Devouring demons, I attain immortality.

The ice steps of the Northern Frontier Blood Altar were stained with black blood, and the demon dragon girl shattered the last Demon Suppression Division token with her bare feet.

She conjured an ice blade at her fingertips, using it to pick up the severed limb of a wolf demon from the ground: "How fresh is the Heavenly Demon Tentacle, nurtured by the Xie family patriarch with three thousand demon bones?"

The severed limb suddenly lunged at her throat, only to be crushed into a pulp by a bronze severed finger that appeared out of nowhere.

Lin An stepped out of the void rift, his right arm covered in bronze rust: "You called me brother?"

The dragon girl tilted her head and chuckled, the dragon scales on her forehead shimmering with a deep blue light: "When the Xie family extracted my reverse scale to forge the Xuan Tian Seal, that Primordial Golden Core in your dantian—"

She suddenly flashed behind Lin An, pressing an icy blade against his back. "But it was refined using my demon core."

The broken sword brought back from the seabed suddenly trembled, and Su Yingxue's remnant soul seeped from the hilt: "Be careful! She carries the power of the Fallen Law..."

"Shut up!"

The Dragon Girl extinguished the ghostly flame in her palm, instantly freezing Su Yingxue's remnant soul. She whispered in Lin An's ear, "The Demon Suppression Division has prepared a wedding sedan for Ye Hongyi in the Burning Demon Valley. You said the bride under her veil—"

The sound of blades clashing and exploding rang out.

A fragment of the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade pierced through the Dragon Girl's left shoulder, splattering pale golden blood droplets.

Lin An's pupils constricted sharply: "Immortal veins?"

"You just realized that?"

The dragon girl let the blood flow from her wound, and the blood droplets that fell to the ground grew into crystal clusters.

"A hundred years ago, the Immortal Realm stripped the demon race of their immortal bones, but my father hid half of their immortal lineage in the Demon Tomb in the Northern Frontier."

She suddenly crushed the bone chain around her neck, "And the key is in Ye Hongyi's heart!"

The fragments of the bone chain transformed into a star map, reflecting the scene of the Burning Demon Valley: Ye Hongyi was nailed to the bronze sacrificial cauldron, with half a dragon horn-shaped dagger stuck in her heart.

Nine hundred boys and girls knelt beneath the cauldron, each with a soul-locking rope from the Demon Suppression Division tied around their throats.

The bronze rust on Lin An's right arm suddenly spread to his neck: "What do you want to exchange for your immortal veins?"

The dragon girl licked the golden blood from her lips: "I want you to swallow that half of the Fallen Law."

She flicked her finger and shattered the ice steps, revealing the enormous, frozen object below—the headless corpse of a celestial executioner, with a sealed halberd formed from the sword souls of the Twenty-Eight Constellations stuck in its severed neck.

Suddenly, the sound of bells rang out from the Burning Demon Valley.

The voice of the Xie family patriarch pierced through the void: "The auspicious hour has arrived. Groom, please light the soul lamp!"

The sacrificial cauldron collapsed with a crash, and Ye Hongyi's dragon horn dagger began to extract immortal veins from her heart. At the same time, the nine hundred child corpses in the valley opened their eyes, and their pupils lit up with the purple light of the Formless Heavenly Demon.

Lin An slashed at the frozen corpse with his broken blade: "System, devour it!"

[Warning! Devouring the Immortal Realm's Executioner will trigger the Nine Heavens Divine Punishment!]

The fragment of the Chaos Bell on the hilt suddenly pierced his palm, and Lin An heard a metallic grinding sound emanating from his bones: "Then I'll swallow the divine punishment along with it."

Suddenly, the Dragon Girl bit her tongue, using her golden blood to draw a sacrificial array in the void: "Using the immortal veins as a guide, summon the demon's tomb to open!"

The land of northern Xinjiang split open into deep ravines, and nine dragon skeletons carrying bronze chains emerged from the earth.

At the end of the chain, half a fragment of the Chaos Bell was embedded in the dantian of the executioner's corpse.

"Does my brother know?"

The dragon girl tore open her robes, revealing the Chaos Bell's brand on her chest in the same spot. "Were we originally twin spirits of the bell, one and the same?"

Ye Hongyi's scream came from the direction of Burning Demon Valley.

Bronze liquid flowed from Lin An's left eye, while a Primordial Chaos True Fire ignited in his right: "Let's see who devours whom!"

The broken blade, carrying the sword spirits of the Twenty-Eight Constellations, pierced into the corpse. Suddenly, the immortal corpse opened its eyes, and two balls of chaotic fire leaped from its pupil-less eye sockets.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Dragon Girl injected her immortal veins into Lin An's brow: "When the Xie family extracted my immortal bones, guess who I saw in their soul lamp?"

A phantom image of the Xie family patriarch in his childhood materialized from her fingertips. "Our dear elder brother, he willingly sacrificed his dragon vein to become a dog of the Demon Suppression Division!"

Suddenly, the Chaos Bell exploded into three fragments, and a giant bronze hand emerged from the spacetime rift—it was actually the remains of Lin An's future self!

"Now, swallow me!"

The dragon girl transformed into a dragon and pounced on the corpse.

"Let's use our half-immortal, half-demon bodies to forge a new bell for this immortal realm!"

The sacrificial cauldron of Burning Demon Valley exploded with a deafening roar, and Ye Hongyi's heart's blood splattered onto the illusory image of the Chaos Bell.

Nine hundred child corpses chanted in unison, and the true form of the Formless Heavenly Demon finally tore through the void and descended.

In the chaos, Lin An heard Su Yingxue's final scream: "The seventh star of the Kan position, that's yours..."

The sound abruptly stopped. He looked down and saw the broken blade piercing through the dragon girl's spine, the immortal veins and demon blood merging on the blade, condensing into new chaotic Dao patterns.

"It's time to settle the score, brother."

Lin An's right arm was completely transformed into bronze as he crushed the Heavenly Demon Seal that Xie's ancestor had sent from afar.

The fragments of the Chaos Bell spontaneously reassembled, and the faces of nine hundred wailing child souls appeared on the inner wall of the bell—the very offerings from the Burning Demon Valley!

The dragon girl's corpse suddenly opened its eyes, and, carrying half a celestial vein in its mouth, rammed into the Chaos Bell: "Remember, my name is Ao Ling!"

As the bell tolled, all the dragon bones in the Northern Frontier Demon Tomb raised their heads simultaneously, pouring the accumulated immortal and demonic energy of ten thousand years into Lin An's body.

The Xie family patriarch vomited black blood in the Demon Burning Valley: "How is this possible... The Formless Heavenly Demon clearly..."

He suddenly clutched his chest, where the same bronze rust spots as Lin An's appeared.

Ye Hongyi's remnant soul floated out of the sacrificial cauldron, clutching the reverse scale that should have belonged to Ao Ling: "It's time to close the net on the Demon Suppression Division's scheme."

The instant the Chaos Bell solidified completely, Lin An saw fragments of the future: Ao Ling's dragon horn was stuck in her back, while the Xie family patriarch's sword was piercing through her dantian—destiny closed the loop into a blood-red tai chi.

Dark clouds surged above the Burning Demon Valley, and nine streaks of crimson lightning coiled like dragons.

Lin An stood atop the sacrificial cauldron, gripping the broken sword horizontally. His bronzed right arm was covered in blood-red runes—the Heavenly Dao imprint of the Chaos Bell's backlash.

"The Nine-Nine Annihilation Kalpa..."

Ye Hongyi, clutching the Reverse Scale, retreated to the precipice, behind her the Nine Netherworld Locking Immortal Array set up by the Demon Suppression Division.

Half a dragon bone floated at the core of the formation; it was the spine that Ao Ling had been removed from.

The Xie family patriarch descended through the air atop demonic purple flames, carrying a soul lamp whose wick was none other than Xie Jinghong's remnant soul: "You think you can break the deadlock by slaying the Fallen Law? This world is nothing more than a Gu cauldron nurtured by the Xie family for the Immortal Realm!"

Lin An's blade swept across the inscriptions on the sacrificial cauldron, sparking a shower of sparks: "A Gu cauldron? Then let's lift the lid!"

Suddenly, the broken blade unleashed a dragon's roar, and Ao Ling's immortal and demonic aura condensed into wings of ice and fire, drawing the annihilation tribulation lightning towards the Demon Suppression Division's army.

"Stubborn to the end!"

The Xie family patriarch crushed the soul lamp, and Xie Jinghong's soul transformed into thousands of vengeful ghosts that rushed towards the Immortal Locking Formation.

The dragon bones in the formation suddenly trembled, resonating with the bronze incantation on Lin An's right arm.

Ye Hongyi suddenly bit her fingertip, using her sharpest instinct to slash her palm: "Heavenly Wolf Devours the Moon, Blood Leads Back to the Source!"

She slammed the blood-stained Reverse Scale into the center of the formation, and a deafening wolf howl echoed from the northern frontier.

Eighteen giant wolves crashed into the mountain wall, each wolf's eye reflecting the golden mark on Lin An's forehead.

The Xie family patriarch's expression changed drastically: "You actually inscribed the wolf clan's blood curse onto your reverse scale?"

"It's not engraved."

Despite bleeding from all seven orifices, Ye Hongyi laughed freely.

"It's the karma from the blood curse you cast three hundred years ago when you slaughtered my entire clan; it should have backfired!"

The Immortal-Locking Formation suddenly reversed, and the Annihilation Tribulation Lightning was channeled into Xie Jinghong's horde of vengeful ghosts.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin An split open the sacrificial cauldron, and three hundred and sixty bronze nails flew out from inside—the very "Immortal Sealing Stakes" that were driven into Ao Ling's dragon spine back then.

"Here you go!"

Lin An flicked his sleeve and rolled up the bronze nail. The Primordial True Fire, wrapped in the aura of immortals and demons, forged it into a ferocious chain.

The Xie family patriarch was unable to dodge in time, and a bloody hole was pierced through his left shoulder, from which flowed black blood that shimmered with golden light.

"A being wholly immortal and half demon?"

Lin An's pupils contracted as he recalled Ao Ling's cold laugh before she died.

"So the Xie family had already molded you into a vessel!"

The Xie family patriarch suddenly tore open his robes, revealing a fragment of the Chaos Bell embedded in his chest: "Why do you think I can command the Formless Heavenly Demon? Eighty years ago, during the Blood Night in the Northern Frontier, it was you who personally drove this fragment into my body!"