Chapter 794: Slay the Dao Son, Stabilize the Realm

They are all fighting with everything they have!

The Seven Dao Sons, each a future ruler of dozens of Minor Thousand Worlds, figures cultivated by Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong with countless efforts, have always held noble status.

At this moment, every Dao Son is burning all their magic power, divine soul, and flesh and blood, determined to perish with the enemy!

In the current battlefield, even a wisp of aura drifting out is enough to freeze the divine souls of vast numbers of cultivators, filling them with terror and unease.

"Very good,"

"How many geniuses and heroes exist in the world."

Jiang Ding's eyes held a scarlet light as he watched the one thousand and twenty-four Sun Destruction beams roar down upon the seven Dao Sons, who had burned everything, and a military formation.

Boom!

Endless brilliant light erupted, space annihilated, and the scorching will of destruction filled the heavens and earth.

But, unlike any time before, after the explosion's light faded, except for the military formation being forced to retreat, not a single one of the Seven Dao Sons retreated!

Their eyes held boundless killing intent; their flesh and bodies burned like torches, patches of white ash falling, yet they did not stop for even a moment.

Not only did they not retreat, they instead advanced further to kill!

Tianji Zi's calculating rods, Ji Liuyue's Sky-Blue Divine Tree seedling, his body merged with the treasure, Tian Tian Xuanzi who cultivated both body and technique with his Bi Xi bronze statue, Duobao Zi's three thousand six hundred Falling Treasure Money coins faintly carrying flames and bloodlight...

All the Dao Sons had gone mad, with only one goal, one purpose.

That was,

To tear apart the Dai Sen Sun Mirror Sword-type drone swarm!

This was a heavy treasure painstakingly refined by the Great Sun Sword Son; once completely torn apart, it would not only remove a great calamity, ending the situation of certain death, but would inevitably cause him severe injury and shatter the super warship.

At that time, the seven Dao Sons, having burned everything, would inevitably be able to slay the Great Sun Sword Son!

Inevitably!

Boom!

Boom boom!

The heavens and earth rotated, sun and moon alternated, the super warship's ship spirit Yun Ri assisted, and within the one thousand and twenty-four Dai Sen Sun Mirror drones, countless formation runes flickered in and out of view; in an instant, the formations shifted tens of millions of times.

Over thousands of kilometers, endless Great Sun light was swallowed and absorbed; the heavens and earth turned from darkness to light again.

Again and again!

One thousand and twenty-four Sun Destruction beams shot forth, the Sun Divine Spear descended to the world, sweeping away all sins in the human realm.

The seven Dao Sons, trailing bloodlight, commanded their Ben Ming Fa treasures, released Dao soldiers and spiritual pets, and directly confronted the Sun Destruction beams, smashing the attacks again and again.

Even if their bodies were grazed, missing a piece, their flesh vaporized, they paid no heed, pressing forward relentlessly, only advancing, advancing further!

Seven consecutive waves of Dai Sen Sun Mirror drone swarm Sun Destruction beams failed to destroy them!

In a short time, gathering billions of suns' light so many times, the Dai Sen Sun Mirror Sword-type drones finally showed a moment of hesitation.

The light scattered, revealing the youth standing on the super warship, quietly watching them, seemingly not panicked by the tearing of all defensive lines.

Like the Great Sun Monarch on Wang Zuo, quietly watching the challengers who were like ants.

"Three thousand years,"

"Forbidden Technique · Nine Heavens Sun-Slaying Arrow!"

Tianji Dao Son was also very calm.

Pieces of his skin fell away with the flames, turning to white ash, revealing withered brown muscles and pale bones, as he spat out a term.

The instant this term appeared, the wind and clouds changed color, the heavens and earth displayed the strange phenomenon of blood rain, even affecting the space beyond the starry sky, causing the star river to show turmoil.

As if,

This term represented something of the origin of the realm and universe!

Merely touching it slightly, speaking this term, was enough to make this realm react.

It was the taboo among taboos.

Jiang Ding, originally calm, his gaze of cold observation suddenly froze.

Forbidden Technique · Nine Heavens Sun-Slaying Arrow!

This was a piece of history.

A history in which the Immortal Gate and the Badaxian Sect all participated!

Three thousand years ago, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's Great Sun Sword Master Zou Zou Xiyuan reached the peak of the Refining Void realm, on the verge of breaking through beyond Refining Void to become a Ruler.

And he had successfully taken half a step, about to succeed!

That realm's name was unknown, its power unknown.

It was only known that it would affect certain essential things of the entire realm, imprint certain things belonging to oneself, and permanently change a realm.

When the last Great Sun Sword Master Zou Zou Xiyuan was about to break through and was severely injured, the Immortal Gate and the Badaxian Sect paid countless heavy costs to besiege him, and successfully slew him, terminating that terrifying breakthrough.

In this process, a spell of earth-shattering magnitude used jointly by the Immortal Gate and the Badaxian Sect was permanently preserved by the essence of the realm.

This spell was named the Nine Heavens Sun-Slaying Arrow!

This was a taboo name; even Refining Void experts rarely mentioned it, because it might bring ill omens, arousing some malice from the realm's essence, which even Refining Void experts could not escape.

At this moment, Tianji Zi and the other seven Dao Sons, having lost almost everything and having no taboos left, spoke these words.

"Your Excellency, you,"

"Must die."

Tianji Zi's eyes bled tears of blood; he seemed to have already seen the future that was bound to happen.

He gripped his Ben Ming Fa treasure, the calculating rods forged from Yu Chong Guang Xuan Jin of the Tianji Immortal Palace, and the speed at which his body burned suddenly increased dramatically.

All his vital blood, all his divine soul, all his blood-stained magic power, surged entirely into the calculating rods.

Finally, his entire person actually turned to ash and vanished, losing his aura right then and there!

In the original spot, only a blood-jade-like calculating rod remained, writhing, deforming, and finally transforming into a blood-jade-like arrowhead, carrying a strong curse and the Tianji locking aura, impossible to escape, impossible to extinguish.

Jiang Ding's hair stood on end in an instant.

He sensed that some intense, essence-touching hostility had locked onto the core of his divine soul — no matter how he dodged with escape arts or fled through teleportation, it was useless; it would inevitably hit.

"Jiang Ding Zi,"

"I hate you…"

Immediately after, Taiyi Taiyi Qingmu Dao Child Ji Liuyue gave a sorrowful smile, and her body went poof, turning into a shower of white ash, burning everything.

Her Ben Ming Fa treasure — a Heaven-Clearing Divine Wood sapling, a Void Refinement-grade ancient tree's sapling — writhed and morphed just like Tianji Zi, finally forming a green arrow shaft several chi long, covered in a web of blood.

The other five Dao Children, too, took one last longing look at this world before their bodies crumbled into a sheet of white ash.

Only to see,

Shadow Demon Dao Child and his Ben Ming Fa treasure Shadow Kill Ten Thousand Poison Blade turned into a wisp of pure grey light, merging into the arrow shaft, granting it concealment — impossible to foresee;

Cauldron Dao Child and his Ben Ming Fa treasure Jin Shi Heavenly Pill turned into a black-green domain-grade ultimate poison, clinging to the arrowhead, granting it ultimate poison power — impossible to cure;

Upper Clarity Spiritual Treasure Dao Child and his Ben Ming Fa treasure Three Thousand Six Hundred Falling Treasure Gold Coins turned into a wisp of Jin Chong Guang merging into the arrowhead, granting it supreme sharpness — impossible to defend against;

Ten Thousand Beasts Dao Child and his Ben Ming Fa treasure Beast God Armor merged into the arrow's tail, becoming bird-and-beast fletching, granting it supreme speed — impossible to dodge;

Brother Brother Xuanwu Dao Child and his Ben Ming Fa treasure Bixi Bronze Statue dissolved into the arrow body, granting it supreme solidity — impossible to shatter.

Seven great Dao Children, burning everything.

Finally forming this one Nine Heavens Sun-Slaying Arrow!

This arrow, three thousand years ago, had once slain an supreme powerhouse on the verge of breaking through above Void Refinement!

And now, it has returned once more!

Whoosh!

The Nine Heavens Sun-Slaying Arrow vanished.

It did not merge into space, did not tear open space, did not teleport.

Just like that, it abruptly vanished.

Jiang Ding fell silent.

In that instant, an endless cold aura surged toward him, blanketing the sky and earth, unceasing, freezing his body rigid, his heart seized by a great hand, his divine soul blank — he could no longer breathe, no longer think.

A tide-like death crisis engulfed him.

Every Dao Child-grade instinct, every divine soul premonition, clearly told him one thing.

You, are going to die.

This is something that has already happened — in just one breath, now you are fortunate enough to know it in advance.

This is inevitable fate.

In a daze, the heavens and earth, the sky, the mountains, the rivers, and the many soldiers and officers of the Immortal Gate on the battlefield — An Siyan, Jin Jin Lingfeng, Teacher Ouyang Hui, and others — were shouting, weeping, saying things loudly, but all of it was silent; he could not hear.

These grew farther and farther away, farther and farther, gradually fading from sight.

Before his eyes, things began little by little turning to darkness.

"Ha,"

Jiang Ding suddenly laughed.

"Haha,"

"Hahaha…"

Jiang Ding's laughter turned into wild laughter, wanton and unrestrained, mocking and scolding: "A bunch of weaklings, that's all!"

"My defeated foes!"

"What can the likes of you do?"

"It's nothing but Elder Bo Ming,"

Jiang Ding laughed heartily: "You weaklings all dare — how could I not dare?"

"How laughable!"

"I dare to risk my life, and I absolutely will not die — this is what makes a strong one strong."

"And you lot, nothing more than this!"

Hum!

Between Jiang Ding's brows, a wisp of blue-gold flame appeared, rapidly spreading across his entire body, igniting the Sea of Consciousness, igniting the divine soul, igniting the flesh-and-blood body — layer upon layer of white ash fell rustling down, carpeting the ground.

His entire aura, in this brief instant, skyrocketed several times over out of thin air!

"Light!"

Jiang Ding shouted low.

Boom!

One thousand and twenty-four Dai Sen solar mirror drones hummed and trembled, brutally absorbing and devouring solar radiance across thousands of kilometers, billions upon billions of rays — the heavens and earth plunged into utter darkness.

One thousand and twenty-four solar destruction beams appeared in the starry sky!

Yet these solar destruction beams did not fire toward anywhere.

They all poured into the Taiqing Flying Sword, poured into the super warship Great Sun's Magnetic Cloud Planet-Splitting Cannon.

Like swallows returning to their nest, they streamed into it.

With such terrifying power flooding in, the Magnetic Cloud Planet-Splitting Cannon instantly bore dreadful pressure — the cannon barrel swelled, swelled, turning crimson all over; even the super warship, one of the Immortal Gate's top creations, could not withstand it, about to explode, about to melt into a heap of molten iron!

Hum!

In the sky, in the utterly dark starry sky, three hundred sixty-five stars suddenly appeared, forming billions of star-silk nets, falling from the sky, wrapping around the Magnetic Cloud Planet-Splitting Cannon's about-to-explode barrel, and even generating cold star power, rapidly cooling the cannon's temperature.

"I…"

"I see it!"

"I see… the likes of you are nothing more than this!"

Jiang Ding's eyes were blood-red, with crimson light piercing several inches beyond his eye sockets, terrifying and grotesque as he muttered to himself.

Blue-gold flames burned within his flesh and blood; having given everything and disregarding all danger, he began to fight for his life, finally seeing a dark, gloomy ink-green long arrow deep within the space, hidden amidst countless karmic threads.

It emitted a faint light, an infinite power of curses, gathering the supreme poisons of the realm, and struck toward his spiritual soul core.

"This sword,"

Jiang Ding held no sword in his hand, yet he still drew one, speaking word by word with deliberate slowness.

"is named: Exterminate Nine!"

Boom!

A deafening roar that shook the realm, a booming sound, a roar of destruction, spread across ten thousand li of sky and earth; the world was shrouded and dominated by the sword intent that was both destructive and scorching.

Boom!

On the super-battleship Great Sun, the magnetic cloud star-cracking cannon, on the verge of explosion, finally fired the sword it had been accumulating for so long.

The Sun!

The true Sun descended from the cannon's muzzle to the earth!

Endless light,

Endless brilliance,

Endless heat!

Space silently dissolved before the Sun; the seven Dao Children burned everything to form terrifying killing intent and a cold, cursed aura, which vanished completely the instant the true Sun appeared, their forms clearly locked, no longer able to remain hidden from gods and spirits.

"A predetermined fate?"

"Hmph!"

Jiang Ding sneered coldly.

"How can the weak define fate?"

"It is merely playing tricks with ghosts and gods."

Boom!

The Great Sun roared forward, destroying everything in its path; what curses, what karma, what divination and heavenly calculations to lock its target—all vanished into thin air under such extreme destruction as it crashed headlong into the Nine Heavens Sun-Exterminating Arrow that had surged out from the depths of space!

Sizzle...

At first, only a sizzling sound was heard, with wisps of green smoke rising.

The tip of the Nine Heavens Sun-Exterminating Arrow collided with the destructive Great Sun; the supreme poisons of the realm and karmic curses were utterly annihilated; whatever was strange or cold was insignificant and destroyed beneath the Sun.

Then,

Crash!

An earth-shattering explosion; all spiritual lights, all Nascent Soul artifact embryos, the Dao Children's blood souls and killing intent, were shattered, melted, destroyed, and restored to their original forms.

Amidst the dazzling, overwhelming light, within the sword Dao will of destruction that filled the heavens and earth, Jiang Ding squinted his eyes.

On his body, patches of white ash revealed withered muscles and gray-white bones; the self-combustion had already ceased, a heart-piercing agony surged forth, yet he ignored it, staring fixedly at the sky, at the exploding Sun.

"That is all,"

"That is all. A Daoist cultivator, sigh, a Daoist cultivator..."

Jiang Ding suddenly showed a look of disappointment.

He saw that within the destructive Great Sun of the great explosion, the Nine Heavens Sun-Exterminating Arrow disintegrated, breaking apart again into dim counting rods, withered and shattered; the seemingly lifeless sky-blue wood branches; the shadow-killing ten-thousand-poison blade with dimmed spiritual light; the battered Bi Xi bronze statue... and so on.

The Ben Ming Fa treasures of the seven Dao Children were still there.

Inside each, a trace of spiritual soul origin remained, leaving a possibility of revival, provided Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong was willing to pay ten times the cost of cultivating new Dao Children.

"This will not do."

"It was agreed they would die, so they must die!"

The killing intent in Jiang Ding's heart burned once more.

He commanded the Taiching Flying Sword to strike the seven Nascent Soul artifact embryos; with a crash, he drove the seven Nascent Soul artifact embryos back several li, leaving new sword marks upon them, and the spiritual soul origins within them were in turmoil.

Whoosh!

Jiang Ding struck again!

Beneath the sword, the Bi Xi bronze statue shattered, its spiritual soul essence completely destroyed; the shadow-killing ten-thousand-poison blade shattered, its spiritual soul origin severely damaged.

Just as he was about to do something else,

Boom!

Seven terrifying powers suddenly appeared in the sky, containing the unknown, powerful and dreadful, connecting to the methods on the seven Nascent Soul artifact embryos, shaking the entire Minor Thousand Worlds and causing all living beings to fall into stiffness.

"No!"

"My spoils of war..."

Jiang Ding flew into a rage, his heart full of killing intent, yet he could not stop it, gradually falling into mental stiffness.

After a long while, he regained consciousness.

Before him, the shattered shadow-killing ten-thousand-poison blade and the Bi Xi bronze statue were still there; the others had vanished without a trace.

"Forgive us,"

"We are powerless; we could only do this much."

The voice of Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun came through, filled with guilt: "Your spoils of war escaped; we could not stop them, only these two were intercepted, and that was under circumstances where they were already damaged.

Additionally, the seed of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Divine Court has suffered heavy damage again; for the next several thousand years, the Jin Dan Dao Children of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace will be inferior to those of other sects."

"Is that so?"

It took Jiang Ding a long time to calm down.

"It is fine."

"Thank you, senior."

"I will remember everyone who owes me money."

He took out a small notebook; on it, he had recorded in detail what happened on a certain year, month, and day, and what had been robbed.

(End of this chapter)