Chapter 2171: The Time-Space-Shattering Composition Jointly Created by the True Phoenix Child and the True Dragon Child

After one sword strike,

A faint heaviness welled up in the True Phoenix Child's heart.

The gap between the Immortal Dao's foundation and the Primordial Ancient Talisman was so vast she could hardly believe it.

Clearly, in the battle against the Fortune True Dragon Child, this human True Sword Immortal's strength had still been merely so-so, yet after just one fight, an inconceivable snowball-like transformation had taken place!

"Fellow Daoist, your guess is quite correct."

"The 'Annihilating-Law Solar Immortal Scripture' is an Immortal Scripture of three hundred and eighty-one characters."

Jiang Ding, bathed in the radiance of the Great Dao of Annihilating Law, said calmly: "However, this is not too great an advantage. The gap between a thousand-character Immortal Scripture and a hundred-character Immortal Scripture is merely an accumulation in quantity, with no qualitative change."

"In terms of the quantity of power, the Phoenix Immortal Clan's body is far stronger — that is a racial advantage."

This is the advantage of the Dragon and Phoenix Immortal Clans.

What, then, is the human race's advantage?

The human race's advantage lies in techniques!

Born with nothing — no immortal body, no innate divinity, no knowledge from birth — in the process of climbing from nothing to something, of ascending to the peak of True Sword Immortal, the human race's application of techniques is terrifyingly extreme: a single unit of strength can leverage many times that power, and in this regard they usually surpass the Innate Immortal Clans by far too much.

And as a special True Sword Immortal, the Supreme Solar Sword Immortal's advantage in techniques is clearly even greater.

Clang!

Jiang Ding sent a sword strike slashing toward the innately supreme and noble Five-Virtue Phoenix.

As this sword was unleashed, the sword's hum lingered long.

Between heaven and earth, across dozens of star domains, all rules, spiritual energy, Heavenly Dao, and matter began to stagnate unbearably; even many worlds ceased their eternal, unceasing motion, and everything between heaven and earth froze solid.

Everything began to transform into a painting.

All this stagnation — the freezing of matter, space, rules, and everything else — brought about the transformation of one terrifying thing, and that was — time!

Time!

At this moment, time became dim and uncertain, hazy and indistinct, with no knowing of future, present, or past.

Boundless terror descended abruptly.

"Time!"

"Hahaha… you truly think that a mere person who has never even achieved Sovereignty can wantonly manipulate time?"

The True Phoenix Child, however, laughed, her voice hoarse and tinged with a thread of madness.

The sword before her was so achingly familiar.

This was the very sword that had once slain her Dao companion, and now this sword appeared before her again — it drove her to the brink of madness.

Ding!

Ding-dong… ding-dong…

Behind the Phoenix, the Heavenly Nest transformed into three thousand threads of Great Dao rules, the three thousand Indestructible Feathers became harp strings, radiant and gleaming; the star rivers of heaven and earth became the base of an ancient zither, and the Five-Virtue Five-Colored Feathers became a vast hand from the firmament plucking the three thousand Indestructible Strings, emitting the pleasant, resonant sound of the Great Dao.

These sounds of the Great Dao spread outward, forming ripple after ripple, possessing a penetrative quality that transcended time and space.

Wherever the sound waves passed, the star rivers that had originally frozen like a painting, already transformed into a two-dimensional world, began to show ripple after ripple, regaining vitality and becoming a three-dimensional, real world once more.

This tune caused the dead, silent star rivers to become vivid and alive again!

The mortal world once more became brimming with life.

Thus, the Supreme Solar Sword Immortal's sword-light began to falter; heaven and earth no longer froze, and the dreamlike, uncertain sensation of time was being steadily weakened.

This is a musical score jointly created by the Fortune True Dragon Child, who died beneath this very sword, and his Dao companion, the True Phoenix Child,

This tune is named the Dragon-Phoenix Dao-Disturbing Sound!

This tune — the True Phoenix Child had prepared it for a long time, and now she had truly achieved it!

Her departed Dao companion, at this moment, seemed to be watching her from the heavens above!

The two-dimensional mortal world gradually recovered.

"Oh?"

"So it turns out that dragons and phoenixes — these innately divine fools — also possess the pinnacle talent of the Endless Starry Skies?"

Jiang Ding was faintly surprised.

In the world there universally exists such a natural law: a privileged environment, everything innately within easy reach, innate power… all these lands of comfort erode a being's will to fight and a being's talent, because everything comes too easily, and precious things like fighting spirit and talent find it hard to be tempered.

This counts as a trifling, negligible flaw amid all these enviable blessings, perhaps.

It is not that Jiang Ding looked down on the Dragon and Phoenix Immortal Clans.

These innately powerful beings naturally possess talent, but compared to the very top tier of human prodigies, this so-called talent is nothing remarkable — they can only stand shoulder to shoulder with top-tier human prodigies by relying entirely on racial stats.

If talent alone is discussed, the top tier of human prodigies can leave the Dragon and Phoenix Immortal Clan beings far behind by a wide margin.

If the target of comparison is aimed at the human race's very top True Sword Immortals, this gap in talent will widen to a despairing degree.

However, clearly, the universal law cannot be applied to the True Phoenix Child.

She and her Dao companion successfully completed the decipherment of the human Sword Dao True Sword Immortal's sword art, and formed a counter-technique!

This talent cannot be called anything but terrifying.

If this era had no Sword Immortal, among the two great Dragon and Phoenix True Sword Immortals, a Sovereign would very likely have been born!

"Innately divine fools?"

"Arrogant!"

The True Phoenix Child smiled coldly.

Boom!

The sound of the harp strings suddenly turned urgent!

Like a silver vase suddenly shattering with water spraying out, like iron cavalry bursting forth with the clash of blades and spears!

The ethereal, pleasant sounds across dozens of star domains abruptly transformed into the clangorous clamor of arms; fire feathers of Five-Virtue hues, one after another, materialized between heaven and earth, merging with the clangorous sounds to become sharp, fiery meteor-feathers that slashed into the world frozen like a painting, tearing apart swath after swath of frozen heaven and earth.

The Sword Fairy's swordsmanship was being torn apart piece by piece by the flames!

"How amusing."

Jiang Ding smiled and nodded, admitting this failure.

Clang!

Clang clang!

In the starry sky, the flying sword that had been gathering momentum abandoned any thought of further accumulating power, and instead formed a single Heaven-Severing Sword that slashed toward the sky-filling fire-feathers, toward the phoenix with its crest held high!

Beneath this sword, the sword-light was so swift it seemed to cut through the barrier of time itself, slashing toward the past.

At the same instant!

An identical sword-light materialized behind True Phoenix Son's back, and two terrifying sword-lights slashed across in a cross.

This was a sword from one ten-thousandth of an instant ago!

This was an attack from the Supreme Solar Sword Fairy of one ten-thousandth of an instant ago!

In this moment, True Phoenix Son faced the assault of two human Sword Fairies!

"Nothing more than this,"

"Supreme Solar! You are nothing more than this! Time is not something you can manipulate at will!"

True Phoenix Son drew in a deep breath and violently beat its wings.

Cry!

From dozens of star domains, a shrill cry suddenly rang out!

This cry came from the present, and also from the past True Phoenix Son; the past True Phoenix Son and the present True Phoenix Son stretched their necks and sang in unison, simultaneously slashing a five-colored beam of light toward the sky from the Five Virtues Qi Fortune True Feather.

An immortal's colored clouds swept across the sky, meeting head-on the Supreme Solar Sword Fairy's sword.

Clang!

Sparks flew in all directions.

The present True Phoenix Son shattered the Supreme Solar Sword Fairy's Sky-Suppressing Chaotic Ancient Sword with five-colored cloud-light!

Only one sword-light from the past remained.

This sword-light she could not intercept — it was another sword from a past Supreme Solar Sword Fairy; she had no possibility of facing two Sword Fairies at once.

The terrifying, law-annihilating edge seemed already to have touched that graceful neck.

"Ridiculous."

True Phoenix Son revealed a mocking expression, without the slightest fear.

Clang!

From the past, it seemed the very same sound rang out.

That sword-light about to sever the true phoenix's neck suddenly vanished, soundlessly, just as it had come from the past — stirring not the slightest ripple, not even enough to blow away a single grain of dust.

In the past, the past True Phoenix Son had likewise shattered this sword!

(End of this chapter)