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Chapter 1013 Star Key Opens the Gate
Clang!
A faint yet incredibly clear sword cry, carrying a resolute and annihilating intent, suddenly rang out!
It's Mo Yu!
The Burial Abyss Black Sword, which hovered beside Chen Xueqing, its blade dark and cracked, wrapped in dark red blood patterns, seemed to sense its master's impending death and overwhelming killing intent and evil aura, and its blade suddenly trembled!
The dark red blood pattern, which originated from the Blood Demon Soul Devouring Curse of the Poisonous Heart Granny and was forcibly assimilated and devoured by Mo Yu's Annihilation Sword Intent, suddenly burst forth with an eerie blood light!
A strange sword intent, a mixture of extreme stillness, resentment, bloodlust, and a protective obsession, erupted automatically from the Burial Abyss Sword without the need for its master to drive it!
The sword transformed into a faint yet lightning-fast streak of gray-red light, striking first despite being behind, and fiercely slashed at the vital point of the giant demonic python—the point where the Soul-Devouring Demon's will and demonic energy were most closely connected!
laugh--!
Like a red-hot knife cutting into butter.
The giant demonic python, which had gathered the full power of the Nascent Soul Demon and countless vengeful souls, had its core Yin Sha connection point forcibly eroded and annihilated by the strange "Annihilation Blood Sha" sword intent the instant it was struck by the gray-red sword light!
The giant python let out a silent wail, and its massive body instantly disintegrated, transforming back into chaotic demonic energy and scattered vengeful spirits!
The Burial Abyss Sword let out a mournful cry, and another crack appeared on its blade. Its light dimmed completely, and it spun back to Chen Xueqing's side. The tip of the sword trembled slightly, as if it had exhausted its last bit of strength.
This astonishing sword strike not only shattered the attack of a Nascent Soul cultivator, but also plunged the entire battlefield into a momentary deathly silence!
Everyone was stunned by this incredible scene!
"Pfft!" The Soul Devouring Demon's spell, which connected his mind and body, was broken, and he suffered a backlash. He spat out a mouthful of black blood and looked at the strange black sword with shock and anger.
"Annihilation... Blood Fiend? What the hell is that?!"
This sword strike bought Yu Changsheng a crucial chance to catch his breath!
"Hah...hah..." Yu Changsheng gasped for breath. The devouring of the ghost poison in his left eye finally ended, and the vortex of the Returning Void slowly calmed down. However, the five forces in his body clashed even more violently due to the devouring of a large amount of Yin souls and evil power, and the crack in his Dao Embryo seemed to be about to explode completely!
The excruciating pain felt like millions of steel needles piercing his soul, almost completely overwhelming his will.
We must not fall!
Behind him were Xue Qing, Mo Yu, and Elder Qing Yi!
The obsession to protect, like the last embers sinking into ashes, is fiercely ignited by the aura of death in this desperate situation!
"what--!!!"
A roar, seemingly from the deepest abyss, a mixture of endless pain and indomitable will, burst forth from Yu Changsheng's throat!
His blood-stained hands plunged violently into the blood-stained bluestone slab beneath him!
Within his body, the blazing white crack representing the "Flame of the Abyss," under the frantic urging of his will to protect in this desperate situation, suddenly ignited a faint, dark red spark deep within the long-extinguished ashes, a spark carrying the will to burn away all shackles!
boom!
It's not fire, it's lava! It's the boiling, destructive wrath of the laws!
A deep, dark red color instantly replaced the original fiery white, violently gushing out from the cracked hole in his right eye and from every bleeding wound on his body!
No techniques, no moves, just the most primal and violent release of energy!
A dark red pillar of fire, viscous like magma and deep in color like congealed blood, carrying a terrifying will to incinerate all things and burn away the laws, shot up from Yu Changsheng's body and then swept towards the densely packed Yin Sha Demon Army in front of him like erupting volcanic lava!
Wherever it passed, space distorted, groaning under its unbearable weight!
Chi Chi Chi -!
A chilling sound echoed across the battlefield.
Those pale white bone armors were like paper before the dark red molten flow, instantly vaporizing! The entangled Yin evil energy, as if encountering its nemesis, emitted a shrill scream as it was burned and purified!
Countless Yin Sha Sect disciples didn't even have time to scream before their bodies turned to ashes the moment they came into contact with the molten flow, and even their souls were completely incinerated by the terrifying dark red embers!
The black tide of 100,000 demons was burned through and evaporated by this lonely and resolute dark red line of fire, creating a huge, charred vacuum zone!
"Do not--!"
The Soul-Devouring Demon let out a terrified scream. The annihilating will contained in the dark red molten flow made even this Nascent Soul Demon feel a tremor from the depths of his soul!
He frantically activated the White Bone Banner to protect himself, spitting out several mouthfuls of his life essence blood to create layers upon layers of vengeful spirit bone shields in front of him.
Sizzle! Boom!
The crimson molten liquid slammed violently into the bone shield!
The vengeful spirit let out its final wail and vanished, its sturdy bone shield melting away as rapidly as ice and snow under the scorching sun!
The stalemate lasted less than a breath before the White Bone Banner let out a mournful cry as its surface was pierced by the molten flow!
"Ugh!"
Half of the Soul-Devouring Demon's body was grazed by the dark red molten flow, and his protective demonic aura instantly collapsed. His blood-red robe, which had an astonishing defensive power, burst into flames like a rag, revealing the charred and carbonized flesh underneath, which emitted a pungent burnt smell!
He let out a miserable howl, as if struck by a giant hammer, his body flew backward uncontrollably, crashing heavily into the ruins of a collapsed mountain in the distance, his fate unknown!
The sect leader was seriously injured, nearly half of the 100,000-strong vanguard of the demon army were burned to death, and the rest were terrified!
"A devil! He's a devil!"
"Run! Run now!"
Terrified screams replaced the battle cries. The remaining Yin Sha demon army completely collapsed, abandoning their armor and weapons like a receding tide, and fled desperately towards the mountain gate.
Before the Xuan Tian Sword Sect's mountain gate, all that remained were charred corpses, burning ruins, and a figure standing amidst mountains of corpses, seas of blood, and scorched lava, covered in blood, with dark red embers burning in his right eye, as if he had returned from hell.
Dead silence.
Absolute silence enveloped the dilapidated Xuantian Square.
The hundreds of Sword Sect disciples who survived the calamity stared blankly at that figure, at the dark red embers that had incinerated the demon army, their eyes filled with the bewilderment of surviving a catastrophe, boundless shock, and a trace of indescribable fear.
"Cough...cough cough..."
The backlash from forcibly activating the Flame of the Abyss surged forth, and Yu Changsheng could no longer hold on. His body swayed, and he collapsed heavily to one knee, spitting out mouthfuls of dark gold blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. The dark red embers in his right eye quickly dimmed, and the cracks on the surface of his body flickered violently with chaotic five-colored energy light, as if they would tear him apart completely at any moment.
He barely managed to lift his head, his left eye, with its sluggish vortex, looking in Elder Jian Chen's direction, and hoarsely said, "...Temporarily...at peace..."
Before he could finish speaking, Elder Jian Chen's gaze suddenly froze on Yu Changsheng's waist—there, a piece of metal stained with blood, with sharp edges and shimmering with a dim, mysterious light, was swaying slightly with his movements.
The aura emanating from that fragment… Elder Jian Chen will never forget it, even in death!
“Xuan…Tian…Zhan…Yuan?!” Elder Jian Chen’s voice trembled, filled with endless grief, anger and disbelief. He stared intently at the fragment of the sword, as if he had seen the deepest betrayal.
"It's him...it's him! Xuan Tian! Traitor! You're the one who let the wolf into the house!!"
A mouthful of scalding blood gushed out, and the last glimmer of light in the eyes of this old man, who had been desperately supporting the last pillar of the sect, quickly dimmed. Filled with boundless hatred and resentment, his body slowly fell backward.
"Supreme Elder!" The surviving elders and disciples of the Sword Sect cried out in grief and rushed forward.
Just as Elder Jian Chen collapsed, the last trace of his faint but pure Xuan Tian sword energy, like a final burst of light before death, unconsciously dissipated. It did not attack anyone, but like a stone thrown into a calm lake, it precisely struck the core remnant of the isolated island in Chen Xueqing's arms!
Om-!
The wreckage suddenly burst forth with an unprecedentedly dazzling emerald-gold light!
A phantom image of the Starry Sky Forger, a hundred times clearer and more condensed than before, was projected out from it. It was not an attack, but rather, like a precise key, it instantly imprinted itself on the core hub of the Xuan Tian Sword Sect's dilapidated and dimly runed protective array—the huge, cracked white jade mountain gate at the end of the plaza! Rumble!
The mountain gate trembled violently, not because it collapsed, but because it was awakening.
On the white jade pillars, the ancient sword marks and cloud patterns, stained with blood and blackened by war, suddenly lit up! It wasn't the blue light of sword energy, but a deeper and more vast starlight!
Pure starlight, like a galaxy awakened from its slumber, burst forth from every crack and every texture, instantly dispelling the bloodshed and gloom that shrouded the square!
The starlight wasn't dazzling, but it carried a heavy, almost crushing quality, condensing into countless fine streams of light that rapidly flowed and intertwined on the massive mountain gate's surface, repairing the damage and reviving the silence.
The filthy blood staining the four large characters "Xuantian Sword Sect" evaporated and faded away as if it had encountered its nemesis, revealing the material below, which was originally crystal clear like jade, but now flowed with the phantom image of a starry river.
What's even more breathtaking is what lies behind the mountain gate.
At the end of the square, what should have been the continuous palaces and strange peaks of the Xuantian Sword Sect was violently distorted and rippled like a reflection in water under the starlight, and then—suddenly opened up!
No, it wasn't that space itself shattered, but rather that an invisible and extremely sophisticated spatial illusion and seal was forcibly broken!
What appeared before everyone was no longer the familiar scene of the sect, but a void that was absolutely deep and absolutely silent!
In the void, there is no up, down, left, or right; no light, darkness, or color; only endless, all-consuming darkness.
But in the deepest darkness, a faint, icy blue light slowly rotated, like the core of a lonely, dying star in the endless frozen earth, emanating a cold, sorrowful yet incredibly resilient aura.
An indescribable chill, not a physical low temperature, but a sense of annihilation that freezes the soul and solidifies time, accompanied by the final lament of an ancient star falling, surged out of the void passage like a tide, causing everyone present, regardless of their cultivation level, to feel a tremor and suffocation originating from their life instincts.
The Ancient Road of Fallen Stars!
This is the true entrance to the ancient road, cleverly concealed by the Xuantian Sword Sect's mountain gate for countless years!
That icy blue starlight clearly points to a specific coordinate deep within the ancient road, a coordinate that contains either a great crisis or a great opportunity!
"Starry Sky... the Forger's... Guiding Star Key?!"
The light from the core remnant in Chen Xueqing's arms gradually faded. Her face turned pale, and she staggered as if she had collapsed. She was supported by a quick-thinking female disciple of the Sword Sect beside her.
She stared at the gaping void and the icy blue light spots, her eyes filled with shock and realization.
Fragments of the legacy surged into my mind like a tide.
"So that's how it is... Xuantian Sword Sect... No, this place wasn't originally the sect's main gate, but rather a 'boundary marker' and 'relay station' set up by the ancient star-sky forgers!"
The founder of the Xuantian Sword Sect may have accidentally discovered the remaining star array and spatial nodes in this place, which is why he established the sect here and reinforced and concealed it with layers of sect array... This mountain gate itself is a huge and hidden star key!
Only by using the core legacy of the Starry Sky Forger as a catalyst, under specific conditions, can this 'shortcut' leading directly to the depths of the ancient path be activated!
Her gaze involuntarily fell to Elder Jian Chen, who was lying unconscious on the ground, and then to the fragment of Xuan Tian Venerable's sword at Yu Changsheng's waist.
Venerable Xuantian clearly knew this secret, and may even have been plotting against what lay behind this mountain gate!
His defection to the Yin Sha Sect and his initiation of this coordinated war of annihilation were probably not only to eliminate dissidents and plunder resources, but also, more likely, to take advantage of the moment when the sect was destroyed and the great formation was in chaos to forcibly open this Star Key Portal!
He never expected that he would perish in the Sea of Burial Stars, and that the key to opening the gate would ultimately fall into the hands of Yu Changsheng and his group in this way!
"This...this is..." The surviving elders and disciples of the Xuantian Sword Sect stared in disbelief at the scene behind the mountain gate. The mountain gate that their ancestors had guarded for generations actually hid such an earth-shattering secret!
Beyond the shock came boundless sorrow and anger—the sect's destruction stemmed from the opportunity left behind by the founder, which attracted the covetousness of wolves and the betrayal of its own high-ranking members!
"Cough cough... Pfft!"
Yu Changsheng coughed up dark gold blood mixed with fragments of internal organs again. The conflict between the five forces within the Dao Embryo was strangely calmed for a moment by the extreme cold and the aura of star annihilation that surged out after the mountain gate opened, as if it had encountered some kind of higher-level suppression.
He struggled to lift his head and look at the void passage and the icy blue light. The vortex of the void in his left eye seemed to be attracted and slowly rotated in that direction.
Danger! Extreme danger!
The aura emanating from those icy blue lights was purer than the deathly stillness of the Burial Star Sea and more ancient than the greed of the Devouring Void Mother Nest!
But there, too, might lie... the only hope for resolving their current predicament!
Whether it's his Dao Embryo on the verge of collapse, Chen Xueqing's weakened spirit, Mo Yufeng's remnant soul like a candle flickering in the wind, or Elder Qingyi's fading injuries, they all need an absolutely quiet, safe environment with extremely high energy levels to recuperate and seek breakthroughs.
This ancient road, heavily sealed off, may be the only option.
"To go... or... stay?"
The only remaining Nascent Soul stage elder of the Xuantian Sword Sect looked at his companion with a pale face and a hoarse voice.
The sect has been destroyed, and although the powerful enemy has temporarily retreated, the main force of the Yin Sha Sect remains intact and may make a comeback at any time.
Staying here means certain death.
All eyes instinctively turned to the figure kneeling in the center of the field, covered in blood, who had just burned away the demon army—Yu Changsheng.
Yu Changsheng, panting, used all his strength to turn his gaze to Chen Xueqing.
Chen Xueqing's eyes met his, and she instantly understood his meaning. She forced herself to stand up straight, a faint golden aura of Dao flowing across her body, and spoke in a clear voice.
"Fellow Daoists of the Xuantian Sword Sect! The mountain gate has been breached, and powerful enemies surround us. This place has become a death trap! The entrance to this ancient road opened by chance, perhaps it is a way out that Heaven has not abandoned us!"
As the inheritor of the Starry Sky Forger, I sensed that at the end of the passage, where the icy blue star core was located, although there was great annihilation, there might also be a glimmer of hope and ancient legacy!
"Will you remain here and perish, or will you join us on this ancient path to fight for a glimmer of hope for the future? Decide quickly!" (End of Chapter)