Chapter 1726: The Afterglow of the Six Great Immortal Sects Besieges and Slays the Great Sun Sword Child

Defeated.

In a single instant, the Lingbao Realm's afterglow was defeated!

The Lingbao Divine Lord possessing the Supreme Clarity Lingbao Palace did not go down without a fight. The instant the Law-Slaying Sun and the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect's Sun Elemental Magnetic Destruction Divine Light ship cannons descended, he ignited his essence blood. Nine layers of Lingbao Dao rings blazed brilliantly, reflecting the phantom of a certain rule branch's limit, gathering boundless power.

The Lingbao Divine Lord transformed into a bronze giant that held up the heavens and stood upon the earth, his body gleaming with a metallic luster, every inch enveloped by the phantom of the rule branch's limit, adamantine and imperishable.

He also held aloft a pitch-black Ancient Desolation Giant Cauldron, the supreme heavy treasure of the Lingbao Realm passed down from primordial times.

One could say that even though the Lingbao Divine Lord's foundations were weak, in that instant, under the illumination of the Lingbao Realm's afterglow, he had already unleashed power exceeding that of an Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao-Combining Dao Child by a wide margin.

This kind of power was enough to sweep away any force below the Great Thousand Worlds level!

This power was entirely sufficient to allow the sect's seed to rise once more, possessing a foundation for survival and establishment, with the Dao path gaining tremendous assistance out of thin air.

In theory, it was already enough!

The Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's final afterglow was meant to provide the inheritance seed with a foundation for survival and establishment, not to be used for contending in strength against Great Thousand Worlds-level forces.

Yet precisely this kind of power, upon touching the Great Sun Sword Master and the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect fleet, collapsed in an instant, melting like ice and snow.

Absolutely no resistance whatsoever!

There was none of the imagined back-and-forth, evenly matched struggle; the gap was unimaginably vast.

It completely wasted the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect and the Great Sun Sword Master's solemn preparations!

"You damned ungrateful disciple!"

"What the hell kind of place were you even born and raised in…"

The Lingbao Divine Lord fled weeping blood, cursing as he ran, berating the ungrateful disciple who had harmed the patriarch.

"Patriarch,"

"I have no choice either…"

The Lingbao Divine Lord's divine soul stammered.

Heaven have mercy!

First, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion had tormented them for hundreds of thousands of years. They had finally managed to choke the Great Sun Sword Master Zou Zou Xiyuan to death and annihilate the Great Sun Sword Pavilion.

They had thought they were finally free, that the good days had come.

But unexpectedly, the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect immediately seamlessly slotted into the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's position, and was even more terrifying. The Great Sun Sword Master and the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect had stacked together — it was pure hell!

Hell bestowed upon the Badaxian Sect by the Heavenly Dao!

"Ungrateful disciple!"

"What sin did the patriarch commit to end up with someone like you…"

The Supreme Clarity Lingbao Palace cursed madly, then suddenly its expression changed drastically.

The surrounding world gradually froze.

The flow of space, matter, rules, and spiritual energy gradually slowed, until in the end even the flow of time began to grow abnormally sluggish, and then the surrounding world together lost

all of its reference frames.

If not for the afterglow's influence, it would not even have been able to detect the changes in the world.

A terrifying and formless danger was descending!

The sect's afterglow was about to be extinguished!

"No!"

"This sect's inheritance will surely continue!"

"It definitely will!"

Storm-like alarms and cold premonitions appeared in the Supreme Clarity Lingbao Palace's array spirit logic, driving it mad, making it begin to act recklessly, regardless of everything.

Hum!

Flames suddenly appeared on the nine layers of Lingbao Dao rings behind the Lingbao Divine Lord's head, burning fiercely.

The cosmic starry river emitted a rumbling tremor, as if the Heavenly Dao itself had been summoned forth.

It was a hazy branch of the Lingbao Great Dao. Cultivators climbed upward along a staircase, generation after generation from ancient times to the present — countless wisdoms, countless blood and tears, countless white bones condensed into a single staircase.

The predecessors died, and those who came after climbed upward along the staircase.

Those who came after reached their limit and found there was no path ahead; their bodies collapsed, becoming yet another layer, letting those even further behind tread upon their bones and continue climbing upward…

Generation after generation, generation after generation.

This staircase rose generation by generation, extending endlessly toward the heavens, piercing into the clouds, soaring straight into the Nine Heavens, accumulating over countless years, until a prodigy unseen across ten thousand ages appeared, leaping in one ultimate bound, extending this Great Dao staircase to Jiang Jiang Jinxian, extending it to the limit of the rule branch!

This was an epic, moving path worthy of song and tears!

At this moment, amid the Supreme Clarity Lingbao Palace's wild howl, this Immortal-Ascending Staircase was summoned forth from the river of history, breaking through from history into reality, truly appearing before the Lingbao Divine Lord!

"Go!"

"Ungrateful disciple, go!"

The Lingbao Divine Lord leaped onto the staircase, was pulled along by it, and vanished from this stretch of starry sky in an instant.

Behind them, the world completely froze.

Two scroll paintings like pillars piercing the heavens appeared at the two ends of the world. The entire cosmic starry river became a magnificent painting, vivid and lifelike, full of spirit and charm.

It was a painting of the sun rising, with billions of beams of Sun Elemental Magnetic Destruction Divine Light illuminating the world.

Rumble!

At a certain moment, waves rose within the starry river painting; with a rumble it shattered, the entire stretch of starry sky plunged into chaos and primordial nothingness, and every living being within perished.

In the distant void, the Lingbao Divine Lord's figure fled madly.

For the first time, someone had escaped the lock of the Space-Slaying Sword.

In this stretch of void, layer upon layer of steel phantoms descended, gradually becoming solid. The fleet truly arrived. The Great Sun Sword Master, surrounded by countless warships, gazed into the distance.

"He really is weak."

"But their ability to escape is indeed formidable."

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

These supreme afterglows, existing solely for the continuation of their sects, were practically born for flight; they were extremely cunning, emphasized escape capabilities to an extreme degree, and had condensed the escape wisdom of every Supreme being at the Spirit Treasure Realm across generations.

"Continue the pursuit!"

Zhenjun Shenji Shenjun said in a heavy voice.

"Even if we cannot catch them, we must drive them deep into the endless silent void, trapping them there where they can receive no replenishment of Qi or laws, forcing them to choose only between death by reaching their lifespan limit or surrendering to us."

"The Law of Annihilation's locking ability is extremely strong; they cannot escape!"

This viewpoint received the agreement of many citizens within the collective will of the Immortal Sect Fleet.

"It is too late."

"Many old friends have arrived; recalling the years of the past, it is just like today."

Yuan said with a smile.

Buzz!

The heavens and earth trembled, and the laws swayed with the waves.

Powerful auras appeared one by one in the heavens and earth, each dominating a realm; behind every living being, a limit phantom of a Great Dao law branch manifested, incomparably powerful, incomparably terrifying.

One by one, the afterglows completed their manifestation.

This realm was about to become chaotic; all laws fell into disorder, controlled by numerous powerful beings.

In the distance, Shangqing Spirit Treasure Palace, which had already fled far away, suddenly paused its steps and turned back without hesitation.

If not forced by desperation, how would an afterglow existing for the continuation of a sect run toward the endless silent void?

"One, two, three,"

"Four, five, six."

Jiang Ding counted one by one and laughed, saying, "The Dao Son of the Alchemy Cauldron and the Dao Son of the Ten Thousand Beasts have not come; these are my old friends. To this day, it is just the same, without a single change."

"Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

In the heavens and earth, six figures with vast and terrifying auras remained silent.

Without any words, the six of them spontaneously formed an infinitely profound formation, originating from the Nine Spirits Sun-Slaying Arrow Formation at the end of the last great calamity, yet far more terrifying.

This was clearly the source, the beginning, the very first combined attack formation of the Nine Spirits Sun-Slaying Arrows, the formation used by the Nine Great Immortal Sects of the Upper Realm to deal with terrifying great calamities.

Today, such a formation was used to surround and kill a mutated Sun Sword Son!