Blood Demon Collapse
"What are you going to do?" Yue Sheng couldn't understand why Yun Qian would abandon her sword at the critical moment of life and death.
However, his response was like a golden lightning bolt tearing through space. Taking advantage of Yue Sheng's momentary hesitation due to shock, Yun Qian leaned in and pressed her bloodied fingertips, filled with resolute will, precisely onto his brow.
"With my blood as the catalyst, and my soul as the sacrifice, I bind the ancient seal and seal it!"
Yun Qian's voice wasn't loud, yet it seemed to carry an ancient echo, each word striking heavily between heaven and earth. The instant her words fell, her already pale face visibly lost all color, becoming as transparent as crystal. Even more chilling was that, without any new wounds, crimson blood, as if alive, flowed continuously from her palms, not dripping, but swirling around her, rapidly outlining countless intricate, ancient, and ominous crimson runes.
"Blood Oath Array?" Yue Sheng exclaimed in horror, his eyes revealing true fear for the first time. "Are you insane? This is an ancient forbidden array that costs the caster's life and soul! You really want to perish together with me?!"
He tried to back away, to break free, but it was no use.
Outside the formation, Bai Chuan, though unaware of the specifics of the Blood Oath Formation, felt a surge of panic grip his heart simply from watching Yun Qian's rapidly dissipating life force and the surrounding crimson runes. He abruptly turned, grabbing Bai Ji's collar tightly, his voice trembling with extreme fear: "What kind of formation is this?! Did you already know?!"
Bai Ji let him hold him, his black robes making his face look deathly pale. He raised his scarlet eyes, his voice dry as sandpaper: "Senior Sister will die."
Meeting Bai Chuan's suddenly empty gaze, he spoke each word as if being slowly sliced to death: "Senior Sister already knew that the mastermind behind this was someone who inherited divine power. The power of the gods is beyond human capability. Only the ancient Blood Oath Array, which uses the life of the one who cast the array as a sacrifice, can completely seal and suppress him."
"Once the formation is fully formed, I will destroy it."
"The price..." Bai Chuan's lips trembled violently, barely able to utter a sound, "is it Senior Sister's life?"
"Yes." Bai Ji closed his eyes and nodded heavily.
"If you had known all along, why didn't you tell me sooner?! Why didn't you stop her? Were you just going to watch her die?" Bai Chuan completely broke down, his voice hoarse as he questioned.
"Didn't I try to dissuade you?" Bai Ji shoved him away, her eyes filled with the same pain and despair. "Who do you think your senior sister is saving? She's saving you! Saving me! Saving Qin Wu! Saving the entire Cangmin Mountain! No one but your senior sister can activate this formation! What else can we use to fight against divine power? If Yue Sheng doesn't die, everyone will die! This... is what the divination left by our master showed us, the fate we must bear!"
Looking at Baichuan's face, which was on the verge of collapse, he finally burst into tears, his voice choked with sobs: "Senior brother, this is fate."
Deep within the forbidden area of Cangmin Mountain.
The scalding magma, hot enough to incinerate one's very soul, coalesced into a giant wave that roared as it crashed down upon the two exhausted individuals.
Lin Huaiyu pushed his arms forward, unleashing the last of his divine power, which surged forth relentlessly, heading straight for the giant beast.
With his inner energy completely depleted, Lin Huaiyu suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his body swaying as he nearly fell into the churning sea of lava below.
However, it was Lin Huaiyu's final, desperate strike, the immense divine power, like the sharpest chisel, that finally carved a fatal crack in the indestructible shell of the seemingly immortal magma behemoth!
Now!
Qi Mo's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he and his sword seemed to merge into one, transforming into a pure and supremely clear sword intent, like a sword of judgment descending from the heavens, which fiercely pierced through the giant beast's massive body along the crack!
"Bang--!!!!!"
A deafening explosion resounded throughout the forbidden area! The magma behemoth that had ravaged Cangmin Mountain for thousands of years was finally shattered into pieces by this sword strike, its massive remains crashing into the magma and creating towering waves.
With the demise of the behemoth, the once boiling and roaring sea of lava gradually calmed down at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Qi Mo leaned on his sword, breathing heavily, his face showing an incredulous exhaustion and relief: "It's over. The calamity that has guarded Cangmin Mountain for a thousand years has finally ended..." Since the day Cangmin Mountain existed, this giant beast has been a sword hanging over their heads. Successive sect leaders have rushed to its aid, all of them perishing here, just to firmly seal off this calamity.
The struggle that has lasted for thousands of years has finally come to an end today.
Qi Mo's legs went weak and he was about to collapse to the ground, but Lin Huaiyu, who was equally weak but looked extremely anxious, pulled him up.
"What are you doing? I've been fighting that damn thing for over a hundred years! Now I just want to rest for a while!" Qi Mo complained unhappily.
"Wait a while before resting!" Lin Huaiyu said urgently, her ominous premonition growing stronger. "The situation down the mountain is unclear. Yue Sheng's cultivation is comparable to mine, and Yun Qian and the others are no match for him! Let's go!"
Down the mountain, the crimson array was complete! Countless runes, like living shackles, bound Yue Sheng firmly to the center of the array, and no matter how much he activated his divine power to break through, he could not escape.
"Was it worth it?" Before being completely engulfed by the fully formed blood-red light, Yue Sheng stared intently at Yun Qian, whose life force was as weak as a candle in the wind, and asked one last question. Was it really worth sacrificing one's life for a few fellow disciples, for a sect, and never being reincarnated?
Yun Qian barely had the strength to lift her eyes, her voice barely audible yet crystal clear: "Of course, it's worth it."
Outside the formation, Baichuan watched his senior sister's figure gradually being engulfed by the blood-red light. A tremendous grief overwhelmed him like a tsunami, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.
Just as Bai Ji was about to painfully unleash the annihilating power of the Blood Oath Array at the critical moment...
An unparalleled sword intent, seemingly capable of severing cause and effect and splitting the cycle of reincarnation, came from beyond the heavens like a startled swan piercing the night sky.
The intensity of the sword intent was so great that it caused the already formed Blood Oath Array to tremble violently.
It's Qi Mo!
Amidst the shocked gazes of the crowd, the sect leader of Cangmin Mountain, who had disappeared for hundreds of years, reappeared with the lingering power of having eradicated a thousand-year-old scourge.
His longsword was plain and unadorned, thrusting straight at Yue Sheng, who was trapped at the core of the Blood Oath Formation!
Centuries later, Qi Mo reappeared and once again unleashed a sword strike that was so brilliant it would be recorded in history!
Where the sword flashed, the blood and evil spirits dissipated.
Trapped within the array's core, whose power had been significantly weakened by the Blood Oath Array, Yue Sheng had no time to react effectively. Under Qi Mo's earth-shattering sword strike, his soul and spirit were annihilated, and he vanished completely into the world.
At the same time, Lin Huaiyu appeared beside Yun Qian as if by teleportation, pulling her tightly into his arms just before she collapsed. Divine power surged from his fingertips, attempting to seal the core of the array in her palm that was still operating and constantly draining her life force.
But it was too late...
Once the Blood Oath Formation is activated, it's like an arrow shot from a bow, with no turning back. The backlash from the formation has completely extinguished Yun Qian's last vestiges of life.
Looking at the person in his arms, whose eyes were quickly dimming, and feeling her weight as light as a feather, Lin Huaiyu's eyes instantly turned red, and a hot tear slid down uncontrollably, dripping onto her cold cheek.
He knew what kind of formation this was. He knew that once this formation was completed, the one who cast it... would surely die.
"Why... are you crying?" Yun Qian struggled to focus her unfocused gaze, and when she saw it was him, she gave a very faint smile.
“You…you’re still laughing…” Lin Huaiyu’s arms tightened, his voice trembling uncontrollably, filled with endless regret and pain, “I’m sorry…I’m sorry…I’m late…” Why couldn’t he have been faster? Why couldn’t he have arrived sooner? A tremendous sense of powerlessness almost tore him apart.
Yun Qian wanted to raise her hand to touch his face again, but she didn't even have the strength to move a finger.
Sensing the rapid loss of its master's life, the ink spirit that had been thrown out of the formation transformed into an anxious black light and flew back, shrinking into the shape of a small sword, constantly circling around Yun Qian and wailing.
Lin Huaiyu wanted to hold her tighter, but desperately felt the weight in his arms gradually lighten. Yun Qian's body began to dissipate from the edges, turning into tiny, blood-red starlight...
Seeing this scene, Qi Mo, though not fully understanding the situation, knew from his junior brother's grief that this woman must be extremely important to him. He reacted quickly, immediately taking out a glass jade bottle for nourishing the primordial spirit, and forcefully gathering and converging the last few wisps of Yun Qian's faint remnant soul that were about to completely dissipate into the world.
Everything eventually returned to calm.
The rampant divine power dissipated, the blood-red array disappeared, and the powerful enemy vanished into thin air.
Yun Qian has also disappeared from the Three Realms, leaving no trace.
Yun Qian disappeared from the Three Realms, leaving only the remnant soul collected by Qi Mo in the glass bottle as proof that she once existed.
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