Chapter 1 Bloody Battle and the Curse of Mistaken Accident
Bloody Battle and Accidental Curse
A demonic wind howled, carrying the pungent scent of sulfur and blood, fiercely sweeping across the jagged rocks at the edge of the God Burial Abyss rift. This buffer zone between the immortal and demon realms was also the meat grinder of a century-long tug-of-war. Today, the gears of the meat grinder seemed to be snapping—the immortal sect assembled a massive force, led by the Immortal Venerable himself, targeting the demon race's largest outpost in the God Burial Abyss: Black Stone Fort.
The cries of death shook the earth, the aura of magical weapons mingled with demonic energy and unholy fire, illuminating the dim chasm with a bizarre brilliance. Broken limbs and debris lay everywhere, the roar of exploding spells and the howling of the dying forming a cruel symphony.
In the core vortex of the battlefield, two figures are engaged in the most intense and fateful collision.
**Jiang Xuelan**, his snow-white Taoist robes long stained with blood, stood tall and straight as a pine tree. A flash of ice appeared on his wrist, and the "Frost Silence" sword, clad in ice crystals and adorned with nine blood jades, was in hand. With each swift, cold strike, a cold gleam like the undercurrent of a glacier, each strike precise and swift, devoid of any trace of worldly influence, perfectly embodying the celestial sword principles of "purity, righteousness, swiftness, and fierceness." His gaze was cold, and the blade pointed directly at the figure across from him, enveloped in a raging black flame—**Demon King Li Jiuyou**.
Li Jiuyou's state was a stark contrast. His dark royal robe ripped, revealing a crisscross of scars and wounds across his sturdy frame. His black hair flew wildly, and his blood-red eyes burned with pure rage and murderous intent. In his hand, the red-gold longsword, "Ember Life," flared with flames, its blade, forged from hideous bone, reflecting its owner's fury. With each strike, the blade tore through the air, its fiery demonic energy surging like molten lava. But just as the blade was about to strike Jiang Xuelan, the half demonic core at the hilt trembled violently, and the hideous patterns on the blade twisted strangely, as if to transform into some flexible form (the shadow of a peach branch flashed by). Li Jiuyou growled in shame and anger, forcibly restraining his strength.
"Jiang Xuelan! A running dog of the Immortal Sect! Today I will use your blood to sacrifice the 30,000 dead souls of my Zhe clan!" Li Jiuyou's roar was like the roar of a ferocious beast from the abyss. He swung out a claw, and the dark demonic flame condensed into a huge ghost claw phantom, pressing down like an overwhelming force!
"Those who follow evil ways and slaughter living beings should be punished!" Jiang Xuelan's voice was icy, and with a flick of his sword technique, the Frost Condensation Sword instantly split into hundreds of ice crystal sword shadows that were as condensed as substance, forming a huge ice lotus, and rushed forward fiercely!
Boom——!!!
The ice lotus and the ghost claw collided violently! The extreme ice and the blazing demonic fire frantically annihilated, devoured, and exploded! The terrifying energy shockwave suddenly spread out from the two of them, blowing away and shattering all immortals and demons within dozens of feet!
The immense recoil caused Jiang Xuelan's blood to surge. A sweet sensation lingered in his throat, and he forced himself to swallow. Li Jiuyou also groaned, a streak of dark golden demonic blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.
In this delicate gap between the old strength fading and the new strength emerging, an extremely stealthy, ghostly shadow, like a venomous snake blending into the shadows, silently appeared from behind Jiang Xuelan's blind spot! It was a top assassin of the demon clan, targeting the new generation leader of the immortal sect!
"Be careful!" A quick cry came from Fairy Baizhi, who was not far away. She had been keeping an eye on Jiang Xuelan, but now, disregarding her own safety, the jade hairpin in her hand transformed into a stream of emerald green light and shot towards the assassin, trying to stop him!
However, Bai Zhi's exclamation and attack not only failed to save the situation, but instead instantly ignited the most violent fuse in Li Jiuyou's heart! He saw the murderous intent behind Jiang Xuelan, and even more so, Bai Zhi's undisguised exclamation, full of anxiety and concern!
**It's her again! It's this troublesome woman again! She's the one who always stands in front of Jiang Xuelan!**
“Get out of here!!!”
This roar contained all of Li Jiuyou's uncontrolled, chaotic, and destructive emotions at the moment! It was no longer just a murderous intent directed at Jiang Xuelan, but also a violent outburst against Bai Zhi's intervention, the unfairness of fate, and everything that stood in his way of revenge!
With this roar that shook the battlefield, the immense demonic power within Li Jiuyou completely lost control! No longer pursuing precision, no longer holding back, like a dam-breaking torrent of destruction, with the most primitive and brutal attitude, it transformed into a shockwave of pure destruction, indiscriminately bombarding Jiang Xuelan and the assassin behind him, even engulfing Bai Zhi who was trying to rescue him!
Jiang Xuelan's pupils suddenly constricted! Li Jiuyou's completely uncontrolled attack was far more powerful than before! He instantly determined that if he resisted or dodged with all his might, Bai Zhi and the surrounding disciples behind him would surely perish! In a flash, the immortal sect's ingrained tenet of "protection" overwhelmed everything! He gritted his teeth and, instead of retreating, advanced, holding the Frost Condensation Sword across his body. All the immortal energy in his body erupted without reservation, attempting to resist the destructive torrent and secure a glimmer of hope for those behind him!
"Xue Lan, don't!" The Immortal Venerable, watching the battle from afar, suddenly changed expression. He swung his whisk rapidly, and a beam of immortal light shot towards Li Jiuyou, attempting to interrupt his spellcasting. Simultaneously, Li Jiuyou's deputy general, Man Gu, who had been guarding him, also sensed the danger and lunged at his king, roaring, "King! Stop! It's going to affect our own people!"
The immortal light from the Immortal Master's whisk and the attack from the Barbarian Bone almost simultaneously hit the edge of Li Jiuyou's out-of-control energy!
Boom——!!!
An explosion ten times more violent than the previous one occurred! This wasn't a simple collision of energies; it was the combined effects of the Immortal Venerable's interference, the barbarian bone's impact, Li Jiuyou's uncontrolled torrent of destruction, and Jiang Xuelan's desperate attempts to block it. In the God Burial Abyss, a unique location already rife with chaotic energy and ancient remnants of forbidden practices, this created an unpredictable chain reaction!
At the center of the explosion, space shattered like fragile glass! A deep, ancient, ominous spatial rift was forcibly torn open! Deep within the crack, the faint shadow of a broken statue, covered in strange blood-colored lines, flashed by! The statue's face was distorted, a smile that seemed neither smile nor cry, filled with mockery and curses of the world's love, hatred, and desire!
At the moment when the shadow of the statue emerged, two original forces originated from the center of the explosion and escaped due to the violent collision and space tearing - one was Jiang Xuelan's pure divine immortal essence (containing a trace of the sealed evil god's aura), and the other was Li Jiuyou's violent ferocious demonic power (mixed with the blood of his divine mother) - as if attracted by an invisible magnet, they entangled together in an instant, turning into a red and white interwoven, contradictory yet strangely harmonious beam of light, which shot at the center of the eyebrows of the statue in the crack with incredible precision!
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