Dark Moon Ghost City

Chen Changqing shook the dust off his white robe, took a step, and headed straight for the imposing ancient city.

Above the pitch-black Shattered Void Bone Plains, azure Sword Qi stretched across the sky.

Chen Changqing made no attempt to conceal his aura.

The Pure Yang Sword Intent spread out from a radius of three zhang around him, forcefully cutting a straight path through the surrounding black clouds.

The countless undead creatures on the ground raised their heads.

Sensing the life force of the living, they uttered strange shrieks from their throats and scrambled out of the bones and mud.

Thousands upon thousands of Corpse Wolves, Bone Bats, and Resentful Spirits converged into a black tidal wave, rushing towards the azure streak of light.

Chen Changqing pressed down with his right palm in mid-air.

"Roll."

A golden aura of humanity poured down from his palm.

The immense power of the Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal transformed into an invisible pressure in mid-air, causing the ground within a radius of a hundred miles to suddenly sink several feet.

The horde of undead that rushed into the air was crushed into powder mid-air.

Countless bone fragments and black blood were spilled on the earth.

The AFK Points on the system panel kept fluctuating at a sporadic frequency, but Chen Changqing didn't even glance at them.

His speed was not hindered in the slightest, and he instantly traversed a hundred miles of empty space.

At the edge of the land ahead, a massive black city was clearly visible.

The city wall is over a thousand feet high and is entirely constructed from the Ink-Mystic Black Iron Stone, a specialty of the Nine Netherworlds.

The city wall was engraved with layers of defensive magic patterns, and tens of thousands of jet-black ghost flags fluttered in the wind atop the city.

Above the city gate hangs a huge stone plaque with a skull on it, bearing three large scarlet characters: Dark Moon City.

Thousands of heavily armored Yin Soldiers guarded both sides of the city gate.

Three city-guarding commanders stood in the center of the city tower, all of them at the peak of the Late Tribulation Transcendence realm.

They sensed the overwhelming Pure Yang energy from afar, and their expressions changed drastically.

"Sign of a living person?!"

"Where did this Cultivator from the Yang Realm come from, daring to force his way into Dark Moon City?!"

"Activate the City-Protecting Formation immediately!"

The city's commander drew his white bone scimitar from his waist and let out a long, sharp cry.

The entire city wall of Dark Moon City instantly emitted a dazzling purplish-black light.

A Taiyin protective barrier of Sha Qi, several meters high, rose from the edge of the city wall, sealing the entire city gate shut.

Hundreds of massive Soul-Breaking Heavy Crossbows were pushed out from behind the battlements.

The crossbow bolts were over ten feet long, their arrowheads gleaming with a chilling, soul-destroying poison, and they were all aimed at Chen Changqing, who was flying towards them.

"Release the arrows!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

A sharp, piercing sound tore through the clouds.

Hundreds of Soul-Breaking Heavy Crossbows, imbued with the deadly poison of Taiyin, tore through space and rained down on Chen Changqing's face.

These heavy crossbows are extremely powerful; each arrow is enough to severely injure an ordinary Cultivator Tribulation Transcendence.

Chen Changqing stopped a thousand feet in front of the city gate.

He gripped the Immortal Execution Sword at his waist with one hand.

The Twelve Primordial Spirits around him trembled slightly.

The immense Chaos Magic Power flowed into the sword's body through its meridians.

"Break."

The Immortal Execution Sword was drawn from its sheath with a fierce roar.

A gray- Sword Gale, three thousand feet long, tore through the eternal night Firmament.

The first move of the Immortal Execution Sword Technique – Spirit Slaying!

Wherever the Sword Gale passed, the hundreds of Soul-Breaking Heavy Crossbows that were flying towards them could not withstand it for even a moment, and were directly shredded into wood chips and iron scraps by the sharp Sword Qi.

The Sword Gale energy continued its momentum, striking the Dark Moon City's Taiyin protective shield head-on.

Boom!

The entire thousand-foot-high city wall trembled violently.

The incredibly hard Taiyin shield caved in the instant it touched the sword tip, followed by spiderweb-like cracks appearing on its surface.

Click!

The great formation shattered with a deafening roar.

The remaining Sword Qi struck the city gate, which was forged from Ten-Thousand-Year Black Iron.

Boom!

The city gate, weighing hundreds of thousands of kilograms, was cleaved in two by a single sword strike. Huge chunks of iron flew backward, smashing dozens of Yin Soldiers inside the gate into a bloody pulp.

The three city commanders on the city tower were thrown away by the shockwave and crashed heavily against the stone wall, spitting out black blood.

They watched in utter horror as the white-robed youth slowly landed.

One sword.

With a single sword strike, he shattered the City-Protecting Formation and the Black Iron city gate that Dark Moon City had set up for thousands of years.

"Enemy attack! Send a distress signal immediately!"

A commander struggled to his feet from the ruins, pulled out a blood-red Jade Talisman, and crushed it.

A crimson beam of light shot into the sky, exploding into a giant blood-red skull above Dark Moon City.

Chen Changqing, carrying the Immortal Execution Sword, stepped into the city through the broken pieces of the city gate.

"Get out of my way if you don't want to die."

Chen Changqing's calm voice echoed down the long street.

On both sides of the long street, the Ghost Cultivators who were originally trading various Yin Soul Herbs were terrified and scattered in all directions.

The entire ghost town was in complete chaos.

However, the city's patrol guards reacted extremely quickly.

At the end of the street, thousands of heavily armored Yin Soldiers, each wielding a long spear, formed a tight square formation and charged forward in perfect unison.

Five Yin Generals at the Early True Lord Stage level stood on black clouds, hovering above the military formation.

"You audacious scoundrel, how dare you trespass into Dark Moon City!"

"Form the Nine Nether Immortal-Execution Formation and tear him to pieces!"

The five Yin Generals simultaneously waved their command flags.

The death energy within thousands of Yin Soldiers converged into a black ocean, coalescing into a Nine Netherworlds Battle Soul hundreds of feet tall, wielding a giant axe and cleaving down towards Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing didn't even stop moving forward.

He raised his left hand and flipped it upwards.

"Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist, Heavenly Collapses."

A golden fist imprint shot into the sky from the palm, directly colliding with the falling black giant axe.

Boom!

The giant axe shattered on the spot.

The golden fist imprint shot upwards against the sky, shattering the hundreds-of-foot-tall Nine Netherworlds Battle Soul into dust.

The violent recoil force spread along the military formation.

Thousands of heavily armored ghost Yin Soldiers in front of the street collapsed to the ground, coughing up blood, their armor shattering into pieces.

The five Early True Lord Stage Yin Generals suspended in mid-air were the first to be hit, their bodies exploding into wisps of black mist in the aftershocks of the fist wind.

The five remaining Primordial Spirits tried to flee in terror.

Chen Changqing casually swung the Immortal Execution Sword in his right hand.

Five fine sword threads slashed through the void.

Pfft!

The five Primordial Spirits were instantly annihilated, transforming into pure Yin Baleful Intent energy that dissipated between heaven and earth.

The system notification sounded in my mind again: my AFK Points had increased by three million.

Chen Changqing sheathed his sword, used the Drunken Immortal Moon-Gazing Step, and transformed into a blur as he traversed the long street, speeding towards the teleportation array in the city center.

All the Ghost Cultivators who rushed up along the way couldn't even touch the hem of his clothes before being blasted into dust by the protective Sword Qi.

The entire street was covered in blood and black ash.

Chen Changqing, alone with his sword, swept through Dark Moon City.

No one could stop him in the slightest.

The towering palace complex of the City Lord Mansion was now clearly visible on the horizon.

In the very center of Dark Moon City, a magnificent palace constructed of black mystic crystal floats in the air.

This place is the City Lord Mansion, and also the Daoist temple where the Dark Moon Ghost Lord usually secludes himself for cultivation.

In a dark, secret room deep within the palace, the floor was inscribed with a dense array of Taiyin Spirit Gathering Array.

The extreme yin energy transformed into a visible black mist, continuously surging into the central platform.

A woman dressed in a flowing purple fairy dress sat on the high platform.

The woman had a delicate and aloof face, and her skin shone with a cool, jade-like luster. Her long, black hair was casually tied up with a white bone hairpin.