Chapter 1451: Born Bearing the Sword Dao Fortune of Several Hundred Thousand Years Across the Domains

Within the pitch-black heavenly tribulation clouds.

The Great Sun Sword Dao's web of rules blossomed, sword-light hacking apart bolt after bolt of tribulation thunder, tearing the tribulation's oppressive might into scattered fragments, leaving only a single dazzling streak of sword-light illuminating the world.

This sight compelled heartfelt admiration.

One must remember, this was merely a Void Refinement cultivator, yet able to suppress with sword-force a terrifying Lei Gao Jie comparable to a Harmonization heavenly tribulation.

This was a marvel that had never appeared in this cosmic starry sky over the past several hundred thousand years — not in the Ancient God Dao era, not in the pre-Ancient-God-Dao era of the demon race, nor in any even more distant age.

This was the very first Immortal Dao miracle to appear in this world-cluster!

"Great Sun!"

"Great Sun, Sword Lord…"

At the instant of that youth's qualitative transformation, True Venerable Mie Ri's hair stood on end, his divine soul trembling, growling low without cease.

The planet-grade steel city under his control activated of its own accord, radiating brilliance; the city's macro-cannons instinctively powered up, only to be suppressed by reason and shut down again.

Then instinct involuntarily activated them once more, and reason shut them down again.

The cycle repeated without end.

At this moment, True Venerable Mie Ri was utterly unable to control himself.

More than ten thousand years ago — the battle in which the Immortal Sect annihilated the Great Sun Sword Pavilion!

In that battle, True Venerable Mie Ri had participated as a Nascent Soul-grade skyborne mothership commander; he had endured that terrifying life-and-death slaughter, and every relative, teacher, wife, child, and countless comrades around him had died — slain beneath the sword of the Great Sun Sword Lord.

After a brutal battle, his entire legion was annihilated; he Suffers Heavy wounds, and once healed was transferred to the battlefield besieging the Great Sun Sword Child, Chong Chong Guang Zi.

He had assumed that, after advancing to Void Refinement and entering service within the Immortal Sect's expeditionary army, after mastering the Harmonization-grade military formation, the past was completely behind him — he had forgotten those old affairs; it was nothing more than a mere peak Void Refinement cultivator.

But now, he realized he had been wrong.

At this moment when the Great Sun Sword Lord was born once again, every memory of the past surged up — scene after scene: his wife and children, the friends who had withered on the battlefield…

"Great Sun Sword Lord!"

"Why… why must such a thing appear within the Immortal Sect…"

True Venerable Mie Ri's eyes faintly bloodshot, he growled low: "His talent, his fortune — even if he had walked purely the Immortal Sect's path, he could still have reached an exceedingly lofty height. Why must he learn the path of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion…"

"I don't understand!"

"…I truly don't understand…"

Beside him, True Venerable Ping Yang and True Venerable Ni Ri wore complex expressions.

This complicated sentiment was shared by only the three of them among the entire Ninth Expeditionary Army's more than five hundred million officers and soldiers.

Over ten thousand years had passed; any of those old friends and comrades who had not advanced to Void Refinement were now all dead, perished within the flow of time, never to be seen again.

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Throughout the entire vast Ninth Expeditionary Army, no one understood them.

"Mie Ri!"

"Watch your Dao heart. You are no longer fit to serve as the Ninth Expeditionary Army's First Deputy Commander-in-Chief. I propose that the military formation's authority be temporarily transferred…"

True Venerable Ping Yang calmed the complicated emotions in his heart and said coldly.

This was not a suggestion — it was a resolution being passed through the Ninth Expeditionary Army's Military Committee; with the cooperation of the legion's formation spirit, the relevant authority was swiftly transferred, no longer remaining in the hands of a Void Refinement cultivator who was losing control.

"Why?"

"Why must he walk the Sword Dao?"

True Venerable Mie Ri muttered to himself, like wood or stone, showing no reaction to the outside world.

……

"A fool, nothing more."

"Ignorant and benighted!"

The spirit of Dayang Dayang Tianchi also noticed True Venerable Mie Ri's abnormality and loss of control; the Harmonization-peak-grade heavy treasure coldly regarded this man, then let out a contemptuous snicker.

She felt no empathy whatsoever for True Venerable Mie Ri's complicated emotions; instead, she mocked him.

In truth, she held no feelings for any cultivator of the Dongji Demon Sect — dare to make a move and she would simply beat them to death on the spot, without the slightest hesitation.

"The Sword Child is one who is born bearing the Sword Dao fortune of the Nine Spirit Domain, and of even more domains, accumulated over several hundred thousand years."

"This is the Great Sun Sword Dao's destiny and heavenly mandate."

Commander Chen Chen's voice rose high: "Our Sword Child is innately suited to walk the Sword Dao — sentimental yet heartless, with extremely high comprehension and unshakeable will. Even if the Dongji Demon Sect had no Sword Dao inheritance, he would still find his own way onto the Sword Dao's path."

"The Sword Dao and the Sword Child complement each other."

"Without the Great Sun Sword Dao, there would be no Sword Child; without the Sword Child, there would be no Great Sun Sword Dao today. Perhaps hundreds of thousands, or tens of millions of years from now, when everything had utterly changed, only then would another peerless prodigy arise to pick up the Great Sun Sword Dao once more, carry it forward, and recreate the legacy of Great Sun Ancestor."

"The two depend on each other, indistinguishable from one another."

"Without the Great Sun Sword Dao, how could there be today's Sword Child?"

"Hehe,"

"That sore loser little yellow-hair is nothing but a clown."

Commander Chen Chen mocked: "The seventeenth-generation Great Sun Sword Lord, Zou Zou Xiyuan, died — died in the encirclement, died of carelessness, died of arrogance. At that time the Great Sun Sword Child, Chong Chong Guang Zi, also died, slain by the Jiudaxian Sect's hundreds of millions of cultivators in joint siege."

"And the entire Sword Pavilion's several million disciples likewise perished to the last, not one remaining."

"About these things, have we said anything?"

"Have we spoken of injustice?"

"Have we spoken of any luck or flukes? Have we spoken of any hatred?"

"None of that at all."

"Victory is victory;

?? defeat is defeat. Sword cultivators take the strong as their fortune; to die at the hands of the strong — if one is not strong enough, that is the natural principle of heaven. Why blame fate or others?"

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"Hahahaha!"

"Dawdling all day long, so sissy and prissy, a disgrace!"

Yue is mocking him, and very loudly at that — deliberately laughing out loud, making sure the sound carries into Extinction Sun True Lord's ears, laughing heartily, twisting the knife into his wound.

"You, that vile woman…"

Extinction Sun True Lord whirled his head around abruptly, killing intent chilling, his gaze blood-red.

"Oh?"

"Refinement-Void ant, what are you saying?"

Yue's killing intent is no less intense.

The two stared at each other coldly.

Both wishing they could throttle the other on the spot — soul and spirit annihilated, never to be reborn for all eternity, that kind of hatred.

However, neither of them made any move.

Extinction Sun True Lord has had his military authority restricted, with no ability to do anything.

Yue, on the other hand, has been forbidden from issuing orders, unable to truly attack, and can only provoke verbally, hoping Extinction Sun True Lord will lose his reason and take the initiative to attack the Great Sun Sword Child within the heavenly tribulation, giving her the chance to beat Extinction Sun True Lord to death on the spot.

If Extinction Sun True Lord truly carried out such a maddened act, even the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect would not protect him.

From within the heavenly tribulation, a faint sigh came.

"Yue, you don't really seem like a sword cultivator."

Beneath the lightning, a gaze was cast this way, silencing Yue, who was in the middle of cursing: "A sword cultivator who dies in a glorious sword-duel dies upon the road of seeking the Dao — whatever the hatred, it truly should not be."

"Yue, you need not grieve for Zou Zou Xiyuan and the others."

"They died a worthy death, upon their own path."

"That is so…"

Yue's voice was very low.

"Senior Extinction Sun."

"Power is neither good nor evil — one should not harbor prejudice. This is not the constitutional spirit of the Immortal Sects."

Jiang Ding advised, then gently warned.

This old senior's stance toward the Immortal Sects is firm, but at times he is overly emotional — loving the house and its crow alike, hating the house and its crow alike. Placed in the Upper Realm, he would easily become the kind of old cultivator like Longevity Turtle Divine Lord, extremely protective of his own, utterly unprincipled.

"…"

Extinction Sun True Lord's gaze was blood-red, silent.

Boom!

In an instant, the sixth destructive heavenly tribulation thundered down.

Within a million kilometers, the dark clouds had built up to their limit; the lightning-destroying Heavenly Dao rule-law net began twinkling star by star like a star chart, lightning snaking through, cyan-purple radiance gradually brightening, sketching out an enormous three-dimensional lightning taiji diagram in the starry sky.

This lightning taiji diagram pressed down from the sky, enveloping the green-robed youth.