Ye Qingxuan pushed his spiritual power to its absolute limit.
Only then did he finally see clearly that it was the overwhelming, heaven-defying aura of blood and slaughter wrapping around the blood-red longsword, which had stained the space surrounding it.
Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan furrowed his brows deeply and fell silent.
The uneasy feeling from heaven and earth that had once surfaced in his heart over a hundred years ago had appeared again.
And this time, this feeling was even stronger, lingering over Ye Qingxuan’s heart for a long time.
Ye Qingxuan possessed an Immortal Soul, giving him a far keener sense of heaven and earth than his own cultivation level. He trusted his intuition; it probably wasn’t unfounded.
At the same time.
Many of the Tribulation Transcendence elders of the Xuantian Sect, who had been in seclusion, all opened their eyes wide and looked towards the blood-red longsword that had broken through the boundary. They exclaimed in unison:
“The Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword?”
Among the generations of ancestors who had ascended from the Dì Xuán Realm, many were exceptional talents who had ascended from its affiliated lower realms.
These people, after ascending to the Dì Xuán Realm, joined the Xuantian Sect by chance. Then, after progressing rapidly and breaking into the Immortal realm, some of them, before their ascension, would descend to the lower realm they came from and establish the Xuantian Sect’s teachings there.
And the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword was the final means of calling for help for the Xuantian Sect’s branch in the lower realm.
The highest cultivation level in the lower realm was the peak of the Soul Formation stage.
Without breaking through to the Dongxu (Cave Void) stage, people in the lower realm simply couldn’t shatter the void to ascend to the Dì Xuán Realm, let alone send a message there.
Only the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword, once activated, could directly tear through the void of the lower realm and escape into the Xuantian Sect in the Dì Xuán Realm.
But relying solely on the sword’s own power, it could only tear through the void of the lower realm under normal circumstances.
If the lower realm was in a state of being sealed off, then various forms of energy, even blood sacrifices, had to be used to empower it.
Only then could the sword’s power gradually accumulate, allowing it to break through the seal and still have enough strength left to tear through the void and escape into the Dì Xuán Realm.
And judging by the way the bloodthirsty aura wrapped around the sword right now, it was obvious that the Xuantian Sect’s branch in the lower realm had been forced to use blood sacrifice to forcibly send the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword into the Dì Xuán Realm.
And so, all the Tribulation Transcendence elders, with perfect understanding, hurried towards the council hall of Xuantian Peak.
They knew this was a huge problem!
At the peak of Xuantian Peak, Cen Zhe, the Sect Leader of the Xuantian Sect, frowned slightly. He reached out and drew the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword, which was swiftly flying towards Xuantian Peak, into his hand.
Instantly, the events of the lower realm appeared in Cen Zhe’s mind in the form of images.
After viewing the images within the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword, Cen Zhe’s face darkened, and he roared in anger:
“The Green Demon Clan, you are seeking death!”
Having said that, Cen Zhe’s figure vanished from where he stood.
Half an hour later, nine tolls of a bell suddenly rang out across the entire Xuantian Mountain Range:
“Dong dong dong…”
Ye Qingxuan, who had been looking out from the Qingxuan Blessed Land, heard these nine bell tolls and immediately knew something was terribly wrong.
Nine bell tolls were almost the highest standard ceremony of the Xuantian Sect for emergency situations.
As soon as the bell sounded, all the cultivators still in the Xuantian Sect had to enter a state of readiness.
With the bell ringing, Cen Zhe’s figure soared into the air, holding a very ancient-looking longsword.
Even without being activated in Cen Zhe’s hand, the space around this ancient sword had already begun to crack layer by layer.
Without any unnecessary movements, Cen Zhe simply raised the sword, poured his vast half-immortal power into it, and thrust it towards the space from which the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword had come.
In an instant, a distorted spatial tunnel began to rapidly take shape.
The Lower Realm.
The Xuan Mu Realm, one of the affiliated worlds of the Dì Xuán Realm.
At this moment, most of the Xuan Mu Realm had already been stained by terrifying demonic energy. Only one last area, covered by a formation, was still holding on with great difficulty.
And this area was exactly where the Xuantian Sect’s branch in the Xuan Mu Realm was located.
But right now, only tens of thousands of children remained alive in this stronghold. Tears stained their faces as they looked out at the world raging with demonic energy, filled with fear.
As for the others, they had already performed self-blood sacrifice, giving up their last chance to survive.
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to activate the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword earlier. It was that this realm had already been sealed off by the Green Demon Realm.
The first time the Xuantian Sect’s branch in the Xuan Mu Realm directly activated the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword, it was intercepted by the measures laid down by the Green Demon Clan.
The second time, they supplied the sword with a lot of spirit stones, but the measures laid down by the Green Demon Clan were beyond the imagination of the Xuan Mu Realm, so it was intercepted again.
Only on the third try did the survivors of the Xuan Mu Realm, leaving behind only the young children, stake everything. They sacrificed all their spirit stones and their own lives.
Only then did the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword break through the Green Demon Clan’s seal and successfully escape into the Dì Xuán Realm, which led to the scene Ye Qingxuan witnessed later.
After the survivors in the Xuan Mu Realm activated the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword for the third time, breaking the Green Demon Clan’s seal, the Green Demon Clan had long since noticed.
So, at this moment, many strong members of the Green Demon Clan, led by a Great Vehicle stage expert whose face was covered in lines, were waiting in the vast void not far from the Xuan Mu Realm, fully prepared.
Between every complete world and the dangerous Chaos Sea, there is a very vast expanse of void as a buffer.
These worlds grow by absorbing chaotic energy. They pierce through the void and construct void passages to draw in this energy.
This way, they can avoid the constant erosion of the world’s crystal walls by chaotic energy, which would pose a danger to the world.
But even so, sometimes chaotic energy still seeps into the world’s internal void through various means like spatial fissures, causing minor damage to the world.
Generally, the stronger a world is, the wider and more stable the void around it is, and the lower the possibility of such risks.
In the void, reaching the Dongxu (Cave Void) stage qualifies one to roam freely.
But in the Chaos Sea, even with the cultivation of the Great Vehicle stage, falling into it makes it impossible to protect oneself.
Only those at the Immortal realm or above have the initial qualification to explore chaos.
Now that the Green Demon Realm had drifted near the Dì Xuán Realm, the voids of the two realms had partially overlapped. This gave the Green Demon Realm the opportunity to invade the Dì Xuán Realm and its affiliated worlds.
Sensing the void beginning to tremble, the leader of the Green Demon Clan took action directly. Vast demonic energy spread through the void as he launched a powerful blow, trying to disrupt Cen Zhe’s attempt to cross the boundary and open a spatial passage.
Inside the Xuantian Sect, just as the spatial passage was about to take shape, it suddenly shuddered and began to continuously collapse.
Cen Zhe sensed this instantly. Divine light flashed in his eyes, and he immediately saw through space to the group from the Green Demon Clan.
Seeing the leader, Cen Zhe’s fury boiled over as he roared:
“Mo Xie, you still dare to appear before me?”
Having said that, Cen Zhe raised the sword in his hand and slashed directly at the Green Demon Clan group through the empty void.
In the void outside the Xuan Mu Realm, the leader of the Green Demon Clan also sensed Cen Zhe’s gaze. He looked up, meeting Cen Zhe’s eyes across the void. Hearing Cen Zhe’s words, he retorted:
“Cen Zhe? So it’s you? Heh heh heh, so what if I appear before you? What can you do to me?”
They had been mortal enemies in the outer realm battlefield before. Mo Xie hadn’t expected that after casually picking nine small thousand realms, they would confront Cen Zhe so quickly.
But although Mo Xie talked tough, he still looked extremely warily at the longsword in Cen Zhe’s hand.
Then, with a flicker, Mo Xie led his people away from the void near the Xuan Mu Realm, dodging that slash from Cen Zhe.
Since they had been discovered, Mo Xie decided not to risk his life doing something useless.
What he feared wasn’t Cen Zhe, but the sword in Cen Zhe’s hand.
That sword was the inheritance Immortal Sword left behind by the founding ancestor of the Xuantian Sect upon his ascension – the Xuantian Sword.
Refined and nourished continuously by generations of the Xuantian Sect, the Xuantian Sword had now been upgraded from a lower-grade Immortal artifact to a middle-grade one.
Don’t underestimate the difference between just middle and lower grade. The gap between them is larger than the gap between a lower-grade magical artifact and a supreme-grade spiritual treasure.
If struck by that sword, even a strong expert at the Great Vehicle stage would either die or be crippled.
Back in the Xuantian Sect, seeing Mo Xie voluntarily leave the void near the Xuan Mu Realm, Cen Zhe had to temporarily let it go. He thrust his sword again to re-open the spatial tunnel connecting to the lower realm.
Although Mo Xie had taken his people far away, he kept observing Cen Zhe’s actions.
Sensing that Cen Zhe was preparing to continue opening the spatial tunnel, Mo Xie didn’t try to stop him again. Instead, he gave a cruel smile and shouted loudly:
“Pass the order down. Tell the people in the Xuan Mu Realm to hurry up and slaughter that last batch of human children in the Xuan Mu Realm for me.”
This voice, deliberately amplified by Mo Xie, traveled directly through the void and reached the entire Xuantian Sect.
Instantly, all the disciples of the Xuantian Sect involuntarily stepped forward, their eyes red, their hands gripping the swords they had already rested on their hilts even tighter.
They were only waiting for Cen Zhe’s command; then they would unhesitatingly descend to the lower realm to slay demons.
Hearing Mo Xie’s voice, although Cen Zhe’s expression didn’t change, the posture of his stabbing sword stretched forward a bit more. The power of the Xuantian Sword in his hand became even stronger.
Meanwhile, the Green Demon Clan in the Xuan Mu Realm, receiving Mo Xie’s order, began frantically attacking the last remaining formation in the Xuan Mu Realm.
Without strong experts to maintain it, even a formation built with the combined power of the entire Xuan Mu Realm was swaying and on the verge of collapse under the attacks of the massive Green Demon Clan force.
Inside the formation were the fearful cries of the tens of thousands of surviving children of the Xuan Mu Realm.
Back in the Xuantian Sect, the spatial passage Cen Zhe was opening was rapidly taking shape. They could now see the situation inside the Xuan Mu Realm through the distorted passage.
Watching the impending disaster about to befall the tens of thousands of surviving human children in the lower realm, the people of the Xuantian Sect couldn’t help but reveal their murderous intent.
Cen Zhe pushed the half-immortal power within his body to its limit.
Finally, under the gaze of the Xuantian Sect members, just as the formation in the Xuan Mu Realm was about to shatter, the spatial passage Cen Zhe had been opening was completely formed.
Without needing Cen Zhe’s instruction, all the elders of the Array Hall acted together, instantly unleashing tens of thousands of array plates.
Under the perfect coordination of the Array Hall elders of the Xuantian Sect, they instantly stabilized the spatial passage between the Dì Xuán Realm and the Xuan Mu Realm.
Once the spatial passage between the two realms was formed, the originally exposed passage in the void would disappear.
This meant that unless the anchor points of the spatial passage were destroyed from within the worlds, it would no longer be easy for even a Great Vehicle stage cultivator to forcibly disrupt the spatial passage.
As soon as the spatial passage was formed, Cen Zhe immediately gave the order in a deep voice:
“Disciples of the Xuantian Sect at the Soul Formation stage, hear my command. Descend to the lower realm! Slay the demons!”
“Disciple obeys the command!”
The moment Cen Zhe finished speaking, the bodies of all the true inheritor disciples at the Soul Formation stage in the Xuantian Sect had already vanished, leaving only their resounding, synchronized reply echoing throughout the sect.
As their reply began to sound, the colorful rainbow lights they had transformed into had already entered the spatial passage leading to the lower realm and disappeared.
Instantly, the sounds of fierce fighting from the lower realm could even be heard through the spatial passage inside the Xuantian Sect.
Hearing the extremely bitter and fierce sounds of battle from below, the other disciples of the Xuantian Sect didn’t show fear. Instead, they stepped forward one after another to plead:
“We, the disciples of the Xuantian Sect, do not fear life or death. We beg the Sect Leader to order us to descend to the lower realm and slay the demons!”
But Cen Zhe did not agree to the many disciples’ requests.
The rules of the lower realm only allowed the descent of cultivators at the Soul Formation stage at most. No one below the Immortal realm could violate this rule. So, the Dongxu (Cave Void) stage disciples of the Xuantian Sect simply couldn’t go down.
And given the current situation in the Xuan Mu Realm, disciples below the Soul Formation stage descending would only become cannon fodder.
After the spatial passage in the void became hidden, it was impossible from the Xuantian Sect to see the opposite side situation in the Xuan Mu Realm through it anymore.
However, Cen Zhe was unrestricted by this. Immortal spiritual energy flowed in his eyes, allowing him to easily pierce through the void and see the current situation in the Xuan Mu Realm.
Although the tens of thousands of surviving children in the Xuan Mu Realm were successfully rescued, there was no joy in Cen Zhe’s heart.
Because this battle for the Xuantian Sect had just begun, and several true inheritor disciples at the Soul Formation stage had already fallen.
In response to the pleas of the other disciples, Cen Zhe simply said in a deep voice:
“The rest of you, focus on your cultivation, prepare fully for battle. Disperse!”
Having said that, Cen Zhe personally took his place outside the opened spatial passage in the Xuantian Sect to prevent the Green Demon Clan in the void from using any special means to destroy it.
Furthermore, back when Cen Zhe was opening the spatial passage, he had already asked Yao Qiudao, the Supreme Elder of the Xuantian Sect, to contact the other major sects and inform them of the sudden changes in the lower realm.
After the Blood-Red Law-Breaking Sword broke through the Green Demon Clan’s measures, the heavenly secrets concealed by the Green Demon Realm’s demonic artifact treasure, the Sky-Concealing Banner, could no longer be hidden.
The situation in the various lower realms right now was not optimistic!
This battle was definitely not something that could be ended in a short time.
Meanwhile, Mo Xie, who had been watching secretly, saw that the last surviving batch of human children in the Xuan Mu Realm had actually been successfully rescued. He immediately became furious and shouted:
“You bunch of useless trash! You couldn’t even successfully slaughter a group of defenseless children to the last one!”
At that moment, a Green Demon Clan member at the Tribulation Transcendence stage standing next to Mo Xie cautiously asked:
“Great Venerable One, now that our plan has been discovered by the people of the Dì Xuán Realm, what do we do?”
Hearing his subordinate’s question, Mo Xie said nonchalantly:
“Doesn’t matter. Out of the nine small thousand realms we invaded, five have already been successfully transformed into demon domains, and most of the other four have been transformed as well.”
“Now that the people from the Dì Xuán Realm are descending to fight our people, they’re entering our home turf. The situation has reversed.”
“And according to our follow-up plan, we’ll use these nine small thousand realms to keep the Dì Xuán Realm occupied on the surface. Then, we’ll invade other small thousand realms. At the same time, it’s time to reopen the fighting on the outer realm battlefield.”
Finally, Mo Xie couldn’t help but burst into loud laughter:
“Hahaha, right now, it’s the people of the Dì Xuán Realm who are being led by the nose. We have plenty of time to play with them.”
Once the small thousand realms affiliated with the Dì Xuán Realm were transformed into demon domains, the essence of the Green Demon Realm could use these demon domains to subtly and silently assimilate the essence of the Dì Xuán Realm itself.
As long as enough of these small thousand realms were converted into demon domains, the Dì Xuán Realm would eventually be unable to escape their grasp.
