Chapter 667
This is the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation!?
"boom--!!!"
The aura of the Ancient Nether Saint Lord exploded like thunder, and the vast pressure of the Six Tribulation Heavenly Venerable Realm was no longer held back. Like the Milky Way pouring down from the heavens, it crashed down on the sky above the Xuan Gang Continent.
This power was dignified and upright, yet it carried a chilling killing intent, forming a stark contrast with the filthy and chaotic aura of the evil god, instantly tearing apart the blood-red haze that had long shrouded the continent.
The sky trembled, and the earth groaned.
An invisible pressure, like a mountain of immense weight, pressed heavily on the hearts of every living being.
The morale of the remaining humans, which was on the verge of collapse, was suddenly infused with a violent vitality and boiled over.
On the other hand, the situation is completely different for the evil gods.
The realm of the Celestial Venerable is one tribulation per heaven.
Each tribulation overcome not only brings a surge in cultivation level, but also a transformation and sublimation in understanding the Great Dao.
At the fourth or fifth kalpa and above, this gap becomes as vast as an insurmountable chasm.
Under normal circumstances, without extraordinary opportunities or unparalleled supernatural abilities, it is almost impossible to challenge opponents of higher levels.
Being able to suppress those of the same level is enough to qualify someone as a prodigy.
Those who can survive an ordeal are extremely rare.
As for transcending two or three kalpas... those almost only exist in legends.
Although there are many evil gods rampaging on the Xuan Gang Continent, the strongest one is only a "Three-Headed Bone Demon" who has just entered the fourth tribulation realm and whose aura is still unstable, as well as two third tribulation evil gods. The rest are mostly ordinary evil gods at the first or second tribulation.
Before the Ancient Nether Saint Lord, a genuine Six Tribulation Celestial Venerable, their pride in ferocity and numbers appeared utterly pale and powerless.
The immense pressure, like a tangible tide, washed over their demonic bodies and souls, making them stiff, their breathing disordered, and causing them to feel fear instinctively.
Some of the weaker First Tribulation Evil Gods let out painful howls on the spot, and the demonic light on their bodies dimmed.
The middle head of the Four Tribulations Three-Headed Bone Demon emitted a mental fluctuation of shock and anger, its three heads and six eyes fixed on the god-like figure in the sky.
"What are you afraid of! He's all alone! If we join forces, we'll wear him down!"
Another evil god of the Three Calamities, shaped like a giant python, roared in an attempt to boost morale, but its coiled body unconsciously tightened slightly, revealing its inner tension.
Without the slightest hesitation, the Ancient Nether Saint Lord disdained to waste words on these demons who slaughtered living beings.
He pointed his fingers like a sword and aimed at the three-headed bone demon that was shouting the loudest.
"cut!"
The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation in front of him emitted a clear and melodious sword cry. Blood-red light flowed on the formation plate, and one of the nine illusory sword shadows suddenly solidified by three parts, transforming into a blood-red sword aura that pierced through the heavens and earth, tearing through the void and instantly appearing above the head of the Three-Headed Bone Demon!
Fast! Incredibly fast!
Ruthless! Ruthless enough to annihilate the laws of the Great Dao!
The three heads of the Bone Demon simultaneously emitted sharp warning screechs, and the bone spikes around its body grew wildly, condensing into a huge white bone shield. Thousands of wailing, resentful faces appeared on the shield, exuding an evil aura.
This is its innate defensive magic weapon, which it has refined over tens of thousands of years!
"laugh--!"
There was no earth-shattering, loud collision.
The moment the crimson sword energy touched the bone shield, it was like a hot knife cutting through butter. The seemingly indestructible bone shield, filled with resentment, along with the wailing vengeful spirits on it, was easily cleaved in two by the sword energy!
The sword energy, still powerful, swept past the middle head of the three bone demons.
The hideous head, along with the terrified soul within it, froze instantly, then silently turned into the finest dust and dissipated into the air.
The remaining two heads let out an extremely shrill scream, and demonic blood gushed out like a waterfall, instantly weakening their aura by more than half!
One sword strike severely wounded the Four Tribulations Evil God!
This scene completely shocked everyone present. Both human cultivators and other evil gods were utterly dumbfounded.
This is the terrifying power of a Six Tribulations Celestial Venerable activating a Supreme Immortal Artifact!
"The Holy Lord's divine might!"
The human cultivators erupted in thunderous cheers, their morale soaring to its peak, and launched a fierce counterattack against the fleeing evil gods outside the city.
"escape!"
The giant python evil god had lost all will to fight. With a twist of its massive body, it was about to tear through space and escape.
The other two evil gods of the third tribulation were also terrified and tried to escape using various means.
"Trying to leave? Too late!"
The Ancient Nether Saint Lord's eyes were icy cold, his killing intent already made up.
He has come today to use swift and decisive measures to eradicate evil and establish supreme authority!
"Sword formation, activate!"
He let out a low shout, formed hand seals, and the immense power of the Six Tribulations Celestial Venerable within him surged into the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation like a river bursting its banks.
"Buzz—!!!"
The crimson array plate trembled violently, its light blazing brightly, and it instantly expanded to a radius of one million feet, hovering at the highest point of the continent's sky!
On the array plate, mysterious array patterns lit up layer by layer, connecting the stars in the sky and drawing out boundless killing intent.
The nine sword shadows solidified completely, transforming into nine blood-red immortal swords of different shapes, yet all exuding an aura of earth-shattering power, which swirled around the array plate along mysterious trajectories.
An indescribably terrifying sword domain, centered on the array plate, instantly enveloped the entire Xuan Gang Continent!
The spiritual energy between heaven and earth was forcibly extracted and transformed into endless sharp sword energy.
Space was frozen, the laws were rewritten, and the entire continent seemed to have transformed into a sword world born solely for slaughter!
The ancient sovere holy master's hand seals changed again.
Billions of sword energies materialized out of thin air from all parts of the sword domain, like a raging storm or a reversed galaxy, slashing and annihilating the evil gods who were trying to escape! The sword energies crisscrossed and spread, densely packed, sealing off every inch of space and cutting off all possibility of escape!
"Do not--!"
"Demon Lord, save me—!"
Screams echoed throughout the room.
Those evil gods who had undergone the first or second tribulation were slaughtered by this terrifying sword domain like grains of wheat falling into a millstone. Their demonic bodies were easily torn apart, their souls were annihilated by the sword energy, and they dissipated into wisps of black smoke.
Even the Three Tribulations Giant Python Evil God, with its hard scales and strange escape techniques, couldn't withstand a single breath before being engulfed by the endless torrent of sword energy and blasted into a sky full of blood mist.
The severely wounded Three-Headed Bone Demon, its remaining two heads burning their essence frantically in an attempt to break through the sword domain, was already locked onto by the nine illusory Immortal-Slaying Swords. The nine swords intersected, transforming into a destructive sword wheel that swept past.
"puff!"
The last two heads flew up, and the enormous headless demonic body stood frozen for a moment before crashing to the ground, its demonic blood staining the earth red.
In just a dozen breaths, the evil god legion, which had been rampaging across the continent and was invincible, was almost completely wiped out. Only a few survivors were left struggling on the edge, but they were surrounded and killed by the human cultivators with high morale.
The Xuan Gang Continent has returned to a long-awaited tranquility.
But this tranquility is built upon mountains of corpses and seas of blood of evil gods.
The Ancient Nether Saint Lord stood in mid-air, slowly withdrawing some of his power. The ten-thousand-foot sword formation shrank, transforming back into a blood-red array plate that hovered in front of him, while the nine sword phantoms receded inward.
His expression remained unchanged, and he was quite satisfied with the power of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
Even without using the power of his supreme treasures, the Ancient Nether Saint Lord was confident in killing other evil gods, but certainly not as swiftly as this.
But now.
He merely activated a tiny fraction of the sword formation's power, yet it was enough to slaughter all the evil gods.
The power of such supreme immortal artifacts is naturally astonishing.
however--
Just as his mind relaxed slightly.
A sudden change has occurred!
"BOOM—!!!"
Without warning, a massive black hole suddenly exploded in the endless void above the continent! It wasn't a spatial rift, but a void formed by the complete collapse and devouring of the entire spatial structure by an extremely tyrannical force!
A ferocious demonic claw, as large as a star and covered in dark purple scales, swirling with viscous, tangible demonic energy, suddenly emerged from the depths of the black hole!
With its five fingers spread wide and nails curved like hooks, gleaming with a dark light, the demonic claws carried a terrifying power that ignored spatial distance and crushed all laws, directly grabbing down at the head of the Ancient Nether Saint Lord who had just put away his sword formation and whose aura had not yet calmed down!
This claw attack appeared too suddenly and too violently!
Before the claws even arrived, that pure, extreme evil will of destruction, slaughter, and chaos had already pierced into the Ancient Nether Saint Lord's sea of consciousness like billions of ice spikes!
Cold, brutal, insane, desperate...
A flood of negative emotions surged up, threatening to overwhelm his soul!
What's even more terrifying is the absolute suppression brought about by that level of power!
Faced with this demonic claw, the Ancient Nether Saint Lord felt as if he had become a small boat in a raging storm, or an ant being crushed by the Primordial Divine Mountain!
His cultivation level as a Six Tribulation Celestial Venerable was so weak and powerless in the face of this power!
His blood and qi instantly stagnated, the laws of the Great Dao became obscure, and even his thoughts seemed to freeze!
"No...no good!!!"
The Ancient Nether Saint Lord's face turned deathly pale in an instant, his pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, and his soul issued its most instinctive warning!
Unbeatable!
Absolutely unbeatable!
The power and strength of the being who made the move far exceeded his expectations.
In a life-or-death situation, the instinct to survive overcomes fear.
Almost at the same instant the demonic claw appeared, before he could even think, all his power surged wildly toward the crimson array plate in front of him!
"Buzz—Clang!!!"
The crimson array plate burst forth with unprecedented brilliance, and the phantoms of the nine Immortal-Slaying Swords reappeared, more solid than ever before, emitting a resounding sword cry that shook the entire universe!
The array plate spun rapidly, and endless blood-red sword energy burst forth. It was no longer an attack, but instantly intertwined and overlapped around him, transforming into an incomparably thick, blood-red spherical sword aura shield covered with profound sword patterns!
At the very moment the sword energy took shape—
"boom----!!!"
The dark purple demonic claw, as large as a star, firmly gripped the blood-red sword energy!
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
No sound.
Or rather, all sound was swallowed up by the terrifying energy annihilation wave that erupted from the center of the collision, a wave that exceeded the limits of perception.
The next moment—
"Crack... Crack crack... Boom!!!"
The so-called defensive power was like glass struck by a heavy hammer, its surface instantly covered with countless cracks under the demon's claws!
It lasted for less than a breath before it exploded, turning into countless shattered blood-red light spots and rampaging sword energy!
"puff--!"
As if struck by lightning, the Ancient Nether Saint Lord trembled violently, and a mouthful of blood containing the essence of the Great Dao could no longer be suppressed and gushed out!
The blood vanished in mid-air, turning into specks of golden light. He was slammed into the Xuan Gang Continent below by the remaining, overwhelming force, like a meteor, carving a terrifying trench tens of thousands of miles long into the ground, sending dust billowing into the sky!
Just one strike!
Even the Six Tribulation Heavenly Venerable Ancient Nether Saint Lord, who was in his prime and wielding the Supreme Immortal Artifact Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, was injured and coughing up blood!
The world is dead silent.
The human cultivators who had just been cheering had their smiles completely frozen, turning into boundless fear and despair. They stared blankly at the huge black hole in the sky and the slowly retracting demonic claw that seemed capable of crushing stars.
As the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, the Ancient Nether Saint Lord barely managed to stand up from the ravine. His Taoist robe was torn, his hair ornament was askew, and blood was still wet at the corner of his mouth. He looked disheveled.
But he gripped the crimson array plate tightly in his hand, looked up at the black hole, his eyes filled with horror and determination.
If it weren't for this treasure protecting him, that claw attack would have been enough to annihilate him completely!
"what?"
From within the black hole came a low, demonic voice, tinged with surprise, seemingly emanating from the deepest abyss, carrying endless coldness and malevolence.
Space distorted slightly, and a figure stepped out of the black hole.
He was of average height, yet he gave the illusion of towering over the heavens and filling the universe. He wore a black robe that seemed to be woven from the night sky, the hem of which fluttered even without wind, with specks of starlight swirling on it. But upon closer inspection, those starlight specks turned out to be tiny, wailing, and struggling souls!
His face was shrouded in a thin layer of gray mist, making it difficult to see clearly. Only his eyes, like two blood-red moons hanging in a bottomless abyss, peered through the gray mist, looking down at everything below. Wherever his gaze fell, all life was withering away.
Looking down at the Ancient Nether Saint Lord, who was in a sorry state but clearly not fatally injured and still tightly gripping the blood-red array plate, a genuine surprise flashed in the other's blood-red eyes.
"You're not bad for being able to withstand one of my attacks... Wait, this is the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation!?"
The Heavenly Demon God looked at the Ancient Nether Saint with some surprise, seemingly not expecting the other party to be able to block his attack. But soon he saw the blood-red array plate in the other party's hand, and a long-forgotten memory suddenly resurfaced.
In that instant, the Heavenly Demon God's expression changed.
Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation!
Such a treasure.
How could he be a stranger?
Although Gu Qingfeng used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation only a handful of times, in the eyes of the Heavenly Demon God, what was truly terrifying was not the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation itself, but the meaning it represented.
If such treasures are here, doesn't that mean Gu Qingfeng is also here?
Thinking of this.
A terrifying chill suddenly surged in the heart of the Heavenly Demon God Lord, as if he were being watched by some terrifying being, making him feel an urge to turn around and leave.
Despite the suppression of the Immortal Realm's rules, the Heavenly Emperor Xuan Tian was unable to unleash his true strength this time.
But in fact, the Heavenly Demon God Lord knew very well that even if such a being's strength was suppressed, it was still far beyond his ability to deal with.
If it were a matter of joining forces with other top-tier gods to besiege Gu Qingfeng, then the Heavenly Demon God would certainly have the courage to do so.
However, if we're talking about dealing with Gu Qingfeng one-on-one, then to be frank, the Heavenly Demon God Lord has absolutely no confidence whatsoever.
but.
The Heavenly Demon God forced himself to calm down, his divine sense sweeping across the entire continent. After finding no trace of Gu Qingfeng, his previously anxious heart gradually settled down.
In the blink of an eye, the Heavenly Demon God's expression changed several times.
This scene.
It could not escape the eyes of the Ancient Nether Saint Lord.
He could tell.
The fear the opponent felt upon seeing the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation was almost an instinctive reaction.
now.
The Ancient Nether Saint Lord increasingly understood just how valuable Gu Qingfeng's existence truly was.
after all--
Although he only exchanged a few blows with the Heavenly Demon God, the fact that the opponent was able to shatter the defense of a Supreme Immortal Artifact with a single palm strike and injure him was remarkable.
This kind of strength is absolutely unmatched by ordinary seventh or eighth tribulation celestial beings.
In the previous era, before the Supreme Being perished, the Ancient Nether Saint Lord was someone who had truly faced the Supreme Being directly.
That aura.
It's something he still can't forget to this day.
That supreme aura was exactly the same as the one before them.
In other words.
The opponent was a being comparable to a supreme being. (End of Chapter)