Chapter 1186: Hundred Millions of Suns' Radiance Pierce the Heart

The ten-thousand-li star river was wrapped in endless light, endless azure magnetic order dashed lines.

Within the terrifying radiance, a resplendent blazing sun clashed with the surrounding magnetic world, following the principle of Ampere force on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field; the power of magnetic order throughout the ten-thousand-li starry sky converged and propelled it forward.

A world of sword Dao gestated within it, was born and perished, its terrifying aura spreading in all directions.

Boom!

Between heaven and earth, it was suddenly dazzling.

A blazing sun of azure and light, propelled by the magnetic world spread across tens of thousands of kilometers, broke through layer upon layer of order, pushed aside layer upon layer of rules, and descended into the Blood Lake Corpse Mountain world bearing an entire world of sword Dao in birth and death.

Great Sun Magnetic Order-Breaking Sword!

A terrifying and bone-chilling pressure descended upon the blood-robed elder.

"Audacious!"

"Just a mere junior—could he overturn the heavens?"

Madness flickered in the blood-robed elder's eyes.

He slammed his chest violently, spat out a mouthful of crimson essence blood, which landed on the forehead of the scorched-black Blood Zombie war general.

In an instant, the aura of the Blood Zombie war general changed.

"Roar!"

The Blood Zombie war general howled at the heavens.

His aura climbed steadily; his charred skin cracked and fell away, revealing a fresh crimson body, robust and unyielding, with countless hazy blood-colored runes flickering across its surface, its hardness rising by an entire major tier.

The Fangtian painted halberd in his hand writhed and grew, countless forces of blood Dao order reorganizing and growing within it; the sharp, slaughtering characteristics of blood Dao order were fully displayed, space and order fragile as paper before the halberd's edge, silently splitting in two.

Around the Blood Zombie war general, the blood lake churned and surged; corpses, skeletons, and specters crawled up from beneath the blood water, numbering in the hundreds of millions, densely carpeting the heavens and starry sky, everywhere, reaching every place.

Hundreds of millions of demons and ghosts, each bearing weapons and blades, formed a massive Blood Dao army formation that began to operate, their power concentrated into the Blood Zombie war general alone.

"Kill…"

Countless powers converged into one body; even a trace of spiritual intelligence began to show in the Blood Zombie war general's enormous pupils, and he uttered indistinct, rasping words, as if the countless beings slain by the blood-robed elder in the past were reviving to continue fighting for him.

That Fangtian painted halberd, forged from countless fresh blood and white bone, gathered the power of hundreds of millions of skeletons, corpses, and specters, and hacked down toward the azure blazing sun descending from the sky.

The two made contact and tangled for an instant.

Crack!

Silently, several thousand li of space shattered; the rules of heaven and earth in the cosmic void developed hairline cracks, no longer standing aloof and detached.

This meant that the attacks of both sides were now infinitely close to Void Refinement!

Clang!

The Taiqing flying sword retreated back.

Its spiritual light dimmed slightly.

The blood-robed elder paid a price as well; the Blood Zombie war general formed by his Blood Dao spell was forced back dozens of kilometers.

Boom!

Within the massive skeleton, corpse, and specter army formation, nearly ten million ghosts collapsed into dust without a sound.

These ghostly soldiers paid with their own deaths to absorb the force for the Blood Zombie war general—otherwise, it would not have been as simple as being forced back dozens of kilometers.

That small, exquisite blue-gold flying sword, only a few feet in size, refined over more than a thousand years, infused with countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures and ordinary metals, its sword body contained a mass akin to a black hole, its power terrifying beyond compare.

It did not move with the lightness and swiftness of ordinary flying swords; it consistently crushed opponents with brutal, direct force and speed, slaying enemies with a single strike.

"Not bad."

"The limit below Void Refinement…"

Jiang Ding Zi murmured.

This strike of his was already infinitely close to Void Refinement, unable to advance even a fraction further; even if a Sword Son of the Upper Realm's Heavenly Sword were here, they could not be closer to Void Refinement than him—he had reached the limit.

A Sword Son of the Heavenly Sword would directly cross the threshold of Void Refinement, truly possessing power comparable to rules.

"Boy, die!"

The blood-robed elder pointed with one finger.

Whoosh!

His index finger snapped off directly; countless blood lights converged within that severed finger, its fingernail incomparably sharp, dissolving space and order along the way without a sound, unable to pose any obstruction.

Even the rules of heaven and earth involuntarily parted outward, becoming its aid, further propelling the severed finger to kill toward the distance.

"Roar!"

Following closely, the Blood Zombie war general roared madly, carrying the power of an army of hundreds of millions of demons and ghosts and the entire Blood Lake Corpse Bone domain upon his body, transforming into an unmatched war general as he charged forward.

The two attacks, one after the other, arrived nearly simultaneously!

"Not bad."

Jiang Ding's gaze fell upon that severed finger, sensing a thread of bone-chilling aura upon it.

This must surely be the finger of a Void Refinement cultivator's Xiu Shi Fa body.

The power of heaven and earth's rules seemed naturally inclined to answer its call; a mere severed finger was more precious than any heavenly material or earthly treasure—using it in a battle below Void Refinement was simply a waste of heaven's gift.

Clang!

Jiang Ding drew his sword.

This time, light rose between heaven and earth—pure golden light!

That sun of six halos contained not a trace of impurity, all of it dazzling golden radiance, bearing the luster of metal, blooming with hundreds of millions of sharp beams of light that pierced into the gaze of every living being in the universe.

No, it did not merely enter the pupils of all living beings.

It stabbed into the pupils of living beings!

This was a sword art applying the karma of Jin Zhi, originating from a hegemon-level power in a realm domain, spearheaded by a sword Dao prodigy who assembled a massive research team, developed for two thousand years, and ult

imately formed this sword art!

The instant this round of pure-gold sun appeared, the entire world fell silent.

Within those hundreds of millions of demon-ghost battle formations, every ghost and monster's body froze, rigid beyond measure, unable to take a single step further, their divine souls likewise.

"Ah…"

At this moment, agonized, shrill wails rose up from among the hundreds of millions of demon-ghosts.

This kind of pain—even beings that had already died once, like skeletons, corpses, and wandering ghosts—could not endure it, writhing without cease.

Because, in this single instant, wherever the light shone down, hundreds of millions of sharp rays imbued with the karma of Jin Zhi descended, piercing through every demon-ghost's skull, body, and divine soul—every inch of flesh, every inch of soul was pierced through.

This was the cruel punishment of being cut by a thousand blades!

Bang!

Jin Chong Guang shone down for only an instant, and in that instant the hundreds of millions of demon-ghosts were sliced by a thousand blades, their bodies and divine souls collapsing into countless ashes, impossible to revive.

The place where the battle formation had been became a sea of spiritual light, no trace of life remaining.

"Roar…"

The commander of the hundreds of millions of demon-ghosts, the Blood Corpse War General, let out a furious unwilling roar.

He gripped his Fangtian Painting Halberd and hacked down through the air, scattering the light across the ground, but it was all in vain—more light instantly gathered upon his body, piercing his heart with ten thousand arrows, destroying all his flesh and blood and every ounce of his blood-path order power.

And this was merely the light of that one sword—not even its main body!

Rumble!

Like a sun made of metal, it thundered forward, crushing all in the four directions, slamming down toward the severed finger of a Refining Void cultivator that had silently streaked in from the distant sky.

At the same time, a blood-drenched severed finger stabbed into the center of the sun.

Boom!

This one finger was like plunging ice-cold ten-thousand-year profound ice into a furnace of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius—upon contact, the violent shift between cold and heat instantly triggered a terrifying explosion.

But what caused the damage was not the explosion or the shockwave—it was hundreds of millions of rays of sunlight as solid as matter, hundreds of millions of sharp karma-of-Jin Zhi sun-rays surrounding the severed finger at the center, stabbing down upon it.

Light poured forth without end, inexhaustible, in an instant tearing the flesh and blood from the severed finger layer upon layer.