Chapter 779: The Final Strike

When a sun lit up in the sky, those below felt it too.

It was still night, with gloomy thunderclouds above and dense grasses obscuring the view below; the light was particularly dim, and the battlefield remained a murky, indistinct mass. Only the Emperor's golden lightning was extremely dazzling, and as he maintained the lightning for Body Protection, in a sense, he also looked like a Lighthouse.

However, a Lamp is just a Lamp, not a sun. Just like the thousands of brilliant lanterns at the fireworks display in front of Jindinglou before; although they illuminated the scene like flowering trees of fire and silver flowers, they could only be compared to the stars in the sky, not the sun.

The moment before the sun lit up, the Emperor suddenly felt his body ease. Although he had not recovered to his original state, the fatigue of constant blood loss and the pain of seemingly being beaten repeatedly vanished instantly. His Spirit lifted, and he guessed that someone had been secretly harming him but had stopped. Just as he was about to rush out from the protection of the Tianziming to seize the moment and win the battle, he suddenly heard someone say in his ear: "Don't move yet, continue to act as if you are in pain, and wait for the battle opportunity."

At this time, besides the Tianziming controlled by the Imperial Preceptor, Gaoyuan Marquis had also come down to block a sword for him once, but she had never taken over this frontal battlefield, only acting in the role of guarding the flanks and providing support, and the Sword Technique she used was also unremarkable. The Emperor always felt that Gaoyuan Marquis did not seem very strong.

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However, the Emperor could feel that Gaoyuan Marquis was the one controlling the rhythm of this battle; she seemed to have the overall situation well in hand.

Suppress! It must be suppressed, in the name of the Emperor, with the Momentum of ten thousand jun, suppressed as a warning!

If these National Fortunes are not used by anyone, they are worthless. Perhaps one day when the mandate of heaven shifts, they will simply dissipate. But once someone truly mobilizes them at the right moment, they will unleash an irresistible power.

What kind of immediate effect...

They are, in themselves, the embodiment of the vast land!

Or rather, they are integrated with the earth.

Boom!

The great seal, whether real or illusory, fell, landing solidly on the ground.

Everything, absolutely everything, had turned into a bubble.

"What, its trump card for survival has appeared?"

She knew what the Emperor wanted to ask and said: "This monster doesn't know what method it used to avoid the World Fire; there must be an inside agent in the Human World helping it. But that last strike probably crushed its protection, which is why it triggered the World Fire. Oh no..." She pressed her eyes, finally shook her head, and said: "Forget it."

The Emperor had his last layer of insurance, the Tianziming, rise up, rising higher and higher. Above the Tianziming, the golden lightning transformed into a halo, forming a huge shadow that wrapped around the Tianziming:

It was as if even if the Emperor hadn't thought of a way out, he still had the Imperial Preceptor.

The ground was flattened!

The Emperor was suspended by the effect of another bolt of lightning, pointing downward from the air:

"The land as a seal—suppress!"

When the entire land descended, neither the master of the Huayuan nor that Huayuan itself had any power to resist.

In the past, the broken National Fortune stele of the turtle invaders could hold off the Sword Momentum of two Sword Immortals for a time, and even gain the upper hand. How much more so when Great Jin was, after all, the nominal master of the world, its divine artifacts not lost, its legitimacy not shifted, and it still possessed the hearts of the people gathered during the peaceful decades at the very beginning, as well as a significant number of loyal officials both inside and outside the court serving as its backbone, and the various legacies left by the founding ancestor... These were all National Fortune, condensed in the Tianziming, waiting for the right time.

What they were suppressing was a mere small Huayuan, yet it was also the most evil guest in hundreds of years to break through the boundaries and attempt to steal the heart of the Human World.

Gaoyuan Marquis saw the Tianziming form in mid-air and immediately knew what the Emperor was going to do. She turned into a beam of light and fled, thinking: Playing it this big, can this kid escape himself? The power of the simulation is almost exhausted; I may not be able to save him.

The Emperor said: "Also, how can a thieving Heavenly Demon harm the loyal subjects of my Great Jin? Xunqing, you had better preserve your useful self. There will be a time for you to show your skills in the future. As for the mastermind behind the scenes, I will investigate; I cannot let him scheme against me in vain. Have you not heard that when the Son of Heaven is angry, blood flows and oars drift?"

How could this not be a good ending?

The Emperor maintained the form of the jade seal suppressing the ground, and only moved it away after a long time without hearing any sound. Looking at the ground again, there was only a patch of white earth; he didn't even see a speck of Luse.

Yes, it was that half of Zijin Mountain, including the Dao Palace; the moment the seal landed, the entire Dao Palace was instantly ground into powder.

But thinking about it carefully, perhaps it wasn't that Gaoyuan Marquis wasn't strong, but that he himself was too strong?

After all, it was power obtained through painstaking effort, and it was passed down by ancestors; it was normal for it to be stronger than the power Gaoyuan Marquis had accumulated over decades, right?

Thoroughly leveled to the ground.

The Emperor glanced at her and said: "You want to know what is protecting it, to determine who the inside agent is, right? Now that the World Fire has burned, you might never find a trace again. Don't tell me you want to reverse it to see?"

Seemingly making a great fuss, but actually a matter of course!

A Sword Immortal... cannot resist it either!

According to the Emperor's understanding, waiting for an opportunity certainly didn't mean doing nothing and just waiting idly; it must mean waiting while accumulating a big move, striving to end the battle the moment one strikes. But at least the Sword Technique he currently mastered was still very rough, being nothing more than various uses of lightning, mostly just changes in form, with no essential increase in power. And the rules he set for himself were step-by-step, increasing gradually. As long as he or the enemy acted according to the program he had set, the power would only gradually increase as they pushed forward—the so-called surging Momentum, like mud and sand flowing together, unstoppable—but once interrupted, one had to start accumulating Momentum all over again.

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Within the area covered by the jade seal, there was nowhere that was not flattened; starting from the outskirts of the city, the entire northeast of the city was within the range, and it even pressed down on a small half of Zijin Mountain.

The Dao Palace, which had been established for over a hundred years, was not destroyed by civil strife, nor was it destroyed by the Heavenly Demon, but it was flattened by the Emperor's jade seal.

It is the Tianziming!

Woo—

Grasshoppers, earthworms, ants, birds...

His heart suddenly stirred, he lifted his head slightly, and had an idea.

Although the Emperor was gradually trusting Gaoyuan Marquis, he felt this was not good; how could he be led by someone inferior to himself? It was time to show absolute power and take back the initiative. This old fellow didn't look like she was in her twilight years; she seemed to have become young again and appeared capable of holding on for a few more years. If she could be used in the future, he couldn't let her lead him by the nose from the start; he should reverse the roles of attacker and defender.

After exhausting his efforts to adjust the rules once before, the Emperor's foundation in swordsmanship had also reached its limit. To immediately comprehend a Sword Technique suitable for accumulating Momentum in the present situation was asking too much. From the atmosphere, the Emperor guessed that the time given to him this time was not much either.

He had wanted to lie down and rest, but sensing that the enemy was not dead, he immediately braced himself, grabbed the Tianziming, and walked over step by step.

Momentum, external Momentum, was never meant to exist; its destruction in the blink of an eye was normal. The key is the person.

So... when will the battle opportunity come?

Immediately, he knew.

You must know, he was equivalent to a Sword Immortal.

That shadow was also a jade seal!

Only that jade seal was different from the Tianziming; it was more regular, square and upright, with a complex mountain and river knob carved on top, as if they were real mountains and real rivers, and even more, tigers crouching and dragons coiling, wind and clouds, and celestial phenomena, just like the vast land itself.

That Tianziming, that huge seal of the Emperor, pressed down from the blue sky!

The moment it pressed down, the mountains and rivers, dragons and phoenixes, plants and trees, and all phenomena on the knob seemed to come alive, descending from the sky together!

In an instant, it was as if the ten thousand miles of Shenzhou, the surging rivers, the towering Snow Mountain, and countless living people... everything on this land of Shenzhou was descending!

This was not a simple phantom, nor was it an object simulated by golden lightning; this was the National Fortune and Momentum spontaneously condensed and drawn out from the seal after the Emperor had increasingly mastered the Tianziming.

When the day lit up.

Because regardless of whether the evil guest relied on force to break down the door, broke into an empty house, picked the lock, or was let in by an inside traitor, it had overstepped the bottom line of the Human World.

Are there still living things?

From the center of the level ground, a faint, indistinct whimpering sound seemed to emerge.

The Emperor had just unleashed a full-power strike, mobilizing not only the foundation of the Heaven-Punishing Seal but also his own remaining strength. After lifting the seal, not only did the Heaven-Punishing Seal shrink back to its original state, but he himself seemed to have been knocked back to his original form; that feeling of blood loss and emptiness, as if he were about to collapse, returned.

What Huayuan, vegetation, vines, water wells...

That was the Emperor's own Tianziming.

"It is not." At this moment, Gaoyuan Marquis finally came down, "It is World Fire. It is the flame that ignites when an external intruder causes the world to actively repel them. The stronger the strength, the stronger the repulsion received when invading a different world. World Fire at the Sword Guest level will suppress one's realm; World Fire at the Sword Hero level, when entering other worlds, will cause extreme pain in addition to suppressing one's realm; and World Fire at the Sword Immortal level can burn a Sword Immortal to ashes. Therefore, there should not be a Sword Immortal level descending into the Human World."

The enemy he defeated on the battlefield for the first time—how could he let someone else finish them off? Since the Emperor Sword could not be condensed for the moment, he would smash them to death with the Heaven-Punishing Seal!

The Emperor was still quite clever; he guessed it right away. Gaoyuan Marquis sighed and said, "Sire... I heard long ago that some powers are addictive when used, even if one knows it causes damage to oneself, one still cannot help but use them again and again, until death. This is not good. It is not worth me using it. Even without using it, I will know..."

The moment the sky brightened, the Master of the Huayuan was also shocked. This monster seemed to really know what was hidden in that Void, and looked up in astonishment toward the source of the light.

But the next moment, a bigger "surprise" came!

A thunderbolt struck down, yet an object rose up carrying a golden light.

Just as he was searching for the source of the sound, a wisp of flame suddenly ignited somewhere before his eyes, followed immediately by a 'bang', and the area ahead was already blazing with fire.

Saying such things himself might seem like boasting, but the Emperor had just delivered a heaven-shaking strike, so he naturally had the confidence to say so.

Gaoyuan Marquis said, "Actually, we will know immediately. I wonder what news that messenger from the Six Dragons has brought?"