Celestial Dragon Sword Venerable-Chapter 233: Blood Demon Bone

Faced with such a strike, Chen Fengyan’s expression turned grave, yet he remained composed and unflustered.

He immediately activated a dark-gold shield, which generated a sapphire-blue halo. Within the halo, a Hexagram Array took shape, forming shackles of order that sealed him inside.

At the same time, he summoned a golden Talisman. A peerless Fierce Soul roared from within it, like a wretched Demon rampaging and howling.

Then, he took out a golden, withered branch.

"A Celestial Dragon Ancestral Tree Broken Branch? He actually has something like that?"

"That’s an Enlightenment Tree Withered Branch! It has wondrous effects!"

"He’s using it to feed a Blood Demon. What is Chen Fengyan’s relationship with the Celestial Demon Blood Domain?"

"Heh, you’d have to ask Chen Fengyan himself. Feeding a Blood Demon with an Enlightenment Tree Withered Branch... how interesting."

"Ye Tianling’s attack is incredible, but it might not be enough to defeat Chen Fengyan. Chen Fengyan’s trump cards are too tyrannical. He’s already seen through Ye Tianling’s astonishing Battle Power and identified his weakness—a low Realm.

Techniques with such high Battle Power must have severe limitations on their use, which is why he’s only defending and not attacking."

A group of more than ten Candidate Saint Sons and Saintesses were analyzing the battle.

On the whole, they seemed to favor Chen Fengyan, who had brought out the Blood Demon.

"Look at Ye Tianling—is that a look of pleasant surprise? Is he actually happy about this?"

A Saint Son gasped in a low voice.

The group of Cultivators immediately looked over.

They were surprised to find Ye Tianling standing with his hands clasped behind his back. The pale-gold Longsword before him had halted its attack, as if it were waiting for something.

But once Chen Fengyan had finished his preparations, the sword suddenly flared with brilliant golden light.

BOOM—

After a moment’s pause, the sword shot forward with incomparable ferocity.

The Void trembled, and it was as if heaven and earth themselves had been pierced through.

The strike tore through the Void, carving out a terrifying chasm and ripping a monstrous fissure in the fabric of the world.

At the center of that fissure was Chen Fengyan.

However, at this moment, a hole had been blasted clean through Chen Fengyan’s chest, and blood was pouring out of him.

The Blood Demon, despite having just devoured the Enlightenment Withered Branch, was pinned firmly to the ground by the sword.

The sword quivered as the Blood Demon impaled upon it struggled violently, letting out wretched and piercing shrieks.

But though the cries were heart-rending, they made no physical sound; they were the silent shrieks of a soul.

HSSSS—

Wisps of blood-red lightning crackled across the Blood Demon’s body.

The Blood Demon gradually withered away, crumbling into fine, blood-red dust that scattered to the ground.

"Impossible... Blood Demons are undying... Undying..."

A look of ultimate terror and disbelief filled Chen Fengyan’s eyes.

As he muttered these words, his last breath escaped him. His body was then enveloped in blood-red flames and burned to ash.

The Samadhi True Fire could incinerate even a Qiankun Ring, yet this time it left behind a small, cyan-green orb. The orb was a miniature human skull that contained wisps of an eerie, cyan-green Energy Aura.

Ye Tianling’s gaze sharpened. He immediately scanned the object with his Soul Talent Sensing. Although his Soul Talent identified the item’s name, it couldn’t determine its function.

"Blood Demon Bone: Effects unknown. Contains the sealed power of a Blood Demon Soul."

’A Blood Demon Bone?’

Ye Tianling fell into thought, then stored the item away.

’Something that even the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword couldn’t devour... this thing must be extraordinary.’

After dealing with the matter, Ye Tianling felt a great weight lift from his heart. At the same time, his icy gaze fell upon the eleven remaining Elders of the Nine Swords Sect.

THUD—

As Ye Tianling’s gaze swept over them, seven of the eleven remaining Elders immediately dropped to their knees, their bodies trembling as they kowtowed repeatedly.

"Di-Divine Son Ye Tianling, we... we never meant to oppose you!"

The seven Elders were on the verge of a breakdown, their pleas immediate and subservient.

As for the remaining four Elders—three men and one woman—they were all quite advanced in age.

Their faces were cold, their bodies ramrod straight, and their eyes held an icy glint.

Ye Tianling scanned them with his Soul Talent, and a murderous light flared in his eyes.

"Tianling Divine Son, these Elders... they did not act against you. I beg you, please be merciful."

Ye Shuiyan requested, bowing deeply to Ye Tianling.

Wang Yufei pursed her lips and also spoke up. "The Sect Master deserved to die for hiding a Blood Demon and colluding with the Celestial Demon Blood Domain. Vice Sect Master Qin Shuzong and Elder Guan Yusu were close to him, so their guilt is undeniable. But the other Elders... they’re innocent."

A humorless smile touched Ye Tianling’s lips. "I was innocent, too. I was even a Disciple of the Nine Swords Sect. Did any of them step forward to defend me then?"

Upon hearing this, the female Elder was unafraid and sneered, "You’ve already been expelled; you have nothing to do with the Nine Swords Sect! And what about the things you did here? A Disciple like you is more than the Nine Swords Sect can handle! Kill us or flay us, do as you please!"

Ye Tianling nodded. "Fine. I’ll grant your wish."

As he spoke, Ye Tianling thrust his sword forward.

Alarm flared in the female Elder’s eyes. A look of horror finally appeared on her face as she instantly dropped to her knees. "Divine Son, spare me! I was wrong! I won’t dare to do it again!"

SQUELCH—

With a single thrust, Ye Tianling killed her.

"Did you think I wouldn’t sense the hatred and killing intent you were hiding behind that tough act? Since you wanted to kill, you deserve to die!"

Ye Tianling sneered, his gaze sweeping over the three remaining Elders.

The three male Elders’ expressions were incredibly grim. Indignation filled their eyes, but ultimately, they made no move, nor did they beg for mercy.

"You may be pedantic, stubborn, snobbish, and apathetic, but this affair has nothing to do with you. It ends here.

Of course, if you’re not convinced, you can come find me at the Cyan Dragon Race. I’m heading there to wreak havoc anyway, so what’s a few more enemies?"

Ye Tianling said coldly.

With that said, he ignored the gratitude in the eyes of Ye Shuiyan and Wang Yufei. His figure blurred as he flew directly toward the Celestial Travel Transmission Array.

"Tianling Divine Son, please, after you."

As Ye Tianling flew over, the group of Saint Sons and Saintesses who had been preparing to leave all respectfully parted to clear a path for him.

"Thank you."

Ye Tianling cupped his fist in a brief salute, but didn’t stand on ceremony.

After more than a hundred Earth Crystal Stones were inserted into the Teleportation Array, it activated. Ye Tianling and the other Cultivators were enveloped by the Array, transforming into a stream of light that vanished from the world.

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"Should we... go and take a look?"

After the group of Cultivators had left, Wang Yufei glanced at Ye Shuiyan and sent a quiet, expectant sound transmission.

She no longer felt anything about the deaths of Qin Shuzong and the others.

It wasn’t that she was cold-hearted; rather, after considering things from Ye Tianling’s perspective, she found that those people, including Sect Master Chen Fengyan, were utterly repulsive and disgusting.

She didn’t stop to think about *why* she was seeing things from his perspective.

"Let’s wait and see. Elder Qin and Elder Ling have already sent word to the Holy Land Guardians. I suspect this business with Sect Master Chen Fengyan has blown up into a major incident. News like this can’t be suppressed. Besides, Ye Tianling killed the Sect Master, Vice Sect Master, and an Elder of the Nine Swords Sect right after the Ten Thousand Swords Sacred Land issued an order of expulsion. This is a huge slap in the face to the Ten Thousand Swords Sacred Land...

Sigh... I hope this doesn’t turn into an endless cycle of vengeance. Otherwise, it will become... a bloodbath."

Ye Shuiyan sighed via sound transmission, her eyes growing dim.

But she was no longer worried about Ye Tianling.

"Then... doesn’t that mean Ye Tianling... is in grave danger?"

Wang Yufei, however, was incredibly worried. Her heart was in her throat.

"Danger? No, he’s in no danger at all. He must be a special child of destiny, someone even more terrifying than a Child of Celestial Mandate! It’s true that someone with a Void Body cannot achieve Stepping into the Void, but in the Ancient Texts of my Ye Race, there is another theory."

Ye Shuiyan continued her sound transmission, being exceptionally careful not to let the information leak.

"Wh-what is it?"

Wang Yufei’s body shuddered, and her transmitted voice trembled.

"Transcendence. To exist outside the Three Realms and Five Elements, to be beyond the Six Paths of Reincarnation, to be unshackled by the Heaven and Earth Laws, and unhindered by the Nine Forbidden..."

Ye Shuiyan’s own heart trembled as she spoke.

But she told Wang Yufei anyway.

Because Wang Yufei could, for all intents and purposes, be considered Ye Tianling’s woman.

"This..."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yufei was utterly stunned.

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