The Cold and Aloof Palace Master's Daily Demon-Slaying Life

Almost at the same time.

Beneath Zuo Qingqiu's feet, the land, already covered in blood and rubble and in a state of utter devastation, suddenly trembled violently.

Countless dark red, destructive flames erupted from the cracks in the ground like fountains, quickly converging and solidifying in mid-air.

In the blink of an eye, a lotus flower with a diameter of over a thousand feet, its entire body as black as ink, yet burning with dark red demonic flames, bloomed below Zuo Qingqiu.

The lotus petals, layer upon layer, slowly rotated, each petal displaying a contorted face of pain, radiating terrifying heat and destructive energy capable of instantly burning and leveling mountains, rivers, cities, and kingdoms.

At the heart of the lotus, in its stamen, a core that pulsates like a black sun is frantically accumulating energy, as if it's about to explode at any moment.

Supernatural Power - [World-Destroying Black Flame Lotus].

But this is not the end.

Directly in front of Zuo Qingqiu, in the void, five spiritual hand seals of different colors—gold, cyan, blue, red, and yellow—each as large as a house, and each containing the Daoist charm of "sharpness," "vitality," "flexibility," "explosiveness," and "weight," appeared out of thin air.

The five large handprints did not attack directly, but instead rapidly approached, overlapped, and merged along a mysterious trajectory.

"Buzz—".

Five-colored light shot into the sky.

A gigantic hand, refined to its extreme, with a chaotic color yet seemingly containing the birth and death of the five elements, and with palm lines as clear as the veins of mountains and rivers, appeared out of nowhere.

The moment the palm appeared, it caused the five elements of spiritual energy within a radius of hundreds of miles to surge wildly. With a terrifying power that could suppress everything and obliterate all things, it slammed down on Zuo Qingqiu.

Supernatural power – [Great Five Elements Heaven-Turning Seal].

One finger, one lotus, one palm.

All three supernatural abilities are the Earth Luo Sect's most treasured secrets, top-tier killing techniques that require the Purple Mansion Great Perfection stage to barely unleash.

At this moment, Xia Zhu, whose strength had increased a hundredfold, unleashed the power simultaneously, and the combined force was simply earth-shattering.

A giant golden finger sealed off the sky, extinguishing all life.

The Black Lotus of Annihilation burns below, destroying everything;

The five giant palms swept forward, obliterating everything.

The three sides were surrounded, sealing off all of Zuo Qingqiu's space to dodge, intending to completely crush her in this small area.

Faced with this terrifying combined attack that could drive any cultivator in the Purple Mansion realm to despair, Zuo Qingqiu maintained the posture of pressing his right hand on the sword hilt and his left hand on his bamboo hat.

Even the hem of her clothes remained completely unmoved by the violent energy turbulence.

She merely raised her eyes slightly, her gaze beneath the bamboo hat calmly sweeping over the giant golden finger about to fall, the world-destroying black lotus rising beneath her feet, and the five-element giant palm striking down.

Then, she gently shook her head.

It was as if they were lamenting the other party's futile efforts.

next moment--

Zuo Qingqiu moved.

It wasn't drawing a sword, nor was it dodging.

It was just a slight thought.

"Sizzle—!"

Endless, fine as a hair, yet condensed to the extreme, purplish-black lightning containing the supreme Yin Thunder Dao principles appeared simultaneously on the core and most fundamental runic structures and energy nodes of the golden giant finger, the world-destroying black lotus, and the Five Elements Giant Palm without warning.

It was as if these destructive divine powers, from the moment they were born, had countless "seeds of thunder" planted within them, and now they were being detonated simultaneously.

"Pfft!" "Boom!" "Thud!"

Three strange sounds, almost indistinguishable in sequence, a mixture of muffled thuds and booms.

The overwhelming power of the Great Brahma Demon God Finger, which seemed capable of shattering the heavens, suddenly froze when it was still dozens of feet above Zuo Qingqiu's head. Then, like weathered rock, it silently crumbled and annihilated, turning into golden dust that drifted across the sky.

The Black Flame Lotus of Annihilation, poised to unleash its power and seemingly about to destroy everything, suddenly contracted its black core at the center of the flower, then extinguished without warning. The entire lotus, as if drained of all its energy, rapidly dimmed, withered, and dissipated, leaving only a wisp of acrid, green smoke.

When the Great Five Elements Heaven-Turning Seal, which contained the birth and death of the five elements and the annihilation of all things, struck several dozen feet in front of Zuo Qingqiu, a small, rotating purplish-black lightning spot suddenly appeared in the palm of its enormous hand.

The lightning spot rapidly expanded, instantly spreading to the entire palm.

The next moment, the Five Elements Giant Palm was as if it were being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, suddenly shrinking inward before silently exploding into a chaotic flow of five-colored spiritual energy, which then vanished without a trace.

The three terrifying combined attacks were easily dismantled.

It didn't even cause a ripple.

However, the attacks did not stop.

Almost at the same instant that the three supernatural powers were broken, a huge shadow suddenly loomed over Zuo Qingqiu's head.

At the same time, the air became heavier than the millennia-old black iron, the light was distorted and swallowed by the invisible power of heaven and earth, the gravity within a radius of hundreds of miles soared wildly, and the ground sank and compacted silently, groaning under the unbearable weight.

Zuo Qingqiu looked up.

A pitch-black "meteor" with a diameter of tens of thousands of miles, whose base alone obscured the entire sky, broke through the spatial limitations without warning and appeared out of thin air a hundred feet above her, pressing down on her with unparalleled force.

Space shattered layer by layer under its crushing force. Before it had even fully landed, the terrifying mass of the space itself generated immense power, causing the earth below to collapse like a fragile eggshell, instantly creating a giant bowl-shaped depression tens of miles deep.

It was not a real celestial body, but a massive, unimaginably large, heavy magical artifact, entirely black and covered with countless restrictive runes.

However, its weight is probably comparable to that of a star.

At this moment, Xia Zhu used a secret method to activate it, and carried out the most brutal and effective physical suppression.

Faced with such absolute mass and volume, no matter how profound your Taoist arts or how many supernatural powers you possess, you are left with only the path of being crushed into dust.

Zuo Qingqiu raised an eyebrow almost imperceptibly.

What a powerful phrase, "The star of Zhenxing falls to earth, a blow to the heavens."

interesting.

This time, she didn't rely solely on her thoughts.

The right hand, which had been resting on the hilt of the steel sword, finally moved.

"Clang—"

The clear, resonant sound of the sword echoed through the heavens.

The unremarkable steel sword, worth two ounces of black copper, was finally drawn.

There was no dazzling sword light, no soaring sword energy.

Only a single, exquisitely refined pale blue line, seemingly capable of severing cause and effect and dividing light and darkness, burst forth from the tip of the sword and gently flicked upwards.

It was so delicate and quiet that compared to the colossal, all-encompassing creature, it was so small that it was almost negligible, like a gentle breeze that occasionally swept through the darkness.

However, just as this thin line touched the black membrane and layers of restrictions at the bottom of the celestial body—a membrane strong enough to withstand the bombardment of the Purple Mansion's great divine power without damage—

"laugh--"

The sound was faint, like a hot knife slicing through thin ice.

That massive celestial body, as colossal as an ancient divine mountain, heavily fortified, and capable of crushing a cultivator at the Great Perfection of the Purple Mansion realm into a meat patty, was silently pierced open by this pale blue thread, which penetrated from the bottom to the top of the celestial body in just a few breaths.

The next moment, the entire celestial body was as neatly split in two from the very center, like a piece of paper cut by the sharpest paper cutter.

The cut is as smooth as a mirror, and can even reflect the dazzling starry sky above.

But it's not over yet.

With a slight flick of her wrist, Zuo Qingqiu's steel sword unleashed a dazzling display of swordplay.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!"

Countless condensed pale blue sword lights poured out from the sword tips like a torrential rain, striking the two halves of the huge wreckage that were falling with perfect accuracy, as well as the broken restrictions in the air that had not yet completely dissipated.

"Boom boom boom boom—!"

Amidst the continuous muffled thuds, the two halves of the celestial remains, along with the countless restrictive runes inscribed upon them, were completely shredded into countless tiny stones and fragments of spiritual light by this "storm of sword light".

In the sky, it seemed as if a "rock rain" mixed with pebbles and light fragments was falling.

However, just as the "rock rain" was falling, the scenery before Zuo Qingqiu's eyes suddenly changed without warning.

The cold, desolate, and blood-soaked battlefield has vanished.

Instead, there was a luxurious bathhouse filled with mist, warm and humid, and exuding an alluring sweetness and the fragrance of women.