Free Web NovelChapter 636: Chapter 634: Shattering the Void and Ascending, Calamity Strikes
Though the two of them were mighty, how vast and terrifying was this Immortal Land?
Now, with the four Daluo Sabers all drawn forth, it was as if the world itself was being annihilated.
The blade light grew dim.
The two stele shadows had consumed no small amount of power as well.
Xu Yang’s palm gripped tightly, his saber shuddering as he drew forth an even more titanic force, converging upon himself.
The massive body of Beili Immortal Mountain split open with a thunderous roar, gaping chasms erupting, boulders tumbling in avalanche, upheaval above like mountains collapsing and seas overflowing.
"Xiao Ming, the one to fall today shall be you!"
"To side with the Ancient Immortals, it seems was never all that wise."
Fury erupted in Xiao Ming’s eyes, gnashing his teeth: "Xu Yang, you cannot kill me."
Yun Zheng shot a sudden look.
If you wish not to die, now is the time to wager everything!
Their gazes clashed across the distance.
In the next instant.
Yun Zheng’s sleeve swept abruptly.
The six remaining True Immortals not yet slain, including Saint Monarch Nantian, were instantly enveloped by immortal might.
"Die!"
Yun Zheng roared viciously.
"No!"
"Lord Yun Zheng, you cannot do this!"
"Damn it, old Yun Zheng, may you never meet a good end!"
Saint Monarch Nantian howled in grief and rage, struggling desperately.
But with only a second-grade Immortal Foundation, how could he possibly resist?
At the same time, Xiao Ming struck out as well.
Boom!
Bang!
The six True Immortals fell in an instant, their bodies exploding, uproar bursting forth to shake the world.
Vast energies thundered and surged, gathered into a tidal wave beneath Yun Zheng and Xiao Ming’s suppression.
"Explode!"
Both shouted in unison.
The Immortal Artifact Embryos detonated simultaneously.
A world-annihilating force rushed at Xu Yang.
Xu Yang’s eyes narrowed slightly.
This power, terrifying as it was, was nothing before the might drawn forth by the four Daluo Sabers.
Yet he himself was near the edge, barely able to maintain the four Sabers.
Still, there was no room to retreat now!
"Sever!"
Xu Yang roared, raising his saber in a sweeping arc.
Rumble!!
Far in the distance, unseen barriers shattered; the boundless, surging Calamity Ghost Wind burst in like a dammed flood unleashed.
Brilliant saber light coursed like a river of violet-gold across the heavens, pressing down with savage force.
Crack—boom!
With a single stroke, he tore open the storm of destruction.
Xiao Ming’s pupils contracted, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
"Damn it!"
"Ancestor, what do we do?"
Yun Zheng’s face shifted again and again, suddenly looking up into the void.
"Go!"
He once more summoned the stele shadow within his Immortal Foundation; though more illusory than before, the subtle call within it grew only stronger.
Swish!
The stele shadow bore him, shooting up into the sky.
Xiao Ming paused, then followed hastily.
At the instant his stele shadow erupted, Xiao Ming’s body trembled, shock filling his gaze.
"Damn you, Xiao Ming!"
Yun Zheng’s expression changed drastically, yelling furiously.
He took the lead, but Xiao Ming’s hesitation cost him precious time.
In that moment, the dreadful saber light came crashing down upon Xiao Ming, bearing the power to shatter heaven and earth.
Xiao Ming seemed oblivious, his body violently quaking.
In a flash!
The illusory stele shadow before him grew strangely solid.
Within the massive stele, a blurry rune flared instantly to life, solidifying into reality.
Swish!
The rune detached from the stele, floating before Xiao Ming.
Seeing this, Yun Zheng’s eyes nearly burst from their sockets, his voice ghostly: "Th-this... Xiao Ming may have a seventh-grade Immortal Foundation, but how can a rune on the ancient stele become manifest and fully formed?"
Though he did not know what the stele represented, he sensed its enormity—an extraordinary connection, perhaps, to the Ancient Immortals themselves.
The greater one’s strength, the more formidable the stele’s apparition grew.
And the ancient runes on the massive stele—these were rarities of the world, unknowable and profound.
And now, Xiao Ming had brought forth such a thing.
Saber light crashed toward him.
Xiao Ming snapped to his senses, instinctively seized the rune, and slashed down violently with it.
Bang!
Saber radiance shattered; the Daluo Saber quaked with a resounding clang, as though struck by lightning.
It actually blocked the blow completely!
Yun Zheng stared, round-eyed.
Xiao Ming stood dumbstruck, as though carved of wood!
"Xu Yang, you—"
The words ’are as good as dead’ were still on his lips when the rune dissolved, a wave of weakness assailing him; his face changed, he swallowed the words by force, and, without a second thought, shot into the heavens.
The stele shadow, resembling an ancient deity, carried him upward, breaking the bonds of heaven and earth, shattering the void itself.
"Ancestor, come to me!"
Realizing the unique power of his own stele shadow, Xiao Ming called hurriedly to Yun Zheng.
Yun Zheng did not hesitate, flashing instantly to Xiao Ming’s side.
Enveloped by the stele shadow, Yun Zheng shuddered all over, involuntarily drawing a chilling breath.
It didn’t feel like they were seeking a path to the Immortal Realm, but rather that this stele shadow was exuding a mighty, boundless force, sweeping the two of them away toward some unknown place.
Breaking open the void, as though ascending!
Below.
Xu Yang spat blood, his body swaying, nearly collapsing.
The Daluo Saber’s radiance had already dispersed.
"What in the world was that thing?"
Xu Yang’s scalp tingled with terror; he raised his head with difficulty, seeing that towering ancient stele shadow—so primeval, so dreadful, beyond description.
It shook him in a way not even the Celestial Refining Divine Tripod could compare with!
That ancient aura alone had suppressed even the might of the four Daluo Sabers.
That thing came from the Ancient Immortal Order!
Xu Yang guessed it could very well be the projection of the Ancient Immortal faction’s supreme treasure!
That impact just now had left him unable to maintain the four Daluo Sabers; he could only watch helplessly as Yun Zheng and Xiao Ming escaped.
In their flight through the void, Xiao Ming looked down, murderous intent surging in his eyes.
"You’d better make it to the Immortal Realm!"
"I will cut you down with my own hand!"
...
Whoosh!
The void sealed shut; no stele shadow, no Xiao Ming, no Yun Zheng was to be seen.
Xu Yang spewed blood, collapsing to the ground.
Turning to his now-quiet Daluo Sabers, Xu Yang drew a deep breath, his heart in turmoil.
This saber possesses a profound history!
His body had stood still as a sculpture for so long—unwittingly accepting the inheritance of the blade.
The four Daluo Sabers: forged by the hands of four supreme masters of the Demonic Immortal Faction, containing four immortal Dao Secret Skills within.
Wind, rain, thunder, and fire: the four divisions!
The Daluo Saber itself—peerless among Daluo Immortal Artifacts!
Immortal domain artifacts begin with four grades, precisely matching True Immortal, Celestial Immortal, Golden Immortal, and Saint Immortal!
Upon reaching the Daluo Immortal Realm comes the Daluo Immortal Artifact!
In even that long-ago cataclysmic war, the four Daluo Sabers could not be brought to dust!
This ancient battlefield’s survival, its flourishing immortal energy—at root, due to this blade.
It was the hidden support of the Daluo Saber’s force that made all this possible!
"Though I could not kill Xiao Ming and Yun Zheng, at least all troubles are ended!" Xu Yang panted, a smile appearing on his lips.
With Xiao Ming and Yun Zheng gone, even if they easily find the Immortal Realm, they cannot return!
Though I’ve not yet ascended, I’ve long had the time to build my foundation here.
All that remains is to become a True Immortal, then I’ll have my chance to leave.
Suddenly, Xu Yang’s expression changed, turning his gaze towards the distant mountainside.
Roiling gray waves surged like a tsunami—boundless, endless, infinite.
"Calamity Ghost Wind Sea!"
"Damn it!"
Xu Yang’s face shifted dramatically.
Only now did he realize: by drawing forth the full power of the ancient land with the four Daluo Sabers, the invisible barrier between Beili Immortal Mountain and the Calamity Ghost Wind Sea had shattered.
With nothing to halt it, the Calamity Ghost Wind Sea now came surging in wild eruption.
Regular Calamity Ghost Wind—even those without True Immortal bodies can withstand it for a time!
But this was the Calamity Ghost Wind Sea—a boundless ocean, its terror enough to make even True Immortals’ scalps tingle!
Gritting his teeth, Xu Yang seized the second-grade Immortal Foundation he had not yet refined, and drew it into his body.
With a twist of his palm, the four Daluo Sabers swept outward once again!
Swish!
The four Daluo Sabers screamed through the heavens, transmuting into a bolt of lightning as they charged straight into the oncoming waves of the Calamity Ghost Wind Sea.
