Chapter 276: You marched right to my doorstep? Perfect timing for me to use you all to test my fists!

"Hoo—"

Until Ye Hongzhuang's Killing Intent-filled figure completely vanished at the end of the secret chamber's passageway, Gu Lan finally let out a long breath of foul air, collapsing like a puddle of mud onto the icy floor.

That was too close!

Just a little bit more, and his chastity, accumulated for over twenty years, would have been lost right here in this underground secret chamber!

Recalling the look in Ye Hongzhuang's eyes earlier as if she wanted to tear him apart and swallow him alive, Gu Lan still felt a chill running straight down his spine.

That Female Demon Lord was simply an unreasonable madwoman; one second she was torturing him to death with her Soul Transformation Stage Devilish Qi, and the next second she actually wanted to "Dual Cultivation" with him right there on the ground!

"Fortunately those hypocrites from the Righteous Path arrived in time, otherwise this lord would definitely have been drained dry today."

Gu Lan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and stood up, supporting himself with his hands on the ground.

The moment he exerted force, he suddenly froze.

"What the fuck?"

Gu Lan lowered his head and looked at his own hands in disbelief.

He felt his body was as light as a feather, yet inside him seemed to lie dormant a violent ancient Vicious Beast!

Just now, with a gentle push and without even mobilizing any true essence, he had actually left five deep fingerprint impressions directly on that incomparably hard ten-thousand-year-old basalt floor!

Is this the power of the second revolution of the Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body?!

Gu Lan clenched his fists tightly, listening to the rumbling, thunder-like popping sounds coming from his bones, a trace of extreme, fanatical excitement flashing in the depths of his eyes.

"Righteous Alliance, right? Demon-Slaying Formation, right?"

A cruel sneer hooked the corners of Gu Lan's mouth as he casually pulled a brand-new black-gold Sword-Wielding Envoy robe out of his storage ring, draped it over himself, and grabbed the nearby soul-devouring sword.

"This lord was just worried about having nowhere to test my newly mastered divine skill, and you bunch of punching bags delivered yourselves right to my doorstep!"

…

Outside the mountain gate of the Heavenly Demon Palace.

At this moment, the sky was completely shrouded in a dazzling golden light.

Tens of thousands of Righteous Path Cultivators surrounded the entrance of the Heavenly Demon Palace tightly.

In the sky, a full hundred spiritual boats emitting thousands of auspicious rays were suspended, and right in the center of these spiritual boats, a huge golden Formation diagram that blotted out the sky was slowly rotating!

The Demon-Slaying Formation!

This was the ultimate killing Formation kept at the bottom of the Righteous Alliance's chest, jointly presided over by more than a hundred Golden Core and Nascent Soul Stage Elders from the four major Sects, and within the Formation core even floated three top-tier Spiritual Artifacts.

Against such a heaven-destroying and earth-shattering Formation, even the Heavenly Demon Palace's impregnable mountain-guarding black fog was currently emitting a sizzling sound under the illumination of the golden light, being forced to retreat repeatedly.

"Listen up, demonic cult prodigies!"

At the very front of the Righteous Path camp, Qingyun Sect's Grand Elder Elder Lei Yan stepped on the Void Realm, his whole body wreathed in thunderous light, resembling an angry Heavenly God.

Holding a long sword flashing with purple lightning in his hand, pointing at the gate of the Heavenly Demon Palace, his voice was like a booming bell:

"Hurry up and hand over our Righteous Path traitor Gu Lan, as well as Fairy Jiang Wanqing whom you abducted! Otherwise, once this Demon-Slaying Formation presses down today, it will surely leave not even a chicken or dog alive in your Heavenly Demon Palace, turning you all to ashes!"

"Hand over the traitor! Flatten the devil's cave!"

"Hand over the traitor! Flatten the devil's cave!"

Tens of thousands of Righteous Path Cultivators roared in unison, wave after wave of sound rising higher, shaking the surrounding snow-capped mountains into triggering small-scale avalanches.

Inside the Heavenly Demon Palace, quite a few demonic Cultivators with lower cultivation levels had their blood qi churning from this righteous aura, their faces turning pale.

However.

Just when the Righteous Path's morale reached its absolute Peak.

"Boom—!!!"

A loud noise even more terrifying than ten thousand thunderclaps suddenly erupted from the deepest depths of the Heavenly Demon Palace!

Following that, a bloody Devilish Qi so dense it almost turned into substance, like a reversed blood-colored waterfall, soared directly into the sky and fiercely slammed into that golden Demon-Slaying Formation diagram!

"Crack!"

That Demon-Slaying Formation, which claimed to be indestructible, actually emitted a teeth-aching cracking sound under this collision!

"A bunch of hypocritical old dogs, who gave you the guts to bark wildly at this seat's doorstep?!"

Accompanied by a lazy female voice brimming with endless Killing Intent.

The snow filling the sky instantly stagnated.

Ye Hongzhuang, in a provocative black silk long dress, casually draped in a snow-fox cloak, with bare feet stepping on a black lotus condensed from pure demonic flames, slowly rose from within the Heavenly Demon Palace.

The terrifying coercion of the Soul Transformation Stage rolled over like a mountain falling and seas overturning, instantly forcing the sound waves of those tens of thousands of Righteous Path members right back down their throats!

"Ye Hongzhuang!"

Grand Elder Elder Lei Yan's pupils contracted; although he was inwardly terrified, relying on the Demon-Slaying Formation above his head, he still bit the bullet and roared: "Stop trying to put up a false front here! Our Righteous Path army has already surrounded the Heavenly Demon Palace tightly; if you know what's good for you—"

"How annoying."

Ye Hongzhuang didn't even glance at him, merely frowning with annoyance.

"Your Majesty, calm your anger! An old dog like this whose mouth spews shit is not worthy of dirtying your hands!"

Right at this moment, a male voice full of arrogance and evil Qi suddenly sounded behind Ye Hongzhuang.

Following closely, Gu Lan, dressed in a black-gold robe with the soul-devouring demon sword hanging at his waist, swaggered out from the Devilish Qi.

And in his hand, he was actually holding a black iron chain. At the other end of the iron chain was tied a woman wearing a coarse gray robe, lowering her head and trembling!

It was precisely Jiang Wanqing!

Gu Lan walked to the edge of the black lotus, gave a fierce tug on the iron chain in his hand, and extremely brutally hauled Jiang Wanqing to his side.

"Old dogs, aren't you looking for someone?"

Gu Lan stepped on the Void Realm in front of Jiang Wanqing, looking down at the Righteous Path camp from above, a smile of extreme cruelty and arrogance cracking across the corners of his mouth.

"Here she is! This seat's foot-washing maid happens to be brought out today to get some fresh air!"

"If you have the ability, come up and snatch her yourselves!"

Boom!

Seeing that the once pure, unsullied, and aloof Senior Sister was now tied up with an iron chain by Gu Lan like a dog, the eyes of the Cultivators in the Righteous Path camp instantly turned red!

Unprecedented humiliation! This was ripping off the face of the entire Righteous Path and throwing it on the ground to be trampled!

"Beast! Gu Lan, you lunatic beast!"

Grand Elder Elder Lei Yan was so angry that his beard flew up, his true essence running wild all over his body.

"Today, this old man will definitely butcher you! Thunderous Raging Slash!"

Elder Lei Yan could no longer hold back; he abruptly drew the top-tier Flying Sword from his back, turning himself into a thick purple thunderbolt, directly breaking away from the Formation's protection, carrying the terrifying might to split mountains and snap ravines, and hacked fiercely toward Gu Lan's head!

With this sword, he mobilized one hundred percent of the power of the Peak Nascent Soul Stage; even Cultivators of the same rank would not dare to take it head-on!

"Gu Lan, watch out!"

Jiang Wanqing, tied by Gu Lan's feet, saw this heaven-destroying and earth-shattering sword strike, her pretty face turning pale with fright, instinctively wanting to rush forward to block the sword.

"Get lost to the side!"

Gu Lan kicked Jiang Wanqing behind him with one foot, then raised his head, watching the violent thunderlight falling right at his face. Not only was there not a trace of fear in his eyes, but instead they burned with a nearly perverted excitement.

He didn't even draw the soul-devouring sword at his waist.

He didn't even prop up a true essence shield.

He just stood there bare-handed, broadly puffing out his chest!

"Die, little beast!" A flash of cruel glee crossed Elder Lei Yan's eyes as the long sword slashed down mercilessly.

"Clang—!!!"

A loud noise sufficient to pierce eardrums, like two giant bells colliding with a crash, exploded in the sky!

No blood splattered!

No bodies separated from heads!

Everyone widened their eyes in terror, staring fixedly at that scene in mid-air, simply unable to believe their own eyes!

Grand Elder Elder Lei Yan's top-tier Flying Sword, which could slice through iron like mud, struck Gu Lan's shoulder solidly!

But!

Gu Lan's body was like an iron block cast from ten-thousand-year dark iron, not only motionless, but even the black-gold fabric on his shoulder wasn't torn by even a bit of Sword Qi!

On the contrary, Grand Elder Elder Lei Yan had the tiger's mouths of both hands instantly split open by the huge recoil force, blood spraying wildly!

"Th… This is impossible?!"

Grand Elder Elder Lei Yan's old face turned pale white, his eyeballs almost popping out, and his hand holding the sword trembled violently.

"Didn't you eat? Old dog?"

Gu Lan slowly raised his head, his peach-blossom eyes flashing with dark-golden demonic rune light, a bloodthirsty savage grin hooking the corners of his mouth.

"With just this little strength, you're worthy of coming out to purge the Sect?"

As soon as his words fell!

Gu Lan abruptly raised his right hand, his five fingers like steel bars directly clasping the blade of that top-tier Flying Sword!

"Break for me!"

"Crack!!!"

Accompanied by a teeth-aching crisp sound.

Amidst the terrified and despairing gazes of tens of thousands of people in the audience, that top-tier Flying Sword that had accompanied Elder Lei Yan for centuries was actually snapped into two halves bare-handed by Gu Lan!

"Puff!"

His natal Flying Sword destroyed, Grand Elder Elder Lei Yan was struck by lightning, abruptly spitting out a large mouthful of fresh blood.

But Gu Lan didn't give him a chance to fly backward at all.

"Since you've already come, what's the rush to leave?!"

Gu Lan's left hand shot out like lightning, grabbing Grand Elder Elder Lei Yan's neck tightly, lifting this Nascent Soul Stage mighty expert up into mid-air like holding a little chick!

"You… What kind of monster are you anyway…" Elder Lei Yan kicked his feet wildly, his face full of terror and despair; he felt that what was pinching his neck was not a human hand at all, but a pair of unshakeable iron pliers!

"I am your ancestor!"

Gu Lan gave a savage grin, the muscles of his right arm bulging high, and threw a fierce punch right onto Elder Lei Yan's Dantian!

"Bang!"

"Ah—!!!"

Elder Lei Yan let out a miserable scream like a slaughtered pig as his Dantian was instantly smashed through by this violent pure physical force, his cultivation of several centuries scattering completely on the spot!

Like throwing away trash, Gu Lan casually tossed the crippled Elder Lei Yan toward the Righteous Path camp.

He clapped his hands, looking down from above at the group of Righteous Path Cultivators below who had been completely scared witless.

"Who else?!"

"Didn't you want to flatten the devil's cave?!"

Gu Lan's arrogant voice echoed in the wind and snow.

"Don't come to die one by one; it delays this lord's time to go back to sleep."

"You bunch of trash, you might as well all come together!"