Gou's Liver Experience in the World of Demons and Demons

Qin Ling'er's voice was resolute, but also carried an undisguised reluctance and weariness.

She was originally an incomplete spirit, existing only by attaching herself to a spirit embryo. She had already self-destructed once in the Eastern Wilderness to help Gu Sheng fight against Xiao Beixuan. Although she recovered somewhat after being nourished in the ruins of the Imperial Sect, she was far from returning to her peak. Choosing to self-destruct her spirit embryo again now would be tantamount to damaging her very foundation, and might even plunge her into eternal slumber.

Gu Sheng felt a sudden pang in his heart, and a complex emotion welled up within him. But the situation was critical, leaving him no room for hesitation or sentimentality.

He could only respond as quickly as possible within his mind.

"Ling'er... thank you! I promise you, I will survive! I'll wait for you to wake up!"

All of this spiritual exchange happens in a fraction of a second, even a fraction of a second.

In that extremely short instant, in the center of the arena, the boiling true energy and the Daoist aura of the Venerable One within Shi Wufeng's body finally erupted completely!
There was no earth-shattering roar as a prelude. What appeared first was a visible, light-distorting, gray-black ripple of destructive energy, centered on Shi Wufeng's broken body, spreading out silently yet with unparalleled speed! Wherever it passed, the void groaned under the unbearable weight, trembling violently, as if a giant rock had been thrown into a calm lake!
Fine, dark, and menacing spatial rifts, like lightning bolts, appeared out of thin air, spreading and intersecting within a radius of several hundred feet as the ripples spread! That was the self-destruction of a Venerable Realm expert, and the energy released in an instant had reached a terrifying level that was enough to shake and tear apart the stability of local space!
Immediately afterwards—

"BOOM—!!!!!"

A deafening roar, seemingly splitting the heavens and earth, finally erupted with a thunderous boom, albeit a beat late! The sound did not originate from the arena, but rather emanated directly from the core of the destructive energy eruption, shaking the void and piercing through the layers of blockades and restrictions set up by the three Saint Realm experts. Like an invisible hammer, it slammed heavily into the souls of every spectator!

"puff!"

"Wow!"

Many martial artists with weaker cultivation levels were directly shaken by the deafening roar that pierced through the blockade, causing their blood to surge, spitting out blood, and bleeding from their ears and noses! The entire mountain range stretching for tens of thousands of miles seemed to tremble wildly at this loud noise!

Rocks tumbled down, trees were broken, and the ground cracked open! Centered on the arena, a terrifying mushroom cloud, visible to the naked eye and mixed with gray-black destructive energy, spatial turbulence, and fragments of Shi Wufeng's flesh, blood, and soul, shot into the sky, illuminating the heavens in a gloomy haze!
The power of a Venerable Realm cultivator self-destructing their origin is terrifying!
"Gu Sheng!!"

"Help!!"

The sisters, Tantai Xueli and Tantai Xuefei, cried out in horror and tried desperately to rush forward, but were firmly blocked by the powerful figures accompanying the Wanbao Palace.

High in the sky, the burly middle-aged man from the Tianyuan Holy Land—the Zhenyue Holy King—also changed his expression drastically. His body radiated a surge of earthy yellow holy light, and a giant hand covered with rock-like patterns materialized. It was about to disregard the rules and forcefully tear apart the sealed space that was teetering on the brink of collapse due to the impact of the self-destruction energy, and reach into it to rescue people!
"Zhenyue! How dare you!"

A deep, thunderous roar rang out, and the figure of the Myriad Manifestations Saint Lord shifted to the side like a ghost in an instant. His aura was released without reservation like a raging sea, locking onto the Zhenyue Saint King! His body was surrounded by blazing azure jade light, and his eyes flashed with killing intent, like a ferocious beast ready to devour its prey. His cold voice carried a threat that was willing to do anything.

"In the arena of life and death, the rules are paramount! No one is allowed to interfere! Zhen Yue, if you forcefully take action now, you will be openly trampling on the ironclad rule jointly upheld by our five holy lands!"

"I will fight you today, no matter what! Does your Heavenly Origin Holy Land truly intend to completely break ties with my Myriad Manifestations Holy Land and start a Holy Realm war over a mere Eastern Wilderness brat?!"

His aura was fully unleashed, and he stood firmly between the Saint King of Zhenyue and the arena, as if he would immediately take action at the slightest disagreement and turn this place into a battlefield of the Saint Realm!

He knew perfectly well that Shi Wufeng's self-destruction was a foregone conclusion, and Gu Sheng was on the verge of death. At this moment, he could not allow anyone to interfere and had to ensure that Gu Sheng was completely devoured by the self-destructing core! For this, he was willing to threaten war!

The Saint King of Zhenyue paused, his face turning extremely grim.

He certainly wanted to save Gu Sheng, but the attitude displayed by the Holy Lord of Myriad Manifestations at this moment made him hesitant to act rashly. The battle between the Holy Realms was no small matter, involving two major Holy Lands, and could even trigger a chain reaction, affecting the entire situation in Central Continent.

He found it difficult to decide on this responsibility in a short time.

In that instant of confrontation and hesitation—

On the arena, the destructive gray-black energy ripples and towering mushroom cloud had completely engulfed Gu Sheng, along with the spiritual embryo in front of him!

Tantai Mingjing was equally anxious. Her beautiful eyes flashed with cold light, and she raised her hand. The spatial Dao rhythm began to fluctuate violently, but she was a little too far away and was also subtly restrained by the aura of the Myriad Manifestations Saint Lord. In the end, she was a fraction slower than the destructive speed of the self-destruction!
Everything happened in the blink of an eye, so fast that even the Holy Realm could not fully react!
Within the core area of ​​the self-destruction, the scene was beyond human comprehension. Only the extremely violent energy was tearing and annihilating everything.

The first to be impacted was the spiritual embryo incarnation that stood in front of Gu Sheng.

"Ling'er—!!"

Gu Sheng let out a silent cry in his mind.

The moment the spiritual embryo avatar came into contact with the ripples of destruction, its entire body erupted with an incomparably dazzling white-gold light! This was a sign that Qin Ling'er was burning her remaining spiritual essence and drawing upon all the life essence and Daoist principles of the avatar!
The avatar made no sound, but resolutely opened its arms as if to embrace the destructive tide. Its body rapidly expanded in the platinum light, and then…

"Buzz—!!!"

A strange, resounding boom, like the first cry of the Great Dao, emanated from the core of the platinum light! Immediately afterward, a vast energy, no less powerful than Shi Wufeng's self-destruction of his origin, containing pure life and the Dao of Protection, erupted violently, transforming into an arc-shaped, incredibly solid platinum shield wall, which collided head-on with the sweeping gray-black ripples of destruction!

"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!!"

Two equally terrifying energies collided, annihilated, and neutralized each other in mid-air! The blinding light engulfed everything, even temporarily smoothing out and filling the spatial rifts!
The energy generated by the self-destruction of the spiritual embryo, like the most loyal guardian, sacrificed its own complete dissipation to offset more than 70% of the most core and terrifying first wave of Shi Wufeng's self-destruction!
However, the residual power of a Venerable Realm expert's self-destruction was still extremely terrifying! Especially the subsequent shockwaves that spread outwards, and the spatial turbulence that was torn apart!

The remaining destructive energy instantly shattered the remnants of the platinum shield wall and slammed into Gu Sheng's body!

"Snap! Snap! Snap—!"

First, his already shattered golden body was scraped by a million blunt knives at the same time, producing a dense, teeth-grinding cracking sound! The golden body on his arms was the first to completely disintegrate, turning into countless crystal-clear but dull fragments that scattered in all directions, revealing his arms underneath, which were instantly corroded by energy, leaving them bloody, mangled, and with shattered bones!

Next came the legs, then the chest and abdomen...

Gu Sheng gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, feeling an unprecedented pain and life-or-death crisis! He could clearly "see" his own flesh and blood, which, under the onslaught of destructive energy, melted and vaporized rapidly like ice and snow under the sun, or were forcibly peeled and torn apart from his bones by that violent force, turning into even smaller particles that shimmered with a crystal-like luster!

"Roar--!!!"

Gu Sheng let out a roar like a dying beast! At this critical moment, he dared not hold back in the slightest and frantically activated the Thirty-Six Heavenly Divine Techniques! The great dragon on his back seemed to have fully awakened, emitting bursts of roars like dragon cries!
The thirty-six acupoints were like thirty-six miniature suns that had been ignited, operating and connecting with unprecedented power! The overwhelming power of blood and qi, along with the unique and magnificent vitality of the Longevity Path, surged out from his back and from every acupoint like a volcanic eruption!

The pale golden aura of immortality, like the most resilient vines, frantically coiled around his crumbling flesh and blood, attempting to repair, regenerate, and stabilize it! New flesh and blood grew at a visible speed, trying to resist the continuous destructive onslaught.

However, the residual force of Shi Wufeng's self-destruction was simply too strong! It was not just an energy shock, but also contained his extreme resentment before his death, the Dao of destruction, and the power to tear space apart! Gu Sheng's flesh and blood regeneration speed was far slower than the speed at which he was torn apart and annihilated!

"Sizzle—!"

The last piece of the golden glass body on his chest, along with a large chunk of flesh, was ruthlessly torn away, revealing the sternum below, which was as clear as jade but covered with tiny cracks!

The flesh and blood of the arms and legs completely disappeared, leaving only the arm and leg bones, which were also covered with cracks and shimmered with different Daoist luster!

In the blink of an eye, Gu Sheng's once upright body became completely "clean"! Except for his head, which remained intact, all the flesh, fascia, and even most of his internal organs below his neck had been wiped out by the continuous erosion of the destructive energy!

Only a strange "skeleton," crystal clear yet riddled with cracks and radiating the auras of four different Great Daos—Longevity, Fate, Divine Revelation, and Thousand Illusions—remains, suspended alone in the gradually subsiding aftershocks of destructive energy, enduring the final and most dangerous erosion!
The scene was bizarre, tragic, and filled with an indescribable shock! A nearly pure Dao bone floated in the ashes of the Venerable's self-destruction, as if undergoing the most brutal tempering and baptism!

……

Time seemed to have passed for a long time, yet it also seemed to have only been a moment.

As the towering gray-black mushroom cloud slowly dissipated, as the destructive fluctuations that made the void tremble gradually subsided, as the dust and spatial turbulence gradually returned to nothingness... the enormous arena of life and death was completely unrecognizable.

The once solid bluestone ground was mostly gone, leaving behind a huge, charred pit tens of feet deep with radiating edges. At the bottom and edges of the pit, there were still traces of the lingering aura of destruction and spatial cracks.

The sealing barrier set up by the three Saint Realm experts around the arena also became flickering and cracked, clearly having been severely damaged in the previous impact.

The world was utterly silent.

On both sides of the canyon, the spectators who were lucky enough to escape the core of the self-destruction but were still thrown off balance by the aftershocks gradually recovered from their shock and fear.

Still shaken, they stared at the enormous crater, cautiously scanning it with their divine senses, only to sense a lingering aura of destruction and chaos, and... two almost imperceptible fluctuations of life? No, perhaps one of them could no longer be called a fluctuation of life.

"Is it... over?"

"Shi Wufeng...self-destructed...his body was never found..."

"What about Gu Sheng? Is he... dead too?"

"Such a terrifying self-destruction, happening right next to us... I'm afraid..."

"What a pity... such a peerless genius who could force a Venerable Saint Son to self-destruct when he was only at the seventh level of the Sect Realm..."

"Would this be considered... mutual destruction?"

"A seventh-level Grandmaster who perished alongside a Holy Land's Holy Son, a second-level Venerable... My god, this feat is probably unprecedented! Who would believe it if word got out?"

"A magnificent feat! It truly is a magnificent feat! Whether Gu Sheng lives or dies, his name will surely resound throughout the Central Plains after this battle!"

Discussions gradually rose, filled with shock, emotion, regret, and a hint of awe at the unknown outcome. Most people had already concluded that, having withstood the Venerable's self-destruction at such close range, Gu Sheng had no chance of survival and was most likely already perished like Shi Wufeng, body and soul.

After all, everyone witnessed the power of that self-destruction; it even tore space apart and nearly broke through the Holy Realm's seal!

"Gu Sheng...Big Brother..."

Tantai Xueli stared blankly at the devastated, empty pit of the arena. Her anxious shouts from earlier caught in her throat, and her face turned as pale as paper.

Her powerful mental energy swept across the pit again and again, but she could only catch the chaotic residual energy and spatial fluctuations, and... somewhere at the bottom of the pit, there seemed to be an extremely faint, like a candle flickering in the wind... familiar aura?
Is it just my imagination? Or...?

The next moment, that faint aura seemed to completely subside and disappear.

Tantai Xueli's delicate body trembled violently, as if something inside her had suddenly shattered.

She was stunned at first, as if she couldn't understand what was happening before her. Then, an indescribable chill and rage, like a volcano that had been dormant for thousands of years, exploded in her chest! Her once gentle and clear eyes became bloodshot and turned red at a visible speed, and deep in her pupils, it seemed as if icy blue flames were burning wildly!

She suddenly looked up, her gaze no longer fixed on the arena, but rather on the Myriad Manifestations Saint Lord, who was high above, with a complex and inscrutable expression, and even a hint of relief on his face, as if two peerless divine swords, tempered by ten thousand years of ice and imbued with endless killing intent, had suddenly pierced through thousands of feet of void.

"Lord of All Things!"

Tantai Xueli's voice was no longer gentle, but became like a cold wind from the depths of hell sweeping across a glacier. Every word carried a chilling killing intent and determination, clearly echoing in the valley that had just regained its tranquility.

"If Gu Sheng dies... I, Tantai Xueli, hereby swear that I will use all the power of the Tantai family and the Wanbao Palace to search the world, to shatter mountains and rivers, to make sure that your Wanxiang Holy Land... is completely annihilated, leaving not a single chicken or dog alive, not a single blade of grass, to be buried with him!!!" (End of this chapter)