Chapter 1367: Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, Dead

The Sword of the Sun slashed down along the designated arc.

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun burned everything he had, his sword soul merging into his natal flying sword, and with all that he was, he likewise struck out a sword!

Yet on this battlefield, there were not only the two of them.

"Dead?"

"No! The two of us absolutely will not die!"

At the same moment, True Fire Canghai Tianjun and Mysterious Water Canghai Tianjun both roared.

Clearly, the moment before, the battlefield had nothing to do with them; they were merely spectators.

But the moment the Great Sun Sword Progenitor's gaze fell upon them, lethal killing intent immediately descended.

That sword born within Dai Sen's Solar Sword Domain, that golden solar arc that decreed the heavens and earth entering the Final Dharma Age, landed upon the cores of their divine souls, piercing through their entire bodies, causing a portion of the spiritual energy within to utterly extinguish.

Clang!

Beneath the chill of death, the inheritance sword cultivators of the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm likewise erupted with all their power.

The two of them instantly burned their essence blood, bodies, and divine souls, pouring all their power into one flying sword crimson as fire and another azure as water; endless yin-yang order runes were born around them, falling, innately aligning with the Great Dao of Yin-Yang, yin and yang harmonizing, creation emerging.

Clearly these were merely two sword cultivators whose sword intent had reached perfection, yet when their magic power and divine souls merged in yin and yang, the will and aura of a sword soul were actually born!

Moreover, this sword soul had by no means barely arrived, but had traveled a very deep distance within the sword soul, having been honed and tempered many times over the past several thousand years.

This sword soul was named the Yin-Yang Water-Fire Sword Soul!

The sword soul's ability was named Water-Fire Annihilation: through the violent clash between the orders of water and fire, it formed a will of annihilation, innately capable of dissolving foreign orders and rules; facing a powerful foe, often a single sweep of the water-fire sword light would cause the enemy to perish together with their divine soul and rules, dying silently and without a trace—terribly fearsome.

At this life-and-death juncture, the two yin-yang dual-cultivation sword cultivators went mad.

The Yin-Yang Water-Fire Sword Soul rose up; the two water-fire flying swords spun, merging into it, transforming into a two-colored sword light that annihilated all orders and rules, and with the entire will and every sword dao comprehension the two inheritance sword cultivators had accumulated since beginning their cultivation, slashed toward the Sword of the Sun flying in from the distant sky.

That Sword of the Sun, slashing along the golden arc, was clearly striking at the inheritance sword cultivators of both the Lei Yang Heavenly Sword Realm and the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm simultaneously, yet everyone shared the same feeling.

This terrifying sun was slashing down upon themselves!

In fact, this was the truth.

At this very moment, the inheritance sword cultivators of the Lei Yang Heavenly Sword Realm and the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm had all burned everything, transforming into sword souls that merged into their flying swords—one a thunder-light destruction sword soul sword, one a Yin-Yang Water-Fire Sword Soul annihilation sword.

The two flying swords that had burned everything, their sword souls within, made contact with the Sword of the Sun in the narrowest sliver of time.

Several million sword dao cultivators, as well as all the divine monarchs of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong, involuntarily held their breath, a momentary tension rising in their hearts—some tremendous change might be appearing in the Upper Realm.

Was it a sun sword cultivator approaching the Dao Progenitor who had appeared?

Or was it two Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong inheritance sword cultivators whose sword dao had achieved a major breakthrough, whose strength would surely surpass that of past inheritance disciples, who had appeared?

The outcome of this battle could very possibly influence the great trends of the Upper Realm in the future!

Because every Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong inheritance cultivator would inevitably, in the future, achieve greatness above Dao Merging; every move they made would stir up countless storms unknown.

Not to mention cultivators whose strength surpassed that of past inheritance disciples—in the future, among those above Dao Merging, they might well be top-tier existences, and might even advance further.

This very outcome was precisely what the sword dao Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong inheritance ceaselessly sought, the reason they were willing to cast aside life and death for it.

The three sword-soul swords touched in an instant.

Ting!

In that instant, between heaven and earth there rang a sound of the sword dao that resounded throughout the four corners of the universe.

Within a range of several hundred thousand kilometers, every living being—all living beings other than the human race, insects, birds, fish, fierce beasts, ghosts and corpses, and even several Void-Treading beings of the demon race—instantly dropped dead without a sound, divine souls utterly destroyed, completely perished, erased at the most fundamental level of the divine soul, losing every characteristic of being alive.

In the hearts of countless sword cultivators, a scene appeared.

In a stretch of heaven and earth, a sword dao world where a resplendent, blazing sun hung high in the sky; a sword dao world where water and fire merged, annihilating all things; and a world of ten thousand paths of thunder.

These three worlds represented the lives of the three inheritance sword cultivators.

Within them, various figures and scenes flashed past—scenes of practicing the sword, scenes of slaying powerful foes, scenes of participating in countless immortal dao scientific research conferences… This was the sword cultivator's will, the sword cultivator's life!

These three sword dao worlds were colliding.

No, to be precise, it was the water-fire sword dao world and the world of ten thousand paths of thunder joining forces to collide with the resplendent sun sword dao world!

This slaughter between sword souls was both perilous and over in an instant; the result revealed itself.

Peng!

Hong!

The sword soul worlds collided; the water-fire sword dao world crumbled, the world of ten thousand paths of thunder crumbled, and that resplendent sun sword dao world burst forth with infinite radiance, illuminating the endless starry sky.

Honglong!

Revealed outside the material world, the Thunder Destruction flying sword wailed once and crumbled, scattering.

The Water-Fire Yin-Yang flying sword, as if struck by lightning, fell toward the earth.

"Great Sun!"

"Pure Yang…"

The Water-Fire Yin-Yang flying sword staggered, revealing two faint shadows of divine souls—precisely True Fire Canghai Tianjun and Mysterious Water Canghai Tianjun of the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

The two of them wore terrified expressions, and for the first time felt the fear that Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun had felt.

Their hearts held no anger or killing intent whatsoever; under the desperate desire to live, their divine souls barely merged with their flying swords, and they fled madly toward the distance.

Among the steel city and the hundreds of thousands of warships, a youth in blue did not look at them, but extended his hand.

From afar, the eighth-grade sword embryo, the Thunder Destruction flying sword, flew from the dark starry sky and landed in his hand; within it was an extremely weakened living being's divine soul—precisely the inheritance sword cultivator of the Lei Yang Heavenly Sword Realm, Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun.

In the distance, an eighth-tier sword embryo, the Lei Ting Doom Flying Sword, flew in from the dark starry sky and landed in his hand. Within it was an extremely weakened spirit soul of a living being—precisely the inheriting sword cultivator of the Lei Yang Heavenly Sword Realm, Chong Guang Lei Canghai Tianjun.

This extremely weakened inheritance sword cultivator said.

He merged man and sword as one, launching a final charge against the enemy before him, killing into that resplendent, infinitely destructive Materialist Sun Sword Soul.

He united body and sword, launching his final charge against the enemy before him, plunging into the resplendent, endlessly destructive Materialist Sun Sword Soul.

The closer he drew to the Materialist Sun Sword Soul, the more his Thunder Sword Soul burned with great fire, bit by bit turning to ash.

The closer he got, the more his Thunder Sword Soul blazed up in great fire, little by little turning to ash.

"Fellow Daoist,"

"Safe travels…"

Jiang Ding took out a cup of clear tea and took a sip.

Hum!

In the distant sky, endless Earth-Path Heavenly Dao law-net appeared, freezing space and rules, crushing and suppressing all living beings below Void Refinement. A colossal heaven-spanning palm descended with the power of the Heavenly Dao law-net, its killing intent utterly frenzied, utterly furious!

"Hold it!"

"Ant! Laozi told you to hold it!"

"How dare you kill a sword cultivator of my Lei Yang Heaven Sword Realm — I'll make you unable to live, unable to die…"

A chubby old man screamed with venomous, piercing grief.

He was attacking, yet coughing blood; his Dao-Unity divine soul showed terrifying cracks, tearing apart from within, causing his Dao-Unity-tier life to rapidly drain away. He paid it no heed, but instead madly charged at a Soul Transformation junior to save the Lei Ting sword soul that was rushing toward its own destruction against the Materialist Sun Sword Soul.

"Daoist Shougui's request — this old man grants it!"

At the same time, beside the Tianwen inheritance of the Immortal Artifact Sect, an old man wrapped in skin over gears and white bone spoke in a hoarse voice.

Behind him rose an eight-armed blood-puppet figure, charging through endless Blood-Path rules and Heavenly Dao law-net. All eight arms reached out at once, pouncing down upon a Soul Transformation junior with full power unleashed.

Two Dao-Unity Divine Monarchs of the great Immortal Sects struck at the victor of the sword duel at the same time!

"Not bad."

"The Cultivation World… is indeed, from beginning to end, exactly as I had imagined — it has never changed."

Jiang Ding smiled.

He drained the clear tea in his cup in one gulp, completing his farewell.

Then,

Clang!

Jiang Ding drew his sword and slashed down in one strike, cutting the Lei Yang Heaven Sword Realm inheritor sword cultivator — who had rushed in like a moth to flame — into ashes, obliterating every trace of his vitality, destroying both body and divine soul.

Lei Yang Heaven Sword Realm inheritor sword cultivator,

Chong Guang Lei Canghai Tianjun,

Dead!