Translator: CinderTL
A torrent of blood erupted from Wei Gu's body, surging skyward to form a crimson pillar dozens of meters thick. The pillar shot straight into the heavens.
When the blood pillar collided with the colossal sword, the world instantly transformed.
Where the sword's edge passed, the blood pillar shattered into a crimson rain that scattered across the sky.
Yet blood continued to gush endlessly from Wei Gu, making the pillar seem inexhaustible as it relentlessly battered the giant sword.
The sword's descent abruptly slowed.
"Heavenly Sword, Exterminate Evil!"
Outside the formation, Jian Xiao roared.
Hearing his command, the other five cultivators swiftly altered their hand seals.
The colossal sword underwent a transformation. Myriad talismans materialized on its blade, erupting in blinding radiance.
In that moment, the world seemed to shrink to this single sword, eclipsing even the blazing sun.
The sword accelerated violently, piercing through the relentless crimson torrent. As it closed within three meters of Wei Gu and Gong Tianzong, an ear-splitting shriek tore through the air, reverberating across the land.
The six cultivators—Jian Xiao and his companions—felt the soul-shattering sound pierce their ears like countless steel needles stabbing into their brains. Their Seas of Consciousness trembled violently, and their divine souls writhed in agony.
"Not good! It's a divine sense attack!" Jian Xiao roared, immediately summoning a palm-sized bronze bell.
The bell swayed gently, emitting no sound, yet it formed an invisible barrier around Jian Xiao, blocking the piercing shriek.
While Jian Xiao could withstand the divine soul attack, the others couldn't. Bai Wei, for example, whose cultivation was only at the early stage of Body Integration, the lowest among the six orthodox cultivators.
She had just summoned a bone-white jade pendant but hadn't activated it when the excruciating pain in her divine soul overwhelmed her. Her body swayed, and she plummeted toward the ground.
The formation, composed of six cultivators, instantly became unstable with Bai Wei's absence.
The massive sword within the formation shattered into countless Sword Qi strands, sweeping across the battlefield.
The Sword Qi rained down like needles, striking Wei Gu and Gong Tianzong's mana shields. The shields rippled with concentric circles, yet remained as steadfast as mountains.
Beside Wei Gu, a ten-zhang-tall Black Wolf had materialized.
Though called a wolf, it only resembled one superficially. Its body was hairless, covered instead with long, slender strips of flesh.
The Black Wolf opened its blood-red maw and let out a deafening howl.
Nine vine-like tongues, each stretching over thirty feet long, writhed and lashed through the air.
The divine sense attack originated from the Black Wolf's mouth.
This creature was clearly a void fiend, and a late-stage seventh-tier one at that.
Without his giant sword, Wei Gu's summoned blood pillar shot skyward, slamming into the barrier's dome.
Outside the formation, Jian Xiao simultaneously formed seals with both hands, channeling energy into the array disk before him and the one controlling Bai Wei's barrier.
This dual control prevented the formation from collapsing immediately after Bai Wei was injured. However, Jian Xiao had overestimated his capabilities. Maintaining the bell to resist the Black Wolf's divine sense attack while simultaneously manipulating two array disks proved too much.
When the blood pillar struck the barrier's dome, the barrier trembled violently before shattering into a terrifying surge of energy that erupted in all directions.
Jian Xiao and his five companions bore the brunt of the blast.
Each member activated their protective mystic treasures, easily deflecting the energy surge.
Only Bai Wei, her divine soul wounded, was swept up by the violent energy like a fallen leaf, carried away into the distance.
Immediately afterward, Luyang City met its doom.
The entire city was instantly obliterated.
Its crumbling walls, towering buildings, and even the mortals within were reduced to dust by the surging energy storm.
The energy shockwaves continued to sweep outward.
Mountain peaks crumbled like paper, transforming into a sky-darkening dust storm that relentlessly scoured the land.
Song Wen, who had already fled several miles beyond the city walls, recognized this as his golden opportunity to escape.
With the orthodox and demonic factions poised to clash in a chaotic battle, no one would spare a glance for a Void Refinement Stage cultivator who had suddenly appeared.
Activating his escape technique, Song Wen sped across the ground, his body skimming the earth as he raced into the distance.
At the same time, a yellow-brown talisman materialized in his hand.
Just as he was about to activate it, a figure hurtled through the air and crashed into a mountain peak several hundred feet ahead.
The peak was instantly flattened, erupting in a shower of rubble and dust.
The figure didn't stop there, but continued tumbling forward.
Song Wen squinted and realized it was Bai Wei.
Bai Wei was in a wretched state, her body covered in wounds.
Her white robes were tattered, revealing the raw flesh beneath. In several places, fractured bone fragments jutted out menacingly.
But these were merely superficial wounds. Her true injuries lay deep within her divine soul.
As the sky-darkening dust storm loomed behind her, Bai Wei noticed Song Wen. A flicker of hope ignited in her eyes.
"Little friend... save me."
Song Wen ignored her plea, soaring directly over her head and crashing into a nearby earthen mound.
The talisman in his hand shattered, transforming into an earth-yellow light that enveloped his entire body.
"Little friend, I can give you a Heavenly Astral Body Integration Pill!" Bai Wei called out urgently.
Song Wen, already burrowing into the mound, felt his eyes light up.
A Heavenly Astral Body Integration Pill!
He had heard of this legendary medicinal pill from Jiang Lanruo and Chi Qi—a pill that could help cultivators advance to the Body Integration Stage.
Moreover, Xu Mengyu had once mentioned that Bai Wei's Pill Refinement Technique was extraordinary.
Without hesitation, Song Wen unleashed a surge of spiritual power, piercing through the thick layer of yellow earth. He pulled Bai Wei into the mound.
Then, the earth-yellow light enveloped them both, and they burrowed deep underground.
As Song Wen had predicted, Jian Xiao and the others were too preoccupied to notice him.
Moreover, Jian Xiao and his four companions, despite their combined might, proved no match for their two opponents and a void fiend. Their immediate defeat left no one concerned about Song Wen and Bai Wei's whereabouts.
Song Wen traveled south at full speed, swiftly covering tens of thousands of miles until he reached the Primordial Qi Death Zone.
After venturing another hundred thousand miles deeper, his divine sense was so suppressed by the dense Primordial Qi that he could only perceive an area within twenty or thirty miles. It was then that he emerged from the underground.
He set Bai Wei down on the ground and asked, "Senior Bai Wei, where is the Heavenly Astral Body Integration Pill?"
Bai Wei lay sprawled on the ground, utterly weakened, her face contorted in pain as she desperately resisted the torment in her Sea of Consciousness.
"You... recognize me?" she gasped.
Song Wen smiled faintly. Given Bai Wei's weakened state and their location within the Primordial Qi Death Zone, he had no fear of her causing any trouble.
"True Lord Bai Wei of the Spirit Jade Palace—her reputation precedes her."
"Cough!"
Bai Wei spat out a mouthful of blood, staining her already blood-soaked robes an even deeper crimson.
"Little friend, your face is unfamiliar. From which sect do you hail?"
Song Wen's expression turned icy. A spear over ten feet long materialized in his hand, its tip aimed directly at Bai Wei's abdomen.
"So, Senior Bai Wei doesn't have the Heavenly Astral Body Integration Pill after all?"
(End of the Chapter)
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