Venerable Supreme of Myriad Dragons

"Hehehehe! Hehehehe!"

A cold, detached laugh slowly escaped from Xu Hong’s grotesque face. He finally spoke, looking down impassively at Shen Daoxing.

"Shen Daoxing, I didn’t expect you to have some skill. No wonder two Earth Profound Realm cultivators like Yuwen Wuji and Wei Zhi fell to you. But an ant is still an ant. No matter how you struggle, you’re still just an ant."

As he spoke, Xu Hong suddenly reached out. He extended his hand toward the enormous Treasure Sword that Shen Daoxing had just driven into his body and pinched it lightly with just two fingers.

The enormous Treasure Sword trembled with a HUMMM.

BANG!

Then, the Treasure Sword shattered with a crash, leaving a large hole. But in the next moment, light surged, and the hole on Xu Hong’s Dharma Aspect vanished without a trace.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

...

A continuous series of explosions rang out as several Treasure Swords shattered in an instant. Shen Daoxing waved his hand, commanding the remaining swords to fly back to him.

But Xu Hong simply reached out and pressed down lightly on the empty air. The returning Treasure Swords froze mid-flight, their momentum halting abruptly. A giant hand then reached out, gave a gentle squeeze, and with a BANG, the swords shattered into motes of light, vanishing completely from the sky.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

A dazzling light flared.

Within a few breaths.

All ten Treasure Swords of Shen Daoxing’s Taiyi Demon-Slaying Sword Array had shattered completely.

"Hehehehe! Hehehehe!"

Xu Hong’s cold, detached laugh rang out once more. "Alright, Shen Daoxing, I have no more time to waste on you. It’s time to see you off. This time, I will absolutely not go easy on you or give you any chance to counterattack."

A stream of unintelligible, murmured sounds suddenly spilled from Xu Hong’s lips.

It was a vast, formless sound, as if countless ghouls were whispering in your ear, or as if innumerable Evil Demons were roaring by your side.

Suddenly, Shen Daoxing’s vision was filled with a savage, blood-red hue. By the time he recovered, the world around him had completely changed.

A vast expanse of black.

On the summit of Ancestor Mountain, the land of two extremes—ice and fire—had transformed. The burning red flames had suddenly become a sea of black fire, and the frigid, snow-swept tide of cold had turned into black ice crystals.

Even the mountain of blades that had jutted out from the cracked ground had turned black.

Looking at his surroundings, he felt as if he had been plunged into the Eighteen Levels of Hell.

And Xu Hong’s colossal Dharma Body, which seemed to touch the sky, resembled Yama passing judgment upon the masses.

Then, Xu Hong stretched out his hand. A shimmering light floated around his body, gathering bit by bit upon his palm.

The Celestial Pig Ruler, which Shen Daoxing had previously shattered, was re-forming. It appeared high before Shen Daoxing’s eyes, like the Tianze that splits the sky.

However, the Celestial Pig Ruler’s former golden light had changed completely, becoming a strange, inky black.

"Die!"

A deep voice echoed across the mountaintop. It wasn’t loud, but it carried the finality of a judgment from Yama.

Before Shen Daoxing, the Tianze that split the sky grew larger and larger, soon filling his entire field of vision.

With a thought, Shen Daoxing quickly pointed a finger upward. The Sword Intent Giant under his control suddenly leaped backward.

BOOM!

With a tremendous crash, the Celestial Pig Ruler smashed down where he had just been standing. The entire Ancestor Mountain trembled, and a massive fissure appeared.

Shen Daoxing dodged the strike but had yet to regain his footing.

Suddenly, his vision darkened again. Xu Hong’s tall, gaunt figure had appeared before him at some unknown moment.

Immediately after, a massive, strange hand wreathed in roiling black energy reached out, clawing at the Sword Intent Giant’s chest and aiming directly for Shen Daoxing within.

But in the next instant, a dazzling white light flared. The Venerable Dharma Seal transformed into a rainbow streak, tracing a graceful arc through the sky to block the path between Shen Daoxing and Xu Hong.

BANG!

A deafening explosion erupted.

Pure white light shot toward the heavens.

Xu Hong’s massive body suddenly froze, shockingly blocked by the Venerable Dharma Seal.

Xu Hong let out a soft sound of surprise, clearly taken aback.

But in the next moment, the black light around him flared violently. Roiling black radiance surged forth, traveling down his arm to his palm, then slowly extending to creep over the Venerable Dharma Seal.

In just a short while, Shen Daoxing noticed the Venerable Dharma Seal’s light dimming. A blackness appeared within the translucent jade seal, and the connection he felt with it grew weaker and weaker.

Xu Hong was trying to steal his Venerable Dharma Seal.

Shen Daoxing looked up in horror, only to see the corners of Xu Hong’s grotesque mouth suddenly pull wide, revealing a savage grin.

However, at this critical moment...

The Venerable Dharma Seal suddenly erupted with boundless light, as beams of pure white radiance broke through the black glow and shot toward the heavens.

The Venerable Dharma Seal suddenly shrank with a WHOOSH, reducing to a palm-sized jade seal. It then nimbly flew out from a gap in the black radiance, escaping in the blink of an eye.

Seizing the opportunity, Shen Daoxing pointed forward, controlling the Sword Intent Giant to leap away at once.

However, just as he leaped, he found that black radiance had already risen around him, and dark silhouettes were emerging one after another.

Abstinence from Sensuality! Humble! Fasting! Avarice!

The Seven Divine Commandments he had just destroyed were reappearing.

The golden scissors, the red-hot searing pillar, the flying wok of oil, and the blood-soaked torture rack—all of them re-emerged, but now they floated in black radiance, all their original colors lost.

In an instant, the black radiance flared dazzlingly and shot toward the sky.

The Scissors of Abstinence from Sensuality, the Pillar of Humble, the Pot of Fasting, and the Club of Avarice shot out like sharp arrows loosed from a bowstring, transforming into streaks of black light that smashed toward Shen Daoxing with a WHOOSH.

Having leaped into the air, Shen Daoxing had no way to dodge.

BOOM!

A massive explosion.

The Scissors of Abstinence from Sensuality, the Pillar of Humble, the Pot of Fasting, and the Club of Avarice simultaneously smashed into the Sword Intent Giant.

The Sword Intent Giant exploded violently in the sky.

The brilliant Sword Intent erupted in a chaotic surge, transforming into a burst of splendid fireworks.

Fortunately, in the instant before the Sword Intent Giant exploded, Shen Daoxing had already transformed into a stream of light and shot out from its chest.

However, at that very moment...

Shen Daoxing’s vision darkened once more as colossal dark silhouettes appeared before him.

Shen Daoxing quickly turned his head and saw one, two, three... a full ten enormous Treasure Swords materialize before his eyes. They surrounded him completely—front, back, left, and right—from all directions.

He was all too familiar with these ten enormous Treasure Swords. They were the swords of his Taiyi Demon-Slaying Sword Array, but now they were a dull gray.

This Xu Hong had actually summoned his Taiyi Demon Suppressing Swords.

Shen Daoxing froze for a moment.

And in the next moment, the ten towering Treasure Swords began to move. They slowly turned their tips, which glinted with a piercing, cold light, and aimed them all at Shen Daoxing.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

Ten streaks of black light, like ten long rainbows piercing the heavens, traced graceful arcs across the sky. They flew with ultimate speed toward a single point—toward the tiny figure in the center.