Listen While Reading: Sword of Ce-----

  Bing Xue cshed with all her might against Fang Gu Lan, the two Venerables rapidly approag the climax of their gigantic, heaven-defying battle across the skies and dimensions. Their massive Dimensional and Divine Domains cshed, creating a Spatial Singurity that began to shatter the very fabric of space with each blow.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  Explosions of flig energies erupted everywhere as Bing Xue unleashed an endless rain of thousands of Soul Bdes from her expanding Domain, which Fang Gu Lan could only see was a garden where swrew from the ground and fell from the sky endlessly within a primordial realm of Yin and Yang energies.

  It erhaps a more bizarre Domain than his own, ohat Bing Xue was able to create through her bination of the Skills and her own Swordsmanship Arts, alongside her Bde Dao Enlighte reag a age.

  “She’s simply creating incredibly powerful Soul Artifacts out of that Domain and firing them at me! Is that even a strategy?” He thought, gritting his teeth. “No, the power of my Domain is superior! Alongside this Suit, and the Symbols I stole from those Otherworldly Heroes, I still got a ce!”

  The young Venerable’s bck suit gained more and more cracks as the rain of swords reached, cutting and slig through his entire armor and suit, rapidly spreading more accumuted damage.

  The darkness emerging from all the Corrupted Symbols was rapidly regeing the suit over and ain, but it reached the point where Bing Xue’s attacks became endless!

  Every minute, every ten seds, every one sed, every nanosed, from every damned angle, from every spatial area within his surroundings.

  Swords.

  Swords.

  And more swords!

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  “ you even call this Swordsmanship?! This is just Sorcery! Aaaarrgh!”

  Fang Gu Lan grew more and more frustrated; his Bck Storm Dragon, which made up all of his domain, roared, dozens of heads firing void beams against Bing Xue to stop her.

  “So you’re trying to distract me—not bad, but that won’t work either way!” Bing Xue smiled, rapidly maing her Yin and Yang Sword once more.

  Her Domain twisted around it, the Realm made of Yin and Yang Energies merging with her Yin and Yang Sword, fusing with it, and temporarily awakening her sword’s ultimate form.

  “Through the path of the sword, I don’t need anything else!”

  She fully itted to the bde, the only on she held on since her early years in Murim, the only “friend” that never betrayed her, the only “panion” that ried to sell her, the only “family” that would not backstab her.

  Even when she was still a young, frail woman in a hostile world that wao use her and discard her, to sughter her and leave her as nothing but fertilizer for the dirt where rice grew, the sword was by her side.

  She slept with the sword, she hunted with the sword, she killed with the sword… and she also protected with it.

  Because despite how dreadful that world was, there was innoce; there were good people hiding, tremblih the gaze of the Immortals and their corrupted Cultivator Sects.

  Despite resenting Murim and its terrifying, ruthless culture, Bing Xue did not punish the world or its people.

  She protected them with this very bde she was holding, and she loved them; she raised them and taught them that there was a better, brighter path.

  And so, when she swung her sword for the st time, defeati foe, Humanity’s Great Aor, she brought Murim to a new Era.

  The first Era of Peace.

  “With this bde, I shall split the heavens and open a new, brighter path towards Harmony, Peace, and Prosperity!”

  “What are you even talking about?!”

  Fang Gu Lan couldn’t uand, as someone ily cruel and chaotic, the eternal pursuit for pead harmony that Bing Xue always sought.

  And how far this led her, how far this led her bde.

  Memories of the past surged through her eyes, of the suffering and the happy moments, whily came after the suffering was finally over.

  When she went beyond and syed even the Aor of Humanity, the root of Murim’s rotten culture.

  This was her Path, her Story.

  Her Dao Essence surged from her body, resonating with her Divinities and her Domain.

  And then Bing Xue went beyond.

  “{Primordial Yin and Yang Essence Soul Bde}: {Aura of Eternal Harmony}!”

  FLAAASH!

  As she swung her bde, Bing Xue cleaved through spad time, reag Fang Gu Lan in an instant.

  The young Venerable screamed in disbelief, harnessing all of his Domain in front of him to protect himself from the slig wave of pure light.

  “Don’t you dare look down on me!”

  As he screamed, filled with utter frustration and ahe two primary emotions that posed his very being—the darkness of his suit and his cultivation powers—merged into one.

  TRUUUM!

  A gigantic spiral maed, melting through spad time, g against Bing Xue’s swordsmanship attack.

  The eternal aura of harmony frohe endless darkness of despair.

  The two g Domains began to distort, rapidly beginning to melt as if they were made out of liquid.

  As they melted, the droplets of melted domain pierced through space, creating tless tiny bck holes beh their csh.

  RUMBLE!

  Bing Xue, however, titag. Her sword moved forward, opping for a sed.

  The spiraling darkhat Fang Gu Lan had jured out of desperation began to be sliced.

  Yes, even a singurity capable of dist aing space as if it were liquid was being sliced.

  “I am the soul of my bde; with it I opeh to light. Through the path of light, I walk towards the harmony I seek. And through the harmony I’ve found, I open the heavens to achieve the impossible.”

  Bing Xue recited her mantra, boosting her own strength as she reinforced her beliefs. Her Dao of the Bde glowed the brightest it could ever glow, pierg reality.

  And slig through it.

  SLAAASH!

  “Aargh?!”

  Fang Gu Lan saw Bing Xue’s sword cutting through his body and his soul.

  All at once.

  Slowly, the sword desded, rapidly slig through his Existence, Rooted within the Fabric of Reality.

  “W-What is this?!” he screamed. “T-This light…!”

  Fang Gu Lan started to fall into despair, as eternal light was everything else he could see.

  And of course, her eyes.

  Her rainbow eyes, gazing across the Aura of Harmony.

  “N-No…! Wait a sed! I ’t die again! Bck Storm Dragon! Do something! D-Do… Something?”

  However, there was no respohe Corrupted Symbols were already doing everything they could to save him.

  But ultimately, they gave up.

  “Bing Xue…! Stop…! Guuggh?! S-STOOOOP!”

  Fang Gu Lan screamed like a monster, his entire body dist monstrously as he tried to survive by any means necessary.

  SLAAASH!

  Yet it was futile, as thousands of bdes sliced and stabbed his entire body the more he tried to stretd escape.

  “It’s futile. Repent as you die once more, Fang Gu Lan!”

  Bing Xue had no mercy, slig through his body once, and then, through her powers, he was sliced ohousand times, his body exploding, reduced to tless tiny pieces.

  “UUUUAAAAGGGHHH!”

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  As Fang Gu Lan screamed in utter agony, his Domain began to grow distorted, rapidly starting to fall apart. Bing Xue had sidered abs what was left of him but felt disgusted by the idea a.

  She didn’t need his disgusting powers, even less if they were made by the Heavenly Will; to her, it might have even been a plot from that being to make her absorb a part of him.

  “Better be safe than sorry.”

  She quickly broke out of the colpsing domain, leaving it entirely as space began tment and fall apart.

  The war that was happening around her Pagoda tinued despite Fang Gu Lan’s defeat, however. Although the quantity of Immortals had been reduced greatly, they were still here, attag the pagoda and fightiroops.

  “I should get this finished; strahings are happening in Washington, and there’s a massive thing iratosphere, rapidly desding at that…” Bing Xue gnced into the skies. “Now-”

  TRUUUM!

  Her eyes, however, widened slightly as she felt something.

  Something utterly malicious.

  A presence so disgusting, depraved, and monstrous that it felt as if it were the embodiment of all evil.

  “What?”

  She g the colpsing space; she was sure that Fang Gu Lan had died, yet why did she feel another being there?

  Something so powerful, immensely strong at that?

  Perhaps even more than the Venerable she had sin?!

  “I…”

  RUMBLE!

  The space tinued shaking, shattering, and falling apart.

  “AM…!”

  TRUUUM!

  Bck clouds gathered around the colpsing spatial walls as a massive bck cw suddenly emerged from within its cracks, tearing space open.

  “FREE!”

  CRAAASH!

  The bck cws tore through space as Bing Xue felt a tremendous malid darkness engulf the skies, turning them bstantly.

  The grouh started to turn red, being a sea of blood by merely letting this being speak.

  Its existence alone distorted reality.

  “What in the world has that bastard unleashed?!”

  As Bing Xue g the monster emerge, she quickly dispersed her Doppelgangers everywhere to eheir survival.

  “AT LONG LAST! DEUS EX MAA, I AM DOH BEING YOUR PUPPET!”

  The monster surged from within the cracks, a massive, over five-hundred-meter-tall titan made of bck, silver, purple, aeel.

  As it stepped out of the spatial fracture, Bing Xue noticed what it looked like, its shape and form!

  “That’s… a dragon? No wait…!”

  Bing Xue remembered what Fang Gu Lan had said.

  About a “Bck Storm Dragon” that was giving him powers.

  This entity, this monstrosity beyond spad time.

  It was that Bck Storm Dragon.

  “THE UNIVERSE SHALL KNOW MY TYRANNY ONCE MORE! ALL OF YOU WILL BURN! ALL OF YOU WILL DIE! FOR I AM THE EMBODIMENT OF CALAMITY!”

  RUMBLE!

  The battles happenih suddenly came to a halt as everyone g the massive meical dragon, a long ese-like dragon with a serpentine, coiling body and three massive heads.

  “So this was the in of those Symbols that he Corrupted?” Wondered Bing Xue. “Were they inally this thing?”

  The Bck Storm Drago Bing Xue with his six crimson, glowing eyes, its massive metallic body beginning to rapidly move towards her.

  “Aaah… I must thank you dearly.”

  The entity spoke with a much smaller tone of voice.

  “If it wasn’t because you killed him just in the right moment, this wouldn’t have been possible! That fool’s death fed me with enough power for me to unleash my true self into the world! The Seal that Separated me into the Symbols and Purified my Existence is gone! And now, I am finally liberated! Thank you! Thank you very muow… Bey first meal!”

  The dragon was the embodiment of camity and chaos, thanking Bing Xue and then instantly rushing to devour her, fully knowing the amount of power she had could help him regain more of his inal strength.

  “Whatever you are, I won’t let you do as you please.” Bing Xue said, her entire body beginning to grer as her Aura transformed into a gigantic eight-headed snake, which then merged with her. “I must stop yht here, right now!”

  RUMBLE!

  Her entire being transformed, amassing the power of Skills, Demoniergies, her own Cultivation and her Physique, further fusing her own body with her Aura and even her own Domain.

  A special teique, a transformation she had only unleashed once befainst the Primal Spider Goddess, a divine being that slightly matched her power.

  However, for this thing?

  She had to do it without hesitation!

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  In the distance, a mae giant of bd red walked through the deserted wastends, moving as quickly as it could through them.

  By his side, a gigantic meical red and golden lion ran forward, r while moving, as its meical arms were incredibly fast aerous.

  A Japanese man wearing a red suit themed after a lion stood on top of this creature, gng into the distance while squinting his eyes.

  “We’re almost getting there; I feel it; the Symbols are- Ugh?!”

  BA DUM!

  BA DUM!

  BA DUM!

  However, out of nowhere, the Symbol of Ce within his body started to tremble, as if afraid of something, his heart began rag.

  “W-What in the world?!”

  He looked into the skies, and so did his panion and enemy; the skies darkened as an aura of eternal and pure evil spread through the world.

  “The power of the Symbols?! Why are they distorted… dark?!” the man cried. “Dammit, we have to get there quickly! Crimson Lion, hurry!”

  “GRAAAAOOH!”

  The meical lion roared, unleashing a powerful crimson aura and moving faster. The meical giant by their side panicked.

  “Wait a sed! Don’t leave me behind, you bastards!”

  As they moved towards their destination, however, they were pletely unaware that somebody else was chasing them.

  A being within many bodies.

  “What’s this? Another being to turn into my vessel? How iing!”

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