Chapter 1646: Humanity Cannot Do Without Morality and Order

Boundless light!

Boundless heat!

Terrifying sword intent, light from the End-Law Era shone down in full upon this stretch of heaven and earth.

The Dao Child of the Immortal Artifact Sect had devoured nearly ten billion flesh-and-blood Furnace Dao Soldiers, swallowed the consciousness of tens of thousands of puppets, and self-destructively operated the sect's supreme inheritance, the Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Refining Furnace. His strength had already multiplied several times beyond his usual, more than enough to destroy heaven and earth.

But now, he was only fit to wail piteously within the light!

The light that pierced through endless ages and endless space from the End-Law Era possessed a terrifying power to extinguish and forbid law, and it perfectly aligned with that dreadful sword intent, wielding a fearsome might against Immortal Dao spiritual matter that could be called annihilation. The most basic spiritual substances of the Immortal Dao lost their proper vitality under such light.

Such a terrifying place, a place like purgatory!

Even though the Immortal Artifact Child had grown vastly stronger than ever before, under such light his flesh and blood peeled away in sheets, turning to ash piece by piece, utterly unable to resist. That light possessed dreadful penetrative power; any treasure, any spell, was instantly melted and destroyed, nothing could stop it.

"Ah…"

The Immortal Artifact Child's piteous wail rang through the cosmos.

That sound even pierced through the entire Tiangong Star Chain World Cluster, reaching the battlefield at the center of the world cluster, causing the two Sword Children locked in life-and-death combat to pause slightly and cast horrified glances this way.

The Immortal Artifact Sect, the Immortal Artifact Child?

What happened to him?

Is he about to die?

That is the Immortal Artifact Child!

If it were an ordinary person, so be it, but this was the Immortal Artifact Child who had fought and contended with them for a long time. Though not the strongest, his strength was of great consequence and could not be ignored.

And now, he was about to die in such a short span of time!

How could anyone accept such an outcome!

How could anyone let another take all the glory!

The eyes of the Grand Yin Grand Yang Sword Child and the Heavenly Sword Sword Child instantly turned blood-red. Looking at each other as if seeing a sworn Dao enemy, almost by instinct, terrifying auras of destruction erupted from the three of them in an instant.

Burning essence blood and sword souls!

They burned their essence blood and sword souls!

Human sword cultivators!

This unique profession of the hegemonic race of this boundless starry sky possessed an extremely terrifying trait: if a sword cultivator achieved victory in a sacred sword duel, their strength would surely increase.

The Pure Yang Sword Child's magic power, treasures, and divine sense were inferior to theirs now, but if he succeeded in slaying his enemy, that might no longer be the case.

At that time, an even more terrifying sword cultivator—one who had already begun to initially surpass the Dao Children of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong—would appear!

At that point, where would they stand?

How could they let another sword cultivator obtain such a heaven-defying opportunity while they themselves gained nothing?

Were they inferior to others?

Were they born lowly and undeserving of such an opportunity?

How could they?!

Absolutely not!

The two Sword Children of the human Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong instantly went mad.

……

The Immortal Artifact Child's piteous wail, like celestial music, echoed through the Tiangong Star Chain World Cluster.

"How wonderful…"

"How melodious."

"The death-cry of an evil, powerful foe."

Jiang Ding revealed a hint of intoxicated expression, somewhat unable to contain himself, and said apologetically, "Fellow Daoist Immortal Artifact Child, I am not usually like this, especially toward humans, or else people would take me for a pervert."

"But in fact, I am not a pervert."

"You are different. You are an alien race. You have committed countless atrocities against the living beings of our human race, against the myriad living beings of all the heavens and worlds. Whatever fate befalls you, no one could possibly feel sympathy."

"This way, my glorious and righteous image remains uncontested."

"You see, I care so much about my image. This is how we humans are, because morality and law are the key to maintaining the existence of human group society, absolutely indispensable things—not something an ant race like yours could possibly understand…"

He prattled on, explaining something or other.

"You!"

"Damn you!"

The Immortal Artifact Child briefly regained consciousness from the agony.

He keenly calculated that his life was slipping away at an astonishing speed, which sent boundless fear and fury rising in his heart.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The Immortal Artifact Child roared wildly.

Within the light of the End-Law Era, his body turned to ash every moment, his divine soul enduring intense agony at all times, but he had gone mad. The Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Refining Furnace within him blazed with boundless grey light, the five elements of heaven and earth were reversed and torn apart, the foundations of the material world shaken beyond endurance.

At such a terrible cost, he finally saw the true form of the youth within the End-Law light.

Boom!

The Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Refining Furnace operated with an explosive tremor, streams of dragon-shaped grey light cloaked his body, wrapping around the Immortal Artifact Child, causing his body to transcend the five elements and karma, and he vanished in an instant.

"Mm,"

"A Dao Child struggling in his death throes."

Jiang Ding thought for a moment, then said, "Very well, as the first Dao Child of a Great Thousand World to die at this lord's hands, you may have a bit more dignity."

Clang!

He drew his sword.

The Taiqing Flying Sword had already transformed into this endless starry sword-intent diagram of his homeland, but when the sword's master needed the flying sword, the endless fixed stars flickered, celestial light converged, and a flying sword of boundless radiance appeared in the youth's hand.

"Slash."

Jiang Ding said softly.

He raised the long sword in his hand and chopped forward; the entire Endless Starry Sword-Intent Diagram's End-Law light seemed to converge with this flying sword's slash, falling upon what lay ahead.

The longsword in his grasp cleaved forward, and the lightless radiance of the entire Endless Starfall Sword Intention Diagram seemed to converge along with that flying sword's slash, falling upon the space ahead.

"Die!"

Just then, a figure draped in numerous dragon-shaped grey lights, transcending the Five Elements, descended at this moment, his expression savage and twisted as he brought down a halberd.

Boom!

The light shattered, and the Five-Element-transcending grey light was torn apart.

A blood-bone monster as vast as a star was blasted back head-on, slamming violently into the world; both its arms snapped clean off, the blood-bone great halberd in its hands shattered and flew away, and even its body faintly split into pieces, about to become countless fragments.

More End-Law light fell upon its body, turning its body piece by piece into ash; in just a breath, the star-sized frame directly crumbled by two-thirds, flakes of ash drifting like snowflakes.

The Immortal Artifact Son grew weaker and weaker.

Now, he could not even take a single sword strike from the Great Lie Yang Jianzi head-on!

He was going to die.

"Not enough."

"Not enough…"

Jiang Ding faintly revealed anger, coldly saying: "The pressure you give me is simply not enough!"

"Truly a piece of trash. This Sovereign has already lowered his own strength in advance, yet you still cannot push This Sovereign to the brink of life and death. Such an ant-like race, an ant-like race's Dao Son — I really have had enough…"

Only at the limit does the possibility of breaking through to True Immortal Son exist.

In the Great Lie Yang Jianzi's plan, the three Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Sons were his opponents!

Only on such a battlefield would there be the risk of death at every moment.

But unfortunately!

This death-seeking ant forcibly rushed out, forcibly blocked the way.

Yet his strength was not so weak as to be ignored, not weak enough to expose his back before him; thus he was forcibly delayed, unable to reach the perfect battlefield.

Muttering to himself.

A terrifying killing intent descended from the heavens, falling upon this Upper Realm Qi Sect Dao Son's divine soul, informing him of one trivial little matter.

You are going to die.