Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao-Chapter 1347 - 89: Immortality Principle of Cutting Space
During this hour, there were no terrifying, blazing flames, nor did any eerie, murderous intent appear. If there had been, there likely wouldn’t be any summoned capable of handling it.
Zhou Yan finally managed to catch his breath, equally exhausted to the point of death. After repeatedly employing the Nirvana Immortal Principle, he finally eased quite a bit.
Afterward, Zhou Yan used the Nirvana Immortal Principle to help Long Xianyin and others recover, and within an hour, they all returned to their peak state, gaining significant rewards amidst the danger.
Unfortunately, Zhou Yan still could not break through the final shackle of the ninety-fourth layer of the Sea of Suffering Realm.
The last stretch of the road is especially difficult, as evident from the trials they have undergone thus far.
Zhou Yan felt no regret; after a brief moment of affection with Qian Xi and Long Xianyin during a leisure break, the group did not halt their progress and continued moving forward.
The path ahead remained challenging, with a lingering perilous aura in the sky.
After Hua Qiudao absorbed and devoured the seven-colored poison light from the sky, the sky turned exceedingly dark, with the cracks in the already fragmented parts increasing.
Finally, after Zhou Yan and the others had advanced for nearly half an hour, the remnants of the shattered sky reached their peak, and at that moment, the sky truly broke.
Endless fragments suddenly fell from the void, not merely fragments but forming extremely powerful and ferocious fireballs due to their extreme speed in traversing the void!
These fireballs possessed the same exceptionally ferocious Immortal Flames!
These flames signaled the true beginning of a savage calamity.
Descending from the void at speeds far exceeding light, these enormous, burning Immortal Flames bombarded downwards, nearly causing catastrophic destruction.
"Puff—"
A column of flame bombarded down, instantly hitting over ten summoners, reducing them to ashes.
Such brutality made Zhou Yan, witnessing the scene, involuntarily gasp.
Having refined much Immortal Flame energy, his body had considerable resistance to such flames.
But the over ten summoners lacked even the ability to resist, instantly vaporized by the flames, which was simply horrifying!
"Mother!"
Suddenly, beside Zhou Yan, Qing Wan cried out mournfully, tears already flowing unrestrainedly.
Zhou Yan’s heart trembled, his face immediately turning grim!
For in the instant of flame vaporization, Zhou Yan noticed a purple-clad figure among them—the woman was Gongcheng Qingwan’s mother, Gongcheng Diewu!
Gongcheng Diewu was an extremely noble yet aloof woman, also extraordinarily gentle and virtuous, who was once wholeheartedly infatuated with Zhou Yan.
How could Zhou Yan be unaware of this?
However, Zhou Yan didn’t expect Gongcheng Diewu would come this far, becoming one of the summoned and entering this blood-colored slaughter ground.
Yet her path could ultimately only reach this point.
Because even if that murderous intent hadn’t descended, with Zhou Yan by her side, once it did, Zhou Yan couldn’t save her.
Couldn’t save her, truly couldn’t.
The flame descended, and the fireball’s murderous intent was irremediable.
Perhaps Hua Qiudao could save all the summoned here, breaking through this fiery peril.
But Hua Qiudao had already intervened once previously, perhaps due to past karma with Zhou Yan.
Hua Qiudao’s intervention meant severing all past karma with Zhou Yan.
Now, Hua Qiudao has long left this place, moving forward to seize more opportunities, so why would he still linger here?
Zhou Yan bitterly smiled inwardly, softly patting the nearby Gongcheng Qingwan and said: "Take comfort in your sorrow and accept the change."
"Mm."
Gongcheng Qingwan did not want to affect the mood of other family and friends present and thus resolutely suppressed her grief, held back her painful tears.
And in this heavy atmosphere where Zhou Yan and others were saddened, suddenly a fireball descended nearby, crashing down.
"Boom—"
The intense heatwave swept Zhou Yan and his group off their feet, including Zhou Yan, flung away by the terrifying aura.
And the people near Zhou Yan, like Yao Tian, didn’t even have time to escape before they were vaporized, leaving only a brief, unwilling cry.
Zhou Yan’s mind trembled, unleashing his own Fierce Blood Qi while spreading unique Merit Power towards everyone, including Qian Xi and Long Xianyin, activating his crisis awareness.
Zhou Yan seemed to transform into a cold, emotionless killing machine, his cold-heartedness and expression unnerving those around him.
Yet in this state, Zhou Yan sped forward with Long Xianyin and others.
Zhou Yan’s mentality remained unwavering, as if in a unique state of Unity of Heaven and Man, his heart tranquil and entering a ethereal state.
Zhou Yan comprehended the Tao Sheng Yi realm, using flames and the Blood Sea to connect with Heaven and Earth, alternating Merit Power, Heavenly Mechanism, Qi Fortune, and sensing the void.
And as Zhou Yan achieved this, he suddenly noticed a faint blood light flashing and disappearing in the void.
Zhou Yan’s eyes narrowed as he immediately deduced what that blood light was.
That is the Soul Suppressing Stele, the one from the Heavenly Repair Stone.
At that moment, Zhou Yan’s heart truly trembled violently, but he didn’t break free from that cold-blooded state, nor did he exit that ethereal state.
This state allowed Zhou Yan to Derivate his crisis instinct to an extreme level.
It was precisely because of this, because he sensed that thread of blood light and discovered its essence was the Soul Suppressing Stele, that Zhou Yan immediately perceived the terrifying flames crashing directly towards him!
"Sky Cutting!"
Zhou Yan used the Void Sword Body to release the complete Immortality Principle Sky-cutting Technique. Although this technique was very obscure, at this moment, it was sufficient to deal with these incomplete flames.
Sky Cutting, slash the void where Zhou Yan and the void he was in turned into nothingness.
In this circumstance, Zhou Yan reached a void state himself, becoming immortal in an instant.
Zhou Yan comprehended an insight of Fetus Formation, an experience from twice condensing the Immortal Soul Embryo before.
This time, Zhou Yan gathered the Power of Void Cutting, guiding the flames to undergo changes as if condensing the Soul Embryo, while Zhou Yan wielded the Xuanyuan Sword again, gathering the terrifying, uncontrollable Blood Sea Power within his body, unleashing an immortal Sky Cutting strike.
Using the raging Blood Sea as the source of energy, using the energy of Immortal of Cutting Space as the cost, with Zhou Yan’s persistence in the Immortal Sword Dao and strong will power, he unleashed the strongest strike with the Blood Cutting Method.
This strike, Zhou Yan charged towards the flames, cut through the fireball, and struck the Soul Suppressing Stele that had fled into the flames.
That sword was irresistible, as it had been slashed by the Immortality Principle, a blow of absolute kill, Zhou Yan’s strongest strike, a desperate attack, and a strike of self-validation!
"Boom!"
Indeed, this strike directly hit the Soul Suppressing Stele, and then, the stele emitted a "clang" of muffled sound. Subsequently, a terrifying force shook the heavens and earth, and the sky, originally filled with dense cracks, suddenly shattered as if violently shaken.
The fragments all turned into dust, the endless blood light broke open the dull, dark sky, the heavens and earth sparkled with light, bright colors instantly emerged.
The Soul Suppressing Stele shook violently, unexpectedly revealing a unique will, fiercely impacting Zhou Yan’s soul sea.
"Puchi—"
Zhou Yan’s body trembled, a mouthful of blood sprayed a thousand meters away, his face turned sharply pale, nearly being destroyed by a single strike!
"Unruly, insignificant pawn, extremely deserving of death!"
A terrifying will descended on Zhou Yan’s soul sea at the center of his brow, attempting to plant the destruction Heavenly Tribulation.
But at this moment, within the soul sea, a young girl always sitting quietly at the shore suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes shooting out a terrifying killing intent.
With a flash of killing intent, the soul sea suddenly shook.
Then, the terrifying will instantly shattered, being directly rebounded into the void, disappearing without a trace.
As for the voice of its will, Zhou Yan did not sense it at all.
At this moment, the girl stood up, her voice gentle, murmuring to herself, "Brother Zhou Yan, I will protect you well."
"While guarding, I will let you reach the pinnacle amid suffering, let you see what you want to see, let you recover everything that belongs to you."
The girl spoke, inexplicable crystalline tears flowed from her eyes.
Just then, the void moved, a figure suddenly appeared beside the girl.
"Xi’er."
The soul body figure gathered by Zhou Yan appeared somewhat illusory and showed a bit of weary fatigue.
But he didn’t mind, instead walked to the girl’s side, gently raised his hand, wiped the tears off her face, softly said, "Xi’er, this has affected here again, making you scared."
"Brother Zhou Yan, Xi’er is fine. Xi’er just..."
"Xi’er, no matter what, Brother Zhou Yan is always your Brother Zhou Yan, you are always Brother Zhou Yan’s most beloved Xi’er, forever so. Anything else, no need to explain, no need to... worry."
Zhou Yan said earnestly.
Then, he bent down, gently kissed Gu Xi’s slightly pale cheek.
...
Outside, after Zhou Yan destroyed the sky dome, obliterated this sinking land, finally there was light in the heavens and earth, that endless perilous darkness finally receded.
But, as darkness retreated, the place appearing next caused Zhou Yan to freeze entirely.
Netherworld Heavenly Road, True Void Heavenly Restriction?
Or an illusion?
Zhou Yan hoped it was.
But after breaking the most terrifying True Void Heavenly Restriction, Zhou Yan knew that everything after it was not the True Void Heavenly Restriction.
None of them.
The reason that made Zhou Yan dumbstruck at the present place was because it originally was a place that shouldn’t appear here.
Because this place was the Heavenly Pool Thunder Marsh, a unique Secret Realm Immortal Land of the Earth Ancestral Land.
But this place appeared on the Netherworld Heavenly Road.
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