I just want to kill you all, or be killed by you all.

The light of teleportation enveloped all the trial participants.

The first priority is to teleport them back to their elders, otherwise something unexpected will happen.

As for the resettlement of the local cultivators, that's a matter for the Dao Alliance.

"Brother Dao, I look forward to meeting you again. When that time comes, show me the vastness of the Nine Provinces!" Tu Jiuzhou's face was beaming with smiles.

But he soon discovered that Li Yang had been teleported away just like everyone else, which made him chuckle.

"I almost forgot, you were reborn in the Void Realm and even gained the physique of other trial participants, so you're probably already labeled as belonging to the Void Realm. That's great, we're even closer now!" Tu Jiuzhou teased.

"Boss, see you outside!"

"Junior Brother Li, the sect will definitely protect you!" Lu Qingqiu shouted.

"Boss, after we get out of here, will we still have the chance to follow you and fight against evil?"

However, there was even more cursing and contempt:

"Damn swordsman! Countless demon princes and princesses have died by your hand. You've offended too many people; you're doomed!"

"You've had your fill of killing now, but have you ever considered that Kyushu isn't a secret realm? You'd better be careful when you're out and about!"

"You're only invincible within the secret realm. Let's see how long you can remain invincible!"

The curses of your enemies are the best affirmation you can receive.

Li Yang responded to each of these comments:

"Come to my Xuantian Sword Sect and fight to the death!"

His voice was so loud, and it was amplified by a monstrous killing intent. His voice pierced through the sixth-grade trapping formation, causing the faces of those people to change and they dared not speak anymore.

soon--

Within the vast Realm of Slaughter, all the trial participants were teleported out.

However, there were still many native cultivators from the Slaughtering Void Realm around the trapping formation.

"Join forces to break the formation!" Emperor Tianyuan shouted.

But Li Yang shook his head.

We arrived at the array wall.

He gripped the Phoenix Sword tightly with both hands, pointing the tip of the sword at the array wall.

With all his might, he thrust his sword forward, converging all his attacks on a single point.

"Pop~"

A gap was breached in the defensive wall.

Li Yang and Tu Jiuzhou emerged.

All the cultivators were shocked by what they saw.

This is a sixth-grade grand formation, which even Nascent Soul cultivators cannot break.

Although this wasn't breaking the formation, it was enough to show that Li Yang's attack intensity was outrageously high.

In the darkness, Li Yang sensed countless killing intents gathering around him.

He knew that the situation inside had been discovered by countless sectarian forces outside.

As the top killer who committed the most killings regardless of the other party's identity or background, he naturally had to endure countless wraths.

Many of these attacks far surpassed the killing intent of the Six Desires Demon Lord, causing Li Yang's soul to stiffen.

Sometimes, sensing murderous intent isn't a good thing.

Just like now, the endless killing intent was being unleashed, almost causing Li Yang's mental breakdown.

"Brother Dao? What's wrong with you?!" Tu Jiuzhou noticed Li Yang's unusual behavior and quickly came over.

"It's nothing. Just a bunch of old geezers trying to kill me."

Tu Jiuzhou understood perfectly. After all, Li Yang had killed far too many people, from the righteous path to the demonic path, from fairies to witches. The number of trial participants who died directly or indirectly at his hands was a terrifying figure.

I thought I would have to wait a while longer.

As a result, a sword light sliced ​​open the dome of the Void Realm.

The sword light stretched for tens of thousands of miles, its source and end nowhere in sight.

This is absolutely the power of a sword cultivator at least at the Mahayana stage.

"This kid is the treasure of our Sword Alliance! Let's see who dares to touch him!!!"

A threatening roar shattered the nine heavens.

The murderous intent that had been lurking in the air dissipated considerably.

"Do you really think all the cultivators of the Xuanyuan Sword Sect are dead?!" Another cold voice resounded throughout the land. "Li Yang is a disciple of my Xuanyuan Sword Sect, recognized by the Xuanyuan Ancestor's sword pill. He is the next leader of our Xuanyuan Sect!"

"Is it wrong to eliminate demons and uphold justice? My Qiankun Sword Sect would like to see who dares to stand against Li Yang!"

"Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion, add one more!"

"Our Tianxuan Sword Sect greatly admires him!"

"Our Supreme Sword Palace doesn't care about his status. As long as he's willing to come, he is the Supreme Sword Child!"

These sounds were so loud.

And accompanied by unparalleled sword light or sword energy, the dome of the Slaughtering Void Realm was cleaved open, exposing this Slaughtering Void Realm nakedly to the Great World of Kyushu.

Li Yang could sense the aura of the Nine Provinces surging in, domineeringly assimilating this Void Realm and making it a part of it.

In an instant—

Li Yang felt countless gazes falling on him.

It is subject to scrutiny;

There is hostility;

Some cherish it.

There are so many different things.

All these gazes came from those high-ranking, important figures.

Not only that.

When the Heavenly Dao of the Void Realm was swallowed up by the Nine Provinces, the cultivation he had been empowered by plummeted.

Nascent Soul Stage 9... Nascent Soul Stage 1... Golden Core Stage 9... Golden Core Stage 1... Foundation Establishment Stage 9... Foundation Establishment Stage 2!

This continued until the foundation work for the two layers was completed.

But Li Yang immediately sat cross-legged in the void and took out countless top-grade spirit stones.

Without the aid of a spirit-gathering array, the Qianyang Emperor's Body and the Innate Sword Embryo unleashed their power simultaneously, and through his comprehension of the realm within the Slaughtering Void Realm, his cultivation level rapidly increased.

Although the realm is illusory, the feeling of breaking through it is a valuable experience.

Li Yang's cultivation level was visibly rising steadily.

Breakthrough begins from the second level of Foundation Establishment—

Foundation Establishment Level 3... Foundation Establishment Level 6... Foundation Establishment Level 9... Foundation Establishment Perfection!

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Li Yang completed his transformation from the early stage of Foundation Establishment to the Great Perfection in just fifteen minutes!

"Damn it! That's the Qianyang Emperor Physique of the Holy Son of my Great Sun Haotian Holy Land! This kid must have cultivated some evil magic, otherwise, how could he, as a trial participant, have seized the heaven-defying physique of my Holy Son!"

"That's right! He also seized the physique of that evil sword cultivator Mu Zangfeng, so he must be an evil cultivator without a doubt!" Someone immediately echoed.

They naturally knew what had actually happened; they were simply trying to label Li Yang.

Li Yang was too lazy to explain; his words would be useless anyway.

He knew how much trouble this would cause him.

But should we refrain from doing it because we're afraid of the consequences?

So, if cultivating immortality always involves encountering all sorts of troubles, even life and death, does that mean one should give up on cultivation?

Everyone dies eventually, so does that mean we should just stop living?

If you've done it and have no regrets, that's enough.

This is Li Yang's code of conduct, and also his attitude towards cultivation.

He continued to sit cross-legged, and a sense of clarity spread through him.

One of the great sword cultivators couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, "His sword heart is clear and bright!"

To have tempered one's character to such a terrifying degree at the Foundation Establishment stage, even to the point of reaching the level of condensing a sword heart.

Li Yang had already begun to condense his sword heart, and his experience in the Realm of Slaughtering Void allowed the sword heart that was about to condense to be born naturally.

Sword Heart is not a heart; it is the superego born from a sword cultivator's self-awareness of their true self.

A thousand sword cultivators can condense a thousand different sword hearts.

It is not the heart of a strong person, but it is more precious than the heart of a strong person.

It is the spiritual core forged by sword cultivators through the fusion of their life, will, and understanding of people, things, and nature.

"This kid is too pure. Even the former Xuanyuan Ancestor was not as awe-inspiring as him when he was like this."

"I just don't know what type of swordsmanship he has."

"His heart is pure and bright, what more is there to say?" said an elderly swordsman. "His actions were upright and honest, and his deeds were in accordance with his conscience. Even in death, he has no regrets."

"I think it's about reaching the ultimate emptiness and maintaining perfect stillness," a female sword cultivator said. "His mind is so clear and pure that it's rare among sword cultivators, allowing his inner peace to reach a state of single-mindedness."

However, as Li Yang's aura spread, the artistic conception revealed by his sword heart stunned countless sword cultivators who witnessed it all.

"The Sword Heart of Guardian?" They were all dumbfounded. "How could it be Guardian?!"

There are many types of sword cultivators who condense sword hearts, but they could hardly believe that Li Yang, a pure sword cultivator who had slaughtered countless people, had condensed the most common type of sword heart: the guardian sword heart!

Kenshin's power stems from "bonds." Because there are people he wants to protect, he must not lose; because he cares for all living beings, he can withstand a million soldiers with a single sword strike.

This kind of sword heart is the ultimate sublimation of humanity; in order to protect, it can unleash power that transcends any realm.

But this kind of sword spirit is too common; they simply cannot connect it with Li Yang, whose hands are stained with the blood of millions of lives.

"Absurd! Utterly absurd!!" a powerful cultivator sneered. "This kid is definitely an evil sword cultivator. Protecting his sword heart? It's all an act for you!"

"You're talking nonsense!"

A beautiful voice rang out from the heavens.

"Who? Who is insulting me?!" The powerful cultivator frowned, his voice cold.

Everyone looked up at the same time, and a spark of fire appeared in the sky.

That was a golden phoenix totem illuminating the heavens!

"Ning Qingfeng! What's she doing here?!"

"No! My disciple said that Li Yang was killed once, but was resurrected by a peerless member of the Ning family named Ning Xi through a self-sacrifice. But why are my memories of Ning Xi becoming faint again?"

"There was never any Ning Xi! Even if she were to sacrifice herself, what would a Foundation Establishment stage Ning Xi use to perform the Nirvana Divine Art!"

"It's always been Ning Qingfeng!!!"