Just as the old patriarch forced me to my death, I achieved the unity of Dao and fruition.

Hearing Gu Changjin's arrogant words, the Grandmaster Taixuan remained unmoved, calmly drawing his sword.

The rusty ancient sword slowly flew out of the blood-suppressing coffin.

Before the sword was fully drawn, the entire Qiyun Mountain Range began to tremble violently.

The mountains and rocks crumbled, the sea of ​​clouds surged backward, and even the newly cracked Heavenly Secrets Disc seemed to be pressed down again by some higher-level force, emitting an unwilling hum.

The Purple Gold Sect Leader knelt before the Ancestral Hall, his face contorted with madness.

"The patriarch has made his move! You rebellious demons will all die!"

The remaining disciples of the Qiyun Sect felt as if they had been given a new lease on life, and they kowtowed frantically.

"Our patriarch is invincible! He has redefined destiny! He has extended the lifespan of Qiyun by a thousand years!"

"Slay that serpent! Slaughter all these rebellious traitors!"

The Grandmaster Tai Xuan stood in mid-air, a handsome middle-aged man, but his eyes were as decaying as a deep well.

The look in his eyes when he looked at Gu Changjin was devoid of anger, only filled with condescending indifference.

"The demon race are but ants, ultimately unaware of the vastness of the sky."

"You are indeed quite capable to be able to crack the Heavenly Secrets Disc."

"But that's all..."

He raised his hand and grasped the ancient sword, its blade emerging an inch from its sheath.

boom!

The accumulated fortune of the Qiyun Sect over a thousand years, the source of the Nine Provinces extracted by the Stealing Heaven Array, and the remaining power of destiny from the Heavenly Mystery Disc all surged into the sword at this moment.

Before that sword strike was even unleashed, the entire world had already darkened.

Countless cultivators felt a chill in their hearts, and the seven demon immortals all changed color.

The remaining few human immortals of the demonic path stopped grinning and instead subconsciously took a half step back.

This is something they can't stop.

Half a step back to emptiness.

These four words were enough to make the entire battlefield suffocate.

The Grandmaster Tai Xuan spoke coldly.

"This sword will sever your demonic body."

"Suppress your primordial spirit."

"With your flesh and blood, the secrets of heaven will be reforged."

The sword light fell, without any frills.

There was only a pale sword mark that stretched across the sky.

It's like splitting the sky in two, or like pressing the fate of everyone in the Nine Provinces back into the palm of the Qiyun Sect.

The Purple Gold Sect Leader was so excited that he trembled all over.

Won.

This is the true trump card of the Qiyun Sect!

What army of ten thousand demons? What wandering immortals of the demonic path? What Devouring Heaven Serpent!

Before the patriarch, they are all a joke!

Faced with this sword, Gu Changjin did not dodge, and even laughed.

"Just a half-step into the Void Realm!?"

"What are you pretending to be, acting all high and mighty?!"

The next instant, he raised his hand and grabbed, and clusters of extremely pure Dao Yuan emerged from his palm.

That was his true trump card, accumulated through his conquest of the Nine Provinces, the refinement of countless innate spiritual objects, and his begging for alms along the way.

I originally planned to keep this in case the old monster came back to life, but now it's come in handy.

It's time to show what a true breakthrough in the face of adversity looks like!

Gu Changjin opened his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.

boom--!

His late-stage Nascent Soul cultivation, suppressed to its limit, erupted like a long-dormant volcano.

There was no tribulation lightning, nor any divine punishment.

Because at this moment, the Heavenly Dao of the Nine Provinces seemed to have finally found someone to break the shackles, and there was no obstruction whatsoever.

The heavens and earth seemed to tremble, as if urging him to hurry up.

The Bashe Seal between Gu Changjin's eyebrows spun wildly, and the Ninefold Merit Golden Wheel shone brightly.

His demonic aura was no longer just demonic aura, but began to touch the reality and illusion of heaven and earth, devouring the Great Dao and gradually condensing into true rules deep within his soul.

Peak of the Nascent Soul stage, half a step towards Void Return, Void Return!

Rumble!

The shackles of the realm were forcibly shattered.

Gu Changjin stepped into the Void Returning Realm.

At this moment, he was no longer just a demon immortal of this realm.

In the parlance of this world, the one standing before you is a true Void Returning Immortal.

The pale sword light had already reached him. Gu Changjin looked up, his eyes filled with cold mockery.

"this one?"

He transformed into the true form of the Bashe (a mythical serpent), and the world turned completely dark.

It wasn't the clouds that blocked the sun; it was his serpentine body that covered the entire sky.

A 30,000-foot-long, sky-swallowing serpent loomed over the Qiyun Mountains.

The enormous black and gold serpent coiled in circles, like an ancient, ferocious creature capable of encircling the world, emerging from the deepest recesses of mythology.

Mountains appear as mounds beneath his scales, and rivers as thin threads beside him.

The sun was blocked by his body, leaving only a pale golden edge.

When everyone looked up, all they could see were endless black and gold scales and a pair of blood-red vertical pupils hanging in the sky.

The pale sword light of the Grandmaster Tai Xuan struck Gu Changjin's scale armor.

clang!

With a deafening roar, like a bell shattering, the sword light shattered completely.

For the first time, the Grandmaster Taixuan's expression changed.

"impossible!"

"How could you possibly break through to a higher level in the heat of battle?"

"How could this world allow you to enter the Void Returning Realm?"

Gu Changjin looked down at him, his gaze like that of a giant looking down at an ant holding a sword.

Is there any possibility?

"It's not that Heaven and Earth cannot tolerate it."

"Heaven and earth have long wanted you parasites to die."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Changjin opened his mouth and took a bite.

The ancient sword in the hands of the Grandmaster Taixuan emitted a deafening sword cry as it tried to struggle.

The enormous jaws of the Heaven-Swallowing Serpent descended.

Click!

His natal immortal sword was bitten in half.

Grandmaster Tai Xuan suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and the handsomeness on his face quickly faded, revealing his withered and decaying true form.

He roared, and his body erupted with the ethereal light of the Supreme Purity Immortal.

"Qiyun Immortal Technique! Ziwei Suppresses the World!"

Thousands of stars gathered behind him, attempting to transform into a small celestial disc to suppress Gu Changjin's fate once again.

Gu Changjin lashed out with his tail.

boom!

The starlight shattered, the immortal light exploded, and the Grandmaster Tai Xuan was pulled into the main peak of Qiyun Mountain, crashing into half of the cliff.

He tried to get up, but Gu Changjin's snake head had already drooped down.

"A millennium-long plan?"

"Drain the whole country, hide in a coffin, and prolong your life by eating your descendants."

"This guy dares to call himself a patriarch?"

The Grandmaster Tai Xuan's face was contorted with rage.

"I'm doing this so that my entire sect can ascend to immortality!"

"It's for the eternal glory of Qi Yun!"

"It is an honor for us lowly ants of the Nine Provinces to become the foundation for my ascension to the Heavenly Realm!"

Gu Changjin smiled.

"Then it is your honor to be able to eat this food."

The Grandmaster Tai Xuan finally realized he was afraid and turned to retreat back to the Blood Coffin of Suppression.

He still has a chance if he returns to his coffin and borrows the remaining essence of the Heaven-Stealing Array.

But this was the moment Gu Changjin had been waiting for.

"Want to go back?"

"As I have said."

"Swallow them whole, coffin and all."

The Bashe Seal transformed into a dark vortex, its gigantic maw gaping open like an abyss hanging upside down.

The Grandmaster Tai Xuan roared and struggled, as countless chains on the blood coffin lashed wildly at the void.

But it was no use... In front of the Devouring Heaven Serpent at the Returning Void Realm, all struggles were like a joke.

The Grandmaster Tai Xuan, along with the Blood Coffin that sealed the fate of the world, was bitten by Gu Changjin.

Click.

Chew it thoroughly.

Then snap.

Swallow it.

The world fell silent.

The wild joy on the faces of all the Qi Yun Sect disciples froze into extreme fear.

The Purple Gold Sect Leader knelt on the ground, staring blankly in the direction of the Ancestral Hall.

It's empty now; the patriarch is gone, the blood coffin is gone.

The Qi Yun Sect's last trump card was chewed up and swallowed by that Bashe snake.

next moment.

boom!

The heavens and earth of the Nine Provinces trembled violently, the Heavenly Secrets Disc exploded completely, and the Heaven-Stealing Array collapsed.

The earth's ley lines, suppressed for millennia by the Qiyun Sect, are now flowing back to nourish the world like a burst dam.

Above the Qiyun Mountains, a torrential downpour fell like a waterfall.

In distant states, dried-up rivers have begun to flow again, and barren mountains have turned green.

The shackles of fate on countless cultivators were completely broken.

Some cultivators burst into tears, while others laughed wildly.

Outside the Qiyun Sect, after a brief silence, cheers that shook the heavens erupted.

"Qi Yun Sect is finished!"

"The Celestial Disc has shattered!"

"His fate is sealed!"

"Kyushu is free!"

The Mountain-Shaking Demon Ape, carrying an ironwood club, roared excitedly.

"Big Brother is awesome!"

The demonic cultivators cheered wildly, and the rogue cultivator patriarch was in tears.

The leaders of the minor sects who were forcibly brought over knelt on the ground, crying as if their fathers had died and come back to life.

Gu Changjin coiled in the sky, his 30,000-foot-long serpentine body blotting out the sun.

With the Ninefold Golden Wheel of Merit hanging behind his head, its golden light illuminating the entire land, he looked down at the completely collapsed Qiyun Sect gate, his voice slowly spreading throughout the heavens and earth.

"From today onwards."

"The fate of Qi Yun will never be determined again in the Nine Provinces."

"You must walk your own path."