Chapter 1587: The Invincible Beneath the Heavenly Beings

Ash.

Great ash.

Endless, boundless white ash.

This was the blood, bone, and flesh of living beings, turning to ash and vanishing in the light of the sun, drifting with the wind, scattering across the sky, blanketing the realm's heavens, for a time even obscuring the clouds, making the sky itself a hazy grey, the light dim.

These flesh-and-blood Heavenly Demon puppet Dao soldiers had long been dead.

They had been tormented for countless years, hovering between spiritual consciousness and the inhuman, imbued with the exquisite immortal Dao techniques of the Immortal Artifact Sect. They could manipulate formations with the flexibility and precision of living beings, placing no burden on the formation master, yet without the fears, chaos, and selfish thoughts of living beings, easily achieving the Dao soldier realm of "ten thousand hearts as one," already devoid of self.

Their death at this moment was merely release, the end of endless torment.

This scene of blood and bone turning to ash, scattering across the world, blotting out the sun and sky, gave rise to boundless terror, as if one had arrived at the end of the world.

Countless Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong scouts felt their hearts go cold, trembling ceaselessly.

The Pure Yang Sword Son was far too brutal!

Though sword cultivators emphasize killing, it was still exceedingly rare to see one slaughter so many living beings in a single stroke. Looking toward the future through this scene, they seemed to see the endless blood and rain of slaughter awaiting the Upper Realm.

Clang!

Jiang Ding sheathed his sword.

With a beckoning hand, a female cultivator puppet of ice-muscled jade-body appeared in his grasp.

This was the life-bound puppet of the Tianwen inheritance from the Immortal Artifact Sect, and also her trump card for escape. If the sword had been even slightly slower, this puppet would have shattered, reappearing within the Immortal Artifact Sect's mountain gate—a top-tier life-substitution treasure, profound and unfathomable.

This was how law cultivators were: extremely hard to kill.

Unfortunately, she was far too weak.

So weak that beneath a single sword, she had no time even to react before her divine soul was utterly destroyed. No trump card could be deployed. This life-bound puppet split cleanly in two from brow to body, all spirituality gone.

In the hand of this petite puppet was still clutched a jade talisman of heavy, oppressive might, its spiritual light equally dimmed.

This was the life-preserving trump card bestowed upon the Tianwen inheritance by a Heavenly Being of the Immortal Artifact Sect—yet even it had no time to activate, instantly rendered useless.

The Tianwen inheritance truly should not have engaged a Dao Son in direct combat.

She was merely an inheritance disciple. The instant she encountered a hostile Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong sword son, she should have activated the life-preserving talisman given by her elders and fled—only then might she have survived.

This was the correct course of action for a Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong inheritance disciple encountering a hostile Dao Son.

Not to foolishly seek battle.

Moreover, even if she had activated the elder-bestowed life-preserving talisman, escape was only a possibility.

A Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Son was already capable of fleeing from a true Heavenly Being expert, escaping with his life under their pursuit. A mere Heavenly Being talisman—if the Dao Son had patience—could still

possibly be used to track down the fleeing Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong inheritance disciple.

This was why the Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Sons and quasi-immortal clan true heirs were so important.

They were the sect's foundation itself—invincible beneath super-grade enemies, invincible units. Non-Dao Sons and non-super-grade enemies could almost never harm them.

"The material of this treasure embryo,"

"is the inherited divine metal of the Upper Clarity Spiritual Treasure Sect—eighth-grade Upper Clarity Heaven-Fallen Meteorite Iron…"

The patterns of profound gold in Jiang Ding's pupils flashed and vanished, transforming into two blooms of materialist solar true fire. The Tianwen inheritance's life-bound spirit puppet, along with the eighth-grade treasure embryo, merged within.

Sizzle…

This solid, imperishable eighth-grade treasure embryo, under the burning of the materialist solar true fire unleashed by the "Solar Sword Sacrifice Art (Great Sun Immortal Spirit Gold Edition)," melted almost instantly, unable to resist the refinement of the quasi-ninth-grade sword embryo. Wisps of green smoke rose—these were the portions judged by the sword sacrifice art as unsuitable for the Taiqing Flying Sword.

Soon, the life-bound spirit puppet containing the Immortal Artifact Sect's inherited divine metal, the Upper Clarity Heaven-Fallen Meteorite Iron, was thoroughly refined and devoured. Every hidden hand, restriction, and positioning spell within was instantly purged, leaving only the purest essence to be absorbed by the Taiqing Flying Sword. The flying sword grew a fraction stronger.

"Now,"

"there are still three domains!"

Having done all this, Jiang Ding paid no heed to the many living beings still surviving nearby—there was no need to silence them.

He paid even less attention to the storage treasures and wealth of the many Combined Dao Divine Monarchs nearby, which might conceal hidden hands. He leaped into the air, transforming into a resplendent blaze of solar light that illuminated heaven and earth, vanishing in an instant.

Flee!

Now fully exposed, the only path to life was to flee!

As long as he could escape into the Central Domain before the Immortal Artifact Sect, or the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, or any other Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Heavenly Being expert arrived, he would be a dragon returning to the sea, vanishing once more without a trace. Unless he exposed himself, no one could drag him out!

Crack!

At this moment, a crisp sound arose from the ground.

It came from the jade talisman held in the Tianwen inheritance's life-bound spirit puppet's hand. It now actively shattered, blooming with radiance, transforming into strands of transparent karmic-fate threads that pierced into space in an instant, merging into the rules, carrying an invisible killing intent toward some unknown place in the distant horizon.

"Seeking death!"

"Old thing, you have quite the nerve!"

On the distant horizon, the resplendent solar light bloomed once more, revealing within it a blue-robed youth brimming with killing intent: "This Sovereign has already let your jade talisman go—what more do you want?"

"You're nothing but a mere escape-type talisman—how dare you launch an attack against This Sovereign?"

"You truly are desperate to die!"

Clang!

The blue-robed youth drew his sword.

This time, it was utterly different from the casual sword stroke against the Tianwen inheritance.

As the sword left its sheath, celestial phenomena shifted across hundreds of thousands of kilometers—lightning flashed, thunder rolled, dark clouds gathered. Countless threads of golden rain descended from the heavens, falling between heaven and earth, spreading throughout the four corners of the cosmos. Heaven and earth were covered by the golden rain threads, with not a single gap remaining.

Pitter-patter,

pitter-patter,

A fine, misty drizzle, like arriving in a rainy Jiangnan water town, carried a certain poetic grace, bearing little offensive intent.

But in the eyes of sword Dao experts, this was a terrifying sword domain!

Crack-crack-crack!

Boom!

Within this poetic, picturesque water town, certain things were exposed—countless transparent puppet strings, like threads of karma, soft and frail, yet when these transparent threads touched the raindrops, it was like the collision of planets, world-shaking; in an instant, a great ring of spatial laws was annihilated, and everything within was destroyed.

That Jiangnan water town rain realm contained terrifying resistance; even the attacks of a Heavenly Being talisman were blocked.

In the mere instant of contact, the majority of the transparent threads collapsed; the remaining tens of thousands of transparent karma threads condensed into a single stream, transforming into a spear of Heavenly Dao karma that stabbed toward the blue-clothed youth's brow, intending to pierce him through along the unseen threads of karma and slay him on the spot.

"I have already said it."

"A mere escape talisman…"

Jiang Dingleng said coolly.

He drew his sword and slashed; with one sword strike, countless golden-threaded raindrops gathered along the blade's edge, flashed, and vanished.

Ding!

The Heavenly Dao karma spear was blocked by a streak of sharp golden light; the two clashed tens of thousands of times in an instant.

Countless destructive ripples spread outward in waves. The Heavenly Dao karma spear formed of transparent puppet threads was, after all, only a talisman—lacking follow-up force. After one more clash with the Taiqing Flying Sword, it had exhausted all its power and collapsed on its own.