Chapter 169: A Sword

The rules of the Earth Realm emerged.

The pitch-black cracks healed in an instant.

The seven-colored brilliance dissipated, and Jiang Jian's figure retreated violently, his face pale as paper.

Sensing a terrifying, fatal crisis.

Jiang Jian gritted his teeth, activated his spiritual essence, turned into a seven-colored rainbow again, and swept toward the edge of the village town!

In the blink of an eye.

Jiang Jian passed through the portal and returned to Mount Jiuhua City.

The darkness in the sky had already reached his head!

The sky had almost turned completely black!

Only a few pale white glimmers shone down, barely illuminating the dim city wall.

There was less than ten minutes left before the two realms stopped intersecting and the boundary gate collapsed and disappeared!

But if he didn't return here.

In just a few seconds.

He would be blasted to death by Wujian Yin Lord!

In the brief exchange just now, Jiang Jian had already done the absolute best he could!

Wujian Yin Lord was at least in the Divine Palace Realm!

Moreover, the aura around it was strong to the point of suffocation.

It was absolutely not comparable to the feeble Divine Palace Realm of Director Liu of Hanjiang Prefecture!

Wujian Yin Lord, even in the Divine Palace Realm, could be considered a terrifying existence!

The solid foundation Jiang Jian had built through day and night of bitter cultivation had taken effect.

If not for the thick spiritual essence as a backing and the perfect Shenque supporting him, allowing him to barely walk through a few moves.

Just one encounter.

Jiang Jian would have been blasted into powder by Wujian Yin Lord!

At this time.

Having gained a brief respite.

Jiang Jian's heart surged, and without stopping, his face pale, he took a step, switched to the "Inches from the end of the world" which consumed less and covered more distance, and sped toward the depths of the mountain city!

Along the way.

Frost-white Karmic Fire surrounded his body, rolling over the dead people along the way, turning them into negative energy and pouring them all into the wooden sword in his hand!

As early as when he was heading to the West City Gate.

Jiang Jian had discovered that the wooden shell of the wooden sword would be affected by negative energy and turn into wood shavings!

More and more dead people turned into pure negative energy, crazily dissolving the wooden shell!

"Wujian Yin Lord."

"Its negative energy is extremely abundant, enough to be heaven-shaking!"

As he pondered.

Jiang Jian sped along, and the wooden shell of the long sword fell off faster.

The cracks grew larger and larger, constantly emitting cracking sounds.

Between the gaps, a biting cold light was already reflected!

The Spring spiritual Qi was exhausted.

But there was still 40% of the Shenque spiritual Qi remaining!

The solid foundation built through day and night of bitter cultivation finally showed its effect at this moment!

"Spiritual Qi methods have no effect on the dead."

Jiang Jian's thoughts turned, and he made a decision instantly.

His gold-white sleeves fluttered, and he took out the Xuan Shan Yin and the Huan Yu Calling Qingci, his Shenque surging, crazily absorbing the spiritual Qi within them!

God-bestowed weapons were already infused with abundant spiritual Qi!

At this time.

Jiang Jian's spiritual Qi was like water without a source, with no means of recovery!

The Earth Realm had no heaven and earth spiritual mechanism.

The spiritual Qi stored in these two God-bestowed weapons became Jiang Jian's only reserve here!

Boom!

The Xuan Shan Yin's light dimmed, and the Huan Yu Calling Qingci turned into green vine paper.

The spiritual Qi within them was completely drained!

Level 4 God-bestowed weapons stored a massive amount of spiritual Qi!

Putting away the two God-bestowed weapons.

Jiang Jian's spiritual Qi had recovered to 80%!

At this moment.

From the time Jiang Jian left the village town to sweeping into the depths of Mount Jiuhua City, only a few seconds had passed!

"Still running."

Wujian Yin Lord's playful voice rang in his ears.

Jiang Jian's gaze changed instantly!

A few meters away, the black-robed living being appeared and slapped out another palm!

Crack!

The frost-white light curtain shattered and exploded!

Karmic Fire, innate talent, technique.

Its defense was also extremely strong!

However, its consumption was too massive.

Just this one blow consumed 10% of his Shenque spiritual Qi!

Shattering the frost-white light curtain.

Jiang Jian behind it was unharmed.

Wujian Yin Lord was stunned for a moment.

In this instant.

The mysterious black phoenix surged, flapped its wings, and hissed as it arrived!

Long Que!

Wujian Yin Lord closed its eyes, letting the phoenix pounce on its face.

Its face was as hard as iron and stone; amidst the clanging sounds, it actually suffered no damage at all!

It opened its eyes and smiled, just about to speak.

A pitch-black killing aura surged suddenly!

The phoenix phantom was just a decoy.

The real killing move was the killing aura hidden within it!

Swish!

Wujian Yin Lord's face was grazed by the pitch-black light stream, and a cut was made!

The bloodstain was conspicuous, and blood dripped!

The dead person of the Divine Palace Realm was only one step away from the Spirit Platform.

Its cultivation of negative energy could be completely regarded as an ordinary living being.

Taking advantage of the brief moment.

Jiang Jian moved another few miles away!

"Wujian Yin Lord's teleportation, although powerful."

"Also requires a brief interval."

Thinking of this point.

Jiang Jian crazily activated "Inches from the end of the world," Karmic Fire roaring in his sleeves, crushing all the dead people along the way!

Negative energy was rolled up and blasted into the wooden shell of the long sword.

Countless resentful roars entered his ears!

Many dead people shrieked and launched soul attacks at Jiang Jian!

Having lost the Star Armor.

Jiang Jian lacked the means to defend his soul.

He could only activate Karmic Fire before the sound waves reached him, crushing them in advance!

Despite this.

There were still sporadic sound waves piercing into his soul.

Making Jiang Jian endure bone-piercing pain, his expression pained.

In the depths of his soul, cracking sounds came, and the cracks grew larger!

Boom!

Sensing the crisis approaching, Jiang Jian's heart tightened, and the scorching white sea of fire rolled over, turning the hundreds of dead people on the whole street into negative energy!

A few meters away, the void distorted suddenly!

Wujian Yin Lord's expression was cold; it didn't approach Jiang Jian, but stood on the spot, black light surging in its pupils!

A pitch-black light stream, at an unimaginable speed, crossed time and space and pierced directly into the depths of Jiang Jian's soul!

Crack!

The damaged soul shattered instantly!

Countless cracks spread rapidly!

Unimaginable pain surged from the depths of his soul, clearly spreading to his whole body, to every neuron!

Jiang Jian's vision blurred suddenly.

Involuntarily, he was dazed for a moment.

"Am I going to die?"

A thought flashed through his mind.

He fell backward, and in his blurred vision, the pitch-black firmament had almost closed.

Countless past memories clearly emerged in this brief time.

The images changed rapidly.

Finally settling on a conversation he had with a physician many years ago.

"Soul-loss disease is indeed very difficult to treat."

The physician spread her hands, and a strand of green hair fell from the edge of her hood.

"However, aside from glimpsing the Spirit Platform."

"It is not completely without a way."

She walked to the river, stood side by side with the boy, and said softly.

"If you use extreme means to shatter the soul."

"And in a very short time, make it fuse again."

"It can also be restored to completeness."

The physician lowered her body, picked up a stone, and her fair fingers brushed over it, wiping away a corner.

"This is a stone with a missing corner."

She smiled lightly, her fingers moving slightly.

This stone immediately split into countless small pieces.

The physician gathered her fingers again and pieced them together.

The next second, a stone appeared in her hand again.

And.

This stone was very complete.

It just looked a bit smaller than the original stone with the missing corner.

"Actually, this method is just my hypothesis."

"It has never been realized."

The physician threw the stone into the water, looking at the ripples on the water surface, and sighed.

"According to common sense, the moment the soul shatters, the living being is dead."

"It is impossible to reassemble it."

"Even if you use external force to forcibly condense it together before it dissipates."

"The dead living being will not come back to life."

"In the end, it is just a pile of pieced-together soul fragments."

She reached out and stroked the boy's hair.

The image froze.

Past memories shattered into light.

Recalling in his heart, it was but a snap of the fingers.

Jiang Jian lay backward, falling in mid-air, and suddenly opened his eyes.

In the depths of his pupils, ice-blue light was reflected.

Wujian Yin Lord stood in the sky, looking down at him coldly from high above.

"I will not die."

Whispering to himself.

Jiang Jian closed his eyes, for the first time, using the power from the source of his soul!

On his soul, cracks were spreading crazily.

But Jiang Jian not only didn't stop it, but in a flash of thought, from the inside out, a huge force surged!

This force was even more terrifying than Wujian Yin Lord's black light!

This was the power to shatter one's own soul!

Crack!

His soul split completely!

Jiang Jian's consciousness, in an instant, had a clear, near-death feeling!

In the dark.

He knew that the next second, when his soul shattered.

It would be the time when his self-consciousness completely dissipated!

"Die here?"

"The path I walked was too short."

Jiang Jian's remaining consciousness muttered to himself.

An ice-blue flame clearly emerged from the source of his soul!

The gorgeous ice-blue light trembled lightly.

In this instant, Jiang Jian disregarded everything and used all his conviction to activate it!

The next moment.

The damaged soul shattered completely!

Countless soul fragments shattered into even smaller dust, exploding outward!

Wujian Yin Lord stood in the air, revealing a cold smile: "For half a day, many prefecture Yin Lords have been punished."

"Fortunately, I awakened quickly and didn't let you run away."

This intersection of the two realms was much more violent than before.

In the seventy prefectures of the surface world, gateways to the nether realm have appeared in many places.

The Qishen Star Palace and the Earth Realm Research Institute also seized this opportunity to mobilize some living beings to enter the Earth Realm entrance under the protection of the Dead Man's Jade.

The Dead Man's Jade had been studied by the Qishen Star Palace for a long time.

However, the entrances that appeared before were very unstable, the risks were too great, and almost no one was willing to go.

This time.

The intersection of the two realms made the Earth Realm entrance very stable.

Only then did the living beings who were already wavering have a plan to enter under strict planning and protection.

What surprised the Qishen Star Palace was.

These living beings almost all entered briefly and retreated safely after a few minutes!

They brought back a lot of useful information.

The mysterious Dead Realm was unveiled for the first time.

At the same time.

The prefecture Yin Lords in many places, due to being lazy for too long and sleeping all day, failed to look after the temporary two-realm entrance, leading to the leakage of Earth Realm information, and almost all received cruel punishment.

Wujian Yin Lord was smiling, congratulating itself on avoiding punishment.

Dozens of meters away.

Jiang Jian's falling speed was getting faster and faster.

Below the position where he fell was a pile of dense dead people!

Suddenly.

His falling body stopped suddenly in mid-air.

The fluttering gold-white robes also stopped eerily.

The azure light Jiang Jian activated before his consciousness dissipated froze the space in a square inch!

In the depths of his soul.

The ice-blue flame was unaffected and burned quietly.

In all directions.

Countless soul fragments gathered toward this place!

In just a few seconds.

All the soul fragments, regardless of size, were condensed into one place under the suppression of the ice-blue light!

Most importantly.

The newly formed soul had no defects!

Except for more dense, tiny cracks, the soul was round and flawless, extremely complete!

It was just that.

Compared to before.

Its size was a bit smaller.

There were also more tiny cracks.

The azure light surged over, attempting to repair the soul cracks.

But these soul fragments had shattered too severely.

Even if some tiny cracks were temporarily maintained.

The ice-blue light was also restrained and could not be used for anything else.

The moment the soul appeared.

Jiang Jian's self-consciousness, which he had temporarily frozen using the World-Purifying Divine Fire before his soul shattered, awakened instantly!

The change in the origin of his soul led to a series of drastic changes!

Previously, all of Jiang Jian's cultivation.

Was all built on a damaged soul!

Although at this moment.

Jiang Jian's soul was full of cracks and was slightly smaller.

But his soul as a whole was complete!

The foundation formed by a complete soul.

Was much stronger than a damaged soul!

Boom!

From the depths of his soul came a silent roar!

Meridians, cellular tissues, human blood, limbs and bones, whole-body flesh and blood.

Shenque acupoint, Yongquan acupoint.

All were swept through by the soul source power!

Ushering in an unbelievable drastic change!

His pitch-black, transparent Shenque acupoint expanded by 30% invisibly!

The Yongquan acupoint increased by a full fold!

Blood, bones, flesh, and meridians all strengthened significantly!

The spiritual Qi in his whole body roared and surged, smooth as the sea, roaring like thunder!

Various techniques and methods, superimposed on this foundation, had their power increased again!

Boom!

On the street below, a deafening roar exploded!

The seven-colored rainbow flashed past, instantly scurrying through the streets dozens of times!

Over a hundred wriggling dead people were directly wrapped by the seven-colored light rainbow, their bodies exploding!

In an instant.

The frost-white Karmic Fire rolled over, turning all the dead people's fragments into negative energy!

Crack!!!

A more terrifying shattering sound rang out below!

The seven-colored light rainbow dissipated.

The white-robed youth appeared, the long sword in his hand boiling with light flames, frost-cold and bone-piercing.

The wooden shell on it was already mostly gone!

Jiang Jian raised his head, looking up at Wujian Yin Lord, whose expression had changed slightly, and said softly, "You were right."

"I was once an ant."

"I still am."

"But you forgot one thing."

The white-robed youth's figure distorted, took a step, and turned into black light and dissipated!

His voice was cold, clearly entering Wujian Yin Lord's ears!

"For the gods."

"You."

"Are also an ant."

Clang!

Jiang Jian appeared before Wujian Yin Lord, Karmic Fire burning between his palms, and slapped out a palm fiercely!

Wujian Yin Lord's expression was gloomy; its sleeves rolled horizontally, colliding with Jiang Jian!

Sparks flew!

The sound of metal clashing rang through the eight directions!

The frost-white light curtain dissipated; Jiang Jian's palm went numb, his face was a bit pale, and his figure retreated violently, instantly hiding away.

Wujian Yin Lord was not injured.

But its expression was colder, and in the depths of its heart, an extremely ominous feeling surged!

The surface human before it.

Was clearly only in the Spring Realm.

And it was a prefecture Yin Lord, a genuine Divine Palace Realm!

It even had hope of glimpsing the supreme Spirit Platform!

But the palm collision just now.

Made Wujian Yin Lord's heart tighten, sensing a terrifying fact!

Although it still had a huge advantage, it was far from being able to easily crush the opponent as it had just now!

The spiritual Qi foundation of this Spring Realm surface human had already deepened to an unimaginable degree!

"Hiding and dodging, do you really think I can't find you!"

Wujian Yin Lord was a bit irritable; in a flash of thought, it gave a cold shout.

As its black robes rolled, it turned around suddenly, and a pitch-black cage surged toward the nothingness!

The cage appeared, suppressing the heavens!

The seven-colored rainbow Jiang Jian had turned into appeared suddenly, trapped in the depths of the cage, unable to move!

Wujian Yin Lord sneered, negative energy surging crazily, suppressing toward the front!

Under the coverage of negative energy, all spiritual Qi methods could not be used!

Back then, when Shi Xuan suddenly attacked and wrapped Jiang Jian, preventing him from using teleportation methods, it relied on negative energy!

But the white-robed youth in the cage just stood there quietly, without making any move.

The next second.

Wujian Yin Lord was horrified to find that the white-robed youth was not without action, but expressionless, raising the long sword in his hand and throwing it toward the overwhelming negative energy!

As a Divine Palace Realm living being, its intuition was extremely accurate.

In the depths of its heart, that ominous premonition was even more obvious!

Crack!

A crisp shattering sound, not very loud.

Yet it clearly entered the ears of the two.

That long sword, the wooden shell remaining on the sword body, after being baptized by negative energy, finally emitted a cracking sound and shattered completely!

In the dim world, a ray of light appeared suddenly!

This light was extremely dazzling!

It almost tore through the gray sky, clearly reflecting into the depths of their pupils!

That was a sword.

Han Guang Divine Sword.

The sword was three feet long, frost-white as snow.

Han Guang swept through mid-air, scorching white sword light spitting out, and the intersection point, which was already unstable, showed streaks of pitch-black void cracks.

Mount Jiuhua City was the intersection of the two realms.

The boundary wall here was not stable.

This was also the reason Wujian Yin Lord could easily strike void cracks.

If it were on the surface, even if it risked its life, it would be impossible to strike even a single crack.

"This long sword is strange!"

Wujian Yin Lord's heart trembled; it took a step, appeared directly beside the long sword, its black robes roaring, about to pull it into its sleeves.

Hundreds of meters away.

The white-robed youth stood quietly, trapped in the pitch-black cage, looking coldly at this place.

Watching as it was about to grab the long sword, Wujian Yin Lord felt a slight joy in its heart.

As long as this unstable factor was eliminated, it could crush the Spring Realm ant to death!

Under the suppression of negative energy, he absolutely could not escape the cage!

Wujian Yin Lord was right.

Jiang Jian's spiritual Qi was suppressed by negative energy, and he couldn't move at all.

But what it didn't expect was.

This three-foot snow sword actually dissipated before its eyes, turning into full-ground fragments of light, drifting and scattering!

The black-robed sleeves grabbed nothing!

It was horrified, turned around suddenly, and looked at the pitch-black cage.

The beautiful youth in gold-threaded white robes was standing in the cage, looking at it from afar.

But beside his hand, there were hundreds of points of light surging from the nothingness.

Finally.

Scorching white light streams interwove, gathered at his pale fingertips, and turned into a three-foot snow sword!

Han Guang Divine Sword!

On the Han Guang blade, frost-white light flames burned fiercely, tearing through the void!

Countless pitch-black cracks were born and destroyed where the blade passed inadvertently!

The three-foot snow sword was sharp and exposed!

Jiang Jian held Han Guang, his expression cold as frost.

His sleeves fluttered, and he slashed fiercely toward Wujian Yin Lord ahead!

Boom!

On the blade, the light flames burned fiercely!

A frost-white, brilliant sword light, like snow, tore through the cage, crushed the negative energy, and roared!

The dim world seemed to quiet down.

The sword light drifted, bringing up a dazzling scorching white tail flame, shattering the void, rolling up pitch-black cracks dozens of meters long, and slashed before Wujian Yin Lord in an instant!

Wujian Yin Lord's expression changed drastically!

In the depths of its pupils, reflecting the scorching white sword light that crushed everything, it crazily activated negative energy, and countless protective light curtains overlapped around its body!

Crack!

Crack!!!

The sword light fell, sweeping invincible!

The scorching white light flames swept past, and countless protective light curtains shattered like paper!

The brilliant sword Qi slashed down, and the negative energy was also rolled into fragments, exploding!

Boom!!!

Wujian Yin Lord's expression was pale; its figure teleported rapidly, but it could never dodge the sword Qi's lock!

With no way to avoid it.

It raised its arms, protecting its front, and took this sword Qi head-on!

Crack!

Swish!

The sword light slashed and arrived, passing through the pitch-black void cracks, slashing down, and cutting off half of Wujian Yin Lord's arm!

Boom!

The fallen arm exploded with a roar!

A massive amount of negative energy surged out, sprinkling toward Jiang Jian!

It had full confidence that as long as it took this opportunity to run away, Jiang Jian would have absolutely no way to deal with it!

This sword was too strange.

It even made Wujian Yin Lord feel fear!

"If not for this sword, you ant would have been crushed into powder by me long ago!"

Feeling indignant, Wujian Yin Lord took a step, about to teleport away!

"Divine Fire."

"World-Purifying."

Whispering to himself.

The dim world stalled again.

The negative energy, which had always been effective, lost its effect at this moment!

Jiang Jian took a step, his figure turned into black light and dissipated.

In an instant.

He appeared beside Wujian Yin Lord; his soul was dazed, his face pale as paper, but in his pupils, ice-blue light surged; holding the three-foot snow sword, he slashed fiercely again!

Boom!

On the frost-white sword blade, light flames spat out, scorching and heaven-shaking!

Swish!

Wujian Yin Lord's head was cut off!

Beheaded with one sword!

The scorching white light stream on the blade swept past, twisting its headless body, which had no protection, into countless fragments!

Boom!!!

Wujian Yin Lord's body exploded with a roar!

An indescribable amount of negative energy sprinkled the heavens and earth!

Jiang Jian forced himself to keep his consciousness clear.

The cracks on his soul, amidst cracking sounds, spread crazily!

Forcibly activating the ice-blue light caused the soul cracks to lose their support and shatter rapidly!

But at this time, the soul, although full of cracks.

Its main body was complete!

This degree of shattering was still within Jiang Jian's tolerance!

Jiang Jian estimated.

With his current soul strength, the ice-blue light could be used for at most three seconds!

If it exceeded three seconds.

His soul would shatter instantly, his consciousness would dissipate completely, and there would be no room for error!

Jiang Jian's gaze trembled; he looked at the dim sky, took a step, and sped toward the city gate!

The intersection of the two realms could end at any time!

The sky above had turned completely dark!

Only in the direction of the village town remained a faint, barely perceptible pale white!

"Han Guang."

As his figure turned into a rainbow and sped along, Jiang Jian threw the Han Guang Divine Sword toward the negative energy that covered the sky and earth.

Boom!

Han Guang was like a terrifying magnet, hovering in the air, absorbing the indescribable massive amount of negative energy into the depths of the sword body!

In just a few seconds.

The overwhelming negative energy was rolled into it.

All impurities were crushed by the sword Qi, clean and clear.

Only a fist-sized pitch-black light ball remained, hovering at the edge of the sword blade.

The pitch-black light ball, although not large.

Contained unimaginable negative energy!

The Han Guang long sword turned into light and dissipated.

The next second.

It re-condensed, crossed a distance of hundreds of meters, and reappeared in Jiang Jian's hand.

Boom!

The seven-colored rainbow passed through the portal and disappeared instantly!

In Mount Jiuhua City, all the dead people were crushed by the sword Qi.

After washing away the impurities, they turned into pure negative energy and were gathered into the light ball.

In the village town.

The seven-colored light dissipated, and Jiang Jian's figure appeared.

The sky was pitch black, almost impossible to see one's fingers!

Spiritual Qi surged crazily, and pitch-black light streams interwove.

Jiang Jian took a step, instantly crossing a distance of hundreds of meters, and appeared in the village town square!

The next moment.

He moved continuously.

In the blink of an eye, he landed in front of the portal!

Just at this time.

Boom!

A thunderous sound that cracked the firmament spread through the heavens and earth!

Surface, Earth Realm.

The intersection of the two realms would end in an instant!

The portal before his eyes became incomparably illusory!

Jiang Jian's expression was gloomy; he took out the Dead Man's Jade, activated it directly, and turned into light to sweep away!

Bang!

It was as if he had hit a wall!

Jiang Jian's figure was bounced away instantly!

"What is going on!"

Jiang Jian's expression was colder; his thoughts turned rapidly, his gaze falling on the pitch-black light ball, and he instantly found the reason!

According to common sense.

Negative energy could not enter the surface realm at all!

The situation was becoming increasingly urgent!

In the blink of an eye.

Jiang Jian's mind flashed with countless thoughts, but in the end, his gaze was cold; he took the pitch-black light ball and, enduring the bone-piercing pain, pressed it into his Yongquan acupoint!

The living being's acupoints were natural barriers!

Just at this time.

The sky had turned completely dark!

The intersection of the two realms began to separate!

"Not good!"

Jiang Jian's expression changed drastically!

Just as the portal was illusory and about to dissipate.

Gritting his teeth.

Jiang Jian risked his soul shattering and forcibly activated the World-Purifying Divine Fire!

The ice-blue light brushed past.

The illusory portal immediately solidified again!

Jiang Jian's vision went black, and his soul emitted a cracking sound.

Before his consciousness fell asleep, he used all the spiritual essence in his body, turned into a seven-colored rainbow, and fell into the portal!

Bang!

The portal here hid into the darkness and dissipated completely!

All around, it was impossible to see one's fingers, filled with suffocating pitch-black.

In all directions, there was no sound.

Silent as death.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 170 =====

The portal here faded into the darkness and dissipated completely!

All around, one could not see one's own fingers; it was pitch black and suffocating.

In every direction, there was not a single sound.

It was silent as death.

(End of chapter)