Chu Yunfei's voice was like a cold spring falling to the ground.
Dark golden sword energy roared and raged at the Abyss-Devouring Sword, its cries tearing through the thousand-foot-high sea of clouds.
The sword slashed down head-on, causing visible ripples of collapse in the void. The violent sword force made Zhou Changgeng's hair stand on end.
At the critical moment of life and death, Zhou Changgeng felt an unprecedented threat of death.
It was not just a powerful force, but also carried a destructive momentum that threatened to bury the mountains and rivers.
"Little beast."
"Do you really think this elder is only capable of this much?!"
Zhou Changgeng's face was contorted in a ferocious expression, and a ghostly roar escaped from his chest.
He reached into his sleeve and pulled out a strange, jet-black pill, swallowing it without hesitation.
boom!
The moment the pill entered his stomach, a pungent and violent black aura suddenly gushed out from his seven orifices.
Zhou Changgeng's previously weakened aura suddenly surged wildly, forcibly breaking through the barrier of the Divine Sea Realm Seventh Level and soaring all the way to the Divine Sea Realm Eighth Level.
Although the oppressive aura from Ling Zhantian was much weaker than before, the sinister and violent intent was even more sinister and ferocious.
"Crack! Crack!"
Zhou Changgeng's right arm suddenly swelled up, the veins bulging wildly like venomous snakes.
The next moment, several pitch-black, dark, evil runes rapidly spread upwards from his fingertips, covering his entire right arm in the blink of an eye.
A chilling aura of terror swept across the entire area.
Zhou Changgeng formed his five fingers into claws, unleashing billowing demonic black flames, and fiercely met Chu Yunfei's sixth sword strike.
Rumble!
The black mist and the dark gold sword light collided violently in mid-air.
The violent air currents transformed into a circular shockwave, clearing away the surrounding sea of clouds for hundreds of miles.
The aftershocks flattened several meters of the black mountain peaks on the ground.
It's blocked.
Zhou Changgeng's right arm, covered in evil patterns, actually managed to forcefully hold back the sixth layer of violent sword energy unleashed by the Abyss-Devouring Sword.
In the void, Chu Yunfei stood suspended in mid-air, his black hair dancing wildly.
He looked down at Zhou Changgeng's strangely twisted arm, his dark eyes suddenly narrowing.
The lines on that arm...
This Yin Baleful Intent aura...
Devil-Suppressing Hand!
When Li Tianxing, the Holy Son of the Heavenly Evil Devil Sect Li Tianxing, ambushed him outside the Drunken Immortal Drunken Immortal Tower in the Imperial City, he used this very demonic art.
How could Zhou Changgeng, as the Grand Elder and de facto leader of the Jade Firmament Sect, possibly use a secret technique passed down only by the Heavenly Evil Devil Sect?
Combined with Lu Shaoyuan's last words...
Chu Yunfei's eyes flashed with cold light, and he let out a sneer:
" Zhou Changgeng, I never expected you to secretly join the Blood Baleful Intent Tower."
These words were spoken.
Not only Zhou Changgeng, but Wen Buqi, Wen Jiao, and Uncle Yao, who were engaged in fierce combat below, all trembled violently.
Blood Baleful Intent Tower?!
That legendary assassin, who had lurked in the shadows for decades, striking fear into the hearts of the entire Eastern Continent?
Zhou Changgeng was also slightly taken aback.
He looked down at his dark, eerie right arm, seemingly surprised that a young man Chu Yunfei could so easily see through his true nature.
However, the shock lasted only half a breath.
Zhou Changgeng's lips curled into a cruel, exaggerated smile, a cold, mocking glint in his eyes:
So what?
Even if you knew, it wouldn't change your predicament.
Upon hearing his confession, Wen Buqi, who was engaged in Wen Buqi battle with another elder not far away, flew into a rage and began to curse loudly:
" Zhou Changgeng, you beast!"
" The Jade Firmament Sect treated you well, yet you betrayed the sect and joined those scumbags of the Blood Baleful Intent Tower?!"
"If the sect leader finds out, he will surely tear you to pieces and will never let you go."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Changgeng let out a disdainful sneer:
"Metropolitan?"
"What is Danyuanzi, that cowardly turtle, anyway?"
"How could someone as ignorant as him, a frog in a well, possibly fathom the power and terror of the Blood Baleful Intent Tower?!"
Zhou Changgeng turned his head, his bloodthirsty crimson eyes fixed on Chu Yunfei, and licked his dry, cracked lips.
"Besides, in this desolate wilderness, we'll slaughter you all, grind your bones to dust."
"And who would know that this elder has sided with the Blood Baleful Intent Tower?"
Having said that, Zhou Changgeng didn't waste another word.
"Die!!"
His spiritual power, at the Divine Sea Realm Eighth Level, surged completely, and the dark, evil patterns on his entire right arm writhed wildly as if alive.
A pitch-black demonic hand, tens of feet in size, condensed in mid-air, with a hideous, wailing evil spirit's face vaguely appearing in its palm.
The void trembled, Sha Qi blotted out the sky.
Devil-Suppressing Hand.
With a brutal, crushing pressure that seemed to annihilate all life, it slammed down on Chu Yunfei's head.
Below, Wen Jiao stared at the terrifying demonic hand, her face paling, her jade-like hand gripping her sword tightly.
"Husband, be careful!!"
At this moment, Zhou Changgeng, having taken the forbidden drug, had already reached the Divine Sea Realm Eighth Level. Chu Yunfei was ultimately only at the Heavenly Origin Realm Ninth Layer; could he withstand him?
Facing this overwhelming, almost suffocating demonic force, Chu Yunfei stood in the void, his face as cold as ice.
"What about the Divine Sea Realm Eighth Level?"
A wildly arrogant smile appeared on Chu Yunfei's lips, and the Abyss-Devouring Sword suddenly rose three inches higher:
"If six swords don't work, then seven!"
"Sending you on your way!!"
The moment the words left his mouth, the liquid spiritual sea within Chu Yunfei's body erupted violently.
The Boundless Creation Scripture has reached its ultimate state.
Within his dantian, violent spiritual energy surged into the Abyss-Devouring Sword like a river bursting its banks.
One stack, two stacks, three stacks... four stacks... five stacks.
The dark golden sword light piled up and compressed wildly on the longsword, instantly sucking away the surrounding airflow into a vacuum.
"The sixth stack."
In the void, the roar of surging waves resounded through the heavens, as if an endless ocean was suspended atop the sea of clouds.
It hasn't stopped yet.
Chu Yunfei's eyes shone with a dark golden light as bright as the sun, and his longsword pressed down fiercely.
"The seventh layer... Breaking the Heavens!!"
Rumble...
The moment this sword strike was unleashed, the world lost its color, and the sun and moon lost their light.
The entire sky seemed to have been completely cleaved in two by a massive, dark golden sword aura, hundreds of feet long.
The sea overturned, and the waves surged to the heavens.
The sky, which was originally shrouded in demonic black energy, was torn apart inch by inch like paper under the unparalleled sevenfold sword aura.
"No... this is impossible!"
The madness and cruelty on Zhou Changgeng's face instantly turned into boundless terror when he saw the dark golden giant sword that stretched across the sky.
The pressure from that sword strike was so intense that he felt the suffocating pressure of the Divine Sea Realm Extreme Stage.
"Break it for this elder!!"
Zhou Changgeng, acting like a madman, recklessly sprayed all his life essence onto the Devil-Suppressing Hand, causing the giant demonic palm to grow wildly and fiercely meet the sword light.
However.
Before absolute power, all struggles are futile.
Sizzle
There was no stalemate.
The seven layers of combined, towering sword energy, like a giant blade of divine judgment, swiftly sliced through the massive, sky-covering demon-suppressing hand.
The black aura dissipated, and the evil spirits wailed.
"Pfft!"
The sword's edge pierced through Zhou Changgeng's crown.
Zhou Changgeng's every movement froze completely at that moment.
His arms, covered in evil markings, froze in mid-air, and the light in his eyes faded rapidly before the naked eye could see.
"You... who exactly are you...?"
Zhou Changgeng's throat moved, and he uttered a few words with difficulty.
The next moment.
The raging, overwhelming sword Sword Qi erupted and ravaged his body.
Jade Firmament Sect, the Grand Elder of the Late Divine Sea Realm Zhou Changgeng, had his internal organs shredded into pieces in mid-air, and even his soul was completely annihilated by the sword intent.
Dead beyond dead.
Chu Yunfei stepped into the air, reached out and grabbed the storage ring on his hand, steadily returning it to his palm.
At the same time, he suddenly waved his sleeve, and an invisible force silently swept over, sending Zhou Changgeng's corpse into the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate within his body.
The entire venue was deathly silent.
Below, the two elders in green robes who were fighting with Wen Buqi and Wen Jiao almost popped their eyes out of their sockets.
Dead?!
The Grand Elder, Late Divine Sea Realm, used his Devil-Suppressing Hand card, yet he was actually cleaved in two by a mere Heavenly Origin Realm youth... with a single sword strike?!
Boundless fear instantly overwhelmed the two elders' reason.
escape.
Run!
The two didn't even have time to glance at Zhou Changgeng's remains. Without hesitation, they feinted an attack, turned into two streaks of azure light, and fled in two completely opposite directions as if their lives depended on it.
"Want to leave?"
Chu Yunfei stood high in the sky, his eyes cold and indifferent.
Having already committed the killing, he would never leave any survivors.
" The Divine Movement Art."
A burst of light erupted.
Chu Yunfei's figure vanished silently from the spot.
In the next instant, he cut off the elder's path on the left like a ghost.
The elder, at the Divine Sea Realm Sixth Layer, was terrified and hastily drew his sword, crying out, "Young man, don't...!"
"Five layers combined into one."
Chu Yunfei didn't even bother to let him finish speaking. The Abyss-Devouring Sword drew a dark red line and instantly severed the opponent's spirit blade as easily as cutting tofu. Then, it slashed horizontally across the opponent's neck.
puff!
A fine head flew into the air, blood gushing out like a fountain.
Chu Yunfei swept his divine sense around, took the storage ring, and the corpse instantly disappeared, disappearing into the Divine Cauldron in his sea of consciousness.
Almost simultaneously, without stopping, he once again traversed thousands of feet of void, appearing precisely above the head of another elder who was desperately fleeing.
"No... spare me..."
The desperate pleas for mercy had just begun.
Another blinding five-layered sword aura cleaved down from the heavens.
A deafening roar erupted.
The elder was blasted in two mid-air, his internal organs spilling out, and he died instantly.
In the blink of an eye.
The three renowned elders of the Divine Sea Realm were all wiped out.
Chu Yunfei flicked his sleeve and retrieved the Abyss-Devouring Sword, then took away the last corpse and the storage ring.
He slowly floated down from the sky, his black robe stained with blood, but his expression remained calm, as if he had just casually crushed a few insignificant ants.
On the deck of the flying boat, Wen Buqi stared blankly at everything, his whole body stiff as a piece of dried wood.
Uncle Yao rubbed his cloudy eyes, his Adam's apple bobbing violently, and the sound of him gasping for breath was clearly audible.
Only Wen Jiao, after the initial shock, lifted her skirt and quickly came to greet them.
"Husband, are you alright? Are your meridians injured?"
Wen Jiao's eyes were slightly red. She hurriedly reached out her jade-like hand to carefully examine Chu Yunfei's body, fearing that he might suffer a backlash from forcibly using a high-level sword technique.
The word "husband" uttered in front of the two elders caused Uncle Yao and Wen Buqi, who were standing nearby, to both twitch. They exchanged a strange glance.
Seeing her anxious and worried expression, Chu Yunfei felt a warmth in his heart. He reached out and took her soft little hand in his, and chuckled softly.
"Don't worry, my meridians are stable now. A few chickens and dogs can't hurt me."
Wen Buqi also came to his senses at this moment, quickly stepped forward, and looked at Chu Yunfei with an extremely complicated expression, even his voice was trembling slightly:
"Young friend Chu... your swordsmanship is truly astonishing!"
"In all my years of cultivation, I have never seen anyone so easily kill a monstrous talent at the Late Divine Sea Realm while only being at the Heavenly Origin Realm..."
Uncle Yao could only manage a wry smile as he wiped the cold sweat from his brow.
"I was worried about your safety, young master, but now it seems I was worrying unnecessarily."
Chu Yunfei remained calm, turned to look at Wen Buqi, and said solemnly:
" Elder Wen, Zhou Changgeng is dead, but you all saw what happened just now. He used the Devil-Suppressing Hand of the Heavenly Evil Devil Sect, which even involves the Blood Baleful Intent Tower."
"Besides the seven sects themselves, I'm afraid even the Pill Pavilion might have problems."
Wen Buqi nodded solemnly:
"Indeed, the Blood Baleful Intent Tower has even managed to infiltrate and subvert the Grand Elder of my Jade Firmament Sect. Such methods are truly chilling."
"I must secretly inform the Grand Master of this matter as soon as possible so that he can take precautions."
Chu Yunfei nodded slightly:
"There's no time to lose, Uncle Yao. Keep the flying boat running at full speed and get back to the capital as soon as possible."
"I'll go right away!" Uncle Yao hurriedly accepted the order and turned to head towards the central core of the formation.
With a roar, the azure spirit boat set sail once more, soaring through the sky.
On the deck, Chu Yunfei patted Wen Jiao's shoulder and said softly:
" My Jiao'er, the battle just now has stirred up my spiritual energy, and I need to go into seclusion to cultivate."
Wen Jiao nodded, her beautiful eyes filled with deep affection:
"My lord, go quickly. Your grandfather and I will keep watch outside and ensure no one disturbs you."
Chu Yunfei turned and walked into the training room in the boat cabin, locking the door behind him.
Inside the cultivation room, Chu Yunfei sat cross-legged on a futon.
His consciousness sank into the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate deep within his sea of consciousness.
At this moment, the interior of the Divine Cauldron was enveloped in azure light, and the corpses of three powerful beings at the Divine Sea Realm were being violently enveloped and frantically refined by the azure flames.
Not long after.
At the center of the Divine Cauldron, a drop of pure golden divine liquid, the size of a soybean and radiating endless brilliant light, was slowly rotating and condensing.
The raging, vast source of life and the essence of spiritual power surged wildly within it.
Chu Yunfei stared at the drop of divine liquid, a fervent smile playing on his lips:
" Zhou Changgeng... your lives have become the best stepping stones for me."
"It's time to break through to the Divine Sea Realm."