Chapter 2054: The Death of the Seven Killings Supreme Sovereign

Jiang Ding looked down at the many disciples of the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm and the many disciples of the Great Sun lineage, and nodded, albeit reluctantly.

In the beginning, the great tribulation of the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm had been caused by him; for these many disciples to ultimately receive a good outcome, he had to acknowledge the favor.

"Daoist friend,"

"Many thanks!"

"From now on, this sovereign will likewise look after the disciples of the Celestial Beast Garden and Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong, repaying it tenfold."

Jiang Ding said earnestly.

One thing at a time.

These were small favors; he had not forgotten how Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong and the Celestial Beast Garden had once joined forces to kill him. That was a life-and-death great enmity, not something that could be absolved by a few small acts of kindness.

"Truly?"

The Celestial Beast Sovereign rejoiced.

He was already in his twilight years, and did not much care about his own life or death.

"Additionally,"

"Daoist friend of the Great Sun, this old man and Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong still have one meritorious deed."

The Celestial Beast Sovereign thought for a moment, then said: "Since the collapse of the Anyun Protectorate, the Celestial Beast Garden has always guarded the planar passage, never losing it, never allowing the demon race of the Zhu Que Star Domain to invade this place, leaving behind a vast territory for the human race. This should count as a meritorious deed for the human race, no?"

"This should be useful to you, Daoist friend, no?"

"If the Celestial Beast Garden and Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong had not guarded this place for tens of millions of years as if it were a single day, how could a pure land for the human race have been preserved, and how could there have been any opportunity for the human race's strong to grow?"

He bowed deeply in salute.

At the final moment, facing the temptation of living several more tens of thousands of years, he was still not as calm, as indifferent as he had imagined himself to be; he had not looked lightly upon life and death.

Jiang Ding's face was expressionless.

Boom!

In the sky, the blazing sun of the Dharma-Ending Age plummeted straight down.

The authority of the laws turned slowly, and endless, boundless light of the Dharma-Ending Age flooded the world between heaven and earth, carrying ultimate destruction, smashing down to shatter the Dao.

This terrifying sun instantly blasted apart the various formations of the Celestial Beast Garden, blasted open the joint resistance of the Celestial Beast Sovereign and the Taiyi Qingmu Sovereign, and the rule-branch authorities of the Alchemy Dao and the Beast-Taming Dao shattered with a rumble.

The two Sovereigns vomited blood and retreated violently, their breath thin as a gossamer thread.

The two Sovereigns joining forces could not even take a single sword strike beneath the sword of the Great Sun Sword Child!

This scene was simply too horrifying.

Clearly they were both Sovereigns, both wielding the authority of rules, yet the gap between them was so vast as to feel inconceivable; one could not understand where such a disparity came from.

"Puh!"

The Celestial Beast Sovereign and the Taiyi Qingmu Sovereign vomited blood and crashed heavily into the earth, smashing out deep pits.

The two were not angry, however; instead they were immensely delighted, beaming with joy. They struggled to stand, bowed respectfully upward, then left the Seven Killings Sovereign and the other, standing respectfully to the side.

The alliance of the four Sovereigns, which had lasted for several hundred thousand years, completely shattered at this moment.

Jiang Ding no longer looked at these two withered bones in a tomb, and quietly turned his gaze to the Seven Killings Sovereign and the Thunder Yang Sovereign.

These two had to die.

"Daoist friend of the Great Sun,"

"Some two hundred thousand years ago, when this sovereign met you, I already had a premonition of certain things."

"I did not expect that today, it has become reality."

The Sovereign of the Seven Killings Xiangong said with an indifferent expression: "Back then, this sovereign told you that the Seven Killings Xiangong could in the future become your subordinate. You agreed at the time. I wonder if that still counts?"

"It counts."

Jiang Ding nodded slightly.

In years past, the Seven Killings Sovereign had struck at him from beyond the Seven Killings White Bone Domain; at that time he had promised that if the Seven Killings Sovereign was willing to exert all his strength to slay him, he would in the future preserve the Dao lineage of the Seven Killings Xiangong, allowing that lineage's inheritance to continue.

In truth, any Sovereign-level Dao lineage was extremely important to the Great Sun Sword Child; this concerned the diversity of the Immortal Dao.

The wicked cultivators of the Seven Killings Xiangong could all die, but its Immortal Dao inheritance had to be preserved, because this was the collective wealth of humanity. In the future, these Immortal Dao riches might perhaps provide inspiration for the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dao—even if it were only a little inspiration, it would be precious.

These Immortal Dao riches should not be destroyed out of personal likes or dislikes; it is people who are evil, not the inheritance.

The inheritance is the wealth of all humanity.

"Good."

"Daoist friend is indeed a man of his word."

The Seven Killings Sovereign clapped his hands and laughed.

He took out a Seven Killings Banner of ten billion prohibitions, its baleful aura piercing the heavens, and cast a glance at the Sword Master of the Thunder Yang Heavenly Sword, a probing look in his eyes.

'Will you join forces?'

The Sword Master of the Thunder Yang Heavenly Sword rested his hand on the sword hilt and shook his head slightly.

He was a sword cultivator; he wanted a sacred sword duel, and did not wish to be disturbed by anyone.

"So be it."

The Seven Killings Sovereign shook his head and laughed at himself, not insisting.

"Daoist friend of the Great Sun,"

"Then please allow this Dao to show you my Seven Killings Dao technique. This inheritance, obtained from the Seven Killings Star Constellation, has been the pride of my life; in the past it has always been invincible…"

The Seven Killings Sovereign wore a smile, which gradually turned into a bloodily terrifying, ferocious grin.

Hum!

The Ten Billion Prohibitions Seven Killings Banner swelled in the wind within the Seven Killings rule-branch authority, and in the blink of an eye grew to the size of a star.

That pitch-black banner flapped violently in the gale; upon it, the many rule-prohibition patterns and many authorities manifested on the flag, and it naturally gathered boundless starlight, favored by the Seven Killings Star Constellation, its might without limit.

Outside this Ten Billion Prohibitions Seven Killings Banner, clusters upon clusters of black shadows bloomed—these were smaller Seven Killings Banners, layered upon layer, seemingly endless, blotting out the sky, flooding the starry sky, and in the blink of an eye forming a terrifying, boundless Seven Killings Star-Devouring God-Slaying Grand Formation.

One saw only baleful winds howling, raging gales rising on all sides, the Seven Killings Star shining with bloody light, countless fierce ghosts, countless jiangshi, countless demons and monsters roaring and shrieking between the banners. Centered on the authority of the Seven Killings Rule Branch, with the Hundred Billion Restriction Seven Killings Banner as its spine, they condensed into a terrifying Seven Killings Heaven-Slicing Blade that spanned the starry constellations.

"Daoist Great Sun!"

"This is this Daoist's supreme strike — the Seven Killings Star Devouring Star Slash!"

The Seven Killings Supreme came before the Seven Killings Heaven-Slicing Blade with a savage expression.

His hand rested on the blade, letting his own arm be severed by the blade-light, fresh blood pouring out swiftly, then his lifespan draining away — everything he had poured into this single slash. His hair rapidly withered, his skin rotted, he decayed.

In the end, this Supreme poured absolutely everything he had into that one blazing slash.

"Die!"

"Die!"

The Seven Killings Supreme raised the banner, sweeping up the sky-full of constellations, sun, moon, and stars, and bearing the boundless murderous aura, hacked down toward that blue-clothed youth. Like a heavenly god, the Seven Killings Heaven-Slicing Blade danced, reaching its ultimate sublimation, expending everything, to slay that blue-clothed youth — to kill his own blue-clothed youth.

The entire cosmic starry sky was filled with terrifying light.

The Heavenly Beast Supreme and the others held their breath, cold creeping down their spines, awed by this Supreme's all-burning strike. They forcibly suppressed the instinct to dodge its edge for the moment, and gazed at the sky.

Clang!

Heaven and earth fell silent.

Everyone saw that tiny blue-clothed youth draw his sword, and with one sword meet the blood-light-flooded starry sky in a downward slash.

There was no blazing sun, no omen of the Dharma-Ending Age, and certainly no heaven-shaking, earth-shattering pressure.

There was only that one sword — that ordinary sword slashing across the starry sky.

The starry sky, shrouded by the authority of the Seven Killings Rule Branch, instantly fell still.

Crack!

Immediately, the entire blood-light-flooded starry sky shattered.

The sky-covering Seven Killings Star-Devouring God-Slaying Grand Formation shattered.

The Seven Killings Heaven-Slicing Blade shattered, and finally even the Seven Killings Supreme's Ben Ming Fa was cut — the banner severed, the banner-pole split open — and it fell toward the earth, losing all its spiritual light, like a broken wooden stick.

In its place, only a wizened, withered old man remained.

Frail and powerless.

Who could have imagined that this was a supreme expert of the Great Thousand Worlds, who had slaughtered billions upon billions of living beings and trodden over countless mountains of corpses and seas of blood to achieve his Dao?

Beneath the Great Sun Sword Lord's single sword, the Seven Killings Supreme was defeated.

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