Chapter 977: The Vow Fulfilled

"It was the ancestor who pioneered the Sacred Rune Dao, Yue Jinya. This old fellow has very likely stepped into the ranks of the Seven-Turn Sages.

He attacked me the moment he returned. If I hadn't had a few tricks up my sleeve, I would have already been finished off by him."

Xing Jia knew what kind of person Ding Huan was, so he did not hide anything from him while speaking.

It really was Yue Jinya, and a Seven-Turn Sage at that.

"Miss Elder Yi Shang escaped. She took Jia Baihe with her. I only know she fled toward the edge of the chaos; I truly don't know exactly where she went."

Ding Huan frowned: "Old Jia, didn't you contact Elder Yi Shang afterward?"

Xing Jia said helplessly: "I was ambushed by that old thing Yue Jinya and suffered heavy injuries, so I've been hiding to heal.

My injuries only just recovered, and I only rushed over to meet you because I knew you had arrived.

Miss Elder Yi Shang's cultivation is even stronger than mine; as long as that old thing Yue Jinya doesn't go chasing after her, she should be fine."

Ding Huan did not speak. He had also sent a message to Elder Yi Shang, but she had not come.

Perhaps Elder Yi Shang didn't have a teleportation talisman, so it would take her longer to arrive.

Ding Huan opened his hand, and the Tribulation-Breaking Blade appeared in his grip. He signaled for Xing Jia and Director Qian Yao to move back a bit.

Immediately, the Tribulation-Breaking Blade was unleashed, and the violent aura of slaughter was frantically swept up by Ding Huan's blade.

At this moment, even cultivators some distance away from the Blue Star Academy could feel that terrifying aura of slaughter.

Endless killing intent gathered, and the momentum of Ding Huan's blade continued to surge.

In the distance, Director Qian Yao frowned slightly. Ding Huan's strength was increasing almost every moment.

If she wanted to make a move, she needed to do it quickly; she absolutely could not drag it out too long.

Once this person was allowed to grow, she feared she wouldn't even be able to see his back, let alone seize the Nine Opening Heaven Bamboo from his hands.

Thinking of this, her gaze fell upon Xing Jia.

It would be great if she had Xing Jia's help.

She soon made up her mind. Xing Jia and she could be considered old friends; both came from the Great Universe.

As long as she gave Xing Jia some benefits and made it clear to him that helping her was more advantageous than helping Ding Huan,

then there was a high probability that Xing Jia would help her.

The slaughter aura stirred up by Ding Huan's Tribulation-Breaking Blade became increasingly fierce. The entire Sacred Rune Dao Sect was enveloped by this killing momentum, and all the cultivators rushed out of their caves in terror.

Facing this kind of slaughter aura that could harvest their lives at any moment, who would dare to remain in the sect?

Boom!

The Tribulation-Breaking Blade finally descended from the void.

The blade screen brought about by the blade's momentum was like a chasm tearing through a universe, splitting the Sacred Rune Dao in two.

At this moment, all of the Sacred Rune Dao's protective arrays were torn in half by Ding Huan, and the three Dao-rhyme characters of the Sacred Rune Dao were ground into dust under this single strike.

Beneath the blade screen was a deep chasm stretching hundreds of thousands of miles.

Slaughter Dao-rhymes drifted out from the chasm, giving off an oppressive and deathly aura.

Those with weaker cultivation would be crushed to death just by approaching that Dao-rhyme chasm.

Director Qian Yao and Xing Jia, however, narrowed their eyes slightly.

They saw more clearly than others that within this blade chasm Ding Huan had carved out, not only was there a deathly aura, but endless poison-path law Dao-rhymes were also dissipating.

It was certain that in another one or two hundred years, nothing would be able to survive within a radius of ten million miles.

If one couldn't even survive, let alone establish a sect or cultivate in seclusion here.

Director Qian Yao stared at Ding Huan's back, thinking to herself that this person was even more ruthless than those two guys.

Once offended, could this really be resolved peacefully?

Offending this person was possible, but one had to cut the weeds and dig up the roots.

Over a hundred figures rushed out of the Sacred Talisman Dao Sect. Charging at the very front was a middle-aged man Ding Huan did not recognize, possessing the strength of a Second-Turn Saint.

And behind this middle-aged man was none other than Zhuo Hong.

Zhuo Hong had progressed very quickly and was already at the late stage of the God-Combining Realm.

"Sect... Ding Huan..." Zhuo Hong exclaimed in shock as she looked at Ding Huan.

She knew that today, perhaps only if the ancestor came out could this matter be suppressed.

She knew what kind of person Ding Huan was better than anyone else.

This was absolutely not someone who could be easily bullied.

Although the Blue Star Academy was built on the territory of the Sacred Rune Dao, in reality, the Sacred Rune Dao had long since been destroyed.

As long as the Blue Star Academy could handle the sect that destroyed the Sacred Rune Dao, there was nothing wrong with establishing a sect here.

On the contrary, the Blue Star Academy had even avenged the Sacred Rune Dao.

Taking a step back, the reason the Blue Star Academy established a sect here was because she, Zhuo Hong, had invited them.

The Sacred Rune Dao ancestor Yue Jinya had forcibly occupied the Blue Star Academy and killed hundreds of the academy's loyal disciples.

Not only that, Yue Jinya had also directly turned the Blue Star Academy into the Sacred Rune Dao.

Thinking of Ding Huan's overbearing methods, Zhuo Hong's scalp went numb.

She worried whether the ancestor could handle Ding Huan.

But she felt that Ding Huan wouldn't come back, right? After all, before Ding Huan left, he hadn't even left behind his own Dao inheritance.

Why had he come here again?

"Are you Ding Huan?" The middle-aged man finally saw Ding Huan clearly.

He had never seen Ding Huan, but Ding Huan's statue had been in this place all along.

Ding Huan ignored the middle-aged man and stared at Zhuo Hong:

"Zhuo Hong, I have to admire you; you have a lot of guts."

"Fellow Daoist Ding, the founding master of my Sacred Talisman Dao has returned. I am a disciple of the Sacred Talisman Dao, and I know that what I did was wrong. I apologize to you..."

Ding Huan interrupted Zhuo Hong: "You aren't sorry to me; you are sorry to yourself."

Zhuo Hong was stunned. What did she have to be sorry to herself for?

Even if Ding Huan came today, he couldn't do anything to her, right?

The ancestor was just in seclusion; now the ancestor must have received the news and could come out at any time.

"Vows are not so easily made..."

Ding Huan sneered.

Zhuo Hong frowned: "I didn't make any vow. I only said I would never betray the Blue Star Academy, and now the Blue Star Academy doesn't even exist..."

The implication was that she wasn't the one who destroyed the Blue Star Academy.

And she only said she would never betray the Blue Star Academy; she didn't vow what would happen if she did.

Ding Huan couldn't even be bothered to speak.

If a vow made in front of him could be broken so easily, then he might as well stop cultivating the Great Universe Art and stop trying to fuse the billions of laws in the universe.

Before Zhuo Hong's words had even faded, she felt her Dao beginning to disintegrate.

Not only that, her meridians began to collapse, and cracks appeared in her sea of consciousness...

A deathly aura permeated her entire body and mind.

Zhuo Hong was terrified. She was not the type to be loyal and devoted.

Whether working for the Blue Star Academy or the Sacred Rune Dao, the first prerequisite was that her own strength had to constantly improve.

Clearly, after she made the vow, although she didn't state the consequences of betrayal, the current situation clearly meant her vow was being fulfilled.

It seemed that all the consequences cultivators feared most were being heaped upon her.

She didn't need to ask; she knew it was Ding Huan's handiwork.

Ding Huan must have added Dao principles to her vow when she made it.

"Ancestor, save me..." Blood began to flow from Zhuo Hong's seven orifices. She screamed frantically, hoping Yue Jinya would come out to help her.

A gray figure rushed out and landed in front of Ding Huan.

He glanced at Director Qian Yao but did not make a move immediately.

He could feel that Director Qian Yao's strength was no lower than his own.

Coupled with this Blue Star Academy Sect Master Ding Huan, whom he had always heard of but never seen, he decided to act cautiously.

Everyone said Ding Huan was a ruthless person; he wanted to know where this Ding Huan's ruthlessness lay.

"Ancestor, save me..." Seeing the ancestor Yue Jinya arrive, Zhuo Hong struggled to call out once more.

Her sea of consciousness was already collapsing, and her Dao world was collapsing as well.

Not only that, her split souls, soul thoughts, and Dao thoughts were all rapidly disintegrating and vanishing.

It was certain that if no one helped her, her soul would be destroyed, and she would have no chance of reincarnation.

"Zhuo Hong, yours is a backlash from a vow. Even with my current ability, I cannot interfere with Heavenly Dao principles..."

Yue Jinya's words filled Zhuo Hong with despair.

She quickly thought of Ding Huan: "Sect Master Ding, please save me. As long as you are willing to save me, this life of mine, Zhuo Hong, is yours."

Ding Huan said indifferently: "First, this is the fulfillment of a Heavenly Dao vow. Do you think I can control the Heavenly Dao of the Chaos One God Realm?

Second, what value does your life have to me? The weakest person by my side is a Sage; what can you, a God-Combining Realm cultivator, do for me?

Finally, who would believe the bullshit of a person who goes back on their word?"

Hearing Ding Huan's words, Zhuo Hong's despair deepened. If she had another chance, she would rather perish than choose to betray the Blue Star Academy.

After all, if she perished, she would still have a chance at reincarnation; now, her soul would be completely destroyed.

Beside them, Kua Chen's heart skipped a beat after hearing Ding Huan's words.

What did Ding Huan mean by that?

Could it be that he knew he wasn't in the God-Combining Realm?

But he quickly dismissed this guess.

His concealment technique couldn't even be seen through by a Nine-Turn Sage, let alone Ding Huan.

And Ding Huan's strength—previously he guessed Ding Huan had just attained Sagehood.

But Ding Huan's blade strike just now was too terrifying. Although he was certain his own cultivation was stronger than Ding Huan's,

he was certain he couldn't unleash that blade strike.

At this moment, Zhuo Hong turned into a pool of blood, and then the blood dissipated without a trace.

Watching Zhuo Hong's fate, Director Qian Yao's heart skipped a beat.

She had also made a vow before.

She believed that a vow from this low-level plane wouldn't affect her, but there was always a "what if" in everything.

After all, she wasn't an Eternal Sage yet.

It was possible for a Seven-Turn Sage to be born in a low-level plane.

Since it was possible for a Seven-Turn Sage to be born, it was possible for her to be affected by a vow.

Some of the disciples and elders who were originally from the Blue Star Academy were now terrified to see the former Second Vice Sect Master of the Blue Star Academy crushed by a Heavenly Dao vow and have her soul destroyed.

They worried that once Ding Huan suppressed the Sacred Rune Dao ancestor, he would come to settle scores with them.

"Ding Huan, hand over the Eternal Great Rune, and I can spare your life." Yue Jinya stared at Ding Huan, his tone icy.

In his eyes, even if Director Qian Yao was a Seven-Turn Sage, he, Yue Jinya, wouldn't take her to heart.

Back then, Quan couldn't gain any advantage from him, let alone a junior.

"Old Min, go with Old Jia and destroy the Sacred Rune Dao. Fellow Daoist Director Qian Yao, you make a move; I'll help you from the side." Ding Huan didn't care about Yue Jinya's words at all.

He came today to make the Sacred Rune Dao a part of cosmic history.

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