Immortal Dao is dead, I am the mastermind behind it all.

Just as Shen Moyan was falling, he suddenly realized something.

He focused his perception on the sea area a hundred miles away.

Something extraordinary seems to be approaching from afar.

"Look! Who is he?!"

"It's Master Qingshui! Jiang Qingshui!"

"Is he insane? A mere Purple Mansion True Person dares to participate in a battle between True Lords?"

Amidst the exclamations of the cultivators, Jiang Qingshui made his appearance.

He rode the towering waves, amidst the storm, straight towards the man in blue.

Under the strange gazes of the assembled cultivators and True Monarchs, Jiang Qingshui let out a thunderous roar:

"Zheng Quan, you old bastard! You killed my cousin and destroyed my hometown!"

"To keep all living beings in captivity, to annihilate all souls in the sea, is an act of unimaginable evil!"

At first, the onlookers were puzzled. How could a mere Purple Mansion Realm cultivator threaten a Guicang Realm cultivator, let alone a quasi-Supreme Grandmaster of Array Dao, the Wild Goose Array True Lord?

Before everyone's eyes, Jiang Qingshui pounded his chest, his breath suddenly weakening, as if a tall building had collapsed.

"What is he going to do?"

"He sacrificed his own dantian!"

Then, Jiang Qingshui shakily pulled out a golden token from his sleeve.

"That's the Holy Court Gold Token of the Jiang family of Langya Prefecture!" a cultivator exclaimed in surprise.

"With the demon invasion, isn't the Jiang family almost wiped out? What use is the Holy Court's golden token now?"

A powerful Daoist aura emanated from him, and at the same time, Jiang Qingshui propped up his shaky Dharma body and affixed the golden Holy Court plaque to the Nine Songs Seal on the back of his hand.

The Holy Court Gold Medal is bestowed by the Xuanhuang Emperor only upon families or individuals who have made indelible contributions to the Mountain and Sea Realm.

It's like a get-out-of-jail-free card. As long as the Holy Court stands, the family or individual who possesses the card will receive preferential treatment and may even be favored by the fortunes of heaven and earth.

After Jiang Qingshui sacrifices the Holy Court's golden tablet, the preferential treatment given to the Jiang family by Heaven and Earth and the Holy Court will cease.

"Old man Zheng Quan, you're taking advantage of the chaos so the Holy Court can't judge you, and the True Lord's divine powers can't subdue you, then..."

"I'll do it myself!"

"Today, I, Jiang Qingshui, have a unique skill; I invite you all to take a look!"

Jiang Qingshui raised his hands above his head.

The brightness of the nine black bird marks on the back of his hand suddenly surged!

Four, five, six, seven... eight!

"With my spirit, I offer myself to the universe; with my soul, I pray for the Nine Songs!"

"Imperial Lord, please enter my body!"

The clear waters of the river flowed in a long, resonant voice, echoing across the surrounding fields.

His body, starting from his fingertips, transformed inch by inch into dazzling yet illusory points of light, dissipating into the world.

"He's dead?"

Just as everyone was at a loss about the other's actions, the Wild Goose Formation True Lord, dressed in light blue, had already turned pale and quickly summoned his ultimate formation crown, fleeing for his life.

The Dao Fruit of Transformation is still near the Dao Preaching Stele. Forcibly seizing it risks divine punishment, but what does that matter compared to one's own life?

"Trying to run?" Mingxuan Zhenjun instantly appeared beside him and deflected a sword strike, but the opponent successfully blocked it by raising his hand and using the array crown.

The next moment, their movements suddenly froze.

The entire Langya Prefecture was completely silent.

"That is..."

A pair of eyes, bright as the sun, opened above the blue clouds, looking down upon all living beings.

Invoke the Dharma Image of the Nine Songs Wenchang Immortal Lord!

As Shen Moyan fell through the air, he turned his head and met the gaze of those eyes that were devoid of joy or sorrow.

The immortal decree commands all beings to listen attentively!

A voice resounded from his mind, and also in the ears of all the cultivators.

The Great Way is boundless, and all living beings rely on it for survival.

Centered on the stone rubbing of the Origin Preaching Stele, a life force spread out, and except for Shen Moyan, the other cultivators whose bodies had decayed immediately regained their youth, with plump skin and intact flesh.

[The Nine Songs are long and drawn out; all spirits persevere in their efforts.]

A burst of fire erupted from the chest of a cultivator who was engaged in a bloody battle with the demon race throughout Langya Prefecture. His magical power was restored, his severed limbs were reattached, and he returned to his peak condition.

"Is this what immortality is?"

"Or...?"

Despite his damaged physical body, Shen Moyan struggled to open his eyes, and the Heavenly Demon True Blood remaining in his body boiled.

The Nine Songs Dharma Image, with its mouth containing the law of heaven, speaks the law as it follows.

A single word can defy life and death; truly worthy of being a vehicle for conveying the Way through literature.

"Heh..." Shen Moyan sneered.

The Dharma Image spoke slightly, without a deafening sound, yet it seemed as if a maxim containing supreme laws was directly imprinted between heaven and earth:

【The Sea of ​​Calamity Dries Up】

As soon as the words were spoken, the vast ocean that covered Langya Prefecture was swallowed up by an invisible giant mouth, and it was as if it had been exposed to the scorching sun for thousands of years, with the water level dropping drastically at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The surging waves subsided instantly, and the turbid floodwaters turned into endless steam, revealing the muddy and broken earth below.

The monsters lurking in the seabed looked astonished.

They never expected their setup to be discovered in this way.

One moment it was a vast, swampy land, the next it was a dried-up abyss, and the last remaining puddles were disappearing rapidly.

The Dharma Image then said:

【Cangwu - Broken】

The target was the remains of the human-faced fruit tree, charred beyond recognition, still trying to take root and regenerate, emitting an ominous red glow.

As soon as the words were spoken, an invisible, sharp force, seemingly capable of splitting space, appeared out of thin air above the massive trunk and tangled roots of the demon tree.

It swept across silently from top to bottom!

The colossal Cangwu tree, comparable to a mountain range, along with the earth's veins it was deeply embedded in, was neatly cut in two, the cut as smooth as a mirror.

Space was torn apart, emanating eerie fluctuations.

Yan Zhenjun's eyes narrowed, and without hesitation, he immediately leaped into the midst of it.

If he hadn't jumped, the next line on that statue would have been "Zheng Quan dies."

Upon seeing this, True Lord Mingxuan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Looks like this guy has a backup plan!

"Zheng Quan! Where are you going!"

He followed closely behind, and together they jumped into the shattered spatial rift.

In the sky, the gaze of that Dharma image seemed to pay no attention to Zheng Quan and Gao Sheng who had escaped.

His eyes, devoid of any emotion, swept indifferently across the ravaged land, settling on the demon army still ravaging Langya Prefecture in the distance:

【Demon Traps】

Before the words were even finished, the earth groaned in unbearable pain!

Where the demon tree had been severed, the ground suddenly collapsed downwards, and then a bottomless chasm spread forward at an astonishing speed, tearing the earth apart!

The rift valley has neat, steep edges that run east to west, as if the earth had been forcibly torn open by supreme divine power, leaving an unhealable wound.

A formidable chasm stretched out before us.

The entire demon army felt an intense sense of threat and retreated hastily, moving away from the rift valley.

But it was too late. An extremely strong suction force burst forth from the valley, pulling all the great demons into the valley and completely suppressing them!

"This is... the Rift Valley?!"

Shen Moyan's eyes immediately cleared.

So that's how the great rift valley I climbed step by step was formed.

The surviving cultivators stood frozen in place, gazing at the scene that had been transformed in an instant, speechless for a long time.

Before this overwhelming divine might, even cultivators at the Guicang Realm were as insignificant as ants.

The towering Dharma image turned its eyes and fixed on Shen Moyan, who was falling.

"Absolutely..."

Shen Moyan was greatly shaken, and he shouted in his heart, his eyes resolute and firm.

Without the slightest hesitation, Shen Moyan used all his strength to decisively throw the Nascent Soul Dao Fruit in his hand at the Dharma Image.

"It's the Dao Fruit of the Nascent Soul stage!"

The cultivators looked at the fleeting shooting star with greedy expressions.

The gaze of that immortal lord was momentarily drawn to the flying Nascent Soul Dao Fruit.

Seemingly somewhat puzzled by Shen Moyan's easy relinquishment of the Nascent Soul Dao Fruit, the true words uttered were a beat slower.

[The Heavenly Demon...]

"…Pen!"

As I have written, the book is successfully opened, and a rustling sound drifts through the darkness.

Everything around them began to flow backwards; the white mist, the rift valley, the terrified demons, and the greedy cultivators all faded away.

【Um】?

In the fleeting moment, the eyes of the Nine Songs Immortal Lord of Literature shifted.

His gaze became lively, no longer devoid of joy or sorrow, but rich with thoughts and full of emotions.

That emotion was surprise.

Shen Moyan met His gaze, equally surprised, until everything dimmed and his vision disappeared.

[At the end of this life, holding the edge, my final words.]

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