Enlightenment at Death's Door

Yet the instant the Heaven-Opening Axe's radiance touched that stellar river curtain, the starry water screen conjured by the treasure mirror failed to hold for even half a breath before the Heaven-Opening Axe's peerless edge. Like bubbles beneath sunlight, it shattered on impact, dissolving into glittering motes of light that scattered across the sky!

"No!!!"

Yunya's eyes filled with endless terror and regret as he let out one final, despairing howl!

The axe radiance swept through his body without obstruction!

"Boom!!!"

A brilliant yet grisly cloud of blood exploded in the air!

Yunya's Hunyuan Saint Body, cultivated over countless years, along with the primordial spirit hidden within his Purple Palace, was utterly annihilated beneath that single axe strike. Both body and soul were destroyed, leaving not the slightest trace behind!

A Hunyuan Saint who had once shaken the Primordial World had fallen!

And he had been killed in an instant!

Silence! Deathly silence!

For a moment, time itself seemed to freeze across the entire Heaven-Patrolling Hall plaza!

Every saint who had attacked, including the three Dao Realm beings, wore expressions of unconcealed shock and dread!

The Heaven-Opening Axe's power was truly terrifying!

Meanwhile, Zhang Shuai's expression turned somewhat strange. After killing Yunya, a strange energy—pure, vast, and containing the essence of Yunya's lifelong cultivation—passed through the Heaven-Opening Axe. Along a profoundly mysterious connection, it surged madly into Zhang Shuai's body like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!

"This is..."

Zhang Shuai's entire body jolted violently!

The immense power of blood and vitality swiftly merged into his limbs and bones, nourishing the soul power he had depleted in battle after battle. An unprecedented feeling of fullness and strength instantly swept through his body, and the minor injuries he had suffered healed in an instant!

His depleted soul power and true