The drop of viscous "black blood" slowly dripped down the crimson tip of the knife.
It didn't crash to the ground; instead, it vanished into nothingness in mid-air.
The piercing scream deep within his consciousness was rapidly diminishing, and the churning and twisting of the remnant soul of the Earth Realm demon in the darkness was gradually calming down.
It didn't die.
Not only was it not dead, but an even colder and more malevolent aura was re-forming from the core of that darkness.
The severed essence of the divine soul is forcibly healing at an illogical speed.
The dense Sha Qi that constitutes its body is even more solid than before.
This thing is harder to kill than I imagined.
Su Yu's thoughts swept over what was behind him.
The three old men from the Mystic Sword Sect have recovered from the shock to their souls.
Panshi struggled to sit up, panting heavily, his face covered in cold sweat from surviving the ordeal.
Elder Sharp Sword retrieved his longsword, bracing himself against the ground, his arms still trembling uncontrollably.
The worst off was Elder Heavenly Mystery. He collapsed to the ground, clutching a pile of compass fragments in his arms. He looked as if all his energy had been drained away, his old eyes were cloudy, and his vitality was dim.
All three of them stopped moving, staring Dead Land at Su Yu's back with a mixture of fear, humiliation, and bewilderment.
"What are you still standing there for?"
Su Yu didn't turn around; his calm voice echoed in the empty square.
"Keep smashing those pillars."
The three of them shuddered simultaneously.
Panshi rose to his face, and the humiliation nearly overwhelmed his reason.
They were the supreme elders of the Mystic Sword Sect, powerful experts at the Mystic Realm Eighth Level, yet they were being treated like laborers by a mere brat.
He was about to speak in rebuttal.
Su Yu slowly turned his head.
There was no emotion on that young face.
But that calm glance choked all of Panshi's words, sending a chill from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.
He had no doubt that if he uttered a single word of "no," the black blade capable of erasing his very existence would strike him the next moment.
Compared to death, dignity is worthless.
"Do it!"
Elder Heavenly Mystery let out a hoarse growl and, with all his might, got up from the ground.
He gave a push to the still hesitant Panshi and Lijian.
"If you want to live, do as he says!"
The three of them exchanged a glance, and each saw endless frustration and helplessness on the other's face.
In the end, they still managed to activate the little remaining True Qi in their bodies once more.
" Azure Lotus Splits the Heavens!"
" Mount Tai Presses Down on the Head!"
A Sword Qi, several times dimmer than before, and a nearly disintegrating phantom of a small mountain, once again slammed into the nearest black bronze pillar.
boom!
The bronze pillar shook violently, and the demon reliefs on its surface emitted a Soundless wail. A clear crack spread upwards from the base of the pillar.
"Roar--!"
From the depths of darkness, the remnant soul of the demon let out a roar laced with pain and rage.
Its recovery process was interrupted!
These damned insects dared to interrupt its "feeding"!
Splash!
Eight chains swung wildly, and a large amount of dark energy surged back from the darkness, attempting to repair the bronze pillar that was about to break.
Right now.
In the instant the demons were distracted and turned back to defend, Su Yu moved.
The ground beneath his feet exploded with purplish-black arcs of electricity, only to collapse inward in an instant, transforming into a constantly rotating, distorted point of light composed of lightning and demonic shadows.
Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps, an ultimate killing move.
Thunder Prison Demon Abyss!
Su Yu's figure did not disappear; instead, it simply "melted" in place.
His entire being seemed to transform into billions of purplish-black lightning threads, finer than a hair, interspersed with countless indescribable demonic shadows, instantly spreading out and completely enveloping the dense darkness within a hundred feet in front of him!
A "domain" composed of lightning and shadowy figures, an absolute prison of death, has been brutally formed!
"What's this!"
In the darkness, the demonic remnant's intent, which struck straight at the soul, was for the first time tinged with pure terror.
It discovered that its connection with the eight bronze pillars had been severed!
Within this purplish-black "domain," space was completely sealed off. Its proud regenerative abilities and its connection with the earth vein array were all rendered ineffective at this moment!
It became a trapped beast locked in an iron cage!
"No!!!"
The demonic remnant roared madly, its thick, dark body churning violently and transforming into hundreds of tentacles that lashed out at the surrounding lightning threads and demonic shadows.
But it didn't work.
Those laces and shadowy figures seemed to exist outside this dimension; the tentacles passed right through them, yet could not cause them any harm.
And with each flicker of those lightning threads, a thin layer of black evil energy would be scraped off from the very essence of its soul.
Lingchi!
This is the cruelest form of torture for the soul!
At the other end of the square, the three Mystic Sword Sect elders, who had just unleashed their second attack and were panting heavily, were completely dumbfounded.
They stared blankly at the dark purple abyss of lightning before them.
That space seemed to have been forcibly ripped out of the world, leaving only destruction and nothingness.
Elder Sharp Sword was utterly distraught; he could no longer hold onto his longsword, which clattered to the ground.
Elder Heavenly Mystery Tianji stared intently at the Thunder Prison, his turbid pupils shrinking to the size of pinpoints, his lips opening and closing, but no sound came out.
That space is the knife!
Before he could finish speaking...
Within that Thunder Prison Demon Abyss, countless extremely thin black blade lines, resembling spatial rifts themselves, appeared without warning.
Hundreds and thousands.
Densely packed.
That was Su Yu's Minute Subtlety Saber Force, a perfect combination with the Thunder Prison Demon Abyss.
He turned the entire Thunder Prison Demon Abyss into his own blade!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Countless black blade lines, from all directions and from every angle, slashed towards the dark entity at the center of the cage.
There were no screams.
There was no roaring.
That thick darkness, Soundless disintegrated under the cutting of countless blades.
Pieces of darkness, erased from their origin, were stripped from the body and then vanished into nothingness.
That once arrogant remnant soul of a demon from the lower Earth Realm couldn't even struggle; it was gradually disintegrated and annihilated within this abyss formed of blades.
"No... no... spare... my life..."
Intermittent fluctuations of divine consciousness, carrying extreme fear and pleading, echoed across the square.
It was afraid.
It was truly afraid.
It would rather be killed by a single palm strike from a powerful King Realm expert of the Demon Suppression Bureau than endure the ultimate fear of being gradually erased from the level of "existence".
However, Su Yu did not stop.
He is the ruler of this Thunder Prison.
His will is the only law.
finally.
As the last black blade line slashed across...
That vast darkness vanished completely.
The Thunder Prison Demon Abyss slowly dissipated, and billions of lightning threads and demonic shadows reconverged in the center of the plaza, coalescing into Su Yu's figure.
He maintained the posture of holding the knife in one hand, the scarlet longsword pointing diagonally at the ground.
Everything seems to be over.
But just then...
Where the darkness had been, the space there suddenly shrank inward!
A fist-sized black heart, seemingly formed from countless vengeful spirits and black blood, was forcibly squeezed out of nothingness!
"Bang!"
On the surface of the heart, a single eye suddenly opened.
It was a scarlet vertical pupil composed purely of resentment and madness!