Ailiya took a deep breath.
Her originally lazy demeanor changed in an instant.
A terrifying pressure befitting a Diamond Peak powerhouse surged from her body like a tsunami, instantly sweeping across the entire valley.
The air directly solidified.
Those five aggressive platinum-tier magical beasts seemed to slam into an invisible wall of lamentation.
Their proud Battle Qi shields shattered like glass under this absolute rank suppression.
“Kneel!”
BOOM!
Such an oppressive pressure.
The bodies of the five magical beasts simultaneously sank. The earth-splitting demon bear’s knees bent, the Wind-Fang tiger’s back arched. Their instincts screamed at them to flee, but their bodies no longer obeyed.
“Blaze…!”
“Crimson Sky Slash!”
Ailiya’s figure vanished from the spot in an instant.
The next second, a crimson crescent-shaped sword aura, like a Death God’s scythe, swept across the entire battlefield.
Plop plop…!
Five huge heads slid cleanly off their necks.
The cut was as smooth as a mirror. Even before the blood could gush out, the residual heat from the blade instantly carbonized it.
The five headless magical beast corpses crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Ailiya’s figure appeared behind the five magical beasts.
A few drops of black magical beast blood slid down the tip of the sword and dripped onto the ground.
“Heh heh heh!”
“Brilliant, truly brilliant.”
That Undead Knight did not fear the death of its subordinates; instead, it let out an excited laugh.
It slowly raised the massive horse-slaying blade in its hand, pointing the tip directly at Ailiya.
“When I was alive, I was also a genius of my tribe. After being converted into an Undead by my master, I’ve been even more unable to find an opponent.”
“This set of bones hasn’t felt excitement for far too long.”
The ghost fire in the Undead Knight’s eye sockets flickered violently.
“Finally…!”
“Finally, there’s someone worth fighting with everything I’ve got!”
Ailiya raised an eyebrow slightly, a flicker of surprise passing through her eyes.
“The Undead Race can actually possess intelligence?”
“That’s quite rare.”
“My master—his greatness is something you simply cannot imagine.”
The Undead Knight’s voice carried a fervor bordering on reverence.
“He will eventually become a God, and this entire continent is merely the starting point of our conquest of the heavens.”
“Spare me the nonsense.”
Ailiya interrupted him impatiently, her gaze turning cold again.
“No matter who your master is, you will be eliminated here today.”
She tightened her grip on the rust-eaten longsword in her hand.
“Show me your strongest strike.”
Ailiya pointed the tip of her sword obliquely at the ground. Red Battle Qi began to madly coil around the blade.
“I don’t want to waste time with this stinking pile of bones.”
“Then as you wish!”
That Undead Knight let out a long howl to the sky.
The black armor shattered piece by piece, revealing the eerie white bones burning with ghost fire beneath.
It pressed its palms together, and the surrounding temperature instantly dropped to freezing.
The earth began to tremble. Gravel bounced off the ground, only to be crushed into powder by an invisible force midair.
“Then let me show you the true meaning of death!”
【Forbidden Art: Gate of the Underworld – Devour Ten Thousand Souls!】
The ground beneath the death knight collapsed instantly, turning into a massive black vortex.
Countless tormented human faces emerged from the vortex—men and women, old and young. Their mouths opened and closed, emitting silent screams.
Black death qi surged toward Ailiya.
Wherever it passed, grass withered, rocks weathered, and even light seemed to be swallowed.
Ailiya did not evade.
She simply stood there quietly, closing her eyes.
Red Battle Qi formed cyclones around her.
A line of extremely fine inscriptions on the blade began to glow as Battle Qi infused them.
“Let me show you what true—”
Ailiya’s eyes snapped open.
Inside those crimson pupils, it was as if two raging fires were burning.
Crimson runes flowed across her cheeks, and even the space behind her warped from the intense heat.
【Ultimate Art: Supreme Red Lotus Hellfire Final Extermination!】
“Slash!”
When this sword was swung, the world seemed to freeze in that instant.
A massive crimson sword aura burst forth from the blade.
It tore through the air and through the darkness.
The death qi evaporated the moment it touched the sword aura.
The sword aura slammed directly into the Gate of the Underworld.
The massive black vortex shuddered violently.
One breath.
Two breaths.
The vortex began to collapse.
Those soul-faces dissipated in the crimson light, as if finally finding release.
The third breath.
The Gate of the Underworld was split in two.
The sword aura, undiminished, engulfed the Undead Knight in an instant.
“This!”
“This is…!”
The ghost fire in the Undead Knight’s eyes flickered violently.
It was the first time since its birth that it had felt fear.
“Red Lotus!”
“Hellfire!”
It murmured those final words.
BOOM—!!!
A crimson pillar of fire shot into the sky, dyeing the dim sky blood-red.
Within this world-destroying Red Lotus Hellfire, the Undead Knight didn’t even have time to scream.
That indestructible skeleton, along with its soul origin that had burned for who knows how many years, was completely vaporized in that instant.
Not even ashes remained.
The pillar of fire lasted a full minute before slowly dissipating.
Ailiya was still standing there.
The longsword she had picked up finally gave out. With a crack, it snapped at the hilt.
The blade scattered into specks of starlight and disappeared into the air, leaving only a bare hilt in her hand.
She glanced down at the hilt, then casually tossed it aside.
Then she lifted her head and gazed at the spot where the Undead Knight had vanished.
Only a bottomless, charred black sword scar remained there.
Ailiya’s eyes were somewhat hollow.
She just stood there, staring at the void.
“You once…”
“also believed yourself to be invincible under heaven, didn’t you?”
“You defeated countless opponents, received the praise of many, and charged forward on the path of the strongest!”
A self-deprecating smile curled at the corner of her mouth.
“But one day, you’ll understand.”
“There are mountains beyond mountains, and people beyond people.”