Chapter 467

This time, Fang Yu sent out a clone to purchase a Great Brahma Light Ship, and was immediately targeted by several parties.

The woman was Zhuxian Dao, the second-ranked among the Forty Thieves, who had already cultivated to the Golden Core Realm; she took great interest in Fang Yu's Great Brahma Light Ship and approached him.

As for the Tian Mo clan's Great Tian Mo King named Gu Luo, Fang Yu had never heard of him.

Among the Tian Mo, Great Tian Mo Kings who reached the 9th Stage of Divine Abilities were immensely powerful, but they typically dwelled in the Return-to-Nothing; Fang Yu had never seen a Great Tian Mo King openly appear within the Da Xuan Empire before.

This Great Tian Mo King, Gu Luo, recognized that Fang Yu cultivated a Great Dao Technique—the Great Cutting Technique of the Three Thousand Great Daos—and thus fixated on him, seeking to seize the Great Cutting Technique.

There was also a cultivator at the 5th Stage of Divine Abilities, clearly from the Demon Sect, who sought to kill Fang Yu outright merely because Fang Yu had obliterated his spiritual perception—this was utterly unjust.

Three factions of cultivators: one wanted Fang Yu's magic treasure, one wanted his technique, and the last wanted his life.

Then these three must all die.

"What did you say? You dare command us all to die? Very well—I, Young Master Ling, haven't heard anyone more arrogant in a long time. I've changed my mind, Xue Lingkong: don't kill him. I now intend to keep him alive, to subject him to torments even I cannot imagine."

As Fang Yu's clone spoke, before anyone else could react, the cultivator at the 5th Stage of Heavy Heavenly Man Realm, clad in a green skull ghostly shadow, let out a cruel smile. With a single gesture, the elder behind the "Young Master Ling" moved instantly.

"Brat, you've offended the Young Master of the Xueyingmo Sect—this is your bad fortune."

The elder's face twisted with cruelty; as his hand seized the air, an endless reek of blood surged forth, and a river of blood materialized in the void, teeming with countless blood demons roaring and surging toward them.

As these blood demons, along with the river, charged forward, everyone felt their own blood rising uncontrollably, as if it would be sucked into the river, turning them all into desiccated corpses.

Even Zhuxian Dao frowned at this sight, and from her lips came four icy words.

"Xueyingmo Sect."

Among the Seven Branches of the Demon Sect, the Xueyingmo Sect was filled with ferocious demons, especially profound in the path of blood—though this profundity was built upon the slaughter of countless living beings.

Zhuxian Dao was no ordinary informant; she long knew that this Young Master Ling was the son of a Supreme Elder of the Xueyingmo Sect, a Supreme Elder who doted on him. After Young Master Ling reached the 5th Stage of Heavy Heavenly Man Realm, the Supreme Elder directly petitioned the Zhang Sect of the Xueyingmo Sect—the Xueying Emperor—to exterminate billions of lifeforms on a distant star, using their blood to forge a low-grade Dao Artifact for him.

An entire planet, billions of lifeforms, sacrificed to forge one magic treasure for this Young Master Ling—so even Zhuxian Dao, with her Golden Core Realm, dared not oppose him, choosing instead to keep her distance.

Of course, Zhuxian Dao did not leave immediately; she was determined to obtain the Great Brahma Light Ship this time.

"Brat, die!"

The endless river of blood surged forward, blood demons clawing and snarling, ready to seize Fang Yu outright.

At that moment, the void seemed to fall utterly silent, and a figure suddenly appeared there.

Accompanying this figure was a spear.

No one could describe how terrifying this spear was, but as it pierced through the void, even before its tip reached, the river of blood began to evaporate.

In an instant, the spear pierced the void, shattered the river of blood, and with overwhelming killing intent and power, vaporized every drop of blood, then pierced through the elder.

The Xueyingmo Sect elder had reached the 9th Stage of Heavenly Man Realm, having cultivated his Heavenly Law Form—but as the spear struck, he could not even summon his Heavenly Law Form to flee; it was obliterated along with his body before he could retreat a single step.

Of course, the elder's armor, a peerless treasure, was also instantly shattered to nothing.

The mid-grade Dao Artifact, the Sky-Piercing Divine Spear, manifested in the void and instantly annihilated the Xueyingmo Sect elder.

Simultaneously, Fang Yu's true body appeared before Zhuxian Dao; at this moment, she was extremely close to Fang Yu, and this proximity filled her with a terrible premonition.

"Pure World Lotus!"

Without hesitation, Zhuxian Dao activated her strongest killing technique; her palm opened, and each finger shot forth a sword qi—each qi shimmered in different colors: red, green, blue, yellow, purple—coalescing instantly into a lotus before her.

A five-colored lotus, radiating a thousand layers of light, seemed to exert immense stillness, freezing the void within dozens of li, as if the air had turned to steel, to mercury.

Everything here became unbearably heavy; the void within dozens of li was engulfed by the lotus, and everywhere erupted the aura of utter annihilation and destruction—as if a supreme being had sensed the world's filth and descended this lotus to cleanse humanity entirely.

Outside this city of Da Xuan Empire, dozens of li away, countless flowers and grasses vanished instantly, replaced by a barren wasteland—as if this land had been destroyed and purified.

This was an ultimate technique, on par with the Black Sun Wind Calamity, the Great Sun Fire Calamity, and the Scripture of Infinite Stars.

Pure World Lotus.

It was an ancient Fomen technique used to purify the world—indeed, an apocalypse technique.

Yet this terrifying ultimate technique obliterated everything—yet failed to touch Fang Yu before her.

At this moment, a primordial talisman shot forth from his crown; how powerful was this primordial talisman? It surpassed even Zhuxian Dao's imagination.

All the terrifying destructive force of the Pure World Lotus was absorbed completely by the talisman, and Zhuxian Dao, in that instant, saw Fang Yu's primordial talisman with perfect clarity.

She saw at its very core a Five Emperors Canopy, whose five-colored divine light was sufficient to suppress all five-colored techniques.

And atop the primordial talisman, beyond the Five Emperors Canopy, Zhuxian Dao saw terrifying absorption runes, terrifying cutting runes, terrifying slaughter runes.

She even recognized a familiar technique—the Scripture of Infinite Stars—same as the one cultivated by her fellow thief, Mie Xing Dao, now appearing within this man's talisman.

"Could it be that Mie Xing Di was killed by this man?"

Such a thought rose in Zhuxian Dao's mind, and she herself felt terror at thinking such thoughts during battle.

Who was she? She was Zhuxian Dao, the second-ranked thief among the Forty Thieves—yet now, in the midst of combat, she was lost in idle speculation, thinking of things utterly irrelevant to the fight.

What did this mean? It meant her spirit was in disarray, unable to muster focus—and that meant today, she was very likely to meet her end.

At that moment, Fang Yu's primordial talisman shot forth, slashing directly toward Zhuxian Dao.

Her defensive Gang Qi shattered instantly under the primordial talisman's strike, with no resistance whatsoever; her outer robe also shattered under the force, revealing the protective treasure robe beneath.

This protective robe was embroidered with countless lotuses; upon receiving attack, it bloomed white lotuses, attempting to block Fang Yu's primordial talisman's cutting force.

Zhuxian Dao's protective robe was a supreme treasure, a true artifact of immense defense, called the Ten Thousand Lotus Dharma Robe—stronger than the Iron True Person's Iron Battle Robe of the Yuhua Sect, unmatched in protection—but before Fang Yu's primordial talisman, it meant nothing, sliced clean through.

Then, the primordial talisman twisted once, utterly exterminating Zhuxian Dao.

Zhuxian Dao's Golden Core tried to flee, but Fang Yu's hand seized it, drenched in Huang Quan Holy Water—she could not even trigger self-destruction.

In the blink of an eye, the famed Golden Core expert, Zhuxian Dao, second-ranked among the Forty Thieves, was slain outright by Fang Yu—unable even to self-destruct!

The notorious second-largest thief of the seas, a ruthless killer of countless lives, was simply wiped out.

This sight stunned the Great Tian Mo King Gu Luo and the 5th Stage of Heavy Heavenly Man Realm Young Master Ling, who had been preparing to seize Fang Yu's technique.

"What? How is this possible? Zhuxian Dao just died? No, it shouldn't be. Zhuxian Dao is a Golden Core expert, cultivated countless techniques—how could she be slain so easily? He hasn't even reached the Golden Core Realm!"

Great Tian Mo King Gu Luo stared at the scene, truly stunned—the entire situation had unfolded in an instant: a man suddenly appeared, instantly killing the Xueyingmo Sect elder, then unleashed his primordial talisman and slew the Golden Core expert Zhuxian Dao.

Zhuxian Dao, a Golden Core expert, faced a cultivator at the 6th Stage of Heavy Heavenly Man Realm—and she hadn't even had time to summon her Golden Core, let alone trigger its self-destruction, before being utterly slain, her Golden Core seized by the man.

"How could you be so strong? You're merely a 6th Stage cultivator—how dare you kill my attendant?"

The Young Master Ling's face also showed shock as he watched his 9th Stage of Divine Abilities attendant being instantly killed; he flew into a rage, gestured with his hand, and immediately a blood-red treasure sword appeared around him.

As soon as this blood-red treasure sword appeared, endless bloodlust filled the air, and a river of blood surged upward, from which emerged a blood-drenched demonic king, wreathed in boundless blood qi.

This treasure sword was, in fact, a Dao Artifact!

A Low-grade Dao Artifact.

Fang Yu's gaze turned to the Young Master Ling, then to the treasure sword before him; he sensed boundless resentment and boundless blood-spirit energy emanating from the sword, as if dozens of billions of living beings had been sacrificed in its forging.

The Xueyingmo Sect truly is demonic.

The Sovereigns of the Shrouding Heaven Realm cannot compare to the demons of the Xueyingmo Sect.

The Sovereigns of the Shrouding Heaven Realm rarely kill living beings; they only unleash dark upheavals when their own life essence is insufficient—but the Xueyingmo Sect slaughtered dozens of billions of living beings just to elevate one Top-Grade item into a Low-grade Dao Artifact.