Shu Mountain's Extravagance

"Evil Sword Immortal only left behind an avatar. Once he learned of the Three Sovereigns Divine Artifacts, his true body had likely already fled."

"Besides, we are not members of Shu Mountain. 'Raising nonhumans and endangering the mortal world'—that was your assessment of us, was it not?"

The weight behind Jing Tian's words far exceeded the burden Chang Hao had just endured.

"It was all my fault. It was all my fault!"

Chang Hao, who would not lower his head even with veins bulging across his forehead, now slammed it heavily against the Azure Jade Steps.

Blue was stained crimson.

Jing Tian had already lifted the crushing pressure from Chang Hao, yet Chang Hao still did not rise.

He seemed prepared to kneel until the end of the world.

Until the light came.

Liquid golden radiance poured from the cracks in the shattered jade tiles. The star charts once corroded by bloody rust now flowed into scriptures that filled the sky.

The Earth Veins trembled like a Buddhist chant, and rune inscriptions lit up across all seventy-two peaks at once.

Shattered gold flowed into the seams between the tiles, while the black mist around the dark iron pillars shrieked and curled in on itself.

The Mountain Protection Array descended from Cloud Top. It was no longer made of intricate golden patterns, but armor formed from an expanse of rippling light.

From the source of the blood-red glow that covered the sky and burned with violet fire—the place where the Demon Locking Tower had collapsed—a stream of clear qi emerged.

An old man in blue robes materialized within it.

"The Demon Suppressing Sword really is gone."

This was Qing Wei. Having confirmed that Evil Sword Immortal's words were true, he flew over to Chang Hao.

Perhaps because Evil Sword Immortal had