Heaven rewards diligence, but there are always fairies plotting against me.

"Oh? Is that so?"

Chu Chang held the sword in one hand, a playful smile appearing on his face.

"I've waited these past six months just to see you two old monsters emerge from seclusion. If it were just those few ants from before, I wouldn't have bothered with my hands."

"Arrogant!"

The Earthly Fiend Ancestor roared and made the first move.

With a wave of his sleeve, the main peak behind Ten Thousand Swords Mountain trembled violently, and countless ancient swords buried beneath the main peak flew out together, transforming into a giant black dragon composed of 100,000 demonic swords in the void.

【The Demonic Thousand Swords Piercing the Heavens!】

The black dragon roared, carrying surging demonic energy and an all-destroying sharpness, and fiercely pounced on Chu Chang.

At the same time, Ancestor Tiankui also made a move.

A white scepter made of the bones of some strange beast appeared in his hand, and he gently pointed it into the void.

[Bound by rules, a self-imposed prison!]

The void around Chu Chang's body instantly solidified, its hardness comparable to refined steel, locking him firmly in place, unable to dodge the bombardment of the demonic black sword dragon.

The combined attack of the two Great Perfection Mahayana stage experts was so powerful that it brought the entire space to the brink of shattering.

The disciples of Wanjian Mountain below were filled with joy and anticipation upon seeing this.

However, facing this almost certain kill, Chu Chang simply uttered four words:

"Showy but impractical."

boom!

The chaotic primordial spirit within Chu Chang's body, which was swirling with golden immortal patterns, trembled slightly.

An indescribable, terrifying magical power erupted from his body like a volcano. The spatial confinement imposed on him by the Heavenly Ancestor couldn't even withstand a fraction of a second before shattering into pieces.

The next moment, Chu Chang raised the Broken Dust Ancient Sword and thrust it out.

There are no sword techniques.

Only speed.

It is faster than light, faster than the laws of time.

laugh!

The sword pierced directly into the head of the black dragon, which was composed of 100,000 demonic swords.

The chaotic true essence burst forth from the tip of the sword.

"Bang bang bang bang bang!"

A series of rapid explosions rang out, and the formidable black dragon of the demonic sword shattered from head to tail in the blink of an eye, turning into countless metal fragments scattered across the ground.

"What?!"

The Earthly Fiend Ancestor's face turned pale, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. His body flew backward for hundreds of feet, his eyes filled with horror.

His all-out attack was actually broken by the opponent's single sword strike?

"This is definitely not an ordinary tribulation stage!"

Ancestor Tiankui's expression was extremely solemn.

He and the Earthly Fiend Ancestor exchanged a glance, both seeing the determination and fear in each other's eyes.

Now, they had no way out. If they couldn't kill Chu Chang today, the millennia-old foundation of Wanjian Mountain would be destroyed, and the two old monsters would have no chance of survival.

"Let's give it our all!"

The Earthly Fiend Ancestor roared, and the skin on his body began to crack, with strands of black demonic blood flowing out and merging into the void. He was forcibly burning his lifespan and primordial spirit in exchange for a brief period of peak combat power.

The same was true for Ancestor Tiankui. His already sparse silver hair on his head instantly turned yellow and fell out, but his aura surged wildly, faintly breaking through the limit of the Mahayana stage and touching the threshold of the Tribulation stage.

"【Ten Thousand Swords Return to Their Origin, Nine Netherworlds Slay Immortals!】"

The two patriarchs shouted in unison.

Behind them, the void collapsed with a deafening roar, and a colossal black and white demon god, formed from the laws and life force of the two, slowly rose into the vast void.

The demon god held a colossal sword ten thousand feet long, its surface entwined with countless vengeful spirits and black threads of law, emanating a terrifying aura that made the entire Tianqian Domain tremble.

This strike combined the accumulated power of Ten Thousand Swords Mountain over thousands of years, as well as the lives of two Great Ascension Stage experts at the Great Perfection level.

"Chu Chang, die!"

The demon roared, and the colossal sword, ten thousand feet long, with a resolute determination to split heaven and earth in two, slashed fiercely at Chu Chang.

Faced with this attack, Chu Chang's blood seemed to accelerate slightly.

"That's more interesting."

He stared at the colossal sword descending from above, its chaotic light reaching its peak.

He did not dodge, but instead raised the Broken Dust Ancient Sword high.

The chaotic primordial spirit within his body, which had absorbed the essence of the Taiyi Immortal's entire life, completely merged with the flying sword in his hand at this moment.

[The Chaos Supreme One, a sword that pierces the void!]

The sword was unleashed.

No sound.

In that instant, the entire world lost all its color, leaving only a thin golden line connecting heaven and earth.

The ten-thousand-foot-tall demon god, painstakingly condensed by the two ancestors, was perfectly split in two the moment it came into contact with the golden thread, without even being able to struggle.

"This...this is impossible..."

As the golden line magnified in his pupils, Ancestor Tiankui's lips trembled, and his eyes were filled with despair.

"You...you've already taken that step? You're already an immortal..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

Thin golden threads brushed across their bodies.

boom!boom!

The bodies of Tiankui Ancestor and Disha Ancestor exploded in mid-air, turning into countless golden and black specks of light.

The two patriarchs who had lived for thousands of years, the last trump card of Ten Thousand Swords Mountain, were completely annihilated by Chu Chang's earth-shattering sword strike.

Below, tens of thousands of Wanjianshan disciples and elders who had been expecting a miracle fell into complete silence in that instant.

God, collapsed.

Chu Chang sheathed his sword and stood in the void.

He looked down at the Wan Jian Shan people below, who had completely lost their will to fight and were kneeling in disarray, his expression indifferent.

"From this day forward, there will be no more Ten Thousand Swords Mountain in the world."

His voice was like divine punishment, echoing through the mountains for tens of thousands of miles around.

Chu Chang took a step forward, directly crossing the layers of ruins of Ten Thousand Swords Mountain, and arrived at the ancestral land deepest in the sect.

Here stands a huge stone tablet, and beneath it lies a hidden array space.

Chu Chang flicked his finger, and a golden sword aura forcefully blasted open the formation.

Inside the array space, there was an ancient book made entirely of black gold.

Chu Chang waved his hand, and the black and gold ancient book fell into his hand. He opened the book, looked at the contents, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Just as I thought."

Ancient books clearly record that a great war between heavenly demons did indeed break out in the Tianqian Domain back then, but that war did not completely close the path to ascension.

The true culprits who closed the path to ascension were the founding patriarch of Ten Thousand Swords Mountain and several other righteous leaders of this world.

Because they discovered that the immortals in the upper realm were not teachers who guided mortals to immortality, but rather treated the lower realm as a "farm for mortals" to absorb fortune and laws.

Every cultivator who enters the Upper Realm through the normal ascension channel has their cultivation and fortune drained the moment they cross the Heavenly Gate, and refined into elixirs to prolong the lives of the immortals in the Upper Realm.

In order to avoid becoming food for the immortals, the ancestors of Wanjian Mountain had no choice but to forcibly cut off the path to ascension in this world and set up a seal on the outside to create the illusion of the end times.

Taiyi Zi was killed by the extraterrestrial demons in secret by Wanjian Mountain because he wanted to forcibly reopen the path to ascension.

"So this sky was originally a cage?"

Chu Chang closed the black and gold ancient book and looked up at the depths of the endless void.

He is now at the Tribulation Transcending stage, having reached the limit of advancement in this world.

But if he doesn't ascend, as his lifespan passes, he will eventually turn into a handful of dust, just like the Heavenly Ancestor.

"interesting."

Chu Chang put away the ancient book, his eyes gleaming with an unprecedented brilliance.

"If behind the Heavenly Gate lies a pack of man-eating wolves, then I will wield this Dust-Severing Sword, slaughter all these so-called immortals, and establish a new set of rules."

He turned around and disappeared into the ruins of the Wanjianshan ancestral land.

Now that the entire Tianqian Domain is under his control, he intends to set up an unprecedented heaven-reaching array in this world and forcibly break open the Heavenly Gate!