Chapter 1314: Aberration: The Sword of Extinction-Wood Slays the Mud Swamp True Lord

Jiang Ding slashed out a sword.

When his blade fell, the myriad phenomena of the Human Dao among the four directions cycled through— the vicissitudes of the universe, the rise and fall of the Five Elements— all manner of strange sights swept past, until everything returned to chaos.

When the chaos dispersed, the appearance of the world's beginning emerged.

It was a world of constant lightning and thunder, erupting volcanoes, with no boundary between sky and earth, and not a single living thing in the universe.

No one knew how long such days lasted.

Finally, at the boundary between volcanoes and seawater, in this environment of high temperature and lightning, various inorganic substances in the seawater underwent chemical reactions and formed small organic molecules; then these small organic molecules continued to react and assembled into large organic molecules, which in turn formed cell structures wrapped in membranes.

This was the origin of primitive life.

This was the first life.

From this life onward, countless creatures began to emerge explosively— single-celled animals, flatworms, cnidarians, annelids… all the way to reptiles, fish, and among plants, ferns, gymnosperms, and so on.

Amid countless mutations and aberrations, life secretly conformed to the laws of the Beast Dao, harboring within it a kind of aberrant order.

At a certain moment, countless shadows of single-celled animals, echinoderms, ferns, gymnosperms, as well as the spirit beasts, humans, and all manner of living beings of the Nine Spirit Domain, Horned Jiao Jiao Mingyu Domain, Thunder Flame Domain, and many others floated up toward the sky; countless shadows converged upon a single point, forming a hazy, distorted flying sword.

This hazy, distorted flying sword appeared in the sky of the Beast Dao, its boundless radiance illuminating the four directions.

"Slash!"

Jiang Ding said quietly.

This hazy, distorted sword— formed from the aberrations and mutations produced during the evolution of countless beings across countless worlds— slashed toward the sky, slashing onto the body of the Toad Giant, who had swept aside the Golden Phoenix Fine Rain and was charging forward in great strides to kill.

This sword was formless, brushing past like a clear breeze.

"What is this?"

The Mud Swamp True Lord, who had been charging in a frenzy like an unrivaled war general of a domain, suddenly shivered, his whole body going cold, his instincts forewarning him of an incomparably terrible catastrophe.

But when he calmed his heart and carefully sensed it, he discovered nothing at all, as if it were an illusion.

"Kill!"

"No matter what the anomaly is, killing you will solve it!"

The Mud Swamp True Lord hardened his heart.

He completely abandoned investigating the strong omen in his heart, and even more ferociously spurred the power in his muscles and bones and the magic power in his dantian and meridians; the Coiling Dragon Jade Seal in his hand instantly expanded to several thousand kilometers in size, the seal engraved with the immortal talismans 'Seal' and 'Bind' passed down from antiquity, and spatial rules became like a square cage, locking down the four directions.

This vast, terrifying power and the spatial rules that sealed everything pressed down together upon the youth below.

Before the Coiling Dragon Jade Seal truly descended, space had already solidified like divine iron; the rules froze motionless, losing all fluidity, no longer displaying the natural phenomena that rules should manifest.

Everything came to a standstill.

"You do indeed possess the courage to fight to the death."

Jiang Ding praised this as well, humbly learning from his opponent.

He seemed to completely ignore the Coiling Dragon Jade Seal that hung over him like a mountain, sealing away all rules and order, leaving people puzzled, wondering if he had gone mad.

However, in the next instant, all of this had its answer.

"No!"

"What is this?"

The Mud Swamp True Lord, who had been charging in a frenzy, stopped his steps and stared in terror at his own shoulder.

Pu!

A head burst through his skin, growing out from his shoulder; its eyes, with blood flowing unceasingly, were fixed unblinkingly upon him.

This was not a mere head— a mere head could not frighten a battle-hardened cultivator.

It was alive, a head with its own self-awareness!

Moreover, it was a self-aware lifeform born from within the Refining Void True Lord's sea of consciousness, born from the vast sea of consciousness and divine soul power of a Refining Void cultivator!

The moment it was born, it possessed its own self-awareness, and with extremely strong aggression, it began to contest control of the body, forcing the Mud Swamp True Lord to halt his steps.

This was not the end, but the beginning.

Pu!

The Mud Swamp True Lord's palm throbbed with agony as a Kong Dong burst open, and another head emerged— a head with a charming, pitifully lovely face, of matchless elegance and beauty.

If only it had not appeared on a palm.

"Croak!"

"Croak croak!"

What happened made the Mud Swamp True Lord's soul nearly leave his body in terror.

Accompanied by the familiar croaking, a toad head burst forth from his chest— and not just one, but dozens tearing through flesh and blood all at once, bursting open his garments, croaking without cease.

Pu pu pu!

Heads upon heads, pairs upon pairs of eyes, even heaps of tattered butterfly wings, cattle and sheep hooves, all manner of twisted horns long and short… and so on— all kinds of chaotic and complex life characteristics appeared upon the emerald giant's body, instantly shattering the unified, immense power he possessed.

The vast demonic body, which possessed boundless strength and endless magic power, became a battlefield at this moment.

"No!"

"Ah…"

The Mud Swamp True Lord let out a shrill, miserable scream.

Within his body, countless body parts had gained independent consciousness and struggled endlessly; some body parts, unable to resolve their disputes, recklessly tore themselves from the body and fled in all directions on their own, completely abandoning the Mud Swamp True Lord as their original main body.

Amid blood flowing like a waterfall, hands, legs, hearts, eyeb

alls, and webbing… all manner of body parts spontaneously split off and flew in every direction.

He was sliced into a thousand pieces in an instant!

"Fellow Daoist, you seem to not cherish your body very much— you've added too many unknown things inside it…"

Jiang Ding sighed softly.

In his observation, the Mud Swamp True Lord's body seemed to still conceal a heaven-shaking technique, seemingly related to the innate divine ability of that emerald toad aberrant species— using the divine ability to bind magic treasures, seizing people's divine souls or heads, which would surely be spectacular, holding the possibility of a complete reversal in a desperate situation.

Unfortunately, he no longer had the strength left to perform it in this state.

This was a great regret.

Clang!

Jiang Ding drew his sword.

The Materialist Solar Sword Soul and the Materialist Solar Sword Domain spread out in all directions, suppressing everything, including the many blood-drenched organ creatures that had separated from the Mud Swamp True Venerable's massive body.

When these body parts were joined together, they possessed formidable power, enough to hold their ground at the Refinement of Void level.

But when they scattered into thousands upon tens of thousands of distinct consciousnesses, that power became so feeble that they weren't even qualified to survive within the Materialist Solar Sword Domain — they froze in place, utterly unable to move.

In the sky, the blazing light of destruction shone down upon the earth!

The sun rose, and countless evil spirits screamed as they were destroyed, becoming patches of white ash; only scattered specks of white ash gathered toward the center, forming two weakened divine souls.

One was in human form, the other a verdant toad — an ancient exotic species, the Sky-Fishing Treasure Toad.

The Mud Swamp True Venerable's divine soul was silent for a moment.

"What art is this?"

He asked.

"The sixteenth power of the embryonic form of the Wood-Destroying Aberration Sword."

Jiang Ding said calmly: "It does seem to offend the heavens; I should use it sparingly in the future… This move is actually not yet perfected — not as complete as the Metal-Destroying Sword. However, Dao Friend, your defenses in this regard were far too careless; they were lacking."

"The fusion of humans and exotic species is not so easily accomplished; while gaining great strength, it also exposes many flaws."

"So that's how it is… This old man has lost."

"Lost at the hands of you, a despicable, shameless mongrel sword cultivator."

The Mud Swamp True Venerable sighed: "This old man slaughtered countless beings in his life. Having lost, then so be it — no regrets, no complaints."

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately triggered the self-destruct prohibition within his divine soul, unwilling to let it fall into the enemy's hands and suffer further torment.

Unfortunately, that was a vain hope.

A dazed look passed through his eyes, and he finally sank completely into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, losing himself.

Jiang Ding waved his hand and collected the weakened divine soul along with the verdant toad's divine soul, drawing them into the Six Paths of Reincarnation space to ensure these two divine souls would not suddenly perish.

He had no hobby of tormenting defeated foes.

After some time, once he obtained the information he wanted, he would personally send them into reincarnation.