Huo Ling'er stepped forward. Her expression was so composed that it surpassed every quasi-Immortal and Supreme Being present. At last, she opened the paper in her hands.
The moment the paper slowly unfolded, it slipped from her grasp and rose into the sky of its own accord.
As it slowly unfurled, everyone had the illusion that the seas had surged and the primeval wilderness had returned!
A towering sword intent suddenly stretched across ten million li of sky. Its invincible might made the entire firmament tremble!
"One!"
The first character appeared!
"BOOM—"
In an instant, countless clouds above the sky burst apart, turning into ruins that filled the heavens!
The True Immortal-level being seated upon the clouds flashed with shock. The immortal clouds beneath him also scattered and collapsed!
The terrifying, peerless sword intent pressed him down, sending him plummeting!
The moment these characters appeared, the sky could no longer hold any existence. Clouds within a thousand li shattered, and even True Immortals had to retreat!
He plunged rapidly, finally crashing onto the earth of the Cangli Mountain Range. He looked up at the sky, utterly stunned with terror!
"Sword!"
The second character appeared!
"BOOM BOOM BOOM—"
The sky exploded. Centered on the characters, sword intent burst forth and stretched across the heavens, piercing through ninety thousand li of space!
At that moment, it was as if an unparalleled sword had slashed across the entire Southern Domain's firmament. Clouds collapsed across ten thousand li, and countless living beings trembled despite themselves, looking up at the sky!
The sky was formless, yet everyone felt as though an ancient divine sword lay across the entire Southern Domain's firmament!
In an instant, the entire Southern Domain erupted in uproar, shaken to its core.
Countless sects were horrified.
In one corner of the Southern Domain, the Three Absolutes Holy Land, which had brought the Holy War Army there, abruptly halted. The Sect Master and the gathered Supreme Beings trembled as they felt the sword intent in the sky, staring in stunned disbelief!
And at that moment, above the Ascension Platform!
"Suppress!"
The third character appeared!
"THUD THUD THUD—"
Across ninety thousand li of sky, from top to bottom, the terrifying sword intent seemed to become a Milky Way descending from the ninth heaven, surging down without anything able to stop it!
"Thump!"
"Thump, thump!"
All the Supreme Beings and quasi-Immortals below who gazed up at the characters couldn't help but drop to their knees!
They sprawled on the ground, prostrate and trembling, like tiny ants that had suddenly felt the might of an Ancient Giant Dragon!
"This... how is this possible?!"
The True Immortal stood among countless graves in the Supreme Being Graveyard. His once-straight figure was now bent, as if he were bearing a weight of tens of millions of jin!
"I am a True Immortal. Who could make me kneel..." He gritted his teeth, but in the next instant, the sword intent crashed down. His knees shattered with a sharp crack, and he fell to his knees among the graves. True Immortal blood stained the soil beneath him!
"No..."
He struggled to lift his eyes, utterly despairing.
What kind of existence could wield such might?!
Even a True Immortal had no choice but to kneel!
Before this might, even a True Immortal had no chance to resist!
"Heaven!"
The fourth character appeared!
The sword intent soared into the heavens. As the character emerged, the Ascension Platform broke apart inch by inch, turning to dust and vanishing!
The peerless sword intent crashed into the boundary wall, and in an instant, the entire wall dissolved.
This single sword had cleaved through the boundary wall!
A corner of the Immortal Realm appeared before the world in a manner never seen before: a world shrouded in clouds and mist, filled with countless immortal palaces, vast expanses of land, and gods' kingdoms and halls as far as the eye could see...
But beneath this sword, the immortal palaces trembled, the gods' kingdoms shook, and the halls roared!
"No! What kind of existence wrote this decree?! No!"
Behind the boundary wall, the True Immortal Sect Master of a certain sect screamed in terror. They too could be seen kneeling and prostrate on the ground!
"South!"
The final character appeared. Boundless sword intent pointed straight toward the south of the Immortal Realm. Wherever it passed, space turned black and ceased to exist, like a burning trail left behind by a meteor...
Above the firmament,
only five characters stood proudly.
"One Sword Suppresses Southern Sky!"
Each of the five great characters radiated peerless sword intent, reaching up to the heavens and down to the netherworld, cleaving through the boundary wall and suppressing the Immortal Realm!
The surging Sword Qi swept away every trace of evil!
"Ah—"
The Evil God lay prostrate on the ground, but beneath the overwhelming, irresistible pressure of the Great Dao, his body disintegrated!
His soul was utterly destroyed!
The eight Devil Generals behind him burst apart as well.
Even the True Immortal kneeling in the Supreme Being Graveyard wore an expression of utter despair. He parted his lips, wanting to say something, but in the end, no words came. His entire body exploded into a mist of blood!
True Immortal blood drenched the Supreme Being Graveyard!
The remaining vengeful spirits throughout the Cangli Mountain Range were extinguished, and the dark aura vanished completely...
The world was filled with righteousness.
One sword suppressed the Southern Sky.
All beneath heaven bowed.
Immortals trembled.
At that moment,
in the boundless Immortal Realm,
at the Southern Frontier of the Immortal Realm!
This was a slaughterhouse, a battleground where Immortals and demons fought to the death. Immortals cried out in anguish, devils roared, and an evil aura corroded the immortal spiritual energy...
—Ever since a hundred years ago, when a generation's Devil Lord emerged from the forbidden grounds of the Sea of Dead Souls and returned to the Immortal Realm, his demonic army had spread across the entire Southern Frontier.
Over the past hundred years, Golden Immortals had fallen, while Profound Immortals and True Immortals had been trampled like ants...
At that moment, atop an ancient immortal city, the despairing defenders of the Immortal Realm gazed at the endless demonic shadows before them, already prepared to abandon the fight.
"Not a single Immortal Lord is willing to send aid to the Southern Frontier..."
The one responsible for defending the city was a Golden Immortal. The immortal sword in his hand was already chipped in many places, and only a few hundred people remained behind him.
Every one of them was stained with demonic blood.
Despair filled their faces.
"The people of the Immortal Realm's Southern Frontier are about to become food for devils, yet those lofty Immortal Lords and Immortal Kings turn a blind eye... all because, back then, a Sword Dao Immortal King of our Southern Domain defeated every last one of them..."
A smear of blood appeared at the Golden Immortal's lips, and tears welled in his eyes.
He raised his immortal sword and cried out in grief:
"Wuji Immortal King... your people are being slaughtered by devils!"
"Why have you still not returned?"
"Why have you still not returned?!"
His tears were cold!
Behind him, three hundred immortal soldiers roared in unison!
They were calling for the Immortal King of old...
The Immortal King who had once fought his way across the Immortal Realm...
The Immortal King who had once raised the Southern Frontier to the pinnacle of the entire Immortal Realm...
But there was no reply.
Only the devils' triumphant howls rang across heaven and earth!
The Golden Immortal fell silent. He gazed ahead and saw demonic shadows devouring infants, while skeletons astride dead-spirit warhorses used bone knives to slice open pregnant women's bellies...
"Kill!"
He raised his broken sword!
He would launch one final charge!
In the devils' ranks, a gigantic demonic hand was already pressing down, blotting out the sky!
The Golden Immortal could sense that it belonged to a Devil General at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level. He knew that he and the thirty million people of the Southern Frontier in the city behind him would all die beneath that single palm...
But he roared and charged forward to fight!
And then, in that very instant!
A vast sword intent, as if sweeping over from the other end of time and space, suddenly blanketed the Southern Frontier's sky!
That sword intent made the people of the Southern Frontier tremble and the Immortals stare in shock!
At that moment, everyone in the Southern Frontier stood dumbfounded, gazing at that terrifying sword intent.
The sword intent swept down and cut into the devils' ranks!
The scene was so horrifying that, for a moment, people's ears seemed to go deaf. In their eyes, the endless, terrifying ranks of devils turned as flimsy as paper, crumbling into dust. Wherever that sword intent passed, only a vacuum remained. The devils' bodies couldn't leave behind even a single drop of blood; they evaporated on the spot...
Even Devil Generals at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level turned to dust beneath that sword intent...
The countless lands seized by the devils were becoming a clear, open sky as that sword advanced...
Those in the Southern Domain of the Profound Heaven Realm knew nothing of all this.
Countless Supreme Beings knelt on the ground, while the Immortals of the Qinghua Sect in the Immortal Realm prostrated themselves, trembling.
They all felt as though a century had passed.
Only after a long, long time,
like an ancient divine sword emerging into the world, searching all beneath heaven and finding no rival, did it finally retreat into its scabbard in quiet sorrow.
The paper rolled itself back up.
It fell.
In an instant, the sword intent vanished from heaven and earth.
Only then did the boundary wall slowly recover and reappear.
But neither realm had a word to say, as though every existence between heaven and earth had lost its voice.
The whole world seemed so utterly silent...
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