Under Lin Xuanye's horrified gaze, Zhou Fan instantly activated his Great Sun mode.
His all-around resistance was enhanced, and his Physical Body was on par with a sixth-tier.
The Yin and Yang Domain fully expanded, directly squeezing Lin Xuanye's Bitter Pain Sword Domain to less than ten li in range.
Zhou Fan punched Lin Xuanye in the face, and Lin Xuanye couldn't react at all, flying backward.
Zhou Fan caught up at an even faster speed, and with a chop of his hand, he dislocated Lin Xuanye's right arm, along with the gray sword that was integrated with it.
"The taste of pain is good, but your mastery is still too shallow."
Zhou Fan twisted Lin Xuanye's head 180 degrees, looking at his gradually lifeless but still resentful eyes, and said,
"Physical pain is indeed unbearable, but only when combined with mental torment can it deliver a devastating blow."
"Zhou Fan, you..."
A great sun rose from his palm, and Zhou Fan didn't give Lin Xuanye a chance to speak further.
Magic power became the moon, and the Origin Sea transformed into the sun.
The sun and moon rotated, and Yin and Yang were extinguished.
This move, Sun and Moon Rotation, was a special Spell recorded in "Yin Yang Dao Dian" · Advanced Chapter · Three. It had to be cast by a Cultivator with a Pure Yang Body, an Inferior Yin Spiritual Root, and balanced Yin and Yang within their body to unleash its power, which far surpassed Spells of the same Realm.
Under the Sun and Moon Rotation, Lin Xuanye's Physical Body was extinguished.
Easily grabbing Lin Xuanye's Primordial Spirit, which was trying to escape, Zhou Fan directly cast the simple and practical small Spell from "Yin Yang Dao Dian" · Basic Chapter — Soul Searching Spell.
Lin Xuanye's Primordial Spirit disintegrated inch by inch. He couldn't even utter a complete sentence before he died.
Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, there was no chance of Reincarnation.
By observing Lin Xuanye's memories, Zhou Fan already knew the essence of the gray sword's special power.
He likewise crushed the gray sword into ashes.
At this point, the life of the Son of Destiny, Lin Xuanye, was completely concluded.
Zhou Fan landed on the ground and erected a monument for this third opponent who had died by his hand.
...
Lin Xuanye, who rapidly achieved the Soul Transformation Realm through Evil Path Cultivation, died in the Nightmare Domain.
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"Ding! Congratulations to the Host for eliminating the third Son of Destiny — Lin Xuanye!"
"Because Lin Xuanye had developed to the fifth-tier Soul Transformation Realm, the Host has received his full Luck, and 50,000 Luck points have now been distributed to the Host!"
"Host is so awesome, System worships (ˊ˘ˋ*)♡"
"...Redundant words, truly disgusting."
His Luck points balance reached 103,800 points, and it would soon reach 108,000 points, allowing him to exchange for the top Physique in the entire Cultivation World — the Extreme Yang Sacred Body.
Zhou Fan was in a good mood. He returned to Nightless City, and his Domain expanded again.
Transforming into a great sun, tens of thousands of Yin and Yang ropes shot out, precisely eliminating every dark giant beast.
After effortlessly resolving the beast tide, Zhou Fan landed on the city wall amidst the reverent gazes of the Cultivators.
Yun Wuxin immediately intimately linked arms with Zhou Fan, and the Thousand-Faced Illusion Heart Butterfly also flew onto Zhou Fan's shoulder.
Yun Shu stood beside Zhou Fan, and the three leaders of Nightless City walked before Zhou Fan, bowing in salute.
"Thank you, Senior, for your assistance in rescuing the citizens of Nightless City from distress."
"Please, Senior, come into the city for a discussion. Nightless City will surely offer a generous reward."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Fan did not move immediately but instead took out a fourth-tier healing Medicinal Pill from his Storage Pouch.
"There's no rush for this. I've long heard that Nightless City is isolated from the world and lacks resources. My assistance was merely a matter of convenience, no reward is necessary."
"However, this Fellow Daoist is severely injured. If she doesn't take a fourth-tier Medicinal Pill for treatment soon, there's a high probability she will suffer lasting ailments and damage her Foundation."
The Second Leader of Nightless City, under Zhou Fan's gaze, no longer forced herself to hold on. Her face instantly turned ashen, and her breathing was extremely unstable. It seemed her injuries had worsened to the point of risking a drop in her Realm.
The Third Leader, Bei Lingyin, was anxious to save her sister. She immediately took the fourth-tier Medicinal Pill Zhou Fan offered and fed it to the Second Leader, Bei Shi. Afterward, she sincerely bowed to Zhou Fan again, saying,
"Thank you, benefactor. Nightless City has experienced frequent battles over the past few years, and our fourth-tier healing Medicinal Pills have indeed long been depleted."
The First Leader of Nightless City, Bei Lingye, also bowed.
After the Second Leader's injuries stabilized, the group returned to the City Lord's Mansion in Nightless City.
The three leaders wanted to host a banquet for Zhou Fan first, but Zhou Fan declined.
Then the First Leader led Zhou Fan into Nightless City's treasury, allowing Zhou Fan to choose freely.
Zhou Fan looked around but didn't find anything special, so he casually selected a Low Grade Magic Treasure.
The First Leader wanted Zhou Fan to choose a few more items, but Zhou Fan said one was enough.
Subsequently, the three people and one butterfly stayed in Nightless City for a period of time. Zhou Fan informed the three leaders of the reason for the dark giant beasts' rampage over the years.
It turned out that Lin Xuanye, by chance, had obtained part of the Legacy of a Body Integration Realm demonic Cultivator from tens of thousands of years ago.
This demonic Cultivator was a figure from nearly a hundred thousand years ago, when the golden age of the Cultivation World ended and it had just entered a dark era where Spiritual Qi and Origin Qi began to diminish.
That demonic Cultivator couldn't accept that his Cultivation could not advance, and even regressed, so he turned to the Evil Path.
By cooperating with other demonic Cultivators who were unwilling to see their Cultivation regress, and after research that cost a great many lives, these Evil Path Cultivators finally developed a method of Cultivation that did not solely rely on the energy of heaven and earth.
Emotions.
That's right, they used the emotional power of intelligent beings as the primary guide and catalyst to maintain their Cultivation from regressing, and even hoped to advance further.
To obtain more emotions, they needed to raise more intelligent beings.
Among all the spirits of heaven and earth, humans were undoubtedly the best kindling.
Humans could produce a large amount of emotions, and even Mortals produced emotional power far exceeding those low-tier Yao Beasts.
Different emotions required different Cultivation Techniques for extraction and absorption.
This demonic Cultivator primarily extracted emotions of pain and hatred. He initially planned a 'breeding ground' spanning hundreds of thousands of li, where the humans within were ruled by the ghosts he created.
Occasionally, he would allow the humans in the breeding ground to defeat the ghosts, so that after giving them hope, the pain and hatred caused by destruction would be even greater.
However, because the Great Dark Era had only just begun at that time, there were still many Righteous Path Cultivators who maintained their original intentions and could not tolerate the inhumane actions of these Evil Path Cultivators.
After a great battle between Righteous and Evil, this demonic Cultivator perished. Before his death, he burned his Divine Soul and Physical Body, cursing the Righteous Path Cultivator who killed him, that his entire clan would live generation after generation in his Domain.
This curse originated from ancient times and required a ninth-tier Cultivator to break it. However, at that time, the dark era had already begun, and not to mention ninth-tier Cultivators, even eighth-tier Cultivators were few and far between.
That Righteous Path Cultivator's surname was Bei. Not long after, he was ambushed, devoured, and killed by several Evil Path Cultivators of the devouring faction.
After his death, his clan members also came to this Nightmare Domain due to various coincidences. Once inside, they could not leave, otherwise, they would surely wither and die.
Nightless City was thus established, and it has been over eighty thousand years since then.
The curse was eroded by the power of time. The people of Nightless City could briefly leave the Nightmare Domain as long as they reached the fourth-tier.
And those dark giant beasts were actually the product of the pain and hatred felt by the people of Nightless City.