Chapter 2015: Annihilation
Ximen Boren was lifted up by the Worship Qilin Sect's Chief Hall Master, desperately fleeing south. As for the four from Vanquish Ten Thousand Sect, they had all already burrowed into the sand sea, escaping in four different directions.
After all, they were at the Half-step Divine Annihilation Realm, their speed extremely fast. When Yun Che brutally killed the three elders of Rock Mystery Sect and Zhai Kexie, they had already fled nearly a hundred li away.
Yun Che turned around. The auras of those frantically fleeing were incomparably clear within the range of his spiritual sense, within easy reach.
He lowered his gaze toward Yun Xi, who was firmly held against his chest. Her eyes were half-open, without the pain of severe injury, without surprise, without excitement, and without the pleasure of venting anger...
It was as if everything happening here had nothing to do with her, like a porcelain doll that had not been carved with emotions.
The hand holding the sword slowly touched her brow, briefly isolating her from all perception. Yun Che raised his eyes, and Xuan Gang flew into the air, transforming into a dragon, releasing a heaven-breaking dragon roar.
The sand sea for ten thousand li... even a hundred thousand li was instantly shaken, like a raging sea rising in a violent storm.
The collapsing laws of the world split open countless spatial fractures... At a glance, it seemed as if the entire sky had been shattered. Ximen Boren and the Worship Qilin Sect's Chief Hall Master, who were fleeing, saw darkness before their eyes, their consciousness instantly collapsed, and they plunged headfirst into the roaring sand sea... Meanwhile, Wan Wei and the three elders of Vanquish Ten Thousand Sect, who had been fleeing through the sand, were all thrown out of the sand sea, their eyes rolling white, their bodies frantically convulsing and trembling, like four stranded, dying fish.
The Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword pointed downward. The sword's body flashed with crimson lightning, erupting with six crimson lightning chains that instantly pierced through a hundred li of space, tightly binding the six collapsed auras.
The crimson lightning crackled. Beneath the sky, six dazzling lightning bolts rapidly contracted, pulling the six figures who had only just begun to feel a sliver of hope for escape back to Yun Che's feet at a speed several times faster than their full-speed escape. Wan Wei, Ximen Boren, and the other six barely recovered consciousness from their soul collapse. As they looked up... in their blurred vision, Yun Che was right above their heads. His pitch-black eyes, looking down at them with indifference, made them feel as if they were seeing the legendary... the original abyss of death at the deepest part of the Mist Sea.
Wan Wei's mouth opened and closed with difficulty... but could not make a single sound.
His still unfocused eyes no longer held fear, nor the light of hope for life, but only the dazed confusion of a dying dry string...
He didn't understand why such a monster would appear in the tiny Linyuan Realm... and even more, why he had provoked this monster.
Ssscrack!
The crimson lightning that had tightly bound the six, deeply embedded in their bones and flesh from the tearing, suddenly let out a savage roar like a violent beast. With a blinding flash that annihilated all light, in an instant... it brutally severed the six bodies whose profound force had collapsed.
Using Dragon Soul to shatter their will and protective profound force, and then instantly shredding the bodies of six Half-step Divine Annihilation Realm experts... even with equal power, this was a feat that only Yun Che could achieve.
Wan Wei's upper body rolled into the chaotic, churning sand sea. As he felt the rapid loss of life aura, his increasingly blurry gaze still fixed on Yun Che's location.
"You... are... from the Xiaodie Divine... Kingdom..."
He saw the demonic flame releasing dense dark aura.
Such terrifying dark profound force could only originate from the Xiaodie Divine Kingdom.
The sand sea churned, burying his following words and his severed body together for eternity.
Ximen Boren's final thought, however, was much simpler:
Why did I expend so much effort to enter this damn Lin God Realm...
Damn Liesha Sect!
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Bam!
Lie Qianhong kicked out, shattering the boulder in front of him into flying debris, cursing hatefully: "Damn Worship Qilin Alliance!"
"Father!" Lie Zhuoyang quickly stepped forward to comfort: "It is what it is, there's no turning back. But please rest assured, Father. Zhuoyang will work twice as hard with my brothers and sisters to make up for the regret of missing the Lin God Realm."
"You've never entered the Lin God Realm; you wouldn't understand." Lie Qianhong sighed. "Some things cannot be compensated for by mere 'diligence'."
Then he cursed again: "If it weren't for the fluke of Ximen Boyun appearing, and if hadn't hired some 'Long Jiang' from who knows where, the Worship Qilin Alliance would be nothing!" Those who have never entered the Lin God Realm indeed don't have that much obsession with it. Lie Zhuoyang continued to console: "As they say, misfortune and fortune depend on each other. Not being able to enter the Lin God Realm this time might stir up the entire sect's unified indignation and spur them to train even harder. Yang'er has always believed that on the path of cultivation, resources and opportunities are certainly important, but the most important are self-discipline and unyielding will."
Lie Qianhong's expression softened. He looked at his most proud son, and immense comfort quickly washed away his anger: "Yang'er... good! Well said!"
"Your father may be lacking, but my son is a hundred times better than them! Even without entering the Lin God Realm, you will definitely not be inferior to them in the future!"
"Forget those few resources from the Lin God Realm... just consider them as coffin money for those old bastards! Let's go, back to the sect!"
The Lin God meeting ended with only the Liesha Sect suffering a complete defeat.
But they never dreamed that this disastrous defeat would actually propel them to become the number one sect in the Linyuan Realm... and unshakable in the short term.
For this, Lie Qianhong was dumbfounded for three whole months before he snapped out of it.
At this moment, before the Lin God Realm.
Ximen Boyun frowned deeply, staring fixedly at the entrance's spatial array.
Just moments ago, he had vaguely glimpsed an abnormal spatial ripple. With the vigilance of a demigod and an Abyss Knight, he did not dismiss it lightly. Instead, he concentrated, turning his gaze to stare unblinkingly at it... He didn't have to wait long. Within just a few breaths, a clearly abnormal ripple appeared again on the spatial array.
At first, it was just one spot, but soon they appeared in succession, and each time they lasted noticeably longer than before.
The hope of it being a coincidence vanished. His heart shook violently.
As the Abyss Knight supervising this Lin God Realm, he naturally knew the essence of this secret realm.
These rapidly appearing spatial ripples were clearly the precursor to the Lin God Realm's loss of law and order! Once the laws collapsed, the Lin God Realm would also collapse!
And the only thing that could cause law and order to be lost and the secret realm to collapse... was the death of the Lin God!
Before he returned from the Pure Land, he had known that, as early as tens of thousands of years ago, the last Qilin in the Pure Land was nearing the end of its lifespan and could fall at any time... Its death at any time after that would be normal.
Yet it had to be today! Ximen Boyun could no longer remain calm. If it were an ordinary secret realm, the phenomena before collapse would alert everyone inside, allowing them to escape in time. But the Lin God Realm was full of sandstorms and rock disasters daily, which could greatly confuse the signs of law collapse.
By the time the space began to completely collapse, it might already be too late for them to escape. Especially if the exit collapsed first, then it was basically hopeless.
After all, this space was based on the life source of the Lin God and expanded with the divine power of the Abyss Emperor. Those at the Half-step Divine Annihilation Realm had no possibility of forcing their way out. They could only be torn apart, annihilated, and eternally disappear into spatial rifts.
Ximen Boyun could not care less if everyone else died, but his most respected elder brother was inside, along with all the core members of the Worship Qilin Alliance and their most talented young disciples... including his son and nephew.
In his anxiety, he gritted his teeth and slammed into the entrance array.
Unsurprisingly, a huge backlash struck him, repelling him several li away, causing violent surging in his qi and blood.
The entrance restriction was personally placed by the Abyss Emperor; even an Abyss Knight could not force entry.
The quota of a thousand people was already full, and it was impossible to forcibly grab a Xuan adept from the Linyuan Realm to send a warning to everyone.
Ximen Boyun took a deep breath, his eyes fixed on the entrance array, forcing himself to calm down.
Outside the Lin God Realm, he was powerless. He could only hope that Ximen Boren... or anyone in the Worship Qilin Alliance would notice the abnormality and escape before the space collapsed.
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The crimson lightning still twisted and crackled, lingering for a long time. But the rolling sand sea no longer showed any figures, not even a trace of blood could be found.
Yun Che did not leave immediately. He raised the Heaven-Defying Sword and struck down heavily.
Boom!
The vast sand sea was lifted a full thousand zhang high, instantly blocking out the light and filling the shattered sky.
When the raging sand fell like a torrential rain, a hunched figure also crashed down heavily.
His arms were stained with blood, trembling. His "perfect" breath-holding in the sand sea had nearly exhausted all the willpower of his life, yet still he could not escape this absurd nightmare.
"Yun... Yun... Yun Divine Son... Yun Lord..." Helian prostrated himself, kneeling, his eyes full of fear and pleading: "I... I, I knew that for Lingzhu's sake, you would definitely not kill me..."
"Take Lingzhu, take whatever you want..." Every word he uttered caused his body to tremble more than a dozen times. But he still tried to curl his lips into a humble, ingratiating smile.
He felt the cracks rapidly spreading inside his body... So it was true: under extreme fear, one's liver and gall really could shatter.
Without looking at him, nor deactivating the Divine Embers state, Yun Che gently tightened his hold on Yun Xi, confirming that her injuries were easing under his power, then flew straight west... towards the exit.
Having escaped death by a hair, Helian collapsed limply to the ground.
But before he could celebrate or catch his breath, the returning Xuan Gang had transformed from Dragon God to Golden Crow, carrying a burning golden light that pierced through his body, chasing after Yun Che, who had already disappeared into the horizon.
Boom!!
The golden flame exploded, instantly engulfing Helian. He only had time to let out a despairing scream before being burned to dry bones, then reduced to ashes.
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Dragon roars, explosions, sandstorms, trembling space, cracking sky...
The various phenomena continuously coming from the east made the Xuan adepts of the four major forces tremble with fear.
"What's going on? What's happening?"
"Could they be... fighting fiercely over the Lin Bone Spirit Orchid? Should we go help?"
"Don't move rashly! If the Sect Master needs us, he will send a sound transmission!"
"That terrifying dragon roar... could it really be Long Jiang?"
"This spatial tremor, and the cracks appearing everywhere... Could it be..." Ximen Hong had heard many secrets about the Lin God Realm from Ximen Boyun. At this moment, he suddenly became alert: "Could it be a sign that the Lin God Realm is about to collapse? The Lin light in the east seems to have already..."
"Hah, making a fuss over nothing." Ximen Qi sneered coldly: "Everyone in the Linyuan Realm, whether they have entered the Lin God Realm or not, knows that the Lin God Realm is plagued by sandstorms and rock disasters year-round. As the Young Alliance Master, you are scared by such a small stir?" He pointed toward the exit: "If you are scared, then just leave. But don't forget Uncle's reminder: once you go out, you can never come back in. This Lin God Realm is embedded with the grace of the Abyss Emperor, and it's indeed not suitable for cowards."
Ximen Qi, recognized by both Ximen Boren and Ximen Boyun as the most talented person of this generation, had long looked down on Ximen Hong, the Young Alliance Master, and often picked fights and made sarcastic remarks.
Ximen Hong frowned deeply, said nothing, and did not take a single step toward the exit.
Suddenly, the eastern sky showed a strange distortion, followed by rumbling thunder. At first, it was just a distant, muffled roar, but in an instant, it became as shocking as ten thousand thunders striking together, directly buzzing their ears.
"What is tha... uwaaah!"
Boom wooooom---
Before everyone could even finish their instinctive exclamation, a terrifyingly violent wind, carrying flying sand from the sky, swept over, knocking more than half of them to the ground.
They looked up in shock... a figure appeared in the sky a hundred zhang away. And just one person floating there darkened the entire eastern sky.
Rumble rumble rumble---
The belated thunder sounds came continuously from behind him, violently trembling every heart, extinguishing all other sounds in the world. Many scattered gazes under the shock struggled for a long time to barely refocus, and only then did they see clearly that it was not just a person... He held a blood-stained woman in one arm and a giant sword in the other, a sword whose oppressive weight made it impossible for them to breathe.
"Yun... Che?"
They muttered, their faces full of fear and confusion... Everyone recognized him, but no one dared to believe it was him.
Because his face and eyes were as cold as a hateful world god just awakened from slumber. The oppressive aura he released was so terrifying that it felt as if he could crush their bodies and souls with just a slight shift in his energy.
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Review: Evil God Realm Gates and Corresponding Evil God Techniques
First Gate: Evil Soul -- [Falling Moon and Sinking Star]
Second Gate: Heart Incineration -- [Cloud-Sealing Sun-Locking]
Third Gate: Purgatory -- [Annihilation of Heaven and Earth]
Fourth Gate: Heaven-Shattering -- [Moon Drawing Star Returning]
Fifth Gate: Yama King -- [Other Shore Asura]
Sixth Gate: Divine Embers -- [Elemental Forbidden Domain]
Seventh Gate: ?? -- [????]