Chapter 2036: Heavenly Tribulation as Ants

The authority of rules was born within the True Immortal's Great Dao!

This is the rule-branch extreme within the Great Dao of Law Annihilation, and an extremely important branch within the Great Dao of Law Annihilation, occupying at least a tenth of the breadth of the Great Dao of Law Annihilation, with the possibility of further expansion.

The only regret is that the depth is somewhat lacking, after all, it is a newly born, entirely new branch path.

In an instant, starting from the authority of the rule branch of the Great Dao of Law Annihilation, Jiang Ding completed the three-in-one transformation of divine soul, magic power, and Dharma body!

His accumulation was far too profound!

The life-and-death transformation that many Supreme Beings faced at this step was, for him, entirely a matter of course — without any of the expected twists, he completed the entire transformation in an instant.

At this moment, Jiang Ding's Dharma body became one born within the Great Dao of Law Annihilation, his magic power and divine soul were existences born within the Great Dao of Law Annihilation, not the slightest bit out of accord with the Great Dao of Law Annihilation.

The many Dao Bodies and Divine Bodies that countless prodigies of the mortal world had possessed since birth were, at this moment, not worth mentioning.

Boom—

Above the nine heavens, thunder accumulated boundless power.

Within the authority of thunder's destruction, a bolt of green-purple lightning draped in a net of rules plummeted thunderously.

This lightning was utterly terrifying even to Supreme Beings — the power of heavenly tribulation that the Heavenly Dao used to annihilate and slay anomalies of the mortal world. This endless universe of starry skies did not permit too many beings to advance, lest it destroy the ecology of the Immortal Dao universe.

This was the rule-branch authority lightning that slays Supreme Beings!

For any being beneath a Supreme Being, there was no possibility of surviving it; it simply did not resemble a Dao-Unification cultivator advancing to Heaven-Human at all — it had nothing to do with that.

This terrifying lightning — what the eye saw was where it struck — filled the entire field of vision, its killing intent boundless.

"Too weak."

"This is not enough."

Jiang Ding raised his head and said lightly.

He extended a finger, using it as a sword, and slashed toward the sky.

That single finger drew upon the rule-branch authority of the Great Dao of Law Annihilation across endless starry skies; beneath one finger, it gathered countless lights from all the heavens and the power of countless rules.

Beneath one sword, heaven and earth fell silent.

The entire heavenly tribulation and the plummeting lightning became a frozen tableau; matter, spiritual energy, and rules all ceased to flow.

A streak of dim-yellow sword light bloomed from between the blue-robed youth's fingers, winding and nimble, flickering within this starry-sky heavenly-tribulation painting, leaving a slanting cut-mark upon the canvas as if sliced by shears.

This stretch of heaven and earth fell utterly silent.

Crack!

Only a crisp sound was heard, as the surroundings of this stretch of heaven and earth crumbled into countless motes of spiritual light, and the heavenly tribulation shattered into nothingness amid the spiritual light.

Amid the countless fragments, the heavenly tribulation thundered, the Heavenly Dao raged madly, lightning flashed and thunder roared without end, and the rule-branch authority of thunder surged at a terrifying speed — the ferocity of the one crossing tribulation triggered a dreadful chain reaction.

Boom—

Rumble rumble rumble…

The heavenly tribulation struck down again and again in fury; the rule-branch authority of thunder illuminated the mortal world, scouring every anomaly within it, transforming that place into a chaotic, dim battlefield.

All rules shattered!

Even the starry skies were being ground away, leaving only flickering bolts of lightning and sword light.

The Seven Killings Sword Lord watched coldly.

His hand rested upon the bone sword forged from the fragments of his own skull, a tragic, fierce momentum continuously building, continuously building, awaiting that earth-shattering, lethal moment — the instant when the heavenly tribulation was about to scatter but had not yet done so — which would surely bring a once-in-ten-thousand-years precious battle opportunity, the hope of the Great Dao.

He saw the True Immortal bathing in a heavenly tribulation sufficient to slay many Supreme Beings, strolling as if through an idle courtyard. Behind her, the authority condensed by the rule branch of the Great Dao of Law Annihilation spread in all directions, forming wave after wave of twilight ripples that destroyed all sentient beings of heaven and earth, forcibly stripping away layer upon layer of the terrifying tribulation power within the heavenly tribulation, ceaselessly weakening it, guiding heaven and earth toward the fall into the spiritless Final Dharma Age.

The True Immortal had not even drawn her sword; using her finger as a blade, she struck sword strike after sword strike.

Every single strike inevitably stirred the Great Dao of Law Annihilation between heaven and earth!

The rule-branch authority of Law Annihilation between heaven and earth operated with exquisite precision, reaching the very pinnacle of subtlety — it did not resemble a newly advanced Supreme Being at all, but rather a being who had steeped itself in rule authority for hundreds of thousands of years, its understanding of the Great Dao penetrating to the utmost extreme, chilling to behold.

One strike, and another!

Strike after strike!

Beneath the True Immortal's sword, the entire heavenly tribulation shattered.

Six consecutive bolts of infinite destructive rule lightning descended, all blasted apart head-on by the True Immortal; countless azure motes of thunder-spirit light shattered, the luminous points steaming into seas and mists that spread in all directions — like the hazy chaos of world-opening, myths awakening anew.

Boom—

At last, the seventh bolt of lightning condensed from rule authority arrived.

This lightning was terrifying beyond measure, its might far surpassing all before, as if a historical Thunder Supreme Being from within the Great Dao of Thunder had revived and slashed toward this place with the strongest thunder sword — every application of thunder rules and the Great Dao seemed to exceed the very limits of heaven and earth.

"Not bad,"

"Finally no longer child's play."

Jiang Ding's expression was calm; his hand finally rested upon the sword hilt at his waist.

Clang!

The ringing clash of a sword's cry.

Like the sound of heaven and earth at their inception, the cosmic tone of the Great Dao of Law Annihilation's birth.

It was precisely because the Great Dao of Law Annihilation existed that the endless universe of starry skies began to be complete, began to operate; amid the rumbling, countless creations, countless lives and Great Daos began to be born.

Amid such a terrifying phenomenon affecting the three thousand Great Daos of the endless universe of starry skies, a flying sword appeared.

This flying sword was hazy and indistinct, the color of twilight light, its entire body composed of dark-gold matter.

This was an Immortal-like substance synthesized from the True Immortal's sword soul—an Immortal-like substance of ultimate reinforced sharpness and lethality, named Supreme Great Sun Immortal Spirit Gold—combined with the pit substance of the Fusang Divine Wood's Sun Immortal Fruit, and further blended with countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, hammered and refined day after day, year after year, over nearly two hundred thousand years.

It could be said that although this flying sword was not yet fully complete, it had already transcended the mortal world, soaring beyond the nine heavens — it was a true Immortal-grade flying sword embryo!

If in the future the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal became Human Sovereign, this flying sword would be the future sovereign-grade heavy weapon.

This was the Sword Immortal's supreme natal flying sword — the Taiqing Flying Sword!

Boom—

At this moment, as this flying sword manifested between the starry rivers of heaven and earth, the Great Daos of heaven and earth rumbled and trembled; the Great Dao of Law Annihilation was especially active, with rule after rule of Law Annihilation appearing throughout all quarters of heaven and earth, operating — as if in an instant the universe had entered the Final Dharma Age, and all spirits beneath the heavens must fall silent.

The immortal-sword embryo of the Great Dao of Law-Destruction has appeared!

This sword, appears.

This sword, slashes horizontally.

The authority of the furious branch of the thunder rule in the starry sky shattered with a boom!

Before a True Immortal of the present world, even a thunder Sovereign recorded in history is not worth mentioning!

History is, after all, only history; even when history descends, those Sovereigns qualified to be defiant before a True Immortal are far too rare, and cannot change anything.

"This heavenly tribulation!"

"Heavenly tribulation! Too weak!"

"This is not what this lord desires!"

In the True Immortal's gaze beneath the heavenly tribulation, a blood-red hue that made one's heart tremble began to appear; the Great Sun Sword Dao instinct, accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years, ran deep red and terrifying, nearly dyeing the entire endless starry sky with blood.

This was a horror-killing tribulation brought by countless living beings, utterly unimaginable — none of the composure and transcendence any True Immortal should possess, blood-soaked and terrifying, a dreadfully fearsome future.