Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao
Chapter 611 - 047: Comparing People Can Be So Annoying!

Chapter 611: Chapter 047: Comparing People Can Be So Annoying!

Zhou Yan’s gaze fixed intently on the distant Star Domain.

At this moment, the entire Starry Sky of the Star Domain suddenly dimmed, void of starlight, void of flames, with only darkness prevailing.

Just like the road ahead he perceived, utterly dark.

"Cultivation knows no end, and white bones turn into ash. Perhaps, I have truly begun to understand the intentions of my predecessor in the Golden Battle Armor."

Zhou Yan sighed.

He was never one to sigh frequently, but the path of cultivation made his sighs endless.

A sigh was but an exclamation, not a sign of collapse. With his daughter Yanyan severing her Sword Body and offering it to him, even if the road ahead was cut off, Zhou Yan would never collapse.

For life after life, Zhou Yan would never forget Yanyan’s beautiful eyes, brimming with a strange sadness; eyes that mourned and regretted their fate.

Such a gaze should not appear in a little girl’s eyes!

Such a gaze should especially not be found in his own daughter’s eyes!

Zhou Yan’s heart was somewhat chaotic, but he stood alone in the Starry Sky for a moment before once again flying towards the Heavenly Heart Secret Realm.

He had to go to the Heavenly Punishment Forest, to take his parents away from this confined Secret Realm, so they would no longer suffer.

Perhaps, in this respect, his heart was alike to Yanyan’s hope that Zhou Yan would not suffer anymore.

A father’s love is wordless, a mother’s love is limitless, and the heart of a child’s filial piety can be boundlessly vast.

Zhou Yan gathered his spirit and tried hard to wear a smile on his face, because he knew that Yanyan was watching him from the beyond; if he was sad, Yanyan would be sad; if he was happy, Yanyan would be relieved and share in the joy—even if his happiness was fraught with more pain than anything else.

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"It’s truly unexpected, that this person still held such an ace up his sleeve! Does that mean I will never be able to have my revenge?! No, I refuse to believe he can use such power over and over again! I need to find a way; I must kill him! It’s either his death or mine!"

At a certain place within the Baiyue Ancient Forbidden area of the Heavenly Heart Secret Realm, Yun Shu was looking at the outcome of the Wang Xi Saint’s avatar’s downfall through a luminescent screen in a mirror, her face suddenly turned extremely unsightly.

"No, there must be a way, a flaw! I need to scheme properly; if I can’t kill him, I’ll never be able to erase the shadows in my heart, and my Realm will stagnate, never to break through!"

Yun Shu murmured to herself, her gaze intense as she stared unblinkingly at the luminescent screen.

Inside the screen, everything gradually calmed down, and Zhou Yan seemed to still be immersed in the majesty of the Golden Armor man without any movement.

That man in the Golden Battle Armor had spoken a few words in a peculiar Rune Language, which puzzled Yun Shu because, despite being able to see the scene from the screen, she couldn’t understand it.

But Zhou Yan seemed to understand and even spoke a few words in Rune!

"His mastery of Runes is so profound? He can actually transmit information through Runes? What a monster!"

Yun Shu was shocked.

The greater Zhou Yan’s talent, the greater the pressure and discomfort in her heart.

Fortunately, Zhou Yan hadn’t gained any inheritance, and the man in the Golden Battle Armor disappeared.

Just as Yun Shu breathed a sigh of relief, she saw Zhou Yan’s Realm swiftly elevate from Sword Void Sixth Transformation Peak to Early Stage Nine Changes of Sword Void. Her face, which had just brightened with relief, instantly stiffened.

Her facial muscles twitched several times, and her expression at that moment became extremely animated.

"Ptui—"

She couldn’t hold it in and spewed out a mouthful of blood.

"Damn it, how is this possible? How can there be such a heaven-defying encounter? Yun Shu, from Sword Void Sixth Transformation to Nine Changes, secluded in the family’s Forbidden Land for ten years, suffering as if it was worse than death, whereas he just effortlessly progressed in the blink of an eye. The heavens are unjust!"

Yun Shu was nearly driven mad with frustration.

Comparing oneself to another can really be infuriating!

Fortunately, Yun Shu soon saw a glimmer of hope again. Just moments later, Zhou Yan seemed to become somewhat confused, the whole person appearing somewhat doubtful, and then, Zhou Yan started to practice movement techniques in place.

"Um?"

Yun Shu was startled, and then her eyes narrowed as a look of uncertainty flashed across her face.

She stared intently at the screen and after a moment, suddenly let out a loud cry, "Good, good, the heavens are truly helping me! I never imagined that Zhou Yan would have such a monstrous Qi Fortune against the heavens, instantly advancing his Realm to the Early Stage of Sword Void Nine Changes, but perhaps because his Combat Power is too strong and his luck too good, he has triggered the Heavenly Punishment of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, and the first to deplete was his sensing power!"

"With this, he will never reach the Perfection of Nine Changes of Sword Void, and will have to accept the fact of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man at the Early Stage of Sword Void Nine Changes, his end will surely be extremely tragic!"

"At this point, I don’t even need to lift a finger, because killing him would be helping him find release!"

"I’ll just watch, and after some time in the Nine Origin Heavenly City, I’ll see how miserable his end will be."

"The heavens are on my side, my worries are resolved on their own, how wonderful! Never have I felt such a burning sense of contentedness!"

Yun Shu was in high spirits as she took another look at Zhou Yan inside the luminescent screen of the mirror. Suddenly, she felt an ice-cold chill, as if there were a pair of blood-red eyes gazing at her with a ferocious expression behind her back.

Those eyes, cold, malevolent, and bloodthirsty, made her breathing suddenly stop.

Her heart plunged suddenly into the depths—"My Five Decays of Heaven and Man has arrived? How could it suddenly come upon me without having gone through my tribulation?"

She was confused in her heart, but the next moment she felt cold all over, as if descending into an ice cave, unable to move.

The luminescent screen of the mirror she held suddenly shattered, and the mirror fell to the ground with a clang.

"What... what is this, it’s definitely not the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, what is it?"

Yun Shu was nearly suffocated, the intense pressure of death heavily assaulting her body and soul. Without thinking, she immediately summoned purplish divine flames of Divine Light.

This was the imprint left by the power of the old Saint of the Yun Family, which could erupt in an endless sacred flame when triggered, creating a chance to break free from the predicament.

Without any hesitation, Yun Shu activated this last resort within her.

"Pu-chi—"

An inexplicable sound suddenly emerged, followed by a scalp-tingling noise that Yun Shu heard.

It was a wail of agony, resembling the shriek of a malevolent ghost, utterly twisted and grating to the ear.

But that wail was not from here; instead, it manifested through the mirrors in the light screen on the ground.

Yun Shu was greatly shocked; her eyes nearly bulged out in that moment because she witnessed a scene so shocking that her blood nearly stopped flowing.

A humanoid monster with blood-red long fur was staring at her with a malevolent, evil, and bloodthirsty gaze, a look that made her feel as if she were trapped in an unending nightmare.

"Run!!!!"

With her utmost willpower, Yun Shu tore herself away from that malevolent gaze and suddenly vanished in a flash, employing the same method she had used to escape Zhou Yan’s killer move previously. Now, she fled in absolute terror without concern for anything else.

The humanoid blood-furred monster, however, did not pursue but stood still and bent down to pick up the mirror-like object, looked into the mirror.

In that moment, the humanoid blood-furred monster seemed to show confusion. Then, it suddenly let out a mad shriek, tearing at the blood-red fur on its own body and face like a lunatic.

But every time it pulled off a large clump of the long fur, even more fur grew back in its place.

It tore at itself furiously until its flesh became a blurred mess of blood.

Yun Shu flew through the void for a considerable distance and finally let out a sigh of relief after seeing the stele ahead, but then the environment around her changed, and Yun Shu found herself above the Cold Pond, within the Baiyue Ancient Forbidden.

Just like Zhou Yan had been confused by the surroundings to walk in place.

Previously, she had mocked Zhou Yan, but now, her face finally changed.

Zhou Yan was gone, and yet she had appeared here.

Yun Shu’s heart sank to the bottom!

Not only that, but beneath the Cold Pond, there was a strange cave entrance that had turned to a charred black, and there, a blood-furred monster was frantically pounding on it as if trying to break open the door to the cavern.

But it had already failed to open it; the Ancient Prohibition seemed destroyed, and that mysterious and eerie cave had also decayed and fallen into ruin, including the powerful suppression force that was once part of it.

Yun Shu, looking at the hysterical blood-furred monster, felt a chill in her heart, but she then thought of the Killing Stone Tablet. That stele, surely, was the thing that had suppressed the monster, and now that the monster had emerged, the stele must have been taken away!

Yun Shu never considered who might have taken the stele, nor did she think that it was Wang Xi Saint’s attack that had destroyed the restraining force of the mysterious cavern underneath the Cold Pond; instead, she blamed everything on Zhou Yan. She felt that all of this was caused by Zhou Yan.

Yun Shu’s hatred intensified, but she was fearful of the blood-furred monster and thus quietly retreated, preparing to flee.

But just then, the hysterical blood-furred monster suddenly turned its head, its blood-red eyes staring fixedly at Yun Shu.

At that moment, Yun Shu’s heart felt as though it had leapt out; her face turned deathly pale, and she screamed in terror.

"Ahh—"

The intense, urgent yet brief scream came to an abrupt halt.

Everything before Yun Shu’s eyes went dark, and she fainted completely.

Because the blood-furred monster had ripped off all the dense blood-red fur on its face, revealing a visage that was a bloody mess but one that Yun Shu would never forget in her life!

It was Zhou Yan’s face!

The blood-furred monster, was it actually Zhou Yan?!

How could this be possible?!

This simply couldn’t be!

But this was the reality, the truth witnessed with her own eyes, personally experienced, perceived by her own soul!

The immense fright and shock made Yun Shu, who had already used her last resorts multiple times, exhausted her vitality, and whose body’s energy was nearly depleted, completely faint.

That scene was like the final straw that broke the camel’s back.

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The blood-furred monster did not kill Yun Shu but appeared confused for a moment after turning back.

Then, it transformed into a streak of Blood Light and dived into the flickering, broken light of the bright mirror, vanishing like a Blood Arrow.

In just a moment, it disappeared, along with the bright mirror on the ground.

The Baiyue Ancient Forbidden suddenly erupted with a shocking power of Destruction, the entire prohibition underwent collapse and destruction.

The unceasing power of Destruction shattered the void, the remaining arrays of the Ancient Forbidden began to crumble, and combined with the power of Destruction, caused explosions that were even more violent.

The fearsome force was about to envelop Yun Shu; however, a mysterious off-white power suddenly surged around her. It was a force of rules, even transcending time and space.

Yun Shu vanished all at once and wasn’t affected by the force of destruction; she disappeared before everything was annihilated.

The Baiyue Ancient Forbidden exploded violently and was reduced to ruins, turning this expanse of void into a land of chaos and destruction.

Within the shattered space, the Anomaly energy of the Three Wolves Worshiping the Moon was occasionally drifting by, only to immediately fracture and dissolve, appearing and disappearing cyclically, creating a strange atmosphere.

But the power of Destruction here did not dissipate. Instead, it grew stronger, surging throughout the space. Even a Saint would undoubtedly die upon contact with this energy.

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