Chapter 644: Zhuxian Sword

"Too bad we let that guy Odin escape; he's ruthless enough, cutting off his own arm to survive — even if he didn't die, he's crippled."

Chi Jing Daoren said.

On this mission, they experienced the feeling of "hugging a thick thigh" that they hadn't felt in many years; mission-related matters completely didn't require them to worry.

But Chi Jing Daoren and Jiang Shang weren't just lying down either; they were searching for Odin.

With Odin alive, the two always felt a thorn in their backs; destruction is simpler than construction.

Given Odin's strength, wanting to destroy the mission of the few of them, smashing the bowl so nobody gets to eat, wasn't an impossible thing either.

Odin indeed had such intentions stirring.

As a result he revealed a flaw, was found by Chi Jing Daoren and Jiang Shang, the three fought a great battle, Odin fled heavily injured, counting as removing a hidden danger.

Whether it's this mission or the real world, with Odin's injuries, it's very difficult for him to stir up any waves anymore.

Recovering his strength is an extravagant hope, exceptionally difficult.

As for Odin's whereabouts, Tang Luo and the others didn't care.

Zhu Bajie stood to the side, just thinking about going back to continue refining Xuan Bian after the mission was complete.

The Xuan Bian refining method is simple; stopping midway and continuing later isn't a problem.

"I'll go in first; if there's no harvest, I'll come out, then you guys go in separately to try." Tang Luo said.

He held three fragments in his right hand and directly stepped into the range of the Heavenly Sword Ground.

The three fragments in his hand trembled slightly, and the thin mist originally shrouding his vision began to disperse.

But no scenery entered Tang Luo's sight.

On the contrary, Tang Luo's vision began to blur; strands of Sword Intent crisscrossed horizontally and vertically, forming a vast white expanse.

The solid earth beneath his feet also began to turn "soft," like stepping on cotton; every step "sank" in.

Soon, there was no longer any solid feeling of feet on firm ground.

All around Tang Luo was a vast white expanse; the whole person was as if suspended in water.

If he closed his eyes, light and floating, there was a feeling of wanting to fall asleep.

However, the surrounding white expanse isn't anything "good"; this is actually the vast, ancient, and unadorned Sword Intent, forming a special Sword Domain.

If it weren't for Tang Luo holding fragments and entering within.

Going deeper would be like walking on a mountain of knives and a forest of swords.

The vast Sword Intent would at any moment turn into sharp blades, tearing apart all who mistakenly entered the Sword Domain.

Even with fragments, they can at most only protect the person entering the Sword Domain — and it's not a hundred percent guarantee either.

Those three fragments don't have any special power, nor do they possess any protective or guiding function.

More like... a kind of camouflage disguise.

Stillness is fine; reckless movement, the disguise exposed, equals exposing oneself to the surrounding "predators."

Tang Luo originally thought holding three fragments would have more special changes; now it seems, compared to holding a single fragment, there's no essential difference.

At most the disguise is better.

Looks like Sword Maniac Yixin was fooled by Yue Wushuang.

But not necessarily; after all, with Sword Maniac Yixin's understanding of the sword, maybe he's just a hair's breadth away from discovering and comprehending more.

"These fragments, it seems they don't originate from the 'Heavenly Sword' that generated the Sword Domain." Tang Luo thought silently in his heart.

Casually picking a direction, he flew toward that side.

He couldn't care less about disguise or no disguise; even without the fragments' disguise, could the surrounding vast, ancient, unadorned Sword Intent possibly injure him?

Inside the Sword Domain, there's no sense of direction; it's very easy to get lost.

Tang Luo locked onto a direction and forged ahead single-mindedly; he wasn't to the point of getting lost yet.

Soon, the surrounding Sword Intent began to turn dense.

If at the start there were only "sharp blades" floating in the air, now even the "air" has turned into sharp blades.

Even a Void Refining sword cultivator, holding fragments and coming here, would pretty much be at their limit.

Tang Luo completely ignored the surrounding Sword Intent and continued forward.

If one didn't enter the Heavenly Sword Ground but flew in the sky observing, like Ao Yulie and them right now, one would discover the Heavenly Sword Ground actually isn't large.

That place shrouded in white mist, at a Spirit Transformation sword cultivator's speed, the time of one incense stick would be enough to cross through.

And "looking" down, at first the surrounding range, the faint thin mist couldn't block their gaze.

They could clearly see the scene inside.

Apart from having no animals (including small insects), there was no difference from an ordinary rarely-trodden forest.

The cultivation world's various famous mountains and great rivers, similar places are too numerous to count.

Further inside, clearly it was very faint thin mist, but it began to obscure vision and perception.

Its core position was even more impossible to spy out any clues from.

"Master Xuanzang won't have any trouble, right?" Chi Jing Daoren said.

He could feel the danger of the Heavenly Sword Ground; this is a place where entering means "death by a thousand cuts."

"No problem." Ao Yulie wasn't worried at all.

As they spoke, the originally calm white mist suddenly churned.

Like the ocean kicking up wind and waves.

If the Seven Great Gates' sword cultivators saw this scene, they would definitely exclaim "Impossible."

You have to know, the Heavenly Sword Ground is eternally calm.

Even if sword cultivators tried from the outside, wanting to stir up some movement, for example cutting a huge boulder and throwing it in.

They also couldn't produce any change.

Attacking with sword art divine abilities also had no effect whatsoever.

It was truly like a stone sinking into the sea, a single drop of water merging into a pond.

"There's a change," Zhu Bajie said, and Chi Jing Daoren and Jiang Shang immediately focused their gazes, afraid of missing anything.

Within the Land of the Heavenly Sword, the disguise of those three fragments had already completely lost its effect.

If Tang Luo weren't holding them, those three fragments would have drifted back again.

A feeling similar to "Entry forbidden, retreat at once."

Along the way, Tang Luo didn't come away empty-handed; he saw some damaged swords floating in the Sword Domain.

Motionless, some still intact, others already shattered.

Those intact ones, as Tang Luo approached, would even react somewhat, releasing sharp sword intent.

Stirring up the surrounding sword intent to attack Tang Luo, this outsider.

This kind of attack wouldn't last too long, because those swords, even the ones that looked intact, were actually extremely damaged—or rather, these swords fundamentally couldn't sustain the sword intent here.

After one final "kill the enemy" before destruction, they vanished completely, leaving nothing behind.

The stirred-up attacks also gradually stopped after lasting for a while.

Of course, even if the intense attacks disappeared, the original dangers still remained.

It was just that when swords stirred up sword intent to attack, it was even more dangerous.

As for those shattered ones, let alone touching them, even if Tang Luo passed by their side, it would cause those fragments to vanish.

Tang Luo guessed that the so-called key fragments should be the last remaining scraps left behind by comparatively powerful swords.

But they also couldn't get too close to the Sword Domain core.

After advancing for a while longer, Tang Luo stopped, let go, and the three fragments drifted along like driftwood, floating back toward where Tang Luo had come from.

Vanishing into the vast white Sword Domain.

Tang Luo stopped, retreated a distance, advanced again, then changed direction, like a headless fly flying around in chaos.

In reality, he was sensing where the sword intent was most concentrated.

Sword cultivators entering this place couldn't do as Tang Luo did, because to them, regardless of strength, that sword intent could all take their lives.

All are fatal, so what distinction of strong or weak is there?

Tang Luo, however, could slowly sense: this direction is a bit stronger, "walk" a stretch that way, huh, it grew weaker again?

"Down below?"

After wandering a bit, Tang Luo lowered his head to look "down"; the sword intent was most concentrated there.

Without another word, he continuously sank downward.

The surrounding sword intent grew increasingly concentrated, and a sword humming sound even appeared by his ears, then gradually turned into the sound of gold and iron clashing.

Swords, as if countless swords were at his side!

Suddenly, Tang Luo's foot sank, stepping onto the ground.

The vast sword intent all around rapidly receded; Tang Luo looked around—he was in a black "well."

Looking up, there was only a tiny speck of light.

His current position was extremely far from the "well mouth."

And this well wasn't a regular circle, about ten meters in diameter.

The walls and floor were extremely smooth, presenting a jade-like feel, as if polished by long years of scouring.

At the bottom center, there was a sword.

A sword of ancient and unadorned style, the blade wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, its two edges not particularly sharp, the middle slightly raised above the sides, like a four-sided bronze sword.

Its color was not the color of bronze.

The hilt guard was black, the blade like a black mirror surface, only, whether blade or hilt, at this moment both were occupied by cracks.

It looked like it would shatter at a touch.

"This is..." Tang Luo walked up to this sword, "Bajie, Little White Dragon?"

No response.

The Sword Domain completely cut off the Gray Mist.

"Found it, but the mission hasn't reacted—could it be I have to take this sword out?" Tang Luo thought to himself as he walked.

As he approached, tears began to appear on the Jinlan Kasaya on his body.

Tang Luo didn't mind, quickened his pace a few steps, and reached out to grab this sword stabbed into the ground.

On his hand, a slight depression formed, revealing some white marks.

That surging sword intent was completely unable to stop Tang Luo's action.

Just as Tang Luo was about to grab the hilt, a boy dressed entirely in black, with a cold face, appeared beside the sword blade and reached out to grab Tang Luo's wrist.

Tang Luo didn't dodge; he grabbed backhanded and instead seized the boy's wrist.

The boy's figure blurred and turned illusory for a moment.

Terrifying sword intent surged along his palm toward Tang Luo.

"Zhu Xian? Zhan Xian? Jue Xian or Lu Xian?" Tang Luo ignored the sword intent battering his body and asked aloud.

Right at the moment he seized the boy and spoke.

Tang Luo, and the others outside, all received the mission completion prompt.

The Find the Divine Sword mission was completed.

Then, return and descent.

"I knew it!" Tang Luo muttered; it was precisely because he felt this situation would happen that he put the Find the Divine Sword mission last.

As expected, it really was this kind of situation.

Seeing it, touching the true form—the sword spirit, the mission was completed on the spot.

Only giving him time to say one sentence, extremely stingy.

Tang Luo and the others had already returned to the mortal world, and they did not shout the words "want to stay".

Fortunately, there was no need to stay in that mission world, even if the final divine sword's "identity" was actually already clear.

"Master, your hand's..." Ao Yulie looked toward Tang Luo.

"Zhu Xian Sword." Tang Luo said.

In his hand, he held a black sword, the hilt like ink, the blade like a black mirror, yet there was not a single crack on it.

With a light swing, it could give people a feeling of irresistible sharpness, peerless keenness.

Cutting iron like mud, shaving hair with a blade.

This sword is an equipment with information, a reward given to Tang Luo after completing this mission.

The equipment is named "Zhu Xian Sword"!