I alone am the Honoured One!

Hei Xiu's dark robes fluttered in the unnatural winds as the enormous purple runic patterns still pulsed above the battlefield.

His lips curled into a smirk as he watched the devastation below.

But suddenly—

THOOM!

A violent ripple of wind pressure blasted toward him as the sheer force instantly shattered a chunk of the ark beneath his feet.

Hei Xiu barely tilted his head in time, and a white streak passed just inches from his face.

Swoosh!

The very space where he had just been standing imploded, collapsing inward as if the space itself had been twisted.

A flicker of surprise flashed across his face.

"Hmm?" Hei Xiu muttered, turning his eyes toward the approaching figure. Your next chapter awaits on My Virtual Library Empire

Yan Zijin.

She floated there in midair, her silver-white veil fluttering around her face as her heterochromatic eyes burned with restrained fury.

The remnants of her last attack still distorted the air around her clenched fist, crackling with the residual force of an unrestrained blow.

"You're making too much noise. Time to end this farce."

Hei Xiu let out a slow chuckle, his fingers flexing as tendrils of evil energy slithered from his hands.

"You're too late, Yan Zijin."

"The Paragons are already here. The Eclipse Sect will fall, and soon, your body will fuel the next awakening."

WHOOSH!

Hei Xiu disappeared from the ark as his entire body was swallowed by dark shadows.

Yan Zijin's gaze flickered, and she was already moving before he could even disappear.

CLANG!

A massive black scythe erupted from the shadow just beside her head, slicing through the air with an ear-splitting screech.

But instead of dodging, Yan Zijin easily caught it.

Her bare hand, wreathed in energy, clenched around the blade mid-swing, stopping its momentum entirely.

CRACK!

A shockwave exploded outward from the sheer force of the impact.

The ark split apart, and the air pressure alone sent countless evil cultivators below tumbling through the sky.

Hei Xiu's eyes widened in horror "You—"

BOOM!

Yan Zijin's knee slammed into his gut, and the resulting force sent him spiraling through the sky as his body crashed through the remnants of his own ark like a cannonball.

Hei Xiu gritted his teeth, flipping mid-air, and dark runes flared beneath his feet.

BOOM—BOOM—BOOM!

He propelled himself forward at an unnatural speed and appeared behind Yan Zijin as his fingers formed a rapid sequence of hand seals.

"Abyssal Spire."

The sky around Yan Zijin split open, and from within the shadows, an enormous spire of black stone shot downward.

But Yan Zijin didn't even glance up and flicked her wrist.

A single horizontal chop of her hand tore the air before her, creating a cleaving line of destruction that bisected the descending spire effortlessly.

The two halves of the massive construct slammed into the battlefield below, obliterating an entire portion of the land... yet she stood untouched.

Hei Xiu clicked his tongue "Tch… What a monstrous woman."

He flashed forward again, summoning dozens of black spikes from the shadows around him, each one laced with corrosive energy that disintegrated the air itself.

Yan Zijin twisted her body, narrowly evading the first barrage.

A second wave followed—but she didn't dodge this time.

Instead, she deflected each spike with her bare hands and her movements were so precise that every projectile was redirected back toward Hei Xiu.

The spikes vanished into the shadows before they could reach him, but in that same instant—

Yan Zijin was already there.

Her fist buried itself into his ribs in a devastating right hook that cracked bone and sent him hurtling through the sky once more.

Hei Xiu coughed up blood, flipping mid-air as he gritted his teeth "Fine. You want power?"

His entire body pulsed with evil energy, and thousands of dark runes appeared around him.

"I'LL SHOW YOU POWER!"

KRA-KOOOOOM!!!

The sky turned black, and the purple runic formations that had once summoned the Paragons now twisted and condensed, forming a monstrous vortex of energy.

"Curse of the Withered Sun!"

A massive, black axe condensed above him radiating with evil energy.

And then, he hurled it toward Yan Zijin.

The battlefield itself trembled because of the sheer force.

Yan Zijin watched the descending axe and the moment it neared her, the battlefield below trembled violently, cracks splitting open as raw energy threatened to consume everything.

Yet, she did not move and simply raised a single hand.

BOOM!

The very instant the axe made contact with her palm, an earth-shaking shockwave erupted.

The sky itself shuddered, and yet... the attack did not budge.

CRACK.

The massive black axe crumbled apart, splintering into shards of evil energy that dissolved into the air.

Hei Xiu's eyes narrowed in pure disbelief. "What…?"

BOOM!

In the blink of an eye, she was before him, her palm driving straight into his sternum.

"GUHHH!" The force of the impact rippled through the sky, and Hei Xiu's entire body folded inward from the sheer power.

BAM!

Blood erupted from his mouth as he was sent flying like a ragdoll and barely managed to regain control before—

WHOOSH!

She was already behind him and Hei Xiu instinctively slashed backward with a blade of evil energy, but Yan Zijin caught his wrist mid-swing.

Her grip tightened and his wrist snapped in half.

CRACK!

"AARGHHH!" Hei Xiu screamed as his face contorted in pain.

His blade dispersed instantly as his fingers twisted in unnatural angles.

Yan Zijin twisted his entire arm, wrenching him downward and sending him plummeting toward the ruined battlefield.

BOOM!

His body slammed into the earth creating a massive crater upon impact.

The ground split apart, debris scattering in all directions as dust clouded the air.

Hei Xiu coughed violently with his entire chest caved inward.

He tried to crawl out of the crater, his fingers clawing desperately against the cracked ground.

Swoosh.

A shadow loomed over him.

His dazed vision flickered upward, and he saw her... descending slowly, her silhouette illuminated by the burning battlefield behind her.

Hei Xiu's lips quivered. "W-Wait—"

Yan Zijin didn't wait and her foot came down.

CRUNCH.

His left leg exploded beneath the force, bone and flesh splintering apart as blood burst outward like a ruptured vessel.

"URRGGGHHHH!" Hei Xiu let out a guttural howl of pain, his hands trembling as he tried to crawl backward.

Yan Zijin merely tilted her head. "You call yourself a leader," she mused, stepping forward slowly, her feet crushing the rubble beneath her.

She grabbed his remaining arm and with a twist—

SPLURCH!

The entire arm was torn from his body.

Blood splattered across the ruined ground as he convulsed violently, his body twitching uncontrollably from the shock.

His mouth opened and closed like a dying fish, his pupils dilated in pure, unfiltered terror.

Yan Zijin stared down at him.

"You're not a leader."

Her fingers curled into a fist.

"You're a pest."

Hei Xiu's shattered body tried to scramble away, his bloody stump of an arm leaving a gruesome trail across the ground. "P-Please—!"

BOOM!

Her fist slammed into his skull.

CRACK!

The entire top half of his head caved inward, brain matter bursting outward as his spine snapped like brittle glass.

Yan Zijin's gaze flickered upward at the Vampire ark and saw Rhudamanth Di Gradia "Onto the next one..."

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