After the time travel, my cheat program disappeared.

"Gah—!"

Behind Shi Yan, an overwhelming, sun-obscuring swarm of tens of thousands of blue pheasants stretched as far as the eye could see.

The monsters, resembling both humans and birds, spread their wings.

The girl's figure was reflected in pairs of dark eyes that seemed to hold a deep, unfathomable light.

Because both hands exerted all their strength to lift that sword of light and fire.

Shi Yan had already tossed the blue lantern in his hand to Donghuang Li.

Faced with the terrifying power of this sword of light and flame, the ability of the Blue Lantern to erase the aura of the living has become a joke.

Only a fool wouldn't see that...

There was a person standing there.

A...terrible person.

The swans' pursuit almost came to an abrupt halt; they merely lingered at a distance.

Before Shi Yan stood a giant bird, awakened by the immense power of the [Ring of the Eastern Lord], slowly raising its body.

Yellow Falcon.

The giant bird with white head and red beak exuded an aura even more terrifying than Qin Suhuai in her prime.

Nascent Soul Realm...?

No...it's much more terrifying than that.

That yellow falcon had already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. But... because it was hiding in this world of infinite cutting, it hadn't experienced a life-or-death ordeal.

Therefore, they are stuck in the awkward position of being between the Tribulation Transcending Realm and the Divine Transformation Realm.

However, no matter what... such a yellow eagle is nothing compared to Shi Yan, who is only at the 'Spirit Realm', and Donghuang Li, who is only at the Nascent Soul Realm.

They are all destructive and overwhelmingly dominant.

He gripped the blazing sword tightly in his hand.

Behind me... came a series of screams, "Gah!"

Shi Yan knew... that he had no way out now.

The blazing sword in his hand was so dazzling that Shi Yan's figure seemed to be shrouded in shadow.

It looks like a black sunspot on the surface of the sun.

The silhouette of the girl holding aloft her sword of light and flame was deeply imprinted in the eyes of the tens of thousands of blue pheasants behind Shi Yan.

Even Donghuang Li, who was standing next to Shi Yan, looked at Shi Yan with a shocked expression.

The power sealed within the [Ring of the Eastern Lord] by the ancestors of the Taiyi Sect—a furious strike from a cultivator at the Enlightenment Realm.

It's different from the ring that Wen Wan gave her and then passed on to Donghuang Li.

Although Wen Wan was a demon lord, her power was actually just like her name—

She is very gentle and graceful.

Moreover, that ring held... her apology and remorse.

The gentle power sealed within that peony ring is subtle and easily controlled.

Even so... when Donghuang Li used this power, she still felt as if she had her hands on the horns of an angry bull.

That power belonging to cultivators at the Enlightenment Realm—

The Nascent Soul Realm, the Deity Transformation Realm, the Tribulation Transcending Realm, the Enlightenment Realm... there are four major realms of power difference between them. It's even more terrifying than the power gap between a child playing in the mud and an adult.

This is like putting a child on a heavy cannon with tremendous recoil.

If one is not careful, even those who uphold the precepts can be seriously injured.

Wen Wan and Donghuang Li's ancestor had obviously considered this point.

Therefore, the power within the ring only needs to be released.

That's exactly what Donghuang Li did back then.

A gentle yet powerful strike cleaved a trench tens of meters wide in the earth, seemingly stretching to the horizon.

Even so... it was only because Donghuang Li did her best at the last moment to lift the power released by the ring up by just a little bit.

Shi Yan... Donghuang Li stared in shock at the girl wielding the sword of light and flame.

She wanted to use, or even control, this power by crossing five major realms with her 'Spirit Realm' cultivation level...

"She's insane."

"She must be crazy."

Donghuang Li bit her lips until they turned white.

It was because she had used it before that she knew how insignificant her Nascent Soul Realm cultivation was in front of a Dao Enlightenment Realm cultivator.

Enlightenment Realm cultivators no longer deign to judge strength solely by the intensity of their spiritual power.

They comprehend the rules.

Watching the world's flowers bloom and fade, spring come and autumn go, the vast sea and the ever-changing fields.

Recognize your own "source," and then—

To schedule, or even control, the rules.

In Donghuang Li's view... Shi Yan was doing something completely impossible.

It's just a Spirit Realm cultivator, so how can it use this power?

But she still didn't dare to make a sound.

She was afraid that she would disturb Shi Yan and cause him to be injured even more.

Shi Yan gritted his teeth.

really--

Just as Donghuang Li thought, she had no way of controlling this power.

Besides the insurmountable gap between themselves and cultivators at the Enlightenment Realm, each cultivator at the Enlightenment Realm has their own unique 'Dao' and their own unique 'rules'.

And that senior who called himself Dongjun probably possessed... the power of light and flame.

It is different from Ming Zhongqing's Yangyan.

That senior has completely eliminated the sun's influence on her.

What she controls is the light and flame itself.

She herself is the one who creates light, not someone who borrows the power of the sun.

Normally speaking... let alone the 'Spirit Realm' or 'Cloud Pill Realm'.

Even if the person standing here wielding the Sword of Light and Flame had now reached the Nascent Soul Realm, similar to Qin Suhuai, it would be difficult for them to control this power.

if--

The person standing here is not Shi Yan.

if--

Those who seal that power in the ring... are not from the Taiyi Sect.

On Shi Yan's character attribute panel, the icon for "Harmony with Heaven" was spinning rapidly with a halo, as if it had gone mad, circling around and around.

That's right.

The senior who styled himself Dongjun used a clever method to seal his power in the ring.

She used the innate destiny of "harmonizing with Heaven" to cleverly seal away the power.

This gave Shi Yan the opportunity to control and use this power.

Although he doesn't seem to have any connection with the Taiyi Sect, Shi Yan is, in any case, a person who genuinely possesses the innate destiny of "harmonizing with Heaven".

Even more impressively... her talent surpasses that of Donghuang Li, a rare talent of the Taiyi Sect, who appears only once every few centuries.

With the help of the modifier, Master Yan's Eight Meridians Technique and Root Bone were fully mastered.

Light gathers in Shi Yan's hands.

Shi Yan's hand holding the sword was trembling. Moreover, every inch of Shi Yan's skin and flesh seemed to be emitting a mournful cry.

This power was still too great for her.

The teacher said that it was imperative to unleash this power.

at the moment...

Looking at Huang Ying's seemingly sleepy and dazed eyes, Shi Yan swung down his sword of light and flame.

The surging, burning light engulfed everything.

Before the light that seemed to annihilate everything, the enormous figure of the yellow falcon was reduced to a silhouette whose outline was constantly blurring.

The mournful cries of the yellow falcon shook the heavens.

Donghuang Li stared at Shi Yan in shock and disbelief.

Why...why?

Besides the shock she felt from Shi Yan wielding that power, Donghuang Li was even more curious about something else.

Why did the teacher say that the "scorching sun would deliver the verdict"?

This is different from the techniques that Shi Yan used before, such as "Naraku's Trap Hole" and "Heavenly Punishment," which were widely used and learned by the Taiyi Sect because they were purely insidious and effective.

【Blazing Sun Judgment】is a genuine... unique skill created solely by our ancestor.

In Donghuang Li's eyes, apart from the ancestor and herself, there should be very few people in the entire Taiyi Sect who could do it.

But... what did the teacher say?

Donghuang Li was greatly shocked.

They even wanted to drag Shi Yan back to the Taiyi Sect.