Chapter 1685: Immortal-Slaying Platform

Between heaven and earth, carrying the hopes of countless living beings to slay demons and vanquish evil, it descended imbued with a unique power of law; even celestial beings would tremble before such an attack.

This bolt of lightning tore through the clouds, tore through the dusky Domain of Law-Ending, and fell toward the youth in blue.

Old grudges and today's hatred — let them be settled beneath the thunder!

"Haha!"

"Another enemy of the Human Dao."

Jiang Ding let out a laugh.

Though he did not understand what this divine spirit was saying, an enemy was an enemy — and one who bore an undying hatred toward the human race at that.

That was enough.

The Human Dao must exist and flourish!

This was the foundation upon which anything in the universe could exist.

Clang!

Meeting the thunder of all the heavens head-on, Jiang Ding drew his sword.

Heaven and earth froze for an instant.

Then, within endless radiance, a dusky sword-light rose aloft, as if descending from beyond the nine heavens, from beyond the mortal world, untainted by any karma or dust, the sword-light pure and clean as though washed, cleaving toward the countless bolts of thunder in the sky, piercing through everything in an instant.

Before the Sword of Law-Ending, the will of all sentient beings and the rule-thunder of the Divine Dao were utterly shattered, reduced to ash beneath the blade.

The Sword of Law-Ending severs all things beneath heaven!

The lightning of a hundred thousand Divine Dao celestial soldiers could not even hold for an instant before being severed; they could only watch helplessly as that dusky sword-light blazed ever brighter, filling the eyes of the hundred thousand Divine Dao celestial soldiers, occupying everything.

"The Sword Dao of Law-Ending!"

The Pagoda-Bearing Divine General's heart jolted.

The Dao of Law-Ending had always been renowned for its sharpness, its unmatched power to attack — all the more so when fused with the human race's Sword Dao.

This human Candidate Daozi was likely ranked within the top several thousand among the human race's Crown Prince sequence across the endless starry skies — possibly even within the top thousand — for the offensive might of the Dao of Law-Ending was simply too terrifying.

Among Candidate Daozi, he might well be able to defeat a Fifth-Step Limit Candidate Daozi!

"This person must be killed as soon as possible!"

"Otherwise, in the future he will surely become a great calamity, affecting the Supreme Battlefield!"

Boundless killing intent rose in the Pagoda-Bearing Divine General's heart.

The internal strife of the human race was extremely fierce; though they possessed vast power, they could not unite it into a single fist — yet this was precisely a world where all the great power of the Immortal Dao converged upon a single individual, and the human race would, from time to time, give birth to beings who exceeded the norm, drastically altering the situation.

In a certain sense, their internal strife actually fostered the birth of such beings who exceeded the norm!

The dusky sword-light tore through the thunder, sliced through layer upon layer of thunderclouds, and fell upon the hundred thousand Divine Dao celestial soldiers, cleaving straight through them — countless bodies shattered into pieces, lightning burst forth, countless bolts of electricity scattered, annihilating a vast stretch of space.

"Oh?"

"Thunder-rule substitute?"

Jiang Ding's brow furrowed.

The instant the sword fell —

?? The soul essence of these hundred thousand Divine Dao celestial soldiers had shifted, transferred to the seven-colored precious pagoda in the Pagoda-Bearing Divine Spirit's hand, then was released again, reforming a vast host of a hundred thousand celestial soldiers and generals, with hardly any loss.

"A fine technique."

"But, this is mine."

Jiang Ding's gaze fell upon the seven-colored precious pagoda, and his expression eased.

This sight, however, drew no reaction from these Divine Dao beings — as if they had long grown accustomed to it; such was the nature of human beings.

"Heavenly Net and Earthly Web!"

"Three Thousand Lei Gao Jie!"

The Pagoda-Bearing Divine Spirit raised the precious pagoda in his hand and let out a fierce shout.

Boom!

The seven-colored precious pagoda blazed with radiance; bolt after bolt of thunder-rule chains burst forth from its spire, shooting out in all directions, blanketing the sky and earth, forming a vast net of thunder-rule that enveloped the youth in blue within it, binding him layer upon layer; immediately after, bolt after bolt of destructive thunder descended from the heavens, bombarding the youth in blue's skull, again and again, in an unbroken torrent.

Heavenly Net and Earthly Web · Three Thousand Lei Gao Jie!

This was a technique of heaven's punishment inherited from primordial antiquity — slaying demons and slaughtering spirits, it had never failed; throughout the ages, who knew how many demons had perished to this art.

This was an inheritance on par with Immortal Arts!

Clang!

The sword left its sheath, and a dusky sword-light slashed forth in a flash, instantly severing countless thunder-rule chains of heaven and earth, sweeping the surroundings clean — nothing could stand before the blade.

But, the next moment, the numerous thunder-rule chains regenerated in an instant, once again binding Jiang Ding layer upon layer!

"These chains…"

Jiang Ding looked out in all directions.

Those thunder-chains bound karma, bound souls, and were tightly woven together with heaven and earth — undying, indestructible.

This was a spell close to the Supreme!

No!

To be precise, it should be a technique cast by a Supreme whose cultivation had declined — for this Pagoda-Bearing Divine Spirit's true body must surely be a Divine Dao Supreme, an existence close to a true god.

Boundless danger drew near.

Layer upon layer of phantoms in the surroundings gradually grew clear.

It was a dim, dusky heaven and earth, wreathed in countless bolts of thunder; only an ancient, weather-worn stone platform and a guillotine-blade gleaming with cold thunder-light flickered with terrifying radiance.

Immortal-Slaying Platform!

The legendary Immortal-Slaying Platform of the Heavenly Court!

Without any need for sword-soul foresight, Jiang Ding instantly realized that if he were completely bound by these thunder-chains, he would surely be sent up onto this Immortal-Slaying Platform.

Once the Immortal-Slaying Executioner's Blade falls, under the effect of some kind of fated karma art, one will inevitably die—no matter how indestructible and immortal one may be, it is useless.

Even reincarnation and rebirth would be useless!

The coldness of such a death makes one shudder.

Makes one, overjoyed.

"Haha!"

"This is what I"

"—the heavenly tribulation I desired!"

Jiang Ding laughed heartily.

His entire body was roused with excitement, awakening from the drowsy state brought on by the so-called heavenly tribulation, and once again feeling all the beauties of the mortal world, making one utterly reluctant to leave.

Boom!

A wheel of a destructive great sun slowly rose behind him, blooming layer upon layer of radiance toward the heavens and earth.

Each layer of radiance carried a terrifying yellowish hue; every ray of light was a sword of law-annihilation. The Six Paths had been pushed to their utmost, all transformed into swords of destruction that annihilated the law, shining out across the entire heavens and earth, falling upon the divine souls of all sentient beings within them.

This was the sun that brought the kalpa of law-annihilation!

Streak after streak of law-annihilating sword-light bloomed from the sun, falling into the chains of Lei Ting's rules, piercing them through. The chains of Lei Ting's rules regenerated again and again only to be pierced through once more—no matter how they regenerated, in this world filled with law-annihilating sword-light, they could never exist for even a single instant.

The heavens and earth were entirely shrouded within the domain of law-annihilation.

"Come,"

"you foolish thing of incense and offerings, and behold this sword of mine!"

Jiang Ding said calmly.

Rumble!

Then, the solar divine halo behind the blue-robed youth's head—composed of the Six Paths world—began to revolve, forming a terrifying sword-light of incomparable brilliance and condensation, one that gathered the power to shatter the five elements of heaven and earth, and slashed toward the Pagoda-Bearing Spirit!

"Three Thousand Lei Gao Jie!"

The Pagoda-Bearing Spirit, seeing the chains of Lei Ting's rules trapped and unable to manifest in the world, was greatly enraged.

He violently swung the Seven-Colored Treasure Pagoda, summoning the Three Thousand Grand Dao Lei Ting that had long been accumulating in the sky, and slashed them toward the blue-robed youth within the phantom of the Immortal-Slaying Platform.

This scene was strikingly similar to the scene of the Heavenly Court slaying demons countless ages ago.

The Three Thousand Grand Dao Lei Ting descended like a prison, shrouding the blue-robed youth, and moreover meeting head-on the law-annihilating sword-light that destroyed the five elements of heaven and earth.

The two clashed in an instant, flickering billions of times in the blink of an eye.

And then,

Boom!

The Three Thousand Grand Dao Lei Ting shattered, breaking into pieces, with countless fragments scattering in all directions, completely unable to resist.

Amidst those countless fragments of Lei Ting,

A streak of sword-light that cleaved the five elements of heaven and earth arrived as promised, reflected in the Pagoda-Bearing Spirit General's eyes. Before the terrifying sword-qi even reached him, it had already torn through layer upon layer of thunderclouds, causing swarms of divine Dao soldiers to collapse and die.

"Not good!"

"Seven Treasures Demon-Subduing Pagoda!"

In the face of life and death, the Pagoda-Bearing Spirit General roared furiously, offering up the Seven-Colored Treasure Pagoda in his hand to block before him.

Clang!

The next instant, the Pagoda-Bearing Spirit General was blasted by a single sword into the depths of the starry sky, slamming violently into the deeper layers of space, vomiting blood without end. A deep sword-scar appeared on the Seven-Colored Demon-Subduing Treasure Pagoda, its spiritual light utterly dimmed.