Chapter 1 The Rumble

Buzz, buzz, buzz~~~

Ten people bowed in unison, and the ten directions of the Dongtian (cave-heavens) all hummed. Beams of pitch-black divine light, like torrents, shot into the black leather book.

Visibly, the pages of the black leather book flipped through with a 'whoosh'.

Between the surging divine intent and the interweaving of laws, it seemed as if a painting was unfolding.

An ancient city, a long street, a teahouse, a Daoist priest...

The painting flickered for only a moment before disappearing. However, the invisible power of the curse, unseen by ordinary people, had already followed the mysterious traces in the void.

With a speed exceeding the world's limit, it erupted towards a place hundreds of thousands of miles away!

Boom!

A thunderclap from a clear sky!

Thunder exploded above the ancient city. As the wind howled, the sky was dyed as dark as ink. Before the thunder could fade, the sky had completely darkened.

This darkness was not the darkness of night, but as if all the light in the world had 'died'. Neither the naked eye nor divine sight could see any light within or outside the ancient city at this moment!

Reach out, and you cannot see your fingers!

The city was immediately plunged into chaos, people and horses were overturned, and cries of fear arose. It was as if everyone had gone blind at the same moment!

An indescribable terror filled everyone's hearts.

It was the vastness of the world, the endless killing intent about to strike from the unknown, and they had no power to resist, or even to understand, this power.

The unknown is often more terrifying than the danger itself.

Whoosh, whoosh~

The wind rose in the city, and the wailing wind sounded incomparably desolate in the dark night.

Within the entire ancient city, among the numerous streets and buildings, only one teahouse remained illuminated.

"Divine soul..."

An Qisheng sat calmly, drinking tea, his expression unchanged.

Specks of fluorescent light flowed around his body, the light of his divine soul.

Across the various realms, the cultivation of the fleshly body is nothing more than 'essence, Qi, and spirit'. In the spirit-deficient Xuanxing, tapping into the potential of the physical body, Dan and Gang are all like this.

The Jiu Fu Realm follows the path of true Qi, building an incredibly complex network of true Qi within the body, using it as the core to draw upon the power of heaven and earth.

The Human Realm is about the spirit.

Using the spirit to seize spiritual opportunities, transforming them into magical power; using the spirit to command Qi, ordering gods and ghosts. Only then is there talk of 'substitute deaths' and 'lodging', emphasizing the spirit as the master, Qi as the supplement, and the physical body as merely a shell.

The cultivators of the Wanyang Realm take themselves as the foundation, seizing the essence of heaven and earth to transform and replenish themselves, in order to achieve the super transformation of the body.

To some extent, compared to the Jiu Fu Realm, the Human Realm is even more compatible with Xuanxing.

However, the cultivation of the fleshly body cannot escape the three words of essence, Qi, and spirit. Whether it is Xuanxing, Jiu Fu Realm, Human Realm, or Wanyang Realm, they must ultimately come into contact with the others.

This Three Seven Dharma Extinction Talisman is the most pure method of divine soul annihilation that An Qisheng has seen in his years in the Wanyang Realm.

At this time, there is no light in the city, it is just that there is no light in the perception of living beings.

In fact, in his eyes, everything is as usual.

It is only the rolling surge of those extremely strange and formless forces of curse that have created this situation.

"Three Seven Dharma Extinction Talisman..."

Xuanji stood behind An Qisheng, relying on the glowing light from An Qisheng's body to make out the changes in her expression.

She knew the terror of the Three Seven Dharma Extinction Talisman, but she had never seen the main body of its attack.

It was clearly aimed at this Yuanyang Daoist, yet the scattered aftershocks had already enveloped the souls of everyone in the entire city. With just a thought,

The lives of this entire city would be extinguished!

Whether mortal or cultivator, even she, who had condensed her Dongtian (cave-heaven), felt a chill in her heart.

But what shocked her even more was An Qisheng.

In this boundless darkness, he was like the only light in the world. She knew very well that this was not the light of the physical body, but the light of the divine soul.

This Yuanyang Daoist also had extremely powerful attainments in the way of the divine soul.

"Hmm?!"

A ripple appeared in the Starry Sky True Form. Within the Qian Mountain Dongtian (cave-heaven), Qian Shisi, who had been meditating with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them.

Divine light burst forth from his eyes, as if to illuminate the Dongtian (cave-heaven) and tear the starry sky apart.

He, felt something different.

"The primordial spirit is shaking. This is, the Three Seven Dharma Extinction Talisman?"

The Butian Pavilion Master's heart stirred, and a divine light could not help but appear on his face: "The Extinction Path actually has such courage?!"

His heart trembled, and he was also surprised.

Even he had not expected the Extinction Path to make a move. Could it be that the Yuanyang Daoist had directly attacked the mountain gate of the Extinction Path?

"Three Seven Dharma Extinction Talisman!"

And apart from the Butian Pavilion Master, Qian Shisi, and the other four, only Fa Wumie in the Qian Mountain Dongtian (cave-heaven) felt a familiar aura.

His heart stirred: "Has the Sect Leader made a move?!"

Whoosh, whoosh~

The ripples in the starry sky grew more and more intense, and streams of darkness of unknown origin suddenly plunged into the starry sky, alternating between two colors.

Fierce collisions were taking place.

"Opportunity?"

Ling Tian Sect Leader's eyes narrowed, and he looked towards Qian Shisi.

The latter nodded, but then shook his head: "Let's wait and see. We only have one chance."

Under the increasingly powerful suppression of the True Form Dongtian (cave-heaven), the four of them were still restrained by each other. Within those Dongtian (cave-heavens) were also spirit treasures that could seal a marquis.

Even they only had one chance to strike.

Qian Shisi closed his eyes again, but could not help but recall the discussions he had with the Yuanyang Daoist these days.

About supernatural powers, techniques, heaven and earth, and Dongtian (cave-heavens)...

He could not help but feel a trace of hesitation.

"Tens of thousands of years ago, someone had already cultivated the divine soul to such a realm, but for today's many cultivators, it is an unimaginable, incomprehensible 'curse' power..."

As the wind rose in the ancient city and countless people were horrified, they suddenly heard a voice that was calm but tinged with a sigh:

"Truly, it is pitiful, lamentable."

The voice was faint and flickering, omnipresent in the darkness. Accompanying it was a wave of light that was not bright, but seemed to be able to penetrate the human heart.

This ray of light was like the first ray of light that pierced the universe and starry sky, and like the only hope in the endless darkness.

In an instant, the eyes of countless living beings within and outside the ancient city were all attracted by that ray of light.

Buzz~~~

Like an ancient bell covered with moss in a temple being struck, a long and resonant sound echoed through heaven and earth and the hearts of people.

"That is..."

A cultivator's heart trembled as he looked out.

He saw that where the light had appeared, in the teahouse in the city, five brilliant rays of light suddenly shot into the sky!

The five-colored divine light slashed through the dome of the sky, intertwined like dragons spiraling around each other, and suddenly burst forth with clusters of clear radiance.

The clear radiance illuminated the shadows, pierced through the darkness, and as it spread out, the darkness within and outside the ancient city seemed to be swept away in an instant.

An indescribable sense of tranquility immediately smoothed over the fear and shock in everyone's hearts.

"He, he wants to directly contend with the Three Seven Dharma Extinction Talisman?"

As the darkness was suddenly illuminated, Xuanji's heart could not help but tremble in the teahouse. She had originally thought that this Yuanyang Daoist had obtained some strange magic treasure.

But she had not expected that he would actually be resisting the curse of the Three Seven Dharma Extinction Talisman head-on!

Whoosh, whoosh~

The clear radiance was like water, flowing down within and outside the ancient city, in all directions, like smoke and the sea.

Then, under everyone's gaze, as the large swaths of clear radiance scattered, three huge flower buds suddenly sprang out from the place where the five brilliant rays of light had exploded!

Those three huge flowers were beautiful and magnificent, like the interweaving of laws, flawless and perfect. The moment they appeared, they began to spin around.

And they spun faster and faster.

Buzz, buzz~~~

In the low humming sound, the three huge flower buds rotating in the clear radiance slowly bloomed like lotuses.

"What kind of supernatural power is that?"

Tens of thousands of miles away, peering at the three slowly blooming flowers through the endless power of the curse, the Extinction Path Sect Leader's eyes narrowed.

He had never seen those three flowers, but at a glance, he could not help but feel a surge of palpitations in his heart. It seemed that the three flowers had an unspeakable attraction to him.

"Who cares what it is, he will die anyway!"

"No need to hesitate any longer, any delay will lead to changes!"

"Make your move!"

The other elders of the Extinction Path also sensed something was wrong, and in the constant urging, the Extinction Path Master finally gave a low shout:

"Die!"

A low shout.

The Three Seven Dharma Extinction Talisman suddenly shone with a faint light. The painting with the ancient city instantly stretched out, separating itself from other things. In an instant, only the Daoist priest surrounded by clear radiance in the teahouse remained.

"Die!!!"

The sound waves seemed to be able to cross the void.

An astonishing scene occurred. As the Three Seven Dharma Extinction Talisman vibrated, an invisible wave swept from top to bottom, as if to erase the entire painting!

It was as if a teacher in elementary school was wiping a sand table, erasing all traces!

Rumble!

Appearing above the ancient city hundreds of thousands of miles away, a curtain of night descended from the sky, heavy and unwavering in its descent.

It was going to erase the three flowers, the clear radiance, the five-colored divine light, and An Qisheng in the teahouse, all together.

Annihilate them all!

Boom!

Black mist, like a canopy of the sky, crashed down. As the endless power of the curse gathered and rolled down, it seemed as if a heavenly sound exploded.

Divine light blazed, and the curtain of the sky burned.

"The five elements return to the five elders, the three flowers transform into the three purities..."

An Qisheng's gaze fell on the three flowers, as if he was whispering, or perhaps chanting: "One flower opens the royal power, the second flower opens the Taiji, before the Taiji is solidified, its name is life-slaughter..."

Pa!

As An Qisheng whispered and chanted, two of the three flower buds in the clear radiance suddenly opened!

In one of them, an old Daoist priest, old and withered, with chicken skin and crane hair, sat cross-legged. A sword lay across his knees, ancient and indifferent. He remained with closed eyes even as the flower bloomed.

In the second flower, there was a young Daoist priest wearing a blood-colored Daoist robe, with a cold and stern expression. His appearance was ordinary, and he held a divine blade in his arms. He did not raise his eyes, but he naturally exuded an extremely fierce aura of killing.

Two of the three flowers had bloomed. The last flower vibrated and trembled, as if it would open at any moment.

"All the people in the world suffer..."

A long sigh flowed into people's hearts. The old and withered royal power Daoist did not open his eyes either, but casually flicked his finger.

The sword lying across his knees had already transformed into light and gone away, but it did not rise into the sky. Instead, it landed in the hands of the life-slaughter Daoist priest who was holding a divine blade and wearing a robe like blood.

The blood-robed Daoist priest held the blade in one hand and the sword in the other, his expression stern, cold and aloof.

As the endless power of the curse descended like a curtain of night, he slowly raised his eyebrows, and endless ferocity burst forth from his eyes:

"Only slaughter..."