100: Swords flash across flowing clouds, blood surges like raging waves.

A dark blue streak of light tore through the clouds, its speed so fast that it left a series of piercing sonic booms in the sky.

Ye Chen's expression was icy, and the intent of Chaos swirled within his eyes as he took in the sight of the massive city in the distance, shrouded in towering blood-red light and pitch-black Devilish Qi.

Even from tens of miles away, the nauseating scent of blood and the despair and resentment filling the world were already rushing towards him.

Above Liuyun City, hundreds of blood-colored pillars of light shot into the sky, converging above the firmament to form a massive, slowly rotating blood-red vortex.

At the center of the vortex, space was violently twisting, with hideous pitch-black cracks appearing and disappearing.

A terrifying pressure, far exceeding the Earth Fiend Realm or even the Tiangang Realm, was emanating from within, causing the heavens and earth to lose their color.

The true form of the Moon-Erosion Demon Venerable had not yet fully descended, but its aura already made the living beings within a hundred miles tremble.

Inside the city, the once-prosperous streets had turned into ruins, with cries, sounds of slaughter, and the roars of Yao Beasts interweaving.

Countless low-level Dark Hall Cultists and demonized Yao Beasts were rampaging through the city, hunting down the surviving innocent civilians.

More Dark Hall experts were guarding the blood sacrifice Formations to ensure the ritual was not interrupted.

A brilliant starlight sword light was clashing fiercely with several powerful black shadows beneath the blood-red vortex—it was Yun Canghai!

His hair and beard were flying, his sword momentum like a river of stars reversing, and every sword strike contained his lifelong cultivation, forcing the few Dark Hall black-robed Elders to retreat repeatedly.

But Yun Canghai's situation was clearly not optimistic.

Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, his robes were tattered, and his aura was no longer as strong as it was at the beginning.

He not only had to face the siege of experts at the same level but also had to divide his attention to resist the Soul erosion and spatial suppression coming from the blood-red vortex.

"Yun Canghai! You are fighting a futile battle! Once the Demon Venerable descends, you will all become blood food!" A black-robed Elder sneered, urging a skull Magic Treasure to spew out a sky full of emerald ghost fire, enveloping Yun Canghai.

"Even if my body dies and my Dao dissipates, I will still block your Demonic Path!" Yun Canghai roared, his star sword qi surging, slicing the ghost fire apart, though his figure swayed.

Just at this moment—

"Hum!"

A sword hum that seemed to come from the depths of the Nine Serenities suddenly resounded through the heavens and earth!

The sword hum was not loud, but it carried a cold Concept of annihilating all things and returning everything to Guixu, instantly overpowering all the noise on the battlefield!

A dark blue sword qi, like a meteor piercing the long night, came from beyond the sky.

Its target was not any person, but a small blood sacrifice Formation in the city district below that was running frantically, extracting the blood qi of hundreds of trapped civilians!

"Who is it?!"

A Dark Hall deacon guarding the Formation looked up in horror, only having time to see a cold sword light flash by.

The next moment!

"Boom—!"

That blood sacrifice Formation, built from precious Materials and guarded by dozens of cultists, along with the Dark Hall deacon and cultists within it, were silently swallowed and decomposed by that dark blue sword qi, turning into the most primitive Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and dissipating into nothingness.

Only a smooth, mirror-like deep pit remained in place, along with the shocked and bewildered surviving civilians.

One sword, the Formation destroyed and people dead!

The whole scene went silent!

All gazes, whether from the Dark Hall side, the struggling Yun Canghai, or the remaining resistance in the city, instantly focused on the figure that had quietly appeared in mid-air.

His green robes fluttered, his black hair danced.

He held an ancient sword radiating dark blue light and the aura of Chaos, his expression cold and stern, his eyes like ten-thousand-year-old ice.

It was Ye Chen!

"Ye Chen?!" Yun Canghai was shocked at first, then felt the aura on Ye Chen, which was far stronger and more refined than before, and a flash of surprise and joy erupted in his eyes. "You... you have broken through?!"

"Dean, I am late."

Ye Chen's gaze swept over the devastated city, looking at the innocent lives that had vanished into the blood sacrifice Formations, and the killing intent in his heart was almost tangible.

He nodded slightly to Yun Canghai, his voice cold and firm, "Leave the rest to me."

"Arrogant junior! Merely having just entered the Earth Fiend Middle Stage, you dare to speak such wild words!" The black-robed Elder manipulating the skull Magic Treasure shouted sternly, but a hint of wariness flashed deep in his eyes.

That sword just now was too strange; it could directly annihilate Formations and living beings without leaving a trace.

Ye Chen's gaze turned to him, as if looking at a dead man.

"Dark Hall, must be executed."

Without any extra nonsense, Ye Chen took a step, and his figure disappeared like a ghost.

"Careful!" Another black-robed Elder exclaimed.

But it was too late.

Ye Chen's figure appeared in front of that black-robed Elder as if teleporting, the guixu sword thrusting straight out.

There was no flashy light, only a point of extreme darkness at the tip of the sword, as if it could swallow even light.

"Nether Ghost Fire Shield!" The Elder was terrified, fully activating the skull Magic Treasure, and the emerald ghost fire condensed into a thick shield to block in front of him.

However, the moment the guixu sword touched the ghost fire shield, the Nether Ghost Fire, which was enough to melt gold and refine stone, dissolved and annihilated as quickly as snow meeting the spring sun!

The point of darkness at the sword tip easily pierced through the shield and tapped on the black-robed Elder's glabella.

The sneer on the Elder's face instantly froze, and his pupils dilated sharply.

He felt his life, cultivation, and even his Soul being rapidly extracted, decomposed, and returned to nothingness by an irresistible force.

"Im... pos... sible..."

Before he could finish his words, his entire body, along with that skull Magic Treasure, shattered inch by inch like a weathered sand sculpture, finally turning into a wisp of blue smoke and dissipating between heaven and earth.

Instant kill!

A Dark Hall Elder at the Earth Fiend Late Stage could not even take one move in front of the post-Breakthrough Ye Chen!

The whole scene was dead silent!

Everyone was shocked by this terrifying scene.

"His Sword Intent... and that power..." Yun Canghai's eyes were full of shock.

He felt that the attributes of Ye Chen's Protective Aura had undergone a qualitative change.

The charm of encompassing everything while also annihilating everything made even him feel a trace of palpitations.

"Form a Formation! Quickly form the Ten Thousand Demon Bone-Eroding Formation! This brat is strange, he cannot be fought head-on!" The remaining three black-robed Elders were shocked and angry, quickly huddling together.

Devilish Qi surged from their bodies, connecting together to form a huge devilish net covering the sky.

Countless hideous devilish shadows roared within it, enveloping Ye Chen.

This combined Formation was enough to trap and kill a powerhouse at the Tiangang Early Stage!

Facing this towering devilish might, Ye Chen's eyes remained cold.

He slowly raised the guixu sword, his internal Chaos Gang Qi surging and flowing, integrating into the immortal Sword Intent and the true meaning of the annihilation of Guixu.

"One sword, Guixu."

He whispered softly, and the guixu sword in his hand suddenly erupted with unprecedented dark light.

That was not pure light, but "Darkness" that swallowed everything!

The sword light swept across the sky.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a Domain of absolute "Nothingness" spreading along the trajectory of the sword qi.

The devilish net enveloping down and the roaring devilish shadows disappeared silently the moment they touched this "Nothingness" Domain, just like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser.

The Ten Thousand Demon Bone-Eroding Formation, broken!

"Pfft!"

The three black-robed Elders hosting the Formation were hit hard, spitting out large mouthfuls of blood simultaneously.

Their auras instantly withered, and their eyes were filled with boundless fear as they looked at Ye Chen.

"Monster! He is a monster!" One Elder screamed.

Would Ye Chen give them a chance to breathe?

He moved again, his sword light flashing like a grim reaper's scythe.

"Chi!" "Chi!" "Chi!"

Three heads filled with horror and unwillingness flew into the sky, then, along with their bodies, were completely annihilated by the following Guixu Sword Intent.

In the blink of an eye, the four Dark Hall Elders who had besieged Yun Canghai were wiped out!

Within Liuyun City, the remaining Dark Hall Cultists and monsters fell into a panic.

Yun Canghai flew to Ye Chen's side, looking at Ye Chen, whose aura was steady as if he had just done a trivial thing, exhaled a long breath, and a look of relief finally appeared on his face: "Good! Good lad!"

Ye Chen, however, looked up at the blood-red vortex, which was slightly fluctuating due to the death of the hosting Elders but still stable, and said in a deep voice: "Dean, the real trouble is still above. We must interrupt the blood sacrifice and close the passage!"

He could feel that the will behind the vortex was becoming clearer and stronger.

"Indeed!" Yun Canghai's expression became serious again, "But the core Formation eye must be guarded by stronger experts, maybe even..."

Before he finished his words, a muffled roar that seemed to come from the ancient primordial wilderness suddenly came from the center of the blood-red vortex.

"Roar—!"

A more terrifying and violent pressure descended with a boom!

The vortex twisted violently, and a huge devilish claw covered in pitch-black scales and wrapped in blood-red devilish flames suddenly poked out halfway!

Just the appearance of the devilish claw caused the surrounding space to collapse in large swaths!

The Moon-Erosion Demon Venerable was about to cross the boundary!