Chapter 1610

Having seen the master, why do you not bow?

Jian Tianye's body radiated fierce divine splendor, extremely dazzling, like a sword immortal, as his overwhelming pressure crushed down on Xiao Shan.

What he cultivates is the method of devouring sword seeds.

Whether Xiao Shan or his many disciples and grand-disciples, they are all a seed.

Many years ago, he planted a tiny seed.

Now they have matured, and will be plucked by him and then devoured.

This Devouring Sword Seed method can fuse myriad sword intents, enough for Jian Tianye to merge them into one furnace.

Therefore, anyone of Jian Tianye's lineage is a tree, while he is the source of myriad trees, like an ancient thousand-year-old tree.

These trees, born from him, can cultivate other sword intents, but ultimately are devoured by him and made his own.

Jian Tianye looked down on Xiao Shan, "How come? Good disciple, are your knees too stiff? Shall I, as your master, lend you a hand?"

Xiao Shan burst into mad laughter, his gaze fixed dead on a female corpse beside Jian Tianye, "Hahaha! Jian Tianye! You beast! What master, are you worthy?"

That was his senior martial sister Ye Huanhuan; two years ago, Ye had her Dao Fruit seized by Jian Tianye and died a miserable death here, now long since perished, reduced to dry bones.

The next instant.

Xiao Shan brandished a spirit sword in his hand, "I have a sword, beast, dare you take it?"

Jian Tianye remained seated cross-legged, shook his head, "Why bother? Over these countless years, I have taught nothing but white-eyed wolves; not a single disciple has ever felt gratitude toward me!"

Pfft!

Xiao Shan shot straight up into the sky, slashing a sword at Jian Tianye, "I will avenge my senior sister!"

A heavenly-piercing river of sword qi cascaded down.

Xiao Shan's sword intent was extremely fierce, as if tempered by blazing fire, his sword qi destroying heaven and earth.

This is sword qi of the Nine-Star Dao Transformation Realm; if released in the outside world, the entire Cangyun Star Sea would be utterly destroyed.

But within Jian Tianye's cave-abode dojo, there was not a ripple.

Jian Tianye said lightly, "Wayward disciple, I'll give you a few words: defying heaven and slaughtering the master, violating human ethics, a mayfly shaking a tree!"

He merely extended a finger and lightly pointed at Xiao Shan.

Hiss!

A point of radiance flared, and Xiao Shan's heavenly-piercing sword qi instantly vanished.

The next instant, Xiao Shan's body erupted with uncontrollably exploding sword qi, each strand wandering through his limbs and bones, immediately beginning to transform.

A flourishing tree was taking shape, directly piercing his flesh, blood flowing profusely, the blossoms blooming in an exceptionally bloody brilliance.

This is entirely a human-shaped blood tree!

"Jian Tianye, you damned thing, you want to seize my Dao Fruit—I won't let you succeed!"

He intends to self-detonate!

With a boom, Xiao Shan's countenance turned ferocious as he shot straight up into the sky, the stellar power within him surging wildly, showing signs of collapse.

"Naive! Childish! Even before your master you think of self-detonation?"

Jian Tianye sat cross-legged, merely flicked his sleeve, shook his head with a cold smile, "I have long wished to meet a disciple who understands me; if he died, I would erect a stele for him. Yet over all these years, not a single disciple has been worthy of such a stele."

Xiao Shan roared, utterly controlled by Jian Tianye, "You damned thing! Ahhhhh..."

Sword-qi trees sprouted from every pore of his body, as painful as myriad insects devouring flesh.

At that moment, behind Jian Tianye, a colossal sword-qi giant tree also evolved; compared to it, Xiao Shan's sword-qi tree was utterly insignificant.

A woody spiritual aura circulated around Jian Tianye's body.

The next instant, Xiao Shan's sword-qi tree suddenly blossomed with countless sword flowers, petals scattering, harvested by Jian Tianye's giant tree.

Hiss!

Divine radiance surged!

Jian Tianye continually plundered his Dao Fruit; with a thought of his mind, he separated a thread of sword-dao will, evolving into a sword-qi avatar.

"Go! Head to the Cangyun Star Sea and meet up with Xuan Yang."

Now, the great battle in the Cangyun Star Sea is about to erupt; that place will likely become a utter wasteland, and Xuan Yang's cultivation is on the verge of breaking through to the Seven-Star Dao Lord Realm, enabling him to enter the main sect of the Lingxiao Sword Sect for training.

The sword-qi avatar was about to depart when Jian Tianye suddenly thought of something and said, "Oh, right, tens of thousands of years ago, two fleeting sword-dao geniuses appeared in the Cangyun Star Sea: one clad in plain garments, named Qingqiu; the other riding a white donkey, named Xiao Alang. This time, you investigate and see if you can find their traces in the records."

He has been gathering news of sword-dao monsters from the Yaochi Star Sea; those are his seed candidates.

Hiss!

The sword-qi avatar nodded, transformed into a stream of light, and tore through heaven and earth as it departed.

Witnessing this, Xiao Shan gritted his teeth, "Jian Tianye, you will die a horrible death! The poor Xuan Yang will again suffer horribly at the hands of this beast of yours."

Jian Tianye sighed, "No one in this world understands me. You may have died, but the sword intent residing in my master's body also counts as a kind of immortality."

Heh... tsk!

Xiao Shan spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm, "Jian Tianye, you will someday die at the hands of your own disciple; too many wish to kill you—perhaps it will be Xuan Yang, or perhaps Qingqiu, Xiao Alang..."

"Hehe." Jian Tianye snorted, "Those who wish to kill your master have not even been born! As for you, cursing your master, I grant you endless suffering and death."

Ahhhhh...

Endless sword qi surged like a storm over Xiao Shan's body; he wailed and howled like a vengeful ghost.

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Yaochi Star Sea.

Wanshou Pavilion branch.

This is a colossal divine tree, shooting up into the heavens, its trunk immense, rooted in the star sea, its top piercing the clouds; all around it continually draws upon the Years' Dao Resonance, its massive form swaying slightly.

The Wanshou Pavilion branch is built relying upon this divine tree.

A Longevity tribe member with an oversized head wore a loose robe; his hand's spiritual art shifted, threads of Years' Dao Resonance intertwining like a spider's web.

Around him appeared a pool of strange spiritual fluid.

The surrounding scenery shifted, and he found himself in a lake.

The water rippled gently, wave after wave spreading outward.

His eyes kept turning white, thereby letting him gaze upon the River of Time of the Chaotic Star Sea.

"Huh? Why is the River of Time surging violently again? Moreover, this surge comes from the border direction of the Azure Cloud Star Sea."

This was the second time he had detected such an anomaly.

After a moment, the Longevity Clan man withdrew from the strange lake and returned to the main hall of the Myriad Longevity Pavilion, "Could it be the Lustrous Illumination Star? What secrets does the Azure Cloud Star Sea hide? Why have two such heaven-defying surges of the River of Time occurred?"

To produce such an effect on the River of Time, one must at least possess the cultivation of a Dao Fruit Realm, and furthermore must be deeply versed in the Great Dao of Time.

Both are indispensable!

The Longevity Clan man hurried to another pavilion.

Inside the pavilion, there were over a hundred floors, each floor housing a vast collection of historical records that documented numerous major and minor events of the Chaotic Star Sea.

His divine sense extended, he took out the historical records of the Azure Cloud Star Sea, examined them carefully, and quickly he found a strange event: "A woman in plain clothes, renowned in the Chen River, with a white-robed man behind her, from the Ancient Dao Lineage, later in the ultimate battle between the branch of the Longevity Sect and the Hehuan Sect, her whereabouts became unknown……"

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