Western Wilderness.
Mountain stream!
An elder with silver hair stood with his hands behind his back, as the cliff wind made his robes billow like banners, whistling loudly.
Behind him, there were dozens of half-step celestial immortals.
Each of these half-step celestial immortals exuded powerful energy, evidently elites.
"Just ahead!" The elder squinted slightly, gazing at the figure atop the peak, "This time, the target of the encirclement and assassination is that person! Success is the only option, no failure allowed!"
"Ancestor, with us all out here, killing that person should be a piece of cake, shouldn’t it?" One of the half-step celestial immortals sneered disdainfully.
The others also bore expressions of contempt.
Bear in mind.
They hailed from the ’Jin Family,’ and the elder named Jin Jiahuan had brought along the cream of the crop from the family. Not only that, Jin Jiahuan had also brought the ’Celestial Spirit Disc’!
This Celestial Spirit Disc resembled a bronze round disk, embedded with the thirty-six celestial spirits.
Once activated, the Grand Array would explode, and the domain of eight hundred miles would be at his command.
"Indeed!" Jin Jiahuan said arrogantly, "As long as we can kill this person, my Jin Family will rise to fame in one battle! Even if the opponent is the Celestial Emperor, he won’t escape death!"
Boom!
As his words fell.
A Sword Dragon rose high from the peak, like lightning and thunder, tearing through the night sky in an instant. Swiftly, it passed over a lotus pond and then charged rapidly towards their position.
Upon the Sword Dragon stood a young man.
"Bad!"
Jin Jiahuan’s heart trembled violently.
Without even a moment’s hesitation, he raised his hand, and the ’Celestial Spirit Disc’ emerged instantly, disassembling into countless parts in a flash. Within the split second, a curtain of starlight descended from the heavens, forming a shield before him!
"Bang!"
However.
Only a sound of explosion was heard.
Witnessed.
The Sword Dragon had already slashed through the void, as if tearing the space apart, within moments crashing onto the array. The shield condensed from the starlight covering eight hundred miles of land shattered instantly, exploding into countless light spots, silently dissipating into the void.
After the Sword Dragon smashed through the Grand Array, it continued its momentum, sweeping through the mountain stream, crushing a hundred-foot peak, and behind it, grass, strange rocks, all turned to naught within moments, stretching to the farthest vision.
At the forefront, Jin Jiahuan was utterly annihilated, his whole being ground to dust, leaving no trace.
The entire scene was dead silent.
The many half-step celestial immortals were left dumbstruck, watching the scene unfold. It was as if a world-destroying tidal wave surged from the peak, directly smashing through the Grand Array, obliterating Jin Jiahuan, and then sweeping over mountains, spreading hundreds of miles.
"What kind of existence are we encircling and killing?"
The crowd was aghast, faces pale as ashes.
Despite Jin Jiahuan being a celestial immortal, using the ’Celestial Spirit Disc’ as a shield, he couldn’t withstand a single blow. Moreover, the figure on the dragon’s head was so young, at this moment, a name simultaneously surfaced in all their minds.
Seamless fear suddenly spread out, gripping their hearts fiercely!
Jin Jiahuan was ground to dust almost right before their eyes, just like the body of the Sword Dragon, and if it shifted slightly, they too would be crushed instantly!
However.
What shocked them even more is.
It wasn’t over yet.
Witnessed.
The Sword Dragon charged out of the mountain stream, sweeping through the void. Like thunder and lightning, it swiftly traversed area after area, where celestial immortals no weaker than their family ancestor, even those whom their ancestor would respect, appeared as mere ants under the Sword Dragon!
...
Valley.
Jade Bone Daoist was gathering sect elders, preparing to set up the ’Corpse Bone Array.’ Summoning the corpses from three thousand miles to create a white bone army to directly obliterate the presence on the mountain top.
But the Sword Dragon was already diving down in an instant, the massive Sword Qi directly shredding him to dust.
Numerous high-level members of the White Bone Sect watched helplessly as the Sword Dragon tore their Sect Leader to pieces, then turned and vanished into the valley.
...
Lakeside.
Gong Liuqing, Sect Leader of the Jade Cauldron Sect, was discussing with sect elders how to conquer that mountain peak.
Suddenly, a dragon roar rang out. The Sword Dragon dove down, smashing Gong Liuqing to dust with a single claw, then swept across the lakeside and vanished.
Everyone in the Jade Cauldron Sect was dumbfounded.
...
Zhao Family Ancestor, Zhao Liancheng.
Lord of Jiulong Stronghold, Kou Yunfei.
Lord of Ningyang Valley, Wang Ziru.
...
In the blink of an eye, Ye Qingchen controlled his sword and left, slaying over ten celestial immortals. Including subordinate forces of the Twelve Demon Sects and some independent loose cultivator demons.
Every celestial immortal appearing there was not spared by Ye Qingchen. Many celestial immortals didn’t even know who their opponent was before being utterly annihilated, leaving no trace of their bones.
Such heaven-shocking slaughter.
Could not be hidden from the remaining celestial immortals who only watched as the Sword Dragon crossed the mountains, like lightning swiftly passing through territories, whereupon the aura of celestial immortals quietly faded from the world.
In such a situation, even an idiot could guess what was happening.
"No good! Run fast!"
"The Twelve Giants deceived us... this is a top-level celestial immortal!"
"We’re all targeted by him!"
Celestial immortals lurking around were stunned for a moment before instantly coming to their senses. With hardly any hesitation, they frantically fled in various directions amidst the stunned or perplexed eyes of their companions and subordinates around.
Even the giants of the Western Wilderness could not escape Ye Qingchen’s pursuit; what about them?
Boom!
The Sword Dragon swept through the air, opened its jaws wide, and instantly devoured a fleeing celestial immortal, its terrifying Sword Qi shredding him to pieces instantly!
"I have removed all forty-six celestial immortals lurking in this area!" On the Sword Dragon, Ye Qingchen’s eyes shone, "But it’s not enough; they are just hurdles set by those few giants..."
This relentless pursuit.
Of the seven giants, only two remained.
"Hmm?"
At that moment.
Ye Qingchen’s eyes brightened.
Suddenly looking towards a mountain range, which spans the heavens like a giant dragon laying on the ground. Now with celestial immortals entirely eradicated around, he could sense the Divine Soul Mark he’d left before behind that mountain range.
It was precisely one of the two remaining giants!
"Blood Demon Ancestor, I didn’t expect you to be so close... let’s see where you can hide now!" Ye Qingchen’s gaze turned cold, as he already formed an incantation with his hands.
"Roar!"
The Sword Dragon underfoot thrashed its body wildly, and the next moment, it carried a towering shadow, tore the void, and furiously charged toward the location of the Divine Soul Mark!