The Tianyan Continent had only been at peace for a century, and the newly sprouted Spirit Plant were still immature. A century was but a fleeting moment in the long lives of cultivators, yet it was enough for this scarred land to be reborn. By the mountain stream, the " Dew Condensing Immortal Grass," which matures only once every century, sprouted tender yellow buds, the morning dew rolling on its leaves reflecting a seven-colored halo, like pearls inlaid on jade; between the cliffs, the " Wind-Facing Jade Tree " stretched its newly sprouted branches, swaying in the morning breeze and producing a clear, melodious sound.
Along the mountain stream, tender green herbs sprout new shoots, swaying gently in the breeze, glistening with morning dew. In the village, wisps of smoke rise from chimneys, children chase and play, while elders sit around stone tables, recounting the legendary tale of Ren Xiaoyao's battle against the Twelve-Winged Heavenly Demon. In the village built of bluestone, the clanging of Blacksmith Shop mingles with the sounds of students reciting lessons, women wash clothes and chat by the well, and the air is filled with the aroma of roasting new wheat. An old man with white hair strokes the broken jade pendant at his waist, gesturing to a curious child. "Back then, Senior Ren severed the Heavenly Demon's wings with a single sword strike; the sword light was a hundred times brighter than the midday sun!"
Outside the cave where Ren Xiaoyao was in seclusion, the faint light resonating between the Chaos Dao Patterns and the Dragon Vein never ceased, like an eternal, inextinguishable lamp, guarding the peace of this land. The nine jade Eight Trigrams Formation floating at the cave entrance slowly rotated, their cores emitting golden and purple light, condensing the Spiritual Qi within a ten-mile Fang Yuan into a tangible form. Every nightfall, the Chaos Dao Patterns flowing on the cave walls would light up, projecting ancient Totems onto the rock face, as if telling the secrets of the World Creation.
However, in the distance, dark purple Thunder Clouds surged silently, with eerie red lights flashing intermittently within them, like a lurking beast waiting to awaken. The once clear sky was stained an ominous crimson, and a rusty, metallic stench began to permeate the air. Suddenly, the alarm bells of the " Star Gazing Pavilion " in the northwest rang loudly, and the Star Gazing Elder, gazing at the exploding Ziwei Star, shattered the tortoise shell divination tool in his hand.
As the first ray of lightning cleaved through the clouds, the earth suddenly trembled violently. A muffled rumble came from the ground, as if ten thousand giant beasts were galloping beneath the rock strata. The miners who were mining Spirit Stone in the mine were horrified to discover that Black Blood was seeping from the veins on the rock walls, meandering along the pickaxe marks.
The wooden pestle in the hand of the girl washing clothes by the stream clattered to the ground. She looked up in horror and saw the distant mountains twisted as if they were alive, and dark purple Thunder Clouds formed the outline of a giant eye, its scarlet pupil slowly opening from the depths of the clouds. The ancestral Evil-Warding Silver Bracelet on the girl's wrist suddenly became hot, leaving scorch marks on her fair skin. As she staggered backward, she knocked over the washbasin, and the splashing water condensed into blood-red Ice Crystals in the air.
The murderous intent surging in those pupils caused the girl to fall to the ground instantly, oblivious to the stream water soaking her skirt. She stared at the scarlet that seemed to devour her soul, and the lullaby her grandmother sang before her death echoed in her ears, "When the Demonic Pupil open, heaven and earth mourn, all living beings suffer, the war spirit comes..." Her trembling fingertips unconsciously traced a broken talisman on the muddy ground.
Immediately afterwards, a deafening thunderclap resounded through the sky, as if the heavens had been torn apart, causing mountain waterfalls to flow backward and startling birds in the forest. The Millennium Profound Crane that roosted on " Myriad Beasts Peak " let out mournful cries, their Immortal Feathers falling off piece by piece and turning into black ash that drifted away. The Golden Core core in the dantian of the cultivator who was undergoing tribulation trembled violently, and Black Blood seeped from his seven orifices.
The clouds seemed to be torn apart by an invisible giant hand, and the Thousand-Eyed Demon slowly emerged from within. The Gale Wind it stirred up as it rose shredded the clouds within a hundred miles into dust, revealing Void Rift behind it where lava churned. Countless demonic figures appeared and disappeared within the Rift, emitting eerie sounds like the cries of infants.
Its enormous body was thousands of meters tall, each gray-black scale etched with twisted Demonic Runes, and its holes were inlaid with countless scarlet vertical pupils, like the eternal flames of hell. When it shook off the demonic mist from its body, countless fingernail-sized Demon Eye fell from the mist, hatching into Bloodthirsty Demon Ants upon landing, which devoured even rocks into dust wherever they went.
When thousands of eyes turned simultaneously, the starlight in the entire sky dimmed, the air twisted into vortexes wherever they passed, and space rippled as if scorched by flames. The clouds high in the sky, stared at by the Demon Eye, condensed into a sharp rain of Ice Crystals, each Ice Crystals carrying a demonic poison that could corrode everything.
A ghostly blue flame erupted from his pupils, touching the towering peaks. The hard rock instantly melted into boiling magma, the scalding liquid meandering down the mountainside, raising acrid smoke from the ground. The main peak of the " Heaven Burning Mountain Range " collapsed amidst the demonic flames, triggering an High Antiquity restriction buried for millions of years and releasing countless sealed vengeful spirits.
The distant village, illuminated by the demonic fire, resembled a scene from apocalyptic hell. The villagers' terrified screams mingled with the explosions of burning houses, swept into the sky by the howling demonic wind. Even the cries of three-year-old children were torn to shreds. The moment the demonic fire touched a human body, flesh turned to smoke, leaving only a blackened skeleton in the terrified posture it had been in before death.
" The Tianyan Dragon Vein... its vigorous life force will surely become the perfect nourishment for my evolution!" The demon's voice carried a humming sound that shook the space, and the Demonic Runes mixed in with the sound waves caused those who heard it to bleed from their seven orifices. From the depths of the earth came the mournful cry of the Dragon Vein, and the originally clear well water turned blood red overnight.
The voice of the Thousand-Eyed Demon was like a thousand shards of glass grinding together; the sharp, piercing sound waves shook the houses within Fang Yuan hundred miles, and the paper on the window frames instantly turned to dust. In the Daoist temple where a ritual was being performed, the Three Pure Ones Statue suddenly bled from their eyes, and the ritual implements in their hands broke inch by inch.
It opened its gaping maw, from which hundreds of chains-bound tentacles emerged. Each tentacle was as thick as a bucket, its barbs gleaming with a chilling green light, and covered with the flesh and blood of countless creatures. Within the crevices of the tentacles' scales, countless Demonic Maggots wriggled, leaving corrosive black marks in their wake.
These tentacles shot towards the direction of the Dragon Vein, instantly withering ancient trees in their wake, turning them into grayish-white powder; fertile fields were corroded into black swamps, constantly bubbling and emitting a nauseating stench. When the tentacles swept across " Green Grain Town," villagers working in the fields were directly swept into the gaps between them, leaving only patches of blood-stained raincoats behind.
A wild rabbit foraging for food was grazed by a tentacle and instantly turned into a puddle of black water, without even having time to let out a cry. In the distant forest, countless birds and beasts fled frantically under the Demonic Might, but could not escape the strangulation of the tentacles, and the whole land was filled with cries of despair. A mother deer was impaled by a tentacle while protecting her fawn, and her warm blood splattered on the fawn, staining it crimson; an eagle circled high in the sky, but its wings were ignited by demonic fire, and it fell into the abyss like a falling meteor.
Ren Xiaoyao, who was in seclusion, suddenly opened his eyes. The Chaos Dao Seed in his dantian trembled violently, and a bone-chilling cold spread up his spine, as if countless ice spikes were traveling through his bone marrow. The divination plate in front of him, which was used to deduce the secrets of Heavenly Secrets, suddenly exploded, and the flying jade pieces carved hideous bloodstains on the cave wall.
He quickly calculated with his fingers, and his face instantly turned ashen—this was a warning from the Heavenly Dao! The Chaos Dao Patterns outside the cave suddenly swirled wildly, their light blazing brightly, like burning Star River winding across the cave walls, illuminating the entire cave as if it were daytime. The ancient Stalactite hanging from the cave ceiling seeped out golden liquid, which gathered on the ground to form ancient warning Totems.
He looked up at the sky and saw the demons that blotted out the sun. His eyes instantly became sharp as an eagle's, and the light of the Dao Patterns on his body surged along his meridians, turning his clothes golden. The Dao Embryo that he had formed in seclusion for a hundred years roared in his sea of consciousness, and the Chaos Dao Seed in his dantian transformed into a flowing Nebula.
"You dare to invade my Tianyan again!" he roared, his voice filled with boundless rage and determination. Before his words had even finished, he had transformed into a golden lightning bolt, tearing through the sky and leaving a long trail of light behind him. Wherever he passed, the air was violently rubbed together, releasing a pungent, acrid smell. The clouds he trod upon burst into Golden Flame, outlining ancient Battle Markings in the sky.
As he sped along, the clouds along his path were dyed with a magnificent golden hue, as if laying down a blood-red curtain for the impending great battle. In the villages he passed through, the people knelt down and kowtowed, the elders trembling as they clasped their hands together, praying that this legendary hero could once again protect this land. Children tossed their treasured candies into the air, hoping to bring good luck to the hero.
When the Thousand-Eyed Demon saw Ren Xiaoyao come to stop it, it burst into wild laughter, its laughter filled with contempt and disdain. "You're just an ant who survived by luck, how dare you stop me, the king?" The demonic light in its eyes surged, condensing into thousands of phantom Demon Soldiers in the void, each phantom holding a blood-dripping Demon Blade.
Before the words were even finished, thousands of eyes on its body simultaneously shot out a crimson laser beam. These lasers intertwined in the air, forming an impenetrable net that enveloped Ren Xiaoyao. Wherever the laser passed, space shattered inch by inch, revealing a deep, Dark Abyss behind it, as if it wanted to devour everything within it. Stars grazed by the laser were instantly annihilated, leaving eternal voids in the universe.
Ren Xiaoyao felt a burning pain on his skin, the Primordial Chaos turbulence caused by the spatial tear eroding his body. He could clearly feel that every inch of his skin was enduring unimaginable pain, as if countless invisible blades were frantically cutting him, and he could even hear the faint sound of his skin being torn apart. His protective Gang Qi groaned in despair amidst the Primordial Chaos turbulence.
" The Five Elements Rotation, Chaos as Shield!" Ren Xiaoyao's hands formed seals with lightning speed, and the blood seeping from his fingertips outlined ancient runes in the air. Each drop of blood that fell bloomed into a miniature lotus flower in the air, disappearing in an instant. The Chaos Power contained in his blood Heaven and Earth Resonance, attracting Spiritual Qi from all directions to converge.
Five colors of light—cyan, red, yellow, white, and black—burst forth from his body, coalescing in the air to form a massive Primordial Chaos shield. Mysterious Dao Patterns flowed across the shield's surface, radiating an ancient yet powerful aura. Scenes from the World Creation appeared on the shield's surface, depicting both the grandeur of the Beginning of Chaos and the fierce battles of countless races.
The crimson laser struck the shield, unleashing Dazzling Light and a deafening roar. The powerful impact caused the surrounding space to tremble violently, forming small Space Vortex. The air around the shield was compressed to its limit, emitting a piercing shriek. Ren Xiaoyao's arms were numb from the shock, blood seeping from his tiger's mouth, dripping down his arms and staining the clouds with crimson hues. He gritted his teeth, veins bulging, and did his utmost to maintain the shield's stability. Large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, shimmering under the golden light, each drop seemingly carrying his determination to protect Tianyan.
Seeing its attack blocked, the Thousand-Eyed Demon's eyes flashed with anger. It let out a piercing shriek, so sharp that it made Ren Xiaoyao's eardrums ache and he almost lost his hearing. This shriek caused Space Resonance, and the distant mountains began to collapse, revealing the Ancient Battlefield ruins buried in the mountains.
Countless demonic flames rained down on Ren Xiaoyao, while his scales fell off, transforming into sharp flying blades. Engulfed by the demonic flames, these blades pounced on Ren Xiaoyao like a pack of frenzied beasts. The detached scales transformed into Bloodthirsty Demon Butterflies in the air, their wings releasing poisonous powder that could corrode a cultivator's Primordial Spirit.
Ren Xiaoyao's Five Elements Light Wings flapped rapidly, each flap creating a powerful storm that blew some of the demonic fire and flying blades away. However, several flying blades still grazed his shoulder, instantly cutting deep, bone-revealing wounds that soaked his clothes with blood. The flesh at the wound site was corroded by demonic poison, turning a strange purplish-black color.
He manipulated the Primordial Chaos Shield, moving it constantly to deflect the remaining attacks. Sweat mixed with blood streamed down his face, dripping into the clouds and turning the pure white clouds red. At this moment, he felt as if he were in a bloodbath, each breath accompanied by intense pain, yet his eyes grew ever more resolute. The mountains, rivers, plants, and countless creatures of the Tianyan Continent constantly appeared in his mind—this was the reason he could never give up.
"Unleash the Primordial Chaos Sword, Demon-Breaking Evil-Slaying!" Ren Xiaoyao roared, and the light of his Chaos Dao Seed surged, a vast power flowing into his body. His Dao Seed transformed into Chaos Green Lotus, each petal exuding the pressure of World Creation.
He reached out and grabbed at the void, and a giant sword radiating Chaos Aura appeared out of thin air. The sword's blade was covered with intricate patterns, its tip gleaming with a chilling light, and ancient chains were wrapped around its hilt, as if sealing away ancient power. As the patterns on the sword flowed, one could see the birth and death of countless worlds.
He gripped the sword hilt tightly, and with a sudden swing, a dazzling sword light ripped through the sky, slashing towards the Thousand-Eyed Demon. Wherever the sword light passed, space was torn apart, leaving a long crack. The surrounding Law of Space were violently distorted, and even fragments of time could be seen flickering within the crack. The Space-time Node touched by the sword light began to collapse, forming Black Hole that devoured everything.
Upon seeing this, the Thousand-Eyed Demon's eyes all contracted, forming a layer of hard, scaled armor on its body. Simultaneously, it spewed out a massive cloud of purple poisonous mist, which spread rapidly, instantly enveloping a vast area. Wherever it went, birds fell to the ground, vegetation turned to pus, and plumes of poisonous smoke rose from the ground. The wails of countless vengeful spirits echoed from within the poisonous mist, each wisp containing a deadly poison capable of corroding heaven and earth.
Ren Xiaoyao felt a tightness in his throat, his breath filled with a pungent, putrid stench. He quickly circulated his Chaos Dao Seed to expel the poisonous mist from his body. His face turned bluish-purple from the poisonous mist's corrosive effects, and his lips lost their color, but he still endured the discomfort, gripping his sword hilt tightly, preparing to face the next attack. As he circulated his Cultivation Method, the Chaos Green Lotus in his dantian emitted Light of Purification, dispelling the demonic poison within his body.
The sword light collided with the poisonous mist, unleashing a powerful energy surge. The poisonous mist was dispersed by the sword light, but the sword light's power was also weakened. The Energy Storm generated by the collision formed new Law of Space, condensing into chains of Principle shimmering with lightning in the void.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Thousand-Eyed Demon launched a counterattack. Its tentacles coiled around Ren Xiaoyao's body like venomous snakes, and sharp barbs pierced Ren Xiaoyao's skin, causing blood to gush out. The demonic poison injected by the barbs on the tentacles spread rapidly, and Ren Xiaoyao felt an excruciating pain in his meridians, as if he were being devoured by thousands of ants.
Ren Xiaoyao felt as if his entire body was being pierced by countless steel needles. The excruciating pain made his vision go black, and his consciousness almost blurred. But he gritted his teeth, and the light of the Chaos Dao Patterns intensified. A powerful force erupted from his body, shattering the tentacles that were wrapped around him. The Black Blood spurting from the severed wounds transformed into demonic shadows in the air, attempting to pounce on him again.
The Black Blood gushing from the severed wound congealed in the air into hideous Demon Hand, attempting to seize him once more. He swung the Chaos Greatsword again, aiming for the Thousand-Eyed Demon's head. The Chaos Aura on the sword collided with the Demon Hand, producing a crisp, metallic clang.
The Thousand-Eyed Demon hastily activated its eyes, unleashing a dense barrage of laser beams to block the attack. Ren Xiaoyao skillfully dodged and weaved with his sword, avoiding most of the lasers. Finally, the sword struck the Thousand-Eyed Demon's head, cleaving a massive gash in its scale armor. Blood gushed forth like a fountain, staining half the sky crimson. This attack caused the demon's screams to shatter countless stars, and cracks began to appear in its Demonic Core.
This attack caused the Thousand-Eyed Demon to let out a deafening roar, its voice filled with rage and resentment. Ren Xiaoyao, having exhausted his power, swayed slightly and nearly fell from the sky. His Dao Foundation was violently shaking, and tiny cracks appeared in the Chaos Green Lotus within his dantian.
He struggled to stay upright, gasping for breath, each breath accompanied by excruciating pain, but the determination in his eyes never wavered. He channeled his remaining power, condensing a layer of Chaos Light Armor on his body, preparing to meet the demon's dying counterattack.
The Thousand-Eyed Demon let out a painful roar, utterly enraged. All its eyes lit up simultaneously, converging into a powerful beam of energy that shot towards Ren Xiaoyao. This beam contained the power to destroy the Heavenly Dao, and even the Law of Space were evaporated wherever it passed.
Wherever the beam of light passed, space distorted and deformed, as if torn apart by its immense power. The surrounding air was instantly sucked out, creating a vast vacuum. Nearby planets began to collapse under the beam's pressure, transforming into Black Hole emitted a ghostly glow.
Ren Xiaoyao felt a sharp pain in his eardrums, and his internal organs trembled violently under this pressure, as if they were about to rupture at any moment. His bones groaned under the unbearable pressure, and fine blood vessels appeared on the surface of his skin.
Knowing the power of this attack, he immediately poured all the power of the Chaos Dao Seed into the Chaos Greatsword. The Chaos Dao Seed ignited, transforming into a ball of Chaos Fire that illuminated the entire universe, turning his hair golden.
" Chaos Unification, Heaven and Earth Live Together!" he roared, unleashing a massive Sword Aura containing the Power of Chaos Origin. Within the Sword Aura emerged the phantom of Pangu's Sky-Opening, each Sword Qi containing the power of creation and destruction.
The Sword Aura and the beam of energy collided, unleashing a deafening roar. The powerful Energy Impact spread outwards, causing mountains to collapse, rivers to change course, and the entire Tianyan Continent to tremble violently in the collision. A new cosmic singularity was formed at the center of the collision, beginning to give birth to a new world.
The earth cracked open with enormous fissures, and magma erupted from the ground, forming Sea of Fire; lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky, and countless purple lightning bolts struck down, dyeing the clouds an eerie purple. This collision triggered a reconstruction of the Heaven and Earth Laws, and the trajectories of the sun, moon, and stars all shifted.
Under the impact of this terrifying force, distant cities were instantly razed to the ground, countless lives were lost in this catastrophe, and the entire world seemed to have fallen into an abyss of doom. Ancient sects were reduced to dust in the Energy Storm, and their treasured Classics and magical artifacts vanished in an instant; prosperous cities were submerged by lava, and the cries of the people were drowned out by the roar, leaving only ruins. Within the destroyed sect ruins, High Antiquity seals were triggered, releasing even more unknown Terrifying Existence.
In the violent Energy Storm, both Ren Xiaoyao and the Thousand-Eyed Demon were seriously injured. Ren Xiaoyao's Dao Foundation almost collapsed, the Chaos Green Lotus was on the verge of shattering, and the Thousand-Eyed Demon's Demonic Core also developed irreparable cracks.
Ren Xiaoyao's face was as pale as paper, blood kept spilling from the corner of his mouth, and his meridians felt as if they were being pierced by thousands of steel needles, causing him unbearable pain, but his eyes remained as firm as iron. His Daoist robe was tattered, revealing his body covered in cracks, and from each crack flowed a light that was a mixture of Primordial Chaos and Demonic Baleful Energy energy.
His clothes were tattered and his body was covered in wounds, with blood constantly seeping out, turning him into a blood-soaked figure.
Each Dao Wound glowed faintly, the marks left by the collision of Chaos Power and demonic energy. Tiny starlight constantly seeped from the wounds, as if his body was transforming into a vessel to contain the Heaven and Earth Laws. Most of the scales on the Thousand-Eyed Demon's body had fallen off, and many of its eyes were shattered, flowing with foul-smelling Black Blood. Its massive body swayed precariously in the void. Twisted afterimages surrounded its broken body, the scattered Demonic Soul making their final struggle.
However, the Thousand-Eyed Demon was still unwilling to accept defeat. It let out a shrill roar, preparing to launch its final attack. At this moment, its eyes flashed with a crazed light, as if it wanted to drag the entire world into an abyss of destruction. The space around its body began to twist into a vortex, constantly devouring everything around it, even light was sucked into it, forming black holes. From the depths of those holes came the wails of countless wronged souls, the Remnant Souls of Living Beings it had devoured over countless years.
Just then, the Chaos Dao Seed within Ren Xiaoyao's dantian suddenly resonated strongly with the Dragon Vein. The Tianyan Dragon Vein, dormant deep underground, abruptly awakened, its golden light surging like a reversed Star River, soaring into the sky from the depths of the earth. A mysterious and powerful force surged from the Dragon Vein, flowing into Ren Xiaoyao's body. This force carried the aura of ancient times; wherever it passed, broken meridians healed at a visible speed, and the shattered Chaos Green Lotus reformed.