Chapter 2057: One Sword Annihilates the Qi Sect

Qi Sect.

This was the place where countless flesh-and-blood ancient trees grew and spread.

The ancient mountain gate of the Upper Clarity Spiritual Treasure Realm was famed as the orthodox lineage of the Mystic Sect, drawing in the pure qi of the Nine Heavens above and the lung-fire of the earth below, wreathed year-round in nine-colored radiance.

There was also a Spiritual Treasure Tianhe that set out from the sect, wandering through the starry skies of countless universes, drawing in the spiritual qi of heaven and earth and the Dao essence of the Nine Heavens, gathering opportunities from every region, and folding back to the sect after five hundred thousand years to complete one cycle.

Often, between those five hundred thousand years, a single treasure capable of shaking the Xian Gao Jie would be born — this was one of the most glorious moments of the Upper Clarity Spiritual Treasure Realm.

But alas…

That was the past.

The Upper Clarity Spiritual Treasure Realm of today, the Qi Sect of today, had become a place where flesh-and-blood ancient trees grew in thickets and rivers of blood ran in every direction.

Hanging upside-down from the branches of these flesh-and-blood ancient trees were cocoons, one after another — each one a human being of outstanding talent, the very least of them blessed with a Heavenly Spirit Root aptitude, with one or two even possessing Dao Bodies; without exception, they were people of extraordinary aptitude.

These top-tier human flesh-and-fruit would become artifact-forgers, body cultivators, sword cultivators, and so on, fighting and toiling their whole lives in the service of the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Butterfly clan, only to be devoured and consumed by the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Butterflies and the Heavenly Craft clan in the end — nothing would go to waste.

Thanks to the births and deaths of generation after generation of these human prodigies, the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Butterfly clan and the Heavenly Craft clan grew ever more prosperous.

On this day, a youth in blue robes arrived here, stroking a lump of charcoal-black something in his hand, lost in thought, no one could tell what he was thinking about.

"The Heavenly Craft clan's first slaying of a Dao Child, the Weapon Immortal Child…"

"Back in that Heavenly Craft Star Chain world cluster… these are all very distant memories now."

Jiang Ding fell into recollection: "I seem to recall that, back then, this sovereign once made a promise to the Human Clan's Heavenly Dao that, in the future, I would surely annihilate the Qi Sect that enslaved the human race."

"I never expected that now, the time has come to fulfill that promise."

Jiang Ding looked toward the center of the Qi Sect's layered formations and saw a Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Subduing Furnace that pierced straight into the heavens, ceaselessly belching black smoke — a supreme treasure that had birthed its own divine consciousness within the Upper Clarity Spiritual Treasure Realm.

This was the foundation of the Weapon Immortal Supreme — a supreme treasure that had given birth to its own self-awareness.

A failed attempt by the human race's immortal Dao beings to create a high-intelligence artifact spirit, one that had triggered catastrophically dire consequences, directly leading to the destruction of an immortal sect whose lineage stretched back tens of millions of years, and a hellish purgatory for countless billions of human lives.

"A weapon spirit that murders its master,"

"must be slain."

Jiang Ding tucked away the black charcoal in his hand and said lightly.

Clang!

The sword slowly left its sheath.

The surrounding heaven and earth abruptly entered a world of yellow dusk and gloom; stars fell, the rules of the immortal Dao collapsed, and one after another immortal Dao beings were visited by the Five Decays of Heaven and Man. Amidst all these terrifying portents, a resplendent sun of the Dharma-Ending dusk rose slowly into the sky — and then crashed violently toward the earth.

Boom!

The Dharma-Ending sun fell, destroying everything in the four directions.

Layer upon layer of flesh-and-blood ancient trees sprouted arm-like branches, growing madly toward the sky, forming formation after formation that gleamed with a blood-red luster — clearly ninth-rank supreme-grade grand formations. The authority of the world's rules branching from the Dao of artifact-forging upheld these formations like blood-fire, emanating an aura that would make even a Supreme shudder in unknown dread.

"Who?"

The gear-spirits among the countless flesh-and-blood ancient trees shrieked in terror.

"Who?!"

"Who dares trespass against my Qi Sect!"

A furious roar erupted from the Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Subduing Furnace burning fiercely at the center of the Qi Sect, booming like a great bell, savage and terrifying, as if countless billions of mighty beings had already been incinerated within the furnace.

Bumps appeared on either side of this star-sized furnace; streams of blood-light and gear after gear wove and coupled together, forming a terrifying being that upheld the furnace. In an instant, the panic within the Qi Sect was quelled. The many Heavenly Craft beings returned to order, each one forming hand-seals and arrays, and all their power poured into the Qi Sect's grand formation.

This was the Weapon Immortal Supreme!

His name was the Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Subduing Furnace!

"Great Sun!"

"You whelp have only just ascended to Supreme, and you dare come to this sovereign's domain!"

"Hahahaha!"

The Weapon Immortal Supreme immediately spotted his opponent — that youth in blue robes — and laughed uproariously: "Heaven favors me! This sovereign just happens to be lacking a treasure material, vexed that I cannot weather the Six Tribulations. You've come at just the right moment, boy!"

The Weapon Immortal Supreme laughed aloud in wild joy.

But very soon, he could no longer laugh.

That terrifying Dharma-Ending sun, a perfect work of nature, had its power extremely restrained, extremely concentrated; it carried no overwhelming pressure, simply falling downward, simply landing upon the ninth-rank formations formed by the Qi Sect's layered flesh-and-blood branches. The instant the two sides made contact, every flesh-and-blood branch was instantly reduced to ash!

The extremely high-grade power contained within this Dharma-Ending sun traveled at tremendous speed; layer upon layer of flesh-and-blood ancient trees were annihilated into ash, and the Heavenly Craft clan cultivators operating the layered formations were reduced to ash as well. Only those Heavenly Craft cultivators with scientific research value were sealed and packaged up, forming amber crystals that fell to the earth.

In an instant!

In just an instant, the entire Qi Sect became a dead land spreading with white ash.

"No!"

"This is impossible!"

The Weapon Immortal Supreme's wild joy froze in an instant.

His smile turned to absolute terror; cold crept over his entire body, as if he had plunged into an icy hell — eighteen layers of hell in a single instant.

That terrifying Dharma-Ending sun had destroyed the Qi Sect without any loss of speed, and continued its fall toward the Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Subduing Furnace.

It had not lost even a shred of power.

This single sword would endure for all eternity.

"Great Sun Supreme!"

"Great Sun!"

The Weapon Immortal Supreme was drowned in an instant by a tide of fear; death descended so abruptly, descending right within his own lair, leaving one utterly unable to adapt.

"Run!"

"Escape! As long as I can escape, find…"

The Weapon Immortal Supreme went mad!

He drove the Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Subduing Furnace at any cost; the flames within the furnace surged violently, the furnace walls turned red-hot and translucent, and black smoke burbled and spread from the furnace mouth, thick with resentment and baleful qi, capable of corroding even a Supreme's Dharma Body.

At this moment, he burned everything away, transforming into a streak of escape light fleeing toward the distance.

Far away lay the layered contingencies of the Qi Sect, including a long-range teleportation array; once he escaped into it, he could instantly cross hundreds of millions of li and flee into the clan of the Heavenly Illusion Fairy Butterflies...

Alas, all of this was merely the fantasy of the Supreme of the Qi Sect.

Among peers of the same realm, few cultivators' escape lights could outpace a sword cultivator's flying sword, let alone the sword of a sword cultivator whose strength far exceeded his own!

The moment the Supreme of the Qi Sect's escape light just took flight, the Sun of the End of Dharma already plummeted.

Boom!

Thud!

The sound of a brilliant explosion and the sound of a bell striking spread outward, forming ripples of transparent waves.

Terrifying, scorching Dharma-Ending explosion spread outward, instantly eroding the layered protections on the Supreme of the Qi Sect, shaving away layers of crimson malevolent qi, and revealing his true form.

These defenses were nothing but a joke!

Various means of escape and survival were even less worth mentioning; whether they involved causality, space, or fate, or were defensive measures bestowed by the Master of the Heavenly Illusion Butterfly, they instantly crumbled beneath the Great Dao of Dharma-Ending.

All spiritual light vanished, revealing the scene within.

A flying sword pierced straight through the body of the Reverse Five Elements Zhou Tian Demon-Refining Furnace, pinning him to the ground and killing him!