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Before Sumeru Mountain.
The ten thousand feet around the Platform of Heaven’s Ascension were covered in eye-catching scars. An aura of destruction and austere killing intent still lingered in the air.
The distant onlookers looked dazed, and when they looked at Su Yi, their eyes were full of astonishment.
As if they were looking at a deity!
In a few blinks of an eye, Su Yi used nothing but his sword to break through a whole group’s killer moves, executing three Spiritual Manifestation Realm monsters of the ancient era in rapid succession. That majestic bearing was unsurpassed throughout heaven and earth.
Huan Shaoyou, Mo Xingzhe, and the two other remaining monsters of the ancient era felt an emotion they couldn’t quite put into words well up within their hearts.
They thought back to before the battle began, when they’d been smug and complacent. They’d thought that by forming an alliance, they could act as they pleased within Sumeru Immortal Island.
They even saw exterminating Su Yi as a trivial matter, and they were utterly contemptuous.
Who’d have thought that before the power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness covering the mountain fully dispersed, Su Yi would leave them in such a sorry state? They’d already suffered grievous casualties!
That mixture of dread, confusion, frustration, and rage filled their hearts. Now, when they faced Su Yi, their will to fight wavered.
“Su Yi, do you really think you’ve got this in the bag?” Huan Shaoyou’s eyes were bloodshot, and his aura was explosive and intimidating. He spat his words through the gaps in his teeth, and his tone contained bone-deep hatred and loathing.
“Of course,” said Su Yi. “And there’s no reason not to speak directly: the four of you won't escape alive.”
As he spoke, he stepped into the air. He raised his hand and gently slashed at the nearest of the four, Qi Xiao.
Qi Xiao’s expression changed dramatically.
Earlier, Su Yi had broken his killer weapon in a single slash. How could he dare clash with Su Yi head-on now?
Instead, he immediately chose to flee. He bit through the tip of his tongue, and the talisman already clenched in his palm burst apart. Dazzling golden light surged from the shattered talisman, enveloping him completely.
Whoosh!
“A Molting Talisman? Do you really think something like that makes you invincible?”
Su Yi laughed dryly.
His divine sense had long since locked onto his target. How could he possibly let him flee?
As his voice rang out, the Abstruse God Sword turned in his hand, and its tip stabbed a spot in the distance.
Eighteen thousand feet away, fresh blood sprayed through the air. Immediately afterward, two bloody halves of a corpse fell from the sky and splattered against the ground.
It was none other than Qi Xiao!
Except he’d long since been cut in two at the waist; it was a hideous, miserable way to go.
The onlookers were stunned once more, and their scalps went numb.
Yet another Spiritual Manifestation Realm monster of the ancient era had fallen!
Gu Cangning felt the weight of this the most intensely.
When he first arrived at Sumeru Mountain, Qi Xiao invited him to join Huan Shaoyou’s alliance. When Gu Cangning refused his invitation, Qi Xiao mocked him, and Huan Shaoyou said “he didn’t know what was good for him.”
But now

Qi Xiao was dead, while he, Gu Cangning, was still alive!
One choice meant the difference between life and death. Of course Gu Cangning was emotional!
When they watched as Qi Xiao chose to flee, only to get cut down, Huan Shaoyou, Mo Xingzhe, and their ally Kong Yu, felt their hearts sink.
There was no doubt about it: Su Yi wouldn’t give them the chance to flee!
Kong Yu took a deep breath. “Su Yi, can we end this here? As I’m sure you’re well aware, if you kill us all, you’ll face unimaginable retribution upon leaving Sumeru Immortal Island.”
He appeared fierce, but inwardly, he was terrifying.
“You’re saying that if I don’t kill you, you’ll no longer act against me?” Su Yi said calmly.
“Give it everything you’ve got!” Huan Shaoyou bellowed. His sleeves shook, and ten talismans shot out, forming an arc in the air.
Every talisman burst with ten thousand feet of light, forming a massive circle that enveloped Su Yi.
It was as if there were ten suns in the sky, all of them bearing down on the world below.
That radiant, limitless, destructive aura shook heaven and earth. It was terrifying to the extreme.
There was no doubt that this was one of Huan Shaoyou’s trump cards.
Practically simultaneously, Kong Yu seemed to go insane. He roared and activated a jade scepter shrouded in searing black flame. The scepter’s ends were carved, one a dragon, the other a tiger. When the scepter shot into the air, the roars of a dragon and tiger reverberated throughout the surrounding area.
It was as if a dragon and tiger converged beneath the scepter. Wind and lightning strengthened each other with almost unimaginable majesty.
And Mo Xingzhe’s figure boomed and split into countless bloody streaks, which scattered in all directions.
There was no doubt that the monster of the Deathbringer’s Netherworld Palace planned to seize this opportunity to let Huan Shaoyou and Kong Yu hold Su Yi back long enough for him to escape.
“I said it, didn’t I? None of you can escape.” A mocking grin tugged at Su Yi’s lips, and he swung the Abstruse God Sword three times in rapid succession.
The first slash arced like a rainbow piercing the sun. It cleaved through the ten “suns” manifested by the talismans’ power like an axe through bamboo, crushing everything in its path. A curtain of fragmented light filled the air and reverberated throughout heaven and earth.
The second slash was as heavy as a divine mountain. As it bore down, the roars of dragons and tigers transformed into miserable howls and wails. The scepter emanating terrifying energy burst apart, inch by inch.
The third slash contained the mysteries of the Rejoicing Sword Sutra’s Wandering the Ten Directions. It manifested a limitless sword rain and fired on all sides.
Splurt splurt splurt!
The countless bloody streaks Mo Xingzhe had split into shattered. Boundless sword light filled the skies, locking down and enveloping everything in all directions.
Beneath the crowd’s disbelieving gazes, the distant skies boomed, and Mo Xingzhe staggered back into view.
His face was pallid and translucent, and he looked astonished and terrified. He couldn’t help but say, “How
 How could you possibly break my Forbidden Blood Evasion Technique!?”
This was his last-ditch resort, a life-saving technique. It was one of the Deathbringer’s Netherworld Palace’s forbidden techniques. When used, no one in the same realm could stop it.
It was enough to escape even the pursuit of a Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivator.
Yet now, Su Yi had cut through his forbidden technique in a single slash!
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“I’ve already seen just about every possible method of fleeing for one’s life. That little forbidden technique of yours requires burning your blood essence. It might look strong, but it’s riddled with flaws. It’s not even worth looking at,” Su Yi said casually. His comments were casual and understated, yet rife with contempt.
Even as he spoke, his movements didn’t stop. The Abstruse God Sword shook and hummed as it slashed at Mo Xingzhe from afar.
Mo Xingzhe let out a strange shriek, turned, and charged toward Sumeru Mountain.
This was a heaven-defying figure even among monsters of the ancient era, but he’d obviously been scared out of his wits. His will to fight crumbled, and all he wanted was to run for his life.
In Su Yi’s eyes, now that Mo Xingzhe had lost the will to fight, he was no more than a fly ready to be swatted.
A thousand-foot streak of clear sword qi flew through the air.
Whoosh!
Before Mo Xingzhe reached Sumeru Mountain, the sweeping sword qi cleaved into his body. Blood scattered like rain.
Against all expectations, Mo Xingzhe’s primordial spirit left his body just before it was destroyed and leaped toward Sumeru Mountain.
Just as the crowd was gasping over Mo Xingzhe’s reaction speed, something unexpected happened.
The dark mists hovering over the mountain, manifestations of the inscrutable power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness, instantly enveloped Mo Xingzhe’s primordial spirit. He was like a bug stuck in a spider’s web. No matter how much Mo Xingzhe struggled, it was to no avail.
The power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness corroded his primordial spirit, leaving it riddled with holes.
“No! No——!” Mo Xingzhe cried out in desperation, shock, and terror.
In the blink of an eye, his primordial spirit was silently corroded to nothingness. It disappeared into inscrutable mists of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness.
This unsettling scene made the onlookers shudder.
What terrifying power!
Only then did the onlookers realize that although the power of the Prohibition covering Sumeru Mountain had weakened, and although it was on the verge of dispersing, not just anyone could barge into the mists.
Mo Xingzhe’s demise was a vivid example of this!
“You deserved this, and you have no one to blame but yourself.” Su Yi shook his head.
He then looked at Huan Shaoyou and Kong Yu. “It’s your turn.”
Thud!
Kong Yu knelt in the air and cried out, “Su Yi, I admit defeat. Leave me a path to survival, and I swear never to oppose you again. I’m even willing to give you a show of sincerity sufficient to make up for my mistakes!”
The entire ritual grounds fell deathly silent.
The onlookers said nothing, but their hearts churned with emotion.
This was a monster of the ancient era who’d stepped into the Spiritual Manifestation Realm. How dazzling was he, and how powerful?
Yet now, he knelt before Su Yi, begging for forgiveness!
This scene came as a far greater shock than watching Su Yi cut down the other monsters of the ancient era moments prior.
Even Buddhist Son Chen Lu and Li Handeng, miraculous geniuses of the present day, couldn’t help but sigh to themselves.
Killing someone was simple.
But scaring an incomparably indomitable monster of the ancient era to the point of kneeling and getting? That was unquestionably difficult.
Kong Yu’s kneeling only further offset Su Yi’s terrifying strength!
When word of this incident spread, it would surely shake the whole world!
“You have to die,” Su Yi said calmly.
Kong Yu stiffened, and his mind seemed to collapse. He suddenly leaped, bellowed, and charged at Su Yi. “Even if I die, I’ll fight to the bitter end!”
All of his blood and qi blazed as if on fire, and he burst with terrifying and explosive waves of power.
There was no doubt that Kong Yu had gone completely mad. He activated a secret art that destroyed his own cultivation in hopes of taking Su Yi down with him.
But before he got halfway there, his body fell to earth, while his head flew into the sky with a spray of fresh red blood.
A casual slash from Su Yi had decapitated him from afar, ending him before his self-destructing secret art could take effect.
Yet another monster of the ancient era had fallen.
The distant onlookers were already numb from astonishment. They just watched in a daze, their hearts in turmoil. A long time passed without anyone saying anything.
Now, only Huan Shaoyou remained!
This direct-line descendant of the Huan Family had an ashen, grim look on his face. His hair was disheveled, and his eyes were bloodshot. He looked as if he’d lost his soul.
Some of the onlookers couldn’t help but pity him.
His strength was inferior to Su Yi.
His trump cards were inferior to Su Yi’s.
He had nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
Who’d have thought this glorious, heaven-defying, monstrous scion of the Huan Family would land himself in such an inescapable predicament?
He was all alone, with only his shadow for company. How abjectly miserable was that?
“You’re the only one left,” Su Yi said softly as he gazed at the distant Huan Shaoyou.
The night he rescued Xuan Ning and broke into the Huan Family’s base in Nine Tripod City, Su Yi promised his disciple that he’d kill Huan Shaoyou.
Now was the time to make good on his promise to the little turtle.
When he sensed Su Yi’s gaze, Huan Shaoyou seemed to come to his senses. The corners of his lips twitched.
But then, he suddenly burst into laughter, his long purple hair flying around him and his bloodshot eyes surging with madness. He said in a low, raspy voice, “Su Yi, by doing this, you’re digging your own grave!”