Roar——!
The primordial giant dragon that dominated the heavens let out a long cry. Its tail whipped, its body surged forward, and it moved so fast that it left behind a faint white afterimage.
Boom.
A thunderous impact. The Demon Slaying List took a brutal collision and plummeted like a meteor.
Lord Dragon immediately rushed to provide support.
Fang Yuan let out a cold laugh. His dragon body shot into the sky, once again leaving an afterimage behind.
At the heights, he went from extreme motion to absolute stillness in an instant, and his aura erupted.
Immortal Path Killing Move — Triple Sword Wave.
An attack amplified at least fifteen hundredfold. Its power was a completely different world compared to before.
Great waves rolled and surged, threatening to overturn the heavens. Every drop of silvery-white spray was the power of the Sword Path — blindingly brilliant, impossibly sharp.
The sword wave did not rush toward the Demon Slaying List, nor did it target Lord Dragon. Instead, it surged straight toward the Immortal Tomb.
From the very beginning, Fang Yuan's primary target had always been the Immortal Tomb.
Lord Dragon gritted his teeth. He had no choice but to deploy his Self-Revolving Dragon Qi Wall once more.
The qi wall blocked the sword wave, but after lasting only eight breaths, it collapsed with a thunderous crash.
Lord Dragon grunted, blood streaming from his nostrils.
He wanted to keep driving the qi wall killing move, but the towering sword wave had already crashed into the Immortal Tomb.
The fact that the Heavenly Court had been able to mount a composed defense earlier was entirely thanks to Cang Xuanzi's Space Path techniques, which could stretch distances. That gave Lord Dragon ample time to continuously activate defensive qi walls.
But now Cang Xuanzi lay dead on the ground, his aura completely extinguished. Without the Space Path techniques to shield them, Lord Dragon simply did not have time to activate another qi wall.
Lord Dragon was not a Ninth Transformation — he shared the same cultivation level as Fang Yuan, both at Eighth Transformation. But Fang Yuan's Dao Marks far surpassed his, and the only thing Lord Dragon could rely on was the Dragon Royal Guest killing move. Regrettably, despite growing steadily stronger, Lord Dragon still could not close the gap with Fang Yuan — especially when Fang Yuan finally held nothing back and unleashed his most devastating offensive.
"No—!" Lord Dragon howled in despair, watching helplessly as the sword wave engulfed the Immortal Tomb, scouring everything within.
Every Gu Immortal slumbering inside the Immortal Tomb was utterly powerless, ground to dust by the sword wave without the slightest resistance.
Even Cang Tianteng, whose enormous body lay on the ground, was steadily dissolving under the razor-sharp waves, shrinking rapidly. Throughout the entire process, Cang Xuanzi never woke. It seemed he was truly beyond saving.
The Demon Slaying List rapidly ascended, but Fang Zheng stood frozen: "He actually did it. He's destroying the Immortal Tomb!"
"The Immortal Tomb!!!" The ones who reacted even more violently than Fang Zheng were Fairy Ziwei, Qin Dingling, and the rest — veteran Eighth Transformation members, true members of the Heavenly Court in the fullest sense.
The Immortal Tomb was not merely a critical stronghold of the Heavenly Court; it was the spiritual sanctuary in their hearts. Now it was being defiled and desecrated by Fang Yuan. Countless Heavenly Court ancestors who had been slumbering inside were being slaughtered like chickens, without any ability to resist!
"Fang Yuan, I want you dead!" Qin Dingling let out a blood-curdling shriek.
"We have failed our ancestors…" With a crack, Elder Zhengyuan collapsed to his knees in the Central Hall, weeping uncontrollably.
Fairy Ziwei felt as though her entire body had gone hollow. The Immortal Tomb had suffered devastating damage, and as the head of the Heavenly Court, she bore an inescapable, weighty responsibility.
"It's me. I wasn't good enough…" Two lines of anguished tears slid rapidly from Fairy Ziwei's eyes.
Inside the One Lack Regret Pavilion, light and shadow trembled violently.
The phantom of Immortal Venerable Star Constellation tried to intervene, but the phantom of Demon Venerable Wuji held her firmly in place, forcing her to watch as Fang Yuan massacred Heavenly Court members and destroyed the Immortal Tomb.
Shock and fury filled the phantom's face. Her gaze turned cold as ice, locked onto her opponent: "Good. Very good!"
The phantom of Wuji smiled. "It is quite good. Back when I attacked the Heavenly Court, I also wanted to destroy the Immortal Tomb. However, considering the other species were still quite numerous at the time, and for the sake of humanity, I held back."
"Hmph. Even if you had destroyed the Immortal Tomb, destroyed the entire Heavenly Court — as long as you couldn't destroy Fate Gu, with the Will of Heaven's favor, Central Continent can still build a second Heavenly Court, a third, a fourth Immortal Tomb!" the phantom of Star Constellation retorted.
"Exactly so." The phantom of Demon Venerable Wuji sighed. "Fate Gu is the root of your Heavenly Court. Destroying it is impossible, so no matter how much the Heavenly Court sacrifices, it won't matter. In fact, it may only grow stronger — culling the old, bringing in fresh blood, drawing ever closer to the current of the era."
The era was constantly changing. Gu Immortal cultivation was constantly developing.
The rise and fall of the Qi Path and Strength Path was proof of this.
It was precisely this consideration that led Demon Venerable Wuji to leave the Immortal Tomb behind. Preserving the Qi Path and Strength Path Gu Immasters who had been rendered obsolete by the era was far better than destroying the Heavenly Court outright and letting it bounce back, giving birth to a surge of Rule Path, Wisdom Path, and other Gu Immortals who would be absorbed into the Court.
"Now, I'm quite curious — with the Immortal Tomb being destroyed by Fang Yuan, how much longer can your side hold out?" the phantom of Wuji smiled.
The phantom of Star Constellation could no longer maintain her composure: "You are disregarding the bigger picture! You are forsaking humanity's great cause! You are unworthy of being humanity's尊."
The phantom of Wuji sneered. "My original self may have been bound by that reasoning back then, but now… hasn't humanity's great cause already been achieved? Humanity should pursue something greater. You know what I mean."
The phantom of Star Constellation narrowed her eyes and fell into a rare silence.
"Fang Yuan, I will flay your tendons, peel your skin, grind your bones, and scatter your ashes!!" Lord Dragon roared toward the sky. In that instant, the fury and hatred in his heart surged to their absolute peak, and he threw himself recklessly at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan dodged directly, refusing to engage Lord Dragon head-on, driving the Triple Sword Wave without pause.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!