Chapter 1073: Mount Tushan Stood Upon the Earth Like Steel

Surrounded by sword cultivators and law cultivators watching, Mu Mu Tianxue, whose cultivation had been sealed to the peak of Jin Dan, and Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun, an early Nascent Soul cultivator, were locked in a life-and-death battle.

Blood-colored sword light bloomed, and eighteen demonic-fire skeletons roared.

In the arena, Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun spread his domain; the eighteen skeletons spewed demonic fire, burning the nine constantly leaping, sword-swinging Mu Tianxues, scorching them into a wretched state—arms would snap from time to time, dissolving into a puddle of fresh blood, which was then burned to ash by the skeletons' demonic fire.

This was a great realm crossing from the peak of Jin Dan to early Nascent Soul!

Many sword cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Capital stared unblinkingly at the battlefield, intoxicated, excitement blooming on their cheeks, comprehending something between the sword moves.

Fighting Nascent Soul at the peak of Jin Dan!

This had never happened in the Great Sun Sword Capital.

Nascent Soul cultivators possessed domains that could seal off spiritual energy, using the power of heaven and earth to suppress a single person—the advantage was simply too great. Nascent Soul Zhenjuns dealing with Jin Dan cultivators would usually just spread their domain, strike down with a palm, as easy as reaching into a bag to retrieve something.

Yet before their eyes, Mu Mu Tianxue could still hold on, still fighting—without a doubt, she had taken another step on the sword path.

Within that blood-colored sword light, thunder rumbled, as if about to break through!

"Wretched slave!"

"You want to use me to hone your sword? Then die!"

Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun quickly understood her intention and flew into a rage.

He instantly ignited his essence blood, boosting his aura several times over; the demonic-fire skeletons swelled to dozens of zhang in size, carrying a sky-filling fire domain as they charged toward the nine Mu Tianxues. Countless axes and battle-axes hacked down, and in a single strike smashed one Mu Mu Tianxue into ash.

With this blow, the nine Mu Tianxues forming the sword formation lost one, and their aura plummeted instantly.

"Die!"

"This old man can die together with a peak Nascent Soul cultivator—worth it, worth it!"

Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun laughed maniacally.

He controlled the eighteen demonic-fire skeletons to tread upon the sky, shattering the void; the various pressure and strange phenomena made the Jin Dan cultivators tremble in terror, utterly despairing, without any courage to resist.

"Die!"

"Die!"

"……"

The eighteen demonic-fire skeletons charged ferociously, trampling, smashing one Mu Mu Tianxue after another to death—each one was her true body. This was the innate advantage brought by the Blood Spirit Sacred Body; as these Mu Tianxues died, her power continuously weakened.

……

"Blood Spirit Sacred Body, Nine Lives Divine Ability."

"Interesting……"

Jiang Ding in the Black Demon Palace cast a glance over.

This kind of dao-body-level talent was actually most suited to the path of blood-path law cultivation—multiple avatars scattered across realms, virtually undying and indestructible, able to preserve one's life even against higher-realm cultivators, deeply embodying traits like danger, cunning, and tenacity—truly formidable.

However, Mu Tian

Dong Xue had chosen the path of Great Sun sword cultivation, so she could not do so.

She had to gather all her avatars together; while her power greatly increased, she also lost all her escape routes—otherwise the sword path would never advance a single step.

The Great Sun sword path overemphasized breaking through limits between life and death.

One simply could not treat one's own life as expendable—such a person would not go far on the Great Sun sword path.

However,

if one courted death, then one would die.

No one's luck stays good forever. If you want to break through between life and death, you should prepare in advance to meet death—every year many sword cultivators die in sword duels.

This is a very normal thing.

Whether you are a prodigy or not, everyone is equal before death.

In Jiang Ding's view, Mu Mu Tianxue's current state should have a seventy percent chance of death, a ten percent chance of escape, and a twenty percent chance of breaking through.

Life is a very delicate thing, and he could not judge it completely either.

"Bloodthirsty, mad, breaking through between life and death."

"This should not be the sword cultivator's path."

Jiang Ding was also pondering his own sword path, murmuring to himself: "The sword path should be a science—constantly practice, constantly understand, constantly solidify one's foundation, and only when one has absolute confidence in breaking through should one go into battle."

"Great Sun sword cultivation relies too much on blood-soaked battle."

"This has gone to an extreme."

He believed this was a flaw in the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's inheritance.

"Sword Son."

A black fatty in the palace, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritance envoy Black, hearing this said: "Mu Mu Tianxue likewise believes she will definitely break through."

"Not just her—almost every sword cultivator who decides to participate in a blood duel believes this, with absolute confidence."

"However, the result……"

"Facts prove that some are right, some are wrong."

"Whether it is arrogant ignorance or confidence—this relates to the cultivator's foundation, will, and sword intent."

Black subtly offered criticism to the Great Sun Sword Son: "Many sword cultivators simply do not have such deep foundations, do not have such talent and brilliance—their great dao only appears in blood-soaked battle."

"Such people perhaps should not be looked down upon."

"……Is that so?"

Jiang Ding was stunned, falling into deep thought.

Neither of them paid much attention to Mu Mu Tianxue in her life-and-death battle.

So what if she had a dao body?

If she could not win, then let her die.

This was her own choice, her own path—others had no right to interfere. Too many people in the world died seeking the dao; unparalleled prodigies, emperor's sons, dao sons all died—there was nothing strange about it.

……

While Mu Mu Tianxue was locked in deadly combat,

at the same time, Lieyang Master Dinghai Zhenjun was also fighting his own opponent.

His opponent was Hunyang Master Dinghai Zhenjun, mid Nascent Soul stage—the most famous rising-star prodigy of the Darifa Sect. Some believed he had long since surpassed the Darifa Sect's Darifa Zi, who had once been Lieyang Dayan Jianzi's equal. Having grown up within a Soul Transformation-level power, in the future he was very likely to become the Overseer of Hun Yuan Fa Tian Du.

He had committed several capital crimes he thought well concealed, having once used underhanded means to seize the foundations of multiple Jin Dan prodigies and three Nascent Soul cultivators.

At this moment, Lieyang Master Dinghai Zhenjun suppressed his cultivation to early Nascent Soul, fighting Hunyang Master Dinghai Zhenjun to the death.

This battle was extraordinarily brutal; in the end Lieyang Master Dinghai Zhenjun's Dharma Body was shattered, and only by wielding his sword with his Nascent Soul did he narrowly behead Hunyang Master Dinghai Zhenjun, pinning and slaying Hunyang Master Dinghai Zhenjun's Nascent Soul with his flying sword.

"It's done. My Great Dao."

"Half a step into Refined Sword into Silk…"

Amid the battlefield of shattered mountain peaks and split earth, Lieyang Master Dinghai Zhenjun was left with only a Nascent Soul, cradling his life-bound flying sword, his expression serene, like a Daoist monk who had attained the Way.

The surrounding sword cultivators gazed at this Master Dinghai Zhenjun in awe, eyes brimming with the utmost envy.

At the same time, word came back from Mu Mu Tianxue's battlefield—she too had successfully slain her opponent, breaking through Sword Qi Thunder Sound to reach the Third Realm of the Sword Dao, Refined Sword into Silk, truly gaining the ability to kill early Nascent Soul cultivators as a Jin Dan, no longer relying on luck hereafter.

Of course, as far as Mu Mu Tianxue was concerned, she probably felt she had not been lucky.

From the very beginning, she had firmly believed she would break through.

At this moment, such events were unfolding everywhere throughout the Tushan Cultivation World.

At Mu Mu Tianxue's place, at Lieyang Master Dinghai Zhenjun's place, at the places of many Nascent Soul sword cultivators, many Jin Dan and Foundation Establishment sword cultivators—similar sword duels were underway, meting out punishment to cultivators sentenced to death. Some sword cultivators died, some won, some won yet gained nothing.

Countless lives withered, regardless of rank or status—any who violated the capital statutes of Tushan's laws must die.

The entire Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting Cultivation World was plunged into terror!

This time, countless rising-star high-level cultivators truly understood what the historical record meant by "the laws of Tushan must not be violated."

They could not help but break out in cold sweat, trembling all over.

They also understood why those old Nascent Soul cultivator predecessors of the past had been so wary of the so-called law, enduring the mockery of junior Nascent Soul cultivators without the slightest care.

At this moment, they realized—what tremendous fortune it was that they could still tremble, could still feel fear.

This proved they had not touched the capital statutes, had not crossed the bottom line of Tushan's laws in their past cultivation careers. Without a capital sentence, there would be no enforcement from the Great Sun Long Sword Capital.

On this day, tens of thousands of high-level cultivators from Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting turned themselves in at the Inspectorate Hall, confessing their crimes, willing to serve prison time and pay fines.

The laws of Tushan were Shen Shen Di Yin into their very souls.