159: Break through the shackles and reach the realm of grandmaster!

Looking at the five mutated entities before him, Su Lei felt a great sense of alarm.

These monsters were clearly Great Grandmaster-level powerhouses in life, but now they had been corrupted and mutated by Demonic Beasts, transformed into even more terrifying existences!

Before he could express his surprise, one of the Bone-Winged Monsters suddenly vanished from its spot.

Its speed was so great that a white Qi wave formed behind it!

The next moment, a sharp gust of wind assailed his face, and a piercing shriek echoed continuously in his ears.

This attack seemed to carry the force of a thousand jin, irresistible!

Facing such a terrifying offensive, Su Lei's expression remained unchanged.

The instant the opponent moved, he instinctively launched a counterattack.

His Protective Aura surged into the Kaitian Blade, coalescing into countless streams of colorful lightning.

The Sword Intent, capable of destroying all things, moved with his will, erupting with full force!

Carrying a fierce wind and thunder, and an Aura that could cleave through anything, he heavily struck at the vulnerable point of the monster's claw attack!

The colorful blade light flashed and vanished, and the space it passed through continuously twisted and shattered.

The moment they collided, the opponent's armored arm snapped in response.

However, the terrifying impact also instantly numbed Su Lei's entire right arm, and blood from his burst tiger's mouth dripped down the hilt of his blade.

Even more terrifying was that at the severed arm's incision, black granulation tissue was regenerating at a visible rate!

"Roar!"

The other four Bone-Winged Monsters launched their attacks simultaneously.

They coordinated perfectly, four streams of black Protective Aura sealing all of Su Lei's escape routes.

The one on the far left even opened its mouth and spat out a corrosive black mist, which dissolved deep pits in the ground wherever it passed.

Su Lei's heart sank to the bottom.

He looked ahead; Hong Tian Venerable's remains floated on an altar ten meters away.

But this distance, at this moment, was like an insurmountable chasm!

"There's no other way..."

He gritted his teeth and activated a secret technique, and another surge of vital essence transformed into crimson flames, erupting from his seven orifices.

This time, even blood tears seeped from the corners of his eyes.

The burning of twenty years of Lifespan instantly aged his face by ten years!

But the power gained in return was astonishing.

The Kaitian Blade was enveloped in dazzling colorful Protective Aura, and the space around its blade vibrated violently.

Su Lei's figure suddenly split into nine, with nine afterimages simultaneously performing different martial Move:

"Eight Desolations Return to Origin!"

"Lone Swan Myriad Blades!"

"Thousand Mountains Cleaving Slash!"

...The true killing Move, however, was hidden in the tenth blade light that suddenly flashed—

It was an attack that fused the essence of all martial arts; wherever the blade pointed, even the black Protective Aura was split, creating a vacuum tunnel!

Now!

Using the power of this blade, Su Lei's figure shot towards the altar like an arrow from a bow.

His goal was clear—

To touch Hong Tian Venerable's remains at all costs!

However, the mutated entities' offensive was like a fierce storm.

In a short moment, the Kaitian Blade already had several cracks, and the power gained from twenty years of Lifespan was rapidly depleting.

His right arm was burned to a bloody mess by the corrosive black mist, and blood continuously seeped from the wound on his left leg, which had been pierced by a bone spur.

The wild and vast black Protective Aura was like a net, tightly pinning him within ten meters of the altar' making it impossible to Move an inch!

Is it going to end...? As this thought arose, a sound of something shattering suddenly came from within his body.

At this moment, Su Lei felt the world become incredibly clear.

He "saw" every wisp of Origin Qi flowing in the air, the trajectory of the Protective Aura when the monsters attacked, and even the last trace of martial Dao intent that had not yet extinguished in his nearly depleted Meridians.

"So that's how it is..."

Su Lei murmured softly, and the Kaitian Blade in his hand moved with his will, drawing an arc of profound mystery—

This blade had no specific Move, yet it seemed to conform to some ultimate truth.

Wherever the blade passed, space continuously shattered, and countless Heaven and Earth Origin Qi gathered like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea!

"Chii—"

The blade light flashed, and the Bone-Winged Monster charging at the front suddenly froze.

It looked down in disbelief, seeing a golden line appear on its indestructible carapace.

The next moment, its body slowly split along the golden line, and the Section (cross-section) even showed a crystallized state!

Even more astonishingly, as this blade was struck, the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi within a hundred zhang radius surged wildly into Su Lei's body.

These pure energies flowed ceaselessly through his Meridians, replenishing all his depleted Protective Aura in an instant.

In his Dantian, a brand new core of power was forming—

The Great Grandmaster realm!

Su Lei's graying hair moved without wind, and the pores all over his body were absorbing and expelling Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.

He clearly felt a mysterious connection forming between himself and this world.

Every gesture could trigger the resonance of the surrounding energy.

"Roar!!"

The remaining four Bone-Winged Monsters let out angry roars, but their attacks were noticeably more cautious.

They could sense that the Aura of this human had undergone a qualitative change.

Su Lei slowly raised the Kaitian Blade.

Without needing to deliberately circulate his Cultivation Technique, Heaven and Earth Origin Qi automatically adhered to the blade, forming a layer of crystal-clear flowing light.

"Again."

His voice was soft, yet it made the four monsters simultaneously retreat half a step.

The next moment, Su Lei's figure suddenly vanished from its spot.

When he reappeared, he was already standing on the first step of the altar, and the heads of two Bone-Winged Monsters behind him flew high into the air.

The remaining two monsters let out piercing shrieks, but Su Lei no longer paid them any attention.

His gaze was fixed on the top of the altar—

Hong Tian Venerable's remains floated there quietly, and the black threads entanglement (entwining) his body seemed to sense something, beginning to writhe violently... Under his focused gaze, the black threads entwining Hong Tian Venerable's remains revealed countless intricate energy nodes.

He swung his blade without hesitation, the edge precisely cutting into the seven most crucial nodes—

"Zheng—"

Like the crisp sound of a broken zither string, those horrifying black threads disintegrated inch by inch.

Su Lei darted forward and hoisted Hong Tian Venerable's remains onto his shoulder.

The moment of contact, a faint but extremely condensed mental fluctuation, surged up his arm and directly into his Sea of Consciousness.

"On your body... I sense the Aura of the Star River..."

This voice resonated directly in the depths of his consciousness, carrying an indescribable weariness and relief.

Before Su Lei could respond, the entire sky suddenly darkened.

—Boom!

Amidst deafening rumbles, the clouds were torn apart like a curtain.

A colossal claw, large enough to blot out the sky, slowly extended, its tip alone the size of a mountain.

With its descent, the space within a hundred-mile radius began to twist and tremble, and pebbles on the ground floated into the air, defying gravity.

Su Lei's bones made a strained "creaking" sound under this immense pressure.

He struggled to look up, finally seeing the full appearance of this monster—

It was a terrifying existence beyond words, its body tens of thousands of meters long, its surface covered in constantly writhing black crystals.

Its head bore hundreds of compound eyes, each reflecting different scenes of destruction.

Most terrifyingly, merely looking at it, Su Lei felt his sanity rapidly fading!

The Demonic Beast's true form!

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