I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

Shen Tian put away the [World Destruction - Divine Punishment] and turned to walk towards the outer hall.

After passing through the cracked bronze passageway, his gaze returned to Li Changge.

At this moment, Li Changge was still suspended three meters above the ground.

He sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.

The golden sword patterns on his body were denser than before.

Each sword pattern shimmered with dazzling light, as if countless miniature swords were moving beneath his skin.

The sword tornadoes surrounding him became even more violent.

Thousands of translucent swords spun rapidly, stirring up howling storms within the Sword Court.

Shen Tian stopped and used his mental power to sense Li Changge's condition.

"The energy is still rising; the transformation is less than 30% complete."

Shen Tian raised an eyebrow slightly.

"The weight of this legacy is greater than I thought."

"At this rate, it won't be finished in less than a few hours."

This kind of sword cultivation tradition is indeed useless to Shen Tian.

His red talent, [Sword Ancestor], has already placed him in the position of the number one swordsman in human history.

Shen Tian crossed his arms, looked around for a while, and then glanced at his surroundings.

The restrictions on the underground sword court have largely collapsed.

However, the remaining ancient array patterns are still functioning, barely maintaining the stability of this space.

Given Li Changge's current condition, his safety is not a problem as long as there is no external interference.

"Then let him digest it slowly."

He turned around and strode toward the exit of the Sword Court.

After taking a couple of steps, he remembered something else.

Shen Tian waved his hand casually.

hum-

A solid ball of spiritual energy emanated from his fingertips, transforming into a thin, silvery light curtain that gently covered a ten-meter radius around Li Changge.

This light barrier is not offensive, but it can serve as a warning and buffer.

In case of any unexpected changes, it will at least buy Li Changge a few seconds to react.

"Alright, consider this a lucky charm for you."

Shen Tian muttered something to himself, then, without further delay, strode out of the Sword Court.

……

I set foot on that desolate wasteland once more.

Dead silence, gloomy, lifeless.

The gray sky stretched endlessly into the distance.

The cracked earth beneath our feet stretches into the distance, and occasionally a few huge ancient ruins can be seen standing silently, like tombstones abandoned in the long river of time.

The air was filled with fluctuations of void energy.

Shen Tian took a deep breath.

"This site is much larger than I imagined."

While upgrading his equipment inside the Sword Court, his mental energy briefly expanded outward once.

During that scan, he captured some blurry but extremely unusual signals.

Deeper into the ruins.

It was a much farther location than the area he had previously cleaned.

The feeling was as if all the void power in the entire wasteland was slowly converging in that direction.

"If this site has a core, then this is it."

The ground beneath my feet was cracked like a spider web, and with each step, countless fine dust particles were thrown in all directions.

Shen Tian's physical strength has now reached an astonishing level, and he sped towards the depths of the ruins.

He relied solely on his physical strength, without using any of the power of the Wind of Calamity Law Wings.

His speed had already reached 10 times the speed of sound.

With the full power of his Eternal Overlord Body, Shen Tian's figure flashed across the gray wasteland like a dark red streak of light.

After Shen Tian's figure disappeared from the spot, a series of muffled sonic booms exploded behind him.

at the same time.

Li Changge's consciousness sank into the endless silver light.

He can no longer feel his body.

The only thing that was clear was a sword.

A phantom longsword suspended deep within consciousness.

It's like a star, quietly hanging right in front of you.

The silver-white blade gleamed with a warm luster. Several ancient runes were coiled around the hilt, forming a series of chains.

He stretched out his hand.

The instant the fingertips touched the hilt of the sword—

The whole world suddenly collapsed.

-

A burst of silver light.

Li Changge's vision was torn open in an instant.

Instead, a magnificent battlefield stretching across the heavens and the earth has emerged.

The sky was dark red.

It's not the red of the setting sun, but the afterglow left behind after countless stars shattered.

The stardust, like embers scattered by the wind, drifted slowly down.

The ground beneath their feet was no longer recognizable, with tens of thousands of spatial rifts crisscrossing it, each hundreds of meters wide and bottomless.

far away.

Mountains hang upside down in the air.

The fragments of the continent, uprooted by some force, slowly rotated in the void, occasionally colliding with each other and silently annihilating.

This is a world that is being destroyed.

Li Changge stood on the edge of the battlefield.

But just "looking" at it was enough to send chills down his spine.

Because in the center of the battlefield stood two people.

That person was extremely tall, at least three meters.

His dark silver armor was riddled with wounds, with a piece of armor on his left shoulder blown off, revealing charred skin and white bone underneath.

He held a long sword in his right hand, the same blunt heavy sword that Li Changge had seen on the stone platform before.

Unlike in the Sword Court, this sword is now completely undamaged.

The sword radiated a chilling, suffocating white aura.

This is that ancient warrior.

And opposite him.

Li Changge's pupils suddenly contracted.

It was a figure.

His figure was extremely tall, two heads taller than the three-meter-tall ancient warrior.

A body about five meters tall, with slender and well-proportioned features.

Deep purple skin covered every inch of the other person's exposed body.

Numerous patterns spread across the deep purple surface.

They are like veins that grow naturally in the skin.

It spreads from the neck down to the fingers, and from the temples down to the jaw.

Every line is glowing.

A faint purple light flowed through the patterns, like blood surging in veins.

His facial features were very deep, with high cheekbones.

Its facial features can be loosely categorized as "humanoid," but its proportions are subtly different from those of humans.

Its eye sockets are deeper, its brow bones are higher, and its pupils are vertical—like a snake, or perhaps some ancient reptilian beast.

The eye color is pure gold.

It has no pupils and no irises.

There is a vertical eye between the eyebrows.

Unlike the eyes on the left and right sides, this vertical eye was slightly open, with purple light leaking out from the slit.

Li Changge's breath caught in his throat for a moment.

A picture suddenly flashed through his mind.

—The Purple Spirit Clan!

Its skin was entirely deep purple, covered in purple markings, and it had a strange vertical eye between its brows—

same.

But it's different.

Li Changge stared at the ancient alien figure in front of him. His intuition told him that the relationship between this thing and the Purple Spirit Clan was far more than just "similar".

The eye was half-closed, with purple light flowing through its slit.

The mere glimpse of that gaze sweeping across the battlefield caused the crisscrossing spatial rifts to heal and tear apart on their own under its watchful gaze.

"This is... from the Purple Spirit Clan..."

Li Changge murmured to himself, but halfway through his sentence, he dismissed the idea.

No.

This is not the Purple Spirit Clan.

Or rather—the Purple Spirit Clan are its descendants.