Void Devil Field

"Tsk, a sword immortal."

With the surrounding demonic aura completely dispelled, it means the Mysterious Peak Sect's work is complete; now it's the Divine Sword Sect's turn.

"Putting everything else aside, the way this swordsman wields his sword is truly beautiful to watch."

Lu Shuichan looked up for a while, then smiled and said to Jiang Mingshan.

"Are you starting to regret not joining the Divine Sword Sect, but instead joining the Mysterious Peak Sect?"

Jiang Mingshan gave a wry smile and said, "Senior Brother Lu, in the art of swordsmanship, success is either success or failure. It cannot be forced. No matter how good my talent for swordsmanship is, if I cannot grasp the sword intent, and I become controlled by the sword and indiscriminately kill innocents, I cannot become Devil Cultivator."

"Not bad, you have self-awareness. Some people just don't," Lu Shuichan said, shaking his head and looking quite pleased with himself.

"Lu the Dwarf," Yan Qing, the Sword-Unleashing True Person of the Divine Sword Sect, spoke up.

"From what you're saying, it seems you don't have much faith in my disciple's ability to comprehend 'Slay Ghost God'?"

"Hmph, of course I don't think so. They can't even disregard their own life and death, yet they think they can comprehend profound swordsmanship that transcends life and death. Don't you find that laughable?"

Yan Qing's face darkened, and with a flick of his sleeve, he transformed into a streak of sword light, seemingly too lazy to waste words with this shorty Lu.

"Find the treasure! Find the treasure!"

Xu Nuoning skipped and hopped.

"Alright, let's go find the treasure then," Lu Shuichan glanced at the other two, "As for you two, do as you please, anyway, our Mysterious Peak Sect's work is done."

After everyone else left, Jiang Mingshan looked at his Wu Hun.

"Instructor Wu, what are your thoughts?"

"I'm going to find a mountain to cultivate my understanding of 'Three Mountains and Five Sacred Peaks Lesser Liberation'."

"I thought you were going to Grand Gate Mountain to hone your physical body against the demon."

"My physical body has been honed to its limit; there's nothing more to train."

Wu Hun calmly shook his head. He straightened up, his body as burly as an iron tower, standing there like a small mountain. Beneath his skin, one could vaguely see muscle lines like steel bars, every inch exuding a profound sense of power.

He may lack the aptitude for cultivating immortality, but in other areas, such as martial arts, he is a true top genius. His physical training has reached the pinnacle of mortal martial arts. To go further, he would need to break through his cultivation realm to support the further transformation of his physical body. Simply relying on training is no longer meaningful.

"Tsk tsk, quite talented."

After the Wu Hun left, Jiang Mingshan thought for a moment and then went back to operating his excavator.

His current obsession with this thing has surpassed his love for swords, and he has discovered that he has an extraordinary talent for using it. For example, using the "One-Line Sword Physique," he can accurately sense the gaps and cracks in the mountain wall.

He wasn't a born swordsman, but he felt he might be a born earth-digging cultivator.

"It seems this is the place where the seal is located."

The Hu Mang looked up, gazing with interest at the ruins ahead, an ancient stone staircase mostly buried by vines and rubble.

As Wei Sword of Deliverance from Calamity Intent, Grand Gate Mountain vanished.

To be precise, it was the "normal" appearance of Grand Gate Mountain that disappeared.

The three majestic main peaks, the mountain ridge that spanned the sea of clouds, and the remaining stone platform ruins gradually faded from Hu Mang's sight, as if a curtain had been lifted.

Instead, a completely different scene unfolded.

A huge cave made of black rock appeared before us.

The cave was so large that it was comparable to a mountain, and its dome was immeasurably high, like an inverted night sky, covered with dense runes. These runes were outlined with silvery-white light, like a sky full of stars, slowly flowing in the darkness.

The ground was a flat black rock with a huge array carved on its surface. The array's patterns crisscrossed, spreading like a spider web to every corner of the cave. Each pattern emitted a faint light, like an underground river flowing slowly.

In the very center of the cave stands a huge stone tablet.

The stone tablet is about ten zhang tall, and is completely black, like a giant sword stuck in the ground.

The monument exudes an extremely pure and sharp sword intent, like a sword that has been sleeping for countless years, quietly embedded deep in the earth. Its sharpness is yet to be revealed, but those who approach it already feel a slight stinging sensation on their skin.

"This is the core seal of Grand Gate Mountain, the Grand Gate Sword Stele. The so-called damage to the seal is due to the insufficient sword intent within the stele, which requires the reinforcement of generations of the Divine Sword Sect members."

"Once you cross the sword monument, you'll find yourself in a void passage dug out by the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil. Later, due to the evolution of the earth's veins, it gradually transformed into a demon's lair, and other Devil Creature evolved from the corpses of those Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil."

"If Devil Creature from the Demon Cave invade while I am comprehending the sword intent, I would appreciate it if you, junior brother, could use the Divine Light of Earth Virtue to temporarily seal the cave for me."

"The senior and junior disciples of the Divine Sword Sect can cleanse the Demonic Qi in the mountains and develop their sword intent in no more than three days, so we only have three days."

"Senior brother, are you nervous?" Hu Mang asked abruptly.

Wei Du'e stopped talking, pursed his lips, and stepped directly into the Grand Gate Sword Stele.

Hu Mang grinned and followed behind the Tribulation-Crossing Divine Sword.

But once you walk behind the monument, the feeling is completely different; if I had to describe it, it's like being stuffed into Storage Bag.

All around were tight, alien-sounding spatial barriers, making the body feel compressed and distorted. The five senses became confused and blurred simultaneously. The surrounding air felt like a soft membrane, clinging tightly to the skin, with a warm and stuffy sensation.

There was no solid ground beneath my feet, no fixed direction around me, and the concepts of up, down, left, and right completely lost their meaning at this moment. I felt as if I were enveloped in a huge, flowing mass of light and shadow.

Hu Mang frowned, and the jade-like armor that had evolved from the Great Perfection Divine Light of Condensing Peaks reappeared on his body, instantly dispelling most of the sensation.

Hu Mang looked at Wei Du'e and noticed that a faint gray light had also appeared on the other's body, within which was the signature "Sword of Deliverance from Calamity Intent".

Hu Mang looked ahead again, and his brows furrowed almost immediately.

An extremely thick, tangible Demonic Qi, like deep black swamp water, instantly filled the entire space.

If the Demonic Qi outside is like a thin mist, then the Demonic Qi here is like the bottom of the deep sea—stagnant, thick, and carrying a destructive corrosive power.

He could feel the Demonic Qi slowly seeping into, corroding, and devouring his spiritual power and vitality, both within his blood vessels, meridians, and even deep within his internal organs.

"Be careful, junior brother, this is the Void Devil Field. The higher the cultivation level of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil, the stronger the Void Devil Field will be."

"In fact, some external demons are actually this Void Devil Field itself."

As Wei Du'e spoke, a gray sword light exploded like lightning tearing the heavens and earth apart, bursting forth from the blade and transforming into a gray-white waterfall of light tens of feet long, traversing the entire void.

The darkness vanished instantly.

"Most Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil are formless. If you encounter Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil with a physical body, it will either possess you or parasitize you."

Next, Hu Mang witnessed several other types of "Void Devil Field".

Some transformed into a cloud of bone-corroding demonic mist, corroding all kinds of substances wherever it passed.

Some are a Formless Needle-Flame, resembling a very faint bluish-white halo, looking like the warm light cast by the summer sun through the clouds, gentle and comforting.

But it is actually an illusion formed by countless tiny, rootless, and formless "needle-shaped demonic flames".

When a cultivator mistakenly passes by what appears to be an ordinary halo of light, the needle-like flames silently seep into their pores and meridians, exploding deep within their body.

Each burst of flame from a needle is like igniting a tiny spark in the meridians. At first, you don't notice it, but when the spark spreads, the meridians of your entire body are burned into a charred ruin.

Others have no visible form; their only characteristic is an extremely delicate whisper, like the groans of hundreds of dying people intertwined and entwined in one's ear.

The sound had no direction or source. No matter how much a cultivator blocked their hearing or senses, the whispers reached the deepest part of their soul, like a rusty iron needle constantly pricking at the most hidden wound in their heart.

Whenever a "Void Devil Field" is created, Wei Du'e will draw his sword and break the demon field apart.

However, some demonic fields can be cut open on the spot, while others can only be repelled. Some are even sensed by Wei Du'e in advance, causing his expression to change and him to avoid them.

According to this senior brother Wei, once you reach that level of the Void Devil Field, there is no longer a "life or death distinction." If you kill him with swordsmanship, you can actually revive him.

Because it has no life or death, even the swordsmanship of High Antiquity sword immortals cannot completely expel it.

"... Only the 'Slay Ghost God' swordsmanship of the Divine Sword True Person could repeatedly transform between life and death. If it died, it would be 'slayed to life'; if it was reborn, it would be 'slayed to death'. Only by repeating this countless times could the origin of this Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil be severely damaged."

It's clear that this Senior Brother Wei highly regards his family's swordsmanship.

However, Hu Mang's expression gradually became strange.

This Void Devil Field looks so much like a high-end version of our own Heavenly Devil Field!

At most, their own Heavenly Devil Field can only deal physical damage within three zhang (approximately 10 meters) and cause sensory confusion beyond that.

However, each of these Heavenly Devil Field before us contains a true "Heavenly Devil Transformations."

These "Heavenly Devil Transformations," regardless of their type, are extremely powerful and dangerous, and even contain unpredictable changes.

When Wei Du'e drew his sword once again and cleaved through the darkness, an earthen cave appeared, inside which was a humanoid skeleton.

The two exchanged a glance, both seeing the joy in each other's eyes.

"Could this be the legendary remains of High Antiquity cultivator?" Hu Mang asked.

"Junior brother, please wait a moment."

Wei Du'e ran his index finger along the spine of the Sword of Deliverance from Calamity, sensed it with his sword intent for a moment, and then shook his head.

"Not a sword cultivator."

Hu Mang glanced around at the surroundings and made a guess.

"Is that Devil Cultivator?"

"He's not Devil Cultivator either."