Devouring demons, I attain immortality.

The azure light emanating from the Xuan Tian Mirror enveloped the entire execution ship, and the underwater currents suddenly transformed into eighteen water tornadoes.

The Dragon Girl bit her fingertip and drew dragon patterns on the mirror. The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade automatically spun into a wheel, its blade cutting through the water curtain to reveal the ruins of the Dragon Palace, where dragon pillars stood tall, at the end of the underwater tunnel.

"The Demon-Slaying Blade is devouring the Xie family's cursed power!"

Lin An pressed down on the trembling hilt of the knife and discovered that the talisman on the pillar was turning into black smoke and seeping into the dragon pattern on the blade.

As the third dragon pillar collapsed, the sound of chains snapping came from deep within the ruins, and the Xuan Tian Seal suddenly slipped from his grasp and crashed into a section of the remaining wall.

The dragon suddenly went berserk and crashed into Lin An.

A blood-red chain drilled out from the spine where the incantation was originally buried, and it resonated with the seventh dragon pillar.

The Dragon Girl unleashed her reverse scale, shattering the chains, but the Xuan Tian Mirror reflected a horrifying scene: the true name of the dragon was clearly displayed in the natal lamp array enshrined in the Xie family ancestral hall!

"They used the Demon-Slaying Blade to forge a soul contract!"

The moment the Dragon Girl roared, the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade spontaneously slashed towards Lin An's chest.

The Xuan Tian Seal deflected the blade in time, but smashed a deep pit into the bluestone slab.

Half of a stone tablet was exposed at the bottom of the pit. The inscription on the tablet recorded that the first Xuan Tian Mirror was actually made from the cornea of ​​the Dragon King.

The underwater tremors suddenly intensified.

The phantom of an elder from the Xie family appeared atop the five surviving dragon pillars, forming an array to suppress the golden lightning net.

Lin An flipped the Xuan Tian Mirror into the groove of the stone tablet. The lightning reflected on the mirror transformed into a scene of the Dragon King's fall three hundred years ago. The Xie family ancestor was holding the blood-stained Nine Revolutions Demon-Slaying Blade!

"So, I was the key all along."

Lin An suddenly slashed his palm and grasped the dragon pattern on the Demon Slayer Blade. The blood-soaked blade revealed a complete star map.

As the blade pierced the last dragon-shaped pillar, the Xuan Tian Seal branded a golden dragon-shaped mark on his forehead, and an ancient dragon's roar echoed throughout the entire sea.

A thousand-meter-high turbid wave erupted on the sea surface.

Lin An's five fingers gripped Xie Jinghong's remnant soul, and the Xuan Tian Mirror reflected a horrifying truth: what was suppressed beneath the ruins of the Dragon Palace was not the Dragon King, but half of the Immortal Realm's [Fallen Law].

"So the Twenty-Eight Constellations Sword Soul is actually a chain of punishment!"

Lin An shattered his remnant soul, and the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade plunged into the seabed rift.

The star map on the blade vibrated in unison with the curse mark on the surface of Fallen Law's body, and began to devour the sword's soul energy in reverse.

The dragon maiden's voice pierced through the void: "Destroy the array's core quickly! The Xie family is going to use the Fallen Law to restart the Heavenly Punishment..."

Before she could finish speaking, half of her body had already fallen out of the teleportation array, with a Xie family-issue crossbow bolt stuck in her chest.

"Who goes there?"

Lin An's pupils contracted sharply. The inscription on the crossbow bolt glowed with a bluish light, the unique [Soul-Locking Pattern] of the Xie family's Demon-Slaying Crossbow.

A giant bronze hand suddenly emerged from a seabed fissure, but what flowed from between its fingers was not blood, but viscous fragments of laws.

As Lin An dodged, the fragments of the Chaos Bell in his arms spontaneously embedded themselves into the giant hand's wrist armor.

[Celestial Torture Instrument - Heavenly Shackles Detected!]

[Forced Tribulation of Dao Integration!]

Before the thunderclouds could gather, the Xie family patriarch had already led his black cavalry to break through the waves and arrive.

He held the dragon girl's head in his hand, his eyes glowing with the purple light of the Formless Heavenly Demon: "Hand over the Chaos Bell, and I will grant you the title of a prison guard in the Immortal Realm."

Lin An scoffed, his blade flicking up the astrolabe the dragon maiden had left behind. Bloodstains on the surface snaked into a proverb:

"Those who kill immortals should be fueled by the laws of nature."

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade slashed fiercely at the Heavenly Rules Shackles, and the Starry Sword Soul transformed into chains to bind the Fallen Laws.

"Today, I will use the laws of the Celestial Realm to incinerate you, this demonic furnace!"

As the sea and sky reversed, the illusory image of the Chaos Bell struck, resounding with the sound of world destruction.

The moment the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade collided with the Heavenly Shackles, crimson lightning exploded on the seabed.

Lin An's tiger's mouth burst open, only to see the star map on the blade strangely rotating in reverse. The Xie family had actually buried a master-devouring curse in the sword soul, and the phantom of the Blood Marrow Sect's altar lit up simultaneously in the twenty-eight constellations.

"You've consumed too much of the Xie family's essence blood; you've long since become a curse catalyst!"

The Xie family patriarch's pupils blazed with purple light, and the tentacles of the Formless Heavenly Demon emerged from his spine, piercing straight into the fragments of the Chaos Bell.

"What the Celestial Realm wants isn't the broken bell, but this physical body capable of containing the 'Law of Fall'!"

The Dragon Girl's head suddenly opened its eyes, and fragments of the astrolabe shot out from her mouth: "Kan Seven, Li Three, Soul Locking Sheath!"

Lin An instinctively reached back and grabbed the fragment, his palm charred black by the star pattern.

At this moment, the Primordial Golden Core split into Yin and Yang fish, and the power of devouring began to backfire on the sword soul.

Clang!

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade broke in two, and a fragment of the Chaos Bell on the hilt suddenly embedded itself in the crack of the Heavenly Rule Shackles.

The bronze giant hand of the Fallen Law emitted a piercing shriek, and half of the immortal seal character "劫" (jie) emerged from its palm, resonating with the golden seal on Lin An's forehead.

Eclipse triggered! The remnant soul of the Dragon Girl screamed within the star chart.

Suddenly, a scene flashed before Lin An's eyes: on the ruins of the Immortal Realm, his own bones were nailed into the Chaos Bell, and the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade was stuck in the heart of the Xie family patriarch. The one wielding the blade was a dragon girl with bloodshot eyes.

Reality is but a fleeting moment.

The demonic tendrils of the Xie family patriarch had pierced through the illusory image of the Chaos Bell, and the foul air of the immortal realm, like poisonous miasma, poured into Lin An's meridians.

The yin-yang fish on the Primordial Golden Elixir suddenly devoured each other, and a black hole-like vortex exploded in the dantian.

[The Devouring System is overloaded!]

[The source of the Fallen Laws of the Celestial Realm has been detected. Integrate?]

The seabed suddenly fell silent.

Lin An tore off the tentacle that had pierced his chest, and the filthy blood splashed onto the star chart burned through time and space.

He saw the first patriarch of the Xie family kneeling on the execution platform in the immortal realm, with the fragment of the Chaos Bell embedded in his forehead.

"It turns out I was the one who was caught in the trap."

Lin An grinned maliciously and dug out the Primordial Golden Elixir with his bare hands, slamming it into the Heavenly Rules Shackles.

The yin-yang fish swam along the bronze patterns, and the giant hand of the Fallen Law suddenly changed direction, grabbing the demonic body of the Xie family patriarch.

The shriek of the Formless Demon shattered three Xie family warships, and countless demon corpses floated on the sea surface—all elite wolf clan members who had disappeared in the Northern Frontier.

"You used demons to refine celestial demons?"

Lin An stepped on the head of Xie's patriarch, feeling the skull cracking beneath his feet.

The dragon girl's remnant soul shrieked at that moment: "Beware of the time eclipse!"

A viscous golden liquid suddenly gushed out from the seabed fissure; it was solidified time in the celestial realm.

Lin An's right arm, which held the knife, aged rapidly, while his left arm regressed to the innocence of his youth. Under the influence of the Chaos Bell, the timeline began to become disordered.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Xie family patriarch crushed the scale between his eyebrows: "The Northern Frontier Demon King has been trapped. Guess who the next sacrifice will be?"

The moment he exploded into a bloody mist, something in Lin An's arms suddenly became hot. It was the Xie family token that Lu Xiuwen had given him before parting, and three bloody characters were emerging from it.

Black snow suddenly fell from the sea.

Seventy-two black iron coffins broke through the waves, their lids trembling as they released chilling sword energy.

Lin An smelled a familiar scent: each coffin contained the remnant soul of an enemy he had personally slain, including the old servant of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion who perished in the fire three years ago!

"The eclipse has tangled the threads of cause and effect into a deadlock." The dragon girl's remnant soul faded. "To break this deadlock, devour the Law of Fallenness!"

A fragment of the Chaos Bell suddenly pierced Lin An's heart, merging with the immortal seal of the Heavenly Rulers.

He heard the sound of bronze grinding against each other from his own bones, and in his vision, the blood mist of the Xie family patriarch condensed into a line of ancient celestial script:

Those who commit patricide will be condemned to eternal damnation.

Lin An grinned.

He grabbed his mutating right hand and shoved it hard into his dantian: "System, swallow this damn Heavenly Rule for me!"

A burst of blazing white light erupted from the seabed, and the giant hand of the Fallen Law and the illusory image of the Chaos Bell were simultaneously annihilated.

When the light faded, only half a bronze finger and a broken sword covered in rust from the celestial realm remained on the sea.

Thousands of miles away, the blood sacrifice altar in the northern frontier suddenly collapsed.

The demon dragon girl crawled out of the blood pool, the dragon scales on her forehead flashing in sync with Lin An's golden seal.

She licked the blood from her lips, and with a flick of her wrist, froze eighteen Xie family cultivators to pieces: "Brother, you've finally tasted the sweetness?"

The sea breeze swept past the broken knife, carrying black snow.

In the last empty spot on the star chart of the knife hilt, a malevolent star quietly lit up.