Chapter 386: Reborn

The "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword," which was already several zhang in size, grew even longer when activated, its phantom image reaching a height of a hundred zhang and appearing as substantial as reality! It drew a vast amount of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi from the surroundings! A rolling sound of wind and thunder faintly emanated from its surface!

"Go to hell!"

Supporting the giant sword with one hand, Wu Jian's face turned flushed due to the surging Spirit Power of the blade; he took the opportunity to wave his hand toward Zhang Nuo, and the massive blade, following his arm, slashed toward Zhang Nuo as if it could split mountains and shatter rocks!

If the "Hell Butterfly" could be used, Zhang Nuo might have been able to escape this calamity, but at this moment, the "Hell Butterfly" was practically no different from dead, and it was completely impossible to summon its Butterfly Wings!

Moreover, the attack range of the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword" was extremely vast, covering a radius of nearly a hundred miles; even if Zhang Nuo fled with all his might, it was absolutely impossible to dodge it in an instant!

Looking up at the rapidly descending giant sword shadow, feeling it tear through the void wherever it passed, that momentum gave rise to a sense of despair in one's heart! It was an irresistible force; a seemingly ordinary strike, yet it contained the might of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi! Let alone a small Nascent Soul Early-stage cultivator like Zhang Nuo, even a cultivator at the Late-stage Great Perfection Stage would not dream of surviving this strike!

The overwhelming Spiritual Pressure rushing toward him caused the skin on Zhang Nuo's face to cave in, and all that remained in his eyes was shock and fear! Was this really an attack launched by a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator?

However, after a moment of hesitation, a strong will to survive suddenly erupted from the depths of Zhang Nuo's pupils; if he were to die without any resistance like this, he would never do it, even if he were to die, he would die like a man!

With a quick, wide opening of his mouth, a cluster of Silver Flame was rapidly spat out by Zhang Nuo; due to the pressure of the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword," the moment the silver flames appeared, the fire flickered downward! Witnessing this scene, the horror in Zhang Nuo's heart increased even more! What kind of power was that, to actually be able to reverse the laws of nature!

At the moment, Zhang Nuo had no time to think about these things; he saw him open his mouth again, spitting out a mouthful of essence blood, which acted directly upon the "Red Glow Fire," and immediately the flame swirled, transforming into a small silver shield a full zhang in size, and rushed up to meet the descending giant sword phantom!

Following closely, Zhang Nuo shook both arms with force, and a layer of gray light glowed from within his body, wrapping around him and protecting his body inside! At the same time, feeling that it was still not enough, Zhang Nuo brushed his sleeves repeatedly, using almost his maximum ability to summon all the Flying Swords within the Nine Dragon Sword Case!

Under the terrifying pressure of the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword," these Flying Swords trembled and hummed incessantly!

"Go!"

Zhang Nuo's chest heaved; situated under such immense Spiritual Pressure, it felt as if a small mountain were pressing down on him. He used all his strength for this one word "go," and red bloodshot veins erupted in his eyes!

In an instant, dozens of Flying Swords were simultaneously spiritualized, turning into silver dragons that erupted with high-pitched dragon roars and soared straight up!

On the other hand, Zhang Nuo flipped his left hand to reveal the "Measuring Heaven Ruler," and without a second thought, he sacrificed it above his head, while in his right hand, the "Four Spirits Square Cauldron," which had been prepared in advance, also let out a hum and charged into the sky!

In almost an instant, Zhang Nuo had sacrificed all his most effective Magic Treasures, all to block this strike of the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword"! These movements seemed slow, but in reality, they were fast to the extreme! This was all he could do; the rest would depend on his luck!

In the distance, Wu Jian, with his tiger eyes wide open, watched as Zhang Nuo sacrificed his Magic Treasures one by one, yet he laughed out loud! No matter what kind of Magic Treasure it was, he feared it could not block the descent of the giant sword! As long as this sword struck Zhang Nuo, he would undoubtedly die! Defenses of this kind were simply a mere formality! He had one hundred percent confidence in his "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword"!

"Boom!"

A loud noise came, and the silver giant shield condensed from the "Red Glow Fire" blocking at the very top was the first to be shattered by the descending giant sword! The shards of silver flame could not even approach the blade and were forced to dissipate by its might!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Dozens more loud noises followed in succession; those silver dragons spiritualized from the Flying Swords were like moths to a flame, and before they could even touch the main body of the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword," they exploded with a bang, and having lost all Spiritual Qi, the Flying Swords plummeted from the sky to the ground one by one!

Behind the dozens of silver dragons were tens of thousands of silver ruler shadows, but these ruler shadows were even less effective than the Flying Swords; swept up by the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi stirred by the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword," they all turned into spirit light and vanished in the blink of an eye!

The last to charge up was the "Four Spirits Square Cauldron!" One could see that on the four sides of this cauldron, the four ancient thunder-controlling beasts appeared as if they were alive; a series of roars came, and a cluster of dark blue electric arcs a zhang in size rushed out from within the cauldron! These electric arcs were suppressed by the powerful force, but they still manifested into a giant electric arc hand!

The giant hand clenched its five fingers into a fist, and with a "whoosh" of wind, it struck fiercely at the rapidly descending giant sword!

With a rumbling explosion, the giant electric arc hand dissipated in the blink of an eye, and streaks of blue electric arcs drifted to the left and right of the giant sword, only to be reduced to nothingness after being tugged by the power surrounding it!

Seeing all this, Zhang Nuo's heart turned completely cold; such a powerful attack was truly the first he had encountered in his life. He did not expect that just after slaying Nanxuan Laozu, he would fall here himself!

The speed at which the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword" descended would not give Zhang Nuo any chance to release other Magic Treasures, and besides, what use would it be to release other Magic Treasures? Facing the might of this sword, he felt despair for the first time!

Boom!

With the final loud sound, the giant sword slashed directly through Zhang Nuo's body, splitting him in two! But the giant sword did not stop there; instead, it slashed into the ground below!

With a rumbling explosion that shook the earth and mountains, a small hill in the distance was split in two by the giant sword, mountain rocks erupted, and dust flew into the sky!

When the might of the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword's" strike was exhausted, the blade shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and what finally landed in Wu Jian's hand was that same small sword, a foot long; however, at this time, the surface of the sword had no luster, and patches of rust the size of fingers were spreading all over the sword's body!

In the blink of an eye, this powerful "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword" had become exactly the same as when it first appeared! Wu Jian looked at the rust-covered Magic Treasure in his hand with a pale face! He immediately retracted it into his body.

Looking up at the place where Zhang Nuo had been slashed in the distance, a cold sneer finally appeared at the corner of his mouth! He had long heard that Zhang Nuo had great supernatural powers, so he had tested him at the beginning, and then directly used his strongest ultimate move! Although this move had exhausted all his Spirit Power, being able to instantly annihilate Zhang Nuo made it all worth it!

Just as Wu Jian was feeling smug, he suddenly felt that something was wrong; he saw that at the place where Zhang Nuo had been slashed, many white objects were floating in the sky; these objects looked like pieces of paper, but there was some kind of Spirit Power rippling within them!

The place slashed by the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword" would even cause the void to shatter, let alone objects; what exactly were these paper scraps? They were actually able to withstand the force of the giant sword's strike!

Just as he was puzzled, a bizarre scene appeared; he saw those things that looked like paper scraps suspended in mid-air gathering together piece by piece, and although the speed of gathering was not very fast, in a short time, they formed a human shape!

Looking from afar, the appearance of this human shape was somewhat similar to Zhang Nuo! Wu Jian's eyes went straight; what on earth was going on? Could it be that Zhang Nuo's soul was playing some trick?

He gritted his teeth! A curse came from his mouth!

"I wasn't afraid of you when you were a human, and now that you're dead, you're using your soul to scare me! Do you think I'm made of dough!"

In a fit of rage, Wu Jian did not think much, re-sacrificing two green Flying Swords and charging toward the location of the human shape! Although he was now at the end of his rope, it would not take any effort at all to slash something that looked like a paper doll!

But just as his figure was halfway there, a heaven-shaking change occurred on the paper doll! Dazzling rays of spirit light emitted from the paper doll, and then the paper doll split from the middle; just like a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon to be reborn, a person walked out from inside!

This person was wearing a green robe and looked young; if it wasn't Zhang Nuo, who else could it be? Seeing this bizarre scene, Wu Jian almost bit his own tongue!

This was truly hellish; he had clearly been slashed by the giant sword just now, how could he possibly have survived? At this moment, Zhang Nuo's face was sallow, as if he had gone through a serious illness. His eyes were dim and lusterless, and he stared blankly ahead!

"You... who are you?"

Having lived for so many years, this was the first time Wu Jian had encountered such a thing; he could not figure out what secret technique Zhang Nuo had used to dodge the strike of the "Heavenly Dao Spirit Sword"!

Hearing Wu Jian's shout, Zhang Nuo seemed to wake up from a dream; two rays of light suddenly flashed within his originally dim eyes, and his whole body jolted! His eyes, like those of a wild beast, stared fixedly at Wu Jian!

Being looked at by Zhang Nuo like this, Wu Jian felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar; his figure involuntarily retreated a few steps in mid-air, and he gripped the green Flying Sword in his hand a little tighter!

"Hehe! Your attack is finished! Now it's my turn!"

A cold, emotionless sentence scared Wu Jian out of his wits! This kid in front of him had taken a strike from the giant sword, yet he was completely unharmed, and he was even going to launch an attack on him!

"Are you even human?"

It took a long time for Wu Jian's trembling lips to utter this sentence, and then he saw him open his mouth wide, spitting out a refined steel Flying Sword; after stepping onto it, he turned his head and flew rapidly toward the distant sky, and in the blink of an eye, even his shadow could no longer be seen!