Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

The next moment!
Above the Qingzhou Imperial City, less than a hundred feet away from the enormous protective light shield, the space rippled outwards like the surface of a lake where a pebble had been thrown in.

Yu Changsheng, Wang Cheng, and Chen Xueqing appeared out of thin air as if they had stepped out of a water curtain!
There was no wind or thunder, no dazzling light. Only a more restrained yet heavier and more despairing pressure, like an invisible ancient divine mountain, crashed down upon the imperial city!

The protective light shield of the entire imperial city fluctuated violently, emitting a "buzzing" roar that could not bear the strain!
Countless cultivators in the city were forced to their knees by this oppressive force, struggling to breathe and turning pale!
Ordinary people were even more likely to faint!
"Huangpu Hongxuan! Fengyin the Old Dog! Qingzhou Shadow Guard!"

Yu Changsheng's voice was not loud, but it clearly reached every corner of the imperial city, like the voice of judgment from the heavens, carrying a cold killing intent and an unquestionable majesty: "You have colluded with the filth of foreign lands, betrayed Qingzhou, and framed your comrades. Your crimes are heinous! Today, I, Yu Changsheng, with my Void Refinement Realm body, will punish you on behalf of Heaven!"

“Get out!!!”

The last word uttered was like a thunderclap from a clear sky!
Boom——!
Yu Changsheng didn't even make a move; his shout, which contained supreme will and chaotic pressure, was like a heavy hammer, slamming into the light shield of the imperial city's protective array!
Snap! Snap snap—!
The imperial city's grand formation, which was said to be able to withstand the full force of a peak Nascent Soul cultivator's attack, instantly became covered with massive, spiderweb-like cracks on its surface! The light dimmed rapidly! The entire imperial city shook violently under the impact of this shockwave!

"Pfft!" Deep within the palace, several Nascent Soul stage elders who were in charge of the formation simultaneously spat out a mouthful of blood, their faces ashen, their eyes filled with horror!

With just one shout, the imperial city's great formation began to tremble and crumble!
The power of the Void Refinement Realm is terrifying!
Within the imperial city, a deathly silence reigned. All the assembled cultivators, whether die-hard loyalists of the Huangpu family or experts from other forces who had been forcibly summoned, felt a chill run from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads!
They looked up at the three figures in the air, especially the young man who looked like a god or a demon. They had only one thought in their minds: this was not a contest between people on the same level at all!

Huangfu Hongxuan finally appeared on the Star Gazing Platform at the highest point of the palace. His face was ashen as he forcibly suppressed the turmoil in his heart. Standing beside him were several "Yuan Guards" with strange auras, their bodies shrouded in black robes, exuding a strong aura of death and filth, as well as the pale-faced Shadow Guard leader "You Tong" with one eye flashing with fear.

"I...live...forever!"

Huangfu Hongxuan's voice was filled with deep-seated hatred and a hint of barely perceptible bravado, "Do you think that by stepping into the Void Refinement Realm, you can do whatever you want and turn the world upside down? This is the Imperial City of Qingzhou! It is where the fate of the human race rests! If you act recklessly here, you are making an enemy of the entire human race!"

He tried to claim the moral high ground and stir up public sentiment.

Yu Changsheng looked down at him, his eyes glaring as if he were looking at an ant. "Human destiny? You think you're worthy of representing humanity? Colluding with the filth of the Abyss Clan, sacrificing the blood and souls of your own kind, raising 'Purifiers' to hunt down your own kind—is this the human destiny your Huangpu family maintains?"

His voice wasn't loud, but every word was like a knife, clearly reaching everyone's ears and tearing away the most sordid fig leaf of the Huangpu family!

The expressions of countless cultivators in the city changed, their gazes towards Huangpu Hongxuan filled with surprise and anger.

"Insolence! Stop spouting nonsense!" Huangfu Hongxuan shouted sternly. "The Yuan Clan is a scourge to Qingzhou! Everything I have done is to protect Qingzhou! You, Yu Changsheng, who has fused with the tainted source core and possesses a different kind of chaotic power, are the true source of this calamity! Fellow Daoists, this fiend has become a demon, and we should all kill him! By killing him and taking his chaotic source power, we may be able to glimpse the secrets of Void Refinement and ensure eternal peace for Qingzhou!"

He attempted to incite greed and divert attention from the conflict. Sure enough, upon hearing this, some cultivators blinded by greed had a strange glint in their eyes, and their auras became restless.

"Stubborn."

The last trace of warmth vanished from Yu Changsheng's eyes, leaving only a chilling killing intent. "Since that's how it is..."

He slowly raised his right hand, pointing his fingers like a sword.

There was no earth-shattering energy convergence, no dazzling light of laws. Only a pure, ultimate sword intent of annihilation, seemingly capable of ending everything and returning all things to chaos, condensed at his fingertips!

The entire world seemed to lose its color under this sword intent, leaving only eternal grayness and end!
"Return to the Ruins, Annihilation Finger".

Yu Changsheng pointed lightly at the crumbling imperial city formation below, at the star-gazing platform where Huangpu Hongxuan was located, and at the Yuan Guards who exuded a foul aura!
A thin, almost imperceptible gray wisp of air, like a sigh of death, drifted down leisurely.

The gray current of air, though seemingly slow, actually ignored spatial distance and arrived on the light shield of the imperial city's grand formation the moment it appeared!

There were no earth-shattering explosions.

laugh--!
It was like a red-hot iron being pressed onto thin ice.

The Imperial City Array, hailed as the strongest defense in Qingzhou, had its cracked light shield encounter its nemesis the moment it was touched by the gray airflow!
The countless complex runes that formed the light shield, the vast spiritual power that was condensed, the solid spatial barrier... everything was silently annihilated, decomposed, and transformed into the most primitive chaotic energy, and then swallowed up by the gray airflow!
A massive hole, tens of meters in diameter, instantly appeared on the light shield! The edges of the hole were as smooth as a mirror, with wisps of gray air remaining, preventing the formation from repairing itself in any way!
"puff!"

All the offerings below, who were presiding over the formation, coughed up blood again, and those with weaker cultivation even fainted! A piercing cracking sound came from the core of the formation, and several key formation bases that maintained the formation exploded!
The light of the entire imperial city formation dimmed completely, like a candle flickering in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment!
One finger! Just one finger! Broke through the Imperial City's grand formation!
Within the imperial city, all was deathly silent.

All the cultivators, stirred by greed and restless with desire, were instantly sobered up as if doused with a bucket of ice water! Looking at the shocking holes in the great formation and feeling the lingering aura of annihilation that froze even their souls, boundless fear completely overwhelmed them!
What secrets of Void Refinement? What Chaotic Origin Power? In the face of absolute power, greed will only bring destruction!
"Do it! Kill him!" Huangfu Hongxuan roared hysterically, his eyes blazing with fury. He knew he couldn't wait any longer!

Roar!Roar!Roar!
The three eerie "Abyss Guards" beside him moved simultaneously! They had no human emotions whatsoever; their eyes held only the coldness of destruction and the need to carry out orders.

A dense, foul death aura mixed with the powerful primal energy of the Abyss Clan erupted, forming three thick, ink-like torrents of black energy, carrying a strong corrosive and cursed aura. Like three ferocious, foul demonic dragons, they tore through space and rushed straight at Yu Changsheng in the air!

Its power had reached the limit of the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, and even faintly touched the edge of the Void Refinement stage!
At the same time, Huangpu Hongxuan himself made a move! In his hand appeared a simple and ancient-looking jade seal engraved with dragon patterns—the Qingzhou Emperor's Seal!

He bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood essence onto the seal. The seal instantly burst forth with a dazzling golden light, and a majestic and righteous imperial aura that ruled over the mountains and rivers erupted!

He did not intend to confront Yu Changsheng head-on, but rather used the Human Emperor Seal to draw upon the power of the dragon veins of Qingzhou, transforming them into countless golden chains of order that coiled around Yu Changsheng, attempting to restrict his movements and disrupt the operation of his laws!

This is his trump card: using the destiny of Qingzhou as a prison!
The Shadow Guard leader, "Ghost Eyes," flickered and transformed into countless ghostly figures, blending into the surrounding shadows, waiting for the opportunity to launch the most lethal soul assassination!

Facing these deadly attacks from all directions, Yu Changsheng's expression remained unchanged. "You filthy remnants, how dare you act so violently?"

He snorted coldly, not even glancing at the three filthy demonic dragons. He casually waved his left hand.

hum!
The Realm of Return to Nothingness unfolds once more! This time, its scope is not large, merely enveloping the three torrents of filth.

Within the divine realm, time stagnated and space froze! The three mighty demonic dragons instantly seemed to be mired in quagmire!

Even more terrifying, the omnipresent gray aura within the domain surged forth like a swarm of sharks drawn by the scent of blood, frantically devouring and decomposing that filthy source!

Zizzi——!
A sickening melting sound rang out!

The three demonic dragons visibly thinned and shrank! No matter how much they struggled and roared, they could not escape the devouring power of the Void! In just a few breaths, the three filthy demonic dragons, which were formed by the full power of the peak Nascent Soul Abyss Guards, were completely devoured without even a ripple!

The three Abyss Guards trembled violently as part of their filthy essence was forcibly devoured, causing their aura to instantly weaken!

At the same time, the golden chains of order activated by Huangpu Hongxuan also wrapped around Yu Changsheng. However, those golden chains, which contained the dragon vein's fortune and were powerful enough to imprison a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, encountered an invisible barrier composed of the purest chaotic laws when they approached within three feet of Yu Changsheng's body!
Ding-ding-ding-ding!

The chains tightened, emitting a metallic clang, yet they could not advance an inch! Huangpu Hongxuan's face flushed red as he frantically activated the Human Emperor Seal, drawing upon even more dragon vein power.

However, the chaotic barrier around Yu Changsheng remained unmoved. Instead, the chaotic aura eroded in the opposite direction along the chains, causing mottled gray marks to appear on the golden chains, as if they were about to be assimilated into the chaos!

"What?!" Huangfu Hongxuan was shocked. He finally understood how ridiculous his proud imperial destiny was in the face of the true Void Refining Law!

At that moment, a mental spike that was almost completely integrated into the shadows and was silent and invisible, carrying a vicious power that could destroy the soul, suddenly appeared behind Yu Changsheng’s head and stabbed fiercely into his soul sea!
It was the "Ghost Eye's" ultimate strike!
The timing he chose was perfect; it was the very moment when Yu Changsheng waved his hand to deal with the filthy torrent and his body's law barrier resisted the imperial chains!

"Hmph, cowardly rat hiding its head and tail." Yu Changsheng didn't even turn around.

On his back, the slowly rotating mark of the Chaos Origin Beast suddenly lit up with a faint light!
Ouch——!
A deep roar, seemingly from the beginning of chaos, resounded directly in Yu Changsheng's sea of ​​consciousness! It was not a sound wave, but the most primordial chaotic will impact!
That vicious and cunning mental spike melted away silently the moment it came into contact with the chaotic will, like snow meeting the scorching sun!

Along with that, "Ghost Eye," lurking in the shadows, let out a shrill, inhuman scream! His figure, which had blended into the shadows, was forcibly jolted out, blood flowing from his seven orifices. He clutched his head with both hands, as if his soul had been struck hard by an invisible giant hammer. His single eye was filled with endless fear and chaos. He fell directly from mid-air, his fate unknown!

Yu Changsheng then slowly turned his head, his cold gaze falling on Huangfu Hongxuan, whose face was pale and whose eyes finally showed despair.

"Is this all you've got to rely on?" Yu Changsheng's voice was as cold as ice. "Then, Huangpu Hongxuan, your road has come to an end."

He pointed his fingers like a sword and raised them again. This time, the gray energy condensing at his fingertips was no longer minuscule, but rather like a gray lightsaber condensed from the end and chaos, locking onto Huangfu Hongxuan on the observatory!
The shadow of death instantly enveloped the Emperor of Qingzhou completely!
"No!!" Huangfu Hongxuan roared in despair, frantically burning his essence blood and pushing the Human Emperor Seal to its limit. At the same time, he roared at the three Abyss Guards, "Stop him! Stop him at all costs!"

The three listless Abyss Guards' eyes flashed red, and they let out inhuman roars. Their bodies suddenly swelled up, and their filthy essence burned wildly. They were actually trying to self-destruct their essence in the most tragic way to stop Yu Changsheng!

However, Yu Changsheng merely glanced at them indifferently and uttered two words.

"Return to the ruins."

An invisible and vast power of the laws of termination descended instantly!

The three Abyss Guards who were about to self-destruct suddenly froze, as if a pause button had been pressed! Then, the filthy primordial fire burning on their bodies dimmed and went out as if a candle flame had been extinguished!
Their狰狞 faces froze, and their bodies, starting from their feet, silently turned into ashes, scattering in the wind... There was no explosion, no impact, only complete and eternal annihilation!

Beneath the Ruins, one doesn't even have the right to self-destruct!

Without even a flick of the finger, three peak Nascent Soul stage Abyss Guards were annihilated, body and soul!

Pfft!
Huangfu Hongxuan's last psychological defense completely collapsed. He slumped onto the star-gazing platform, the Human Emperor Seal in his hand dimming and rolling to the ground. He looked at Yu Changsheng, who was approaching step by step like a demon god, his eyes filled with boundless fear and despair.

"Spare...spare my life..." he stammered, his lips trembling as he managed to squeeze out those two words.

All imperial dignity, all ambition and aspirations vanished in the face of absolute fear of death.

Yu Changsheng looked down at him, his eyes devoid of any pity, only filled with cold judgment: "Spare our lives? When you colluded with the Abyss Clan, framed Ironwall Fortress, and sent Shadow Guards to hunt us down, trying to kill us all, did you ever think of sparing our lives? When you used the blood of your own kind to sacrifice to the filthy altar, did you ever think of sparing their lives?"

"A blood debt must be repaid with blood!"

The moment the words fell, Yu Changsheng gently pointed out the gray Annihilation Light Sword at his fingertips.

There was no earth-shattering display, only a gray line slicing through the sky.

On the observatory, Huangfu Hongxuan's body stiffened abruptly, the fear in his eyes freezing. (End of Chapter)