# Chapter 2014 - Abyss Divine Ashes
The splashing blood mist blurred everyone's vision, stabbing into everyone's eyes and hearts.
Anyone could tell at a glance that Mo Cangying was doing everything in his power to save Yun Che's life, going so far as to use his younger body to withstand the pressure from eleven Half-step Divine Annihilation level experts who were all Linyuan overlords.
His sudden intervention was clearly a last resort, trying to forcefully kill the doomed Long Jiang to stop Yun Che's "foolishness" and buy him a final chance to live.
But the consequence... he didn't get the anger and condemnation from Ximen Borong and the others. Instead, he was killed by a single sword strike from Yun Che, the very person he was desperately trying to protect.
Without even a trace of hesitation or mercy.
After the raining blood, those eyes showed no turbulence whatsoever.
Ku Xian froze. Helian, Zhai Kexie... everyone was stunned for a moment.
"Yun Che, you..." Helian's face twitched, twisting savagely. "What... are... you doing!"
This scene before him was completely unexpected, utterly incomprehensible.
Boom!
In response, there was only Yun Che's heavy, horrifying footsteps. This time, even Helian's heart gave a violent pound. Ximen Borong, Zhai Kexie, and Wan Wei could no longer smile... That sword strike, so utterly cruel and heartless, along with a baleful aura that almost exceeded comprehension, made these Linyuan overlords suddenly uneasy to the core.
A sound like exploding rock tore through the frozen silence. Ku Xian's aged eyes were covered in profound light—whether from pain or sorrow was impossible to tell. His arms turned to rock, instantly unleashing a heaven-toppling momentum, driving straight at Yun Che's heart.
Where those old hands passed, space was pushed away layer by layer, the sand sea below splitting into a thousand-zhang chasm.
He had little lifespan left. Every time he struck, it cost him more life. He couldn't remember the last time he went all out. But this time... every shred of his Rock Firmament power was infused with the resolve of death.
And that resolve wasn't because of Mo Cangying's death. It was because he sensed immense danger from Yun Che.
Just a Divine Sovereign, but those eyes, that murderous aura... when he touched them, he felt as if he were being dragged into a bottomless dark abyss, never to escape.
His earlier gentle composure was fake. His friendship with Mo Cangying and closeness with Helian Lingzhu were fake. Even... the fact that he was saved by Helian Lingzhu and Mo Cangying was itself fake!
It was said that when one's life was about to end, they could vaguely glimpse heavenly secrets.
When Yun Che shed his disguise, what appeared before Ku Xian's eyes... seemed like a world-ruining demon god devoid of humanity and emotion.
The light before Yun Che's eyes dimmed as Ku Xian's destruction rock pressed down layer upon layer, accompanied by the roar of a despairing giant beast.
He put 60% of his power into protecting Yun Xi, and 40% into his right arm. The Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword lifted straight up.
Puff—Boom!
The sand sea overturned, the rock exploded. Amid the rock-burst sounds that shook most of the Linyuan Divine Realm, Yun Che was blasted back several li. The ground beneath him shattered continuously as he retreated.
When he first saw Ku Xian, Yun Che sensed the depth of his profound strength. Though not as strong as the quasi-knights Nan Zhaoming and Nan Zhaoguang who followed Mo Beichen, it was certainly above Long Bai back then.
Yun Che now was slightly stronger than when he fought Long Bai. But using only 40% power against Ku Xian's full force, he was still slightly at a disadvantage.
And those eleven Half-step Divine Annihilation Linyuan overlords were all existences no weaker than Nan Zhaoming and Nan Zhaoguang.
Helian and the others showed sudden shock. That was Ku Xian's all-out strike with full will, unleashing the peak of Divine Lord Realm destruction rock might—yet it only stunned Yun Che, who held his sword with one hand!
A Divine Sovereign realm cultivator, stopping a peak Divine Lord's full-force strike with one hand... these eleven Half-step Divine Annihilation experts all drew cold breaths inwardly.
The awe-inspiring might he displayed at the Lin God Assembly, which had shaken the entire venue, wasn't even his full power... it was just him fooling around casually!
What kind of background, what kind of talent could create such a freak who completely defied comprehension and twisted all common sense!
And he was only half a Jiazi old!
When such a freak grew up, crushing them would be no different from crushing ants!?
Coldness and killing intent surged wildly in their hearts... including Helian's.
With such a terrifying person, since the mask had been torn off... he had to be killed! And they should be extremely grateful that he was still young, trapped in this isolated secret realm—at least for now, he was still completely within their control.
"He... Yun Che... must die!" Zhai Kexie's words squeezed through his unconsciously gritted teeth.
Boom! Another explosion. The collapsing sand sea crumbled again. Ku Xian struck once more, his withered body under thick rock light like a soaring giant eagle pouncing at Yun Che. As he approached, he transformed into three thousand rock spears, each flashing with the ultimate rock light that pierced the soul and blinded the eyes.
Yun Che slowly looked up... the moment their gazes met, Ku Xian's otherwise fierce and unyielding figure paused.
Though he had been knocked back, though he faced a certain death situation, his eyes showed not a trace of anxiety, anger, or reluctance.
Calm to the point of terror.
Ku Xian was momentarily dazed... It seemed they had awakened a demon that had originally hidden its fangs.
Boom!
The vermilion great sword heavily plunged into the sand sea.
And in Yun Che's hand, a yellow light suddenly appeared. A divine light only the size of a palm, but it instantly invaded everyone's vision, piercing straight into their souls.
It was many times deeper and darker than the rock light fused from the three thousand spears.
What... was that?
What appeared in Yun Che's hand was the Evil God Seed from the late Lin Shen.
But in the current situation, he naturally had no time to complete the fusion.
However, this Evil God Seed was condensed with Lin Shen's final and total source power.
If he gradually refined it while fusing the last Evil God Seed, it would surely greatly increase his cultivation.
But now, that no longer mattered.
His plan to retreat safely, his rapid progress... none of it mattered!
Everything in the Abyss was nothing but weeds he had to ruthlessly cut away—none could entangle his heart and soul.
But in his arms... was his daughter!
Her safety was more important than all the living and dead in the Abyss!!
Bang!
The Evil God Seed, radiating dense Lin light, was smashed onto his chest, embedding into his flesh.
During the battle with Mo Beichen, he had sacrificed all the divine sources on his body.
And what was attached to this Evil God Seed was the original divine source directly from Lin Shen, unpolluted, undiminished, uninherited.
In terms of carrying capacity alone, it surpassed any divine source he had sacrificed in the god realm.
Enough for him to resolutely activate, for the first time in the Abyss world...
Divine Ashes!!
Boom————
No agonized roar, no cathartic scream—only the violent bursting of flesh, and a wave of air that instantly overturned a hundred thousand li of sand sea.
"Ugh...!?" Ku Xian's pouncing figure was thrown into the air by this air wave, half of his three thousand rock spears snapping.
Behind his ears came the chaotic overlapping of horrified cries. But before his eyes, everything had vanished, leaving only a vermilion sword light and a pair of eyes like a blood abyss. The rock spears condensed from his ultimate power shattered piece by piece—not breaking, but turning directly to powder. His aged features twisted rapidly under the approaching terrifying pressure, until finally, only a pair of utterly colorless pupils could be faintly discerned.
The residual light deep in those pupils was not shock, not fear, but confusion.
A confusion that could only be explained as being trapped in a bizarre dream.
Puff—Boom!
Yun Che passed right through Ku Xian's side. The three thousand rock spears vanished like fleeting fireflies into the vast sandstorm. Ku Xian's body, along with the rock light covering him, was severed at the waist—then shattered, broken again by the erupting Divine Ashes power, until only a rain of blood mixed with endless sand fell.
This scene, even through the sky-covering sandstorm, was clearly engraved into everyone's eyes.
Eleven pairs of pupils dilated sharply, then contracted wildly, as if stabbed by countless bloodthirsty, maddening hell demons.
"De... Demigod..." Amid the dust, Ximen Borong's voice squeezed from his throat.
He looked at Yun Che, sensed his aura, and for the first time in his life, absolutely could not believe his eyes, nor his spiritual sense.
The majesty of a Demigod—he had experienced it many times from Ximen Boyun and was quite familiar with it, a thing of endless longing and desire.
And before him, Yun Che still had a Divine Sovereign realm profound aura, but the terrifying pressure that made his entire body go limp and his soul tremble uncontrollably... was clearly the pressure of the Demigod realm!
And stronger than Ximen Boyun!
No... even slightly stronger than that Mo Beichen who was once called the Linyuan myth!
Before their shock could turn to fear, the pressure like a terrifying nightmare had already closed in.
The first target was Helian, the closest.
In his Divine Ashes state, it wasn't just Yun Che's power that was berserk. In that instant of space-tearing movement, Helian, still in dazed terror, barely managed to raise his arms.
A boom sounded before Helian. His two forearms shattered instantly, and his body, spraying blood, smashed down into the sand sea that was deep beyond measure, buried along with his piercing scream by the surging quicksand.
Boom!!
A mere shift of position brought the sound of rumbling thunder. Ximen Borong had just conceived the thought of escape when a vermilion flash appeared before him. His body was instantly crushed as if by ten thousand mountains, completely suffocated.
"Yun Che, sto—"
Boom!!
Ximen Borong's panicked words were answered by a sword strike from Yun Che.
His protective rock armor shattered like thin paper in an instant. A trench several inches deep was blasted open on Ximen Borong's chest. Through the spraying blood mist, broken sternum and displaced internal organs were clearly visible.
"Alliance Leader!!"
Amid the heart-rending, terrified shout of the Worship Qilin Sect Chief, Ximen Borong tumbled and flew like a torn blood bag.
Yun Che's body paused slightly... A wisp of profound energy turned to water, gently cleansing a blood droplet that had accidentally splashed onto Yun Xi's hair.
Then, in the next instant, he went straight for Zhai Kexie.
One sword shattered Helian's arm, one sword severely wounded Ximen Borong. Such was the enormous gap between the so-called Half-step Divine Annihilation and true Divine Annihilation power.
Half a step, the difference between heaven and earth.
That was why, when faced with the opportunity to achieve Demigod status, they could lose their minds so utterly.
But the price of greed came so quickly, far more terrifying and heart-wrenching than even their worst expectations.
"Sect Master... go! Run!!"
With Ku Xian, Helian, and Ximen Borong leading the way, everyone's courage had already shattered. There was no longer any thought of fighting him.
As for the "silencing" idea from a few moments ago, it had become the most laughable, pitiful, and yet unregrettable stupid joke of their lives.
Zhai Kexie had extremely high prestige in the Rock Mystery Sect, so he forced the three Rock Mystery Sect Elders not to flee but to combine their efforts to push Zhai Kexie away and then attack Yun Che together.
Zhai Kexie was thrown dozens of li by the wave the three created. He didn't look back, his profound energy erupting madly, fleeing westward like a dog with its gall bladder broken.
The three Rock Mystery Sect Elders' power came from the same source; they knew each other's strength as their own. The moment they struck, their power seamlessly merged, spreading into a thousand-zhang barrier formation that directly enclosed Yun Che.
As it closed in, the thousand-zhang formation contracted sharply, tightly sealing the space where Yun Che was.
Yun Che swung his sword.
Boom————
The barrier formation instantly burst with countless cracks. The three Rock Mystery Sect Elders shook violently as if struck by a heavenly hammer, their faces turning pale. Blood from their organs surged to their throats, and they forced it back down.
"Haaahh—!" They roared with wide eyes, refusing to retreat a step. The cracks in the barrier formation quickly healed as they frantically poured power into it.
But the next moment, black flames suddenly exploded on the vermilion great sword. Under that eerie black fire, the barrier formation that held all three of their power... was burned through like cheap silk in an instant.
The formation collapsed abruptly. The massive backlash made the three Rock Mystery Sect Elders spray blood in perfect unison. And accompanying the power's collapse was the greatest and final nightmare of their lives.
The great sword, carrying the Eternal Calamity Demon Flame, came crashing down from above their heads.
The brutal sword might drowned out their screams. The three Rock Mystery Sect Elders plunged through the sky like three flaming meteorites. Yun Che stood motionless, his indifferent eyes staring straight ahead as the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword came down mercilessly.
Boom! Boom! Boom————
One sword—Falling Moon and Sinking Star—tore them apart, biting them into a thousand holes. One sword—Annihilation of Heaven and Earth—buried them deeper into the abyss of death... and finally, using their three bodies as vessels, it exploded into a connected sea of dark flames.
The agonizing screams, like ten thousand ghosts wailing, made Zhai Kexie turn his head instinctively. In one glance, he saw the three Elders, the strongest foundation of his sect, twisting and rolling in the black flames like three miserable demons being scorched by hellfire.
His scalp went numb. His spine... every bone in his body throbbed with chilling pain.
He couldn't bear it, nor did he dare to look any longer. He frantically released his profound energy, wishing he could break his own profound veins.
But just as he turned his head back, a thunderclap exploded beside his ear. His turning gaze met a pair of eyes... that made his liver and gall shatter in an instant.
"Yu—"
Only a single syllable managed to escape his violently chattering teeth before the world before him turned pitch black.
His head had left his body.
Smashed off by Yun Che's sword.
Extreme shock and terror had made this sect master of the Linyuan's number one sect forget to even condense the protective profound energy that had become his instinct.
In just a few moments, the four strongest of the Rock Mystery Sect were all wiped out.
Throughout, Yun Che gave them not a single word, not a moment's respite... because every figure in his sight was a person who must die! Their crime was one that even ten thousand deaths could not atone for.