The sword light between heaven and earth began to fade, and the voice of the mysterious Great Cultivator from the Great Cold Demon Sect still echoed over the ocean, awakening the Continent Cultivators who had not seen Gu An’s figure just now, only Nine-Finger Divine Lord and Stealing the Five Elements had seen clearly.
But the immense Sword Intent made them think of one person.
Sword Venerable Fudao!
“It’s Sword Venerable Fudao! There’s no mistake! It must be him!”
A Mystic Heart Realm Cultivator from the Supreme Sect exclaimed excitedly, he had also been to the Heavenly Repair Platform and had experienced the Sword Intent within the words “Righteous Path.”
Qiao Dai was equally excited, his eyes filled with frenzied anticipation.
At this moment, he remembered the scene when Sword Venerable Fudao descended upon the Seven Stars Spirit Realm.
Stealing the Five Elements, who had narrowly escaped calamity, let out a sigh of relief, immediately retreated, and dared not approach the encroaching army of demonic shadows again.
Gu An stood atop the demon mist, sword in hand, with thousand-zhang demonic shadows dissipating in all directions, but even more demonic shadows approached, encircling him; he even saw some demonic shadows standing tens of thousands of zhang tall and giant demons of indeterminate size.
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Notification after notification continuously popped up before Gu An’s eyes, but Gu An didn’t rush to make another move; instead, he looked around.
One had to say, the Great Cold Demon Sect’s response was truly swift. As soon as he made a move, the remaining Cultivators did not panic but instead immediately arranged a Formation. Their Formation was highly profound, not only capable of being formed in an extremely short amount of time but also containing powerful and mysterious forces.
After the sword light vanished, in less than three breaths’ time, the world suddenly changed, and in an instant, Gu An found himself in the cosmic starscape, with rolling black mist under his feet, and still encircled by demonic shadows, the demonic shadows’ feet held the Dharma Treasures of the Great Cold Demon Sect Cultivators.
Accompanied by Gu An’s arrival in the cosmic starscape, those titanic figures and even larger beings revealed their true forms.
There were beasts as mighty as creation’s god mountains, female Cultivators who resembled fairies constantly scattering strange petals, and enormous birds with wingspans of ten thousand li circling overhead.
The demon mist under Gu An’s feet churned violently, like surging waves.
“Who are you exactly? If you do not reveal your identity, do not blame us for showing no mercy!”
The previous voice sounded again; this time, its tone was incomparably cold. After the Formation was set up, he seemed to have regained his confidence.
Gu An looked up and saw, within the layers of encirclement above, in absolute darkness, a pair of gigantic eyes lurked, as if an unimaginable existence outside the universe was peering at him, filled with an oppressive feeling.
[Sword Venerable Jiezun (Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm Eighth Floor): 780,450/830,000/880,000]
An old monster who had lived for seven hundred and eighty thousand years!
However, killing this individual would only yield a little over five thousand years of Life Span, which was too disappointing for Gu An.
As Sword Venerable Jiezun opened his eyes, four Life-Seizing Immortals from the Carefree Primordial Immortal concurrently appeared, fortunately, they had abundant Life Span, which improved Gu An’s mood.
“This is the Great Cold Demon Sect’s Luo Tian Stars Immortal-Capturing Formation. Once this Formation is completed, no matter how great your Divine Skills, it will be impossible for you to escape!”
The voice of Sword Venerable Jiezun rang out, majestic to the extreme.
The other four Carefree Primordial Immortals took out their supreme treasures and dispersed in all directions. Once they stopped, the entire cosmic starscape rippled, numerous rainbow lights emerged, these lights were not mere illusions, but were also condensing a mysterious force.
Gu An looked up at Sword Venerable Jiezun and asked, “Does the Great Cold Demon Sect have anyone stronger?”
As these words were spoken, Sword Venerable Jiezun’s gaze immediately changed, and all the Cultivators of the Great Cold Demon Sect were scared, their eyes filled with fear when they looked at him.
Someone stronger?
How could this person be so arrogant?
However, due to Gu An’s previous sword strike, no one dared to challenge him at this moment, all of them were on high alert.
The face of Life-Seizing Immortal turned extremely ugly, intuition telling him that the other party was not being arrogantly presumptuous.
At this moment, he was filled with dread.
Luckily he wasn’t rash but instead gathered the strength of the Great Cold Demon Sect, otherwise he might have ended up with his soul scattered like his disciple Bai Hong.
For a time, silence fell within the Luo Tian Stars Immortal-Capturing Formation.
“It seems there’s no one stronger? Truly disappointing. You’re acting so recklessly; I thought you’d have more to back it up.”
Gu An spoke again, and suddenly, he threw the Heavenly Residence Sword out.
Boom!
With this sword strike, he swept above the black mist, annihilating the Great Cold Demon Sect Cultivators one by one, and when the sword blade arrived in front of them, a layer of light burst forth around their bodies, but it was shattered as soon as it appeared, utterly failing to protect them.
One sword pierced thousands of li, directly penetrating the Luo Tian Stars Immortal-Capturing Formation and returning to reality.
The Continent Cultivators hovering in the air only saw a sword light cutting through the vast expanse of black mist in front of them, making them even more nervous, unclear about the state of the battle within that black mist.
After Gu An made his strike, Sword Venerable Jiezun immediately gave the command: “Kill!”
The Great Cold Demon Sect Cultivators from all directions cast their spells; various spells and Divine Skills formed a stream of rainbow colors charging towards Gu An.
Gu An raised his hand to grab, then retracted it, revealing an individual in his palm.
Origin Heaven-Capturing Hand!
This was the inherent Divine Skill of the Primordial Chaos Supreme Holy Skill!
Today was the first time Gu An had used it!
The person in his hand was Sword Venerable Jiezun, a white-robed elder. At this moment, Sword Venerable Jiezun’s face was filled with fear and despair.
Gu An directly crushed him to dust; then, taking up the Qinghong Sword, he began the slaughter!
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Within the Continent, an endless stream of Cultivators rushed to the edge. When they saw the ocean, they all changed color.
The fearsome black mist seemed as if it could devour everything between heaven and earth, giving one the feeling of an impending disaster. Anyone who saw it would be afraid.
The black mist surged violently, as if countless demons were raging within.
The morale on the side of the Continent collapsed completely, with no one willing to fight.
What they didn’t know was that within the black mist, a large number of Great Cold Demon Sect Cultivators were rushing in the same direction.
The Cultivators of the Great Cold Demon Sect had received the message—someone had launched an assault on one side. All warriors were to immediately reinforce the Luo Tian Stars Immortal-Capturing Formation!
Rolling thunderclouds covered the sky, enveloping the entire Continent; the sound of thunder was oppressively heavy.
In the Demon Land, within a sub-sect of the Supreme Sect.
Ye Lan stood on a pavilion, looking up at the sky, tightly clutching the White Spirit Sword in her hand, she felt no anomaly from within the White Spirit Sword, but her heart would not be at peace.
“I hope we can safely get through this calamity…”
Ye Lan muttered to herself, praying secretly.
Although she saw no hope of longevity, she didn’t want life to end like this; she had so many things unfinished, so many places unvisited, she had yet to fulfil her promise with her senior brother; how could she be resigned to death?
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Beneath the thunderclouds, Nine-Finger Divine Lord and Stealing the Five Elements stood shoulder to shoulder, unable to maintain composure, both unconsciously agape with faces full of shock.
Not just them, but the Continent Cultivators felt the same; newcomers slowed their flight speed due to the sights before them.
Within the vast black mist, countless enormous demonic shadows were snuffed out, leaping out, and countless Cultivators hovered, all attacking in the same direction, which glinted with sword light.
Even though separated by a great distance, unable to see the specifics of the battle, everyone could sense a powerful Sword Intent.
This was not a battle of evenly matched strength, but a massacre with a great disparity in power!
The number of Cultivators from the Great Cold Demon Sect was vast, forming an ocean of people, and within their encirclement, Gu An wielded dual swords casually, yet each sword could kill a large number of Cultivators and demons.
His strength deeply struck the Great Cold Demon Sect.
“No good! We are not his match!”
“Damn! He’s doing it on purpose, deliberately not using Divine Skills, and relying solely on Sword Qi to slaughter us…”
“Even the Luo Tian Stars Immortal-Capturing Formation has been broken by him, how could we have any chance of winning?”
“Be careful! His sword is swinging this way!”
“Retreat! Quick, retreat!”
The world plunged into clamor and chaos, each of Gu An’s sword strikes took not just life but also the overall morale of the Great Cold Demon Sect.
Life-Seizing Immortal dared not approach Gu An, only able to use long-range Divine Skills, giant hands resembling the clasping of fingers descended from the sky, pressing towards Gu An, but were instantly shattered upon contact with him, having no effect.
Gu An strolled leisurely, walking above the black mist, each step followed by a sword swing as casually as if taking a walk, with no swordsmanship to speak of.
Every time the Great Cold Demon Sect tried to form the Luo Tian Stars Immortal-Capturing Formation, it would be dispersed by Gu An’s Sword Qi.
Gu An looked at the notifications before him, struggling to contain the emotions in his heart; he was not killing for the sake of killing, he was enacting justice on behalf of the heavens!
Suddenly!
Gu An stopped in his tracks, and as he did, all the Great Cold Demon Sect Cultivators retreated, leaving a hundred-li radius around Gu An where no one dared to tread.
The Cultivators of the Great Cold Demon Sect fell silent, all staring dead ahead at Gu An.
Life-Seizing Immortal gritted his teeth and said, “The Sect Leader will arrive soon, don’t panic, everyone!”
His voice reached the ears of every Great Cold Demon Sect Cultivator, yet these words did not boost their morale.
“Don’t panic?”
Gu An’s voice rose, filled with sarcasm, as if he had heard the world’s biggest joke.
Before Life-Seizing Immortal could speak, Gu An suddenly vanished from the spot, frightening the Cultivators of the Great Cold Demon Sect.
“Up there…”
A voice rose, laden with despair.
Countless Cultivators and demons all looked up, their eyes wide with astonishment.
What they saw was a colossal figure whose height could not be judged by the naked eye, standing proudly above the clouds, showing only its upper body, an almost illusory sight; even the ten-thousand-zhang demonic shadows appeared tiny in front of this figure, who was none other than Gu An himself.
At that moment, all the Cultivators of the Great Cold Demon Sect felt an overpowering suppression that rendered them immobile.
Some of the highly Cultivated Cultivators of the Demon Sect unconsciously looked down, only to see the billowing black mist below give rise to a land ablaze with dark purple flames, rushing towards them.
Life-Seizing Immortal lowered his gaze and his complexion drastically changed.
What was that? A land on fire?
No, it was unmistakably a hand!
A hand large enough to grasp all of them!
In the distance, Nine-Finger Divine Lord, Stealing the Five Elements, and the Continent Cultivators were all dumbfounded.
At the edge of the ocean, a city was rapidly approaching, and it was none other than Divine Exotic City.
Li Ya, standing atop a tower in the city, had his eyes wide open, trembling all over, as he watched an immensely huge hand rise from within the infinite expanse of black mist. Even with his eyesight, he couldn’t take in the entire hand.
He had never imagined such a large hand could exist in this world; if there were hands of heaven and earth, surely it would be this one!