The Demon with Holy Radiance

"Dare to take another step, and you die!"

The men from the Golden Soul Sect shouted harshly.

But the man ignored them completely. He even sped up, instantly charging into the Golden Soul Sect’s encirclement.

Seeing that he had no intention of stopping, the Golden Soul Sect members all attacked at once, wanting to strike this brazen fool down on the spot.

But at that exact moment, countless rays of light appeared out of thin air, rotating and sweeping across a thousand-meter radius.

The Golden Soul Sect members, just as they were about to attack, were horrified to find themselves sliced into countless pieces of flesh in the blink of an eye, their remains splattering onto the ground.

Within a thousand-meter radius, not a single person was left standing after just an instant.

This scene stunned the Cultivators who had just fled. They could only stare, dumbfounded.

The Golden Soul Sect, which had seemed impossibly powerful to them moments ago, had been annihilated in the blink of an eye with virtually no resistance.

’Who in the world is this guy?’

Yang An revealed himself. Without pausing, he headed toward Earth Demon Cliff, his face an emotionless mask.

’These are just small-fry. With my current strength, I can kill a whole mob of them with a flick of my wrist. But this confirms my suspicion: Xuan You knew I’d come to Earth Demon Cliff.’

He was now just a stone’s throw from Earth Demon Cliff, but Yang An didn’t let his guard down for a second. He immediately activated his Light and Shadow Escape Technique and instantly entered the cliff’s perimeter.

But to his utter surprise, the very moment he entered Earth Demon Cliff—just as he thought he was safe and was about to call for Huan’s help—

a huge, ferocious dragon’s head materialized from the thick blood mist without any warning, slamming directly into his chest.

BOOM!

The powerful impact blasted away a huge cloud of blood mist. Yang An, who had only just entered Earth Demon Cliff, was brutally knocked back out.p>

’When did it get here?!’

Staring at the monster that had appeared out of nowhere—a beast with the head of a dragon, the body of a tiger, and a human face embedded in its forehead—Yang An’s eyes hardened as he tried to arrest his backward momentum.

Inside Earth Demon Cliff, the dense blood mist evaporated in an instant. A colossal phantom appeared, its wings spanning a hundred meters. Wielding a Magic Staff, it brought it down on the monster’s head, slamming the beast to the ground and shattering its body.

But Huan had acted a step too late. Yang An had already been knocked outside the bounds of Earth Demon Cliff.

A figure suddenly appeared before Yang An, and with it came a crushing blow that sent him plummeting from the sky to the ground below.

Xuan You, who had finally caught up, grinned, his powerful physique on full display.

"Did you think you’d be safe just by reaching Earth Demon Cliff? You can’t escape!"

BOOM!

Yang An slammed into the ground, which trembled and caved in, a massive crater forming at the point of impact.

Fortunately, Yang An had activated his Body Refining Technique in time. His own formidable physique absorbed the blow, and he escaped relatively unharmed.

As the dust settled, Yang An stood up, glaring at Xuan You in the air with a grim expression.

Inside Earth Demon Cliff, Huan’s Dharma Aspect was unable to leave its confines. After forcefully suppressing the monster, it could only watch helplessly as Yang An was struck down.

"Death Lord! Are you certain you wish to make an enemy of my Golden Soul Sect?"

Xuan You turned to the massive, staff-wielding phantom within Earth Demon Cliff and demanded coldly.

As he spoke, the Golden Rooster being suppressed by Huan instantly collapsed into a wisp of black smoke, which then flowed back into Xuan You’s body as he recalled it.

’Earth Demon Cliff is Yang An’s last sanctuary. If I can convince the Death Lord to turn on him now, Yang An will lose his final refuge and have nowhere left to run.’

"The Golden Soul Sect? Worthy of being my enemy?"

But the only response Xuan You received was Huan’s voice, carrying from afar, dripping with disdain.

’Once, I was a Boundary Repairer of the Earth Immortal Dao Sect. I was part of its upper echelon, a figure who stood at the very pinnacle of the Five Great Celestial Sects.’

’If not for the ravages of the heavenly calamity, would this insignificant Golden Soul Sect dare to yap so brazenly before me?’

"Fine! Just fine!"

Xuan You’s expression grew colder. He stopped paying Huan any mind, his figure vanishing in an instant. When he reappeared, he was once again in front of Yang An.

His towering frame, a physique as robust as a monster’s, and the powerful aura from having merged with five Earth Calamities created a terrifyingly oppressive presence.

Yang An instantly felt as if a hand were clamped around his throat. It was as if all the air around him had been sucked away, and a powerful sense of suffocation arose from within him.

WHOOSH!

A flash of light flared from Yang An’s body, and he vanished in an instant.

’Just from that one clash, I knew I couldn’t fight this guy head-on. Xuan You is far stronger than Jishan.’

’Right now, I’m less than two thousand meters from Earth Demon Cliff. I just need to use the Light and Shadow Escape Technique one more time...’

But the very instant he vanished, countless branches riddled with holes suddenly materialized between heaven and earth, sealing off the entire area.

Yang An, who should have reappeared inside Earth Demon Cliff after activating his Light and Shadow Escape Technique, suddenly sensed countless eyes watching him mid-transit. He was then forcibly pulled out of his escape, materializing just short of the cliff.

The Light and Shadow Escape Technique was a powerful Space Shifting Escape Technique, normally capable of traversing two to three thousand meters.

But this time, he had traveled less than a thousand meters before he was forced to reappear.

Yang An froze. He looked at the branches that now filled the sky, and from the countless holes in them, he could feel what must have been tens of thousands of gazes locked onto him.

He tried to activate the Light and Shadow Escape Technique again. A flash of light emanated from his body and his shadow appeared, but he was unable to merge with it to travel.