Chapter 1373: The Guardian of the Great Sun Sword Son

No one knew when it began, but the powers in the Upper Realm who closely watched the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm keenly noticed something.

The Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm's civil war had begun!

Not a clash, not a contest over some interest — it was outright struggle to the death. Both sides deployed Dao Soldiers and top-tier experts across the Lower Domain, Middle Domain, and even a few places in the Upper Domain, erupting into a brutal war. Corpses littered the fields, blood flowed like rivers, and countless cultivators perished.

Many Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong enemies and alien races rejoiced in secret.

Many Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong allies frowned deeply, worried in their hearts, and sent requests for mediation to the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

However, they soon discovered something: the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm's civil war was occurring only among the Pure Yang lineage, the Pure Yin lineage, and various factions like the Force Sword lineage, Beast Spirit Sword lineage, and Ghost Sword lineage. The Sun and Moon lineage — the true rulers of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm — remained utterly peaceful, showing no change whatsoever.

The Sun and Moon lineage made no response whatsoever to the slaughter among the sword-path factions under its command.

Both warring sides seemed to be fighting over something critically important.

Many Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong devoted tremendous effort to investigating.

Before long, they suddenly understood.

Some Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong had originally not cared about this matter, but the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm's civil war made them realize its importance, so the sects' high-level Heavenly Diviners began giving their all to deduce this matter.

But strangely, no one could divine the main figure in this matter — that Pure Yang Sword Son.

This was truly an inconceivable thing.

A mere Soul Transformation cultivator, and yet able to withstand a Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's full-force divination — this was truly impossible.

Some suspected that the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm had concealed the heavenly secrets on this matter.

There was evidence for this.

When many Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong high-level Heavenly Diviners attempted to divine this matter, they indeed encountered the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm's full-force obstruction. In this regard, the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm displayed the mighty power befitting an ancient Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong; the newly risen Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong could not bypass their divination to uncover any useful information.

In this regard, the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm showed not the slightest sign of civil war or chaos.

However, after bypassing the main target, some Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong still detected a few traces — fragments of information concerning incense offerings, the Great Sun Sword Son, Jin... and so on.

Although the news was scattered, these Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong high-level Heavenly Diviners were all cultivators of profound cultivation, and they quickly found a concrete piece of information — the Golden Sea Domain!

If they could obtain the key information about this region, they could easily divine the full picture of events.

……

Golden Sea Domain.

At the same moment the Sword Thunder Heavenly Person descended upon the Thunder Flame Domain,

No — it could even be said that, a sliver of time faster than the Sword Thunder Heavenly Person,

the barrier wall of the Golden Sea Domain was smashed open by a figure of brilliant, blazing light, incomparably scorching, and brimming with an aura of destruction.

His body was covered in wounds, even more wretched than the Sword Thunder Heavenly Person's. His entire frame was riddled with gaps; some places had been pierced through by streaks of icy sword qi, and his left arm had been severed clean at the shoulder, with Pure Yin magic power freezing and destroying all vitality there — a shocking sight.

The instant this terrifying expert stepped into the Golden Sea Domain, he had already descended upon the mountain gate of Jin Chong Guang — one of the Golden Sea Domain's two True Sects, a newly risen True Sect.

"Sword Son!"

"The Sword Son of our Pure Yang lineage!"

This terrifying expert standing amid endless destructive light roared: "This old man, Yang Gu, respectfully welcomes the Sword Son back to the Sect!"

"There is no need to worry about the Tai Yin lineage!"

"The Sun lineage will hold them in check, and the Tai Yin lineage's lackey, the strongest expert of the Pure Yin lineage, Bing Jian Jue Heavenly Person, has already had his head severed by this old man. There is no longer any possibility of blocking your path back to the Sect!"

"If experts from other Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong come to kill, this old man will surely die in battle before you!"

The terrifying voice rolled out mightily, carrying incomparably scorching, endlessly destructive terrifying power, forming streak after streak of golden ripples spreading out over hundreds of thousands of kilometers, destroying everything that stood in its way.

Jin Chong Guang's sect-protecting grand formation, which was at least peak Refinement of the Void grade, melted away like ice and snow beneath this destructive sound wave, exposing everything within the sect.

Strangely, this fearsome destructive sound wave was also so gentle.

The sound wave only destroyed the Jin Chong Guang sect-protecting grand formation that blocked the line of sight, harming not a single person within — not Qi Refining cultivators, not mortals, not even a single weed. The control of power was exquisite to the peak.

"Senior…"

"Greetings, Senior!"

Tens of millions of Jin Chong Guang cultivators collapsed in worship en masse under the overwhelming instinctive fear; not a single person could remain standing.

Their bodies trembled without cease, their minds blank, unable to suppress the overwhelming instinct to submit.

Among them was Chong Chong Guang Zi.

He did not wish to kneel in worship.

However, having once grown up in the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, he knew clearly that there were far too many terrifying experts in this world — experts who casually delighted in slaughtering billions. Their only tenderness was shown to specific people, such as the Great Sun Sword Son.

As for anyone else, the slightest defiance meant instant annihilation of both body and soul.

You think these experts, who have weathered countless ages and countless battles, would heap praise upon your unyielding backbone that would rather die than submit?

Laughable!

When weeds block the road by the wayside, one simply swats them aside — who has the leisure to care about so much?

The terrifying expert within the light swept his gaze over what lay below, and the excitement and joy in his pupils immediately dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Not here…"

"The Sword Son is not here…"

"Did he die at the hands of those shameless Dao Merging juniors from the Thunder Yang Heavenly Sword Realm and the Immortal Artifact Sect?"

"Or was it that Sword Thunder dog who has lost all the dignity of a sword cultivator?"

A terrifying aura of violence erupted in Yang Gu Heavenly Person's eyes.

The Pure Yang lineage clearly differed greatly from the Sun lineage; its temperament was extremely violent, even teetering on the edge of qi deviation, and its members' lifespans were often far shorter than those of the same cultivation level — this path had enormous flaws.

The ancients said: lone yin does not grow, solitary yang does not live.

This is indeed a profound truth — wisdom left behind by ancient sages who witnessed many terrible realities, not idle chatter.

"Or… did he successfully escape?"

"The Sword Son does not actually trust the Sun and Moon lineage?"

The Yang Bone Heavenly Person barely calmed himself, then said with heartfelt regret: "Sword Son, you've lost your mind!"

"Although the Yin-Yang Inheritors aren't exactly good people, they are the only immortal sect that might possibly take you in!"

"Anywhere else—could the Immortal Artifact Sect do it?"

"Could the Thunder Yang Heaven Sword Realm do it?"

"You just killed their inheritance disciple, and the old acquaintances of Thunder Yang are notorious for holding grudges, lawless and unbridged—even their old ancestor doesn't want to bother with them. Even if you were killed by someone, it would be a death for nothing!"

"Immortal sects that aren't sword cultivators—going there would be useless too."

"And as for the alien races, the Immortal Clans—that's even more impossible!"

"You may not know how many alien races the sword cultivators of past generations have slaughtered. From the Heavenly Blood Dragon Lord and the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Butterfly Lord at the top, down to the most ordinary mixed-blood dragons—going back three generations, they are bound to have an irreconcilable blood feud with some sword cultivator. Finding a demon race without a grudge would be hard."

"You're a sword cultivator going to seek refuge with them—how is that any different from a cat seeking refuge in a mouse's nest?"