43: Demonic power soaring to the heavens

The slaughter outside the Myriad Sword Pool had already reached a fever pitch.

Sword Absolute Dust summoned over a thousand divine swords, weaving them into a sky-covering sword net in the heavens. The streaks of Sword Qi radiating out sliced the space into a dense web of cracks, like a spiderweb.

Su Quan's expression was indifferent as he stood with his hands behind his back, not knowing what it meant to have an opponent!

Seeing the sword net closing in on him, he simply struck out a light palm, his palm giving rise to infinite creation.

"Great Xumi Palm!"

Sword Intent and Devilish Qi collided wildly, and the resulting turbulent energy currents swept across the eight directions. If not for the sect-protecting array, the Lietian Sword Sect would have likely been reduced to ruins long ago by the aftershocks of the clash between these two world-top powerhouses.

"If you only have this much strength, then you'd better not come out and embarrass yourself!" Su Quan spoke mockingly.

At this moment, his heart was filled only with shock.

The strength of the Burial Heaven Demon Lord was simply too great, several times stronger than he had previously anticipated. The Devilish Qi surging within the body was pure to a perverted degree, easily annihilating Sword Qi and True Essence.

He really didn't know how this guy had managed to cultivate this!

"Good, good, good! Since you are bent on seeking death, then this seat will fulfill your wish today!"

Sword Absolute Dust stood in mid-air, with a thousand divine swords behind her.

After exhausting her methods and still being unable to do anything to Su Quan, she finally made the decision to use the sect's hidden reserves.

"Sword Sect, hear my command! Immortal Slaying Grand Array, rise!"

As her voice fell, clouds and mists billowed, and Sword Intent soared into the heavens.

The sprawling Hundred Thousand Mountains lit up with brilliant radiance. Each gathered a specific momentum and intertwined with one another, outlining incredibly complex and profound array patterns. Infinite Sword Qi condensed into pillars of sky-reaching hurricanes, seemingly wanting to grind gods and demons to dust and overturn the heavens.

White-clothed female disciples of the Sword Sect with long swords on their backs stepped forward like a swarm of locusts, falling into the array according to a strange pattern.

Nearly a hundred Void Refining and Body Integration Stage Sword Sect Protector Elders surrounded the core of the grand array, forming a mutually supportive formation.

Sword Absolute Dust's white robes fluttered as she presided over the central eye of the grand array. Endless power gathered there, causing her aura to climb steadily, drawing down rolling heavenly thunder as if she were no longer tolerated by this Realm.

Facing a super sect that had stood for tens of millions of years and the Immortal Slaying Grand Array composed of hundreds of thousands of female disciples, Su Quan felt a heart-palpitating aura. He narrowed his eyes into a dangerous arc, finally becoming serious.

"Then let this seat experience just what makes the foundation your Sword Sect is so proud of so extraordinary!"

"As you wish!"

Sword Absolute Dust sneered, then shouted violently, "Sword rise, Slay the Immortal!"

"Sword rise, Slay the Immortal!"

Hundreds of thousands of female disciples shouted in unison.

At this moment, their essence, energy, and spirit reached their peak. Under the rules of the grand array, their power all surged into Sword Absolute Dust's body.

The earth shook, and the heavens trembled.

Sword Absolute Dust struck with her sword.

The sword light was magnificent, and the Sword Intent was monstrous. The extremely sharp tip of the sword cut through time and space at this moment, transcending fate. With a posture of judging all living beings, it sought to kill the Demon Lord in one blow.

"Well met!"

Su Quan's expression was grim.

The three top-grade Spiritual Roots within his body flared wildly and enchantingly.

The three ultimate powers of lightning, frost, and Geng-gold were added to his person.

His eyes suddenly snapped open, revealing a blood-red crimson.

"I am the Demon Lord; Immortals and Buddhas shall be extinguished!"

The Devilish Qi behind him raged, dyeing the heavens the color of ink.

Countless phantom images of Devil Heads appeared behind him, all kneeling in submission and worshiping the Sacred Lord of the Demonic Path.

He threw a punch with the overbearingness of suppressing an entire era.

Buzz—

When two diametrically opposed powerful forces collided.

A blinding radiance rose. Even from several continents away, one could clearly feel the Divine Might contained within.

The heat stirred up blew to every corner of the Five Elements Realm.

"Hahaha, exhilarating!"

Su Quan's long hair danced wildly, his demonic thoughts monstrous.

He shook the blood off his hands and closed in, charging straight into the array. He threw another punch that dominated the past and present, deeply imprinting itself into the pupils of every female disciple of the Lietian Sword Sect.

"You... how can you be so strong!"

Sword Absolute Dust's old face was pale, her pupils filled with terror.

Endless sword lights ravaged the heavens and earth, falling toward Su Quan's demonic body.

"The sect-protecting array your Lietian Sword Sect is so proud of is nothing more than this!"

Su Quan's laughter became even more frenzied as his palms struck out with sky-covering Devilish Qi.

The sword lights slashed down upon him, tearing his skin and spraying blood, but that was all. They were fundamentally unable to harm his vital organs or bones.

"World-Breaking Grade? Your strength has already reached the World-Breaking Grade!" Sword Absolute Dust cried out in shock, her old face full of disbelief.

At the Mahayana Realm Perfection, one possesses the qualification to ascend to the Immortal Realm.

But to ascend to the Heavenly Realm, besides facing the rolling Lightning Tribulation, one must also pass through a total of five grand arrays: the Four Symbols, Five Elements, Six Souls, Seven Stars, and Eight Trigrams.

Every grand array is incredibly dangerous. If an ordinary Mahayana Realm Cultivator enters, there is only a path to death.

Only when one's strength far exceeds that of a normal Mahayana Realm Cultivator can they have the certainty of passing safely and breaking into the Immortal Realm. People also call this Realm the World-Breaking Grade, signifying the ability to break through this world and ascend to the Immortal Palace.

"Come again! Today, I will shatter this turtle-shell array of yours!"

Su Quan stood bathed in blood, strong as a god of war.

His demonic intent rose once more, and a vortex of Devilish Qi condensed above his head, growing larger and larger until it enveloped half the world.

Countless Righteous Path Cultivators in the Five Elements Realm all looked over in unison.

Their blood froze, and their hearts were filled with fear.

At this moment, this Five Elements Realm was completely dominated by the Demon Lord.

"I wish to bury the heavens!"

Su Quan's long howl pierced straight into the highest heavens.

A grand and majestic palm strike, with the overbearingness of dominating all eternity, slammed hard onto the Immortal Slaying Grand Array.

The array patterns flowing through the Hundred Thousand Mountains dimmed.

Countless female Cultivators were shaken into spitting out blood, their auras instantly becoming withered.

"Hold on! Hold on!"

Sword Absolute Dust's old eyes were bloodshot. She realized the Sword Sect had reached a critical moment of life and death.

However, what answered her was Su Quan's crushing Chaos step.

Boom—

It was as if a magnitude-ten earthquake had been unleashed.

Mountains collapsed, and the earth was trampled into a several-thousand-meter-deep abyss. Dense cracks spread out like a spiderweb, and the entire continent shifted several hundred meters because of this one step.

Su Quan felt it wasn't satisfying enough and stepped down once more.

This time, the Immortal Slaying Grand Array could no longer hold on.

The female disciples spat out blood and were sent flying by the power's aftershocks, collapsing in the ruins like dead dogs, their life or death unknown.

Three Sword Sect Elders who were struggling to hold on were shaken into a mist of blood on the spot.

For a time, wails filled the land, and everywhere was a scene of devastation.

"Now, this seat wants to borrow the Myriad Sword Pool. Who else objects?"

Su Quan stood with his hands behind his back, sneering repeatedly.

Looking at the Lietian Sword Sect, which was nearly razed to the ground, Sword Absolute Dust knelt tremblingly on the ground. Her hair was disheveled, looking like a madwoman. Turbid tears gushed out as her fists pounded feebly against the ground.

"It is this Old Woman's incompetence; I have failed the ancestors of the Sword Sect!"

"But..."

She suddenly looked up, her face distorted and her eyes blood-red. "Even if I have to exhaust the Sword Sect's Luck today, I will slay you!"

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