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boom!
Swords gleamed, and the air was thick with the scent of blood.

The surging, foul blood and the sharp, frosty sword light crisscrossed, causing the void above the Great Wall of Swords to crack and shatter.

Zhang Ling and Fang An have been battling for three days and nights, with boundless tribulation energy enveloping the area.

The dense calamity energy generated by the impending destruction of that world and the accumulated filth in the world caused the world of Nanzhao Realm to be continuously corroded and eroded. The laws were also distorted in large swaths, so much so that even though Nanzhao Realm was already littered with corpses and flowing blood, and was desolate and ruined everywhere, it was still no different from the past in the eyes of the creatures of Nanzhao Realm.

The most obvious among them were the cultivators of the Tianzheng Alliance and Fang An.

In Zhang Ling's eyes, Fang An's skin was torn and bleeding, with countless vertical eyes and tentacles sticking out of his flesh and blood and dancing wildly. He was clearly a demon. But in the eyes of others, Fang An was a Xuanmen cultivator surrounded by clear light. As for those Golden Core cultivators of the Tianzheng Alliance, they were either rotting flesh or twisted bones. Some had other people's severed arms stuck in their bodies, and some had strange heads growing from their abdomens. But the creatures of the Nanzhao Realm seemed to be unable to see these things.

Not to mention the creatures of the Southern Illumination Realm, even the cultivators of the Heavenly Righteous Alliance themselves see Golden Core True Persons as having an air of otherworldly elegance. Even these Golden Core True Persons themselves see themselves in the same way.

Nanzhaojie is already sick.

Zhang Ling realized with a deep understanding that the Southern Realm was already terminally ill, and the world had lost its ability to distinguish right from wrong; this world was about to face its end.

The omnipresent aura of calamity and the profound, intense breath of destruction throughout the world are sufficient proof of this.

Being able to clearly realize this is undoubtedly painful, because Zhang Ling can see everything, but has no power to change it.

However, what Zhang Ling didn't know was that as he and Fang An continued to fight, and as the calamity aura lingered on the Great Wall of Swords, the world was about to be destroyed and the heavens and earth were struggling with their own destiny, making the power of cause and effect here exceptionally strong, so strong that it was like a bright star, which was clearly visible even outside the Southern Illumination Realm.

In the distance of the Great Wall of Swords, the Heavenly Evil Ancestor, transformed from a clay figure, watched the battle above the Great Wall of Swords with a maniacal laugh. Even though it was just a clay figure clone, the Pure Yang rank still allowed the Heavenly Evil Ancestor to clearly see the heavy calamity aura and the lingering causal power generated by the impending destruction of heaven and earth.

If the cause and effect here are allowed to continue to entangle and ferment, then someone will surely be able to find his whereabouts through Fang An!
Ancestor Tianxie never doubted this.

In the past, he was able to find his own goals by understanding the cause and effect of others, let alone the three Heavenly Venerables who led the Dao in the Eastern Heaven.

"Not enough, not enough!"

"Not intense enough, not crazy enough!"

"Ancestor, I need to add fuel to the fire!"

As he spoke, the Heavenly Evil Ancestor raised his hand and pulled out a pool of putrid sludge from the void. This sludge was foul and rotten, yet it seemed to have a life of its own. The dark and deep sludge wriggled in the Heavenly Evil Ancestor's palm and then emerged one deadly, poisonous bubble after another. Through those bubbles, one could see the insatiable desires of all living beings, the six desires and seven emotions, the filth of heaven and earth, the evil of the human heart, the disease of the laws and the poison of the Great Dao, all manifested in this pool of sludge.

This is the mud of the Abyss Ruins, the bottom of a world's abyss, accumulated with the desires of all living beings for an unknown period of time, the filth of heaven and earth and the energy of calamity. It represents the most primal decay and toxins, a deadly poison capable of polluting all living beings in a world and causing the pure realm to fall into the depths of chaos.

The clay figure clone of the Heavenly Evil Ancestor was made from the silt of the Abyss Ruins. Therefore, although this silt could corrode the laws of heaven and earth and pollute the world's star sea, it was exceptionally obedient in the hands of the Heavenly Evil Ancestor.

"Anyway, this world is useless now."

"My good disciple, use your life to ensure my safe departure."

As the Heavenly Evil Ancestor spoke, he gently blew on the mud in his palm, and in an instant, the mud turned into countless shimmering points of light, which drifted towards all parts of the Southern Illumination Realm.

Once these silts settle on the ground, they will take root and sprout, turning into rotten lands, and the Southern Realm will completely sink into chaos.

The Heavenly Evil Ancestor did this more than once. In worlds such as the Hundred Fruit Realm, the Eastern Flow Realm, and the Peony Realm, the Heavenly Evil Ancestor would first use the silt of the Abyss Ruins to corrupt the realm between the real and the unreal, and then use the realm between the real and the unreal to influence the present world, gradually eroding and corrupting it, and finally reaping the lives, desires, and the filth of heaven and earth that fermented between heaven and earth to nurture the poison of the Great Dao.

However, since the Southern Illumination Realm had always been used as a hiding place by the Heavenly Evil Ancestor, this method had not been used.

Now that the Heavenly Evil Ancestor knows that the Southern Illumination Realm is no longer safe, he will no longer hold back. He doesn't even covet Fang An, the disciple he has nurtured so well, or the lives of the living beings in the Southern Illumination Realm.

Compared to the creatures, desires, and filth of this small world, what is more important than his own life?

As the silt from the Abyss Ruins scattered throughout the Southern Realm, the once clear and sunny Southern Realm was suddenly struck by a torrential downpour of blood rain. As the blood rain poured down, the mournful cries of heaven and earth echoed silently. Where the blood rain fell, the silt from the Abyss Ruins began to take root and spread. Vegetation sprouted flesh and bones and began to grow wildly. Livestock rotted and died, then rose again like wandering corpses. The stars fell silent, the rivers became foul-smelling, and heaven and earth began to decay.
Even the Great Wall of Swords could not escape the erosion of the blood rain. The dense magical restrictions began to fail and collapse under the blood rain, and large areas of the sturdy Great Wall began to corrode and collapse. At this moment, the cultivators of the Heavenly Righteous Alliance finally revealed their original ferocious and corrupt appearance, which shocked the sword cultivators of the Jade Emperor Sect. However, the cultivators of the Heavenly Righteous Alliance were unaware of this. They had already lost their life souls. In their eyes, they were still the same as before.

Even under this rain of blood, they felt as if they were being nourished by sweet dew. They felt their energy and spirit were completely replenished, and they had inexhaustible magical power. In fact, the excessive magical power and the over-excitement of their energy and spirit made them urgently need an outlet.

Thus, the cultivators of the Heavenly Righteous Alliance, along with the monsters that had mutated and revealed their true forms, began to charge once again at the broken Sword Dao Great Wall. The sword cultivators of the Jade Emperor Sect, terrified, braved the rain of blood to defend against these monsters, but unknowingly, they themselves were also stained by the blood, and their minds gradually began to twist.
Above the Great Wall of Swords, the duel between Zhang Ling and Fang An remained undecided.

"See, Zhang Ling, your Great Wall of Swords cannot stop the army of my Heavenly Righteous Alliance!"

"This Southern Illumination Realm is ultimately not the domain of one family or sect. Under the guidance of my Heavenly Righteous Alliance, everyone will attain enlightenment and ascend to immortality!"

Fang An grinned maliciously, his thousands of tentacles growing wildly and transforming into whips of flesh and blood formed by intertwined meridians and blood vessels, striking the surrounding void and causing space to crack and shatter.

As space shattered, the area available for Zhang Ling to maneuver became smaller and smaller, and Fang An had already cornered Zhang Ling!

Whoosh whoosh!
Thousands of fleshy tentacles lashed out, and Zhang Ling swung his magic sword repeatedly to cut off the filthy tentacles that stabbed from all directions. However, he was still scratched on the arm by one of the tentacles. In an instant, the flesh on Zhang Ling's arm began to turn black and then rot, breeding flies and insects. At the same time, his arm went numb and lost sensation. The dark, filthy power traveled along his blood vessels and meridians all the way up, and it looked like it was about to spread all over his arm and then invade his internal organs.

But with a flash of cold light, Zhang Ling expressionlessly severed his own arm, sealing the wound with his magic. With only one arm left, Zhang Ling stared coldly at Fang An, his heart completely calm.

Zhang Ling was not afraid of death, or rather, he was already dead when his junior sister He Mei pushed him away and used her own life to block the pursuers for him.

What stands here now is merely a shell seeking revenge for its master and fellow disciples.

Therefore, Zhang Ling was not afraid of death. He had long been prepared to perish together with his great enemy, especially after discovering that the world had decayed but no one could see it. This sense of clarity, that he was the only one sober while everyone else was drunk, made Zhang Ling go from fear and helplessness to numbness. He had long known the fate of the Southern Realm, so he did not care about his own fate.

"Zhang Ling, you've been holding me back for five years."

"Even if you secretly break through to the Nascent Soul stage, you are still no match for me."

"Die, die under my blade, it's not shameful." Fang An said, raising his blood blade with both hands. As the thousands of tentacles on his body danced, they twisted together, transforming into a ferocious and thick whip of flesh and blood. In the next instant, Fang An swung his blood blade down, and the whip of flesh and blood formed by the thousands of tentacles shot through the air like an angry dragon, striking Zhang Ling's heart.

With this strike, Fang An was determined to bring Zhang Ling to his complete demise!
Blood-red light reached the sky, and a bloody rain and stench howled in. Tentacles could be seen coiling around like a blood python devouring the sky. With the ferocious intent and the aura of decay that rushed towards him, Zhang Ling vaguely seemed to see a blood python that devoured the heavens and earth opening its huge mouth to him, revealing its fangs.

The magic sword hummed incessantly. Zhang Ling gripped the magic sword with his only remaining arm. The True Lord Yu Chen Ling Yuan said that the Seven Scriptures of Intercepting Heaven True Explanation was activated. The four layers of magic power—Water, Fire, Thunder, and Wind—flowed continuously throughout the body, which then gave rise to the fifth layer, Breaking All Laws.

However, this was not Zhang Ling's limit.

As the fivefold magical power was activated, the sixth layer of the Time-Severing Gate opened a crack towards Zhang Lingdong.

The next instant, the magic sword in Zhang Ling's hand trembled under the strain, and the world seemed to slow down and freeze. In Fang An's astonished gaze, an extremely sharp and slender sword light slashed across the east and west, as if cutting through space and time and severing the passage of time.

In an instant, time intertwined, the towering blood light collapsed and dissipated, the ferocious blood python cried out and perished. The great power of the intertwining of time caused the world to shift. Fang An felt a glint of sword light seem to pass by his neck. With a slight chill, Fang An's head fell from the sky and rolled into the muddy ground soaked with blood rain beneath the Great Wall of Swords.

With this sword strike, Zhang Ling severed all of Fang An's life force with the power of time. That immortal and undying vitality appeared extremely fragile in the face of the repulsive force of time, just like a layer of silk that was torn apart in an instant.

Fang An never imagined he would die so easily at the hands of Zhang Lingjian, especially from a half-crippled Zhang Lingjian. Memories flooded his mind, and Fang An murmured, "Master."

Before he could finish speaking, the sword energy extinguished Fang An's last glimmer of life.

Click!
As the magic sword shattered, Zhang Ling looked at his broken sword and his arm, which was bleeding profusely, and breathed a long sigh of relief: "Finally, this demon is gone."

Unexpectedly, the next moment, a chilling laugh that sent shivers down one's spine rang out: "Hehehe, hehehehehe."

"Hahahaha"

"You think you've won?"

In that instant, Zhang Ling seemed to see the abyss collapsing, filth pouring into the world, an endless mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, a deep poison and a decaying world. At that moment, blood flowed uncontrollably from Zhang Ling's eyes; he went blind.

Not only did his eyes go blind, but his soul and spirit also lost their senses.

Zhang Ling didn't see it, but as the laughter rang out, everyone on the Sword Dao Great Wall, whether sword cultivators from the Jade Emperor Sect or monsters from the Heavenly Righteous Alliance, bled from all seven orifices and turned into bloated, rotting chunks of flesh and mud. His trembling arm gripped the broken sword tightly: "Who is it?!"

The Heavenly Evil Ancestor chuckled: "You killed my disciple, yet you ask who I am?"

My disciple?!
Ancestor?!
Zhang Ling felt a chill run through him: Fang An, whom he had gone to great lengths to kill, was merely the true demon's disciple?!

That demon had been watching me the whole time, and only revealed himself now?!
At this moment, Zhang Ling's heart was completely numb and silent: Nanzhao Realm was finished.

At that very moment, outside the Southern Illumination Realm, Jiang Sheng gazed at the Southern Illumination Realm shrouded in the filth of heaven and earth, and took out his token: "Jade True Taiyi Heaven, launch."

As Jiang Sheng gave the order, the massive Jade True Taiyi Heaven Triple Star Ring, spanning five million miles, began to rotate incessantly. The magical and spiritual marks engraved on the triple star ring burst forth with mysterious light one after another. As the continuous source of chaotic energy covered the triple star ring through the patterns, it seemed as if a solar corona shone brightly outside the Southern Illumination Realm. In the Heavenly Mirror located at the very center of the triple star ring, a point of blazing brilliance began to accumulate.

As the Jade True Taiyi Heaven accumulated energy, the Chaos Origin Machine was continuously absorbed and refined by the Triple Star Ring. The energy of the entire Chaos Void was converging towards the Jade True Taiyi Heaven. In just an instant, the entire Chaos Void became extremely dark. The next moment, an extremely dazzling and scorching light burst forth from the Ten Thousand Mile Heaven Realm, its target being the Sword Dao Great Wall of the Southern Illumination Realm.

In an instant, the bloody storm within the Southern Illumination Realm was dispelled and burned away by the scorching light. Even Zhang Ling, who was already blind, could sense the scorching power of the light. At this moment, Zhang Ling understood everything: why he was able to fall into the cave and find the Southern Illumination Immortal Mansion, why the Southern Fairy had helped him so wholeheartedly, and why he was able to find the Seven Heavenly Scriptures spoken of by True Monarch Yu Chen Ling Yuan.
My destiny is to eradicate evil spirits from the Southern Realm, no matter what method I use!

After figuring everything out, Zhang Ling suddenly laughed: "I will die, but you can't live either!"

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Ling released his severely damaged soul. He deliberately burned his life soul and sacrificed his nascent soul, piling everything onto his cultivation technique in exchange for a brief but ultimate sublimation.

Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Dharma Form
Refining the void!

With Zhang Ling burning himself at all costs and with the blessing of the last remaining fortune of heaven and earth, Zhang Ling actually rose to the Refinement Void Realm in a short moment.

But it only lasted for a moment; even a moment longer and the Southern Illumination Realm would be gone for Zhang Ling.

And in that instant, Zhang Ling will also vanish into thin air.

But Zhang Ling didn't care.

"I don't know what kind of cultivation method he practices."

"The cultivation method I practice is called the True Explanation of the Seven Scriptures of Heaven-Severing by True Lord Yu Chen Ling Yuan. This cultivation method is divided into seven volumes. The highest move is not Breaking All Laws or Cutting Time just now, but Cutting Cause and Effect."

As Zhang Ling spoke, the Heavenly Evil Ancestor's smile froze: Severing cause and effect, cause and effect?!
That's not a nice word.
In an instant, Zhang Ling pointed his fingers into a sword and swung it at the Heavenly Evil Ancestor. He combined his own magical power, the fortune blessed by heaven and earth, and his belief in mutual destruction into this sword. He did not seek to kill the Heavenly Evil Ancestor, but only to serve as a beacon of the Dao.

Zhang Ling did it.

As the sword light that severed cause and effect rushed straight towards the Heavenly Evil Ancestor, even though the Heavenly Evil Ancestor kept trying to cut off the sword light, under the entanglement of cause and effect between the two sides, and under the unwilling counterattack of the Southern Illumination Realm, that wisp of sword light still hit the Heavenly Evil Ancestor, leaving an indelible mark on his body.

The Heavenly Evil Ancestor roared in exasperation, "You want to perish together with me?!"

Zhang Ling couldn't see the Heavenly Evil Ancestor's expression, but Zhang Ling smiled.

The next instant, a scorching torrent of destruction surged in from outside the Southern Illumination Realm. The membrane of the Southern Illumination Realm, which was covered by the filth of heaven and earth, was pierced in an instant. A magnificent light swept across the heavens and earth of the Southern Illumination Realm from beyond the sky, and the Star Sea Abyss was completely burned by this attack.

The starry sea fell silent, and the heavens and earth boiled.

The Jade True Taiyi Heaven, with its pure Yang power, pierced through an entire realm, shattering mountains and rivers! (End of Chapter)