The righteous path gathered the five Heavenly Sword Five Seals through effort, opened the underground palace, and obtained the Heavenly Sword.
As soon as the Heavenly Sword emerged, the underground palace collapsed rapidly. After the group escaped to safety, they saw Xiao Ting holding the Heavenly Sword, laughing maniacally at the sky, his laughter filled with endless excitement and chilling intent.
Seeing him suddenly transform, they thought the Heavenly Sword possessed demonic energy, that he was controlled by it, causing such a drastic change in his temperament.
However, Xiao Ting smiled and said he hadn't changed, that he had always been this way, but they simply hadn't noticed because he was, in fact, King Abeilo.
This statement shocked everyone.
Tang Ruoxuan was struck as if by a bolt from the blue, unable to believe this fact.
To obtain the Heavenly Sword Five Seals, Xiao Ting had orchestrated a grand scheme.
He was both a pawn within the game, stirring up immense turmoil, and the strategist hidden behind the scenes, calculating and manipulating everything.
Xiao Ting's calm demeanor in facing adversity, and the repeated failures of his subordinates in pursuing him on behalf of the great King Abeilo, were nothing more than a play he had staged himself.
After their initial shock, the others realized the Heavenly Sword could not fall into the hands of Xiao Ting, this great demon, lest it bring devastation and endless misfortune upon the world. They all stepped forward to seize the sword.
However, they still overestimated themselves and underestimated their opponent.
As the leader of the Blood Moon Divine Cult, Xiao Ting was already a top-tier expert in the martial world. Now, wielding the Heavenly Sword, he was invincible.
The Heavenly Sword unleashed its brilliance, and wherever its light swept, rivers of blood flowed, extinguishing all life.
As they watched everyone being slaughtered, Tang Ruoxuan stepped forward to shield them, angrily denouncing Xiao Ting for his inhumanity, for killing her entire family for his own desires and causing so many deaths.
Xiao Ting retorted with self-righteousness, stating that he had sent Hei Qiling to exterminate the Tang family merely to obtain the Heavenly Sword Five Seals. If he had known he would fall in love with Tang Ruoxuan, he would not have acted that way.
These words left the audience watching on screens speechless, yet unable to refute them.
Before falling in love with Tang Ruoxuan, Xiao Ting, a formidable warlord, relentlessly pursued the Heavenly Sword to conquer the world. Anyone who stood in the way of his plan was naturally to be eliminated.
The Tang family possessed the Heavenly Sword Five Seals but refused to surrender them, which in his eyes, was a capital offense.
He had calculated everything, except for the one thing he hadn't anticipated: falling in love with Tang Ruoxuan.
The Tang parents who died earlier were obstacles; now they had become his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
All of this could only be blamed on the capricious nature of fate.
And he, as the leader of the Blood Moon Divine Cult, with blood on his hands, no longer believed in destiny, nor in the retributions of hell and the underworld.
Therefore, he could confidently declare that had he known he would fall in love with Tang Ruoxuan, he would not have annihilated the entire Tang family.
With the grand unveiling of Xiao Ting's identity, the conflict between good and evil erupted.
To prevent the Blood Moon Divine Cult from using the Heavenly Sword to poison and harm living beings, the righteous path decided to unite and eliminate Xiao Ting, the great demon.
Xiao Ting, in turn, would use the power of the Heavenly Sword to annihilate these so-called righteous individuals.
The great battle was imminent. Tang Ruoxuan, knowing that with the Heavenly Sword in his possession, their side stood no chance against Xiao Ting, and direct confrontation would only result in futile sacrifice.
To save all sentient beings, Tang Ruoxuan, suppressing the turmoil of love and hate within her heart, sought out Xiao Ting and revealed a great secret hidden within the Heavenly Sword.
It turned out that the Heavenly Sword contained a pill of immortality, but to retrieve the pill, the Heavenly Sword had to be destroyed.
Xiao Ting was instantly caught in a dilemma. He decided to first use the Heavenly Sword to unify the world, and only when he grew old would he destroy the sword to retrieve the pill.