464: The dust has settled, the Li family has been massacred.
Heaven and earth were deathly silent.
The terrifying pressure brought by Li Xuancang's desperate strike, which had burned his everything, vanished into thin air.
As a Half-step Mahayana expert, his final traces of existence in this world for hundreds of thousands of years...
...also turned into dots of light filling the sky, which were blown by the wind and returned completely to the void.
In the Void Realm, the dozens of surviving Li Family Elders were like puppets with their Souls sucked out, floating blankly in place.
There was no more fear or hatred in their eyes, only emptiness and daze.
Old Ancestor... that invincible Old Ancestor who had lived for a hundred thousand years and was regarded as the hope and reliance of the Li Family.
That Li Family myth who had burned his dao body, Nascent Soul, and Divine Soul to unleash a world-destroying strike.
Was he really cut down by that young man's casual sword strike?
Thud.
A Li Family Elder's Dao Heart completely collapsed at this moment.
His eyes rolled back, and he fell straight down from the high sky, his fate unknown.
Then, it was as if a chain reaction had been triggered.
One Li Family Elder after another either giggled like they had lost their minds or wailed with tears and snot, completely losing even half the dignity a Dao Integration Great Expert should have.
Their sky had collapsed.
The Li Family was finished.
In the distance, all the observers in South Heaven Immortal City seemed to have been placed under a binding spell.
Whether it was the esteemed Half-step Mahayana Nangong Bo above the Nangong Bo's Mansion...
...or the heads and Old Ancestors of major families like the Wang and Zhang families.
Or the countless Cultivators who witnessed this earth-shattering battle through various Water Mirror Screens.
Everyone stood with their mouths agape, as if a piece of red-hot iron had been shoved down their throats.
They couldn't utter a single word, only making "he... he..." wheezing sounds.
Shocked?
Horrified?
No, these words were no longer enough to describe their current feelings.
It was a fear of the unknown and great power originating from the depths of their Soul.
One sword strike.
Just one sword strike.
Completely obliterated a Half-step Mahayana who had burned everything.
What kind of concept was this?
It meant that even if Li Xuancang gave his all, he didn't even have the qualification to make the opponent get serious.
Nangong Bo only felt a chill all over his body, a coldness rushing from his tailbone straight to the crown of his head.
He asked himself, what would his fate be if he faced Li Xuancang's final, suicidal Xuanhuang Finger?
The answer was: if he didn't die, his dao foundation would be shattered, and he would never progress another inch in this life.
But that young man named Shen Mo had merely swung a sword casually.
As casual as brushing dust off one's clothes.
"Gulp."
Nangong Bo swallowed hard, feeling his throat was incredibly dry.
He looked at the young figure standing with the sword; there was no longer any hint of testing or scrutiny in his eyes, only a wariness and awe so thick it couldn't be dispersed.
In the Void Realm.
Shen Yuanmo showed no emotional fluctuations regarding Li Xuancang's death.
As if the one he had just killed was truly just a slightly stronger ant.
He withdrew the great evolution immortal slaying sword, letting it float quietly by his side.
Then, his indifferent gaze slowly moved down, falling upon the Li Family estate on the ground, which spanned thousands of miles with continuous pavilions and towers.
The next moment.
An invisible and intangible, yet vast as the sea, terrifying Divine Sense...
...centered on him, instantly covered the entire Li Family manor like mercury spreading over the ground.
Everywhere the Divine Sense passed, everything in the manor was clearly presented in his mind.
Rockeries, flowing water, gardens, secret rooms... and every living being with mana fluctuations in their bodies.
From the Qi Refining children who had just introduced Qi into their bodies and were meditating...
...to the Void Return Elders in secluded cultivation, attempting to break through their Bottleneck.
Hundreds of thousands of Li Family Cultivators, regardless of gender or age, regardless of cultivation level...
...were all accurately marked with an invisible death brand by his immense Divine Sense in this instant.
After doing all this, Shen Yuanmo's voice rang out again.
The voice wasn't loud, but it seemed to contain some fundamental truth of heaven and earth, reaching the ears of every living being in South Heaven Immortal City with absolute clarity.
"From this day forward, there shall be no more Li Family in South Heaven City."
As his voice fell...
...he joined his fingers into a sword and made a light stroke from the heavens toward the vast Li Family manor below.
A truly casual movement.
"Buzz—!"
A torrent of Chaos Sword Qi spanning heaven and earth suddenly took shape.
The torrent of Sword Qi appeared as a deep chaotic gray, as if the Heavenly River were pouring down, or like divine punishment descending upon the world.
Carrying a terrifying aura that could slay all things and end everything, it washed down mercilessly toward the Li Family manor below.
In an instant, time and space seemed to freeze.
All the Cultivators in the city watched helplessly as the torrent of Sword Qi, capable of destroying everything, landed precisely within the boundaries of the Li Family manor.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
No destructive shockwaves.
Everywhere the torrent of Sword Qi passed, all sounds fell silent.
The Li Family Cultivators locked by Shen Yuanmo's Divine Sense, whether they were hiding in secret rooms with astonishing defensive power...
...wearing life-saving robes, or having crushed precious Death-substitution Talismans...
...the moment they came into contact with that Chaos Sword Qi, their bodies along with their Divine Souls didn't even let out a single scream.
They were directly decomposed, annihilated, turned into fly ash, and vanished without a trace.
The entire process was precise, efficient, and cold to the extreme.
Then, an unbelievable scene occurred.
Inside the Li Family manor, besides the Cultivators, lived tens of millions of Mortals.
They were the Bloodline descendants of the Li Family Cultivators, servants in charge of various chores, and ordinary people who depended on the Li Family for survival.
When that terrifying torrent of Sword Qi washed over them...
...they only felt their vision go dark before being knocked unconscious by a gentle yet irresistible force, falling haphazardly to the ground, completely unharmed.
Even in that vast Li Family manor, aside from all the Cultivators turning to ash...
...not even the pavilions, flowers, or trees were damaged in the slightest!
One sword strike wiped out a hundred thousand Cultivators.
Yet it didn't harm a single blade of grass or a single Mortal.
What terrifying control this was.
Nangong Bo, the Old Woman of the Wang Family, and others witnessed this and felt cold all over, as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.
This was more frightening than leveling the entire Li Family along with the manor.
This showed that every move the opponent made had leeway; everything was under his control.
Cutting the grass, yet leaving the roots.
No, it wasn't leaving the roots.
It was leaving behind the Li Family's Mortal Bloodline, forcing them from being the descendants of a high-and-mighty cultivation Family to the lowest-level Mortals in South Heaven Immortal City.
This was even more cruel than killing them.
As the last Li Family Cultivator turned to ash, that torrent of Chaos Sword Qi also quietly dissipated.
Silence returned to heaven and earth once more.
The Li Family manor still stood there, magnificent and grand.
Except, there was no longer a single Cultivator inside.
From then on, the Li Family, this behemoth that had passed down its Legacy in South Heaven Immortal City for hundreds of thousands of years, was left with only Mortals.
Shen Yuanmo slowly lowered his joined sword fingers, his expression still indifferent.
After doing all this, it was as if he had completed a trivial task.
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