Above the sea.
As the lightning faded, Xu Xuan lightly flicked his blade, blasting the severed Diamond head in his hand into tribulation ash. His gaze darkened slightly as he looked toward the last remaining Diamond.
Before him stood a Diamond formed from a Yaksha, hideously ugly and powerfully built. He wore golden monk's robes with his upper body half bare, and three additional eyes and a mouth had grown from his chest.
"Dead. They're dead, just like that."
The Night-Watching Diamond trembled to the depths of his being. Watching the golden bodies of his fellow cultivators slowly dissolve beside him, he felt a terror unlike anything he had ever known fill his heart.
That spirit sword wreathed in silver thunder had made just four light slashes, and four Diamonds had met the same end: their golden bodies shattered and their true spirits dispersed. Even with the Pure Land right before them, the connection of vow power could not draw them back.
Once one cultivated into a Diamond, the true spirit was entrusted to the Pure Land, while the body was formed from vow power and blood qi. Thus, even if the golden body shattered, the wondrous connection to the Pure Land still allowed one to return through the Great Void.
This was what the Diamonds relied upon, yet before that terrifying sword intent, it had become a joke. They could not withstand even a single exchange.
The Night-Watching Diamond immediately raised a golden cloud. Wary of the fire barrier, he did not enter the Great Void, instead fleeing directly in his physical body.
He staked his life on it, releasing numerous treasure artifacts and drawing on vow power without regard for the hidden dangers. In an instant, he became a streak of golden light, about to rush into the