A Flash of the Blade, Earth-Level Demon Suppression

The shadow of death instantly enveloped Zhan Qiushui.

She stared intently at the approaching, blood-stained claw, her eyes filled with resentment.

"Am I really... going to die here?"

She wasn't afraid of death, but she hated herself for not being able to bring back the evidence of the Xiahou Family's collusion with the Variants, and for not being able to save more innocent civilian students like Dongfang Yueming!

"Hehehe! Despair! This is the consequence of rebelling against the Holy Clan!"

Xiahou Jing laughed wildly; he loved watching the helpless expression on his prey's face before death.

However.

Just as those sharp claws were about to pierce Zhan Qiushui's throat at the critical moment!

Hidden in the shadows, Dongfang Yueming's eyes finally turned cold.

"This thing isn't human?"

"Lying lurking in human cities, and deliberately leaving behind some ridiculous opportunity..."

What exactly are they planning?

Dongfang Yueming casually tore off a piece of his clothes and covered his face, obscuring most of his features.

The next moment.

[Heaven Grade Profound Technique the Great Sound Is Inaudible, the Great Form Is Shapeless!]

His body seemed to merge into the Xukong, disappearing from the spot without causing even the slightest disturbance.

Die!

Xiahou Jing's sharp claws slashed down fiercely!

but.

"When--!"

A crisp, metallic clang suddenly rang out from the ruins!

It wasn't the sound of being slashed in flesh!

Zhan Qiushui suddenly opened her eyes, and in her previously despairing pupils, she saw a scene that she would never forget!

A tall, slender figure dressed in casual clothes and with his face covered by a black cloth appeared silently behind Xiahou Jing as if by magic!

And that Variants claw, capable of tearing through fine steel, was now being steadily held in mid-air by a seemingly ordinary E-grade Tang sword!

It can't advance even an inch further!

"Wh... what?!"

Xiahou Jing's maniacal laughter froze instantly, and a look of extreme astonishment flashed in his huge vertical pupils!

"Who are you?!"

He hadn't even noticed when this person had approached him! Even a Peak Blood Refining Realm expert couldn't escape his keen Variants senses!

unless...

Unless the other party doesn't emit any qi or blood fluctuations at all!

"A person who just happened to be passing by."

Dongfang Yueming spoke calmly.

You just said...

"Profound Grade Profound Truth is like tickling an itch?"

He slightly twisted the wrist holding the Tang sword.

"Then how about trying... this?"

"Boom--!!!"

A terrifying, dark golden aura, like an ancient, ferocious dragon that had been dormant for ten thousand years, roared out from Dongfang Yueming's body in an instant!

[Top-Tier Perfection: Qi and Blood Like a Dragon!]

The sheer power and purity of this blood and energy, though only at the Blood Nourishing Realm, surpassed even Xiahou Jing's transformed state in quality!

"Roar!"

Faintly, one could hear the roar of a dragon!

Alarm bells rang in Xiahou Jing's mind, and an unprecedented sense of deadly crisis made the scales on his body stand on end!

"Get out of here, you charlatan!"

He roared, and his thick tail lashed out fiercely at Dongfang Yueming with a piercing whistling sound!

"Too slow."

Dongfang Yueming's eyes were indifferent as he slowly raised the Tang sword in his hand.

[Earth Grade Blood Skill - "Wind and Water Sword Dance"]!

[Earth-Level Profound Truth - [Blade Storm]]!

"Zheng--!"

A single slash!

It lacked any earth-shattering grandeur or dazzling brilliance.

There's only one...

An absolute death sword domain that seems capable of slicing through space and severing cause and effect!

"Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Countless invisible, strangling sword energies erupted instantly, centered on Dongfang Yueming!

"No!!!"

Xiahou Jing only had time to let out a desperate roar.

His proud, hard scales, which even Profound Grade Profound Truth could only leave white marks on, were instantly sliced into countless pieces like fragile tofu under the strangulation of this Earth-Level Profound Truth!

"Pfft!"

Blood rained down from the sky!

Xiahou Jing's enormous, Variants body froze in mid-air for a moment, then...

With a loud crash, it collapsed, turning into a pile of mangled flesh!

Instant kill!

A complete and utter annihilation!

Moreover, even after death, his body could not be restored to a human form, and remained in that hideous and terrifying Variants form.

A deathly silence reigned amidst the ruins.

Zhan Qiushui lay on the ground, staring blankly at the masked figure holding a Tang sword, standing proudly in the pool of blood, her mind completely blank.

"Earth -Earth-Level Profound Truth?!"

"He actually... mastered the legendary Earth-Level Profound Truth?!"

Moreover, what shocked her the most was the burst of energy and blood energy she had just witnessed...

"Blood Nourishing Realm?!"

"How is this possible?!"

A martial artist at the Blood Nourishing Realm actually killed a mutated Blood Refining Realm Seventh Layer Variants with a single strike?!

This completely overturned her understanding of Martial Dao!

"You..."

Zhan Qiushui struggled to stand up, "Who exactly are you?"

Dongfang Yueming slowly turned around, his deep gaze falling on her through the veil.

He didn't answer, but instead asked, "And who are you?"

"And this thing," he pointed the tip of his knife at the bits of meat on the ground, "What exactly is it?"

Zhan Qiushui took a deep breath, enduring the sharp pain in her chest, and replied in a low voice:

"I am Zhan Qiushui, a senior student at Jinling Martial University and a member of the Disciplinary Committee."

She looked at the corpse on the ground, a deep sense of dread flashing in her eyes.

As for it...

"It's not human at all!"

"It is a ' Variants ' lurking in our human society!"

"Variants?" Dongfang Yueming frowned slightly. Although he had already guessed it, hearing the definite answer still made him feel that things were more complicated than he had imagined.

"That's right!"

Zhan Qiushui gritted her teeth and said, "They disguised themselves as humans and even infiltrated Martial Dao families like the Xiahou Family!"

"They deliberately leave behind seemingly valuable cultivation techniques and resources in schools or outside the city, as 'opportunities'."

"Those talented students from impoverished backgrounds who yearn to become stronger, once they succumb to temptation and practice the techniques they offer, consume their elixirs..."

"Their blood and qi will be 'rapidly matured' by them using special methods!"

She looked at Dongfang Yueming, her tone becoming extremely solemn:

"Wait until the prey is fattened up..."

"They'll treat those students like 'food'... and devour them whole!"