After all, this was the first time she was truly facing the Chess Player Realm.
Jiang Yuechu was not so foolish as to pour all two million years of her Dao Cultivation into a single strike.
The thrill of a one-hit kill was certainly satisfying.
But who knew what unknown, bizarre mechanisms the Chess Player Realm might be hiding?
It was just like back when she used the Mountain Gazing Realm to fight upward against the Lamp Lighting Realm.
She had no idea then that the Lamp Lighting Realm could burn its heart lamp a full six times.
If she hadn't saved up enough Dao Cultivation in her pocket back then, she might not have been able to smash that Demon Saint to pieces bit by bit.
And now, her entire fortune amounted to just these two million-plus years.
She couldn't afford to act like a gambler and bet it all on an unknown strike.
To be safe, she chose the most exhausting but also the most forgiving method.
She poured all the burning Dao Cultivation into the Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture.
Billowing black mist that blotted out the sun rolled incessantly.
Hundreds of phantom demons at the Denglou Realm acted like tireless death-sworn soldiers.
Even if they were crushed by the deep blue giants every time they pounced, they would reform in the next instant.
Jiang Yuechu tilted her head slightly, looking at the failing dao chess piece pieces below.
She whispered softly.
"It seems it's about time."
The so-called dao chess piece, once the mysterious veil was peeled away, seemed to be nothing more than this.
Perhaps this Wuxiang Mountain The Main Seat was too useless... anyway, from what she could see, relying solely on two dao chess piece pieces was ultimately not enough to crush this endless tide of demons.
Having gauged the situation,
Jiang Yuechu no longer hesitated.
She slowly raised her right hand, her five fingers gripping the Void Realm.
The hundreds of demon phantoms that were still frantically biting the giants suddenly froze.
Together, they let out a shrill howl and turned into a sky full of black Qi, surging back into the girl's palm like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.
Amidst the churning black mist,
Jiang Yuechu's vermilion lips parted slightly, and her indifferent voice echoed through the sky.
"My body is the prison, confining the gods and demons of the heavens."
"My soul is the lock, suppressing the eternal Karmic Obstruction."
As the last sentence fell,
Jiang Yuechu suddenly snapped her eyes open.
Pitch-black pupils instantly filled her entire eye sockets, leaving not a trace of white.
"I am... the Great Black Heaven!"
BOOM—!!!
At this moment, the world fell silent.
With the girl as the center, the black mist that had been compressed back into her body erupted once more.
But it was no longer scattered mist.
Instead, it rapidly solidified and rose from the ground.
A hundred feet... a thousand feet...
In the blink of an eye.
A terrifying demonic shadow, a thousand feet tall, towered over Wuxiang Mountain.
This demonic shadow was pitch black all over, with twelve pairs of massive black wings on its back that blotted out the sun.
The demonic shadow was faceless.
There was only a pair of eyes burning with dark red karmic fire, looking indifferently at the Azure Sea Palace ahead.
The two once-towering deep blue giants seemed somewhat frail before this Great Black Heaven Demon Aspect.
Jiang Yuechu stood at the center of the Demon Aspect and slowly assumed a combat stance.
The thousand-foot demonic shadow behind her mirrored her movements.
Its massive right arm pulled back as countless demon faces shrieked in unison.
And then,
it threw a punch.
This single punch
made the mountains and rivers change color and the sun and moon lose their light.
The Azure Sea Palace, suspended high in the Nine Heavens, began to vibrate violently under this pressure.
How could the blue-robed old Daoist maintain his air of a master now?
In the depths of his originally indifferent eyes, a flash of undeniable horror finally surfaced.
This kind of power...
Damn it, had he been in seclusion for too long... so long that he could no longer keep up with the changes in the outside world?!
Was the current Denglou Realm this terrifying?!
There was no time to think.
The old Daoist's hands moved like fluttering butterflies, and he hurriedly chanted a spell.
"Wuxiang gives birth to all laws, all laws return to the One Origin, the Supreme Water-Governing Decree, Command!"
As the command was issued,
the two deep blue giants, which were still struggling to hold on, instantly retreated.
They transformed into two massive blue barriers, shielding the Azure Sea Palace with all their might.
That wasn't enough.
He waved his hands repeatedly, and layer upon layer of extremely complex defensive Formations spread out as if they cost nothing.
"Nine Heavens Profound Water Shield!"
"Taiyi Golden Light Cover!"
"Four Directions Immovable Wisdom King Seal!"
The Chess Player Realm truly lived up to its name.
Setting everything else aside, the speed of casting spells alone was indeed incomparable to the Denglou Realm.
In the instant before the black giant fist fell,
a total of eighteen defensive spells had already been laid out before the Azure Sea Palace.
Blue light was brilliant, and golden light was dazzling.
They protected the palace so tightly that not even the wind could pass through.
The old Daoist stared fixedly ahead, his heart slightly eased.
With such a defense, even another The Main Seat of the Chess Player Realm wouldn't dream of breaking it in one strike.
However,
in the next moment,
BOOM—!!!
The black giant fist smashed heavily against the layered light screens.
There wasn't even a second of stalemate.
Crack.
Dense sounds of crisp shattering rang out.
The first light screen shattered.
Then the second, the third...
In just a single encounter,
all eighteen light screens exploded into a sky full of light specks.
The giant fist's momentum did not slow as it slammed ruthlessly into the two deep blue giants acting as barriers.
"ROAR—!!!"
Two shrill cries of grief were cut short.
The indestructible bodies of the dao chess piece pieces were instantly covered in cracks under that destructive power.
Then,
they collapsed with a bang.
A sky full of blue light specks, mixed with dissipating Spiritual Qi, fell like a meteor shower.
The wind from the punch whistled, heading straight for the palace.
The fierce wind blew the old Daoist's white hair into a mess and also scattered the last trace of composure in his eyes.
He stared blankly at the black fist that was rapidly enlarging in his vision.
His mind went completely blank.
At this very moment,
this Dao Lineage The Main Seat, who had been in seclusion for many years,
finally began to suffer a collapse of his Dao Heart.
BOOM—!!!
A deafening roar tore through the firmament.
It seemed as if only this terrifying roar remained between heaven and earth.
The violent astral wind swept out in all directions.
The Azure Sea Palace, which represented the heritage of Wuxiang Mountain, also began to shatter at this moment.
And the old Daoist within it,
the horror on his face didn't even have time to fade, and he couldn't even leave behind half a word of a final testament.
His body completely dissipated under the black wind of the punch.
The momentum of this punch did not subside.
Even though it was still a great distance from the ground below, the world-destroying pressure caused the ground to groan violently.
Wuxiang Mountain, which was already a ruin under the red moon, met its complete destruction.
Peaks collapsed, and shattered earth and stones were swept high into the air by the airwaves.
The surrounding waters of the Wuxiang Marsh flowed backward, kicking up turbid water columns a hundred feet high.
Disciples with weaker cultivation didn't even have time to scream.
Under the sweep of this terrifying shockwave, their internal organs shattered, they bled from their Seven Orifices, and their corpses were swept up like tattered sacks by the wild wind, only to be slammed heavily into the mud.
Only True Person Han Xian and those few Elders managed to perform their respective life-saving techniques in a wretched state.
Various protective Magic Treasures exploded in an instant.
Their bodies suffered heavy injuries, and their Primordial Spirits were shaken to the point of nearly dissipating.
Large mouthfuls of black blood spurted from their mouths as they lay in the mud, barely managing to keep their lives.
Running Ox, who was hiding at the far edge, was blown off by the gale and fell toward the ground.
In a panic, he quickly summoned his true form.
The massive black ox body rolled repeatedly, smashing over a dozen huge rocks before finally gripping the bottom with its four hooves, barely stopping its body.
The ox struggled to raise its head and looked forward in a daze.
The thousand-foot demonic shadow, standing like a miracle, was slowly withdrawing its fist.
And the original Wuxiang Mountain had already turned into a massive basin.
This...
She really did it?!