Roaaar—!
The primordial dragon that dominated the heavens let out a long roar. Its tail whipped through the air, its body surging forward so fast it left behind a faint white afterimage.
Boom.
A deafening collision rang out as the Demon Slaying List took a vicious impact, plummeting like a falling star.
Long Gong rushed over immediately to provide support.
Fang Yuan let out a cold laugh. His dragon body shot skyward, once again leaving an afterimage in its wake.
High above, he abruptly shifted from extreme motion to absolute stillness, his aura exploding outward.
Immortal Path Killer Move — Triple Sword Wave.
An offensive technique amplified at least fifteen hundred times over. The difference in destructive power compared to before was night and day.
Gigantic waves rolled forward in torrents, threatening to overturn the world. Every droplet of silvery spray carried the power of the Sword Dao — dazzlingly bright and sharp beyond measure.
The sword waves did not charge toward the Demon Execution Leaderboard, nor did they target Dragon Lord. Instead, they surged straight toward the Immortal Tomb.
From the very beginning to the very end, the primary target of Fang Yuan's attack remained the Immortal Tomb.
Dragon Lord gritted his teeth and had no choice but to deploy the Rotating Dragon Air Wall once more.
The air wall blocked the sword waves, but after holding for only eight breaths, it collapsed with a thunderous boom.
Dragon Lord let out a muffled groan, blood streaming from his nostrils.
He wanted to continue channeling the air wall killer move, but the towering sword waves had already crashed against the Immortal Tomb.
Previously, Heavenly Court had been able to defend with composure, relying entirely on Cang Xuanzi's Space Path methods to stretch the distance between them. This gave Dragon Lord ample time to continuously activate the defensive air wall.
But now Cang Xuanzi lay lifeless on the ground, devoid of any aura. Without the cover of Space Path methods, Dragon Lord had no time at all to activate the air wall killer move once more.
Dragon Lord was not a Ninth Transformation cultivator. He shared the same cultivation level as Fang Yuan — both were at the Eighth Transformation. But Fang Yuan's Dao Marks far surpassed his own, and the only thing Dragon Lord could rely on was the Dragon Guest of Honor killer move. Regrettably, despite Dragon Lord's continuous growth thus far, a gap still remained between him and Fang Yuan. Especially when Fang Yuan truly held nothing back and revealed his most powerful offensive stance.
"No——!" Dragon Lord let out a mournful roar, watching helplessly as the sword waves swept through the Immortal Tomb, washing over everything.
Every Gu Immortal slumbering within the Immortal Tomb was powerless to resist, ground into dregs by the sword waves.
Even the massive body of Cang Tian Teng, lying on the ground, continued to dissolve under the razor-sharp sword waves, rapidly shrinking. Throughout the entire process, Cang Xuanzi showed no sign of waking — it seemed he truly was beyond saving!
The Demon Execution Board rapidly ascended into the sky, but Fang Zheng was already stunned: "He actually did it. He's destroying the Immortal Tomb!"
"The Immortal Tomb!!!" Reacting even more strongly than Fang Zheng were Zi Wei Fairy, Qin Dingling, and the others — veteran Eighth Transformation cultivators, true members of Heavenly Court in every sense.
The Immortal Tomb was not merely a critical stronghold of Heavenly Court; it was the spiritual sanctuary in their hearts. Now it had been defiled and desecrated by Fang Yuan, and countless Heavenly Court seniors slumbering inside were being slaughtered helplessly in their sleep like chicks with no chance to resist!
"Fang Yuan, I want you dead!" Qin Dingling let out a wretched howl.
"We have failed our seniors..." With a thud, Elder Zhengyuan collapsed to his knees in the central hall, weeping uncontrollably.
Zi Wei Fairy felt utterly hollow inside. The Immortal Tomb had suffered catastrophic damage, and as the leader of Heavenly Court, she bore an inescapable, grave responsibility!
"It was me, I failed..." Two lines of tears, thick with regret and anguish, streamed rapidly from Zi Wei Fairy's eyes.
Inside the Regret Pavilion, the interplay of light and shadow trembled violently.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's phantom attempted to intervene, but was tightly entangled by Limitless Demon Venerable's phantom, forced to watch helplessly as Fang Yuan slaughtered Heavenly Court members and destroyed the Immortal Tomb.
Shock and rage filled Star Constellation's phantom face, her gaze cold as ice, fixed upon her opponent: "Good, very good!"
Limitless phantom smiled. "It is quite good. Back when I attacked Heavenly Court, I also wanted to destroy the Immortal Tomb. However, considering that the non-humans were still vastly numerous at the time, and for the sake of humanity, I held back."
"Hmph! Even if you destroyed the Immortal Tomb, even if you destroyed all of Heavenly Court—as long as you cannot destroy Fate Gu, with Heavenly Will's favor, my Central Continent can still establish a second Heavenly Court, a third, a fourth Immortal Tomb!" Star Constellation phantom retorted.
"Precisely so." Limitless Demon Venerable's phantom sighed. "Fate Gu is the root of your Heavenly Court. So long as it cannot be destroyed, no matter how much Heavenly Court sacrifices, it matters not. It will only grow stronger with each setback—casting off the old, bringing in fresh blood, drawing ever closer to the tides of the era."
The era is in constant flux, and the cultivation of Gu Immortals develops ceaselessly.
The rise and fall of Qi Path and Strength Path is but one clear proof of this.
When Limitless Demon Venerable left behind the Immortal Tomb all those years ago, this was precisely his reasoning. Preserving Qi Path and Strength Path Gu Immortals whom the era had rendered obsolete was surely better than destroying Heavenly Court, allowing it to rebound from rock bottom as countless Rules Path, Wisdom Path, and other Gu Immortals emerged in response to fate and were absorbed by Heavenly Court.
"Now, I am rather curious—with the Immortal Tomb destroyed by Fang Yuan, how much longer can your side hold on?" Limitless phantom smiled.
Star Phantom could no longer remain composed: "You are disregarding the bigger picture, abandoning the great cause of humanity! You are unworthy of being humanity's sovereign."
Limitless Phantom sneered: "Back then, my true self would have been bound by such reasoning, but now... hasn't humanity's great cause already been achieved? Humanity should pursue something greater. You should know what I mean."
Star Phantom narrowed her eyes, falling into a rare silence.
"Fang Yuan, I will flay you alive and grind your bones to dust!!" Dragon Lord roared toward the heavens. In that instant, the fury and hatred within his heart surged to their absolute peak, and he charged at Fang Yuan without a care for his own safety.
Fang Yuan simply dodged, refusing to clash head-on with Dragon Lord, driving the triple sword wave ceaselessly onward.
Crash! Crash! Crash!