207: Chapter 209 Xuanwu Shatters, Elders Annihilated

The moment cracks began to spread across the blood-colored giant claw, Sanshan Wuya's heart sank along with it.

The Xuanwu Array could not suppress Lin Yi.

The moment this thought arose, he found it absurd.

The eight of them, Elders at the Peak of the Divine Body Realm Triple Stage, had burned their Origin to awaken the Xuanwu Blood Soul, and the strike they unleashed was already approaching the threshold of the Undying Realm.

Let alone an Innate from a Small World.

Even those true Divine Body Realm Prodigies from the Mocang Middle Realm shouldn't be able to take such a blow head-on.

Yet, the reality before his eyes was tearing his understanding apart bit by bit.

Lin Yi stood before the boundless water momentum, his black robes fluttering, his pitch-black saber pressing down on the blood-colored giant claw, hacking upward inch by inch.

The blood-colored Xuanwu roared.

Its massive Dharma Image shook violently; blood-colored light surged on the tortoise shell, and the snake head hissed at the sky.

But it was useless.

The water momentum of the Nine Provinces' rivers, lakes, and seas was continuously converging behind Lin Yi.

That was not complete control over a world.

It was a response.

It was as if this Small World, once regarded as a hunting ground by the Sanshan Family, was, at this moment, lending the power of its own water veins to the person standing at the very front.

"Shatter."

Lin Yi spat out a single word.

The saber blade pressed down.

Crack!

The first claw toe of the blood-colored giant claw shattered.

Immediately after, the second, then the third.

Cracks spread all the way to the entire giant claw and then surged along the claw into the massive body of the Xuanwu Dharma Image.

"No!"

A Sanshan Elder's face turned pale.

He wanted to withdraw his Origin and exit the array.

But the Xuanwu Blood Soul had already been awakened; how could it allow him to retreat?

The power of the backlash surged back into his body along the array lines.

The Elder screamed as his chest violently exploded, and a large chunk of his Divine Body Origin was viciously torn away by the Blood Soul.

At that very moment, Lin Yi's saber arrived.

The black saber light pierced through the collapsing array lines, like an abyss spanning heaven and earth.

The Elder's scream came to an abrupt end.

His Divine Body was sliced open.

His Origin was swept up by the water momentum and completely annihilated.

The fourth Elder died.

The Xuanwu Dharma Image collapsed once more.

Sanshan Wuya's eyes were on the verge of splitting.

"Hold steady!"

"Whoever dares to retreat, dies first!"

But as soon as these words left his mouth, he felt they were ridiculous.

It wasn't a matter of whether someone wanted to retreat or not.

It was that they could no longer retreat.

Lin Yi raised his eyes to look at the remaining seven people in the array.

His aura did not weaken from consecutively killing Divine Body Realm Elders; instead, it seemed to become even more refined during the battle.

The shidu-grade "War God" made his Saber Intent sharper and sharper.

Myriad Laws Penetration allowed him to see every change in the Xuanwu Blood Soul more clearly.

The Water Dao Body made his resonance with the Nine Provinces' water momentum deeper and deeper.

This Xuanwu Array was no longer a killing weapon for the Sanshan Family.

It had become a diagram in Lin Yi's eyes.

The array lines were the meridians.

The Origin was the blood.

The Elders were the nodes.

As long as the nodes were severed, the entire array would collapse on its own.

Lin Yi took a step forward.

Ripples of water in the Void Realm spread out.

He did not charge at Sanshan Wuya but slashed at an Elder on the left holding a black spear.

The Elder was both shocked and furious; the black spear in his hand erupted with blinding black light, transforming into thousands of spear shadows, trying to block Lin Yi.

But Lin Yi simply pressed down with his saber horizontally.

The boundless water momentum rolled over the saber edge, and all the spear shadows were like falling into the deep sea, crushed layer by layer until they dissipated.

The main body of the black spear let out a mournful cry.

The next instant, the pitch-black saber slashed through.

The black spear broke.

The person was also severed.

The fifth Elder fell.

"Kill him!"

Sanshan Wuya went completely mad.

He no longer thought about capturing Lin Yi alive, nor did he think about the ownership of the Legacy.

At this moment, he only wanted Lin Yi to die.

Even if it meant mutual destruction.

The remaining six Elders roared simultaneously, burning their final Divine Body Origin.

The blood-colored Xuanwu's body began to fester, yet it erupted with its final ferocious power.

All the cracks on the tortoise shell spewed out blood-colored light simultaneously.

The snake head coiled behind the Xuanwu suddenly detached from the tortoise body, transforming into a ten-thousand-foot blood serpent, lunging at Lin Yi.

Before the blood serpent could even get close, a thick, fishy stench assaulted his face.

That was the Death Qi left after burning the Divine Body Origin.

Lin Yi's eyes were calm, and he gently turned the long saber in his hand.

The boundless water momentum behind him no longer surged outward but suddenly contracted.

Rivers return to the sea.

Ten thousand streams return to one.

All the water momentum condensed into a single line in this instant.

A single line of saber light.

The blood serpent lunged down.

Lin Yi struck with his saber.

The world seemed to go silent for an instant.

Subsequently, the blood serpent was sliced straight open from head to tail by the line of black light.

Boom!

The blood-colored Death Qi exploded and scattered.

Three Elders vomited blood simultaneously, their bodies flying backward directly.

Lin Yi's figure disappeared into the water vapor.

When he reappeared, he was already standing in front of one of them.

One saber strike.

The sixth Elder died.

He took the second step.

The saber light slashed back up.

The seventh Elder's Divine Body shattered.

He took the third step.

A water mirror sealed off the last person's retreat, and the pitch-black saber pierced through his glabella.

The eighth Elder fell.

In just a few breaths, only three of the six Elders remained.

Sanshan Wuya felt icy cold all over.

He finally understood.

This was not an encirclement and killing.

This was a slaughter.

Lin Yi had the ability to slaughter them from the very beginning; it was just that the Xuanwu Array was too complete, and he needed to dismantle it layer by layer.

Now the array was broken, and the Blood Soul was about to be extinguished.

In front of Lin Yi, they no longer had any qualifications to talk about numbers.

"Go!"

Sanshan Wuya finally stopped forcing himself.

He crushed the jade talisman in his hand, wanting to tear open the Void Realm and escape the Nine Provinces.

The other two Elders simultaneously used their life-saving secret treasures.

But just as the Void Realm cracked open, a deep blue water curtain covered it.

The crack closed.

The jade talisman dimmed.

Sanshan Wuya's face turned pale.

"You..."

Lin Yi looked at him and said indifferently:

"I said, the moment you stepped into the Nine Provinces, you were prey."

As his voice fell, he slashed his saber at the remaining two Elders.

The two resisted frantically.

Divine weapons, secret treasures, Origin, and Dao Concepts all erupted.

But within the already collapsed Xuanwu Array, their resistance appeared exceptionally weak.

The first person had his legs wrapped by the water momentum, and the saber light passed through his chest.

The second person roared and burned his Divine Body, wanting to self-destruct.

Lin Yi simply raised his hand and pressed down.

The fourth stage of the Water Dao Concept pressed down, forcefully suppressing his rampaging Origin.

The pitch-black saber then descended.

The tenth Elder died.

Thus, of the eleven Sanshan Family Elders, only Sanshan Wuya remained.

The blood-colored Xuanwu Dharma Image was already broken beyond recognition.

That massive, fierce soul that had once blotted out the sky was now left with only half a tortoise shell and a broken snake head, emitting an unwilling low roar in the sky.

Sanshan Wuya stood at the center of the array, covered in blood, his white hair disheveled.

He watched Lin Yi walk over step by step, and finally, fear appeared in his eyes.

True fear.

"Lin Yi, you cannot kill me."

His voice trembled.

"I am an Elder of the Baichuan Branch of the Sanshan Family. If you kill me, the Sanshan Family will not let you go!"

Lin Yi did not stop.

Sanshan Wuya said urgently:

"Old Ancestor Helong is already on his way!"

"He is at the Peak of the Undying Realm First Stage!"

"He just came out of the Duoluo Secret Realm and even obtained a heavy treasure!"

"If you kill us, when he arrives, the entire Nine Provinces will be buried with us!"

Lin Yi finally stopped.

A glimmer of hope flashed in Sanshan Wuya's eyes.

But the next moment, he heard Lin Yi ask:

"Are you finished?"

Sanshan Wuya's pupils shrank.

The pitch-black saber light had already descended.

"No—"

His voice was swallowed by the saber light.

The last Sanshan Family Elder's Divine Body, Origin, and Divine Soul were all annihilated by a single saber strike.

Boom!

The broken Xuanwu Blood Soul lost its support and finally shattered completely.

The blood-colored light exploded into fragments all over the sky, then was washed away bit by bit by the Nine Provinces' water momentum.

The sky returned to clarity.

The Heavenly Mountain Sect was dead silent from top to bottom.

Everyone looked up at that black-clad figure.

Eleven Elders at the Peak of the Divine Body Realm Triple Stage from beyond the heavens had come, having formed the Xuanwu Array.

Now, they were all annihilated.

Lin Yi sheathed his saber without looking back.

His gaze crossed the Nine Provinces' sky, looking toward the more distant star-filled sky beyond the domain.

Because he knew.

Sanshan Wuya had not lied.

The true Undying Realm was already on its way.