"Ah! You bunch of fiends!"
On Misty Cloud Mountain, the remaining members of the Ancient Clan let out terrified roars.
Lin Xiu was hacked apart by Medusa with a single sword strike.
Yang Hao was poisoned to death by Xiao Yi Xian.
The other two were hacked to death by the combined sword technique of Yun Yun and Nalan Yan Shi, master and disciple.
Only six people remained alive.
They wanted to fight back and kill their opponents, but every time they were about to place one of them in mortal danger, Kaguya and Saber would intervene and stop them, making them start the fight all over again.
They were like slaves in a cage, specially kept around to feed moves to others. They could only be killed, never allowed to kill anyone else.
"Go to hell!"
Xie Biyan unleashed everything he had, transforming into a gigantic scorpion as he attacked an Ancient Clan member before him relentlessly. After a long while, he finally injected his poison into his opponent's body and killed him.
"Phew..." Xie Biyan panted heavily and shook his head helplessly. "This old man's strength is still too weak. Who would have thought these Ancient Clan members would be so formidable? They nearly killed this old man several times. Fortunately, Lord Kaguya was there to save me."
Still, Xie Biyan felt rather pleased with himself. The so-called Ancient Families had ended up dying by his hand all the same.
"It's my turn! My turn!"
Yan Luotian rubbed his fists, while the Mu Lan Three Elders were eager to give it a try. Xie Shan had been impatient for quite some time.
Having just advanced to the Dou Venerate realm, they especially wanted to get accustomed to this immense power.
"Death is acceptable, but humiliation is not. Even if we die, we won't let you off easily." The five Ancient Clan members steeled their hearts. Since death was inevitable either way, they might as well perish together with their enemies.
The five charged at Yan Luotian and the others. The Dou Qi within their bodies began compressing and expanding continuously as they attempted to self-destruct.
"Hehe, you want to self-destruct? Not a chance." Kaguya made her move. She released a sealing technique and lightly tapped the five men's dantians. The Dou Qi within their dantians immediately calmed down.
They could not even kill themselves.
"Ah!"
The five Ancient Clan members spat out blood in fury and roared loudly.
"Rumble!"
At that moment, strange phenomena appeared in the sky above Misty Cloud Mountain. A huge spatial rift was torn open, and a gale surged out from within, causing all things to wither.
"Who killed my grandson, Gu Yao?"
An old man's voice came from the depths of space, ringing out like a world-shaking ancient bell and deafening everyone.
Before the newcomer even appeared, his voice had already intimidated all living things. Carrying supreme pressure, it crushed everything insignificant.
Everyone's hearts trembled violently. They hurriedly looked up and saw a white-haired, youthful-faced old man emerging from the Space Wormhole. He was tall and powerfully built, his eyes wide as bronze bells, and the immeasurable force radiating from him was unstoppable.
"It's Elder Tong Xuan! Elder Tong Xuan has come to save us!" The five Ancient Clan members wept tears of joy, their faces filled with the delight of surviving a desperate situation.
"Who killed my grandson, Gu Yao?"
When Elder Tong Xuan released the strength of his Half-Saint realm, heaven and earth shook, and all living beings trembled. The pressure caused the Dou Qi within Medusa and the others to churn violently, while their states of mind collapsed with a boom.
"Elder Tong Xuan, it was them! They killed Big Brother Gu Yao, and now they want to kill us too. You have to avenge Big Brother Gu Yao!"
The five Ancient Clan youths wailed bitterly, crying as if their hearts were breaking. At last, they had someone to rely on.
"Hmph." Kaguya coldly looked at the five men. Five black bone spikes suddenly shot from her palm, flying straight toward them.
"Elder Tong Xuan, save us!" The five cried out in terror. Their trouser legs were stained with foul-smelling yellow matter, which dripped onto the ground in a trickling stream.
"Impudent!"
Elder Tong Xuan flew into a rage. He pointed downward with one hand, and the entire space below instantly solidified. The five bone spikes shattered into powder.
With a casual point, he had destroyed an attack from a Nine-Star Dou Venerate. The strength of a Half-Saint was truly unimaginable.
Elder Tong Xuan looked down at Gu Yao's corpse, which had been broken into two pieces, and hurriedly collected it. The grief in his eyes was beyond measure before transforming into raging fury. He shouted furiously.
"You ants actually killed my grandson! Today, this old man will wipe you all out with a single palm!"
He formed hand seals with both hands, opening mountains with his left and overturning seas with his right. The two seals overlapped, forming the fully developed Earth-Covering Seal, which he slammed viciously toward Misty Cloud Mountain below. "Emperor Seal Art!"
Boom!
A gigantic energy seal covering the entire Misty Cloud Mountain enveloped everyone and crashed down with irresistible might, leaving no way to evade it.
"Chakra Tree, merge with my body!"
A trace of wariness flashed through Kaguya's eyes as she hurriedly formed hand seals.
"Buzz!"
A towering tree on Misty Cloud Mountain suddenly tore itself from the ground and flew over, merging with Kaguya's body.
Then, a terrifying scene unfolded. The enormous tree abruptly transformed into a sinister, horrifying monster standing a hundred zhang tall.
This monster was the Ten-Tails' outer shell form, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. It then transformed once more into a colossal creature with ten tails.
Since Kaguya was still in the First Release state, she could only unleash three-tenths of her power, but that was still enough to reach the strength of a Five-Turn Dou Venerate.
"What kind of monster is this?" Elder Tong Xuan's pupils contracted. He had lived for so long, yet he had never seen such a monster. "Could it be a Magical Beast?"
The Ten-Tails let out a roar and compressed all its energy into a gigantic Tailed Beast Bomb, which it hurled at the Earth-Covering Seal released by Elder Tong Xuan.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The energy ball collided with the seal, exploding repeatedly in the sky.
Endless expanses of space shattered. Storms swept across the heavens, and the ear-splitting blasts shook everyone on the ground into clutching their heads and screaming.
"Excalibur, Sword of Victory!"
Saber flew into the sky, emerging from the energy storm as she swung her sword down at Elder Tong Xuan.
Sword intent, sword spirit, sword bone, sword heart, and the sword path—the five insights into swordsmanship formed a vast manifestation of the sword.
With the bearing of a king worshiped by heaven and earth, that awe-inspiring power of faith was infused into the blade. It foretold certain victory beneath this sword, while her strength had also reached the Second-Turn Dou Venerate realm.
"Hmph. All of this is merely child's play."
Elder Tong Xuan recovered from his brief shock and casually threw a punch with his right hand. It shattered the sword manifestation before him, sending Saber flying with a cry of pain.
Returning to simplicity, the great Dao was plain.
This was the further understanding of heaven and earth gained upon reaching the Dou Saint realm.
Abandoning those flashy but useless flourishes, even an ordinary punch could destroy countless empty illusions.
"Are you all right?" Kaguya's soul message came through.
"I'm fine." Saber used her sword to support herself and struggled to stand. Another mouthful of blood sprayed from her lips.
This Half-Saint was simply too powerful. He was even more terrifying than Shi Tian and Leng Bingyan had been back then. They were no match for him at all.
Kaguya said, "Hold him off for now. Once the Misty Cloud Sect evacuates everyone, we can fight him without restraint."
The destructive power of two Nine-Star Dou Venerates and a Half-Saint was unimaginable. If they continued fighting like this, the entire Misty Cloud Mountain would be flattened.
Elder Tong Xuan's appearance left everyone horrified. Such a terrifying existence had actually appeared here, so everyone hurriedly dispersed, afraid of being caught in the aftermath.
"You still want to evacuate the crowd? You killed my grandson, Gu Yao. None of you will leave this place alive today!"
Elder Tong Xuan formed another series of seals. The Mountain-Opening Seal and Sea-Overturning Seal overlapped, the Sea-Overturning Seal fused with the Earth-Covering Seal, and the Earth-Covering Seal merged with the Heaven-Annihilating Seal. Finally, the perfected form of the Emperor Seal Art appeared—the Ancient Emperor Seal.
Once this seal appeared, the four seas submitted and the nine provinces bowed. It was as though an emperor's jade seal had been stamped down, proclaiming an eternal hegemony and absolute supremacy while suppressing all living beings until they could not move an inch.
Everyone on Misty Cloud Mountain had their lives and deaths controlled by this great seal. Their eyes were filled with terror, grief, fear, and despair.
Kaguya's Tailed Beast Bombs repeatedly blasted toward the Ancient Emperor Seal, while Saber's golden sword intent continuously slashed at it, yet they could not stop the great seal from descending.
"Elder Tong Xuan, we're down here too!" several Ancient Clan youths shouted.
Once this seal fell, they would be killed as well!
Elder Tong Xuan paid them no heed. He laughed maniacally. "Hahaha, grandson, did you see that? Grandfather has avenged you! Not a single one of these ants will live today!"
However, at this critical moment...
From a secluded place on Misty Cloud Mountain came a young girl's delicate shout.
"Ka... me... ha... me... ha..."
"Boom!"
A powerful beam of energy shot straight into the sky from the ground, slamming directly into the descending Ancient Emperor Seal. The two energies collided, and in an instant, the beam pushed the descending energy seal back upward from below.
"What?"
Elder Tong Xuan stared at the Ancient Emperor Seal as it was pushed upward. His heart trembled, and he hurriedly pressed down with both hands, controlling the Ancient Emperor Seal as he forced it downward once more.
But the energy beam below did not retreat. It seemed intent on competing with Elder Tong Xuan in terms of Dou Qi reserves, pushing the Ancient Emperor Seal upward again.
"Damn it!"
Elder Tong Xuan shouted furiously and punched downward.
The Ancient Emperor Seal shattered with a thunderous boom beneath his blow.
"Who exactly are you? You actually intend to save these ants from the Misty Cloud Sect. This old man is Elder Tong Xuan of the Ancient Clan. Do not bring disaster upon yourself."
On Misty Cloud Mountain, a breathtakingly beautiful young girl slowly walked out of the Gate of Life and Death. Her peerless beauty made every other beautiful thing lower its head in shame.
The girl clasped her hands behind her back, shook her head, and casually recited a shameless doggerel.
Roaming freely through the world for thousands of years,
Cultivating the heart, the Dao, and every karmic tie,
Life holds so many things that bring unease,
Yet I, Ye Qian, am the most carefree.
"Ding" Congratulations, Host, you have obtained 1,000,000,000 Shock Points from Elder Tong Xuan.