After enduring this harrowing battle of life and death, everyone was exhausted to the extreme, finding it difficult even to remain standing. Yet despite their bodies having reached their limits, they still clenched their teeth and supported one another as they struggled to their feet. Every pair of eyes shone with unwavering resolve, for they knew they bore the sacred duty of protecting the peace and tranquility of the Immortal and Mortal Realms. No matter how rugged the road ahead or how thick the thorns, they would press forward without hesitation, even at the cost of their precious lives!
The crowd had only just caught their breath after the tense and brutal battle when a suffocating aura of decay surged toward them. In the blink of an eye, a bizarre and terrifying existence—the Life and Death Withered Prosperity Demon—appeared before them! This monster resembled an enormous chaotic mist formed from countless powers of life and death tangled and fused together. Every step it took brought drastic changes to its surroundings: vegetation withered, birds and beasts wailed, while places that had once been dead and silent suddenly burst with vigorous life...
Faced with such a powerful and unfathomable enemy, the Divine Bell's sound waves seemed to lose their target and sense of direction within an endless maze. Meanwhile, the legendary divine sword was nearly torn apart by the frenzied forces of life and death. At times, its blade dimmed like a dying candle in the wind; at others, it erupted with dazzling light, as though it were about to pierce the heavens!
However, the inheritors and the elderly, experienced sage knew full well that this demon was no ordinary foe—because it commanded one of the two most crucial powers in the world: the power over life and death! The slightest mistake