With a hiss, another snow-bright blade radiance slashed over. This one was even more terrifying, forcing Supreme Gray Flood Dragon into a frantic retreat. A Flood Dragon Horn in his hand whirled wildly, releasing dragon roars as the Extreme Dao Weapon forged from a dragon horn fully revived.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber directly tore through the Flood Dragon Horn's defenses, filling the area with surging bloodlight. In the blink of an eye, Supreme Gray Flood Dragon was chopped into a lump of mangled flesh, leaving behind a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Supreme Ba Snake, Supreme Red Dragon, Supreme Nine-Headed Insect, as well as the later-arriving Supreme Heavenly Demon and Supreme White Snake, all wore expressions of terror.
They had no choice but to admit that Demon Venerable's reputation was truly too terrifying.
The revival of his Heavenly Demonic Saber alone had turned everyone's faces pale and crushed their fighting spirit. This showed just how terrifying Demon Venerable's might was.
If Demon Venerable's true body appeared, would that not become a world-shaking catastrophe?
Supreme Heavenly Demon and Supreme White Snake, who had arrived later, watched three Supremes die beneath the Heavenly Demonic Saber in the blink of an eye and regretted not slapping themselves.
But it was already too late to leave.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber's aura had firmly locked onto them, leaving them no path to survival.
Supreme Ba Snake, Supreme Red Dragon, Supreme White Snake, Supreme Nine-Headed Insect, Supreme Heavenly Demon, and the three Dark Supremes who had just been killed all possessed at least some dragon blood within them.
They were extremely sensitive to the aura of the Chaotic Dragon Nest, which was why they had been the first to awaken.
They had also been the first Dark Supremes to arrive.
None of them had expected Demon Venerable to have set his sights on the Chaotic Dragon Nest—and on them as well.
They were all Supremes, all possessed Extreme Dao Weapons, and all had their own dignity.
Yet now, they had been driven into a dead end by a mere weapon, the Heavenly Demonic Saber. They were both shocked and enraged.
In this situation, they could only fight to the death.
"Face it together!"
"Could a mere weapon possibly be more terrifying than Demon Venerable's true body descending?"
Supreme Red Dragon shouted, trying to prevent these Dark Supremes from fleeing in terror and being defeated one by one.
Rumble!
The Heavenly Demonic Saber was too domineering. Even without Li Ming directing it, it had revived on its own and displayed such astonishing power.
Everything was under the Heavenly Demonic Saber's control. It slaughtered these Dark Supremes without restraint, using them as sacrifices to temper its blade.
The blade light was fierce and resplendent.
Supreme Ba Snake's body stretched for tens of millions of miles, like a river of stars. He collided fiercely with the Heavenly Demonic Saber, immediately spraying blood across ten thousand miles. His body was cut cleanly in two, and he vomited blood in great mouthfuls. The glow around him dimmed as crack after crack appeared across his body.
Despite possessing an Extreme Dao Weapon battle armor and exerting his full strength, Supreme Ba Snake was still grievously wounded by this collision.
That region of starry sky shattered and collapsed outright.
The others shuddered in alarm at the sight.
This Heavenly Demonic Saber truly possessed a demonic nature. It was simply too terrifying.
"Don't panic!"
"Protect Supreme Ba Snake!"
Supreme Red Dragon, Supreme Nine-Headed Insect, Supreme White Snake, and Supreme Heavenly Demon wielded Extreme Dao Weapons and used forbidden secret arts, standing before Supreme Ba Snake.
Supreme Ba Snake did his utmost to restore his body. His face was pale, his aura weak, and it was clear that he had been severely injured.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber transformed into a blade over ten feet long. Like a bolt of lightning, it tore through the void and charged over, slaughtering in every direction as it sought to kill all the Dark Supremes.
With a deafening clang, Supreme Red Dragon's blood and qi surged. He shot into the sky and collided with the Heavenly Demonic Saber.
It was a heaven-shaking strike, but Supreme Red Dragon was sent flying, covered in blood. His weapon exploded, saving his life.
Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz.
The void trembled as the Heavenly Demonic Saber sliced through patch after patch of the universe, vanishing in one direction and appearing in another, elusive as a ghost.
Of the eight Dark Supremes, three had died in the blink of an eye. The remaining five were all injured, and that was only because they had joined forces in defense and attack.
Had any one Dark Supreme faced it alone, he would have long since been chopped to death in a single strike.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber was simply too monstrous, too terrifying.
Why was it that after reviving on its own and attacking of its own accord, not a single Dark Supreme could stop it?
With a puff, Supreme Nine-Headed Insect's body exploded. The elusive Heavenly Demonic Saber had pierced him through with a single thrust, instantly shattering both his flesh and Primordial Spirit.
"Ah..."
Supreme Heavenly Demon was directly chopped into a lump of mangled flesh.
Woooo...
The Heavenly Demonic Saber let out a long, mournful howl. Its blade radiance turned and slashed toward Supreme White Snake.
Supreme White Snake shone brilliantly. He actually possessed Nine Secrets: Xing and dodged with all his strength, but the Heavenly Demonic Saber still caught him. One slash landed, and he exploded with a roar.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber's Immortal Dao Laws were simply too terrifying. Dark Supremes could not withstand it at all.
The power it displayed was truly too horrifying.
One after another, these Dark Supremes felt terror in their hearts. They had originally believed they could divide the Chaotic Dragon Nest among themselves, comprehend the Dao and cultivate within it together, and even seal themselves inside as they waited for the Road to Immortality to open.
They had even hoped to transform into True Dragons within it and achieve Mortal-World Ascension.
Yet they had actually been targeted by the Heavenly Demonic Saber?
Not by Demon Venerable, but by his weapon...
They had joined forces and still could not defeat Demon Venerable's weapon. It was truly humiliating!
Blade light swept past Supreme Ba Snake, blowing apart half his body and leaving only half a snake body. His face was filled with pain.
Supreme Red Dragon was no better off. His body had likewise been cut into several pieces.
With a thunderous boom, Supreme Nine-Headed Insect could endure no longer and underwent Extreme Sublimation.
If they did not undergo Extreme Sublimation, they still had hope of surviving.
That was why they had endured bitterly all this time. Even when they were blown apart again and again, they had not undergone Extreme Sublimation.
But now, after being shattered time and again by the Heavenly Demonic Saber, he saw that if he did not undergo Extreme Sublimation, he would be killed like the other three Dark Supremes before he even had the chance.
A colossal Nine-Headed Insect appeared in the starry sky. Its body expanded madly, blotting out the heavens and covering the earth, as immense as a river of stars and stretching open an entire universe.
"You should undergo Extreme Sublimation too, or you really will die!" Nine-Headed Insect shouted.
Supreme Red Dragon, Supreme White Snake, Supreme Heavenly Demon, and Supreme Ba Snake struggled to reconstitute their bodies.
Bathed in divine light, they revived amid that sea of blood.
"I'm still alive!"
"We're still alive!"
At that moment, clumps of ashes drifted down beside them. They were substitutes they had refined, which had died in their stead.
If they had not refined those substitutes beforehand, they truly would have died now.
Nine-Headed Insect had undergone Extreme Sublimation, but the other Dark Supremes had not.
They still harbored a sliver of hope.
Supreme Nine-Headed Insect possessed nine dragon heads. As if opening heaven and earth, he wildly inhaled and exhaled Chaos and stars.
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber trembled continuously, its entire body snow-bright as it illuminated the eternal starry sky and unleashed another heaven-shaking strike.
Nine-Headed Insect howled repeatedly, releasing dragon roars as he attacked with all his strength and collided with the Heavenly Demonic Saber.
With a thunderous boom, incomparably dazzling light erupted. The surrounding Chaos and rivers of stars exploded piece by piece, turning into cosmic dust.
It was like a scene from the end of the world, enough to drive one into despair.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber was too powerful, as though it represented the Dao of heaven and earth itself. Its attack power was unmatched.
Nine-Headed Insect was flung away, three of his nine dragon heads severed. Even his incomparably powerful body was grievously injured.
With a hiss, the Heavenly Demonic Saber attacked again and rushed toward Nine-Headed Insect. It intended to kill this Nine-Headed Insect who had undergone Extreme Sublimation first.
As for the other four Dark Supremes hiding behind him and attacking together, it had already locked onto them and would never let them escape.
Nine-Headed Insect's aura erupted wildly. Endless Chaos qi and dragon qi coiled around his body, while terrifying Grand Dao fluctuations shook the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
His body burned fiercely. Even his origin and life force were burning fiercely. He was truly risking everything.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber floated in the distance. Though Nine-Headed Insect burned his origin and fought desperately, he could not match its speed and was instead shattered again and again.
The battlefield fell silent.
Supreme Red Dragon and the others looked at the shocked and furious Nine-Headed Insect with pity.
At the same time, they felt the sorrow of rabbits dying before foxes.
Dragon blood surged and roared within Supreme Red Dragon's body as he instantly entered the Divine Forbidden State.
His blood and qi boiled, and his entire body was shrouded in crimson dragon qi, like blazing scarlet flames.
He underwent Extreme Sublimation.
Supreme Ba Snake's forehead gleamed, radiating mysterious rosy light.
He broke through the taboo and stepped into the Divine Forbidden State. It was as if an ancient divine lamp had been lit between his brows. He too underwent Extreme Sublimation.
A small white snake emerged from Supreme White Snake's forehead and sat coiled atop his head. Supreme White Snake continuously formed seals with his hands, sending out strands of immortal light.
Within that incomparably dazzling white radiance, Supreme White Snake also underwent Extreme Sublimation.
Rumble!
Supreme Heavenly Demon's body shook violently. A mysterious curse was chanted from his mouth, exuding unimaginably terrifying vitality. Ten thousand strands of divine light burst from his body as countless suns, moons, and stars gathered and merged into him.
He too underwent Extreme Sublimation.
These five Dark Supremes were truly desperate. They had been forced to undergo Extreme Sublimation at the same time.
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber's blade light was incomparably blazing. Like a living person, it calmly watched the five Dark Supremes who had undergone Extreme Sublimation.
It fixed its gaze on Supreme Nine-Headed Insect, whose aura was the weakest, and attacked first. Transforming into an incomparably blazing blade radiance, it sought to kill and devour him completely.
The blade light shot into the sky, tearing through patch after patch of the universe and the Chaos Sea. Like a river of stars, it chopped straight down toward Supreme Nine-Headed Insect's head.
Supreme Nine-Headed Insect trembled with rage. His realm was about to fall, and there was nowhere for him to evade. He was about to die.
He risked everything and erupted.
He burned all his origin and life force, unleashing an overwhelming aura that was not even weaker than the Heavenly Demonic Saber's blade radiance. Endless Grand Dao Runes coiled around his body as he charged together with them at the Heavenly Demonic Saber, striking toward the heavens.
With a thunderous boom, Supreme Nine-Headed Insect's collision with the Heavenly Demonic Saber was terrifying beyond measure. The aura of creation swept in every direction, turning the area into a boiling ocean of Chaos.
At that moment, heaven and earth collapsed.
Before everyone's shocked eyes, Nine-Headed Insect's body exploded. His Primordial Spirit burned fiercely before turning to ashes.
With a flash of the Heavenly Demonic Saber, all his flesh and bones were devoured.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber was simply astonishing. Supreme Nine-Headed Insect, even after undergoing Extreme Sublimation, had been killed and devoured just like that.
Worthy indeed of a demonic saber—it had truly displayed the legends of a demonic saber.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber's qi arced like a rainbow as it slashed repeatedly, crisscrossing the starry sky like lightning. It stirred up a bloody storm, and every bolt of lightning could destroy a river of stars.
It battled Supreme Red Dragon, Supreme White Snake, Supreme Ba Snake, and Supreme Heavenly Demon.
These four Dark Supremes hated the Heavenly Demonic Saber for destroying them. They therefore went all out, using every forbidden secret art at their disposal.
They had to blast the Heavenly Demonic Saber apart.
They had already realized that the Heavenly Demonic Saber was an Immortal Weapon. Otherwise, it could never have killed so many Dark Supremes immediately upon reviving.
The Cosmic Frontier Wasteland boiled as countless stars were smashed into ashes.
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
The four Dark Supremes madly devoured the essence of heaven and earth, swallowing it like four black holes.
The order of Grand Dao Laws erupting from their bodies frantically attacked the Heavenly Demonic Saber. They intended to suppress and refine it together.
In theory, a Dark Supreme who had not undergone Extreme Sublimation could destroy several Extreme Dao Weapons.
After an ordinary Immortal Weapon revived, its power was generally only comparable to that of a Dark Supreme who had undergone Extreme Sublimation.
But the Heavenly Demonic Saber was completely different. It was so forceful and tyrannical.
It fought one against four with ease. Even after they underwent Extreme Sublimation, they still could do nothing to it.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber trembled and emitted streams of immortal divine light, which struck toward the Dark Supremes like lightning.
The blade radiances were like rivers of stars, vast and terrifying, shaking the universe and tearing apart the cold, dark cosmos.
After undergoing Extreme Sublimation, these four Dark Supremes became even more formidable in both body and Grand Dao Laws. Together, they actually withstood the Heavenly Demonic Saber's attacks.
The awakened Dark Supremes silently watched this great battle.
As for the Great Saints and Quasi-Venerables, they prayed that the battle would not reach their star domain. Otherwise, they would turn to ashes in an instant, without even a chance to scream.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber became faster and faster, like an incomparably blazing bolt of lightning dancing around the four Dark Supremes. Whenever it found an opening, it viciously stabbed once, its killing intent soaring to the heavens and its bloody aura forcing the four Dark Supremes to flee desperately.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber's light became more dazzling, and its blade qi grew sharper. It truly displayed an invincible bearing that surpassed all reason and all understanding, as though Demon Venerable himself had acted—forceful and tyrannical.
In a daze, people saw the Heavenly Demonic Saber gradually becoming blurred, until it no longer retained the shape of a saber.
Many were shocked to discover that the Heavenly Demonic Saber was slowly transforming into a phantom.
It transformed into Li Ming's figure.
"Demon Venerable!"
"The strongest Heavenly Venerable since the Age of Mythology!"
"Has he fused with the Heavenly Demonic Saber?"
"What kind of Longevity Method is this?"
"Could he become immortal by fusing with the Heavenly Demonic Saber and refining himself into an Immortal Weapon?"
The Dark Supremes cried out in disbelief.
The allure of an Immortal Weapon was simply too great.
The allure of longevity was simply too great.
They had exhausted every possible method in pursuit of longevity, in pursuit of survival.
Yet now, they were astonished to discover that Demon Venerable seemed to have fused with his weapon and become an Immortal Weapon!
This was an inconceivable matter!
Had Demon Venerable truly become immortal just like this?
The many Dark Supremes stared intently and observed with care, seeking to comprehend the secret within.
Supreme Red Dragon and the others were all stunned. Their eyes widened, their tongues tied, unable to believe what they were seeing.
It was as if they had witnessed an unimaginable miracle.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber had actually taken human form, becoming Demon Venerable's likeness.
That figure was incomparably clear and lifelike. It emerged from the void as though it had broken free from the shackles of the River of Time.
Tall and imposing, handsome and dashing, as elegant as a jade tree in the wind—he looked like an immortal who had stepped out of the Immortal Domain.
"Demon Venerable!"
"What is going on?"
"Has the Demon Venerable truly merged with the Heavenly Demonic Saber?"
Supreme Red Dragon and the other four Dark Supremes spoke in trembling voices.
They were deeply shaken.
Such an Immortal Weapon had actually taken human form. From the aura it emitted, they could not even determine whether it was a weapon or a real person.
The many Dark Supremes were all stunned into silence.
Those Dark Supremes lurking within the Dark Restricted Areas stared unblinkingly at the Demon Venerable's figure.
They stared at this incomparably mysterious and powerful Heavenly Venerable, who had possessed the strongest Chaotic Body ever since achieving Enlightenment as Supreme.
The Demon Venerable had now existed for over fifty thousand years, and many wondered what state he was currently in.
In this era, when ordinary Supremes lived only a little over ten thousand years, it was utterly unbelievable that the Demon Venerable had lived so long without severing himself.
Although they knew that some Heavenly Venerables had lived into their Third Lifetime and gained longer lifespans, there had always been traces to follow.
Only this Demon Venerable, Li Ming, left the many Dark Supremes unable to fathom him, unable to see through him. He was mysterious beyond measure and impossible to deduce.
The Demon Venerable's temperament was extremely strange—at least, that was how the Dark Supremes saw it.
At the slightest disagreement, he would kill Dark Supremes.
Ever since his rise, he had swept through all opposition, invincible all the way until achieving Enlightenment as Supreme. Even then, he remained domineering and overbearing, forging his invincible reputation with the blood of countless Dark Supremes.
"I suspect the Demon Venerable has created an unimaginable Longevity Method."
"Yes, the Demon Venerable has truly defied the heavens!"
"He actually merged with a weapon, then turned that weapon into an Immortal Weapon!"
"Wouldn't that mean he could exist forever, achieving immortality by another path?"
The many Dark Supremes muttered to themselves, crying out in shock again and again.
Supreme Red Dragon and the others who stood against him trembled all over, unable to believe it.
The Demon Venerable's Chaotic Body was too heaven-defying. He had actually created a Longevity Method that shocked the ages, one never heard of before.
They all hesitated. Should they still resist?
What meaning was there in resisting?
Was there still any need for them to resist?
They had originally intended to perish together with the Heavenly Demonic Saber, but facing the unfathomable Demon Venerable, they truly felt despair.
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