violent Devilish Qi, and the destructive energy capable of dragging tens of thousands of Cultivators to their burial... were instantly dispersed.

Following that, his withered body began to disintegrate inch by inch, starting from the tiny blood hole in his glabella.

Turning into dust.

Nascent Soul, Demonic body, Divine Soul...

Everything was completely obliterated under that supreme killing aura, which was capable of slaughtering Immortals and Gods.

Reduced to nothingness.

The entire process was terrifyingly silent.

Until the last wisp of ash dissipated in the wind.

At the bow of the flagship, the broken sword tip in Chen Xu’s hand quietly reappeared.

It hovered silently.

The entire battlefield was deathly silent.

Whether it was the hundreds of thousands of Cultivators from the Righteous Path Alliance or the Demonic Path Cultivatorss of the Blood Fiend Sect.

All stared blankly at this scene.

Their minds were completely blank.

A half-step Soul Transformation Demonic Path magnate who had burned his Nascent Soul and unleashed the strongest blow of his life... just vanished... like that?

Reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye!

"Gulp."

Someone swallowed hard.

Causing everyone to instantly snap back to reality.

"Alliance... Alliance Leader is mighty!!!"

The next second!

"Alliance Leader is mighty!!!"

"Alliance Leader is mighty!!!"

"Alliance Leader is mighty!!!"

Cheers erupted like a mountain tsunami!

The sound, gathering the fervor and worship of hundreds of thousands of Cultivators, shot straight into the sky.

Shaking away the rolling Devilish Qi in the heavens!

They won! They won!

The Sect Master of the Hegemon Blade Sect, this hot-tempered man, was flushed with excitement.

The hand gripping his saber hilt was trembling violently!

Liu Ruyan’s beautiful face was currently filled with shock and lingering fear.

She looked at the figure on the flagship, her beautiful eyes shining brightly.

Murong Zhuyun was utterly entranced... Looking at her teacher's solitary and lofty silhouette, she felt her heart might stop beating.

This was Chen Xu!!

His words were Law... Determining life and death in the blink of an eye!

This was the true supreme overlord!

However, just as the earth-shattering cheers reached their climax.

A residual Divine Thought filled with madness echoed eerily in everyone’s mind.

"Chen Xu... Do you think you've won... Hahaha..."

"You destroyed the sacrifice... Master... Master will not let you off..."

"Just wait... Soon... Soon all of you will understand that we are all just sacrifices... and you are no exception! Hahahahaha... Hahaha!"

The venomous laughter grew weaker and weaker, finally dissipating completely between heaven and earth.

But what that laughter contained.

Was like a bucket of ice water being poured over everyone's head!

The earth-shattering cheers came to an abrupt halt.

The ecstatic expressions on everyone's faces.

Instantly froze.

"Master?"

"Sacrifice?"

These two words struck everyone's hearts heavily!

The joy of the great victory.

Was instantly shrouded by a pall of gloom.

No one was stupid.

They clearly understood what Jiang Bai’s dying words implied.

Behind the Blood Fiend Sect, there stood an existence that was even more terrifying.

And more mysterious!

A Master who viewed even a half-step Soul Transformation expert as a "sacrifice"!

In an instant, everyone’s gaze subconsciously converged on the bow of the flagship once more.

Chen Xu slowly retracted the immortal slaying sword tip, and his eyes returned to their usual calm state.

His brow furrowed slightly.

Sacrifices again.

The Heavenly Sword Sect, for the sake of the so-called "Heaven-Deceiving Method," required beings with great Luck as sacrifices.

The Blood Fiend Sect performed a blood sacrifice on three million Mortals.

This was also for refining "sacrifices."

And now, this so-called "Master" also seemed to be collecting sacrifices.

However, despite the countless doubts in his heart.

Chen Xu did not show the slightest hint of it on his face.

He knew that hundreds of thousands of eyes were currently fixed on him.

As the Alliance Leader, he could not show the slightest wavering.

His gaze swept over the crowd below, who had once again fallen into unease due to Jiang Bai’s dying words. His voice was calm, yet carried undeniable power.

"Issue the order."

"The Four Great Legions are to immediately clear the battlefield and wipe out the remnants of the Blood Fiend Sect. Leave none alive."

The simple command instantly pulled everyone back from their state of shock and uncertainty.

"Yes!"

The four Legion Commanders accepted the order in unison.

Soon, hundreds of warships moved out again, sweeping like combs over the ruins of the sea of blood.

Killing those Demonic Path Cultivatorss who were terrified out of their wits and fleeing in all directions, one by one.

Chen Xu, meanwhile, took action personally.

He slowly raised his hand and pressed down in the air toward the ruined city below, which was dilapidated and soaked in blood.

Boom—!

The earth shook violently!

An invisible great power enveloped the entire Wangchuan City ruins.

Under everyone's shocked gaze.

The murky blood water was forcibly evaporated!

After completing this, Chen Xu did not stop.

He waved his hand again.

Thousands of Storage Pouches belonging to the Blood Fiend Sect Cultivators collected from the battlefield gathered before him.

"In this battle, the Azure Dragon Legion served as the vanguard and rendered great service."

"The Vermilion Bird Legion remained calm in the face of danger and shall be rewarded."

Chen Xu's voice entered the ears of every single person.

He did not pocket the spoils of war; instead, he did so in front of everyone.

He began distributing rewards based on merit!

He personally named the soldiers who had performed bravely in the battle, placing Storage Pouches filled with Spirit Stones and Medicinal Pills.

Directly into their hands.

The Cultivators whose names were called trembled with excitement.

Their faces were full of disbelief!

They knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly to Chen Xu, the worship in their eyes.

Nearly overflowing!

In an instant, the atmosphere of the entire allied army was pushed to a climax once more.

The previous gloom was completely washed away by this sudden bestowal of rewards!

In everyone's hearts... only awe and reverence for this new Alliance Leader remained!

Decisive and ruthless in killing—that makes an overlord!

Showing both grace and might—that makes an emperor!

The Sect Master of the Hegemon Blade Sect, Liu Ruyan, and the others watched this scene unfold.

Their understanding of Chen Xu was once again refreshed... Night deepened.

Above the ruins of Wangchuan City, the great army of the Righteous Path Alliance set up camp and lit bonfires.

Visibly, joy radiated from everyone's faces.

Chen Xu, the greatest contributor to this major victory.

Did not appear at the banquet.

He stood alone at the highest point of the city.

Standing with his hands behind his back, he gazed into the distance toward the north, where the Devilish Qi was densest.

His expression was solemn, and no one knew what he was thinking.

The evening wind blew past, lifting the wide sleeves of his green robe, making his already solitary and lofty figure.

Even more desolate and lonely.

Just then.

A faint, subtle fragrance of elegance quietly drifted over.

A white cloak, carrying a faint body warmth and feminine fragrance, was gently draped over his shoulders by a pair of slender jade hands.

Murong Zhuyun's figure had appeared behind him at some unknown time.

"Why are you here?"

The next moment, Chen Xu’s voice reached Murong Zhuyun’s ears.

"Wherever Teacher is, Zhuyun is."

She replied softly from the side, her voice firm and carrying a sense of persistence.

"No matter how lively the banquet is, without Teacher, it is merely noise."

Her words were not flattery, but came straight from the heart.

In her heart, all things in this world, all the prosperity and clamor, were nothing but illusion without his presence.

Only he was worthy of her wholehearted devotion.

Worthy of her giving everything she had.

Moonlight, like water, spilled onto Chen Xu's profile, outlining his profound and perfect features.

Those calm eyes were currently gazing into the distance.

No one knew where his thoughts drifted.

Murong Zhuyun gazed at him, her thoughts surging like a tide.

Scenes from the time she had known him involuntarily flashed through her mind.

Their first meeting... was at the Qingyun Immortal Sect in the South Spirit Prefecture.

At that time, he was merely the head of a minor Family, the Ninghai Chen Family.

But this Imperial Tutor, at the Qingyun Immortal Sect, suppressed all the Nascent Soul Elders by himself.

Including the Sect's Grand Elder.

That dominance and composure, that absolute control over power, still made her heart tremble to this day.

It was the first time she realized that such a powerful person existed in the world, powerful enough to overturn all her previous understanding!

At that time, her feelings for him were mostly awe.

It was shock!

Later, the Great Feng Dynasty went to war with the Demonic Path Alliance, and flames of war swept across the South Spirit Prefecture.

The Demonic Lord of the Demonic Path dominated the region, engaging in endless slaughter.

The entire South Spirit Prefecture was shrouded under the shadow of the Demonic Path.

She had once believed that the South Spirit Prefecture would be completely lost, the Luck of the Human Race would be exhausted, and she would fall along with it.

But he stood up again.

Strategizing in the command tent and winning battles a thousand miles away.

He did not simply break through with brute force; instead, he used strategy and planning, manipulating the Demonic Path within the palm of his hand.

She personally witnessed how he stabilized the borders of the Great Feng Dynasty step by step.

And how he used thunderous methods to slay the Demonic Lord, and how he single-handedly turned the tide, protecting the foundation of the Great Feng Dynasty.

That composure and wisdom, that sense of responsibility for the common people, filled her with longing and spontaneous admiration.

He was no longer a distant, unreachable mountain Peak.

Later, during the time he was gone, the four Demonic Path Sects made a comeback, breaking through the defenses of the South Spirit Prefecture Righteous Path Alliance with thunderous momentum.

The Righteous Path Alliance of the South Spirit Prefecture was in imminent danger, and they sought aid from the Righteous Path of Central Prefecture.

The Qingyun Immortal Sect, moreover, was besieged by the Demonic Path army.

It was hanging by a thread!

Its lineage was almost severed!

It was Chen Xu again, who suddenly appeared and single-handedly.

Rescued the entire Qingyun Immortal Sect.

Following that, came the Alliance meeting at Heavenly Sword Peak in Central Prefecture.

The Heavenly Sword Sect, the leader of the Central Prefecture Righteous Path, set up a shocking killing trap, using him as a sacrifice!

Yet Chen Xu faced two half-step Soul Transformation experts!

The human emperor seal suddenly appeared, its Imperial Might vast. Ten thousand swords turned against their masters, and in the blink of an eye, over a dozen Heavenly Sword Sect Nascent Soul Elders perished, and the half-step Soul Transformation Heavenly Sword Ancestor was reduced to ashes.

Standing behind him, she personally witnessed him single-handedly force the entire Central Prefecture Righteous Path to submit, with no one daring to utter a single word of dissent.

That unparalleled combat power and that domineering aura of controlling the overall situation constantly made her blood boil and further strengthened her resolve.

Regardless of life or death, she would fight alongside him and never retreat.

That was not simple allegiance... That was the determination to tightly link her own destiny with his.

And today, at the sea of blood in Wangchuan City.

Three million Mortals were blood-sacrificed, resentment surged to the heavens, and demonic flames raged.

She thought this would be a tragic and difficult siege.

Perhaps even incurring heavy losses.

But he once again overturned everyone's imagination.