High Martial Arts: Gains one point of health per second, sweeping across the heavens.

Those were his eldest son, Nalan Feng, and his eldest daughter-in-law, Liu Ruyan, both first-level transcendent beings, and the only two remaining first-level transcendent beings in the Nalan family.

Before they even knew what was happening, they were pulled into the path of the beam of light by their father's power.

Before Nalan Feng could utter a single word, the dark golden beam of light pierced through his chest, along with Liu Ruyan's body beside him.

The physical bodies of the two first-tier transcendent beings began to disintegrate the moment the beam of light touched them, turning directly into gray-white light spots and dissipating into the void.

Only two deep purple lights remained, slowly floating above the ruins; they were the true spirits of two transcendent beings.

The lightweight rapid-fire cannon, Chaos Annihilation Beam, is primarily designed to target the physical body.

Its energy structure was designed from the outset to annihilate the physical body of the transcendent to the greatest extent possible, while minimizing the damage to the soul's essence.

Although the physical bodies of those two first-tier transcendent beings were destroyed, their true spirits remained intact.

A complex emotion surged deep within Nalan Hong's eyes, but he forcibly suppressed it in an instant.

He suddenly activated his true spirit, and a deep purple light exploded from his chest. It was a first-order Chaos Treasure, a close-fitting soft armor, known to all.

But Nalan Hong then drew out a dark purple short staff.

The short staff rapidly expanded in his palm, transforming into a spear with dark runes flowing throughout, its surface surging with a thick, tangible aura of chaotic origin.

That was his second first-tier Chaos Treasure, his true trump card.

The outside world has always believed that Nalan Hong only has one Chaos Treasure, and no one has ever seen him use two at the same time.

He held a spear in his left hand, and with his right hand, fingers spread, two purple-gold halos suddenly appeared in his palm.

Those were two complete strands of innate primordial purple energy, among his most precious collections accumulated over hundreds of thousands of epochs, originally intended for upgrading one of his Chaos Treasures.

He simultaneously unleashed two streams of primordial purple energy in front of him, and a purple-gold light exploded in the hall.

His idea was simple: if the attackers saw the Primordial Purple Qi, they would most likely stop.

Even the Primordial Purple Qi can be destroyed by the power of a transcendent being; no one would be willing to destroy such a treasure.

He's gambling.

But the beam of light did not stop.

The thin, finger-like dark golden beam of light pierced through the bodies of the two first-tier transcendent beings and then collided directly with the two streams of innate primordial purple energy in front of Nalan Hong.

The two streams of primordial purple energy were pierced through the middle the moment they touched the beam of light. The purple-gold light pulsed violently for a moment, and then began to disintegrate outward from the point where the beam of light pierced through.

The beam of light slowed down slightly after penetrating the Primordial Purple Qi, but it was still deadly enough.

It pierced through Nalan Hong's Chaos Treasure Spear, breaking the spear shaft in the middle, with the cross-section at the break as smooth as a mirror.

Then came his first Chaos Treasure Soft Armor, with fine cracks appearing on its surface, spreading outwards from his chest.

Finally, the beam pierced his chest and emerged from his back.

He was sent flying, along with his shattered soft armor, through the back wall of the main hall and into a side hall.

Nalan Hong's body began to disintegrate in mid-air, with dark golden blood gushing out from the piercing wounds. His torso was dissipating into grayish-white light spots at a visible speed.

But like the two first-tier transcendent beings, his true spirit was also completely preserved.

Throughout the entire process, Nalan Mingyue and the tens of thousands of Eternal cultivators in the headquarters hall only felt an irresistible torrent of energy explode from the depths of the hall, sweeping across the entire complex with boundless pressure.

Their physical bodies silently dissolved in that torrent of energy, turning into nothingness from their heads to their limbs.

Before the consciousness of those eternal cultivators could even react to what was happening, they found themselves having lost their physical bodies.

The hundreds of billions of beings of the Nalan clan, at the level of Supreme Being and below, were not so fortunate; their physical bodies and souls were vaporized together.

It was completely destroyed, leaving not even a trace of its soul behind.

While the lightweight rapid-fire cannon's damage to the soul is minimized, that's only relative to "second-tier transcendents".

For beings at the Supreme Realm level, even a mere ten-thousandth of the energy spilled from the beam...

That would be enough to grind their souls, along with their bodies, into dust.

The moment Nalan Feng's true spirit was separated from his broken body, his consciousness became completely clear.

In an instant, he understood everything that had just happened; his father had used him and Liu Ruyan to block the attack.

A surge of betrayal and rage erupted from the depths of his soul, but his reason prevailed over his anger and suppressed the emotion.

Without the slightest hesitation, his true spirit transformed into a deep purple streak of light and sped toward the nearest spatial rift in the void.

At the same moment, Liu Ruyan's true spirit also moved, transforming into another stream of light and rushing in the opposite direction, trying to escape separately to increase the chances of survival.

They didn't have time to denounce Nalan Hong's incompetence and shamelessness, nor did they have time to question their father about why he would push his own son and daughter-in-law out as a shield.

If we can escape this time, there's still a chance.

At this moment, Nalan Hong's true spirit also separated from his physical body, but before he could escape, his true spirit sensed an inexplicable fear descending from the void.

A gray-black mist suddenly surged out from the void without warning, blocking Nalan Feng's escape route.

As the mist churned, countless hair-thin tentacles emerged and lunged straight at his true spirit.

Nalan Feng's true spirit suddenly stopped, wanting to turn around to avoid the layer of mist, but on the other side, a gray-black curtain of sky was rapidly closing in.

He suddenly looked up into the depths of the void and vaguely saw a dark banner floating high above, its surface surging as if it were alive.

The Banner of Ten Thousand Souls Transformed into Evil.

His true spirit instinctively sensed the destructive aura contained within the banner—an energy specifically designed for the true spirits of those who had transcended, carrying a strong negative origin.

He tried to forcefully break through the mist by channeling his true spirit power, but the moment the tentacles wrapped around the surface of his true spirit, a cold, erosive feeling, like a maggot clinging to his bone, spread from the deepest part of his soul's origin.

Liu Ruyan also encountered the same interception.

Her true spirit was forced back by the banner mist and was compelled to move closer to Nalan Feng.

Two deep purple lights reunited amidst the gray-black mist, back to back, unable to find any way to break through.

At the same time, wisps of gray-black mist, as thin as hair, separated from the banner and rushed toward the tens of thousands of dark golden eternal flames scattered in the ruins below.

However, the mist did not directly engulf the Eternal Flame when it approached it. Instead, it stripped away all the boundless karma and resentment surging around the tens of thousands of Eternal Flames and swept them into the depths of the banner's heart.