Chapter 1545: Great Sun Sword Lord's Might Oppresses the Cosmic Star River

The cosmos, starry sky.

Shrouded in endless darkness, without a single thread of light.

Only a vague awareness stirred: that hazy, towering Celestial Remnant Body descended from the heavens amid endless dark reincarnation, a single foot pressing down upon the Taiqing Flying Sword. Like the ancient Pangu who split open the world, with one hand it propped apart heaven and earth, lifting up the sun, the moon, and the stars—then, with such brute force, kicked the stellar flying sword that gathered the light of the solar system.

Heaven and earth fell silent for an instant.

Boom!

Rumble!

The realm quaked, the nine great planets swayed, heaven and earth were torn apart, the sun and moon lost their light, all plunged into a murky haze.

At times, heaven and earth blazed with extraordinary splendor, chaotic beyond measure, where even the rules ceased to function. Even the personal laws of heaven and earth painstakingly cultivated by individual cultivators were no longer unbreakable on such a battlefield.

A moment later, when the darkness was torn asunder, all the cultivators witnessed such a wondrous sight.

The Celestial Being stood once more upon a star.

The star formed from the light of the solar system—utter destruction and searing heat, harboring within it a power to shatter laws and annihilate spirits, a bane to the immortal Dao.

Boom!

Yet at this moment, such a stellar flying sword shattered.

Under the Celestial Being's strike, the star broke apart, exploding into countless beams of destructive light that bloomed outward in all directions, tearing through the Six Paths of Reincarnation layer by layer along their path. The Human Path, the Hell Path, the Asura Path… and the other Six Paths of Reincarnation were ravaged by the annihilating sword-light, their upper halves sheared off into thin air, leaving only portions of their bases remaining.

"Hmph!"

Ancient God Ancestor let out a muffled grunt and retreated a step.

He looked down at his own foot, where a shallow sword-mark had appeared, slicing through flesh weathered by the passage of time and revealing a faint wound. The blood of a Celestial Being seeped out slowly.

Several tens of thousands of kilometers away, a youth in blue robes retreated ten steps, spat fresh blood, and his face went pale.

"The body of a Celestial Being…"

The blue-robed youth's gaze was blood-red and scorching. The Taiqing Flying Sword, rebounding back, spiraled around him, humming and ringing with excitement, brimming with joy—for him, life had entered its most meaningful moment.

His injuries were ten times those of his opponent!

After all, this was an ancient Celestial Being, a sovereign who had swept through a world-cluster. Even as a remnant body, it still possessed unquestionable, terrifying power.

"Haha!"

"Hahaha… the body of a Celestial Being!"

Great Sun Sword Lord suddenly burst into wild laughter, ecstatic beyond measure.

"Young friend, what are you laughing at?"

Ancient God Ancestor said calmly.

"This Lord laughs because you old thing are about to die."

"That decrepit, rotten, crumbling body of yours is about to shatter. The Six Paths essence within must belong to This Lord, bringing This Lord's natal flying sword one step closer to a Ninth-Grade Sword Embryo."

Great Sun Sword Lord was thrilled to the extreme, raving: "Old fellow, you're injured. Not feeling so good, are you?"

"This Lord is in the prime of his years, in the bloom of youth, possessing boundless vitality and boundless potential. Even if beaten into minced meat, it's a trivial matter. But you—"

"You are far too aged!"

"You're injured. How much life-essence do you have left? You're going to die!"

"Haha!"

"Hahaha… you, are going to die!"

Boom!

Great Sun Sword Lord drew his sword and rose.

He merged his body into his natal flying sword. The Six Paths Solar Divine Rings transformed into streaks of light resembling Mach rings, following closely behind him. The light of the solar system never ceased for a single instant, making him the sole center of the solar system, the sole dwelling-place of light.

Wherever he passed, a fine drizzle of hazy golden threads fell from the sky, shattering laws and annihilating spirits, pouring down upon the gradually reviving Ancient God's Six Paths Reincarnation realm—laying the embryonic form of the immortal art, Sword of Annihilating Metal, contemplated over tens of thousands of years;

Upon his sword's edge, a dim yellow light flickered, like a River of Forgetfulness flowing, cutting off the vast majority of the immortal Dao and physical resistance between heaven and earth, vastly amplifying the flying sword's speed—this was the embryonic form of the forbidden art, Sword of Annihilating Earth;

Within the flying sword, at the center where countless rays of light converged, countless immortal Dao hydrogen fusions were taking place. Within the sword-soul's will, the embryonic Sword of Annihilating Law blazed with edge-light, and the embryonic form of the Sword of Mutated Aberration existed from beginning to end, constantly evolving, causing its own power to develop traits targeted against its opponent. The longer the battle lasted, the stronger the sword became.

Today, in a single sword, Great Sun Sword Lord could already display the might of the Sword of Destroying the Five Elements!

One sword—the Sword of the Six Paths!

Amid the dim yellow drizzle of golden phoenix-feathers, Great Sun Sword Lord united man and sword, united the Six Paths, bearing the radiance of the entire solar system, with wild, frenzied laughter, at a terrifying speed approaching the sixth cosmic velocity—the speed of light—in an instant he arrived to slay, cleaving toward the remnant, weathered Celestial Body of Ancient God Ancestor.

"Old thing, come!"

"Die!"

Great Sun Sword Lord roared.

"Hahaha!"

"You little bastard, then come!"

Ancient God Ancestor also burst into wild laughter, his heroic spirit seeming as if it would swallow heaven and earth, the starry river whole.

Dong!

Ancient God Ancestor stepped forward, and the Great Dao of heaven and earth rang out like a heavy drum being struck. The net of heaven-and-earth Dao rules twisted and strained taut, unable to bear such terrifying power.

Yet Ancient God Ancestor did not stop. He strode out a second step, a third step, and countless strange phenomena manifested around him.

These were the terrifying scenes of the Primeval Era—immortals and gods falling, the Primeval Blood Sea Heavenly Court crashing down, the Great Dao rules of the Six Paths, the Sun, the Yin, and others collapsing one after another, the cosmos plunged into endless gray despair. Now, those scenes had been summoned back by a realm-sovereign, a heaven-chosen prodigy who had risen from obscurity, descending into the world.

Merely this scene from the Primeval Era possessed terrifying power; the killing intent of immortals and gods filled the sky, enough to freeze a quasi-Celestial Being cultivator in place!

Using the Six Paths of Reincarnation as the foundation, reflecting the war of the Primeval immortals and gods!

"Die!"

Ancient God Ancestor bellowed in fury.

He could no longer maintain composure, nor did he need to maintain any so-called composure.

This was a peerless heaven-chosen prodigy of the human race's realms, one who could stand alongside him. The life and death between them would directly decide who, in the future, could step beyond the Celestial Being—and reach the even more alluring Great Dao of the True Immortal.

Life and death — that is the Great Dao!

Boom!

This scroll painting of immortals and gods from the primordial age, with its absolute resolve, carrying the bloody, slaughtering sound of the Innate Slaughter Great Dao, descended from the heavens and slammed toward the Six Paths and Five Elements Sword within the endless light.

"Hahahaha!"

The Great Sun Sword Lord too let out a joyous roar, charging of his own accord into the immortal-and-god battlefield scroll, brimming with boundless delight.

Boom!

Rumble!

The heavens collapsed, the earth split apart.

That dim-yellow sword-light plunged headlong into the immortal-and-god battlefield, into this primordial scroll. No one there paid it any heed — only wave after wave of terrifying Great Dao rule aftershocks struck toward it. Every aftershock attack was so dreadful that it scattered the sword-light, deflected the sword's path, shocking the onlooker to the core.

One must understand, this was merely a single scene of an ancient battlefield summoned here, and only the faintest aftershocks at that — its power less than a billionth of what it had been in the primordial age.

However!

That dim-yellow sword-light — the sword-light that gathered the radiance of the entire solar system — let out an unyielding roar.

"Burn!"

"Burn my sword soul, my essence and blood, my Dharma body!"

From within the immortal-and-god battlefield scroll came the Great Sun Sword Lord's mad laughter: "Old thing! Come! Try burning your essence and blood for Laozi too — does this broken husk of yours even have any essence and blood left to burn!"

"Come, let Laozi see!"

Clang!

Between the realms, between the immortal-and-god battlefields, a sudden, absolute and violent sound of destructive sword-howl erupted.

The dim-yellow light of the Taiqing Flying Sword suddenly flared several times brighter, its aura multiplied several-fold. The light upon the sword was destructive and scorching, law-annihilating and razor-sharp, cutting straight toward the edge of the attack aftershocks of the immortal-and-god battlefield scroll — onward without retreat, tearing through layer after layer of the scroll, tearing through layer after layer of attack aftershocks—

No one had told him anything; purely by the instinct of the Sword Dao, he knew he absolutely must not attack any figure upon that immortal-and-god battlefield.

Even if it were only the weakest of foot soldiers, even if it were only a scroll painting — even so, he could not attack them in the slightest, for to touch them meant certain death.

Riiip~

Riiip riiip…

The dim-yellow Great Sun sword-light swept across heaven and earth, tearing apart the world along the battlefield's attack aftershocks, tearing apart the entire immortal-and-god battlefield, shattering sky and earth. The whole immortal-and-god battlefield scroll collapsed for it, crumbled, losing its foundational support.

"Little bastard…"

The Ancient God Ancestor roared in fury.

He was far too old!

He had slumbered far too long, so long that his body was broken and frail — and now he had been taken advantage of by a mere junior!

In that hurried moment, the Ancient God Ancestor could only stretch out his hazy arm to block that dim-yellow sword-light. Six Six Paths worlds layered upon one another within his palm, forming a chasm of space — a quasi-Heavenly Human strong one trapped within it could spend an entire lifetime and still never fly out of the distance within that palm, so profound and unfathomable was it.

In the span of a breath, the Ancient God Ancestor had accomplished all this!

And it was at this very moment that the dim-yellow destructive sword-light, carrying the Great Sun Sword Lord's boundless killing intent, arrived here and struck down upon that obstructing arm.

The universe paused; the heavenly light suddenly blazed bright, every shadow banished.

Crack!

Under the Ancient God Ancestor's horrified gaze, his hazy arms snapped clean in two!

Even the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the endlessly cycling space, shattered and broke apart beneath the light-speed Great Sun sword-light — unable to obstruct anything.

"Die."

In an icy murmur, the dim-yellow sword-light ignored the head and chopped down upon that broken, weather-worn foot.

Ting!

Clearly it was a piece of grey-white, broken, heavily weathered leg-bone — yet when the quasi-ninth-rank sword embryo struck it, it actually emitted the terrifying sound of metal clashing against metal, sparks flying in all directions, unyieldingly hard.

However, before the Taiqing Flying Sword's Great Sun Immortal Spirit Gold, before its law-annihilating, razor-sharp edge — even a Heavenly Human's remnant body, how could it possibly withstand?

"Ah…"

The Ancient God Ancestor shrieked.

One only heard the creaking screech of tearing metal — the Taiqing Flying Sword bit into the Heavenly Human's leg-bone, the destructive sword-light erupted, and hacked it clean in two, shattering it into countless fragments!

The towering figure that had manifested from the Heavenly Human's remnant body likewise collapsed and fell.