Dark Demon Hall

Only after a long while did Sword Demon Xi Lai struggle to his feet. He looked at Lu Yiping, his eyes filled with terror.

He had been supremely confident in his Eternal Sword. Even if Sword God Yang Dong were still alive, he might not have been able to withstand it. Yet this young man before him had shattered it with a single breath!

He swallowed with difficulty, his voice hoarse. "Who are you, sir?!"

"Could it be that you have already reached the True God Realm?!"

"What is your relationship with the Thunder Que Sword Sect?"

Yang Cheng, Chen Hong, and the Thunder Que Sword Sect's ancestral masters all trembled, holding their breaths as they looked at Lu Yiping. They, too, wondered why an existence like Lu Yiping had come to their Thunder Que Sword Sect.

A True God?

Lu Yiping offered no further explanation. He glanced at Yang Cheng and tossed him a token.

Upon seeing the token, Yang Cheng's hands trembled. He looked at Lu Yiping. "This is my father's token. How does my lord have my father's token?" Without realizing it, the way he addressed Lu Yiping had already changed.

Chen Hong and the Thunder Que Sword Sect's ancestral masters were equally shocked upon hearing this.

This token belonged to their Thunder Que Sword Sect's Sword God Yang Dong?

At this moment, Sword Demon Xi Lai cupped his fists. "So you are an old friend of Sword God Yang Dong. I am a Grand Elder of the Dark Demon Sect. I ask that you spare my life for the Dark Demon Sect's sake."

"Dark Demon Sect!" Yang Cheng, Chen Hong, and the others were startled.

The Dark Demon Sect was a mysterious force that had emerged only in the past tens of thousands of years. It was now one of the Hengyuan Plane's strongest powers.

"That's right, the Dark Demon Sect!" Sword Demon Xi Lai smiled proudly.

Yet Lu Yiping suddenly reached out and dragged Sword Demon Xi Lai before him.

Sword Demon Xi Lai was terrified.

"The Dark Demon Sect? So what?" Lu Yiping said calmly as golden divine lightning appeared in his hand.

Sensing the golden divine lightning's destructive power, Sword Demon Xi Lai's eyes filled with horror.

Just as Lu Yiping was about to blast Sword Demon Xi Lai apart, a black ball of light suddenly burst from within Sword Demon Xi Lai's body.

Immediately afterward, an enormous black palm that blotted out the sky and covered the earth appeared above the ancestral grounds. "Insolent! Who dares kill a Grand Elder of my Dark Demon Sect!"

The gigantic black palm came crashing down upon Lu Yiping.

Power capable of destroying heaven and earth ran rampant through the world.

This destructive power was countless times stronger than Sword Demon Xi Lai's earlier Eternal Sword.

Watching the enormous black palm crash down, Yang Cheng, Chen Hong, and the others were terrified.

This was absolutely the power of a True God—perhaps even an existence stronger than a True God!

Lu Yiping merely snorted coldly and casually threw a punch. A golden fist imprint instantly pierced through the sky-covering giant palm. Then, without stopping, Lu Yiping's golden fist imprint tore through layer upon layer of space-time.

Across countless layers of space-time, it slammed violently into a massive divine hall an unknown number of miles away.

Light surged from the massive divine hall as the power of layer upon layer of grand formations burst forth, trying to block the golden fist imprint.

But it was useless!

Under the golden fist imprint, the layers of grand formations were like earthen chickens and pottery dogs, exploding apart in an instant. With unstoppable force, the fist imprint struck the massive divine hall.

Boom!

The massive divine hall, which covered an unknown number of miles, burst apart into countless fragments like crumbling sand.

A furious roar rang out from within the divine hall.

A figure shot into the sky.

At that moment, Lu Yiping reached across countless layers of space-time. A gigantic claw suddenly came down, seizing at him.

The figure looked at the descending claw, overwhelmed by terrified despair.

"Blood Escape God!"

"Break for me!" Blood light surged violently from his entire body. Burning every last bit of his divine essence, he transformed into a streak of light and had only just escaped when Lu Yiping's giant claw descended.

Bang!

As the giant claw fell, the ground beneath the divine hall and every mountain around it were reduced to powder.

Lu Yiping withdrew his power and said calmly, "He ran quite fast."

Seeing this, he did not pursue further.

He had been struck by the residual force of Lu Yiping's fist, then expended divine essence without regard for the cost to use the blood escape technique. He was already severely injured and could not possibly recover without several hundred years.

Yang Cheng, Chen Hong, and the others were too stunned for words. Though they had not seen the scene beyond the layers of space-time, they knew that Lu Yiping had just exchanged blows with a True God Realm expert of the Dark Demon Sect—and that the Dark Demon Sect expert had lost.

Sword Demon Xi Lai looked at Lu Yiping with terror in his eyes. Yang Cheng, Chen Hong, and the others did not know who had fought Lu Yiping, but he knew perfectly well.

Lu Yiping threw another punch. This time, no one intervened, and Sword Demon Xi Lai was blasted apart with a single fist.

Blood rained down from the sky, interwoven with Divine Light.

Yang Cheng, Chen Hong, and the others watched the rain of blood fill the sky, unable to calm themselves. This was a Deity Realm expert who had passed the Divine Tribulation, yet he had been forcibly blasted apart just like that.

At this moment, Lu Yiping waved one hand, and the rain of blood fell onto the soil around an ancient towering tree in the distance. As the blood rain seeped into the earth, emerald light blazed brightly from the ancient tree.

A Deity Realm expert devoured the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, comprehended the laws of heaven and earth, and condensed divine power. The preciousness of their divine blood went without saying. Yet now, Lu Yiping was using it as fertilizer to water a tree.

Yang Cheng, Chen Hong, and the others swallowed again when they saw Lu Yiping watering the tree with Sword Demon Xi Lai's blood.

Having been nourished by a Deity Realm expert's divine blood, this tree would likely become a spirit in the future.

Because the ancestral grounds were protected by grand formations and restrictions, Princess Tai Yan, Xiao Changfeng, Zheng Yue, and the experts from various factions outside the ancestral grounds could not see what was happening within.

Seeing Sword Demon Xi Lai enter the Thunder Que Sword Sect's ancestral grounds, all of them were deeply uneasy.

"I wonder how Senior Yang Cheng and the others are doing now." Princess Tai Yan's face was filled with anxiety, like an ant on a hot pan.