Above the Luo Family's residence, the heavens and earth roared, and the winds and clouds changed dramatically.
Luo Tianming's body suddenly erupted in raging flames of true spirit, his hair flying wildly, his eyes bloodshot, and an aura of doomsday power bursting forth from his body. He roared to the sky, his voice like thunder splitting the heavens. "Today, I, Luo Tianming, will make you demons pay with your blood, even if it costs me my life!"
In an instant, he burned his life force, his blood and qi transforming into a raging inferno, his true spirit surging to its Ultimate, directly confronting the Demonic Spirit Commander's third attack. The sky instantly twisted and collapsed, as if countless lightning bolts and stars were falling from the void, colliding head-on with the withered-handed Demonic Spirit Commander's terrifying offensive. Space was completely torn apart, the aftershocks causing the entire Luo Family's mountain gate to collapse, billions of light fragments surging wildly, and all the Luo Family disciples were blasted away, coughing up blood; the scene was extremely tragic.
Luo Tianming staggered half a step, his eyes fixed on the Demonic Spirit Commander, his chest heaving violently. He knew that if things continued like this, the Luo Family was doomed. So he gritted his teeth and took out a black crystal core, a forbidden item passed down through the Luo Family for a thousand years— the Soul Crystal Core!
"As long as I consume this, I will be able to forcefully break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm... Even if I pay an irreversible price, I can still slay you, you demon!" Luo Tianming roared, his fingertips glowing with spiritual light as he was about to swallow the Soul Crystal Core.
However, at that very moment, the world suddenly turned cold, and an even more sinister aura swept out from the shadows of the void.
A swirling black mist slowly coalesced, its shape constantly shifting, sometimes transforming into a ferocious human figure, sometimes into a pouncing beast, and sometimes stretching into endless venomous snakes. Countless faces within the black mist flickered in and out of focus, each one grinning and whispering as if chanting a curse, sending shivers down the spines of those who heard it.
"Hehehe... True Spirit Blood, Soul Crystal Core... Delicious... You think you can consume it? No, it belongs to me!"
With a chilling, Ultimate laugh, the black mist suddenly transformed into sharp claws, moving with ghostly speed, and snatched the Soul Crystal Core directly from Luo Tianming's hand.
Luo Tianming's pupils constricted sharply, and his roar tore through the sky, "You beast, how dare you!"
However, the other Demonic Spirit leader had already completely swallowed the Soul Crystal Core. Endless black mist burst forth, darkening the sky and earth, as if the entire Great Yan Continent was shrouded in its shadow.
The Luo Lineage members, and even cultivators thousands of miles away, could feel a sudden, oppressive aura of despair descending upon them.
The second Demonic Spirit leader, aided by the Soul Crystal Core, is undergoing its terrifying transformation!
The world fell silent for a moment, then erupted with an aura more terrifying than the end of the world.
The Demonic Spirit leader, formed from endless black mist, completely disrupted the entire void the moment it swallowed the Soul Crystal Core.
Countless grinning faces appeared and disappeared in the black mist, each whisper as if reciting forbidden scriptures, bringing a soul-shattering tremor. Then, the black mist surged violently, coalescing into a gigantic, eerie figure over a hundred feet tall.
Abyssal black flames burned in its eye sockets, its pupils like vortexes, directly swallowing light. In the next instant, the power of the laws of heaven and earth was forcibly torn apart, turning into rings of crack-like black ripples that spread outwards.
Initial Entry into the Spirit Transformation Realm!
Rumble—As it broke through its cultivation level, terrifying phenomena appeared in the sky above the Central State Great Yan Continent:
The sky was pierced by black cracks, as if even the heavens themselves had been torn apart;
In the distance, mountains and rivers collapsed, lakes churned, and even the flow of time seemed to pause and become disordered for a brief moment;
The power of that divine sense covered dozens of miles, and all the cultivators felt their Fate Soul being suppressed, making it difficult to breathe, as if they would be strangled at any moment.
Luo Tianming's eyes suddenly froze. He could clearly sense that the Demonic Spirit leader was no longer just at the same level as him, but had completely transcended half a step and entered the Spirit Transformation Realm, which could touch cause and effect and disrupt destiny.
The Demonic Spirit leader slowly stretched out its arms, and as the mist churned, it transformed into hundreds of chain-like tentacles, carrying with them an aura of shattered laws. Its voice echoed through the heavens and earth, low and chilling:
"Divine consciousness has arisen, and the Heavenly Dao can be touched... You mortal spirits are all sacrifices."
With each word it uttered, the surrounding earth cracked open, space trembled, and all life was stripped away.
The Luo Family disciples felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, their whole bodies trembling. Even just looking up at them felt like their souls were being shattered.
Luo Tianming gritted his teeth, his blood surging, staring intently at the Demonic Spirit leader, a feeling of unprecedented heaviness rising in his heart.
Demonic Spirit leader at the Spirit Transformation Realm!
At this moment, he finally realized that even if he used all his trump cards, he might not be able to lead the Luo Family to survival.
The heavens and earth roared, and the wind and clouds changed color.
Luo Tianming's body suddenly burst into a raging blood flame, a trump card that had been burned to ashes at the cost of his lifespan and soul. He roared, and his true spiritual power surged into the sky like a raging torrent, tearing through the heavens and earth with a devastating force.
However
Black mist churned as the newly Initial Entry into the Spirit Transformation Realm Demonic Spirit leader and the withered-hand Demonic Spirit leader Major Completion of the True Spirit Realm, simultaneously reached out their hands. In that instant, the world seemed to lose all its color.
--boom!!!
Two destructive dark forces suddenly intertwined, forming an endless tide of death energy. The blood flames that Luo Tianming unleashed with his Soul Burning were instantly devoured, and his true spirit body was completely torn apart in a deafening explosion.
Within the vast, dark gray vortex, Luo Tianming's agonizing roar echoed through the heavens and earth. His massive figure was suppressed until it crumbled inch by inch, and his final roar gradually faded into the void.
Luo Tianming, the patriarch of the Luo Family, Major Completion of the True Spirit Realm, perished before everyone's eyes.
Even more terrifyingly, the Demonic Spirit Lord did not allow his soul to completely dissipate. The black mist chains swirled in the void, directly imprisoning Luo Tianming's remnant soul and true spirit core, forcibly dragging them into his body.
"Hehehe..." The eerie laughter echoed in all directions.
Within the sea of mist, Luo Tianming's figure reappeared, but his eyes had transformed into pitch-black, lifeless pupils, his divine consciousness completely erased, turning him into a puppet. The former venerable Luo Family member, a towering figure who had achieved the Great Perfection of True Spirit, had actually become a soul-devouring slave of the Demonic Spirit Commander.
"Ancestor--!!!"
"The Luo Family is finished..."
"This is impossible... this is impossible--!"
Countless disciples of the Luo Family let out heart-wrenching cries, their eyes filled with shock, fear, and utter despair.
The next moment, the Demon Spirit Legion, like a surging black torrent, completely engulfed the Luo Family. Palaces, homes, and ancient towers of inheritance were all shattered in an instant, blood splattered into the sky, and wails of agony filled the air.
Covered in blood, Luo Qianhua, with her last ounce of strength, gazed at the manipulated Luo Tianming, her eyes filled with uncontrollable sorrow and rage.
"Father... the Luo Family..."
Before he could finish speaking, the withered hand Demonic Spirit pierced through his body with a single palm strike, taking away his last breath.
Luo Qianhua died with her eyes wide open, a lingering light of resentment in them, before collapsing into a pool of blood.
With Luo Qianhua's demise, the entire Luo Family was completely reduced to ashes by the Demon Spirit Legion.
A powerful clan that lasted for generations was wiped out overnight.
In the vast expanse of heaven and earth, only the Demonic Spirit leader's sinister laughter echoed beneath the boundless blood-red night sky.
Thus, the Luo Family was completely destroyed, Luo Tianming became a soul slave of the Demonic Spirit Leader.
Under the cover of night, blood stained the heavens and the earth.
Outside the gates of the White Cloud Sect, the battlefield had long since transformed into Asura landscape. Corpses lay strewn across the scorched earth, rivers of blood flowed, and intense death energy and spiritual ripples swirled in the air, causing the entire world to tremble.
Qin Yu, covered in blood and with torn robes, wielded Black Bone War Spear, yet his figure remained as straight as a spear. He breathed heavily, his eyes burning with icy killing intent. With each swing of the spear, black spear light tore through the void, and several Demonic Spirit shattered in response. But the Demon Spirit Legion seemed endless, advancing wave after wave, their roars shaking mountains.
Zhao Xinyu and Yang Zheng stood side by side, both already bloodthirsty. Zhao Xinyu activated the Soul Blade Void-Breaking Art, her eyes gleaming with a cold, sharp light. Soul blades rained down, severing the shadows and souls of the Demonic Spirit. Yang Zheng cleaved the void with a sword, lightning and fire intertwining and exploding on the blade, shattering dozens of attacking Demonic Spirit. His body swayed precariously, but his gaze remained unwavering.
The Imperial Clan Legion, which had once pressed forward like an overwhelming tide, now numbered only a handful, all wounded and their armor soaked in blood. The general, Middle Stage of the Mystic Understanding Realm expert, had lost an arm, his armor was shattered, and his face was pale, yet he still gripped his long sword and stood firmly at the forefront.
"Fight to the death! Hold on to the death--!" the general roared, his voice hoarse and torn.
The White Cloud Sect disciples suffered an even more devastating loss; of the more than ten thousand disciples, more than half had perished, corpses littered the ground, and blood filled the air. The remaining disciples clung tightly to the mountain-protecting formation, their eyes filled with fear and despair, yet none retreated.
The figures of the sect elders intertwined in mid-air, their spiritual energy falling like meteors, constantly shattering the Demonic Spirit's attacks. But the Demonic Spirit were too numerous; each time dozens Annihilation, hundreds or thousands more would surge in the next instant, a surging black tide that blotted out the sky.
"Senior brother, we... I'm afraid we can't hold on much longer!" Yang Zheng gritted his teeth, his forehead covered in blood and sweat, and slashed out with his sword trembling once more.
Zhao Xinyu's eyes were slightly red, and the blade of her sword gleamed with spiritual light. She looked around at the corpses strewn everywhere, and an indescribable sorrow welled up in her chest.
Qin Yu gave a cold laugh, his voice low and firm. "Can't hold on? Then we'll fight until we can! Today, even if we fight to the last drop of blood, we will defend the White Cloud Sect!"
He suddenly held the Black Bone War Spear horizontally in front of him, his soul power and elemental power surging violently within him. Gray light vibrated gently in the depths of his consciousness, as if responding to his will.
Boom--
With a sweep of the spear, blood and deathly energy exploded in the void, transforming into a storm that swept thousands of feet away, forcefully clearing the Demonic Spirit battlefield in front of them.
Outside the mountain gate, the sounds of battle shook the heavens and earth.
The last embers of the White Cloud Sect and the Imperial Clan Legion fought desperately to defend themselves amidst the endless demonic tide.
The night sky suddenly trembled, and billowing blood mist spread from the horizon.
Outside the gates of the White Cloud Sect, disciples and the remaining Imperial Clan Legion were locked in a fierce battle when suddenly, a suffocating sense of oppression enveloped the entire battlefield. The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi seemed to be drained away, the mountains and rivers lost their color, and all things seemed to be groaning in agony.
Boom--
The sky suddenly split open, a black and red crack tearing through the firmament. Accompanied by a ripping roar, the Demonic Spirit Commander, Major Completion of the True Spirit Realm expert at the peak of its cultivation, slowly stepped out. Its body was composed of countless pale arms intertwined, each arm twisting independently, as if a million living creatures were struggling simultaneously. Its fingertips tapped the air, the clicking sound like a death knell, sending countless disciples trembling wildly through their souls. Its mouth stretched to its ears, a savage grin spreading across its face, blood-red light flashing from the depths of its mouth, as if it wanted to swallow the entire world.
Beside it, another figure followed closely behind— Luo Tianming!
This once-powerful patriarch of the Luo Family, who once dominated the Central State, now has empty eyes, his pupils flashing with an eerie dark red light. His aura as a Major Completion of the True Spirit Realm is still terrifying, but at this moment he is completely controlled, like a walking corpse. His soul has been devoured, and his life force is gone; he has become the soul slave of the Demonic Spirit Commander!
When the two appeared side by side in the sky above the battlefield, the entire world roared, as if a corner of the world had been lifted.
A destructive force pressed down from the sky, causing the mountain gate's grand formation to tremble violently, cracks appearing as if it were about to collapse at any moment. Almost simultaneously, all the disciples of the White Cloud Sect felt their knees buckle, as if their souls were being torn apart, and their breaths stopped.
"That's... Luo Tianming?!"
"How is this possible... He... He actually became a servant of the Demonic Spirit!"
"My God, that Demonic Spirit leader... is a hundred times more terrifying than the rumors say!"
Screams and cries of despair echoed across the sect's plaza. Many disciples could barely hold their weapons, their bodies trembling.
Qin Yu, Zhao Xinyu, and Yang Zheng looked up and saw the Demonic Spirit Commander looking down at the earth. Countless pale arms stretched out behind him, covering the entire night sky, as if the end of the world had arrived. Luo Tianming stood beside him, his eyes deathly still, radiating a pressure comparable to a natural disaster.
At this moment, the heavens and earth seemed to be completely suppressed, and the entire White Cloud Sect was plunged into unparalleled fear and shock.