Myth Beyond Heaven

Nian Shi watched as Jiang Yingyue dissipated into nothingness with amusement.

Puff!

Suddenly, Wu Qingchen’s daggers stabbed into Nian Shi’s back.

However, before she could exert her strength further, the daggers rapidly turned to rust and broke into pieces.

The wounds on Nian Shi’s back disappeared instantly.

A new pair of daggers immediately appeared in Wu Qingchen’s hands but before she could make a further move, the Blade of Eternity moved faster.

Wu Qingchen’s body stiffened, then her entire body began to dissipate—but not before her lips formed one last, silent word.

“Good luck, junior brother.”

The battlefield was silent. The air smelled of blood and burnt ozone.

The remains of Murong Xue, Jiang Yingyue, Mu Qiuxue, Long Feiyan, and Wu Qingchen had already turned to golden dust, scattered by the wind.

Nian Shi stood amidst the devastation, his silver robes pristine, his expression one of mild amusement. He twirled the Blade of Eternity lazily, watching as Yun Qianxue and the others struggled to stand.

“How disappointing,” he mused. “I expected more from Yun Lintian’s women.”

Yun Qianxue’s fingers tightened around her shattered sword. Blood dripped from her lips, her Chaos Goddess Sutra flickering weakly. Beside her, Lin Xinyao’s silver eyes burned with fury, her moon blades trembling in her grasp.

“You…” Yun Qianxue spat. “You will pay for this.”

Nian Shi chuckled. “With what? Your broken bodies? Your shattered wills?” He shook his head. “No. You will die here, forgotten, while Yun Lintian remains ignorant of your fate.”

CLANG!

At that moment, Yun Ruanyu struck first, her guqin’s strings vibrating with lethal resonance.

Nian Shi didn’t even blink.

“Get lost.”

A flick of his wrist.

The music reversed, the soundwaves tearing back through her body. Her fingers snapped, her meridians ruptured, and before she could scream—

BOOM!

Her head exploded.

Yun Meilan melted into darkness, her dagger aimed at Nian Shi’s spine.

He didn’t turn.

“That’s it?”

Time froze around her.

Her body crystallized mid-lunge, frozen in a moment of eternal stillness.

Nian Shi tapped her forehead.

CRACK!

She shattered like glass.

Yun Lingwei wove her last desperate array, golden sigils flaring to life.

However, before she could activate it, Nian Shi had already moved.

“Too slow.”

The Blade of Eternity flicked.

BOOM!!

The formations unraveled, the backlash tearing her apart from within. She collapsed, her body dissolving into golden motes.

Rip—

Yun Huanxin’s spatial blade suddenly cut through space and arrived above Nian Shi’s head.

However, before it could touch him, Nian Shi suddenly caught it between two fingers.

“Pathetic.”

He snapped the sword—

And her neck with it.

Her body crumpled to the ground.

“Rise!”

Yun Qingrou slapped her hand on the gigantic cauldron and the entire space trembled. A gentle doctor suddenly turned violent as she poured every ounce of her divine energy into this attack.

Nian Shi glanced at her and smiled.

“Useless.”

He pointed at her.

BOOM!!

The cauldron abruptly exploded and the impact instantly shattered Yun Qingrou’s body into countless pieces.

“Freeze!”

Han Bingling appeared above Nian Shi as she burned her life essence. Her entire body covered with layers of frost as she pointed her sword at his head.

“You didn’t learn from the others, didn’t you?” Nian Shi chuckled and raised his hand.

Time suddenly froze around Han Bingling. Her body crystallized mid-lunge, frozen in eternal stillness. Nian Shi tapped her forehead lightly, and she shattered like glass.

“Now!” Shen Liqiu shouted, her emerald robes fluttering as she unleashed a storm of deathly leaves. Each leaf carried the power to sever fate itself, swirling toward Nian Shi like a hurricane of blades.

Yang Ningchang twisted space, creating crushing gravitational vortices around him. Lynn reinforced reality, locking Nian Shi in place with golden chains of law. Ye Ling, her hands glowing with healing light, instead inverted her energy, sending waves of decay toward him.

Nian Shi watched them with mild amusement.

“How… disappointing.”

He didn’t move.

The leaves turned to dust mid-flight. The spatial distortions smoothed out like ripples on a pond. The golden chains shattered like glass. The decay reversed, striking Ye Ling instead.

She gasped as her own body withered, her skin cracking like dried earth.

Nian Shi raised the Blade of Eternity.

“Good bye.”

A single slash.

Rip—

Space itself split apart.

Shen Liqiu’s body was bisected horizontally, her torso sliding off her legs before dissolving into golden mist.

Yang Ningchang’s arms fell from her body, severed at the shoulders, her scream cut short as her head followed.

Lynn’s body folded in on itself, bones snapping like twigs, her golden energy dissipating into nothingness.

Ye Ling collapsed, her body crumbling to ash, her last act reaching weakly for her fallen sisters.

Nian Shi flicked the blood from his blade and turned to the remaining five—Hongyue, Lin Xinyao, Yun Qianxue, Lan Hanyu, and Yue Yun.

“How does it feel?” he asked, his voice smooth and mocking. “To watch everyone you love die one after another… and be powerless to stop it?”

Yun Qianxue’s fingers tightened around her shattered sword. Her knuckles were white, her veins blackened by reversed time. But her eyes—her eyes burned with cold fury.

“Silence?” Nian Shi smirked. “Then let me add more to the grave.”

Then—he raised his hand.

“Die.”

A pulse of temporal energy erupted from his palm.

BOOM!

Every remaining Misty Cloud Sect disciple—every cultivator still standing behind the barrier—exploded into golden dust.

No screams. No last words.

Just death.

At this moment, Hongyue stepped forward, her crimson eyes burning like dying stars.

Her body ignited, her life essence burning violently. The entire battlefield dyed red as her power surged to its absolute limit. The remnants of the Moon God’s power within her flared, casting eerie crimson shadows across the shattered earth.

She was ready to make her final move.

Nian Shi watched, unimpressed.

“If you had gathered all five fragments of the Moon God’s power, you might have been able to do something.” He shook his head. “But as you are now… you’re nothing.”

He raised his hand.

“Freeze.”

Space solidified around Hongyue. Her body locked in place, her crimson flames flickering helplessly.

Nian Shi flicked his fingers.

“Pierce.”

Spatial spears materialized from nothingness—dozens of them—and stabbed into Hongyue from all directions.

PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!

Blood sprayed in the air as the spears impaled her limbs, her torso, her throat.

She choked, crimson dripping from her lips. Her eyes locked onto Nian Shi, filled with hatred.

She tried to speak—

But Nian Shi didn’t give her the chance.

“Shatter.”

Her body burst apart, torn into countless pieces by the spatial spears.

Her remains fell to the ground, dissolving into crimson mist…