Chapter 259 — Killing the Immortal
The Sword Questions the Heavens · Page 10 of 10
And at that moment the dreadful blood-demon shadow had already pounced before the figure in the radiance; bereft of the Immortal-slaying Ancient Sword's protection, that figure now seemed frail and helpless before the terrible power of the blood-demon's ten-thousand-zhang body.
"Roar! Roar!" Amid the wild bellowing, the figure in the radiance was seized outright by the blood-demon; in but a moment the radiance scattered utterly, and the figure within was swallowed by the blood shadow. The people on Jietian Peak turned ashen with shock, screaming again and again; Lu Xueling shuddered violently, all color draining from her face, and with a "wa" spat out a mouthful of blood, swaying as though about to fall.
Suddenly, the blood-demon shadow, which had seemed to see victory and was laughing wildly in its savagery, stiffened all at once; the Immortal-slaying colossus, flying back, its Immortal-slaying power glimmering with blazing radiance, had plunged into his chest from behind.
Around the Immortal-slaying Ancient Sword the surging blood-qi scattered in a rush, revealing a dreadful wound upon the giant body that spread with terrible speed; the blood-demon shadow gave a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar, and in the instant before its body was about to shatter, it flung the frail body in its grasp toward the dreadful, profound vortex in the sky, where it was instantly swallowed by a mass of radiance and vanished without a trace.
Then the blood-demon shadow gave one last scream; at last it could no longer withstand the corrosion of that terrible Immortal-slaying power at its breast, and beneath the blazing white light, amid its roars, it dissolved into mist and was gone.
In the heavens, the red clouds slowly receded, the wind and clouds slowly stilled; bereft of the blood-radiance's control, the countless minions of the demon sect—as though waking from a nightmare—saw the red light fade from their eyes and slowly came back to themselves. On the side of the righteous path, everyone stared at one another, and after the nightmare there seemed to linger a surreal sense of disbelief.
"We won? We won?" Everyone asked one another this way, eyes brimming with hot tears, as though unable to believe what lay before them.
Wen Pei and Song Dayi clung to each other in a tight embrace, unwilling to part even for a moment. Only after a good while did Wen Pei remember something; tears streaming down yet a smile on her face, she turned to look at Lu Xueling and cried out, her voice hard to tell whether it was laughter or weeping: "Sister! Sister! Look at us..."
Her voice suddenly caught in her throat. Behind her, Lu Xueling's whole body had toppled over as though all life had drained from her—she had collapsed into a faint. But this small sorrow was quickly drowned out by the wave upon wave of cheering that erupted across the length and breadth of Jietian Peak.
The vortex above the horizon slowly faded away, and the gentle sunlight once more spilled down upon the world, bearing a long-awaited peace and warmth. (To be continued.)