Song Tianfang barely withstood the strike from Jiang Family Ancestor, Jiang Hong, and almost perished under the heavy blow.
Jiang Hong, the Elder Ancestor of the Jiang Clan, was a disciple brother to the Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan. Although his temper was foul, his strength was beyond doubt.
Elder Ancestor Jiang had already mastered the first three parts of the mnemonic verses of the Fifth Sword Realm, ranking just below the Ancient Ancestor and Elder Ancestor Lin.
Knowing the strength of Elder Ancestor Jiang, Song Tianfang waved his blood-red cape and gathered all the Blood Sea Palace Elders into his inner space, attempting an escape toward the depths of the Valley of Doom.
“Die!”
Elder Ancestor Jiang was not willing to let his opponent off easily and struck with another sword. The vast Sword Qi, stretching across ten thousand zhang, cut through space-time, Qi Destiny, and causality, heading straight for Song Tianfang.
Just as Song Tianfang was about to fall, a demonic insect with twelve pairs of wings tore through space, its black carapace blocking the Sword Qi.
The Sword Qi of Elder Ancestor Jiang repelled the demonic insect by a few hundred steps, leaving only a blood mark on its body, with greenish blood seeping out.
But the vitality of this insect was incredibly robust, the wound quickly healed, and its green compound eyes stared at the group from Mount Taihua Sacred Land, sending chills down their spines.
A deadly silence ensued.
The Elders and Disciples of Mount Taihua Sacred Land didn’t dare to breathe a word.
The demonic insect took a full-powered sword strike from Elder Ancestor Jiang and was merely injured, and the wound quickly recovered, unfazed.
“Heh.”
Song Tianfang reached behind the insect and couldn’t help but sneer.
The Bug King of the Valley of Doom was ten times stronger than Elder Ancestors Lin and Jiang.
Moreover, this was the Valley of Doom, where the Bug King wielded an infinite army of Ancient Demon Worms.
The compound eyes of the Bug King flashed a strange light, and suddenly the forests within a million li radius of the Valley of Doom stirred, filling the air with a dense and chaotic buzzing of insects, sending shivers down one’s spine.
The group from Mount Taihua Sacred Land felt as though they were surrounded by a nest of the Demon Race.
The Ancient Demon Worms in the Valley of Doom, the weaker ones were comparable to Mortals, and the majority of the Ancient Demon Worms had cultivation below that of an Earth Immortal. But here, the Ancient Demon Worms were infinite in number, and even a Divine King, facing the terrifying army of the Demon Race, would plummet due to exhaustion of True Qi.
The Divine King Realm Supreme Elder from Lianshan Holy Land was devoured alive by the endless army of the Demon Race, having his True Qi depleted, his organs consumed, and then manipulated by the demonic insects.
Yun Qianyue said, “The Ancient Bug King of the Valley of Doom was once one of the great powers of the Ancient Demon Race, on the same level as the progenitor Candle Dragon, Eight Desolation Fire Dragon, World-Ending Black Dragon, and other great powers of the Dragon Clan. Its horror does not lie in the brute force of the Eight Desolation Fire Dragon or the World-Ending Black Dragon, but in its unwavering vitality and the endless army of the Demon Race. In a certain sense, the Ancient Bug King is even more troublesome to deal with than the likes of Candle Dragon. My suggestion is—run quickly.”
Yun Qianyue had not yet recovered her former cultivation and was already prepared to retreat.
“Run.”
The Elder Ancestor Lin Clan and Jiang Clan didn’t intend to confront the Bug King head-on. With only the people from Mount Taihua Sacred Land, they were nowhere near enough to annihilate the millions of demonic insects in the Valley of Doom.
In the dense forest, countless demonic insects flew out, darkening the sky like a great ocean, threatening to engulf everyone.
Among these demonic insects, there were even Ancient Centipedes, Spiders, and Poisonous Bees with combat prowess comparable to the realms of Daluo Golden Immortal and Immortal Emperor, surrounded by dark purple poisonous mists.
The Elders and Disciples from Mount Taihua Sacred Land had no choice but to toughen up, summon their Magical Treasures, and follow Lin Xuantong in an effort to battle their way out of the Valley of Doom.
“Bright and fierce sun, annihilate the wicked, swift as the decree!”
Luo Xintang lightly chanted, summoning the Taihua Divine Umbrella. This Magical Treasure radiated fiery light and dazzling splendor. The Ancient Demon Worms touched by the divine light fell in swathes.
However, the Ancient Demon Worms killed by Luo Xintang were just a drop in the ocean.
The number of Ancient Demon Worms in the Valley of Doom was countless by the trillions.
It was precisely because of the terrifying number of demonic insects in the Valley of Doom that Heavenly Sect joined forces with other Sects to exterminate the Bug King of the Valley of Doom and eradicate it completely.
The current dreadful scene made Lu Changsheng witness the tragic and fierce battle that Heavenly Sect once fought when exterminating the Ancient Bug King.
“We’ve discovered its existence; it’s trying to kill all of us to prevent any word from spreading.”
Lin Xuantong, grasping a Divine Sword, kept slashing out tens of thousands of zhang long Sword Qi, cutting patches of empty space through the densely packed swarm of insects ahead, but the endless demonic insects quickly filled in the blanks.
Ruan Qi the Fairy, holding the Zhanlan Immortal Sword, slashed with sweeping Sword Qi. The Ancient Demon Worms coming anywhere near her were dismembered: “This Bug King is likely an offspring of the Ancient Bug King; it has not yet reached its peak. If it grows to the point of the Ancient Bug King, it will become a major threat to the Immortal Realm. We must eradicate it before it reaches Great Accomplishment.”
“What? Its true Demon Race form has not yet reached Great Accomplishment?”
Hearing this, the Elders of Mount Taihua Sacred Land were even more astounded.
This Bug King, who intended to annihilate everyone present from Mount Taihua Sacred Land single-handedly, exhibited such dreadful battle prowess and it wasn’t even fully developed?
“According to the records of Mysterious Lady Palace, the Ancient Bug King of the Valley of Doom, the Devouring Demon Worm, was one of the earliest creatures born at the beginning of the heavens and earth. It can consume other demonic insects and constantly evolve. Once it reaches Great Accomplishment, only a handful of beings in the Immortal Realm could contend with it.”
Ruan Qi the Fairy swung her sword repeatedly, cleaving millions of demonic insects in two.
The corpses of the slain demonic insects were quickly devoured by their own kind.
“Eternal Sorrow Sword Formation!”
Lu Changsheng conjured up nine Immortal Swords and employed the Sword Array to slay the demonic insects.
The colossal Sword Array spun like a meat grinder, and countless demonic insects fell victim to its deadly rotation.
“Sun and Moon Shine Together!”
Shen Xiaoyao and Tang Ling’er, both channeling their dual cultivation technique, directed the mutually reinforcing True Qi of the Pure Yang Body and Pure Yin Body to bombard the sea of insects, causing swathes of demonic insects to perish.
“These are excellent materials for cultivation…”
As a second-generation disciple from Qingyun Peak, Luo Xintang practiced a poisonous Cultivation Technique. She took this opportunity to collect the Ancient Demon Worms using a Treasure Bottle.
The Ancient Demon Worms from the Valley of Doom had been summoned by the Bug King, presenting an ideal opportunity to gather them.
Various Elders and Disciples manifested their Divine Skills, with countless demonic insects meeting their end every moment.
Yet, as the battle raged on, everyone remained trapped within the sea of insects, with their True Qi depleting continuously.
Compared to the boundless sea of insects, the number slain by the party from Mount Taihua Sacred Land was but a mere drop in the ocean.
Many Elders and Disciples showed faces of despair.
The Valley of Doom was too treacherous to traverse.
“Devouring Demon Worms control the insect sea. Unless we slay the Bug King, their numbers are inexhaustible.”
Yun Qianyue had once witnessed the Heavenly Sect Leader slay an Ancient Bug King and knew the solution to the dilemma.
The Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan, the Jiang Family Ancestor, Lin Xuantong, and others then took notice of Lu Changsheng’s newly accepted Disciple.
This woman of the Earth Immortal Realm possessed unbelievably profound insight.
The Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan said with a bitter smile, “This Bug King, having survived since Ancient Times, has long become immortal. Moreover, the life force of the Devouring Demon Worms is incredibly tenacious; even at the cost of our lives, we could not kill it.”
As everyone struggled against the sea of insects summoned by the Bug King outside Valley of Doom, an old crone appeared on a mountain peak: “I never expected that offspring of the Valley of Doom’s Bug King would indeed be left behind.”
With a gesture of her hand, an Immortal Sword shot up towards the heavens.
“Fifth Sword Realm, the Boundless Sword Intent!”
The old crone’s murky eyes suddenly burst with brilliance, as if dead wood meeting spring, and her aura surged dramatically.
For miles around, all became the Sword Domain!
The Sword Intent was boundless!
“Slash!”
The old crone wielded the Immortal Sword; the infinite Sword Qi cleaved the vast sea of insects in two, utterly obliterating countless demonic insects.
The embattled crowd was astonished to discover that in the dense swarm of insects, a vast expanse had been cleared. Within this sizable gap, the boundaries of space-time imprisonment prevented the insect swarm from filling the void for a short time.
“Come out.”
The voice of the old crone resonated in the minds of the Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan, the Jiang Family Ancestor, Lin Xuantong, Lu Changsheng, and others.
“Let’s go.”
The people from Mount Taihua Sacred Land seized the moment to ride their Flying Swords, breaking free from the sea of insects, with a cold sweat breaking out all over.
The experts of Mount Taihua Sacred Land had narrowly escaped total annihilation in the Valley of Doom.
“It was indeed the Ancestor who took action.”
The Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan was still in shock.
It was none other than the Ancient Ancestor of Mount Taihua Sacred Land, whose incredible swordsmanship carved a path to life within the sea of insects for everyone.
“This is the supreme realm of the Fifth Sword Realm…”
For the first time, Lu Changsheng witnessed the Ancient Ancestor use the Great Perfection of the Fifth Sword Realm. It seemed that he was still quite far from achieving the Great Perfection Realm.