A Scoundrel Beyond the Pale, Killing, Burning and Pillaging!
Ten thousand miles away, in the Ancient Night Royal City.
This is the largest and most magnificent city in the southern part of the Lightless Dead Realm. Built against the mountain, its walls stretch for thousands of miles. Three Night Beast at the Middle Spirit Transformation once ruled over it, governing hundreds of millions of living beings.
However, at this moment, the towering black crystal city wall had already collapsed by more than half.
Above the city, the once majestic, boundary-breaking black pupil that had hung high for millennia was now nothing more than a withered, sunken black hole, constantly spewing out corrosive gray gas...
More than half of the buildings in the city collapsed, and everywhere was scorched earth left by lightning strikes.
Inside the Great Hall of Bones in the center of the city, screams and wails rose and fell.
Dozens of the Nascent Soul Realm stage Night Beast, their bodies mangled and with four arms, were guarding the throne in utter terror.
On that throne, carved from the skulls of millions of ancient beasts, a colossal humanoid beast, over a hundred feet tall and bearing a single horn, lay slumped upon it.
This Night Beast was covered in deep, bone-revealing sword wounds and charred lightning spots.
The right half of his body had even been carbonized and disintegrated by some kind of domineering true lightning, and it was difficult to recover to this day. His aura had also fallen to the Early Spirit Transformation, and he appeared listless.
"Your Majesty! Another 30,000 li of the boundary wall has collapsed!"
A Nascent Soul Night Beast knelt on the ground, its voice trembling with despair. "The ancestral vein's earth fire outside is pouring back, and the remaining clansmen in the city... are about to be torn apart by the void rifts!"
"Where... where should we run to?!"
The Unicorn King slowly opened its murky, festering, bloodshot eyes, let out a bitter laugh, and emitted a mournful, leaky cry from its throat:
"Escape?"
"Heaven and earth have crumbled, the source of the Dao has been lost, where can we escape to?"
"Heaven is going to destroy my Lightless Divine Dynasty... Heaven is going to destroy my race..."
Before he could finish speaking...
Boom--!!!
A Violent Thunder, as powerful as the creation of the world, suddenly exploded above the Ancient Night Royal City!
The entire dilapidated city, stretching for thousands of miles, shook violently in that instant, its hard black crystal ground tearing apart inch by inch like a spider web.
"Enemy attack?!"
The Unicorn King's scales stood on end as it forcefully squeezed out the remaining Dao of Darkness Law Power within its body, leaping into the air and looking up at the sky.
Above the royal city, the shattered and dark sky was torn open at this moment, creating a golden chasm ten thousand feet long!
The wind howled like a waterfall, and the thunder roared like a raging sea.
A massive, jet-black spear, thousands of feet long and imbued with the Daoist aura of annihilation in purple and gold, descended from the depths of the sea of clouds, carrying an overwhelming killing intent that could eclipse the heavens and earth!
Before the spear tip even arrived, the violent and heavy pure yang energy pressure had already crushed the vast expanse of white bone palaces below into a shower of bone dust!
"Roar! It's that celestial thunder demon again! Does it really think I'm a pushover to be bullied?!"
Knowing he was in dire straits, the Unicorn King's eyes revealed a fierce and menacing aura.
It roared and plunged its remaining arm into its heart, forcibly expelling a large mass of dark primordial Essence Blood.
Then it transformed into a thousand-foot-long Mystic Sha Bone Blade, slashing against the sky!
"A stubborn resistance."
Above the clouds, a cold and majestic voice descended like thunder from the heavens.
The spear crashed down!
Sizzle!
The Mystic Sha Bone Blade, imbued with the last breath of a Spirit Transformation Night Beast, couldn't even withstand half a breath the instant it touched the spear tip. It crumbled and annihilated inch by inch under the onslaught of the blazing Pure Yang Divine Lightning and the Life-Extinguishing Nether Lightning!
The spear's edge, like a world-ending divine punishment, pierced through the Unicorn King's body with overwhelming force, then sank deep into the depths of the royal city!
Rumble rumble rumble--!
The extremely violent lightning energy exploded wildly deep within the earth's veins, completely transforming the core of the majestic and ancient royal city into a raging inferno of lightning and fire under this attack.
The Night Beast, already severely injured and on the verge of death, didn't even have a chance to self-destruct his immortal Immortal Foundation before his physical body and Primordial Spirit were shattered on the spot by the unparalleled power contained in the spear, turning into dust that scattered across the sky.
Amidst the billowing smoke and thunder, a figure in a pristine white robe slowly emerged from the void.
Shi Jian's expression was cold and stern, his right hand hovering in the air as if making a grabbing motion.
A Spirit Transformation Soul Core, the size of a large bowl and radiating intense Dao of Darkness Principle, flew out from the rolling thunder and fire and landed steadily in his palm.
At the same time, Shi Jian's Divine Sense broke through the layers of restrictions deep underground like a net.
Whoosh!
An invisible force ripped open the earth, and a vast, dark palace buried tens of thousands of feet underground was pulled out of the ground.
The palace houses rare and precious treasures accumulated over tens of thousands of years.
Dozens of pieces of fifth-order Nether Black Mystic Iron, each about ten feet in diameter; hundreds of Ten-Thousand-Year Night Soul Grass, their bodies as black as ink; thousands of fourth-order Dark Beast Inner Cores; and three entire Dao of Darkness Spirit Marrow Pools, radiating pure Daoist essence!
Shi Jian's sleeves, like a giant bag containing the universe, suddenly unfolded.
A fierce wind howled, swirling away the remaining clouds.
In just a dozen breaths, Shi Jian had completely looted the Ancient Night Royal City's treasury, which had been passed down for tens of thousands of years, leaving not even a single intact spirit crystal behind.
"Indeed, this type of ancient city does possess some hidden depth."
Shi Jian expressionlessly sheathed his spear, not even glancing at the weak Night Beast and ants scattering and fleeing in the ruins.
With a mere thought, countless bolts of lightning were drawn to it.
Bolts of lightning struck down, annihilating all the Nascent Soul Night Beast and seizing their fourth-tier Night Beast cores as provisions.
As for those below the fourth rank, Shi Jian no longer bothered with them.
His gaze then flashed like lightning, looking towards a vast abyss tens of millions of miles away, where billowing Black Sha rose.
With a swift movement, the purple-gold lightning tore through the void once more, roaring away.
Hunting, plundering, sweeping across the land.
In this crumbling, doomed realm, a monstrous figure, wielding a spear and clad in lightning-stained white robes, ruthlessly reaps the last vestiges of civilization, treading upon the countless corpses of a collapsed dynasty...
Within days, thunder and fire raged across the sky, and smoke filled the land.
With the collapse and destruction of one ancient fortress after another, all the remaining creatures in the Lightless Dead Realm were plunged into the deepest tremor.
Whether they were the barely surviving members of the Night Beast or the Thunder Cultivators from all realms who were hiding in the shadows to heal their wounds, they were all horrified to discover that the Divine Firmament Giant Bear, which was infamous on the Two Realms Battlefield, had not only not died in the great battle of the Polar Night Sacred Abyss back then.
Instead, it unleashed a more domineering and brutal extinction storm across the entire world on this scorched land!
Wherever they went, not a blade of grass grew; all the Spirit Transformation Night Beast were slain; and all ancient treasure troves were emptied!