Chapter 254

Alas…… Along the way, the dust-and-wind-beaten Qiu Yichen finally reined in his horse; his Luoyue Blade could no longer be controlled, and it flew straight out of the scabbard on his back.

Before this, Qiu Yichen had never lost control of his Luoyue Blade! But today, the Luoyue Blade actually transcended his will as its master and unsheathed itself.

"What's going on?" Ruan Shu, who had also reined in her horse, asked Qiu Yichen doubtfully. As an envoy of the Five Absolutes Palace to the outside world, she was usually well-informed, but she had never seen such a scene before.

All that could be seen was the Luoyue Blade flying in midair, its blade constantly trembling, its sharp tip pointing downward toward the southeast.

"It is submitting…" Qiu Yichen answered. His blade—he knows it best.

"Submitting?"

"A blade capable of making it submit has appeared in the world," Qiu Yichen kept shaking his head, then denied, "How could this be? Impossible… impossible… no matter how strong a blade is, it couldn't make my Luoyue Blade feel fear…"

"You can't control it?" Ruan Shu pointed at the Luoyue Blade in the sky and asked again.

Qiu Yichen stretched out his arm, opened his palm, twisted his wrist, trying to summon his treasure blade back. But the Luoyue Blade felt nothing of its master's presence; it was like a crescent moon hanging in the sky, its tip gently swaying, showing no sign of stopping.

"How terrifying." Ruan Shu sighed, she turned her head worriedly to look at Qiu Yichen and said, "Let's turn back."

Qiu Yichen shifted his gaze from the Luoyue Blade to Ruan Shu, he glared angrily and said, "We've come this far, and you're telling me to turn back?"

"I've been telling you to turn back from the very beginning," Ruan Shu said firmly.

"Hehe, there's no turning back now."

Ruan Shu said seriously, "Not only the Luoyue Blade, but I too have sensed it—that is the 'Five Absolutes Power,' belonging to the Palace Master's 'Five Absolutes Power.' It is simply too overwhelming; if we go on, we will surely be seeking our own death. Rather, let us flee far away and find a secluded utopia where no one lives, to live the life we have imagined…"

"That's the life you've imagined!" Qiu Yichen impatiently interrupted Ruan Shu's words.

"You cannot defeat the Palace Master!" Ruan Shu retorted sharply.

Qiu Yichen suddenly reined in his agitated emotions, then adopted the calmest attitude toward Ruan Shu and said, "Do whatever you want, don't interfere with my thoughts; this is my final warning to you—otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite."

Ruan Shu felt a chill in her heart; what had been a hot, unswerving heart instantly plunged into an icy abyss. She never imagined Qiu Yichen could be so ruthless, so quickly forgetting that it was she who had set him free and saved his life.

Ruan Shu knew she had no support left and could hardly escape death; once the Palace Master learned that it was she who had released Qiu Yichen, that she had destroyed the Five Absolutes Palace, he would surely have her torn to shreds and her bones ground to ash!

Ruan Shu understood; she had misjudged him. But the most terrifying part was that, even knowing she had misjudged him, she still had to follow him head down.

Having come this far, whether we live or die no longer matters.

Because of the incident where the Luoyue Blade unsheathed itself on its own, Qiu Yichen and Ruan Shu had no choice but to halt their advance. They were only a day's journey from the capital, yet the ground beneath their feet already allowed them to feel the successive waves of powerful true qi emanating from around the capital.

……

"We can only reach this point; we cannot go further, or else we will be swallowed by their true qi and ground to dust!" Chen Yi He led the halt, also reaching out to stop his two companions behind him.

Wu Rong is the one capable of defeating Xiao Xiao Yu; his cultivation is not inferior to Chen Yi He's, so his divine sense is naturally keen. He agreed with Chen Yi He's statement, "This place is just right to witness the whole picture. I only hope this mountain won't be implicated."

Chen Yi He, Wu Rong, and the Little Palace Master stopped on a mountain peak; this mountain is hundreds of li from the central battlefield, and the surrounding peaks are either split, collapsed, or shattered—aside from the mountain beneath their feet, one could say there is no intact mountain range to be found.

Being hundreds of li away, the naked eye certainly cannot witness the battlefield; what they mean by 'witnessing the whole picture' is that their divine sense at this distance is the most perceptive, using divine sense in place of eyes, allowing them to see even more clearly than with their own eyes.

However, even though they are hundreds of li apart, the three of them can still rely on their eyes to see the sky filled with skirts and endless treasure blades.

"This power is too strong—is this the strength of the Seventh Heaven?" Wu Rong asked.

"No," Chen Yi He answered, "this is the peak power of the Seventh Heaven—so powerful that even heaven and earth tremble in their hands!"

"Too terrifying…… I can't even dare to imagine it."

Chen Yi He asked the Little Palace Master, "Do you know the Palace Master's true strength?"

The Little Palace Master was most familiar with the sky-filling skirts—it was like a raging fire burning the entire sky!

Even the firmament was burning!

"Could that be Mother's power?" Only after personally witnessing such a grand scene did the Little Palace Master realize what level of cultivation and realm the Palace Master possessed, and only then did she understand just how vast the gap between her and the Palace Master truly was!

"It seems you don't know either…" Chen Yi He said, "We are far too inferior to them."

"Yes!" Wu Rong sighed, "A battle of this level, we can only be spectators. But to witness such a battle in one's lifetime is worth dying for."

In any previous era, reaching the Fourth Heaven would already make one an unparalleled master; they were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, few and far between.

But in this era, even the Sixth Heaven masters who once appeared only in myths and legends are mere sidekicks! In a great war, they cannot even make a move; before the sovereigns of the Seventh Heaven, they don't even have the qualification to hold their stirrups!

This is the starkest, most ruthless contrast!

You should know, these few Sixth Heaven masters are actually youngsters who haven't even reached thirty years of age.

"What do you think, who will win this battle?" Chen Yi He asked Wu Rong.

"No need to ask—justice will surely prevail!"

"What is justice, then?" Chen Yi He asked Wu Rong again.

Wu Rong thought for a moment and replied, "Whatever stands on our side is justice."

"What a selfish idea! Hahaha!" Chen Yi He laughed loudly; he liked Wu Rong's straightforwardness.

"In the Purgatory Gate, I originally thought that inheriting my forefathers' power would make me invincible under heaven—and indeed, I have become strong." Wu Rong said to his two companions, "It is strong, but when, after a year, I walked out of the Purgatory Gate, I only then realized how vast the world's pattern truly is; in the blink of an eye, all kinds of masters have emerged, each stronger than I. There are always people beyond people, mountains beyond mountains—quite right!"