Chapter 278: Slapping Away Three Soul Transformation Cultivators With a Single Palm! Eating Soft Rice Has Become Truly Invincible!

"Do you all treat this sovereign as a dead person?"

These words were spoken lightly, even carrying a hint of lazy hoversomeness, but as they fell into the ears of the three Soul Transformation Stage veteran monsters like the Qingyun Sect Master, they sounded like soul-summoning demonic chants!

Ye Hongzhuang stepped barefoot into the Void Realm, black Manjusri flowers blooming one after another beneath her feet.

She didn't draw a sword at all, nor did she form any fancy spell techniques. She merely raised her jade-white right hand casually and slapped through the air toward the three streams of Soul Transformation Stage pressure bearing down on Gu Lan.

"Slap—!!!"

A crisp, spine-tingling slap echoed explosively across the entire Sunset Plain!

There were no flashy visual effects, only the ultimate, despair-inducing, tyrannical suppression of demonic energy!

Those three invisible pressures weighing down like colossal mountains were like fragile paper lanterns before Ye Hongzhuang's single slap; they couldn't hold out even for half a second before being shattered instantly!

Not only that.

The remaining might of that distant slap turned into a huge black palm print, fiercely striking the faces of the Qingyun Sect Master, the Abbot of Wanfo Temple, and the Heavenly Sword Sect Leader!

"Pfft wa—!!!"

The three high-and-mighty Soul Transformation Stage mighty figures who called the wind and rain in the Righteous Path didn't even have time to scream before their Protective Auras exploded and shattered!

They simultaneously spewed out a large mouthful of fresh blood, resembling three shooting stars batted away, flying backwards at ten times the speed they arrived, and fiercely smashing into a huge mountain in the Righteous Path camp behind them!

"Rumble—!!!"

The hard peak, hundreds of zhang high, was forcibly collapsed by half from the three of them crashing into it, sending rubble and dust soaring into the sky.

"Gulp…"

The entire scene was dead silent!

Hundreds of thousands of Righteous Path Cultivators all turned mute at this moment, their eyeballs almost popping out onto the ground.

A single slap!

It was merely a single slap!

Without even using a Magic Treasure, she directly slapped three Soul Transformation Stage mighty figures away like wild dogs?!

"This… Is this fucking even human?!"

"Late Stage Soul Transformation! This Female Demon Lord has definitely broken through to the Late Stage Soul Transformation! She has even stepped half a foot into Void Refining!"

The Righteous Path Elders were so frightened that their legs went weak, and their hands holding weapons trembled frantically. In this cultivation world where strength is supreme, the gap of a major Realm was pure suppression!

Meanwhile, Gu Lan, standing at the center of the storm, silently pulled back his hand that was reaching for the blood-burning jade inside his robes.

"Holy shit, this backer's thighs are ridiculously thick…"

Gu Lan frantically swallowed saliva in his heart, feeling secretly thrilled to the heavens.

He immediately adjusted his facial expression, hoisted the soul-devouring demon sword onto his shoulder, and lifted his chin higher than the sky, completely looking like an arrogant lackey with the expression of "My boss is invincible under heaven, let's see who dares to touch me".

In mid-air.

Ye Hongzhuang didn't even spare a glance at the three old fellows embedded in the rubble pile.

She slowly landed in front of Gu Lan, extended her slender fingers, and tapped lightly on Gu Lan's chest without any avoidance, her tone carrying a trace of reprimand yet revealing extreme protectiveness:

"When did it become time for a few old dogs to bully this sovereign's Sword-Wielding Envoy?"

"If you couldn't beat them, didn't you know to retreat behind this sovereign? Having grown such a big body in vain, just standing there stupidly to take a beating?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Lan immediately put on a wicked yet somewhat ingratiating smile.

"The Exalted One's Divine Might is peerless. This subordinate merely wanted to walk the dogs for the Exalted One first and test their true colors."

"Who knew these old fellows wouldn't talk about martial ethics and would actually drop their pride to gang up? We still have to rely on the Exalted One to make a move and teach them how to behave with a single slap!"

"Glib-tongued."

Ye Hongzhuang rolled her eyes at him, but the amusement in those phoenix eyes couldn't be hidden no matter what. She simply liked this appearance of Gu Lan—being wild beyond measure outside, yet completely obedient (even if fake) in front of her.

Meanwhile, Jiang Wanqing, who was tied to Gu Lan's feet by iron chains,

looking through the gaps of the wide gray cloak at the scene before her, felt as if her heart was fiercely gripped by an invisible hand, hurting so much that she could hardly breathe.

"Junior Brother…"

Jiang Wanqing's eye sockets instantly turned completely red, her fingernails piercing deeply into her palms, and fresh blood dripped down the gaps between her fingers onto the ground.

"How proud of a person he used to be! Now, in order to survive, he is actually so servile in front of that Female Demon Lord, and even has to force a smile to please her!"

"That Female Demon Lord flirtatiously poked his chest with her finger right in front of the entire world, and he didn't even dare to dodge…"

"He must feel extremely humiliated! All of this is to protect a useless person like me!"

Under Jiang Wanqing's city-wall-thick 'overthinking filter', Gu Lan's previous wave of exploiting someone else's power to cozy up was directly transformed into a tragic drama of 'enduring humiliation and selling one's looks'.

She bit her lower lip fiercely and swore a poisonous oath in her heart that once she broke through the Golden Core Seal, even if it meant perishing together, she would rescue Junior Brother from the hands of this perverted Female Demon Lord!

"Cough, cough, cough…"

From the ruins in the distance came a few violent coughs.

The Qingyun Sect Master, the Abbot of Wanfo Temple, and the Heavenly Sword Sect Leader crawled out from the pile of rubble, supporting each other.

At this moment, the three of them had not a shred of immortal-like bearing left. Their Dao robes were shattered, their heads covered in dust, and one side of their faces was swollen high, stamped with a clearly visible black palm print, looking both comical and miserable.

"Ye Hongzhuang! You… how dare you humiliate the facade of our Righteous Path like this!"

The Qingyun Sect Master was trembling all over with anger, pointing at Ye Hongzhuang and roaring, but his body very honestly shrank back, not daring to step forward at all.

"So what if I humiliate you?"

Ye Hongzhuang slowly turned around, the smile on her face instantly subsiding, replaced by the suffocating, cruel killing intent of a Soul Transformation Stage Great Demon Lord.

"A bunch of old dogs with half their bodies in the earth dare to bully my people. Today, not only will I slap your faces, but I will also dig out your Nascent Souls and hang them on the flagpoles of my Heavenly Demon Palace to burn as sky lanterns!"

As soon as her voice fell.

Monstrous demonic flames suddenly erupted from Ye Hongzhuang's body, and the sky over the entire Sunset Plain instantly turned as pitch-black as ink, with a terrifying demonic hand ten times more massive than before condensing and forming in the clouds!

She had truly developed a killing intent! She wanted to completely obliterate these old antiques of the Righteous Path here in one fell swoop!

The three Righteous Path Sect Leaders were frightened out of their wits, and the fear of death instantly enveloped them.

Just at this critical juncture, the exact moment when the full-scale war between the Righteous and Demonic paths was about to be completely ignited!

"Rumble—!!!"

The earth of the entire Sunset Plain suddenly emitted an extremely violent tremor!

This vibration was not triggered by Ye Hongzhuang's Devilish Qi, but came from deep underground!

"What is going on?!"

Everyone was stumbling around in this sudden earthquake, and even the flying boats suspended in mid-air began to sway uncontrollably.

Immediately after.

"Crack! Crack!"

On that vast crimson wasteland in the center of the Sunset Plain, countless bottomless giant abysses unexpectedly split open!

A blinding column of blood-red light carrying the tyrannical aura of an archaic Vicious Beast gushed out frantically from those underground fissures! Shooting straight up to the ninth heaven, it forcefully scattered the black demonic hand condensed by Ye Hongzhuang!

"This is…"

Ye Hongzhuang's movements paused abruptly, her phoenix eyes staring fixedly at the erupting blood-red light, her expression rarely turning solemn.

"What a tyrannical Blood Fiend Grand Array!"

Gu Lan, standing in the back, also drew a sharp breath.

He could clearly feel that as these blood-red lights erupted, the soul-devouring demon sword at his waist was like it had been injected with chicken blood, vibrating crazily in its scabbard, as if filled with extreme longing for something deep underground!

"Ah—Help!!!"

"My leg! Don't pull me!"

Terrified screams suddenly erupted from the Righteous Path camp.

Those lower-cultivation Righteous Path Foundation Establishment Disciples standing at the edge of the fissures were actually forcibly gripped by the gushing blood-red light!

The blood-red light turned into countless blood-colored tentacles, entangling their ankles and dragging them fiercely toward the ground!

"Pfft! Pfft!"

Those Disciples dragged into the underground fissures couldn't hold out even for a second; their bodies instantly exploded into clouds of blood mist within the blood-red light, leaving not even bone scraps behind, directly transforming into nourishment for the blood-sacrifice grand array!

"Beneath the Sunset Plain, there is actually hidden an ancient ultimate array used to devour flesh and blood?!"

The Qingyun Sect Master watched with scalp-tingling terror, the anger from being slapped by Ye Hongzhuang instantly replaced by fear. He finally understood why for thousands of years, the land of the Sunset Plain had always been barren!

This place was simply a living Shura field!

"Interesting."

Watching those Righteous Path Cultivators being continuously devoured and turned into blood mist, Ye Hongzhuang not only felt no fear whatsoever, but instead revealed a trace of extremely manic excitement on her peerlessly beautiful face.

"No wonder this Sword Tomb Secret Realm has had no movement for a thousand years, yet today its Spiritual Qi has suddenly run wild. So the true core area—the 'Abyss of Buried Gods'—has opened early!"

Ye Hongzhuang licked her scarlet lips, fierce ambition burning in the depths of her eyes.

She turned her head, grabbed Gu Lan by the collar, and pulled him to her side.

"Little undercover agent, it seems your luck is pretty good today; you don't have to play house with this group of hypocrites."

"Let's go! Come down with this sovereign and take a look!"

Ye Hongzhuang waved her black robe.

"What kind of ancient gods and demons dare to play the ghost in front of this sovereign!"

"Holy shit! Exalted One! This place below looks like a meat grinder! Do we really have to go down right now?!"

"Nonsense! Wealth and honor are sought in danger! If we don't go down any further, the good things inside will be melted by this blood array!"

Ye Hongzhuang didn't give Gu Lan any chance to refuse at all. Grabbing his collar, she took him and directly transformed into a streak of black light, plunging headfirst without hesitation into the widest and most terrifying underground blood-red abyss!

"Ahhhhh—Old Hag, you tricked me!!!"

Gu Lan's shrill screams were completely swallowed by the rolling blood-red light.

Saintess Ji Wushuang, left behind on top, stamped her feet and gritted her teeth: "Dead blockhead! This lady is going too!"

With that, she flicked her soul-locking whip and jumped down as well.

Meanwhile, Jiang Wanqing, who had always been tied up by iron chains, couldn't see the situation outside clearly, but sensing Gu Lan falling, she also closed her eyes without hesitation, letting that suction pull her together into the ten-thousand-zhang abyss.