Chu Tianhong's corpse crashed into the pool of blood.
The plaza before the Heavenly Sword Sect's main hall fell into deathly silence.
A dozen inner sect elders stared at the corpse, its chest torn wide open, their minds completely blank.
The sect master, at the Great Perfection of the Fetal Transformation Realm, hadn't even blocked a single move?
"Run!"
No one knew who let out the first shrill, strangled scream.
Fear erupted across the plaza like a plague.
The dozen elders and hundreds of True Disciples no longer had even a trace of a prestigious sect's arrogance.
They dropped their swords and scrambled away on hands and knees, fleeing madly in every direction.
"Do you think you can get away?"
Sun Yu stood where he was, his voice cold.
The muscles in his right leg instantly tightened. He slammed his foot down hard against the solid White Jade Plaza.
"Rumble!"
The ground within dozens of yards collapsed and shattered.
Sun Yu tore through the air, becoming a dark red streak of light as he slammed into the fleeing crowd.
He didn't need a weapon.
The Asura Undying Body itself was the most terrifying killing machine.
Sun Yu caught up to an inner sect elder, reached out with his left hand, and clamped it around the back of the man's head. His five fingers squeezed.
"Crack!"
The man's skull shattered, his brains bursting out.
Sun Yu didn't pause. His figure wheeled around like a broken line, instantly closing in on three other elders fleeing together.
His right leg swept out like a battle-axe.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The three men's spines were severed at the waist by that kick. Their upper bodies flew more than a dozen yards, while their lower halves took two more steps forward before toppling over.
Blood sprayed, and chunks of flesh flew.
Sun Yu darted through the crowd.
A punch, a palm strike, an elbow, a knee.
Every time he made contact, a body burst apart.
Screams, the cracking of bones, and desperate pleas for mercy mingled together.
Sun Yu's expression didn't change. He looked at them as if they were a herd of pigs and dogs waiting to be slaughtered.
Not a drop of blood stained his pale, cold-colored robe. The dark red Asura Gang Qi circulating around him had shaken it all off.
In less than half an incense stick's time,
hundreds of the Heavenly Sword Sect's elites had been slaughtered.
The plaza was covered with severed limbs. Blood flowed like a river, streaming down the White Jade steps.
Sun Yu casually flicked the blood off his fingertips and looked up.
He didn't pursue the errand disciples fleeing down the mountain.
His gaze fixed on a sheer cliff behind the Heavenly Sword Sect's Main Peak.
There, an immense and ancient yet decaying, terrifying aura was awakening.
"Boom!!!"
The cliff behind the mountain exploded.
Countless boulders tumbled down.
A bronze coffin several yards long shot up from the rubble and slammed heavily into the shattered roof of the main hall.
"Bang!"
A tremendous force blasted the bronze coffin lid away from within.
A gaunt, skeletal old man slowly rose from the coffin.
His eyes were sunken, and he radiated a dense Death Qi. Yet the true essence surging within him was more than ten times stronger than Chu Tianhong's, who had been at the Great Perfection of the Fetal Transformation Realm!
His true essence gathered into a sea, endless and unceasing.
The Divine Sea Realm!
He was Chu Jue, the Heavenly Sword Sect's founding Ancestor, who had been in closed-door seclusion for three hundred years.
Chu Jue opened his cloudy eyes and swept his gaze over the mountain of corpses below, before finally settling on Chu Tianhong's mangled remains.
The muscles in his face convulsed violently.
"Who did this...?"
Chu Jue's voice was as hoarse as two rusted metal plates scraping together, thick with a venomous hatred that sent a chill down the spine.
Sun Yu stood in the pool of blood, looking up at the monster on the roof.
"I did." Sun Yu's tone was flat.
Chu Jue's gaze instantly nailed Sun Yu in place.
"The Fetal Transformation Realm?"
Chu Jue's cracked lips parted, revealing a row of ghastly white teeth.
"A mere ant at the Fetal Transformation Realm dares to destroy my Heavenly Sword lineage!"
He asked no further questions.
A destroyed sect could only be avenged with blood.
Chu Jue's withered right hand shot out and crushed the bronze coffin wall beside him.
From the bottom of the coffin, he drew a pitch-black Broken Sword with no guard and a blade covered in cracks.
This was a genuine Magic Treasure Fragment.
Chu Jue bit through the tip of his tongue and spat a large mouthful of foul black blood onto the Broken Sword.
His lifespan had already run dry. Now he burned every last scrap of his life, just to unleash one final sword strike at his peak.
"Little beast, die!"
Chu Jue leaped from the roof and plunged downward.
The pitch-black Broken Sword in his hand unleashed a black sword ray that tore through space.
This was no longer true essence, but tangible, destructive Mana!
The sword ray stretched dozens of yards, like a black river in the sky. Its terrifying pressure could cleave through anything, and it locked directly onto Sun Yu's brow.
Before the sword's pressure even reached him, the White Jade Plaza beneath Sun Yu's feet had already cracked apart inch by inch.
Sun Yu stood his ground.
He didn't retreat.
Instead, an unprecedented, frenzied battle lust flared in his eyes.
"Divine Sea Realm? Just what I need to test my edge!"
The pale-gold lake of true essence within Sun Yu surged into a boil.
"Buzzz!"
Dark red Asura Gang Qi erupted wildly from all 108,000 pores in his body.
Beneath his pale, cold-colored skin, blood-red demonic markings blazed with light.
His Sword Marrow at Major Accomplishment let out a deafening sword cry!
Sun Yu bent his knees slightly, and true essence burst from the Bubbling Spring Acupoints beneath his feet.
"Boom!"
The ground exploded, leaving a gigantic abyss.
Sun Yu shot upward like a dark red meteor defying the current, charging head-on into the black river of sword energy tearing through space!
"Courting death!" A cruel glint flashed in Chu Jue's eyes. Even someone at the Divine Sea Realm wouldn't dare take the sword ray unleashed by a Magic Treasure Fragment head-on. Yet this brat had dared to ram it with his bare body.
In the next instant,
man and sword collided in midair with a thunderous crash.
"Sssshhh!"
The black sword ray cut savagely into Sun Yu.
An ear-splitting grinding sound rang across the heavens.
Layer after layer of dark red Gang Qi was sliced apart, and the sword ray struck his pale, cold-colored skin directly.
Sparks flew wildly.
The Magic Treasure Sword Qi, powerful enough to shatter mountains, struck the Asura Undying Body—yet it left only faint white marks!
It couldn't break through his defenses at all!
Chu Jue's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, his face full of horror.
"Impossible! What kind of body is that?!"
Sun Yu plowed through the sky full of sword energy, smashing straight through a black river of sword light dozens of yards long.
He appeared in front of Chu Jue in an instant.
Less than a foot away.
Sun Yu bared his teeth in a chilling smile.
"Old man, your sword's too dull."
Sun Yu's left hand shot out like lightning.
His fingers clamped around the pitch-black Broken Sword's blade like iron pincers.
"Crack, crack, crack."
His palm scraped against the blade, sparks flying everywhere.
The muscles in Sun Yu's right arm suddenly swelled.
Extreme Cold and Extreme Yang Internal Breath flooded into his right fist at once.
He drew strength from his waist and abdomen.
He unleashed an all-out, Extreme Yang power punch, driving it straight into Chu Jue's terrified face.
"No!"
Chu Jue screamed in anguish, desperately urging the Divine Sea Realm Mana around him to shield his body.
"BAM!!!"
The muffled sound of flesh exploding rang out.
Sun Yu's right fist smashed through Chu Jue's Mana shield with irresistible force.
His fist landed squarely on Chu Jue's face.
The Divine Sea Realm Ancestor's head burst apart under that punch like fragile tofu, exploding into a cloud of blood mist!
Before the bone fragments and brains could fly outward, the Extreme Yang Gang Qi instantly burned them to ash.
The headless corpse's hands went limp, and it dropped straight from the sky.
Sun Yu still held the pitch-black Broken Sword.
His five fingers suddenly tightened.
"Crack!"
He crushed the Magic Treasure Fragment in his bare hand.
Sun Yu casually tossed the scrap of metal away.
He drifted down to the ground.
The entire Heavenly Sword Sect had been slaughtered.
At the foot of the mountain,
several spies hidden in the shadows, sent to gather information for the other major forces in the Prefecture City, had witnessed everything through their telescopes.
Cold sweat soaked them through. Their legs went weak, and they collapsed to the ground.
"One punch... He killed the Heavenly Sword Ancestor with one punch..."
"The Heavenly Sword Sect... has been wiped out..."
The spies scrambled and crawled toward the Prefecture City. This news was enough to send a massive shockwave through the entire Great Wind Snow State.
Sun Yu paid no attention to the rats at the foot of the mountain.
He turned and strode toward the Heavenly Sword Sect's back mountain.
Chu Tianhong and Chu Jue were both dead. The sect's treasury was naturally ownerless now.
An incense stick's time later,
Sun Yu stood before a huge stone gate sealed shut by ten thousand tons of Dragon Breaking Stone.
He didn't search for a mechanism.
He raised his right foot.
Giant Spirit Trample!
"Rumble!"
The ten-thousand-ton Dragon Breaking Stone gate shattered into pieces under his kick.
The fragments came crashing down.
Sun Yu stepped into the treasury.
The first thing he saw was a dazzling display of treasures.
Crates of low-grade Spirit Stones, rows of rare herbs sealed in jade boxes, and dozens of sharp Treasure Weapons hanging on the walls.
Sun Yu walked past all this junk in the outer section without expression.
His gaze fixed directly on a solitary jade platform at the very back of the treasury.
A fragment of bone, black in color and radiating an ancient, desolate aura, rested on the jade platform.
Sun Yu walked up and picked up the bone fragment.
The moment the bone fragment touched his hand, it was icy cold.
A stream of obscure, difficult-to-understand information surged into his mind.
Eight Desolations Prison Suppressing Technique.
It was an incomplete body-tempering technique, so incomplete that its grade could not even be determined.
The information contained only a few brief lines outlining its essentials: Suppress the Eight Desolations with the body; shatter the prison of tribulation with power; cultivate it to the utmost and the body becomes a world.
A fierce light flashed in Sun Yu's eyes.
This technique definitely surpassed the Fetal Transformation Realm—and perhaps even the Divine Sea Realm!
Silver light rippled across his retina like waves.
A panel appeared.
[Technique: Eight Desolations Prison Suppressing Technique (Incomplete/Not Yet Initiated)]
"Good stuff."
Sun Yu tucked the bone fragment close to his body.
He pulled over a dozen high-grade Storage Bags with the largest capacities from the treasury.
He frantically swept piles of Top-grade Spirit Stones, high-grade blood-essence medicines, and every resource worth taking into the Storage Bags.
He didn't stop until he had stripped the entire treasury clean.
Sun Yu hung the dozen or so Storage Bags from his waist.
He turned and walked out of the treasury.
He looked at the ruins strewn across the ground outside and the corpses piled as high as mountains.
True essence surged in Sun Yu's dantian.
He tapped the ground with his toes, and his figure shot upward, hovering above the highest point of the Heavenly Sword Sect.
He raised his right arm.
A hundred-zhang streak of dark-red Asura Gang Qi, like a blood moon hanging upside down, slashed fiercely toward the center of the Main Peak.
"Rumble!!!"
The entire Main Peak of the Heavenly Sword Sect was cleaved in two.
The mountain collapsed, and dust blotted out the sky.
The Heavenly Sword Sect was erased from the map of the Great Wind Snow State forever.
Sun Yu didn't spare it another glance.
He turned, his gaze fixed on the vast world beyond the Great Wind Snow State.
"The Divine Sea Realm is nothing special."
Sun Yu gave a cold laugh.
His figure became a streak of light, tore through the clouds, and strode away.
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