Daqin Zhentiansi

The massive body of the demonic shadow staggered backward under Zhang Yuan's full-force attack, letting out a deafening roar of pain!
Its entire demonic claw was struck by the combined effects of Zhang Yuan's fist, Xuan Chengzi's sword light, Yuwen Zhen's fire line, and Lin Su'e's slowing force field, causing its demonic energy to dissipate and resulting in a momentary stiffness!
Zhang Yuan was covered in blood, his sleeves were torn to shreds, revealing his bulging muscles covered in tiny cracks, yet shimmering with a pale golden light.

He stood proudly in the air, with the abyss of the collapsed demon palace beneath his feet and chaotic currents of laws surrounding him. He let out a domineering roar, a roar that seemed to survey the heavens and earth, as the demonic shadow, its ferocity amplified by pain and rage, roared towards the figure.

"That's all! Let's try again!"

This overwhelming spirit of using mortal bodies to shake the heavens and fight to the death without retreating, like the fiercest flames of war, completely ignited the blood and courage in the hearts of the other three!
"That's exhilarating! I'll help Fellow Daoist Zhang!" Xuan Chengzi roared, and the sword light surged again, carrying with it a resolute determination to perish together with his opponent.

"Fight!" Yuwen Zhen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes burning with an unprecedented fighting spirit. He became one with his sword and charged at the demonic shadow once more.

"The core of this demon must be in the 'Xuanming' position!" Lin Su'e's voice came urgently, and the light of her deduction shone even brighter.

The four of them were like four supreme blades, engaging in a frenzied battle around the enormous demonic shadow!

Zhang Yuan remained the undisputed striker, each head-on collision causing the space to groan and making Yuwen Zhen and the others tremble.

He endured the enraged counterattacks of the demonic shadow, his injuries compounded, but that god-like body seemed to possess infinite potential, growing more frenzied with each wound!
From Yuwen Zhen and the others' perspective, Zhang Yuan was using his physical body and willpower to forcefully break through the layers of the demonic shadow's defenses, carving a bloody path for their deadly attack!
The sword light is everywhere!

The talisman shone brightly!

The flames spread like wildfire!

A punch so powerful it shatters stars!

This earth-shattering battle had terrifying shockwaves that were hundreds of times more powerful than when Zhang Yuan shattered the guards!
The tremors were no longer limited to a single area; they triggered a massive tide across the entire Blood Sea plane!

Countless trial grounds were shaking violently, and the remaining ferocious beasts from the sea of ​​blood were fleeing in panic.

"It's the core area! My God! What kind of battle is taking place there?!"

"Leadership Rankings!! The Heavenly Secrets are in disarray, the Crystal Stele is blurring!"

"That fluctuation... far surpasses that of a Grandmaster! Is this a battle between Saints?!"

"Run! Get out of the sea of ​​blood! The space is about to collapse!"

Amid the chaos, countless trial participants screamed in terror.

Those rescuers from various sects who were originally blocked by the giant claws of the half-step demonic shadow law were finally able to tear open a sliver of the blockade at the entrance to the blood sea with the combined efforts of the experts on the crystal platform and the experts in the blood sea!

"Disciples, listen to my command! Quickly escape through the spatial nodes! This place is about to be destroyed!" The voice of Deacon Li of the Great River Sword Sect resounded across the battlefield, filled with urgency.

The roars of other powerful figures from various sects also followed one after another.

Countless figures, like shooting stars, rushed towards the spatial nodes that had been forcibly stabilized by the powerful.

They knew that the powerful figures in the earth-shattering battle in the core area were using their own flesh and blood to forcibly hold back the most terrifying being in the sea of ​​blood, buying them precious time to escape!

Yuwen Zhen, Xuan Chengzi, and Lin Su'e felt the increasingly powerful force of the collapsing sea of ​​blood and the summoning of the external spatial nodes, and fought while retreating.

Despite its ferocity under the desperate attack of the four, the demonic shadow suffered numerous injuries. In particular, Zhang Yuan's terrifyingly powerful punches, which almost ignored defense, caused huge cracks to appear all over its demonic body, and its very essence to vibrate violently.

"Roar—you wretched ants! I'll remember you!!"

The demonic shadow let out a deafening roar of resentment.

After being severely injured on the left shoulder once again by Zhang Yuan's ferocious fist wind and Xuan Chengzi's tricky sword light, the huge figure suddenly shrank back.

The swirling, blood-red demonic clouds instantly vanished into the depths of the collapsing spatial turbulence, disappearing without a trace.

As it retreated, the powerful demonic auras that had been lurking in various places also receded rapidly like the tide, disappearing into their respective lairs.

"Om-!"

A mournful cry echoed through the heavens and earth, the enormous phantom of the leaderboard crystal tablet completely vanished, and the secrets of heaven were thrown into complete chaos.

"Hurry up!" Lin Su'e shouted, forcefully activating the Heavenly Secrets Disc's positioning node.

"Brother Zhang! Let's go!" Yuwen Zhen looked at Zhang Yuan anxiously. Xuan Chengzi also cast an urging glance his way.

However, Zhang Yuan's gaze was fixed on the collapsed and chaotic area where the demonic shadow had disappeared, which was its core lair!
His eyes blazed with murderous intent, and his previous injuries and exhaustion seemed to be instantly suppressed by a deeper and more terrifying force.

"You guys go first!" Zhang Yuan's voice was icy cold.

Before the three could react, Zhang Yuan's body erupted once again with a chaotic light far exceeding the previous one, seemingly about to surpass its limits!
The Burning Heart Golden Wheel behind his head transformed into a golden cloak of flames, wrapping around his body.

With one step, his figure shattered layers of spatial barriers.

Like a burning meteor, it charged headlong into the core demon nest, where the demonic aura was most concentrated and the rules were most chaotic in the collapsing turbulent flow!
"Brother Zhang!!!" Yuwen Zhen was horrified, but he was powerless to stop it, as the spatial node had already begun to destabilize.

Xuan Chengzi's expression changed drastically: "Has he gone mad? That's the lair of a half-step Saint Realm expert!"

Lin Su'e seemed to sense something, a profound light flashing in her eyes: "No... this is his... true strength..."

The three dared not linger any longer, and at the last moment before the node was about to disappear, they were swept away by the power of space.

In the brief interval when everyone had evacuated, the leaderboard disappeared, and that space was about to be completely annihilated.

In the deepest, most filthy core of the demon's lair, time seemed to be frozen and compressed.

That ancient demon, who was at the half-step Saint Realm, never expected that this human, whom it had just regarded as a powerful ant and who had only managed to barely injure it by joining forces, would dare to chase it all the way here alone!

What it didn't expect was that when this human cut off all escape routes, no longer caring about points, teammates, or even his own image, and fought only for the pure word "kill," what kind of suffocating and terrifying power would be unleashed!
"Heavy-footed cleaver breaks the waves—Divine elephant suppresses the prison, annihilates the star god, and returns chaos to nothingness!"

Zhang Yuan's roar seemed to come from the deepest depths of the Netherworld!

This is him truly giving his all.

He fused his ultimate physical body, chaotic true essence, insights from the cycle of sainthood, the origin of the burning heart-burning fire, the unparalleled killing intent nurtured by the fragments of the Soul-Devouring Wheel, and even the immense will he possessed in this desperate situation into a single strike!
He transformed into a black torrent composed entirely of destructive power, and the seemingly ancient Broken Wave Ruler in his hand now appeared to be a chaotic divine pillar that split the heavens and the earth!

There was no light, only absolute darkness, absolute heaviness, and absolute annihilation!

Wherever the heavy ruler passes, all laws crumble!

The rules are crying out!
Space shattered and vanished like pieces of paper!
The half-step Saint Realm demonic figure that had just been so domineering felt a long-lost sense of terror from the depths of its soul!

It mobilized the filthy blood sea essence accumulated throughout the entire nest, condensing it into the strongest Blood Prison Demon Shield to block in front of it, while its figure retreated rapidly, trying to escape into the depths of space.

"laugh--!"

There was no earth-shattering crash. Only a chilling tearing sound, like a hot knife slicing through butter.

The Blood Prison Demon Shield, which embodied the essence of a half-step Saint Realm cultivator, lasted less than one ten-thousandth of a second before being silently annihilated like an ice shard thrown into the sun by the Broken Wave Ruler.

The blade's momentum remains undiminished!

It easily tore apart the layers of spatial barriers that the demonic shadow had instantly constructed with secret techniques!
It was like traversing the void!
It pierced straight into the core essence of that enormous demonic shadow!
"No! How...is this possible..."

The demonic shadow emitted a shrill, desperate, and twisted shriek, filled with disbelief.

Its core, constructed from pure demonic energy and ancient will, was brutally pierced and torn apart by the black ruler that carried multiple supreme powers of chaos, annihilation, suppression, and soul burning!
A terrifying annihilation power erupted instantly!

The demonic shadow's enormous body expanded violently, like an inflated balloon, and was then torn apart by unimaginable destructive force from within!
“BOOM Boom Boom Boom!!!”

This explosion is far more significant than any of the previous ones!
It was as if this filthy sea of ​​blood was undergoing a self-destruction at its core!
The entire Blood Sea plane was shaking and collapsing violently!
An endless torrent of filthy blood, demonic energy, and spatial fragments, mixed with the primordial particles transformed from the complete annihilation of that half-step Saint Realm being, formed a massive destructive storm covering a million miles, sweeping away everything!
The destructive impact was so strong, so sudden.

It even penetrated the closing spatial barrier, shaking the massive platform at the entrance to the Demon Abyss outside the Sea of ​​Blood!

"Buzz!"

The spatial node was completely annihilated, the entrance to the sea of ​​blood was violently distorted, and finally turned into a chaotic void turbulence, which slowly healed.

However, on the entrance platform of the Demon Abyss, all the survivors, whether they were disheveled disciples who had just escaped the trial grounds or those elders of the Holy Realm with profound auras, were frozen in place.

Everyone stared in disbelief at the brief, reflected image of a million-mile-long sea of ​​blood collapsing behind the healing void rift!

"What...what happened?!"

"Where...where is that? That destructive storm just now...was someone self-destructing?"

"It doesn't look like... it looks more like... the core demon nest has been punctured..."

"Who is that blurry figure? Who fought to the very end inside after escaping?"

"Zhang Qingyang! It must be Zhang Qingyang! Yuwen Zhen, Xuan Chengzi, and Lin Su'e have all been taken away! Only him... only he didn't come out last!!"

"He...he detonated the core demon nest? He perished together with that terrifying being?!"

"No, it doesn't seem like a mutual destruction! That figure... seems to be alive!"

The crystal platform was deathly silent, then erupted into deafening speculation and uproar!
Deacon Li's face turned deathly pale as he stared intently at the healed void rift, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

Beside him, Yuwen Zhen, Xuan Chengzi, and Lin Su'e, who had been urgently brought out, had extremely complex expressions, a mixture of shock, worry, admiration, and horror.

Yuwen Zhen stared at the void, muttering to himself, "It was him... He didn't die... He... He did it..."

The Blood Sea Trial has ended, leaving behind endless shock and a terrifying legend about the "Battle of Unrecorded Points".

The tremors deep within that sea of ​​blood, the scene of millions of miles of filth being forcibly purified, and the figure at the source of destruction, like a god or demon, became the deepest, yet most unverifiable, mystery etched in the hearts of all survivors.

The speculation about Zhang Qingyang of the Great River Sword Sect is that he, alone with only a ruler, fiercely killed an ancient semi-saint demon who had alarmed half the sea and brought the trial to an end.

In the hearts of countless people who witnessed the spatial reflection fragments and the unusual reactions of Yuwen Zhen and others, it spread like wildfire.

Although this achievement was not recorded on the leaderboard, its shock and far-reaching impact far exceeded the dazzling glory of briefly topping the leaderboard.

The entrance to the Blood Sea slowly closed, leaving only the turbulent waves on the Demon Abyss entrance platform and countless awe-inspiring gazes cast into the depths of the void.

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The core of the Demon Nest, the center of the turbulent currents of annihilation.

Zhang Yuan stood proudly amidst the boiling, shattered nothingness.

The Golden Wheel of Burning Heart Netherflame surrounding him was like a greedy maw, frantically absorbing the violent primal power around him.

That was the essence of the remains of that half-step Saint Realm demon that was completely shattered!

Before the filthy blood demonic energy could even get close to his holy realm, it was instantly refined and purified by the power of the Chaos Furnace.

"Boom!"

A deafening roar, perceptible only to Zhang Yuan's soul, exploded within his body.

The blood, soul essence, and most fundamental fragments of rules contained in such a powerful being far surpassed any demonic creature before it!

A torrent of energy surged into the Chaos Furnace, causing the ancient furnace to emit an excited hum, and the Dao principles flowing on the furnace walls accelerated.

"Congeal!"

With a thought, the boundless essence churning in the furnace is compressed and condensed to the extreme.

An unprecedentedly large Chaos Spirit Pearl slowly took shape in the center of the furnace!

Its energy is no longer in the "tens of millions" range, but has crossed a certain boundary, presenting a deep, starry sky-like black color, with mysterious natural Dao patterns covering its surface, faintly emitting fluctuations that would make even the Holy Realm tremble.

This is no longer a simple replenishment of cultivation, but contains fragments of Dao principles and pure origins that transcend the level of Saint Realm Reincarnation!

Zhang Yuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light.

The moment this brand-new Chaos Spirit Orb took shape, it seemed to open a crack leading to a higher realm for him.

The cultivation of the first cycle of the Saint Realm within his body, which was slightly unstable due to the recent breakthrough, was rapidly solidified and refined, and he even vaguely touched the barrier of the next stage.

Before the feedback was over, Zhang Yuan's divine sense in the Holy Realm had already keenly detected a unique and familiar call in the torrent of annihilated remnants of matter.

water!
deep!

Thick!

It has never changed since ancient times!

This call originated from an artifact, the Origin Scepter obtained from the Dark Gold Core of the Blood Soul Palace Master.

In the instant the scepter collapsed and its internal rules were fully revealed, Zhang Yuan finally clearly sensed that a mysterious metal fragment, deep as an abyss, with a dark blue color, neither gold nor jade, was being enveloped by a layer of the primordial rules of a half-step saint realm.

It resembles the core of a star that sank into this abyss of blood millions of years ago, and is the treasure of the Demon Abyss that Li Mubai spoke of—the divine metal "Zhenhai"!
Its core Daoist principles suppress all waters and encompass mountains and seas. (End of Chapter)