Daqin Zhentiansi

The radiance of the Heavenly Dao is like a warm tide, rapidly washing away the filth and gloom that has plagued Xuzhou for 100,000 years.

The broken, frozen soil scars were healed.

The scorched land, stained with demonic blood, radiated a pure, earthy yellow glow.

Bathed in golden light, the bewildered and helpless survivors felt their depleted energy begin to recover, and a glimmer of hope rekindled in their eyes.

The Mountain-Shaking Demon Emperor lay prostrate in the void, his massive projection of will hanging low.

The flames of resistance were extinguished in the giant lava eye, leaving only a deathly silence of submission and the desolation of the destruction of their race.

On and below the city walls, the Qin Xuanjia warriors and the newly surrendered half-demon warriors were beginning to purge the remaining, stubbornly resisting demon remnants.

The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder and blood, and a hard-won breath that carried the scent of rust.

It was during this delicate window of opportunity, a period of fundamental change and reshaping of order on this continent—

"Roar—whoosh!!!"

A strange, piercing scream, neither human nor beast, but like the souls of billions of living beings being forcibly torn apart and kneaded, suddenly rang out from beyond the sky above Xuzhou!
This sound directly affects the soul, carrying the purest chaos, madness, and a thirsty will to devour everything, instantly causing all living beings below to tremble violently and their blood to surge!

It did not originate from within Xuzhou, but from the deeper, colder edge of the Ruins, which resembled a scar on the universe!
It came from beyond the Nine Provinces, from the direction of the Qi Province, which had been completely swallowed up!

The Xu Zhou sky, riddled with cracks and not yet fully healed by the Yong Tian Dao, was as if being violently torn apart by an invisible giant claw!
"Sizzle—crack!!!"

Dozens of huge, twisted spatial rifts, with edges flowing with filthy, viscous demonic blood and fragments of broken space, suddenly burst open in the sky above the core area of ​​Xuzhou without warning!

Beyond the rift lay not the familiar void turbulence, but a Netherworld Demon Realm churning with endless filthy demonic energy, filled with chaos and destruction!

A cold, viscous, and overwhelming demonic intent, imbued with the essence of devouring spirits and transforming into divine beings, surged into the newly born Xu Zhou like a dam bursting and a sea of ​​filthy blood!
Then, a chilling scene unfolded.

The Soul-Slaying Bone Ship!

The first to emerge were dozens of enormous, bizarrely shaped giant ships!
Its hull was not made of metal or stone, but was forcibly forged from billions of withered bones, the remains of souls struggling in agony, and writhing chaotic filth. Its surface was covered with black, ink-like demonic patterns that constantly devoured light.

The ship's hull was covered with hideous bone spikes and gaping maws dripping with foul blood. It had no talismans or magic arrays, yet it exuded a suffocating demonic pressure, like a living demonic nest floating in the air!

From the gaping hatches of the bone ship, countless demonic soldiers poured out like a locust plague!
Most of them have three upright, giant eyes that gleam with a greedy, eerie blue light, covered in black bone armor covered with barbs, and wield bone knives and spears that burn with filthy demonic flames.

The demonic light of the Soul Devouring Blade emanated from the gaps in their armor, carrying a strong ability to decompose flesh and devour souls.

This is the Three-Eyed Blue-Eyed Demon Clan that once ravaged Qizhou!
Accompanying the demonic soldiers were a large pack of even more ferocious three-headed wolves!

Their three heads spewed different demonic flames, poisonous mists, and soul-devouring howls, and on their backs rode three-eyed demon knights, riding demonic wolves as they darted through the low sky at ghostly speeds.

At the core of the largest bone ships, several terrifying shadowy figures, their forms even more blurred and seemingly formed from the purest darkness, floated.

They have no fixed form, and their bodies are filled with chaotic demonic energy that can erode space and pollute the laws of nature.

This is the extraterrestrial war demon recorded in the "Heavenly Evolution Demon Mirror" that once completely corrupted Qizhou!

Their core will is singular: Devouring spirits to transform into gods!

Taking advantage of the moment when the old Heavenly Dao of Xuzhou was annihilated, the new Heavenly Dao had not yet fully taken control of the entire region, and the light of the barrier was greatly depleted due to the fierce battle, it devoured the nascent power of this continent!

Pollute and encroach upon this newly liberated land!

Transform it into new food for the demon kingdom!

Exterminate the native inhabitants who had just seen the dawn, whether they were humans or the subjugated demons and half-demons!
Sharp, chaotic, and death- and devouring howls filled with demonic rage were their battle song, instantly covering the entire Riftwind battlefield!

They are far more pure and evil than the previous demon alliance!
"Enemy attack—Extraterrestrial Demons!!!"

"The Three-Eyed Blue-Eyed Demon!"

"Qi Zhou War Demon!"

"alert!"

"High alert for the entire army!"

"They want to devour the Heavenly Dao of Xuzhou!"

The piercing alarm instantly shattered the brief silence.

The soldiers on the city wall, who had just relaxed their guard, suddenly narrowed their eyes. Their tired bodies tensed up instantly, as they watched in disbelief as the extraterrestrial demonic tide, a hundred times more terrifying than the demonic alliance and representing pure destruction and devouring, rushed down!

The shadow of the demonic kingdom originating from Qizhou has descended at this moment!
The chill of despair, like a leech, once again clung to my heart, which had just managed to catch its breath.

At the Military Affairs Department of Yongtian Imperial City, the edge of the golden area representing Xuzhou on the light and shadow sand table was instantly covered by a large area of ​​viscous, writhing, and filthy demonic shadows emitting a bluish-green demonic light. The piercing demonic energy alarm drowned out the echoes of the previous victory.

Emperor Yuankang suddenly stood up, his knuckles turning white from the force he exerted under his dragon robe.

In the Heavenly Sword Gorge of Zhao Zhou, the old swordsman with the missing arm stared at the newly torn fissure in the northern sky, where demonic energy surged into the heavens, and spat out another mouthful of blood: "Heavenly Demon?! The demonic calamity of Qi Zhou has actually spread here?!"

On the Demon-Suppressing Platform, Zhang Yuan's black python robe suddenly billowed and danced wildly!

His deep eyes instantly locked onto the raging torrent of demonic energy that tore through the sky.

The chilling killing intent swept across the area like a tangible cold wave.

The three-eyed blue form, the aura of the twisted bone ship, and the chaotic demonic energy churning within the core demonic shadow all corroborated the records in the "Heavenly Evolution Demon Mirror" and the warnings from Qizhou!

"Extraterritorial Demon!"

Zhang Yuan's voice was like ice shattering in the deepest hell. It wasn't loud, but it instantly overwhelmed the chaotic demonic howl of the Heavenly Demon, and was clearly imprinted in the soul of every warrior inside and outside Riftwind City!

"Xuzhou—the land where my Qin soldiers fought and shed their blood to reclaim it, the land where millions of survivors have returned! How dare you, you demons who devour spirits and become gods, lay a finger on it?! Today, I, the Marquis, will show you what 'Suppressing the Prison' truly means!"

"All troops!"

He stepped off the Demon-Suppressing Platform, his figure seemingly merging with the newly blazing, roaring battle flag of the army behind him. His right hand, fingers pointed like a sword, pierced straight into the sky! "Roar—!!"

"Kill the demon!!"

No more words are needed!
On and below the city walls, whether they were weary Qin warriors or half-demon warriors who had just gripped their weapons and whose eyes burned with the hope of new life.

Even the remnants of the Hanyue demon clan, who had submitted to Zhang Yuan's power and instinctively felt the threat of the Heavenly Demon, let out a roar of shared hatred and that shook the heavens and the earth at this moment!

With the Riftwind Barrier still intact, wherever the Qingyang Marquis's battle flag points, that is the place of death!

Faced with this all-consuming extraterrestrial demon, the only option is to fight to the death!
Zhang Yuan's divine sense sank into the chaotic space of his dantian, triggering the thirteen terrifying sword shadows that lay dormant deep within his soul, each containing the ancient source of slaughter!
"Sword Tomb—Open!"

"Demon slaying!"

A sharp shout, like a divine decree at the dawn of creation!
"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang—!!!"

Thirteen terrifying sword shadows, intertwined with reality and illusion, and marked with supreme killing Dao patterns such as "Execute", "Slaughter", "Trap" and "Sever", suddenly appeared in the void around Zhang Yuan!
Although the names of the thirteen fierce swords, namely, the Immortal Slayer, the Immortal Slayer, the Immortal Trapper, and the Immortal Slayer, were not uttered, the pure destructive sword intent that severed the laws, annihilated the souls, and ended all things had already erupted like a boiling sea of ​​lava!
The sword shadows soared into the sky, transforming into thirteen streams of destructive light that tore through the universe and shattered the void!

Zhang Yuan's sword was aimed at the pull, not at the overwhelming number of demonic soldiers, but at the spatial rifts they had torn open, and the fragile spatial barriers around the rifts!
"Sizzle—Boom!!!"

Where the sword light passed, the sword energy containing the ultimate killing intent collided and annihilated with the chaotic demonic energy left behind by the extraterrestrial demons who tore through space!
Space is like fragile glass being thrown with a boulder, instantly cut, shattered, and twisted!
Countless more intricate and chaotic void currents, filled with ferocious sword intent and shattered demonic energy, proliferated, spread, and intertwined wildly!
Just like in the sky above Xuzhou, the unparalleled killing power of the thirteen fierce swords forcibly wove a demon-slaying sword net that covered the sky and blocked the demon realm!

"唳——!!!"

For the first time, the strange bone ships and demonic army of the extraterrestrial demons let out a sharp demonic howl filled with shock, anger, and chaos!
The stable demonic passage they tore open was brutally destroyed by the power of the evil sword!
The raging spatial turbulence, mixed with the destructive demon-slaying sword energy, was like countless invisible demon-slaying guillotines, frantically slaughtering the three-eyed demon soldiers and Nether Wolf demon riders charging at the forefront!

Those demon soldiers and riders, along with their ghost wolves, were instantly pulverized like ants thrown into a millstone under the chaotic spatial storm and fierce sword intent. Their demonic souls were even annihilated by the sword energy!

Even those massive bone ships, their surface covered in frantically flashing spirit-devouring runes, emitted piercing, mournful cries of unbearable strain.

The sturdy bone armor was constantly cracking under the impact of spatial turbulence and the erosion of sword energy. It was pushed about by the violent force, and the formation was thrown into chaos!

Zhang Yuan's eyes flashed with a cold light like a burst of stars. His divine sense was closely connected with the illusory images of the thirteen fierce swords, and he instantly seized the opportunity!

He abruptly changed the direction of his sword, from "ban" to "exile"!
The thirteen illusory swords erupted with even more intense destructive divine light, triggering the chaotic void sword net, which engulfed most of the outer demon vanguard forces that had been drawn into it.

"Get out of here and go to Zhao Zhou to be fed with swords!"

With a cold decree, the chaotic void sword domain, along with the tens of millions of three-eyed demon soldiers, the million dark wolf demon riders, and several heavily damaged soul-bound bone ships struggling and howling within it, was as if grabbed by an invisible chaotic giant hand and violently "thrown" towards the northeast, across the shattered void, towards the direction of Zhao Zhou Tianjian Gorge, which was currently enduring the frenzied impact of the demon race's main force of bone-eating evil remains!

Above Zhao Zhou Tianjian Gorge.

The sky, already fragile due to the corruption of demonic energy, shattered like glass being smashed by a giant hammer!

The viscous demonic energy, the violent spatial turbulence, the destructive demon-slaying sword energy, and the countless distorted forms of the extraterrestrial demon remnants, exuding overwhelming demonic intent and endless rage, poured into this already precarious battlefield like a filthy torrent that had burst its banks!
"Zhang Yuan, Marquis of Qingyang of the Great Qin Dynasty, is here! You demon, prepare to die!!!"

Without any hesitation, Zhang Yuan transformed into a streak of black ink that tore through the sky and was entwined with the phantoms of the thirteen fierce swords!
Behind him stood the Qin army, exhausted yet still brimming with fighting spirit, including the Qilin Guard, the Xuanjia Elite, the Chilin Cavalry, the Zhenyue Army, and the Shattered Star Guard, all of whom had just experienced a bloody battle.

The newly surrendered, ferocious beasts of the Shaking Mountain demon race, driven by the threat of the Heavenly Demon.

And the hundreds of thousands of half-demon soldiers, their blood boiling and determined to defend their new homeland to the death, surged forward like a torrent of steel, following closely behind the figure in black ink, and rushed into the spatial passage leading to the battlefield of Zhao Zhou, which had been split open by the sword light and was not yet fully repaired!

The dark battle banner fluttered wildly in the spatial turbulence, pointing directly at the eye of the storm that had become the new epicenter of the bloody battle between extraterrestrial demons and human demons—

Tianjian Gorge!
“Sizzle——!!!”

Spiderweb-like spatial rifts spread rapidly above Sword Gorge, as the will of the Star-Eating Demon Eye crushed down!

Three thousand Soul-Bone Ships tore open the rift, and the Netherworld Corrosion Cannons at their bows suddenly unleashed their power.

The jet-black pillar of light, like a world-ending torrential rain, crashed down, carrying with it filthy demonic energy that devoured spiritual power!
The moment the dark beam of light touched the ancient sword formation in Sword Gorge, the brilliant sword aura seemed to be gnawed by billions of invisible sharp teeth, emitting a piercing "sizzling" sound.

The "Flying Star Gathering Spirit Array" guarding the gorge is dimming and shrinking at a visible speed. The earth vein spirit spring that has been gushing for ten thousand years at the base of the array is churning violently, and the spirit jade at the edge of the spring is rapidly turning gray and drying up!
The spiritual veins that form the foundation of Zhao Zhou's swordsmanship are being frantically plundered!

The ship's hatches swung open, and eerie green soul fire poured out like a waterfall!

The three-eyed blue-eyed demon rider, treading on soul flames, leaped out like a torrent. With each swing of his bone sword, the blade vibrated at a high frequency, unleashing a ghastly green sword aura that was specifically designed to break through spiritual energy defenses!

"Puff puff!"

The protective sword energy of the three elders of Flying Star Sword Pavilion was pierced through as thin as paper!
As the sword energy invaded their Dao foundations, the three of them trembled violently, their eyes dimmed instantly, their meridians shattered inch by inch, turning into blood mist, and their Dao foundations completely collapsed!

Throughout Sword Gorge, thousands of sword cultivators exploded at the same instant, tearing bloody gaps in the defensive line!
"Boom--!"

The earth groaned under the hooves of the demon cavalry, and countless fissures tore open in the bedrock of Sword Gorge!

"Ouch——!!!"

Three waves of Dark Wolves surged forth!

To the left, the soul-corroding poisonous mist erodes the rock strata; to the right, acid corrodes the sword patterns; and to the center, the soul-shaking howl tears apart the earth's vein structure!
The bedrock supporting the sword formation turned to ash and crumbled at an alarming rate, and the spiritual veins that maintained the last line of defense broke inch by inch!

Bone ships and demonic cannons tore through the sky, demonic riders trampled the broken bodies of sword cultivators, and dark wolves gnawed at the earth's lifeblood...

The last glimmer of light in Sword Gorge teetered on the brink of collapse under the immense pressure of the Netherworld Demon Realm.

The surviving cultivators of Zhaozhou gazed at the sky swallowed by demonic clouds, their sword-wielding hands trembling with despair.

Just as the demonic tide was about to engulf the last barrier—

"As long as the sword's spirit endures, Zhao Zhou will live on forever!"

Seven figures soared into the sky from the dilapidated Ancestral Hall of the Flowing Cloud Sword Washing Pavilion!

The leader, with his hair and beard bristling, was none other than Yun Canglan, the sect leader of Liuyun Sect!
Behind him stood six Supreme Elders, their white hair flying, their sword intent burning like the blazing sun!
"To sacrifice oneself for the cause, to use one's sword as a shield—ignite!!!"

The seven formed the Ancient Sword Seal, and their innate sword spirits ignited within their bodies!

Seven beams of blazing white sword energy, piercing the heavens and earth, converged at the summit of Sword Gorge, transforming into a wall of sighs stretching for hundreds of miles! (End of Chapter)