Jared gave favonovel.com no answer. His spiritual soul stayed locked on the Beast-Quelling Tower, and under his control, the power of the divine relic suddenly began to turn.
“Full-domain Aetherward!”
The white pillar of light that had pierced the sky suddenly drew inward and changed shape. It became an enormous sealed radiant barrier without visible edge, descending from above and locking Marshal Vale inside a tiny pocket of space in an instant.
The sealing force came from an ancient divine relic, and its binding of the laws of the realm was terrifying beyond measure.
Around Marshal Vale, the Law of Night and the force of Space Law were forcibly sealed at once. His limbs went rigid. His body froze inch by inch, and the celestial power moving through favonovel.com hit obstruction everywhere.
He could not move half a step. He could not raise his spear to attack. Even the breath in his chest was crushed down, and every attempt to draw air became brutally difficult.
The look on his face changed in an instant. The last trace of command was stripped clean as his eyes strained wide against the prison closing around him.
“No… Impossible! I am a dignified ninth-level True Immortal grand adept. I control the Law of Night and roam across the heavens. How could you, a mere Level Two cultivator, use one divine relic to completely seal my movement and my power?!”
Jared moved with steady feet, closing the distance one slow step at a time until favonovel.com stood directly in front of the imprisoned Marshal Vale. He raised his hand and tightened his grip around the Dragonslayer Sword.
The cold, razor-edged blade eased against Marshal Vale’s throat, its chill biting straight through him. Life and death hung on the smallest turn of Jared’s will.
“True Immortal Realm Level Nine. Peerless talent. Power enough to shake the heavens. And that made you think you could stand above everyone else, run wild, and trample the Kindreds under your feet? Was that supposed to be impressive? You call yourself a celestial war champion, but the things you’ve done are lower than anything a demon would do. You deserve to die…” Jared’s eyes carried only a killing cold, sharpened down to the point of no return.
Marshal Vale’s eyes shook under the weight of what was coming, dark with refusal even at the edge of the blade. His whole body thrashed against the restraint, but the spatial confinement did not so much as tremble. All favonovel.com could do was scream threats that sounded hollow the moment they left his mouth.
“You can’t kill me! I am a core war champion of the Celestial Alliance. My status is noble, my authority is above countless others! If you cut me down today, the celestial High Sovereign will bring the full power of the alliance against you! He will hunt down everyone at your side, destroy Freevale. and make sure you never know peace for all eternity!”
Hearing that, not even the faintest ripple crossed Jared’s eyes.
His voice stayed level, but every word landed with the finality of a blade already falling. “I killed Lucian Gold of the celestials in public. I destroyed Blackstone Gaol with my own hands, a prison they called unbreakable. With debts of blood piled this high and sins black enough to cover the sky, what difference does one more of you make?”
His gaze turned suddenly keen, and the killing edge in favonovel.com showed without concealment. “Besides, from the moment you celestials began imprisoning cultivators of the Kindreds at will and using brute power to crush the heavens, I had already made up my mind. Sooner or later, I will trample the Celestial Alliance flat and end your brutal rule.”
The last word fell. Jared’s wrist drove forward with sudden force.
A violet blade-flare wrapped in savage chaos-flame erupted from the Dragonslayer Sword. With one ruthless thrust, the sword pierced straight through the vital point in Marshal Vale’s chest. The domineering chaos-flame surged along the blade and poured madly into him.
In an instant, it swept through every meridian and sacred bone in his body, the roaring fire burning through his hallowed celestial flesh.
The supposedly supreme celestial holy radiance could not withstand the chaos-flame that innately countered it. Before that fire, it was no tougher than thin paper, melting and breaking apart in a breath.
Marshal Vale let out a scream that seemed to tear itself apart. His body shriveled rapidly inside the violet blaze. The panoply melted. Hallowed celestial blood boiled into vapor. The vast celestial power within favonovel.com collapsed at terrifying speed.
“Y-You… You will pay for this in the end… The celestials… Will never let this go…” His final curse came out weak and broken. The sound sank lower and lower until it scattered completely, and his body was burned clean away by the chaos-flame.
The celestial Marshal Vale, who had shaken an entire region and slaughtered more lives than could be counted, fell there and then.
The 50 elite celestial war champions guarding the Third Depth saw it with their own eyes.
A ninth-rank adept had been cut down by Jared in a single strike, his bones burned and his soul destroyed, and the sight snapped every last thread of their will to fight.
These celestial warriors, who normally stood above others and crushed the Kindreds beneath them, went paper-white. Their bodies shook uncontrollably, and the sacred faith propping them up caved in with a silent crash.
Not one of them had the slightest battle spirit left. They threw away the hallowed runeblades in their hands, stripped off the panoply, and turned to flee without looking back. All they wanted was to escape this place of death. Once the killing had begun, no living mouth would be left behind.
Jared’s gaze stayed ice-cold, without the slightest mercy in it. Dragonslayer Sword in hand, favonovel.com launched himself into the fleeing celestial ranks.
Violet blade-light tore across the field in sweeping arcs, and chaos-flame raged like wildfire. Every swing brought a spray of blood, every slash dragged another scream into the air. Whenever the sword fell, blood followed.
One stroke took one life. One stroke extinguished one soul. His attacks were clean, direct, and merciless, without a wasted motion.”
Gwendolyn’s figure flickered through every corner of the battlefield. Her hands never stopped forming seals, and Hallowed Rime Needles filled the air in an unbroken storm, blanketing the area with widerange fire. One fleeing celestial cultivator after another was pierced through by frost. In the blink of an eye, they became lifelike ice statues, frozen upright where they stood.
A moment later, they shattered inch by inch.
Elder Cillian drove his verdant spiritual power into the ground. Thousands upon thousands of vines burst up through the stone, crisscrossing and twisting together as they bound the celestial cultivators who were scattering in every direction.
The tough vines tightened until the panoply split. Flesh was crushed. Bone and meat tore apart. The sight was brutal beyond words.
Nathaniel led Freevale‘s elite guard forward.
At his side came the captive cultivators who had broken free of their shackles, all the long years of imprisonment and torment driving them in a single surging wave. Blades and long knives came down together.
The remaining celestials, stripped of the power to resist and still trying to flee in disorder, were slaughtered to the last.
Every blade fell for the kill. Each cut tore out a piece of the fury these prisoners had carried through long years of captivity and torment.
The brutal clash rang through the whole Third Depth prison. The reek of blood spread fast, thickening the air from wall to wall.
In less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea, all 50 celestial elites, each one at True Immortal Realm Level Six and above, had been hunted down. Not one slipped through. Every last one died where they stood, and blood stained the prison city red.
Once the last celestial remnants had been cleared out, Jared turned his gaze toward the layers of death cells buried in the depths of the Third Depth.
This was Blackstone Gaol’s forbidden grounds for condemned felons.
Locked inside were peak figures from every corner of the heavens, some guilty of grave crimes, others treated as threats simply because the celestials had decided they were too dangerous to live free. The cells were sealed off layer after layer.
Sealing sigils crowded every surface, and the cages themselves were built with brutal hardness. Inside each chamber, a mighty adept with terrifying strength had been pressed down and held in place.
Among them were regional overlords at True Immortal Realm Level Seven and ancient monsters at True Immortal Realm Level Eight. And in the innermost gaol, deepest of all, an old powerhouse of monstrous weight had been imprisoned underthe heaviest restraint.
He was an old steward with white hair hanging to his shoulders, his age written into every weathered line of him.
Nine heavy, pitch-black soul-locking iron chains coiled around his body. Every chain had been carved from end to end with dense elder sealing sigils.
Layer upon layer, they sealed his cultivation, locked down the spirit, and had kept favonovel.com imprisoned for a full 8 thousand years.
The old steward’s aura looked weak, almost spent. But the pressure leaking faintly from favonovel.com still marked favonovel.com for what favonovel.com was: a true True Immortal Realm Level Nine!
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