244: Chapter 244 The Destruction of the Glazed Holy Land

The power that Xiao Hei erupted with at this moment was far greater than before.

It was an essential improvement, as if an ancient fierce god, long dormant, had finally opened a sliver of its eye!

"Not good!"

The spirit of the emperor weapon let out an urgent hum of alarm. From the surging dark light, it sensed a fatal crisis that could threaten its Origin!

It frantically urged the liuli world purifying lamp, and the Chaos flames and Order Dragons burned to their limit, attempting a final resistance.

But it was too late!

"Crack... Boom!"

In the face of that comprehensively enhanced absolute power, the Chaos flames, bolstered by the Emperor Formation, flickered violently like a candle in the wind, then exploded with a roar!

The Law chains, like Order Dragons, snapped inch by inch, shattering into their most fundamental light particles!

The dark giant claw, with an unstoppable momentum, completely crushed the last defensive line constructed by the spirit of the emperor weapon, striking squarely upon the dazzling body of the liuli world purifying lamp!

"Clang—!!!"

A mournful clang, shaking the universe, as if a great bell had been shattered, resounded!

The liuli world purifying lamp trembled violently, its light instantly dimming. The indestructible liuli light screen, jointly constructed by it and the Myriad Saints Homage Emperor Formation, emitted a piercing, cracking sound under the irresistible force of the dark giant claw, unable to bear the weight!

"Crack—Boom!!!"

Like a mirror utterly shattered, the peerless Emperor Formation that had guarded the Glazed Holy Land for tens of thousands of years, at this moment, disintegrated with a roar!

The phantom images of myriad saints wailed and dissipated, Formation bases exploded everywhere, and terrifying energy Turbulence, like wild beasts unleashed, instantly backfired and swept downwards!

"No—!"

"Quick, dodge!"

Screams and cries of alarm rose and fell.

Many Disciples with lower Cultivation Bases had no time to react and were instantly reduced to ashes, body and Soul destroyed, by the shockwaves from the exploding Formation bases and the out-of-control Formation energy!

Even more were swallowed by spatial rifts or torn to shreds by violent Spiritual Qi.

The former pure land of the Holy Land had now become a veritable Asura field, with mangled flesh and mournful cries everywhere amidst the ruined walls.

The entire Holy Land shook, its Spiritual Veins in disarray, as if the end of days had arrived.

Defeated, utterly defeated!

Without any power to resist!

The blurry figure of the spirit of the emperor weapon trembled violently, becoming almost transparent. It looked at the shattered grand Formation and the instantly heavy casualties among its Sect members below, letting out a hum filled with pain, anger, and disbelief, staring fixedly at Xiao Hei.

"Your Excellency... are you truly going to take things to such an extreme?!"

Its voice no longer carried imperial might; instead, it held a hint of desperate shock and anger, and a subtle plea?

The Emperor Formation was broken, the Holy Land's gates were wide open, with no more barriers, and its members lay dead and wounded.

If the opponent insisted on acting, the Legacy of the Glazed Holy Land might truly face a great catastrophe today!

At this moment, all was silent, save for the roar of the Holy Land collapsing, the wails of the dying, and the despairing question of the spirit of the emperor weapon echoing in the air.

The figure of the dark fierce bird, like a world-destroying demon god, stood above the unprotected, blood-soaked Glazed Holy Land, coldly overlooking everything.

The hearts of all the high-ranking members of the Glazed Holy Land, along with the collapse of the Emperor Formation, the tragic deaths of the Disciples, and the spirit of the emperor weapon's question, sank into a bottomless abyss.

Despair, like icy, bone-chilling tides, drowned the Soul of everyone.

Facing the despairing and pleading question from the spirit of the emperor weapon, Xiao Hei's deep, dark pupils showed no ripples, only endless coldness.

It spoke indifferently, its voice like a chilling wind from the Nine Netherworlds, sweeping through everyone's hearts.

"I want to destroy them because they deserve to die!"

The figure of the spirit of the emperor weapon trembled violently. It could feel the undeniable, resolute killing intent in Xiao Hei's words; it was no mere threat.

An ominous premonition bit at its spiritual core like a venomous snake.

It quickly transmitted a more urgent thought, even with a hint of compromise.

"Your Excellency! Wait! Regardless of the reason, perhaps there is room for maneuver?

The accumulated resources and Foundation of my Glazed Holy Land over hundreds of thousands of years can all be offered to you! All those who offended Your Excellency, no matter who they are, are at your disposal!

Leave a glimmer of hope for these innocent Disciples of the entire Sect! Is that possible?"

It tried to make a final deal, to preserve the Dao Lineage of Great Emperor Liuli.

However, Xiao Hei didn't bother to explain further.

"You see for yourself."

As the cold words fell, Xiao Hei's heaven-supporting giant claw did not strike the crowd below, but instead, with an aerial slash, it moved towards the depths of the Glazed Holy Land, a Forbidden Ground area cleverly concealed by layers of Immortal Qi and auspicious signs, yet in reality, filled with the deepest resentment!

"Tear—!"

Like tearing a beautiful painting, the outer layer of the disguised Formation shattered like bubbles in the sun, revealing the hidden, sinister Restriction beneath, covered in strange blood-colored runes!

The aura of this Formation was completely incompatible with the majestic Immortal Qi of the Glazed Holy Land, filled with blood and malevolence!

But this layer of sinister Restriction was equally vulnerable before Xiao Hei's claw, instantly crumbling!

The true scene inside the Forbidden Ground was completely exposed to broad daylight, exposed to all the spectators in the distance and the Divine Thoughts of the magnates peering from across the Void Realm!

"Hiss—!"

The next moment, countless gasps of cold air sounded from all directions!

Even the Divine Thoughts of those magnates, accustomed to great storms, erupted with violent fluctuations!

What met their eyes was not some Immortal Secret Realm!

It was clearly a bloody and cruel human purgatory!

Piles of white bones formed mountains, many of them slender, clearly belonging to the young.

More living boys and girls were confined within blood-colored runes, emaciated, their eyes hollow and despairing. Their life essence and Soul Origin were slowly being extracted through a strange method, converging into a huge blood pool in the center, churning with viscous blood and sky-high resentment!

Scattered around the edge of the blood pool were some tattered clothes and Magical Artifacts with clear markings of hostile forces, and even a few tokens belonging to the infamous Blood Fiend Sect that had not yet been disposed of!

The truth, raw and bloody, was laid bare before everyone!

The so-called Liuli Pure Land was secretly engaged in such horrific deeds!

The purgatorial scene within the Forbidden Ground, like the sharpest thorn, fiercely pierced into the eyes and hearts of all who witnessed it!

After a brief silence, the distant spectators erupted in towering anger and disdain!

"That Formation pattern, that blood pool... it looks like the Blood Fiend Sect's 'Myriad Spirit Devouring Blood Formation'!"

A knowledgeable Loose Cultivator Old Monster was the first to exclaim in horror, his voice trembling, "Glazed Holy Land... they actually did..."

His words were like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly stirring up a thousand ripples!

"So the rumors were true!"

The Sect Head of a large Sect suddenly looked at his friend beside him, his face filled with lingering fear and shock.

"Many years ago, I heard that some Elders of the Glazed Holy Land had secret contact with the Blood Fiend Sect. At the time, I thought it was groundless rumors, and that someone was maliciously slandering them. I never expected them to fall to this extent!"

"More than just contact!"

An old woman nearby, privy to more inside information, shrieked, her voice trembling with anger.

"I heard that their so-called quasi-Holy Son, Xue Wuhen, is the Blood Demon Sect Sect Leader's own nephew! It's ironclad proof of the Glazed Holy Land's collusion with the Demonic Path!"

This statement caused an even greater uproar!

"What?! That Xue Wuhen, who was once suppressed in the latrine, is actually the Blood Demon Sect Sect Leader's nephew?!"

"Hiss—Now that you mention it, I remember! A hundred years ago, several small vassal states on the eastern border successively experienced large-scale disappearances of people, with no bodies found, dead or alive. The investigations all pointed to the Misty Marsh, and it was left unresolved! And the Glazed Holy Land happened to be in the vicinity at the time, 'clearing out bandits'..."

Someone brought up an old cold case, causing everyone to look sideways, pondering with extreme fear.

More and more suspicious points, clues once covered by the glorious image of the Glazed Holy Land, were now connected in the face of this ironclad truth.

Any previous sympathy for the Glazed Holy Land, any criticism of Xiao Hei's domineering actions, was instantly replaced by an anger born of feeling greatly deceived and fooled!

This anger was even more fervent than simple hatred!

"Hypocrites! The shame of the Righteous Path!" Finally, someone couldn't hold back and let out a heaven-shaking roar of fury.

"What immortal Holy Land, it's simply a den of iniquity, a demonic lair! Worse than the Demonic Path!"

"Good riddance! Such a cancer should have been eradicated long ago! To prevent it from harming the common people!"

The shouts surged like a tide, and emotions ran high.

The blurry figure of the spirit of the emperor weapon trembled violently as if struck by lightning, almost dissipating.

It looked at the purgatorial scene, sensing the sky-high bloody resentment, and a sense of pain and humiliation originating from its Origin, stronger than being defeated by Xiao Hei, overwhelmed its spiritual intelligence.

A wave of unwillingness and a last sliver of hope drove the faint Divine Thought of the spirit of the emperor weapon, like a dying tentacle, to violently pierce into the Sea of Consciousness of the ashen-faced Sect Leader Lapis Lazuli Boundless below, forcibly flipping through his memories!

The next moment, an even darker truth flooded into the spirit of the emperor weapon's perception.

It saw how Lapis Lazuli Boundless and several core Elders had secretly colluded with the Blood Fiend Sect to set up this evil Formation that devoured Souls and extracted Essence.

Countless fresh lives, especially those young boys and girls with pure roots and bones, whose primordial yin and yang had not yet leaked, were abducted like livestock, and their life essence and Soul Origin were extracted in extreme agony.

This massive life force and pure Soul Power extracted were not merely used to enhance the Cultivation Bases of a few individuals like Lapis Lazuli Boundless!

Instead, they utilized the purification attribute in the Great Emperor Liuli's Legacy Cultivation Technique to secondary extract life blood Qi, removing the resentment and Impurities within it, transforming it into a nearly Origin-level Lifespan-extending essence!

Most of these essences were actually delivered to the Old Ancestors of past generations who had sealed themselves in the depths of the Forbidden Ground, serving as the ultimate Foundation of the Glazed Holy Land!

All the Old Ancestors in the entire Forbidden Ground were beneficiaries of this bloody feast!

They might not have been the direct planners and executors of these crimes, but they were definitely privy to them and tacitly approved!

They clearly perceived the source of the continuous influx of life force that nourished their decaying bodies, but they chose silence, chose to accept.

They relied on the lives of countless innocent people to prolong their own decaying bodies and delay their decline!

The highest echelons of the entire Glazed Holy Land, from the contemporary Sect Leader to the sleeping Old Ancestors, had long been rotten to the core, from top to bottom!

The blurry figure of the spirit of the emperor weapon trembled violently as if struck by lightning, almost dissipating.

A sense of pain and humiliation originating from its Origin, stronger than being defeated by Xiao Hei, overwhelmed its spiritual intelligence.

"How... how could this be..."

It let out a nearly collapsing hum, its faith completely shattered at this moment.

It finally understood why Xiao Hei said, "They deserve to die."

Guarding such a Sect, what face did it, the spirit of the emperor weapon, have to call itself the Legacy of the Great Emperor?

Sect Leader Lapis Lazuli Boundless of the Glazed Holy Land and the various Old Ancestors and Elders were ashen-faced at this moment, trembling like sieves, unable even to stand.

It was over, everything was over! The biggest secret was revealed in the cruelest way!

Just as the entire Glazed Holy Land plunged into despair and various forces angrily denounced them, the liuli world purifying lamp, suspended in the air with its light dimmed, suddenly emitted mournful hums on its own.

The spirit of the emperor weapon surveyed the land it had guarded for tens of thousands of years, now filled with sin.

A sigh filled with endless vicissitudes, sorrow, and disappointment, as if transcending ancient time and space, resonated in everyone's hearts:

"Alas..."

"My Lord, Great Emperor Liuli, once dominated an era, suppressed the turmoil in the Forbidden Zone, and carved out a pure land for the Human Race. His glory illuminated the ages, what a heroic figure..."

The voice of the spirit of the emperor weapon carried reminiscence and immense glory, but then turned into heart-wrenching pain.

"I never expected future generations to be so unworthy! To commit such monstrous acts, disgracing the Great Emperor's heroic name and defiling the Dao of Liuli. Such sins are beyond redemption, even with a myriad of deaths!"

Above the high heavens, the killing intent in Xiao Hei's cold pupils was resolute; it clearly had no patience to wait any longer.

However, just as its destructive power was about to pour down again, an unexpected change occurred!

The spirit of the emperor weapon, suspended in the air, its light dimmed, its figure almost dissipating, suddenly erupted with one last unimaginable burst of light!

This light was not directed at Xiao Hei, but contained an ultimate will of extreme grief, resolve, and self-destruction!

"Great Emperor... I have failed your expectations, allowing the Dao Lineage to be defiled to this extent. You are unforgivable!"

The spirit of the emperor weapon let out a blood-curdling hum. Its gaze suddenly locked onto the ashen-faced Sect Leader Lapis Lazuli Boundless below, those core Elders who participated, and those decaying auras of Old Ancestors who relied on blood sacrifices to extend their Lifespan!

"You are unworthy of bearing the Great Emperor's name! Unworthy of existing in this world!"

Before its words finished, the liuli world purifying lamp vibrated with a roar. What poured out from its mouth was no longer purifying divine light, but transformed into countless extremely sharp liuli divine swords, containing fragments of the Great Emperor's Law!

These divine swords seemed to have eyes, carrying the towering wrath and endless humiliation of the spirit of the emperor weapon, instantly striking down at everyone!

"No! Emperor Weapon, spare me!"

Lapis Lazuli Boundless was terrified and desperate, trying to struggle, but under the suppressive might of the enraged Emperor Weapon, he, along with the surrounding core Elders, could not even put up the slightest resistance.

"Puff! Puff! Puff!"

The dense sound of blades piercing flesh rang out, accompanied by the tragic wails of shattering Primordial Spirits.

Lapis Lazuli Boundless and the others, along with their Souls corroded by sin, were instantly annihilated, body and Soul, turning into ashes under these liuli divine swords that embodied both purification and judgment!

Having done all this, the light of the liuli world purifying lamp completely receded, becoming ancient and unadorned. It turned towards Xiao Hei, transmitting a complex wave of thought, containing both resolve and a sense of relief: "Is this... enough?"

Xiao Hei looked at it indifferently. The aura of destruction on its giant claw had not dissipated, and a cold thought responded.

"Not enough. I said the Glazed Holy Land no longer has a reason to exist."

The cold declaration once again echoed through heaven and earth.

The next moment, the giant claw covered in dark scales, carrying the ultimate power to erase everything, slowly pressed down towards the chaotic main body of the Glazed Holy Land, which had lost its core.

The target was the tens of thousands of miles of palace complexes, the source of the boiling Spiritual Veins, and all the Foundations that carried tens of thousands of years of history and sin!

"Boom—"

There was no deafening explosion, only a Soul-shaking sound of "annihilation."

Wherever the claw passed, except for the helpless boys and girls in the blood pool, all matter, energy, and even residual Formation runes were completely erased.

Mountains, rivers, pavilions, terraces—everything that symbolized the glory and existence of the Glazed Holy Land was utterly wiped from the face of the earth by this one claw.

Four thousand characters, two chapters combined.

The next chapter is uncertain, depending on the specific situation tonight.