Five Hundred Years Later, Enemies Meet, Law-Breaking Edge Slashes Witch Barbarians!

Dao Xuan's eyes flashed with electric golden light, piercing the void. His aura was full and harmonious, vast as an abyss!

The three flowers atop his head were solidified like jade and gold, his five vital energies circulating ceaselessly. A powerful pressure, far exceeding that of a Mid True Immortal, erupted, instantly filling the entire Enlightenment Secret Realm. The spiritual pond rippled, and the plants bowed low!

Late True Immortal! It happened naturally!

"Hoo..." Dao Xuan exhaled a long breath of stale air, his aura slowly receding. His eyes shone with divine light, deep as the starry sky.

He looked up towards the entrance of the secret realm, a relaxed smile tugging at the corner of his lips.

"Five hundred years... Even if that brute has been squatting, his legs should be numb by now, right? The grass on his grave must be ten feet high!"

His mind made up, he hesitated no longer.

Dao Xuan stood up and walked to the Enlightenment Ancient Tree, about ten feet tall, its branches and leaves verdant, flowing with the essence of the Dao and auspicious light.

This was a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root, a Creation rare in the Great Desolation!

He communicated with the depths of his sea of consciousness.

Buzz!

A dim, unremarkable illusory bead emerged from between his brows, spinning rapidly and emitting an ancient, vast chaotic aura. It was the Chaos Bead Fragment!

"Collect!"

Dao Xuan grunted, and the illusory Chaos Bead shone brightly. A gentle yet supremely powerful chaotic light swept out, instantly enveloping the entire Enlightenment Tea Tree!

The light flowed, and the essence of the Dao resonated.

The ancient tree, about ten feet tall, along with a patch of spiritual soil by the spiritual pond where it was rooted, rapidly shrank within the light. It transformed into a verdant stream of light and entered the illusory Chaos Bead, disappearing without a trace!

Only a shallow pit remained in its place, along with the faint aroma of tea lingering in the air.

Inside the Chaos Bead, in that dim space, the Enlightenment Tea Tree was peacefully rooted, its branches and leaves spread out, its essence of the Dao and auspicious light flowing ceaselessly, even more vibrant than in the outside world!

"Once I'm done with my business in Kunlun and find a Dojo, I'll let you see the light of day again!" Dao Xuan nodded with satisfaction.

Having done all this, he lingered no longer.

His figure flickered, and he arrived at the entrance of the secret realm.

The mottled stone wall remained, but spatial ripples now flickered upon its surface.

Dao Xuan formed his fingers into a sword, channeling his immense Late True Immortal magical power into his fingertips. He gently tapped a certain node on the stone wall!

Pop!

It sounded like popping a bubble.

Clear spatial ripples spread across the surface of the stone wall, revealing an opening just large enough for one person to pass through.

Dao Xuan stepped out.

The outside world was still the same vast, ancient valley.

The mountain wind blew, carrying the fresh scent of grass and trees.

Dao Xuan's divine sense spread out like a tide, instantly covering a hundred-mile radius.

The mountains were silent, the ancient trees dense.

Aside from a few startled spiritual deer, where were the figures of the Witch Clan?

"As expected," Dao Xuan chuckled and shook his head. "The Great Desolation is perilous. Who has the patience to wait for five hundred years? Time is the best invisibility charm."

He wasted no more time, orienting himself towards the northwest.

The faint golden escape light around him reappeared, more condensed and swift than five hundred years ago, its pressure contained within!

Whoosh!

The escape light shot into the sky, piercing the clouds, heading towards Kunlun Mountain at lightning speed!

Dao Xuan flew on his escape light, piercing clouds and breaking through mist, his speed incredibly fast.

With his Late True Immortal cultivation and the Heavenly Water Evasion Art, wasn't he more than twice as fast as before?

Below, the Great Desolation stretched out, its mountains and rivers magnificent, teeming with life.

Traces of the conflict between the Witch and Demon clans were still visible everywhere. However, with Dao Xuan's greatly improved cultivation and sharp divine sense, he avoided areas with dense malevolent energy from afar, making his journey smooth.

After flying for about three thousand miles like this.

Ahead, a vast mountain range appeared, with rolling peaks and ancient trees reaching for the sky. The mountains were majestic, and the spiritual energy was quite concentrated.

Just as Dao Xuan was about to accelerate through.

Suddenly!

"Roar--!"

"Awooo--!"

"Kill! Don't let that beast escape!"

A deafening roar, beastly howls, and bloodthirsty shouts erupted from the depths of the mountain forest ahead!

Violent energy fluctuations spread like ripples, startling countless birds!

Dao Xuan frowned slightly, his divine sense sweeping out instantly.

Below, in a relatively open mountain hollow, a bloody hunt was unfolding!

Three Witch Clan warriors, each over ten feet tall with muscles coiled like dragons, exuded a fierce aura as they formed a triangle around two massive, golden tigers with eyes like molten gold and fangs like daggers!

The tigers:

Their fur, like cast gold, shimmered in the sunlight!

Their eyes, molten gold, shot out fierce glares, and hot air billowed from their nostrils!

Their claws, as they swung, brought forth streaks of golden light that tore through the air!

These were clearly ferocious Golden-eyed Tiger Demons! Each was at the Mid True Immortal stage. Though heavily wounded, their ferocity remained undiminished as they roared and charged left and right!

The hunting Witch Clan:

The one on the left:

His face was like verdigris, fangs exposed, and his red hair hung loose!

He wore simple animal skins and wielded a pitch-black great axe the size of a door, its blade gleaming coldly, exuding a menacing aura!

His cultivation was Mid True Immortal!

The one on the right:

His face was like the bottom of a pot, his beard like steel needles standing on end!

Also clad in animal skins, he held a massive bone club, polished from the leg bone of some unknown fierce beast. Blood-red malevolent energy coiled around the club head, and a fierce wind howled with each swing!

His cultivation was also Mid True Immortal!

And the leader in the center:

His face was like a ripe date, his red hair like fire, each strand standing on end like steel needles!

A ferocious beast bone headband adorned his forehead, with hidden Witch Clan patterns!

His bronze-colored upper body was bare, muscles like cast iron, covered in mysterious and ancient dark red Witch Clan patterns that seemed to writhe like living things with the surge of his blood essence!

He wore a skirt made of unknown beast hide around his lower body, his bare feet stomping the ground like drums, causing the earth to crack!

In his hand, he held a mountain-splitting great axe, larger and thicker than the one held by the Witch Clan warrior on the left! The axe blade gleamed piercingly, entwined with dense blood-red malevolent energy, with faint sounds of wailing spirits!

His cultivation had reached the Peak Late True Immortal stage, just one step away from Mystic Immortal!

This was the Witch Clan leader who, five hundred years ago, had roared madly outside the secret realm, vowing to tear Dao Xuan to shreds!

"Hahaha! You feathered beast! How much longer can you hold out! Hand over your flesh and demon core obediently!"

The Witch Clan leader roared with laughter, swinging his great axe in a wide arc, bringing down terrifying power that could split mountains and cleave the earth, smashing it towards the head of one of the Golden-eyed Tiger Demons!

Blood-red axe energy tore through the air!

The tiger demon roared, its golden light meeting the attack, but it was scattered by the axe. A new, bone-deep scar appeared on its body, dripping with blood!

Dao Xuan's divine sense swept over, instantly locking onto the Witch Clan leader in the center, whose aura was wild and violent!

When enemies meet, their eyes burn with hatred!

Almost at the same moment Dao Xuan's divine sense landed, the Witch Clan leader seemed to sense something!

He suddenly looked up, his giant eyes like copper bells piercing through the foliage of the trees. He fixed his gaze on the figure in the sky, standing amidst the light-gold escape light, clad in an apricot-yellow eight trigrams robe!

Five hundred years of hatred, five hundred years of searching, erupted at this moment!

"Hey, you thief! It's you!!!"

The Witch Clan leader's roar was like divine thunder from the nine heavens, shaking the entire mountain hollow!

His eyes instantly turned blood-red, and boundless malevolent energy surged into the sky like a tangible entity, dyeing the surrounding vegetation a bloody hue!

"Five hundred years! Ancestor has searched for you for five hundred years! Traversed countless mountains and rivers! Today, the heavens have eyes, and you've run right into Ancestor's hands!

I will grind your bones to dust, extract your soul and refine your spirit, to honor the spirits of my fallen brothers! Ah--!!"

The violent killing intent swept out like a tsunami, frightening even the two heavily wounded Golden-eyed Tiger Demons into trembling, causing them to temporarily cease their attacks.

Dao Xuan stood on the clouds, his apricot-yellow eight trigrams robe fluttering in the mountain wind.

He looked at the Witch Clan leader below, who was like a madman, his face devoid of fear, instead showing a hint of cold mockery.

"Hmph! Five hundred years ago, you relied on your numbers and acted unreasonably, chasing this humble Daoist like a stray dog.

If the heavens had not taken pity on me and I had not accidentally entered this secret realm, I would have already fallen victim to your wicked hands."

Dao Xuan's voice was clear but carried a bone-chilling coldness, clearly reaching the ears of every being below.

"Today, this humble Daoist's cultivation has advanced, and I was just looking for someone to test my skills on!

To repay the chase from back then, and to assuage the suffering of my five hundred years of 'seclusion'!

You barbarians, do you dare to fight?!"

"Arrogant little thief! Die!"

The Witch Clan leader's mind was already clouded by hatred, how could he possibly listen to half a word?

With a furious roar, he no longer paid attention to the two Golden-eyed Tiger Demons. He stomped his legs hard on the ground!

BOOM!

The ground exploded, creating a large pit!

He shot up like a cannonball, enveloped in surging malevolent energy and bloody axe aura, soaring into the sky!

His target was Dao Xuan high above!

The violent aura seemed powerful enough to cleave the very heavens!

"Big Brother! We're here to help you!"

The two burly Witch Clan members, one wielding a giant axe on the left and the other a bone club on the right, saw their leader charge out. They roared, abandoning the Golden-eyed Tiger Demons and leaping into the air behind him, forming a pincer attack from left and right. Their giant axe and bone club, carrying a fierce wind, smashed down towards Dao Xuan!

A three-sided encirclement, malevolent energy surging to the heavens!

A cold glint flashed in Dao Xuan's eyes!

"Excellent!"

Instead of retreating, he took a step forward!

The Mysterious Gold Law-Breaking Halberd in his hand erupted with golden light!

Twenty-seven Innate Restrictions were instantly unleashed!

A terrifying, sharp Daoist charm that could destroy all laws and sever everything exploded forth!

Facing the dark giant axe smashing down from the left and the colossal bone club whistling from the right, Dao Xuan's figure flickered like a phantom!

Swish! Swish!

Two incredibly condensed, void-tearing dark gold threads, launched after the attacks, arrived first!

One precisely struck the node where power was flowing in the left Witch Clan's giant axe!

The other pierced the weakest point of the malevolent energy in the right Witch Clan's bone club!

Chii! Chii!

Like a searing hot iron plunged into butter!

The seemingly powerful and heavy dark giant axe and the bone club entwined with blood fiends were easily pierced through their cores by the dark gold threads!

The law-breaking power erupted!

Bang! Crack!

The surface of the dark giant axe was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks, its spiritual light extinguished. It let out a mournful cry and flew out of its wielder's grasp!

The giant bone club snapped in the middle, its malevolent energy dissipating!

"What?!"

The two Witch Clan members were utterly horrified, their eyes filled with disbelief!

However, before they could react!

Dao Xuan flicked his wrist, and the Law-Breaking Halberd drew two arcs like a magpie perching on a branch!

Chira! Chira!

A cold light flashed and vanished!

Two massive heads, bearing expressions of terror, flew into the sky! Blood spurted like a fountain from their severed necks!

Their headless, colossal bodies, like two chunks of rotten wood, plummeted from mid-air!

Instant kill!

Two powerful Mid True Immortal Witch Clan members, under Dao Xuan's Late True Immortal cultivation and the sharpness of the Mysterious Gold Law-Breaking Halberd, couldn't even last a single move!

"Old Six! Old Seven!!"

The Witch Clan Leader watched with his own eyes as his two brothers were instantly killed, their heads flying off. His eyes bulged, and he let out a heart-wrenching roar!

In his crimson eyes, in addition to surging hatred, there was a trace of terror!

He had never expected that in just five hundred years, this Daoist's strength would have increased so dramatically! And that short halberd was terrifying beyond compare!

"Little thief! I'll make you pay with your life!!"

Terror was instantly replaced by deeper madness! The Witch Clan Leader completely lost control!

Witchcraft patterns on his body erupted with blood-red light, as if he were burning!

The mountain-splitting giant axe in his hand unleashed unprecedented bloody malevolent energy, and a ferocious beast phantom faintly appeared on its blade!

"Blood Fiend Sky-Splitting Slash! Die--!!"

The muscles in his arms bulged, and the giant axe, with an earth-shattering momentum, carrying world-destroying, rampant power, tore through the sky and cleaved down towards Dao Xuan's head!

The bloody axe aura expanded to a hundred zhang, and where it passed, space itself seemed to distort!

This was a killing blow that condensed his lifelong cultivation and endless hatred!

Dao Xuan felt a terrifying pressure locking onto him, as if he were in a sea of corpses and blood, his mind completely captivated!

But his eyes were clear, devoid of fear!

"Law-breaking! Break it for me!"

Dao Xuan roared in his heart, pouring his potent Late True Immortal magical power into the Mysterious Gold Law-Breaking Halberd without reservation!

The twenty-seven Innate Restrictions glowed to their limit, the sharp, destructive Dao rhyme condensing into a single point at the tip of the halberd. It was contained to the extreme, yet it exuded a terrifying aura that could pierce through eternity and shatter forever!

He did not choose to directly confront the full force of the hundred-zhang blood-colored axe aura.

Just as the world-destroying giant axe was about to descend upon him!

Dao Xuan's figure seemed to meld with the wind, and with a hair's breadth difference, he narrowly dodged the most powerful central axis of the axe aura!

At the same time!

The Mysterious Gold Law-Breaking Halberd in his hand transformed into a line so swift it was almost imperceptible, formless yet infinitely sharp!

Late!

But First!

A direct thrust!

The target was not the giant axe, nor his chest!

It was the dark red witch mark node on the Witch Clan Leader's brow, which pulsed intensely like a living core with the surge of blood essence!

This thrust!

It contained the enlightenment of Dao Xuan's Primordial Spirit, nurtured by five hundred years of Enlightenment Tea!

It contained the full magical power of a Late True Immortal!

It contained the supreme sharpness of the Mysterious Gold Law-Breaking Halberd, capable of shattering all laws!

And it contained the pent-up frustration of being hunted five hundred years ago, and the resolve for revenge today!

Fast!

Indescribably fast!

Beyond thought!

Chii!

A faint sound, almost negligible, like a fine needle piercing thin paper, rang out.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

The hundred-zhang blood-colored axe aura, which could destroy worlds, suddenly froze less than three feet above Dao Xuan's head!

The violent malevolent energy dissipated instantly, like a pricked balloon!

The Witch Clan Leader's charging momentum came to an abrupt halt.

The frenzied, ferocious expression on his face froze.

His bell-like, giant crimson eyes were filled with endless shock, confusion, and a trace of... unbelievable fear.

A faint red mark quietly appeared on the dark red core witch mark at his brow.

The next instant.

Boom!

The hundred-zhang blood-colored axe aura completely disintegrated, scattering into countless blood-colored light spots, vanishing into nothingness.

The Witch Clan Leader's massive body seemed to have all its life force drained, the light in his eyes quickly dimming and extinguishing.

The giant mountain-splitting axe in his hand fell powerlessly from his grasp.

Bang!

His heavy body crashed to the ground from mid-air like a mountain collapsing, kicking up a cloud of dust, utterly silent.

The mountain hollow fell into a dead silence.

Only the mournful cry of the mountain wind blowing through the treetops and the suppressed gasps of the two heavily injured Golden-eyed Tiger Demons could be heard.

Dao Xuan slowly retracted the Mysterious Gold Law-Breaking Halberd and hovered in mid-air, his apricot-yellow Daoist robe unstained.

He looked at the three Witch Clan corpses below, his eyes devoid of joy or sorrow.

The five-hundred-year grievance was settled today.

He raised his hand and beckoned.

Three ancient-looking storage artifacts made of bone, entwined with faint malevolent energy, flew up from the Witch Clan corpses and landed in his sleeve.

Then, he flicked his finger.

Three points of True Fire descended, instantly incinerating the three corpses and the bloodstains, leaving only a bit of ashes that scattered with the wind.

After doing all this, Dao Xuan did not even glance at the two trembling Golden-eyed Tiger Demons.

His gaze turned towards the northwest, in the direction of Kunlun Mountain.

"This delay means I'm coming to Kunlun Mountain!"

As his voice fell, a faint golden escape light reappeared, faster than before, soaring into the clouds and vanishing into the horizon in an instant.