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Chapter 433 Return!

The Backing Mountain Sect!
At this moment, the protective formation of the Backing Mountain Sect has been activated!
The array's light barrier was covered in cracks!
It looks like it could collapse at any moment!

The petite figure of the young girl in front of the mountain gate stood resolutely at the very front!

Behind her were a few fellow disciples, but all with equally determined expressions!
Across from them, a thick black mist swirled!
Countless hideous, twisted black shadows are emitting silent roars!

It frantically assaulted the crumbling array of light!

Danger!

Extreme danger!
That spark of clarity belonging to "Xu Ran" shone brightest at this moment!
It looked as if it would burn out completely in the next second!
Gui Xu's eyes suddenly narrowed!
For the first time, a genuine chill burst forth from that indifferent depth!

It's not directed at anyone in particular.

Rather, it was aimed at this "accident" that was about to disrupt his internal balance!
He doesn't like surprises.

I dislike this feeling of being coerced by a "weak" will even more!

But looking at the shattering array light barrier, at the resolute figure of the young girl, feeling the almost pleading throbbing of clarity within her body, and the increasingly uncontrollable destructive impulse of the power to destroy the Dao.

Guixu made a decision.

"Since you want to go back."

"Then let's go back!"

A cold voice echoed in the deathly silence.

The next moment!
He swung the Chaos Profound Sword in his hand forward with a sudden slash!
boom.

This sword strike was delivered without any reservation!

The indifference of an ancient will!

The annihilation of the power of destruction!
It even carried a trace of anxiety from "Xu Ran" Qingming that even Gui Xu himself had not noticed!
Cut it out with one sword!
The void ahead is like a fragile painting!

Torn apart in an instant!
A massive spatial rift spanning an endless star field suddenly appeared!
On the other side of the crack was the Southern Star Region that was being eroded by the black mist!
You can even see that azure southern star directly!

He stepped into the Ruins of Return!
at the same time.

The distant edge of the Heavenly Meteor Battlefield.

Yu Kong finally managed to catch up to the place where Gui Xu had disappeared before, by using the secret technique of burning his essence blood and exhausting his last bit of magic power.

He stared at the empty, desolate void before him, feeling the long-vanished aura of his predecessor, his face filled with bewilderment and despair.

"Senior..."

He eventually lost track of them.

That might have been the greatest opportunity of his life, and it just slipped away right before his eyes.

"Am I destined to never be able to glimpse that higher realm in my life, even if I soar through the sky?"

Yu Kong gave a bitter laugh, his heart ashen.

However, just when he was in utter despair—

hum.

An indescribable wave of terror suddenly emanated from the endless, distant depths of the universe before him!

This fluctuation was so vast! So terrifying!
The aftershocks alone caused this shattered battlefield of the Heavenly Meteorite to tremble violently!
Countless massive star fragments were silently annihilated like dust by this aftershock!
Even the void itself rippled with visible waves!

Yu Kong suddenly raised his head!
His eyes were filled with horror!
"This is this"

He sensed it; from the direction from which the distant fluctuations came, there was an incredibly familiar aura!

That's the aura of Senior Guixu!

Moreover, it was even more terrifying, purer, and more soul-chilling than what we experienced at the Sword Tomb!

"What...what did that senior do?!"

Yu Kong's heart was pounding wildly!

He couldn't imagine what kind of power could create such a terrifying scene over such a vast distance!

Could it be that the senior fought against a legendary forbidden being?
A surge of intense curiosity and excitement instantly dispelled the previous despair!

Although he knew he still couldn't catch up.

However, being able to feel the earth-shattering "traces" of the predecessors doesn't seem like such a loss.
"Senior, you must win!"

Yu Kong subconsciously clenched his fists, facing the direction from which the fluctuations came.

self-mumbling.

He was unaware that Guixu was not fighting against anyone.

He's just going home.

In a way that shakes the entire universe!
Southern Star Territory.

Southern stars.

The Mountain Clan.

The light barrier of the mountain-protecting formation is now as thin as a cicada's wing!
The surface is covered with dense cracks!
It looked as if it would shatter completely at any moment!
In front of the mountain gate.

Xu Qinghan bit her lip tightly, her face as pale as paper.

But her eyes were unusually firm!

He gripped a spirit sword that emitted a faint glow in his hand!
That was the sword he left behind.

"Junior Sister, we can't hold on any longer!"

Behind him, a young disciple spoke in a trembling voice.

His face was filled with fear and despair.

Not only him, but the other disciples of the Backing Mountain Sect, including the few remaining elders, all showed a death wish on their faces.

The difference is too big!
These invading extraterrestrial demons are terrifying!

Even the Seven-Colored Immortal Palace, which is based in the Southern Heavenly Star, has been restrained!
How could their small, powerful sect possibly withstand such a resistance?

"Even if you can't hold on, you have to!"

Xu Qinghan turned around abruptly and shouted sharply!

"The Backing Mountain Sect is our home!"

"It was also his former home!"

"Even if we die, we'll die in front of our own house!"

The girl's voice was not loud.

Yet it carried a resolute and unwavering determination!

It infected everyone behind it!

"Yes! Defend the mountain gate to the death!"

"Fight these demons!"

The remaining disciples and elders rekindled their fighting spirit!
However, right now!

click
A crisp cracking sound

Like a tolling death knell!
The protective array's light barrier finally gave way to the relentless onslaught of the dark shadows.

thorough.

Shatter!

call

A cold, evil black mist, filled with destructive and devouring desires, like a flood bursting its banks!

In an instant, they surged towards the mountain gate!

"It's over."

Utter despair was evident on the faces of all the disciples of the Backing Mountain Sect.

Xu Qinghan slowly closed her eyes.

A single tear slid down her cheek.

"Junior Brother Xu Ran, I may not be able to wait for you to come back!"

However, the death that was expected did not come.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment!

Xu Qinghan opened her eyes in confusion.

Then, she saw the most unbelievable scene of her life!
Before the gates of their mountain sect, ahead of the surging, endless black mist, the sky suddenly split open!
A spatial rift so enormous it defied description stretched across the sky!
among the cracks.

It is profound, cold, and deathly still.

The universe and starry sky!

In the center of that crack, a figure slowly stepped out!

It was a young man dressed in black.

His face was handsome, yet extremely cold!
A pair of eyes.

Half of it was like a burning divine sun! Fiery and dazzling!
Half of it is like eternal nothingness! Dead silence, profound!
In his hand, he held an ancient, heavy black longsword!

The sword's blade seemed to contain the darkness of the entire universe!
He just stood there quietly.

Stand before the crack.

Standing between the black mist and the mountain gate.

It seems to have existed since time immemorial!

An indescribable, terrifying pressure!
It emanated from him!
That oppressive aura!
Surpassing even the immortals!

Surpassing God!

It even surpasses the limits that this world can comprehend!

It merely exists.

Let the world lose its color!

Let the sun and moon lose their light!

The once raging, roaring, endless black mist seemed to have encountered its natural enemy.

suddenly.

solidification!

All the hideous, twisted shadows let out a silent scream of terror!
It was as if I had seen the most terrifying being in the world!

In front of the mountain gate.

All the disciples and elders of the Backing Mountain Sect, including Xu Qinghan, were stunned!
Their mouths were agape, their eyes were vacant, and their minds were blank!
The scene before them, which resembled the descent of gods and demons, completely overturned their understanding!

In the midst of this deathly silence, the black-clad youth who emerged from the spatial rift slowly spoke.

His voice!

icy!

Indifferent!

Without any emotion.

Yet it seemed to contain the ultimate decree of the universe!
"Who gave you permission?"

His gaze swept over the solidified, endless black mist.

"Where did you touch me?"

The voice wasn't loud, but it seemed to contain a terrifying power that made words come true!
The moment the words fell!
Rumble, rumble——

It was not a sound, but the roar of the Dao! It was the tremor of the laws!
The endless black mist of the Heavenly Demons, which was originally frozen in mid-air like a black tide, along with all the ferocious, twisted, and terrifying extraterrestrial demons within it, all let out a silent wail that surpassed the limits of the divine soul at this moment!
It's not painful!

It's a collapse! It's disintegration!
It was as if an invisible hand reached out from nothingness and gently touched it!
Or perhaps, it was this young man in black who uttered a single sentence, which became the supreme will of this world! His words were the law! His gaze was the judgment!

The surging black fog, like ice and snow exposed to sunlight, melted away rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

But it is not a simple dissipation, but annihilation!

An annihilation that has been completely erased from existence itself!
Every wisp of primordial demonic energy that constituted their existence, every evil thought, was transformed into primordial nothingness under this irresistible will! Not even a trace was left!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, no devastating light.

Only deathly silence!

Absolute silence!
One moment it was a scene of raging demonic flames and howling ghosts, as if it were about to drag the entire southern sky into an endless hell.

The next moment, everything disappeared except for the enormous spatial rift that still stretched across the sky, revealing the cold universe, and the black-clad youth standing silently before the rift.

It was as if the previous fierce battles and the billions of demons that had driven the entire Kao Shan Sect to despair were nothing more than a fleeting nightmare.

The wind blows gently.

The wind stirred a few strands of hair on the black-clad youth's forehead, and also stirred up the ruins and bloodshed in front of the Mountain Sect's gate.

All the remaining members of the Kaoshan Sect remained in their previous postures, like clay or wooden sculptures.

Their eyes were wide open, their mouths were agape enough to fit a fist, and their expressions were one of utter shock, utter bewilderment, and a hint of awe that seeped from the depths of their souls, awe that even they themselves were unaware of!

That's the instinct of life, the most primal reaction to something beyond the limits of comprehension!
They couldn't understand what had just happened.

They had personally experienced how terrifying the extraterrestrial demons that surged like a tidal wave were! Each one exuded an aura that made their hearts tremble, and many of them were powerful demons comparable to Nascent Soul or even Divine Transformation level monsters! Even the mountain-protecting formation was forcibly shattered!

Yet this power, capable of sweeping across several cultivation planets, was extinguished by a single sentence from the young man in black.
Just gone?
Erased?

What kind of power is this?
Immortal?
No! Even the legendary immortals who ascended to the celestial realm probably couldn't do something so incredibly absurd!

This is no longer supernatural power, nor magic!

This is a miracle! It is the authority of a creator!
"Gudong!"

Someone swallowed hard, breaking the deathly silence.

Everyone's gaze instinctively focused on that figure standing alone between heaven and earth.

He turned around slowly.

Those eyes, half divine sun and half nothingness, fell upon the dilapidated mountain gate, and upon the disciples and elders of the Backing Mountain Sect who had survived the calamity and were still in shock.

His gaze was calm, devoid of joy, anger, or even pity.

There is only one kind of timeless indifference.

It was as if, in his eyes, all living beings were no different from stars and dust.

However, when his gaze finally landed on Xu Qinghan, who was holding a spirit sword, with tears still wet on her face and her pretty face still pale.

Deep within those eyes, which seemed eternally frozen, there appeared to be an extremely slight ripple.

Like an ancient, calm pool, a single unseen pebble is thrown in, creating a barely perceptible ripple.

That ripple vanished in an instant.

It was so fast that it seemed like an illusion.

But he did pause at that moment.

He looked at Xu Qinghan, and at the spirit sword in her hand that he had once used, now gleaming faintly.

Time seemed to slow down once again.

Xu Qinghan stared at him blankly.

Her mind was still blank, but her heart was pounding uncontrollably!
This person's aura was so unfamiliar! So unfamiliar that it made her feel suffocated! That overwhelming pressure made her almost lose the courage to even look him in the eye!

But why, in that cold and indifferent depth, did she vaguely seem to catch a sense of familiarity that was extremely distant and blurry, yet made her soul tremble?

Is it an illusion?

It must be my junior brother. How could he have become like this?
"you"

The young man in black spoke again.

This time, his voice no longer seemed as purely cold and indifferent as before.

There's a slight, barely perceptible hoarseness?

Or rather, it's the awkwardness of trying to make a sound again after being sealed away for far too long.

He looked at Xu Qinghan, his gaze seemingly piercing through time and space, seeing scenes from a very, very long time ago.

"Are you ok?"

Just three simple words.

But it was like three thunderclaps!
It struck Xu Qinghan's heart hard! And it struck the hearts of all the elders and disciples of the Backing Mountain Sect who heard those words!
Are you ok?
The tone and the way of addressing
Although it remained cold, what lay hidden beneath that coldness no longer seemed to be the indifference of looking down on ants, but rather an inquiry? A concern tinged with some complex emotions?
Especially Hsu Ching-han!

Her eyes widened suddenly!

Her delicate body trembled violently!
Even though this voice and this feeling have become utterly unfamiliar, even though they seem to be separated by endless years and time!
But at this moment, the marks imprinted deep in the soul surged wildly!
It's him!

It's really him!

In her memory, there was always a hint of shyness and a hint of stubbornness in that young man who silently cultivated in the Kaoshan Sect, yet always stepped forward at crucial moments!
Xu Ran, whom she regarded as her own younger brother, left an indelible mark on her heart!

Junior brother!

(End of this chapter)