Volume 1, Chapter 445 – Sword Emperor

Shi Lan had not been wholly without guard. The instant Wuxu descended, she noticed it.

She did not stop circulating her cultivation. Splitting her attention in two, she slowly lifted her eyelids and looked toward Wuxu.

“Senior, has something changed?”

“A powerful enemy has arrived. If I fight him, it will be difficult for me to watch over you.”

Wuxu nodded. Though the newcomer was strong, he was not necessarily Wuxu’s match. But once battle began, facing such a formidable foe, it would be hard for him to ensure Shi Lan’s safety.

Any one of the Supremes present, if they entered the realm, could capture or kill Shi Lan with ease.

The risk was too great. Wuxu was unwilling to take it.

“Why don’t we stop here?”

Shi Lan slowly drew her cultivation to a halt. If her presence caused Wuxu to suffer harm that could not be reversed, it would leave behind a heart-devil tribulation she could never erase.

“No.”

Wuxu shook his head lightly. “We have already come this far. It would be too great a pity to let all our efforts fall short at the final step. Besides, it is not as though there is no way left.”

With that, he slowly extended a hand. “Give me Guiyun’s Dao Fruit.”

Shi Lan did not ask why. She did as instructed, took out the Sword Emperor’s Dao Fruit, and placed it into Wuxu’s palm.

“Continue your cultivation in peace. Leave the rest to me.”

A void passage opened at Wuxu’s side, and he drew a body over from another world.

Black hair, azure robes, eyes gently closed, and a face so perfect it was beyond reproach, like a peerless painting. Everything about him exuded an icy aloofness.

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Heavy Emperor Dao divine might permeated heaven and earth, deathly still.

“Senior, why go this far?!”

Shi Lan’s expression changed. This was Guiyun Sword Emperor’s Emperor body.

Wuxu had taken the Dao Fruit and now summoned Guiyun’s Emperor body as well. What he intended to do was self-evident.

“This was originally a layer of protection Guiyun left behind for his inheritor.”

A complicated look flashed through Wuxu’s eyes as he drove the Dao Fruit in his palm into Guiyun’s Emperor body.

If Shi Lan had accepted Guiyun’s inheritance, then at this moment she could have used the Dao Fruit as a medium, let her divine sense take possession of this body, and personally experience his Sword Dao. But now, she no longer had that fortune.

After the Dao Fruit entered Guiyun’s body, the Emperor Dao divine might that permeated the surroundings suddenly stirred with a ripple, and a storm began to rise.

“Hurry and cultivate. If someone even stronger comes, I will have no choice but to give up and take you away.”

Wuxu’s figure instantly transformed into a wisp of spiritual light and entered the gray longsword.

The longsword hovered in the air and was grasped by Guiyun. His half-closed eyes lifted by a fraction, faint divine light surfacing within them.

It was as if a trace of life had been poured into the entire body, and a hazy glow began to emanate from it.

For a moment, Shi Lan was dazed. She could not tell whether the person before her was Guiyun Sword Emperor or Wuxu.

In an instant, a streak of sword light rose through the Nine Heavens and shot straight into the highest vault of heaven.

“Thank you, Senior.”

Watching that departing figure, Shi Lan bowed deeply, complex emotions plain on her face.

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She had never imagined that Wuxu would disturb the Sword Emperor’s slumber for her sake.

This was a great kindness she accepted with shame.

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In the starry sky, the Armament Envoy of the Heavenly Dao Alliance had already moved first against the group of Supremes from Reincarnation Hall.

Heavenly marks flickered over the pale-gold long mace, and divine radiance flooded heaven and earth, spreading throughout the starry universe.

Crack!

The heavens split apart, and Supreme blood surged through the starry universe, blooming into layer upon layer of auspicious light.

The middle-aged man in dragon robes was struck on the head by the jade mace. His Supreme body, untouchable by ten thousand tribulations, instantly exploded apart. Even his primordial spirit failed to escape, ground away by the heavenly marks branded into the jade mace.

The aura of destruction spread. His life force was gone.

A boundless rain of blood poured down from the starry universe, drenching the entire battlefield.

The blood-robed Armament Envoy’s combat strength was simply too terrifying. In only a few moments after taking action, he had already made one of Reincarnation Hall’s Supremes bleed out in battle!

“Yunkai, this is as far as I can help you on this trip.”

Flowing Cloud Holy Lord’s gaze flickered as he transmitted the words in secret. The gap in strength between him and the blood-robed Armament Envoy was not all that great, but that jade mace was extraordinary, possessing a frightening divine power that had already surpassed his level.

If he truly fought to the bitter end, then even he might fall here today.

Though he and Yunkai had some friendship, it was still far from enough for him to stake his life on it.

Cloud Saint’s expression was bitter, and he said nothing more. Once Flowing Cloud Holy Lord left, the fates of Emperor Yuan and himself were already decided.

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In truth, if not for the war mission, it would not have been difficult for the Supremes of Reincarnation Hall to withdraw using their methods. But under the Main God’s threat, they now had no retreat at all and could only fight to the death.

At one side, Emperor Yuan caught sight of Cloud Saint’s expression, understood something, and looked toward Flowing Cloud Holy Lord. The divine light in his eyes gradually dimmed.

“I’ll remember this, Heavenly Dao Alliance…”

Flowing Cloud Holy Lord took a long, deep look at the blood-robed Armament Envoy, a strange smile hanging on his face.

Boom!

The starry universe was torn apart in an instant, and a phantom passage appeared beneath the Holy Lord’s feet, extending toward some unknown distance.

The blood-robed Armament Envoy instinctively moved to pursue, but an immense sense of danger suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart, making him shudder with cold and stop in his tracks.

On the other side of that passage, there seemed to be some unspeakable great terror that could decide his life and death.

After only the briefest hesitation, the passage had already vanished without a trace.

The moment Flowing Cloud Holy Lord left, Emperor Yuan and Cloud Saint were almost instantly pushed into a dead end.

The blood-robed Armament Envoy did not strike again. Holding the jade mace, he stood upon the vault of the starry sky and looked down on the two Supremes who had been driven to the brink, speaking indifferently:

“The Heavenly Dao stands above all living beings of the myriad heavens through the ages. My Heavenly Dao Alliance carries out the Heavenly Mandate. Those who defy it have only death awaiting them.”

“The Dao of Heaven is nothing more than the law by which all beings in the universe survive—the cycle of sun and moon, the turning of the four seasons, the reincarnation of all living things. What does that have to do with you?”

A calm voice suddenly rang out, echoing through the starry sky. It seemed to carry some unknown mighty force as it entered the hearts of all the Supremes.

A figure in azure robes stepped out of the Qiongluo Realm on sword light.

Ancient charm lingered around him, as though he did not belong to this era, like a leaf drifting down from antiquity.

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Simply standing there with that cold expression, the aura he gave off was one of domineering power that looked down across the myriad heavens and swept through the Myriad Worlds.

“Putting on airs and playing tricks!”

The blood-robed Armament Envoy narrowed his eyes. His mind had already been unsettled by that earlier wave of danger, and now it became even more uneasy. Almost instinctively, he swung the jade mace in his hand.

The jade mace crashed down like a star. Heavenly marks flickered, and every strand of divine radiance was enough to pierce through a starfield.

“Those who presume to overstep the Heavenly Dao are bound to suffer heavenly punishment.”

The Sword Emperor’s gaze swept across the starry sky. Wherever his eyes passed, starfields collapsed and countless great stars fell, the sight horrifying beyond compare.

Aside from the blood-robed Armament Envoy, all the other Supremes of the Heavenly Dao Alliance were forced back a million li by that gaze, their hearts turning cold with fear.

Zheng—

The gray longsword in the Sword Emperor’s hand slowly left its scabbard, and in the next instant, he slashed out with a single sword strike.

Dazzling sword light shot straight through the starry universe, as though it had severed time and space. Heaven and earth turned into chaos, all laws crushed apart, leaving only that single resplendent streak of sword light.

Boom!

The jade mace flew into the air, its spiritual light sharply diminished as the heavenly marks shattered. A sword scar had been carved deep into the mace’s body, and it had very nearly been cut in two.

Bang!

Supreme blood boiled through the starry sky.

The divine light coiling around the blood-robed Armament Envoy instantly shattered. Vast sword qi rolled down like a galaxy, and in but an instant, tore him into a rain of blood.