Celestial Dragon Sword Venerable

After the two fled, Long Yunfan’s face was ashen, his eyes filled with deep sorrow, pain, and even despair.

As for Long Qianying, her gaze was exceptionally cold, but there was no hatred in her eyes—only the same indifference as always.

It seemed she was not the least bit surprised that the Dragon Race had fallen to such a state.

"Senior, hand over those four sinners."

Long Qianying said.

The withered old woman shook her head sorrowfully. "I cannot. If I hand them over and Long Fengyang dies, then Ye Fengyang will surely die as well! If Ye Fengyang dies, the chaos in the Celestial Demon Blood Domain will truly become unsolvable."

The old woman’s words made Long Qianying’s elegant brows furrow, and a look of deep helplessness finally appeared in her eyes.

BOOM—

In the distance, the heavens and earth split apart as the Beast Soul of the Taotie Divine Beast descended once more!

This was its second Beast Soul Divine Body Clone!

The Taotie Divine Beast was far away in an Alternate Space and could only descend using a Void Body. Its true form was incapable of breaking through the Laws and spatial barriers to arrive from such a distance.

Even so, the attacking Divine Body’s ferocious might was still overwhelming.

But Ye Tianling ignored it.

He drew his Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword and slashed directly at the withered old woman.

The old woman waved her hand, and a ripple of Flowing Light blocked Ye Tianling’s strike.

But at the same time, Ye Tianling threw a punch.

SPURT—

The old woman’s body trembled, a look of horror in her eyes. At the same time, she spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying nearly three thousand meters.

And from within the blood she spat, Long Fengyang and the three others tumbled out, crashing to the ground. They lay there like pathetic dogs, completely unable to move.

"Die!"

Ye Tianling’s voice was merciless.

He attacked again, sending the Taotie Divine Soul’s Divine Body flying with a single punch and battering it with a series of explosions.

The Void shattered once more, and the terrifying Power of Destruction threatened to tear the small, independent space asunder.

At that same moment, Ouyang Ruoxue flew over, disregarding her own life, and embraced Ye Tianling from behind.

She activated her Soul Talent, forcibly creating a telepathic link with Ye Tianling, and pleaded in his mind, "Husband, wake up. Let’s go home!"

"Husband, let’s go home..."

"Husband, let’s go home..."

Ouyang Ruoxue embraced him from behind, but Ye Tianling was covered in blood-red hair that pulsed with the Power of Destruction.

It was a power sufficient to destroy heaven and earth.

Yet Ouyang Ruoxue paid no heed to her own life. She allowed the crimson power to invade her, mangling her flesh, but still, she held on.

"Let’s go home..."

Her heartbroken plea gradually seeped into the depths of Ye Tianling’s Demon Heart.

Ye Tianling turned around, and the blood-red hair covering his body began to slowly recede.

But as the hair receded, his power began to dissipate at an alarming rate.

Gradually, his clarity returned, but his eyes... they had been blinded by the Eye of Destruction.

Tears of blood streamed from his eyes, but he reached out and pulled Ouyang Ruoxue into his embrace.

"Husband, let’s go home... Let’s go to the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range. We can set up another Array and practice Yin Yang Harmony together, okay? We can relive those ten days when you took liberties with me, alright? That place was our honeymoon spot. It’s our home."

"Husband, these people are horrible. I don’t want to see them anymore. Let’s just go."

As Ouyang Ruoxue spoke, her already grievous injuries, having been assaulted by the Demon Heart’s Blood Hair Power, brought her to the verge of complete annihilation.

If not for an obsession born of such deep devotion, how could she have possibly gotten close to Ye Tianling?

HUMMM—

Ye Tianling gathered his crimson Energy Origin and channeled it directly into Ouyang Ruoxue’s body.

Ouyang Ruoxue’s injuries instantly underwent a Nirvana Rebirth.

But in that same instant, Ye Tianling aged terribly. His once-crimson hair became streaked with white. His impossibly handsome face began to wither like tree bark as deep wrinkles crawled across his skin.

Ye Tianling casually tore open the Void and reached out, summoning Yue Lintian, who had transformed into the Heaven-Slaying Demon Slayer Sword.

"Ruoxue, go with him. Take care of my Disciple, and look after Yueling and Yuchan. I... I will be back! I still have to... undo your Ancient Soul Extinction Forbidden technique..."

Ye Tianling murmured.

The Taotie Divine Soul reformed once more and charged viciously toward Ye Tianling and Ouyang Ruoxue.

Ye Tianling seemed oblivious.

The withered old woman thrust out her palm, sending a ripple of energy to save him.

HUMMM—

The two forces collided, and the withered old woman was sent flying. It seemed she was no match for the Taotie Divine Beast either.

"Watch out!"

Long Qingwan shrieked, trying to warn Ye Tianling.

She was so shaken by the scene that tears streamed down her face.

Regret?

How could she not be filled with regret?

A person of such Supreme Emotion and Nature, and a person who had lost all humanity—they were one and the same, forced into this state by others.

Heartache?

Sorrow?

No words could truly describe the mix of emotions, the tragedy that gripped their hearts.

Ye Tianling didn’t look back. Tears of blood streamed from his eyes as his body withered even further. As if suddenly imbued with immense power, his Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword unleashed a strike—the Celestial Evil Heaven-Breaking Annihilation Dao—that instantly pierced straight through the Taotie Divine Beast’s Beast Soul.

But this kind of Divine Beast, which lived by Devouring, was practically invincible.

After suffering such a grievous blow, it recovered in a mere instant.

Ye Tianling gently caressed Ouyang Ruoxue’s face. His hand was now withered to skin and bones, the skin on his fingers so dry that it had cracked open.

The blood-red hair that had once covered him had now turned white and fallen away completely, leaving his skin bare.

The bloody cracks that marred his fingers, one after another, were a shocking sight.

Ouyang Ruoxue cried, her sobs desolate and full of sorrow.

She didn’t dare say it. ’I can’t tell him that Ye Yueling and Lin Yuchan are gone.’

"I will be back. You all... must live on... live well... Yue Lintian, take them."

With a violent wrench of his hand, Ye Tianling ripped open the Void.

He exhaled a breath, and the Heaven-Slaying Demon Slayer Sword swept up Ouyang Ruoxue, instantly transforming into a streak of Flowing Light and vanishing into the distance.

’I will... be back...’ he murmured to himself. ’You love me so much... how could I... bear to die?’

Ye Tianling murmured. As that final burst of power was exhausted, his Demon Heart Sword Body began to fail.

And yet, the Divine Beast Taotie was only grievously wounded, not slain.

Ye Tianling’s gaze fell upon Long Fengyang.

Long Fengyang dropped to his knees and kowtowed, lamenting, "I have ruined the Dragon Race. I will atone for my sins with my life."

As he spoke, he struck his own forehead with his palm.

HUMMM—

The withered old woman intervened, stopping his suicide attempt.

"Turn your shame into courage. Focus on recovering your strength, suppressing the Hidden Dragon Shackles, and breaking the Ancient Soul Extinction Forbidden technique. Long Qingzhuo’s true body is still being tormented in the eighteenth level of the Blood Demon Domain within the Ancestral Dragon Abyss. As long as the main body is alive, only clones are destroyed. And this Clone might not even be completely gone. Even if it is, it can be reformed."

"Although the Heart Stone is mostly shattered, it was swallowed by Space Power. Long Tianyu and Long Tianmo might not be dead either."

"And you—if you don’t die, then that clone, Ye Fengyang, still has a chance to survive. But if you die now, Ye Fengyang will perish without a doubt."

"So, when I intervened earlier, I wasn’t saving you. I was simply unwilling to let Ye Fengyang, the fated Child of Celestial Mandate, die."

"That’s right. Ye Fengyang was the Child of Celestial Mandate of the previous generation, so he will not die so easily."

The withered old woman sighed.

By now, the Taotie Divine Beast had recovered again. Although less than one percent of its vitality remained, a Divine Level being was still a Divine Level being.

It saw that Ye Tianling was on the verge of fading away completely, and a monstrous hatred surged within it. It gathered its mountain-sized body and charged forward to devour him.

At this point, Ye Tianling had almost no strength left to fight back.