Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 569 Golden Rainbow Pierces the Sun, Cleansing Demonic Influence; One Sword Annihilates All Dust and All Karma (Seeking Donations and Subscriptions!)

The Immortal Realm, Ghost Cry Gorge.

The perpetually damp and miasma condensed into a thick, dark green curtain, shrouding the canyon in darkness.

The valley floor echoed with ghostly howls, the mournful cries of countless souls trapped and refined by the Heavenly Demon Hong Xuansheng, their resentment forming a torrent that nourished this demonic land.

A chilling wind swept across the jagged, withered walls of Ghost Cry Gorge, emitting mournful howls.

The Vampire King's claws, glowing with an eerie green light, were only three inches away from Wan Shuang'er's body. The poison that penetrated her body almost froze Wan Shuang'er's magical power.

Two demonic cultivators at the Nascent Soul Realm grinned maliciously, sealing off all her escape routes. The Netherworld Ghost Fire and the Bone-Melting Yin Lightning wove together a net from which she could not escape.

If it weren't for the need to capture the enemy alive without harming their bodies, this battle would have ended long ago.

The surrounding dozens of demons laughed horribly, their eyes filled with cruel anticipation.

The last glimmer of light in Wan Shuang'er's eyes flickered like a candle in the wind, swaying violently in the darkness of despair. She knew, of course, what she would face next:
As a female cultivator of the Xuanmen sect, Wan Shuang'er did not take pride in this, but she knew that although her appearance was not exceptional, she was still among the best of female immortals.

Her Taoist robe was as white as snow, fitting her perfectly, highlighting her firm breasts, round hips, and long legs.

Most importantly, she was strictly disciplined by her parents in her early years and studied diligently, so she did not lose her pure Yin. After her parents passed away, Wan Shuang'er was filled with hatred. Even when fellow disciples in the sect wanted to marry her, she was resolutely rejected.

"In the demonic path, the hierarchy is strict. My original plan was to infiltrate Ghost Cry Gorge if I could. If I couldn't infiltrate and was discovered, I could fight my way in and possibly be sent to Hong Xuansheng. My primordial yin essence and my identity as a disciple of Taiqing should still have some value in his eyes... Even if I have to give up everything, I will avenge my parents!"

Wan Shuang'er knew in her heart that the chances of her scheme succeeding were only one or two out of ten. Becoming Hong Xuansheng's concubine or even gaining his trust was not so easy. The greater possibility was that she would be refined into a corpse doll, her soul imprisoned in her body for eternity, never to be free.

But Wan Shuang'er was consumed by hatred and tormented by pain every day. Especially after being disappointed by Senior Brother Lu, she fell into despair. Even if it was only one or two out of ten chances, she would do her best to seize it.

However, just as Wan Shuang'er closed her eyes in anticipation of defeat, at the critical moment when the claws of the Ten Thousand Poison Corpse King were about to touch the female Taoist priest's neck.

"laugh--!"

A golden light, condensed to its extreme and seemingly tearing through everything, suddenly pierced through the layers of demonic miasma at the entrance of the canyon, just like the first sun tearing through the darkness!

fast!
It was faster than any of the cultivators present could comprehend!
The light was not dazzling, but rather possessed a pure clarity, with a pale golden halo flowing throughout.

It arrived first despite being late, overcoming the barriers of space. Just before the rotting fingertips of the Corpse King of Ten Thousand Poisons touched Wan Shuang'er's skin, it precisely cut into the weak point connecting the torso, as if a skilled butcher were carving up an ox, cutting a golden slit through the Corpse King of Ten Thousand Poisons.

"Huh...?!" The grotesque grin on the ugly face of the Corpse King of Ten Thousand Poisons froze, leaving only extreme astonishment and bone-deep fear.

A pure and domineering, terrifying sword intent, like the arrival of the great sun, surged upwards along the meridians at the break point, directly flowing into the meridians and acupoints throughout the body. The nascent soul-refined corpse already possessed a certain level of spiritual consciousness, so it let out a terrified howl, its decaying body retreating wildly in an attempt to escape.

However, the body of the Corpse King, which was normally almost indestructible, turned into dust and vanished in an instant!

"Om-"

The sword light trembled, instantly splitting into dozens, hundreds... no! tens of thousands of tiny, almost invisible golden sword threads!
The ultimate swordsmanship technique: refining swords into silk threads.

These sword threads are not physical entities, but are formed from the pure condensed Golden Rainbow Breaking Illusion Sword Qi, interwoven into a dense sword net covering a radius of a thousand miles. Once it falls, it will wipe out an entire family!
"This, this really is... the Taiqing Sect's Male and Female Dragon-Tiger Demon-Refining Sword Scripture!"

A piercing, shrill cry of consciousness resounded, yet time seemed to freeze at that moment.

Only this sword net, purely composed of destructive sword intent, was advancing at high speed, like a golden wave.

The first to suffer, besides the two demonic cultivators who were close to Wan Shuang'er, were the numerous demonic cultivators who were watching the show and laughing incessantly.

Their protective magic shields, such as the "Bone-Eating Dark Light Shield" and the "Hundred-Refined Yin Soul Armor," were as fragile as paper lanterns in front of this golden silk sword net.

"Pfft pfft pfft pfft..." A series of fine and long cracking sounds rang out, and dozens of magical artifacts of various shapes were simultaneously shredded into dust that flew everywhere!
Before the demonic cultivators could even change their sinister smiles, their eyes were already filled with endless fear.

There was no time to react. Their bodies were as if they had been thrown into an invisible, terrifying millstone, along with their protective demonic energy, and were mercilessly cut and pierced by countless golden sword threads!
A cloud of blood exploded at the entrance to the canyon!

Red, green, black... a mixture of broken magical artifact fragments, bone scraps, and flesh dregs formed a terrifying and tragic blood storm that swept down.

The screams rose and fell, only to be instantly drowned out by the clanging of sword energy cutting through the air.

More than a dozen demonic cultivators, at least at the Nascent Soul or even the Divine Soul realm, were crushed like ants under the rapid sweep of the sword net. Their bodies and souls were destroyed, and not even a trace of their remnant souls could escape. They were all wiped out by the golden sword light!
After the sword strike, a figure dressed in a simple Taoist robe quietly appeared in front of Wan Shuang'er.

His posture was as upright as a lone snow-covered pine tree, his face was calm, but his eyes were as deep as the ocean, as if they contained the birth and death of stars and the rise and fall of sword light.

Simply standing there, one exudes an air of arrogant arrogance, as if detached from the world and looking down upon all others.

The eerie demonic energy accumulated over millions of years in Ghost Cry Gorge was repelled hundreds of thousands of miles by an invisible yet vast sword domain aura, forming a clean domain around him.

The one who drew the sword was none other than Daoist Lu Cheng!
The known Earthly Immortal Realm is about 140 billion times the size of Earth. The Taiqing Sect's mountain gate and the Ghost Cave in southern Sichuan are extremely far apart. Fortunately, Lu Cheng's escape technique is already unparalleled in this realm, otherwise he might not have made it in time.

After all, there was a considerable amount of time between Wan Shuang'er searching for him and Lu Cheng emerging from seclusion.

Wan Shuang'er stared blankly at the figure before her, a figure that seemed to have stepped out of her own dream. She opened her mouth, but thousands of years of grievances, obsessions, fears, and grief... a thousand words stuck in her throat, ultimately turning into a choked sob:

"Senior brother...!"

"Don't be so hasty in the future. I was focused on sword training for a while, so you should at least meet with me before making a decision."

"Never mind, there's no time like the present. Today, your senior brother will help you accumulate some merits from unorthodox practices so that you may receive more favor from Heaven."

As soon as he finished speaking, the pale gold flying sword hovering beside the Taoist emitted a clear and melodious sound, soaring straight into the sky!
At the same time, deep within the valley, demonic energy surged wildly, and a grand demonic sound, filled with violence and rage, like the wailing of ten thousand ghosts, exploded with a deafening roar:

"Lu Cheng?! A mere junior from the Taiqing Sect, how dare you trespass into my cave and kill my disciples without cause! If you don't give me a reasonable explanation today, I will rip out your soul and imprison you in the Nine Netherworld Cold Cave forever, so that you can neither live nor die!!"

Even the Taiqing Sect couldn't save you!

Rumble, rumble!

As if the entire canyon was responding to the demonic cultivator's anger, rolling demonic clouds obscured the last rays of sunlight from the dome, and thousands of demonic cultivators, riding on all sorts of demonic winds and ghostly energy, swarmed out from the canyon's ravines, caves, and shadows!

Their cultivation methods and achievements varied greatly. There were demonic cultivators who wielded magical artifacts made of white bones, body cultivators whose bodies were covered in pus and blood, cultivators who controlled the emerald green flames that clung to them, and beast cultivators who commanded enormous and ferocious demonic beasts... Their cultivation levels ranged from the Nascent Soul stage to the Void Return stage, densely packed and overwhelming, like a surging tide of death.

It surged forward, carrying with it filthy demonic energy, resentful curses, and highly poisonous miasma—enough to make even a peak Nascent Soul cultivator tremble with fear.

Hundreds of demonic lights, poisonous flames, dark lightning, and curses tore through the sky, converging into a destructive torrent that instantly engulfed Lu Cheng's figure!

At the same time, demonic power condensed, and a huge, crimson, towering evil magic image appeared and disappeared in the demonic energy!

That demonic figure, with a human face and a demonic body, eight arms growing from its ribs, and holding several demonic treasures exuding overwhelming ferocity such as a bone staff, a demonic banner, a gourd of filthy blood, and a human skin drum, was none other than Wang Xinchan, a fusion demonic cultivator under Hong Xuansheng. This person was skilled at tempering demonic dharma forms with evil energy and karmic force!

Under his command, the demons within the Ghost Cave can combine their forces to create an effect similar to an array, greatly increasing their killing power.

At this moment, the Dharma Image's eight arms waved together, and the eight magical treasures shone brightly at the same time!

The bone staff was pointed out, gathering a thousand pale, curse-like rays of light that shot out silently!

The demon banner fluttered, and billions of twisted demonic shadows and vengeful spirits transformed into a sky-covering black cloud, rushing straight towards Lu City!
The gourd of filthy blood poured out, and the turbid waves that were both bone-corroding and soul-consuming surged to the heavens!

The human skin drum resounded, its demonic sound shaking the soul and tearing at the will, piercing the eardrums!

Furthermore, all four arms simultaneously unleashed demonic techniques, with dark red ripples spreading outwards, turning the eyes of many demonic cultivators crimson and causing them to begin using life-or-death secret techniques that burned their life essence!
The simultaneous emergence of the Eight Demonic Techniques invigorated the cultivators, and with the added power of the accumulated ferocious energy of the entire Ghost Cry Gorge, its might surpassed that of ordinary late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, approaching the realm of Mahayana cultivators!
Lu Cheng reached out and pulled Wan Shuang'er up. He used the Golden-Winged Roc Escape Technique and the Golden Rainbow Breaking Illusion Sword Art again. The sword light flashed, tearing through the blood waves and disappearing into thin air. It did not disappear, but rather a point of extreme sharpness was born in the distance. In the next instant, Lu Cheng and Wan Shuang'er's figures had already landed on this point of sharpness!
So fast that even thought could barely keep up, the unparalleled burst of speed and extreme penetrating and tearing properties of the Golden-Winged Roc Escape Technique became almost unmatched in the world as Lu Cheng's cultivation improved.

"Focus on your inner self, close your eyes and mind. With your cultivation level, don't look or think too much. Just wait for this battle to end."

It would be much easier if Wan Shuang'er left this place first.

However, considering that it was, after all, an irreconcilable feud with the other party, and that it would be troublesome if she were kidnapped during her withdrawal, Lu Cheng ultimately decided to let the other party have a greater sense of involvement.

After a thousand years of secluded cultivation, Lu Cheng's most improved techniques, the Golden-Winged Roc Escape Technique and the Golden Rainbow Breaking Illusion Sword Art, have been completely upgraded to the eighth-order super-order Dao techniques, which are escape techniques and sword arts at the Mahayana realm.

Therefore, with one step, his figure had already arrived behind the demonic tide!

This speed seemed to have left even time and space behind him, completely exceeding the limits of the divine sense of the enemy's highest-level cultivator present, the Fusion Demon Cultivator Wang Xinchan.

Therefore, with sudden advances and retreats, and sword flashes, the initiative in the battle is naturally in one's own hands.

"cut!"

At his command, the Five Elements Flying Swords floating beside him moved!
This time, it was no longer the precise point-killing and sword-forging into threads of the past.

It was a relentless storm of slaughter!
A unique sword technique: the sword light splits into multiple segments.

The sword light surged!

It wasn't just a single golden sword light that emerged, but countless others!
Each one was as solid as a physical object, carrying the will to cut through illusion and tear apart the substance of space. They erupted from the body of the Five Elements Flying Sword, just like a golden sun bursting open at the core of the demonic tide, shooting out countless scorching rays!

The sword energy no longer pursues absolute concentration and sharpness, but rather, in high-speed moving strikes, it bursts forth with a terrifying sharpness that can tear the heavens and earth apart!
"Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap!..."

Wherever the sword light passed, all protective magical artifacts were destroyed.

"Pop! Splash! Sizzle..."

Wherever the sword light passed, all offensive or defensive spells were shattered.

"Ah! Ugh!"

"Do not--!!!"

Wherever the sword light passed, all hidden offensive and defensive techniques were annihilated.

The scene before us can only be described as "utterly devastating"!

Wherever the layers of sword light reached, the Xuan Iron Demonic Weapons, Bone Jade Giant Hammers, and Thick Layers of Beast Hide Armor of those skilled in defense, no matter how hard the material or how mysterious the demonic patterns, were all cut in half by the pale gold sword blade, just like a hot knife cutting through butter!

The cut surface was as smooth as a mirror, and their proud demonic bodies were pierced and torn apart!
The sword energy passed through the body, and the demon-slaying and evil-destroying power contained within it suddenly erupted, like a hot iron being branded into solidified lard, instantly disintegrating and vaporizing the demon's body, which was as solid as refined steel, from the inside!
All that remained were plumes of black smoke that expanded violently and vanished in an instant, along with a pungent, acrid smell.

Those demonic cultivators skilled in ranged evil magic attempted to condense even more powerful secret techniques:

An old demon in the mid-stage of the Void Returning Realm, with ninety-nine wailing demonic infants wrapped around his body, was about to unleash the "Soul Devouring Curse" when a slender yet incredibly sharp golden sword light reached his brow!

"Pfft!" A bloodstain appeared between his eyebrows, and a large hole exploded in the back of his head.

The golden light exploded as it entered his body, silently annihilating the old demon, along with the ninety-nine demonic infant phantoms surrounding him, and the core restriction of the "Heavenly Demon Soul Transformation Banner" that he had painstakingly refined for hundreds of years, into nothingness!

Another Void-Returning Demoness, with a filthy black lotus surging beneath her feet, spewed out the soul-corroding "Nine Netherworld Bone-Corroding Mystic Light," which turned rocks into pus wherever it swept across. However, several golden sword rainbows crisscrossed, piercing the weakest point connecting the black lotus petals with unparalleled precision! "Crack!" The entire black lotus, forged through countless trials and tribulations and comparable to a magical treasure, shattered into more than a dozen petals!
Amidst the female demon's screams, her protective demonic energy was forcibly pierced by the golden rainbow sword energy, and her delicate body, along with the dozens of highly poisonous Gu worms she was parasitizing, was shredded inch by inch, turning into foul-smelling pus and blood that splattered everywhere!

Super fast!

Ruthless! Lu Cheng, carrying Wan Shuang'er, had completely merged into the dazzling yet deadly storm of golden sword light.

No one present could see his specific movements clearly; they could only see a pale golden light that was completely invisible to the naked eye moving, flashing, and turning back at high speed in the demonic tide!
With each flash, layers of sword light cascaded down like a waterfall!
At every turning point, dozens of fountains of blood would erupt into the sky!

Each pause inevitably resulted in the instantaneous piercing and annihilation of a Void Returning Demon Cultivator under the horrified gaze of one or more golden sword lights, whether condensed or diffused!

The sword light was incredibly fast and ruthless, flashing and slashing continuously, causing a constant whistling sound to become the main theme of the battlefield!
Slicing through magical artifacts is as easy as cutting melons and vegetables; dispelling magic is as easy as a gentle breeze.
Wherever the sword points, no matter whether the demonic cultivator cultivates the Yin Soul Ghost Path, the Poisonous Corpse Blood Fiend, or the Power Demon Evil Art or the Bewitching Illusion Technique, their proud protective demonic energy and powerful demonic body are so fragile and vulnerable in front of the Golden Rainbow Breaking Illusion Sword Qi wielded by Daoist Lu Cheng!
This was a suppressive force that was almost equivalent to a major realm above the cultivation and power of both sides.

In just a dozen breaths!
Those demonic cultivators who were originally in high spirits fell down one by one, like harvested crops!

The distance from the entrance to this point in the canyon is less than a hundred miles, and it has been completely stained with the remains of demonic cultivators, broken magical artifacts, and foul-smelling blood!
Almost no intact drops of blood remained on the ground; they were all charred into hard lumps and billowing white smoke under the high temperature and purification of the golden sword energy!
The continuous wails and screams became the background noise, which was then quickly replaced by the sound of sword energy cutting through the air and the sound of the demon's body exploding.

Even Wang Xinchan, the fusion demon cultivator who unleashed his demonic form, was wiped out by Lu Cheng's three consecutive sword strikes under Lu Cheng's deliberate targeting. One sword strike shattered the Dharma form, and another shattered the demonic treasure. This man's demonic skills were indeed profound, so it was only on the third sword strike that his physical body and primordial spirit were severed.

Enveloped in magical power, standing beside her senior brother Lu Cheng, Wan Shuang'er listened with great interest, though she couldn't open her eyes.

Those screams and the sounds of sword light tearing flesh apart had become the most beautiful and pleasant music in her ears!

Sword energy soared into the sky, and the stench of blood filled the air; the canyon fell silent instantly.

The roars of the demonic cultivators, who had been so noisy and frenzied just moments before, suddenly ceased.

Those surviving demonic cultivators, regardless of their cultivation level, felt an indescribable chill run down their spines to the top of their heads as they looked at the bottomless sword marks on the rock wall, at the corpses of their fellow disciples lying like weeds in the arena before them, and at the Demon Lord Wang Xinchan, the fusion demonic cultivator who had been instantly killed like an ant!
This is massacre!

A complete and utter massacre!

They couldn't even see the trajectory of the divine sword, nor could they catch a glimpse of the Taoist's godlike and demonic figure!

"Demon Lord! A powerful enemy is attacking!"

"Quickly, go and invite the Demon Lord to come!"

The terrified screams finally erupted, and the remaining demonic cultivators were terrified, their arrogance completely gone.
They retreated frantically, trying to huddle together, or perhaps, without even needing to fight, they could simply escape by getting past their companions to avoid this suddenly appearing god of death.

However, those who act on behalf of Heaven to kill are met with Heaven's merciless heart!

Lu Cheng Daoist took a step forward.

Om-!
Centered on his landing point, an invisible and incomparably sharp field of sword intent suddenly expanded!

In an instant, the Five Elements Flying Swords, under his control, seemed to transform into leaping golden lightning. With every imperceptible tremor, with every slight turn of the sword's edge, dozens or even hundreds of fine, yet incredibly sharp, golden sword threads burst forth!
The sword threads did not move in a straight line, but rather seemed to possess a life of their own, drawing mysterious and unpredictable trajectories in the air.

They are all-pervasive, precisely penetrating the weak points of the demonic energy protecting the demonic cultivators, shredding their protective magic treasures, tearing through their flesh and bones, and reaching straight to the source of their souls!

Chichi, chichi, chichi——!
A dense, rain-like sound of cutting echoed through the canyon. It was the sound of bones shattering, the mournful cry of magical artifacts, and the lingering pain of souls being torn apart in an instant!

The powerful demonic energy unleashed by the Void Returning Realm demonic cultivator was as vulnerable as a sieve before the sword thread containing the law of destruction. The Nascent Soul Realm demonic cultivator didn't even have time to react before a strand of golden thread pierced through his brow, instantly annihilating his primordial spirit.

Those demonic cultivators who attempt to form an array often find that the main array master at the center of the array is inexplicably torn to pieces by several tricky sword threads as soon as the array begins, causing the array to fall into chaos immediately!
No matter how many strange and bizarre demonic arts you have cultivated for thousands of years, or how many indestructible demonic bodies you have forged, they are all a joke in the face of the purest and most refined sword intent that combines the Xuan Tian Divine Art with the Golden Rainbow Breaking Illusion!
As the sword threads swept past, the demonic body collapsed, its primordial spirit melting away like ice and snow under the intent of destruction. Those who cultivated poison techniques had their poison source evaporated by the sword intent; those who cultivated the soul path had their soul fire directly annihilated by the golden rainbow!
Within the canyon, a humanoid sword light could be seen weaving through the demonic tide, stirring up golden storms composed purely of death wherever it passed!

Golden sword threads, along with splashes of blood and demonic fragments, created a gruesome and eerie scene. The once fearsome demonic cultivators were now visibly melting away, like ice and snow thrown into a scorching furnace.

Meanwhile, deep beneath Ghost Cry Gorge, a massive underground palace lies dark and cold.

The rough rock walls, stained with the blood and resentment of countless cultivators, presented a murky, dark rust color. Cold runes flickered on the walls, outlining a grand array—the very "Nine Abyss Profound Yin God-Slaying Array," a formation so powerful that even Mahayana cultivators would frown upon it.

Once this formation is unleashed, it can reduce everything within a million miles to dust, destroying everything in its path!

Eleven figures, like stone statues blending into the darkness, occupied the core of the formation.

Hong Xuansheng, the Heavenly Demon of Ten Thousand Realms, sat high in the main position, his face hidden behind the surging demonic energy. Only his pair of azure eyes stared intently at the direction of the underground palace entrance through a huge Xuan Yin Ancient Mirror in front of him.

The ancient mirror rippled with a ghostly light, reflecting with crystal clarity the scene of carnage that had just taken place in the outside world, a scene that chilled the entire Ghost Cave of Southern Sichuan to the bone:
Countless demonic cultivators in the caves were reduced to ashes in an instant, like withered grass swept by a scythe, under the thousands of sword lights; Wang Xinchan, who was at the Integration Realm, was so weak and feeble that even his struggle seemed futile under those three swords, and his body and soul were destroyed in an instant.

"The sword light splits, refining the sword into threads... a male and female dragon and tiger, truly formidable!" Hong Xuansheng's voice was dry and hoarse, like sandpaper rubbing against rock, each word carrying a chilling edge.
"What a magnificent Taiqing Lucheng! The acting sect leader of the Taiqing Sect, seeing him today, truly lives up to his reputation! Such swordsmanship is beyond what one should possess at the Integration Realm; he has already glimpsed a corner of the Great Dao and is gradually entering the realm of perfection!"

Behind Hong Xuansheng, ten great demons, all at the same Nascent Soul stage, now had solemn and iron-like expressions. Their eyes no longer held any of their usual arrogance and cruelty, but only deep fear and apprehension.

Wang Xinchan's cultivation was among the best in their class, yet he was killed by three swords. Therefore, they figured that if they had faced that sword shadow and that Taoist priest outside the formation, their fate would probably have been no different.

"Lord of the Cave, this fiend is extremely ferocious and I'm afraid we cannot defeat it by force!" A burly man wearing white bone demon armor spoke in a deep voice. He was a body cultivator, and if the two sides were to fight, he would probably have to stand on the front line and fight against the other side.

“If we rely on the great formation and activate the Xuan Yin earth veins, we might be able to fight back! If he knows what’s good for him, he should retreat!” Another demonic cultivator, who looked like a scholar and had half his face turned blue, suggested.

Hong Xuansheng's emerald eyes flickered violently a few times. After a long silence, he finally exhaled a breath of condensed, lingering black demonic energy, as if he had made a heavy decision:
"The only course of action now is to hold our ground!"

"This Nine Abyss Profound Yin God-Slaying Formation is my reliance! By combining the strength of the eleven of us, and drawing upon the source of the Profound Yin Evil Qi that has accumulated in Ghost Cry Gorge for millions of years, even a Great Ascension True Immortal would be severely injured!"

Hong Xuansheng suddenly looked up, his emerald eyes piercing through the barriers of the underground palace, as if he could see the figure approaching step by step:
"Pass down the order! Activate the array within the cave at full power! Open all the spiritual vein channels, connecting this profound Yin evil vein deep underground with the array! If things don't go smoothly, we'll fight to the death, taking them down with us! Let the backbone of the Taiqing Sect's ten-thousand-year revival be broken right here!"

As Hong Xuansheng gave the order, the entire underground palace suddenly trembled.

The dark runes on the walls suddenly lit up with a blinding blue light, like the awakening of demonic eyes. The icy, filthy, and heavy Xuan Yin evil energy surged into the great formation from all directions, especially from the spiritual veins deeper underground.

A terrifying wailing echoed in the narrow space, like the mournful cries of souls swallowed by the formation since time immemorial.

At the core of the array, a vortex-shaped black hole is rapidly forming, brewing violent energy capable of destroying an area of ​​millions of miles and turning all living beings into dust.

……

At the end of the underground palace passage, Lu Cheng held the Boundless Blood Sea Sword, which emitted a faint blood-red light, yet whose sword energy was extremely restrained and whose entire body flowed with pure killing intent. He moved forward seemingly slowly but actually swiftly.

Wan Shuang'er followed closely behind, her slender body trembling slightly, not from fear, but from the complex emotions that almost burst from her chest as she returned to this familiar place and was about to avenge her parents' blood feud.

Lu Cheng closed his eyes slightly, not looking at the thick stone wall and restrictions in front of him. His divine sense had already seeped into the depths of the underground palace like invisible ripples, and he "saw" the location of the eleven demons and the operation trajectory of the formation clearly.

"Senior brother..." Wan Shuang'er's voice was dry and heavy: "The malevolent energy in the underground spiritual veins... the aura at the core of that formation... it's terrifying! They seem to be planning..."

"Total destruction." Lu Cheng spoke calmly, picking up where she left off, his voice filled with icy killing intent: "Activating the Profound Yin Fiend Core, once we are no match for them, we will turn this area within a million miles into nothingness. A well-thought-out plan."

Such obvious fluctuations in the array's power were clearly perceptible even to Wan Shuang'er; this was already a blatant threat, but unfortunately…

Lu Cheng slowly closed his eyes, and an indescribable sharpness erupted from his body! This sharpness did not emanate outwards, but rather condensed inwards, focusing on a single point!
Above his head, three invisible, pure and clear flower shadows seemed to flash by; in his chest, five primordial energies corresponding to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth seemed to suddenly boil and sublimate.

"Shuang'er, concentrate and guard your mind as before. Everything that happens next will have nothing to do with you." Lu Cheng's voice transformed into a wisp of divine will and entered Wan Shuang'er's sea of ​​consciousness.

The next moment, the Boundless Blood Sea Sword moved!

There was no grand spectacle of countless sword lights splitting apart, no cunning and unpredictable transformation of swords into threads. There was only the purest and most condensed strike!
The sword light, when it first appeared, was like the first ray of light breaking through the chaos at the beginning of the world, faint yet containing unimaginable power of creation and destruction.

As Lu Cheng poured the immense magical power within his body, compressed to its limit and generated by the explosive burning of the "Three Flowers and Five Qi," into the sword, that wisp of light suddenly burst open!
It didn't explode into a whole, but rather collapsed and coalesced into a line!

A golden thread so pure it's almost limitless, so fast and ruthless it transcends the boundaries of time and space, embodying the spirit of "sword energy reaching the profound aperture, a single sword strikes down the golden crow!"

A sword cultivator at the Fusion Realm unleashes a deadly divine power: Golden Rainbow Piercing the Sun!

"Buzz!"

The sound of the sword was not deafening, but a strange, extremely sharp sound that penetrated all matter and energy, and even the frequency of the soul's perception!
It was as if the rules of the entire Ghost Cry Gorge, the entire southern Sichuan region, and even higher dimensions were pierced and torn apart by this sharp sound in that instant!
Deep within the underground palace, eleven Nascent Soul demon cultivators stood ready, but under the extreme speed of their swords, their time was slowed down.

That golden thread, as thin as a hair, was dazzling and brilliant, as if the brilliance of all the stars in the sky had been condensed into this one point, becoming the purest and most dazzling core in this torrent of destruction!

It has no process, only the result!

Lu Cheng appeared in the center of the underground palace in an instant, and then swung his sword.

At the core of the formation, before the madness on Hong Xuansheng's face could fully unfold, his ferocious expression suddenly froze, and his emerald eyes instantly widened to their maximum size!

He wanted to roar, to unleash a spell to detonate the accumulated boundless magical power, but just as the thought arose, in the instant his fingertips were about to unleash their demonic energy—

The golden thread, symbolizing speed and sharpness, and seemingly frozen in time, had silently appeared between his eyebrows!
He could even see the reflection of his distorted face in that pure, unadulterated golden light that contained the intent to eradicate all evil!

Fast, too fast!
This sword strike was so fast that it exceeded the reaction and imagination of all the demonic cultivators present!

After advancing to the Integration Realm, burning the Three Flowers and Five Qi once again is no longer about overdrawing and damaging one's foundation. Instead, it is about releasing the already solid foundation's essence like the core of a ignited sun, instantly unleashing earth-shattering and boundless magical power. Using this sword technique can even help purify one's foundation!

This is the great divine power that Lu Cheng created after a thousand years of seclusion by the Jade Profound Cleansing Vein Cold Spring, combining the supreme foundation of the "Mysterious Heaven Divine Art" with the true sword intent of the "Male and Female Dragon Tiger Refining Demon Sword Scripture" to condense the power of the Golden Rainbow Piercing the Sun!
In an instant, the other ten fused demons behind Hong Xuansheng had different expressions: some were glaring angrily, some were horrified, and some were trying to summon their protective demonic treasures... But all their actions were frozen in time the moment the golden rainbow pierced through the core of the underground palace.

The golden rainbow pierced through Hong Xuansheng's brow and also through the ten demons behind him.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no horrific carnage. Wherever the golden thread pierced, whether it was the demonic body and bones harder than divine iron, the primordial spirit and soul condensed over millennia, or the ancient resentful demonic energy swirling around it... it was like the first snow meeting the blazing sun, like the most exquisite ink painting being thrown into a furnace!

Annihilated in an instant!

Hong Xuansheng couldn't even utter a final, unwilling roar.

He only "saw" the golden thread that ran through him, through his ambition and his millennia of arduous cultivation, and felt the killing intent contained within that golden thread, which was beyond his comprehension!
"One sword... and the golden crow falls...!"

The golden rainbow flashed by and disappeared as if it had never appeared.

The vast underground palace fell into a deathly silence.

Led by Hong Xuansheng, along with the ten fused demon lords sitting beneath him, they remained seated in their original places, not even a speck of dust disturbed. However, their life force had completely vanished, as if gently wiped away from the canvas by an invisible giant hand.

If someone were to get closer to examine them, they would see a sword hole in the vital parts of these eleven demonic cultivators' bodies, shattering their physical bodies and primordial spirits.

Even if there were methods of substitution for reincarnation or possession by demons, they would not have time to be activated due to the extreme speed and ruthlessness of the sword light.

"Whoosh..."

Holding the Boundless Blood Sea Divine Sword, Lu Cheng watched helplessly as this ferocious sword devoured the essence and blood of eleven Nascent Soul demon cultivators.

A sword is a weapon of violence.

A large amount of sweat dripped down through his Taoist robe.

The essence of the Golden Rainbow Piercing the Sun Sword Style is to burn the three flowers on the top of a cultivator's head and the five qi in their chest. However, because it only lasts for a moment, it will not excessively damage the foundation. Of course, if there is not a sufficiently solid foundation, even if it only lasts for a moment, it will be impossible to recover. However, in Lu Cheng's case, he can stabilize the situation and does not need to recuperate for a thousand years as before. Instead, he will release terrifying magical power that far exceeds his own capacity limit. However, this kind of magical power can be used with this sword style.

Although it is indeed impossible to use it frequently, otherwise even a body and foundation built with the Xuan Tian Divine Art would not be able to withstand it, it can be used as a regular sword technique. Even a cultivator at the Mahayana realm could die instantly if he was not careful under this sword.

Golden Rainbow Piercing the Sun is the ultimate form of the Golden Rainbow Breaking Illusion Sword Technique, and also a certain limit to the speed and ruthlessness of swordsmanship.

(End of this chapter)