The Last Sentinel

"Dragon demon, where do you think you're going!"

"Hand over my disciple, and I'll spare your life!"

Boom! Thunder roared down from the sky, rain poured down, dark clouds rolled in, and the Canglong River, which was three kilometers wide, surged and roared into the sky. The trees and forests on both banks were smashed and broken by the roaring river.

Just then, a bolt of lightning tore through the night sky. The blue and white lightning struck the ground, and as the light dissipated, a middle-aged Taoist priest dressed in a purple-red robe stepped out. He carried a Bagua compass at his waist, radiating ripples of lightning, and a peach wood magic sword on his back. Lightning emanated from his eyes, and his powerful spiritual energy almost pierced through them, demonstrating that his spiritual energy was so strong that it was almost materialistic. Even within Ye Feng's Human Alliance, such spiritual energy would place him among the top 100!

"A demonic dragon!" The middle-aged Taoist priest, with a wisp of black beard, said leisurely, "Do you know that after the founding of the nation, it was forbidden for spirits to exist? Do you think that there are no masters in the Three Mountains and Five Peaks who can subdue you?"

In the Canglong River, the demonic dragon, having just been severely injured by several experts, is now hiding in the water, merely stirring up the waves, seemingly summoning some kind of aid.

Sure enough, soon after, an aged voice echoed from the upper reaches of the Canglong River: "The laws of the Human Dynasty do not apply to forbidden areas. Whether something has become a spirit or not is not up to you, Celestial Master, nor is it up to the Human Dynasty!"

Anger flashed across the middle-aged Taoist priest's face. He turned around abruptly, and the forest was shattered as a terrifying, massive wave of earth swept in.

One after another, enormous giants, some three or five zhang tall, stomped on the mountaintops, leaping dozens of meters high and hundreds of meters away. Clad in animal skins and wielding bronze spears and swords, they exuded a chilling aura and surrounded the middle-aged Taoist priest from all directions, instantly trapping him in the center.

Among the savages of Ailao Mountain, a hunched old man with white hair and beard, holding a bone cane, stepped forward. His old eyes glanced at the Taoist priest out of the corner of his eye. "Who do we have here! It's Zhang Tianyi from Longhu Mountain. Young man, when your grandfather was the Celestial Master, he had to bow to me!"

Zhang Tianshi's eyes flashed like thunder, and he spat out two words through gritted teeth, "Sins—and calamities!"

"Heh heh—" The old man sneered at Zhang Tianshi, "This is a forbidden area, a forbidden area that humanity has never ruled over for ten thousand years. All your dynasties and emperors have been unable to rule this place. Do you think your current dynasty can interfere with this forbidden area?"

Zhang Tianshi said, "Disobeying the King's rule is the first crime; colluding with the demon dragon to ambush the Dragon Group's archaeological team is the second crime; and sabotaging humanity's exploration of the Sanxingdui civilization is the third crime. Old bones, with three crimes committed simultaneously, what else do you have to say?"

The old man laughed heartily, "Since ancient times, it has been a dog-eat-dog world. Enough with the nonsense, if you're so capable, then kill us!"

"happy!"

"Hahaha!"

Zhang Tianshi surveyed his surroundings with overwhelming force, "Then, let's all come at you together! Whether it's the demonic dragon or the savage tribe of Ailao Mountain, today we'll put an end to your existence!"

The old man suddenly raised the bone cane in his hand, and a pair of eyes at the end of the cane, shaped like a goat's head, emitted a scarlet light.

The crimson light fell upon the savage men of the Ailao Mountains around them. The men roared and howled, their muscles tearing and expanding wildly. Those who were originally three zhang tall suddenly swelled to five zhang tall, and those who were originally five zhang tall swelled to ten zhang tall. The long hair of each savage stretched to the sky, and black and red tattoos covered their entire bodies. Their bloodshot eyes stared at Zhang Tianshi in the center, and they all charged forward!

Zhang Tianshi didn't even glance at the berserk savages around him. He put his right hand behind his back, made a hand seal with his left hand, and stepped out in the Seven Star Step. Suddenly, the Black and White Qimen Plate was spread out, and the four star orbits rapidly reversed.

Zhang Tianshi extended his left hand and struck, chanting: "The Luoshu spreads in all directions, the Heavenly Emperor governs Yin and Yang, Emperor Ku determined the four seasons, Emperor Zhuanxu created heaven and earth—Chaotic Golden Clapper!"

A faint golden light swept across the entire battlefield, freezing countless ferocious savages who had leaped into the air and pounced down in mid-air, as if the entire space had been solidified by Zhang Tianshi.

Upon seeing this, the savage elder's pupils constricted sharply. He exerted all his cultivation to activate the goat-headed staff in his hand, attempting to break Zhang Tianshi's spatial lock.

No matter how hard the savage elder tried, the hundreds of berserk savages were stuck in a thick quagmire, immobilized in the void, unable to move even a single hair or a finger.

"Those who are not of our kind are sure to have different hearts!" Zhang Tianshi waved his sleeve, his eyes gleaming. "My grandfather was too soft-hearted! There's no need for reasoning with you wicked creatures; just kill you!"

The savage elder gritted his teeth and said, "You bastard! What are you so smug about! Do you think I don't know? The final battle is coming. After that battle, humanity will enter the space age, and we remnants of the spiritual energy era will all perish in the final battle! No matter how strong you are, so what! The era you were born into can no longer ascend!"

Zhang Tianshi smiled contemptuously, "Others cultivate the Tao to become immortals, but I cultivate the Tao for pleasure and slaughter! Even if remnants like you and me disappear in the final battle, I will still wipe you out before the final battle arrives!"

The savage elder roared, "Arrogant! Reckless!"

At this point, Zhang Tianshi formed the tortoise-fly body hand seal again, his own temporal sequence surging in sync. His figure transformed into afterimages, traversing through frozen time and space, his palm wind brimming with unorthodox killing intent: "Temporal sequence is in my hands, destiny is locked! Deconstruction—Kill!"

With a shout of "Kill!", the golden light surrounding Zhang Tianshi shattered inch by inch, like transparent fragments of golden glass. Countless spaces broke into layers of dense, shimmering debris. Along with the golden debris, those powerful berserk savages were also instantly transformed into countless physical fragments, falling piece by piece, leaving not a single intact corpse behind.

"I'll fight you to the death, you bastard surnamed Zhang!"

The savage elder brandished the ram-headed staff in his hand, and the red pupils in the ram's head suddenly transformed into terrifying black demonic eyes. Black demonic energy surged wildly from the ram's head, transforming out of thin air into a terrifying black mist ram-headed demon beast a hundred meters tall. The ram-headed demon beast roared and fiercely devoured Zhang Tianshi.

Even the Qi flowing around his body froze into a solid mass, and the flow of everything around him was stripped away and slowed down a hundredfold.

Zhang Tianshi pointed his sword towards the sky, stepped into the Nine Palaces with the steps of Yu, spread the Luoshu array patterns in his palm, and chanted in a deep voice: "The Six Bing Azure Dragon suppresses the order of time, the Eight Gates reverse and lock away the light and shadow, by decree!"

Behind Zhang Tianshi, the peach wood sword suddenly shot into the sky, golden light poured into it, and the peach wood sword surged with endless power, transforming into a waterfall that rushed towards the ram-headed monster in front of him!

The ram-headed demon beast was extremely ferocious; it shattered the peach wood sword formation in a single exchange!

"When the time is right for Baguazhang, all other techniques become sluggish!"

Zhang Tianshi activated his Tortoise-Fly Body, increasing his own speed, and his figure weaved through the air, barely dodging the attacks of the ram-headed monster.

In a secluded corner unnoticed, the demonic dragon quietly climbed ashore on the back of the savage elder, taking advantage of the massive waves.

Just when Zhang Tianshi and the wild elder were fighting fiercely!

"roar--"

The demonic dragon suddenly burst out, its huge mouth swallowing the savage elder whole. In the process, the dragon's mouth swirled and swallowed the soul of the terrifying hundred-meter-tall demonic beast in the sky!