The Sword World Swept Through the Sacrificial Path
The shallow area of the cave was covered with a thick layer of bone fragments.
The three beams of black-purple soul-destroying demonic light spewed out by the Nine Netherworlds Soul-Devouring Beasts at the peak of the Fourth Tribulation collided with the Pure Yang divine soul sound waves stirred up by the "Immortal-Burying Melody" and exploded into a sky full of black smoke before they could even last for two breaths!
"Puff--!"
The four Three Tribulations guardians standing behind the shallows simultaneously covered their ears, thick black-purple demonic blood gushing from their seven orifices. They staggered backward, their faces filled with horror as they looked at Chen Changqing.
This Yang Realm boy didn't even touch his zither, yet he instantly killed tens of thousands of Yin Soldiers and injured the Primordial Spirits of four Three-Tribulation Ghost Immortals just by releasing his Divine Sense and music!
This level of Divine Sense power is probably even more monstrous than that of Five Tribulations Ancestor!
Roar--!
The Nine Netherworlds Soul-Devouring Beast, reeling from the sonic shockwave, went completely berserk. Its mountain-sized body stood upright, and four thick, dark gold Life-and-Death Tribulation around it spun wildly.
Its three ferocious heads, covered in bone spurs, simultaneously opened their blood-red maws, sucking away the Yin Baleful Intent miasma that had accumulated in the cave for ten thousand years, and once again condensed into three Four Tribulations Natal Soul-Destroying Thunderballs, each ten feet in diameter and powerful enough to blast even the Top-grade Immortal Artifacts into scrap metal!
"We must not let him get near the sluice gate! Form the Demon Scale Heaven-Locking Formation and wear him down together with the Soul Beast!"
The leading demonic protector, who had undergone Three Tribulations, fiercely wiped the black blood from his face and ripped open his robe.
The other three guardians did the same. The black-purple demonic cores embedded in their chests burst forth with dazzling evil light, and the demonic scales on their bodies shattered inch by inch. The burning Three Tribulations Origin transformed into four black-purple chains, each a hundred feet long. Together with the three Soul-Destroying Thunderballs blasted out by the Soul Beast, they sealed off the place where Chen Changqing was standing from all directions!
At this moment, Zhong Cheng, who had been thrown onto the side gate, was desperately activating the Ghost-Slaying Divine Seal between his eyebrows and pressing it heavily onto the ancient mechanism wheel that controlled the White Bone Water Gate.
Clang--!
A piercing metallic clang rang out, but Zhong Cheng not only failed to turn the wheel even slightly, but was also jolted by a clump of dark purple blood that popped out from inside the wheel, causing his hand to split open and his whole body to fly back three zhang away, crashing into the rock wall and coughing up a mouthful of blood.
"Brother Chen! The core mechanism of this sluice gate has been completely welded shut by the Netherworld Palace Upper Realm!"
Zhong Cheng stared at the writhing black-purple demonic tendons on the roulette wheel and shouted anxiously.
"It will take at least half an hour to slowly erode the demonic blood using the divine seal before the sluice gate can be opened!"
Half an hour?
The Demon Lord's heartbeat, coming from the depths of the Blood Pool behind them, was already as rapid as a drumbeat. If they dragged it out for another half an hour, Xiaoqian wouldn't even have any bones left!
"No time to waste time, kill them all and smash the door down."
Facing the three Tribulation Soul-Destroying Lightning Orbs and four Demonic Scale Chains crashing down upon him, Chen Changqing took a step forward, instantly activating the Invincible Avatar Technique!
Whoosh--!
Five Late Heavenly Monarch Stage, Avatar white robes, tore through the void and stepped out!
The two Avatars on the left swung the Top-grade Immortal Artifact Haotian Hammer with both hands, while the three Avatars on the right held the Top-grade Immortal Artifact Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear in one hand. Without even assuming a defensive stance, they directly charged headlong into the four Three Tribulations -Transformed Guardians who had burned their source energy!
"Thirty-Six Chaotic Cloak Hammers," Star Shatterer!
"The Immortal-Extinguishing Three Spears" —Heavenly-Immortal Execution!
Boom! Boom! Bang! Bang!
The four demonic scale chains, formed from the essence of the Three Tribulations, were smashed to pieces on the spot under the violent bombardment of the Haotian Hammer and the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear -Splitting Spear!
Five avatars, each possessing a seventh-tier Immortal Artifact Avatar, approached the four guardians. Two enormous hammers, carrying immense force, slammed down upon them, while three long spears swept across in the same direction!
"No--!"
Before the four demonic guardians, who had undergone Three Tribulations, could even finish their screams, their black and purple demonic scales, comparable to Low-grade Immortal Artifacts, along with their ribcages, were smashed into four pools of bloody, mangled flesh by the five Avatars in just three breaths!
On the front lines, Chen Changqing, stepping on the "Drunken Immortal Moon-Gazing Step," transformed into Dao Gold afterimage, passing directly through the gap between the three Four Tribulation Soul-Destroying Lightning Orbs and instantly closing in on the nose of the Nine Netherworlds Soul-Devouring Beast!
"You beast, die!"
Chen Changqing used his left hand to form the "Heaven-Stepping Emperor Finger," and his index finger, which shimmered with the luster of purple jade and carried the ancient imperial might of destroying all laws, pointed directly at the center of the Soul Beast's brow with a simple and unadorned strike!
Laugh--!
The purple-gold finger beam precisely struck the hardest reverse scale between the Soul Beast's eyebrows.
This ferocious beast, whose body was so tough that even an Upper Realm -Four-Tribulation Ghost Immortal couldn't break it, had its skull collapse and shatter on the spot before the primordial finger power of the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor!
With a muffled thud, the massive head of the Soul Beast in the middle was blasted into countless pieces of flesh by Chen Changqing's single finger!
"Awoo--!"
The Soul Beast emitted a piercing wail from both its heads simultaneously, its massive body twisting wildly in an attempt to retreat.
Chen Changqing drew the Immortal Execution Sword, Quasi-Houtian Spirit Treasure, from his waist with his right hand. The vast Sword Intent of the Twelve Primordial Spirits poured out, slashing down vertically from top to bottom!
The Fifth Form of the Immortal Execution Sword Technique: Immortal Execution!
Clang!
A hundred-foot-long, grayish-white Chaos Sword Ray flashed by, cutting directly into the shattered neck of the Soul Devouring Soul Beast and cleaving all the way down its mountain-like spine!
Puff--!
The foul-smelling, dark purple blood mixed with fragments of internal organs sprayed hundreds of feet high. This Nine Nether Senluo Deathland Devouring Beast, a peak-level Nine Netherworlds Soul-Devouring Beast that was once a formidable force in the Netherworld, was instantly cleaved in two symmetrical halves by Chen Changqing's sword. The halves crashed into the shallow pool of blood, splashing up a stinking wave of blood dozens of feet high!
[Ding! Four demonic guardians at the Three Tribulations and one peak fourth tribulation Nine Netherworlds Soul-Devouring Beast have been defeated. AFK Points gained: 260,000,000!]
[Current AFK Points Balance: 1,110,000,000 points!]
Chen Changqing glanced at the dark purple blood flowing from the corpse of the Soul Beast. The aura was exactly the same as that of Zhong Jiuyou's demon core. Clearly, the Netherworld Palace had already begun extracting the demon blood from the demon bodies underground to mass-produce these half-demon monsters.
Without time to think it over, Chen Changqing put away Avatar five avatars and strode to the massive sluice gate, which was a hundred feet tall and entirely made of the bones of ancient Gods and Devils.
The surface of the sluice gate was covered with thick restrictions from the Yinyue Holy Dynasty, and the gaps were sealed tightly with viscous demonic blood from the Upper Realm by the Netherworld Palace.
"Zhong Cheng, retreat fifty zhang."
Chen Changqing gave the order without turning his head.
Zhong Cheng, who was on the gate, immediately clutched his chest and retreated frantically.
Standing directly beneath the hundred-foot-tall white bone sluice gate, Chen Changqing took a deep breath, and the nine Late Heavenly Monarch Stage Purple Mansion Worlds within his body roared simultaneously, unleashing the immortal-grade Immortal Artifact body Qi and Blood of the seventh stage of the "Primordial Nine-Turn Body Refining Art" without reservation!
He slowly opened his fist stance, and a layer of dazzling crimson-gold divine light appeared on the surface of his right fist. He then unleashed a powerful punch at the ancient white bone sluice gate in front of him, a gate that even Five-Tribulation Ghost Immortal could hardly shake!
The Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist, First Form: Heavenly Collapse!
Thump--!
The punch sent the entire underground cavern, 30,000 feet deep, shaking violently. Countless stalactites and boulders, each weighing tens of thousands of kilograms, crashed down from the ceiling with a series of crackling sounds!
The incredibly powerful Pure Yang fist energy, mixed with the Principle of the Great Emperor, was firmly imprinted on the very center of the White Bone Water Gate!
Click! Click! Click--!
The ear-piercing sound of bones cracking instantly echoed across the surrounding area.
Under Zhong Cheng's dumbfounded gaze, the black-purple seals formed from the demonic blood of the Upper Realm on the surface of the sluice gate were instantly evaporated into blue smoke by the extremely powerful and yang force of the fist!
Immediately afterwards, countless thick cracks spread wildly in all directions from the spot where Chen Changqing's fist landed on the entire ancient white bone water gate, which was a hundred feet high and ten feet thick!
Rumble--!
A deafening roar erupted, and the entire White Bone Water Gate shattered and collapsed, turning into countless bone fragments that flew backward!
The instant the gate shattered, a thick mist of blood surged forth from behind.
However, what appeared before Chen Changqing was not the empty underground Blood Pool he had expected, but a long passage about thirty feet wide, with the rock walls on both sides entirely made of countless living souls wailing in agony— the Yellow Springs Sacrificial Path!
Ten feet outside the entrance to the sacrificial path, three gaunt old monsters dressed in blood-red skull robes and surrounded by two rings of Life-and-Death Tribulation were blocking the way in a triangular formation.
Beneath their feet lay hundreds of corpses, the remnants of the Yinyue Holy Dynasty's tomb guardians Essence Blood had just been drained and whose brows bore the mark of a silver crescent moon!
Upon seeing the sluice gate blasted down from the outside by a single punch, the three blood-robed monsters who were drawing Essence Blood from the corpse simultaneously looked up.
These three looked exactly alike, all with Blue-Faced, Fanged Demons; they were none other than the infamous triplet assassins of the Netherworld Palace — the Netherworld Three Baleful Fiends!
"What audacity! They even dared to smash the Severed Dragon Sluice Gate, which the Palace Master himself sealed with demonic blood!"
The First Netherworld Baleful Fiend at the forefront tossed away the shriveled corpse of the Dark Moon lineage in his hand, licked the blood from his lips, and his triangular eyes gleamed with ferocity.
"Second brother, third brother, the Palace Master is presiding over the most crucial step of the Demon Lord's possession at the Blood Pool Altar. We absolutely cannot let this Yang Realm brat go and disturb him! Use the Three Talents Life-Ending Formation to refine him with the souls of these tomb guardians!"
"Good!"
Without the slightest hesitation, the Netherworld Three Baleful Fiends simultaneously stomped their feet heavily on the ground!
Boom!
The hundreds of corpses of the Yinyue Holy Dynasty remnants beneath their feet, along with the thousands of living souls embedded in the rock walls on both sides, were forcibly detonated at the same instant!
Endless Resentment Qi and bloodlust surged into the sky, weaving together into a stench-filled, blood-red millstone array within the narrow Yellow Springs Sacrificial Path!
Under the blessing of this "Three Talents Life-Ending Blood Sha Formation", the auras of the Netherworld Three Baleful Fiends, originally Two-Tribulation Ghost Immortals, were instantly bound together and merged into one. Their defensive strength and killing power soared, directly crossing the threshold of the Three Tribulations and approaching the level of the Four-Tribulation Ghost Immortal!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The three simultaneously drew their nine-ringed Blood Blades from their backs. Three solid, blood-red blade beams, each a hundred feet long and imbued with the vengeful spirits of a thousand people, were linked end to end, transforming into a high-speed spinning, blood-red meat grinder wheel that crushed down on Chen Changqing along the sacrificial path!
Wherever the wind from the blade passed, three deep furrows, several feet deep, were plowed into the black iron stone slabs paved with the sacrificial path!
Standing on the ruins of the sluice gate, Chen Changqing could clearly sense that behind the bronze Demon Sect at the end of the sacrificial path, Xiaoqian's Nine Netherworlds Pure Yin Immortal Physique essence was draining away at an extremely terrifying speed, so weak that it could be completely extinguished at any moment!
Those who block my way shall die!
Chen Changqing had no patience to fight these three old monsters for even a moment. He stepped with the "Drunken Immortal Moon-Gazing Step, and instead of retreating, he advanced, transforming into Dao Gold stream of light and crashing directly into the center of the blood-red blade wheel!
With a flick of his left hand, he formed a hand seal, and the secret martial art of the Nine Provinces Divine Dynasty, the "Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal -Secret Art Seal," was unleashed!