Clang~!
With a single sword cry, ripples rose across the sea of grievances.
A Life-Slaying Sword, blazing with scarlet light, descended upon this place with abrupt, utter finality.
There was no superfluous emotion to it, only one meaning.
Kill~!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Not only was the sea of grievances severed by a single stroke—the Demon-Subduing Hall, influenced by that sea and seemingly brought to life as a colossal beast, also became covered in streaks of sword intent.
Terrifying sword edges swept across the walls and past pillar after dragon pillar, skimming their throats as though telling those that had come alive that they were better off staying dead.
???
At this sight, the figure shuddered, and bewilderment surfaced on its enormous face of resentment.
Though that had merely been a casual strike from it, it was not human. It had none of humanity's habit of sizing up a dish before deciding how much to eat, much less did its cultivation system resemble that of immortal cultivators. The source of its power lay in the human souls it had devoured, extracting grievance power through tormenting them.
No matter how turbid this power appeared on the surface, no matter how filthy its manifestation, its essence was instead an exceptionally powerful and pure force.
This force could even warp reality and directly alter the structure of matter.
That was why the entire main hall of the Demon-Subduing Hall had been affected. Absurd as it might sound, this thing possessed an extremely high level of energy; both its application and transformation were immensely formidable. Even the Heavenly Court elder, at the great perfection of Taiyi, would find it difficult to turn things around once the opponent got hold of him. That was precisely why.
It was like erosion descending from a higher dimension upon