Chapter 1453 — Let No Evil Invade the Mortal Realm
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Before the five of them, dazzling blood light filled their vision as the full power of the Ancestral Court's God-Slaying Platform erupted. Loud, chaotic sounds of slaughter reached their ears, as if billions of beings were fighting and killing one another.
The blood light before their eyes transformed into countless figures—some were Creators, some ancient gods—fighting desperately in a vast sea of blood. Bones piled up into mountains in that sea!
It was a scene out of hell!
This was baleful aura—blood-malice aura!
It was the terrifying balefulness formed when the killing desires of all living beings coalesced, when their killing intent coalesced, when the blood and vital essence of those killed in slaughter coalesced. Their eyes could no longer see the two divine sabers condensed from baleful aura.
It was as if they were resisting the endless slaughter-desire of countless eons; the incredibly dense baleful aura eroded their Dao hearts, filling their inner hearts with the desire to kill as well. "Guard your Dao hearts! Do not let the blood malice affect you!
" Zai Fu shouted.
"If you are affected by blood malice, you will easily be assimilated by it and become part of the God-Slaying Platform! " The moment his voice fell, Zhe Huali suddenly exploded.
His boundless vital blood gushed from his body, transformed into blood malice, and became a blood-malice dragon, swimming with a clatter as it attacked everyone. Zai Fu was alarmed. He knew that although Zhe Huali had tempered his saber-Dao will alongside them, his cultivation was still shallow and his Dao heart unstable.
Assimilated by blood malice, he had died on the spot. With Zhe Huali dead, grief surged in Luo Wushuang's heart.
He had loved this disciple most; though he had expelled Zhe Huali from his sect, in his heart he still regarded him as his most cherished disciple. At that moment, the grief in his heart turned to wrath, and wrath turned to malice. He furiously drew his saber.
As his blade light slashed toward the two blood-malice dragons, his body suddenly exploded, transforming into blood-malice aura. His entire body melted into blood and became a dragon that charged out with head swaying and tail lashing. Zai Fu felt ice-cold in his heart.
His eyes suddenly turned blood-red, then fell into darkness. He knew at once that when his Dao heart had wavered, blood malice had invaded and blinded his eyes.
He remained calm in crisis, his blade light guarding all directions. Just then, he heard the furious roar of Heavenly King Tian Shu, followed by the sound of skin exploding.
Zai Fu's heart sank. Though his eyes could not see, he had already "seen" Heavenly King Tian Shu's body burst apart and his vital blood transform into blood malice.
"This God-Slaying Platform is a hundred times more terrifying than the five of us imagined!
" Heavenly King Tian Shu was the only one among them to have cultivated to the Emperor's Throne. Although he had attained the Emperor's Throne realm only a few years ago, his cultivation strength was unfathomably deep, and his attainments in demonic nature were profound; otherwise, he could not have become the mortal enemy of Yin Tianzi. Blood malice also contained demonic nature, yet the demonic nature of the blood malice crushed Tian Shu's, causing his desires to grow madly, thereby destroying his Dao heart.
This blood malice was truly too strong! "Shen'er must not be harmed.
" When this thought arose in Zai Fu's mind, the desire to protect burst forth from his Dao heart.
Through the ages, countless people had wished to protect their kin, friends, and comrades; their baleful aura had also gathered here.
When Zai Fu had this thought, these baleful auras invaded his body. He immediately felt his Dao heart shatter to pieces amid the baleful aura. His body and his primordial spirit, controlled by the baleful aura, collapsed and disintegrated.
"Shen'er, go—" Before his body exploded and transformed into a blood dragon, he roared at Shen Mu. A hum— Shen Mu's divine treasury domain rotated, and Zai Fu, Heavenly King Tian Shu, Luo Wushuang, and Zhe Huali woke one after another. Time seemed to return to the moment before they were slain by the two blood-malice divine sabers.
The four were still shaken, and the blood-malice aura within them was still stirring restlessly.
The two blood-malice dragons pounced again, and Shen Mu shouted, "Refine the baleful aura!
Unite your Dao realms! Slash! " Zai Fu, Zhe Huali, Tian Shu, and Luo Wushuang swung their sabers.
Essence, energy, and spirit gathered together; their Dao realms overlapped, and they slashed down!
Clang— On the God-Slaying Platform, three world-shaking saber lights burst forth, then shattered, sweeping out in all directions, transforming into countless saber raindrops and sweeping away everything with the God-Slaying Platform at the center. Countless blade lights clashed with metallic rings in the air, shattered, broke into finer blade lights, and spread outward at extreme speed, forming a terrifying blade-light storm.
Soon the blade-light storm struck the palace of Heavenly Consort Qiang below. Even Heavenly King Tian Shu had found it difficult to enter this palace, because Heavenly Consort Qiang had laid seals upon its doors.
Yet under the storm's devastation, the entire palace became stained with blood beneath the blade light; blood malice invaded Heavenly Consort Qiang's seals, leaving the palace riddled with holes.
Heavenly Consort Qiang's seals erupted. Even though it was a Heavenly Venerable's seal, it was eroded; countless flying blades clashed with metallic rings inside the seal, weakening its power.
A thousand li away, Fang Ziyan looked up and saw the blade-light storm sweeping toward her. She forcibly suppressed her injuries and leaped into the air, but the next moment she was swept up by the storm.
In the storm, Fang Ziyan tumbled and rolled. Her heavenly palace was riddled with holes in an instant, and her body was covered with wounds. Fortunately, her life force was powerful. She forced her way through the storm toward the distance, finally escaping it, and staggered through the air, shocked and furious: "Those five fellows, are they tired of living?
! " Suddenly, from more than a thousand li away came an incomparably grand voice: "The Dao realm opens the heavens; the void entrusts the great Dao!
" Fang Ziyan hurriedly turned to look. On the incomparably majestic God-Slaying Platform, twenty-five layers of void caves opened.
The Dao of the saber, entrusted within those twenty-five layers of void, burst forth from the void and connected with the sabers of Shen Mu and the other four. The saber Dao within those twenty-five layers of void spun madly and merged with the sabers in Shen Mu and the others' hands, transforming into a single long saber of peerless magnificence, colliding with a thunderous boom against the two long blood-malice dragons.
"Battle techniques converging? " Just as Fang Ziyan thought this, an incomparably brilliant blade light reached her eyes. Her vision instantly went dark, and two streams of black blood flowed from her eyes.
She was startled, and then the howling blade-light storm swept over and caught her up. "Saber Opens the Bright Moon Halo!
" "Seeking the Dao, Slash the Azure Sky! " "If the long saber but casts one glance, no ghost or god shall trouble the mortal world! " .
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In the storm, Fang Ziyan heard one bold, unrestrained shout after another, like warriors wielding sabers, fighting for their lives between heaven and earth.
She did her utmost to preserve herself in the storm and get far from this place, terrified and uneasy: "Madmen! A pack of madmen who don't want to live! " On the God-Slaying Platform, blade lights collided again and again.
Suddenly, Fang Ziyan felt an incomparably powerful throb.
Her primordial spirit left her body, and looking through it, she saw the God-Slaying Platform become incomparably brilliant.