Cultivation: I Have a Skill Level Panel

A colossal shadow, hundreds of yards long, tore through the sky. Its dark pupils glinted with a soul-devouring light. Claws dozens of yards long, like hardened steel, seemed to shatter the very heavens as they descended upon Gu Yun with terrifying momentum!

A clear look revealed the massive Demon Beast to be an Iron-Plumed Ghost Bird of the True Martial Realm Seventh Layer. It had been hiding in the vast, deep forest, and when it hunted, it always killed in a single strike!

"Wretched creature, you're courting death!"

Gu Yun's expression was impassive. With a cold snort, streaks of Purple Lightning suddenly flared within his dark, deep pupils. His icy gaze seemed to slice through the heavens. He took a single, forceful step forward, sending ripples through the void as an incredibly powerful aura erupted from him!

"Celestial Thunder Hand!"

As he raised his hand and pressed down, an endless torrent of lightning surged from the void, tearing through space with a deafening roar. Dazzling flashes of light illuminated the dim world. Countless bolts of thunder spread out, forming a Thunder Domain a thousand yards across!

In the next instant, the thunder in the surrounding void coalesced into a thousand-yard-wide Thunderous Hand. Emitting a terrifying light, it descended like divine Thunder Punishment, crashing down to obliterate the Iron-Plumed Ghost Bird's sky-rending claws!

"BOOM!"

The moment the terrifying, thousand-yard Thunderous Hand touched the sky-rending claws,

it effortlessly shattered them,

and then continued its descent, using its Thunderous Momentum to utterly suppress the entire, massive body of the Iron-Plumed Ghost Bird!

"SCREECH!"

Seeing this, the Iron-Plumed Ghost Bird's huge, dark pupils constricted violently, as if it were witnessing the impossible!

Its invincible, indestructible claws had been shattered in an instant.

Dark blood gushed out like a torrential downpour, and searing pain shot through it.

But before it could even react,

the immensely powerful Thunderous Hand suppressed its massive, hundreds-of-yards-long body. The beast had no control as the Thunderous Hand slammed it into the ground below!

"CRASH!"

The impact carved a massive crater into the earth, but the terrifying power of the Thunderous Hand was far from spent. After slamming the beast down,

the hand detonated in a violent explosion. Overwhelming lightning tore everything apart, seemingly annihilating the massive Demon Beast completely.

A brilliant flash of lightning shot toward the heavens, dazzling to the extreme!

When the light subsided, the Iron-Plumed Ghost Bird was all but annihilated. Only a few mutilated limbs and chunks of flesh remained, still crackling with arcs of thunder.

A massive crater, a thousand yards wide, had been gouged out of the landscape. Terrifying Thunder Arcs still flickered within it, radiating a horrifying aura!

[Celestial Thunder Hand (Great Success 90%)]

[You have expertly utilized Celestial Thunder Hand in combat. The Hand of Celestial Thunder rends the sky and suppresses the earth. Celestial Thunder Hand Skill Level +2%]

Gu Yun stood tall in the void, his robes fluttering and his long hair drifting as if in a nonexistent wind. A cold glint filled his handsome features. After a single, indifferent glance at the scene below, he looked away as if nothing had happened at all.

In the next instant, Gu Yun's figure vanished. He transformed into a streak of lightning and sped through the void, simultaneously extending his Spiritual Sense to probe a fifty-li radius in search of the Dark Blood Tiger.

...

「Great Yan Dynasty, Fengchuan Prefecture City.」

The city was a scene of utter ruin. Broken walls and rubble were everywhere. Corpses littered the ground, and rivers of blood flowed through the streets. It was as if the entire city had been massacred.

At the same time, Demonic Qi billowed to the heavens, and the terrifying aura of Demon Fiends saturated the air.

From a distance, the city was completely shrouded in the dark, terrifying aura of Demon Fiends—a truly horrifying sight.

"BOOM!"

Within the ruins of Fengchuan Prefecture City, the sounds of several powerful explosions still echoed in the distance.

"Damn it!"

"Haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?!"

Qiu Yong, a man with an ordinary face dressed in a black shirt and holding a Battle Saber, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and couldn't help but curse.

"Brother Qiu!

I never expected this Demon Fiend to be so powerful!

I fear what comes next will be dangerous!"

Beside him, He Wen—a strong, sturdy man in a torn black robe, gripping a Battle Halberd—spoke in a grim tone.

The two men stared intently at the creature before them. It stood thirty feet tall, with the head of an ox and the body of a man. Its face was savage, its body a mass of corded, bulging muscle, and its eyes glowed with a terrifying dark light as its Demon Fiend aura raged.

Both men were Profound Tier Demon Exterminators from the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. When they had accepted the mission to come to Fengchuan Prefecture City,

they never imagined they would find a living Purgatory, with Demonic Qi blotting out the sky.

The city had been slaughtered by several terrifying Demon Fiends!

That's right. Three True Martial Level Demon Fiends had utterly massacred the city, leaving rivers of blood in their wake.

The city's defenders—a single True Martial Realm First Layer Cultivator and the garrisoned troops—were no match for them at all.

The Demon Fiends not only had astonishing defenses and powerful Demon Techniques, but they also possessed 'Undying' bodies with incredible Recovery Power.

This so-called 'Undying' body didn't mean they were truly immortal; rather, it was a Trait inherent to Demon Fiends.

Even if their heads were severed,

Their limbs torn off,

Or their hearts shattered,

No matter how grievous the injury,

As long as they consumed a certain amount of Demonic Power,

They could recover in an instant!

Thus, even though there were only three True Martial First Layer Demon Fiends, they had easily crushed all of the city's defenses.

Afterward, they slaughtered the city's inhabitants, and countless civilians met a bloody end.

What was truly horrifying was that,

after slaughtering over a million civilians, the Demon Fiends' power had skyrocketed. Vaguely, they had already reached the threshold of the True Martial Second Layer.

And all of this had taken them merely one day!

It was as if destruction and slaughter were all they needed to rapidly increase their power.

By the time a five-man Demon Suppression Bureau squad, codenamed 'Zero Demon' and led by a True Martial Realm Second Layer Profound Tier Demon Exterminator, arrived,

it was already too late.

However,

after a fierce battle,

they finally managed to exhaust one Demon Fiend's Demonic Power and kill it.

But,

the 'Zero Demon' squad suffered heavy casualties in the process:

two dead, one critically wounded, and two injured.

"HYEH HYEH HYEH!"

"Why struggle? Wouldn't it be better to just let me end it for you?!"

"Why!"

"Why must you force my hand!"

The thirty-foot-tall, ox-headed Demon Fiend spoke, its face contorted with savagery, its voice hoarse and grim.

As it spoke, a terrifying Demon Qi billowed out, causing the very air to tremble and ripple like the surface of water.

The moment it finished speaking,

a dark light flickered in the Demon Fiend's eyes.

It then unleashed its terrifying Demonic Power in full, and the surrounding space roiled and shook like a raging tsunami.

The ruined houses and shattered stones all around were lifted into the air by the Demon Fiend's terrifying power!

"Motherfucker!"

'A Demon Fiend, is it!'

Qiu Yong, a True Martial First Layer Late Stage Cultivator, gripped his Top Grade Magical Artifact, a Battle Saber, his eyes locked on the Demon Fiend radiating its terrifying aura.

'I, Qiu Yong, have been a Demon Exterminator for over a hundred years,' he thought. 'To die on the path of slaying demons is a worthy end!'

He then unleashed all of his True Yuan. A glint of saber light flashed in his eyes, and a sharp aura erupted from him that seemed poised to slice through the dim sky.

"Ox Demon!

Now die for me!"

As his voice fell,

Qiu Yong slashed forward fiercely. Several massive beams of Sword Qi, each dozens of yards long, shot into the air. Like a pack of Flood Dragons tearing through the sky, they formed a deadly web and descended upon the Ox Demon with overwhelming force.

A contemptuous smirk crossed the Ox Demon's lips.

Its deep, terrifying eyes watched the massive beams of Sword Qi tear through the air toward it.

It just sneered, "Pathetic tricks!"

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