269: Self-destruction

"Great Five Elements Sword Formation! Rise!"

Yao Delong gave a low shout, and the Burning Silence Sword flew from his hand, suspended in mid-air!

Simultaneously, his hands formed incantations, and five sword shadows condensed from pure essence energy—gold, green, blue, red, and yellow—instantly emerged, resonating with the Burning Silence Sword!

The five-colored sword light flowed, instantly forming a profound sword formation,

enveloping Tie Shan along with the defensive light curtain around him!

Hum!

As the sword formation operated, the Five Elements powers complemented and countered each other, creating a powerful force of restriction and strangulation!

Tie Shan felt his whole body sink, as if he had fallen into a swamp, and his essence energy circulation became sluggish!

He was horrified; this Golden Core Perfection kid's methods were actually so strange and powerful!

"Break!"

Lin Qingxue's beautiful eyes brightened, seizing the perfect opportunity while Tie Shan was pinned by the sword formation and his mind was distracted!

The ice soul sword erupted with an unprecedentedly brilliant cold light, as the power of Ice Soul Starfall was pushed to its limit!

A streak of extremely condensed ice-blue sword energy, like an icy river falling from the Nine Heavens,

carrying the will to freeze all things and destroy everything, slashed fiercely toward a weak point in Tie Shan's giant shield defense!

"Not good!"

Tie Shan's pupils shrank violently as he pushed his giant shield to block with all his might! The runes on the shield's surface flashed wildly, and the earthy-yellow light curtain instantly thickened several times over!

Boom—!!!

The icy river sword energy slashed fiercely against the giant shield!

The terrifying ice power and the heavy earth-attribute essence energy collided violently!

Tie Shan groaned, the ground beneath his feet cracking inch by inch, and he was shaken back repeatedly,

the light curtain on the shield fluctuating violently, its surface instantly covered in a thick layer of hard ice! The cold air eroded it frantically!

Just as his old strength was spent and new strength had yet to arise, at the moment he was resisting Lin Qingxue's terrifying strike with all his might!

A cold light burst from Yao Delong's eyes! His figure was like lightning, closing in instantly!

"Void Splitting Nine Strikes—Nine Strikes in One: Destruction!"

His right fist clenched tightly, the power of the Eight Desolations Prison Suppression Art perfectly fused with the robust blood and qi of the Great Sun Body Forging Art!

Above the fist, space seemed to collapse, condensing into a point of deep black light!

There was no earth-shaking commotion, only a terrifying Concept of everything returning to the void and being destroyed!

Boom!

This punch landed solidly between the chest and abdomen—where the defense was relatively weak—just below the giant shield that Tie Shan had slightly raised to block the icy river sword energy!

Pfft—!!!

Tie Shan felt as if he had been struck by an ancient divine mountain! His protective essence energy shattered like paper!

His sternum and ribs collapsed and shattered instantly!

His eyes bulged, and blood mixed with visceral fragments sprayed from his mouth,

as he flew backward like a broken sack, slamming hard into the crumbling mountain wall behind him, creating a deep pit!

His aura instantly withered to the extreme!

"While you're down, I'll take your life!"

Yao Delong was decisive in his killing, showing no mercy!

He pressed his two fingers together and pointed at his brow again!

"Heart Sword—Soul Slayer!"

That strange Heart Sword, entirely pitch-black, thin as a cicada's wing, and emitting an aura of Soul extinction,

shot out silently once more, piercing straight toward the brow of the gasping, Soul-shaken Tie Shan in the deep pit!

"Ah!!"

Tie Shan let out a shrill, desperate scream! He felt a fatal threat!

Enduring the intense pain and dizziness, he frantically mobilized his remaining Divine Sense power,

forming a hasty defensive barrier around his Sea of Consciousness while circulating his Cultivation Technique to try and stabilize his injuries!

However, how could Lin Qingxue give him the chance?

"Ice Soul—Eternal Silence!"

Her cold voice was like a death sentence!

The ice soul sword turned into a streak of ice-blue light,

carrying an absolute chill that could freeze the Soul, arriving second but striking first, instantly piercing toward Tie Shan's heart!

Tie Shan faced a double deathblow! He had to choose!

If he endured the Heart Sword, his Divine Soul would surely perish! If he endured the ice soul sword, his Physical Body would surely be destroyed!

A hint of madness flashed in his eyes as most of his Divine Sense power surged toward his Sea of Consciousness to defend against the Heart Sword,

while his remaining essence energy surged toward his chest, trying to block that fatal ice soul sword!

Chii!

The Heart Sword ignored physical defense, piercing fiercely into the Divine Sense barrier he had hastily condensed!

The barrier shattered like a bubble! The remaining Heart Sword power stabbed fiercely into his already wounded Divine Soul!

The intense pain made his consciousness blur instantly, and his Cultivation Technique circulation suddenly stalled!

Pfft!

In that moment of stagnation, Lin Qingxue's ice soul sword,

without any hindrance, pierced through the essence energy defense he had hastily condensed and plunged with pinpoint accuracy into his heart!

"Ugh..." Tie Shan's body stiffened abruptly, and the life in his eyes rapidly faded.

A transparent little figure (Nascent Soul) about the size of a fist, emitting an earthy-yellow light and bearing some resemblance to Tie Shan,

fled in terror from the crown of his head, attempting to escape!

"Trying to run?" Lin Qingxue's eyes were icy as she raised her jade hand. "Ice Soul—Absolute Seal!"

Terrifying Ice Soul Power erupted instantly; with her as the center, the temperature of the space within several yards plummeted to absolute zero!

The air solidified, and space itself seemed to be frozen!

Tie Shan's Nascent Soul had barely rushed out three feet,

before it was instantly frozen in mid-air by this extreme chill, turning into a crystalline ice sculpture!

Yao Delong held the Burning Silence Sword, with Nine Yang True Fire and Heart Sword power intertwined on the blade,

as he stepped forward, his sword light like lightning!

Pfft!

Carrying the terrifying power to incinerate the Divine Soul, the Burning Silence Sword instantly transfixed the frozen Nascent Soul!

"No—!"

A final desperate mental roar from Tie Shan's Nascent Soul came from within the ice sculpture,

before it was completely reduced to nothingness under the dual strangulation of the Nine Yang True Fire and Heart Sword power!

Tie Shan, a Mid Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator of the Moyang Sect, has fallen!

"Tie Shan!!"

Liang Kun, who was being suppressed and struggling to hold on against Yue Shan and the Asura Puppet,

along with Blood Butcher, who was entangled by Qiong Shuang and roaring repeatedly, let out grief-stricken bellows!

When the rabbit dies, the fox grieves; they shared a common fate! Tie Shan's fall completely shattered their last shred of hope!

The two looked at each other, seeing the same despair and madness in each other's eyes!

"We'll take them down with us!!"

Liang Kun let out a beast-like roar, and the aura around him instantly became violent, chaotic, and extremely unstable!

Blood Butcher did the same, abandoning all defense, his blood-colored long saber erupting with an unprecedentedly piercing blood-light,

and his aura also began to soar frantically, filled with destructive fluctuations!

"Not good! They're going to self-detonate!!"

The experienced Yue Shan's face changed drastically, and he shouted a deafening warning!

"Retreat! Quick, retreat! Gather for defense!" Yao Delong reacted extremely quickly, shouting sternly!

He instantly recalled the Asura Puppet to block the front, while grabbing Lin Qingxue beside him and retreating at high speed!

Han Yun and Qiong Shuang also instantly abandoned their opponents and retreated rapidly toward Yao Delong!

Xiao Huohuo and Lin Shishi's faces were pale as they forced their weakened bodies to retreat, but they were too slow!

"Get behind me!"

Yao Delong growled, instantly converging with Yue Shan, Lin Qingxue, Han Yun, and Qiong Shuang, firmly protecting Xiao Huohuo and Lin Shishi at the very back!

The five people and one flood dragon unhesitatingly poured out their remaining essence energy frantically,

along with their respective Magic Treasures—Yue Shan's giant axe, Lin Qingxue's ice soul sword, Han Yun's longbow, and the ice crystal shield spat out by Qiong Shuang—

to condense a thick essence energy shield in front of them, flowing with various colored lights!

Under Yao Delong's control, the Asura Puppet erupted with a piercing dark-red blood light,

like the sturdiest of ramparts, standing at the very front of the shield!

Yao Delong was even more generous, waving his hand to send over a thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones like a torrent into the Puppet's core array!

The tiny cracks on the Puppet's body were rapidly repaired in the blood light, and its aura climbed once again!