Chapter 1697: The Sword of Humanity

The Sword of Humanity

Even though Jiang Xiaohua had been trying hard to control the distance, he was ultimately only Rank 8. Facing the Calamity of Taboo's sudden outburst, it was extremely difficult to react for a moment... When he came back to his senses, that abyss-like giant mouth had already bitten off the lower half of his body.

Jiang Xiaohua was like a dismembered toy. After losing his legs, no fresh blood seeped out, as if two joints had merely been removed. But his movement speed in the seawater was greatly weakened!

Sun Bumian watched helplessly as Jiang Xiaohua's legs were bitten off, and his eyes immediately widened in fury. The Awakened Lion tumbling in the seawater let out a heart-tearing roar, and regardless of everything, bit onto the Calamity of Taboo's tail again, forcefully dragging its body backward.

One person, one lion, one fish erupted in an unprecedentedly tragic battle at the bottom of the sea. The surrounding sea area had already been stirred upside down.

And at the end of the horizon as far as the eye could see...

The outline of a heaven-supporting giant sword was slowly drawn out!

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Boom——!!

The young general wearing armor and holding a Broken Sword was like a true God of Slaughter at this moment, forcefully barging out from the blockade of two Demigod phantoms. The black ribbons were like sword tassels fluttering behind the sword hilt, making it difficult for people to keep up and hard to touch.

"Bai Qi, so you left the Ancient Vault of the Military Path because you set your sights on this young man's physical body?" A Demigod phantom snorted coldly. "Your selfishness truly opened our eyes."

"The selfish one... is me?" Bai Qi's disdainful voice sounded from the nothingness. "I see that you guys haven't figured out the situation yet."

Jian Changsheng gripped the Broken Sword in his hand tightly and suddenly swept horizontally. Ancient Killing Intent intertwined into a ring and wreaked havoc into the surroundings, forcefully forcing back those Military Path Demigod phantoms that were closing in.

At the same time, wisps of thought were mixed within the ring by Bai Qi, sweeping towards the surroundings!

Those Military Path Demigods were influenced by the thoughts, and who knows what they saw, but one by one, they all froze in place for a moment...

"Good opportunity!!"

Jian Changsheng seized the gap, directly flashing out from the blockade of the several Military Path Demigods, and charged straight towards the hilt of that heaven-supporting giant sword!

Rather than calling it a sword hilt, it was better to call it a divine pillar rooted in the frozen sea. Standing below the sword hilt and looking up, the naked eye fundamentally couldn't see how high the sword blade was... and its width was even greater than the Sea-Calming Divine Needle. Any human coming to its foot would have a feeling of powerlessness like turning into a mayfly.

But Jian Changsheng couldn't care about so much. He seemed to perceive something and turned his head to look in the direction of the sea surface. He only saw the distant seawater violently surging, and vaguely, a giant shadow could be seen struggling and rolling towards this direction...

On its back, clusters of flickering seven-colored fireworks flashed one after another.

They're here!!

Jian Changsheng backhandedly inserted the Broken Sword back into its sheath. Both hands fiercely hugged the sword hilt, and the soles of his feet stepped heavily on the ground... As surging power gushed out from Jian Changsheng's body, he clenched his teeth tightly, attempting to forcefully uproot this mountain towering into the clouds!

However, no matter how Jian Changsheng exerted force, this mountain itself remained motionless.

Even the ancient killing aura accumulated within it frantically poured into his body through his palms, directly annihilating the skin on Jian Changsheng's palms, and then the back of his hands, his arms...

This pain was as if countless extremely fine blades were cutting his body. In an instant, Jian Changsheng became a blood-soaked person. But he didn't have the slightest intention of letting go. Instead, he used all his strength to continue contending against the sword hilt!

Even with the blessing of Bai Qi's Demigod power, the Ancient Vault of the Military Path remained as steady as Mt. Tai. Under the absolute gap in body size, the blood-soaked Jian Changsheng seemed to have truly become a mayfly attempting to shake a large tree, ridiculous and weak.

"Damn it..."

"Damn it! Damn it!! Damn it!!!!"

After his skin was obliterated, Jian Changsheng's flesh and blood also began to be worn away by the Killing Intent. He clenched his teeth tightly in pain, but compared to the pain of his physical body, the torment and unwillingness in his heart were even more agonizing...

He knew what the situation outside was like now, and he also knew that the Dusk Society had gambled everything to kill the Calamity of Taboo.

Now his companions had regardless of everything lured the Calamity of Taboo here, betting their final hope on him and the Ancient Vault of the Military Path. He, Jian Changsheng, absolutely, absolutely could not drop the ball at this time...

Otherwise, all sacrifices would be meaningless.

"Move... move, damn it!!" Jian Changsheng, whose whole body was bursting with blood mist, roared heart-tearingly,

"Aren't you the carrier of human slaughter?! Don't you possess self-awareness?!"

"Can't you see what this era has become?!"

"Everyone has bet their hopes on the new world. If we can't kill the Calamity of Taboo, human civilization will be completely buried in this era! Guarding those past memories and pride, becoming a lifeless Ancient Vault, is this what you want?!"

"You are the sword of slaughter tempered from the years of humanity!"

"Shouldn't a sword... be used to kill people?!!"

Jian Changsheng also didn't know what he was questioning, but he had already entered several Divine Dao Ancient Repositories. He knew that the Ancient Vaults possessed a certain degree of self-awareness... Perhaps his power was insufficient to forcefully pull out the giant sword that was the Ancient Vault of the Military Path. Since that was the case, he would let this sword come out on its own!

This was a huge gamble. Jian Changsheng just wanted to gamble that this sword possessed its own consciousness, gambling that it was the true "Sword of Humanity"!

Only the "sword" that gathered all of humanity's slaughter up to the present...

Could obliterate the Calamity of Taboo without suspense!!

Under Jian Changsheng's heart-tearing roar, that heaven-supporting giant sword trembled slightly... Rustling crushed stones rolled down from the massive sword body. This sword of slaughter, which had been silent and unmoving since the birth of human civilization, finally began to reveal a trace of Killing Intent!

At the beginning of the birth of human civilization, it already existed; now that human civilization had reached a dead end, it naturally had to cleave out a ray of vitality for humanity!

This was the meaning of "Soldier", this was the proud bone of "Soldier"!

However, even though the Ancient Vault of the Military Path had loosened, relying on Jian Changsheng's Rank 8 power alone, he still fundamentally couldn't pull it out. Its own body size was truly too massive, and its weight was absolutely not something a Rank 8 of the Path of the Soldier could move... Even with Bai Qi's blessing, he couldn't do it.

Just when Jian Changsheng's eyes were splitting with anger and despair arose in his heart, a pair of illusory Demigod palms suddenly grabbed a corner of the sword hilt beside him!

Raging Military Path Demigod auras surged wildly, and Jian Changsheng froze in place...

He looked in astonishment at that completely unfamiliar Demigod phantom, unable to speak for a moment.

"We said long ago that this sword carries the weight of human civilization... Wanting to pull it out, relying on you... is not qualified enough." The Demigod phantom didn't even look at Jian Changsheng, speaking indifferently.

In the next second, more and more Demigod phantoms surfaced around Jian Changsheng. Streaks of ancient Killing Intent that once belonged to the Demigods of the Path of the Soldier churned under the black clouds. With everyone's combined efforts, this Ancient Vault of the Military Path towering into the clouds was actually truly pulled out from the ground bit by bit...

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