Chapter 421

Sima Yue had a gloomy face, but he still transformed the Eastern Palace into a golden bridge, stood on the golden bridge himself, and plunged into the palace. Several True Persons also entered one after another, but the remaining noble family disciples all looked at Qian Chen, not daring to enter before him.

Qian Chen smiled slightly and also stepped into the sword mark.

Inside the waterfall, the palace floor was paved with jade, smooth and moist, spotless, and even though ten thousand years had passed, one still couldn't see the traces left by time.

Xie An stood in front of the palace gate, looking at a bronze giant axe inserted nearly halfway into the ground surface on the white jade steps to the right of the hall.

The giant axe was ancient and heavy, with three ancient seal characters engraved on the axe face.

From the position where the giant axe was placed, apart from this giant axe, there were no other traces of destruction. This didn't look like a weapon that broke into this place, but rather more like a kind of—decoration.

Xie An also had some attainments in epigraphy, so he looked at the three seal characters and hesitated: "How does this old man seem to have some impression of this axe?"

He tugged at his long beard, deep in thought.

Sima Yue, however, had a strange light flash in his eyes and stepped into the hall on the golden bridge.

"These seal characters are used by ancient humanity, not the kind of cloud-talisman red scripts that possess strange powers! And on this giant axe, there is no seal spiritual light at all. Apart from the material being somewhat particular, nothing else is worth mentioning." The golden bridge under Sima Yue's feet emitted a burst of golden light, wanting to collect the giant axe: "Using Hun Tian bronze, a divine metal that can refine magic treasures, to cast such a decoration, the ancient Fangshi were indeed extravagant!"

"Wait a moment!" Xie An suddenly spoke: "This old man knows what this thing is!"

But at this time, the spiritual light of the golden bridge had already touched the giant axe.

The giant axe suddenly erupted with powerful divine light, as if the god within the axe had suddenly awakened. The 'Dao patterns' of the seal characters on the axe face intertwined, five-colored divine brilliance bloomed, and those three seal characters seemed to have life, transforming into a god, shrouded in divine light, brilliant and impossible to look at directly. The god held the giant axe and slashed down at Sima Yue's head, the axe blade carrying the power of splitting mountains and chopping peaks.

"A divine weapon without an owner also wants to split my Eastern Palace?"

Sima Yue gritted his teeth and said fiercely.

The golden bridge under his feet erupted with spiritual light, instantly transforming into a phantom of a bronze hall, shrouding his entire body.

"Clang!"

The giant axe collided with the spiritual light phantom of the bronze hall. Under the axe blade, the spiritual light shattered inch by inch. The 118 layers of the bronze hall's spiritual light, stacked layer by layer like the beams of a pagoda, shattered layer by layer. As the axe blade approached, Sima Yue's face was horrified, but the protection of the Eastern Palace bronze hall was truly tight. Without breaking this magic treasure, even the bronze axe blade couldn't land on Sima Yue.

The bronze giant axe collided with the golden bridge, and Sima Yue felt the bones of his whole body creaking in this vibration...

On the golden bridge, a deep axe mark was left!

This magic treasure that guarded the crown prince of Southern Jin was somewhat damaged upon its first collision with the bronze axe. However, this Eastern Palace Forbidden Hall was, after all, the foundation of a nation, and it could be considered powerful among magic treasures. Its self-repair ability was extremely astonishing. After the bronze axe was withdrawn, the axe mark was rapidly recovering!

"A magic treasure without an owner can actually be so powerful?" Sima Yue couldn't believe it.

"Just right, by seizing this treasure, I will have a handy magic treasure for killing!"

Sima Yue ordered the several tool-men in the bronze hall to add their magic power. The golden bridge recovered into a great hall, thunder and fire wrapped around the golden hall again, and Sima Yue's magic power transformed into a golden thunder dragon coiling around the golden hall, triggering the seal of this magic treasure to strike with all its might...

Qian Chen, however, looked at the bronze giant axe from afar, identifying the ancient seal characters on it, and he read word by word: "Open... Mountain... Axe?"

"Ancient divine artifact, Xia Hou's Mountain-Opening Axe!" Xie Lingyun was dumbfounded and exclaimed.

"Emperor Yu's Mountain-Opening Axe?" Qian Chen was equally suspicious, but he was talking about the divine artifact passed down in his previous life.

And at this moment, the powerful force erupted from the Eastern Palace Forbidden Hall triggered other existences within the hall.

An ancient mirror broke through the air from within the hall, with even more ancient tadpole divine scripts inscribed on the mirror surface, named "Western Kunlun," with rays of light shining, emitting an ancient aura like the source of the immortal Dao. Another giant cauldron flew out from within the hall and smashed toward the bronze hall. The patterns on the cauldron were inscribed with prehistoric strange beasts and the true forms of mountains and rivers. Qian Chen even saw a part of the true form of the Central Lands' great river, with nine bends in the river course, carrying an indescribable wonder.

Immediately following, there was also a long sword with the sound of dragons and tigers, a golden arrow with an arrowhead like gathered sun rays, an ancient seal, as well as a black iron Bagua plate, a small nine-story pagoda, and a bead wrapped in wind, earth, water, and fire...

All carrying brilliant divine light, they bombarded the attacking bronze hall.

Under the joint attack of the nine divine artifacts, carrying terrifying power, Sima Yue's whole body trembled.

He opened his mouth and said in a lost voice: "Lord Xie, save me!"

Xie An sighed and could only take action to save him, simultaneously saying: "The several divine artifacts have already been triggered. If they are not dispersed, I'm afraid no one will be able to enter the great hall! Everyone, let's take action together!"

True Person Zhu watched as the nine divine artifacts emitted vast divine sounds like a great bell, bombarding the Eastern Palace Forbidden Hall. If they had one ten-thousandth of the divine power in the legends, Sima Yue should have been reduced to ashes. But although the bronze hall kept trembling and the doors and windows were broken, it could still support itself, so he couldn't help but speak: "These several divine artifacts, aren't they all in... how could they possibly appear here?"

Although there was a slight hesitation in his hand, he still struck out the golden cauldron, colliding with the several divine artifacts bombarding Sima Yue...

True Person Xiao sacrificed the Ten-Thousand-Li Clouds Map, rolling toward the Bagua iron plate, while simultaneously shaking his head: "The Western Kunlun Mirror has long become a legend, and that giant cauldron is clearly the heavy treasure of the Divine Land, the symbol of the Nine Provinces; and that ancient sword seems to be the ancient divine sword—Tengkong, and that jade seal is even more outrageous! 'Yuanyang Imperial Seal, Heavenly Emperor's Great Power'—how could it appear here; and the Innate Bagua Plate, the Primordial Venerable King Pagoda, the Four Symbols Heaven-Opening Bead..."

Every time he said a name, the several True Persons trembled, both out of fear and terror of the power of these famous divine artifacts, and also harboring a trace of greed.

"Let alone the other divine artifacts, the Xia Hou Mountain-Opening Axe is still in the Xia Hou family; it is absolutely impossible for it to appear here!"

Yu Liang said decisively.

At this time, it was Qian Chen's turn to be troubled. These divine artifacts were just for show, and he could naturally see through them easily. Not to mention anything else, the Yuanyang Imperial Seal was still on the list of the Land of Samsara!

But the things revealed by the several noble family True Persons under shock made even Qian Chen unable to remain calm.

"The true body of the Mountain-Opening Axe is still in the human world? And it is even kept in the hands of the Human Emperor family, the Xia Hou clan?"

"My Supreme Old Master!" Qian Chen muttered incoherently in his heart: "These noble families are really hiding deep! They can be called having a deep foundation. If that Xia Hou Mountain-Opening Axe is really of the same level as the Yuanyang Imperial Seal, its killing power would crush my true body! Such dangerous things, they actually dare to keep them in the human world... Even the Heavenly Realm doesn't have many divine artifacts of this level!"

True Person Zhu and the golden cauldron were knocked back by the bronze giant cauldron.

He spat out a mouthful of blood and said with difficulty: "Stop talking, everyone! These are not genuine products, but they are definitely top-tier magic treasures imitated by the Fangshi! This group of Fangshi is insane, even daring to imitate ancient divine artifacts! Why don't you take action together to suppress these magic treasures!"

"Imitated divine artifacts!"

Regardless of the fact that Sima Yue had already been ravaged by the nine divine artifacts in turn and was on the verge of death, and the gate of the Eastern Palace bronze hall had been smashed, if it weren't for Xie An constantly sweeping out spiritual light with his large sleeves to resist five of the divine artifacts, he would have lost his life here. The other several True Persons all had their eyes light up.

True Person Zhu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said in a deep voice: "These imitated divine artifacts can exert the power of magic treasure level even without anyone manipulating them. I can't withstand any one of them. Only by everyone taking action together can we contend with them!"

"Ancient divine artifacts are different from magic treasures; there are gods in the artifacts. As long as the gods in the artifacts awaken, they can exert a portion of their power on their own. It seems that the Fangshi, by hiding in the Jin Ling Secret Realm, have really researched a portion of the secrets of the ancient divine Dao, allowing them to find the method to cast the gods within the artifacts!" Zhou Yin said solemnly.

"Everyone, let's join forces to suppress these divine artifacts first, and then collect them according to our own opportunities!"

After True Person Zhu shouted this, the several True Persons of the noble families, together with the slovenly Elder of the Luo Fu Sect, True Person Xin Zhao of Mount Qingxu, and even True Person Jian Ku of the Wu Yue Sword Gate, all took action.

Each of them met a divine artifact. Golden cauldrons, jade dippers, scrolls, and various magic treasures and flying swords were struck out by them. Even so, it took two or three people to contain and contend with one divine artifact. Only Xie An did not use magic treasures; just by waving his large sleeves and striking out mysterious light, he blocked four divine artifacts: the cauldron, the seal, the pagoda, and the axe.

Qian Chen counted the wealth of these people and couldn't help but click his tongue in secret. The Central Lands is indeed one of the cosmic realms with a deep foundation. Just the level of luxury of each person having a magic treasure here is something other worlds find difficult to reach.

If he were to display the Green Lotus Zang Zang Jian Ge and the Five-Colored Divine Light under the identity of Li Taibai, he could at most simultaneously fight five Yin Spirit True Persons holding magic treasures. If two more came, he would have to expose his identity and display the several magic treasures of the Li Er identity.

However, at that time, when exerting all his strength, apart from Xie An, whose depth was still unknown, the others joining forces could only barely support themselves under his hands. If he wanted to deal with Xie An, he would have to rely on his true body to exert its power!

But the Dao Dust Bead, this spiritual treasure, works sometimes and doesn't work other times.

Before, when suppressing the demon body, if it weren't for the help of that existence in the darkness, he almost wouldn't have been able to use it. It is very unreliable and cannot be counted on as a life-saving reliance.

"Entering the treasure mountain, how can we return empty-handed?" Junior Sister Si encouraged him eagerly: "Yan Yan Shixiong, do you want to go and snatch a few pieces too?"

"A few pieces?" Qian Chen looked at the various objects with brilliant divine light in the hall and said with a strange expression: "Even if just one genuine product came, it could scatter my Yan Yan Shixiong's ashes!"

"Even if they are imitations, if I were to intervene and snatch a few more, I'm afraid I would be targeted by everyone joining forces, my disguise would be torn off, and my identity would be exposed. If Master Sima is within this secret realm, Yan Yan Shixiong I would only be able to take you and flee, living a life on the run!"

"However... with my sword technique, snatching one of them is still no problem!"

Qian Chen stepped into the void and reached out to draw a stream of flying spring from the waterfall behind him; it was the meta-magnetic true water permeated by the sword intent he left behind.

He bound the water into a sword and integrated the water-element divine light into it. Soon, a long, thin sword with water as the blade appeared in his hand. Facing these divine artifacts imitated by the Fangshi, even Qian Chen had to take a shortcut, transforming into a sword with true water and spirit materials, and the fine divine metal mineral sand within it could even rely on the metal qi.

Metal and water generate each other, and both divine lights emerged, enough to display ninety percent of the power of the Green Lotus Zang Zang Jian Ge.

Bearing the powerful pressure emitted by those nine divine artifacts, Qian Chen split the brilliant divine light shrouding the hall with one sword, and met the Tengkong Sword, which had the sound of dragons and tigers accompanying it as soon as its blade moved.

The god who came alive in the Tengkong Sword was a Heavenly Emperor wearing a crown. As the sword blade swept, it split the heavy void. In the sword were sun, moon, and stars, and even scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants, farming, fishing, herding, and logging, as well as the hundred states of human life in cities and mountains. Natural phenomena and the three thousand red dust all entered the sword, governed by this sword momentum.

In comparison, Sima Yue's so-called sitting in the Eastern Palace and governing divine thunder was simply like a monkey wearing a hat, ridiculous to the extreme.

Such a sword qi flew out, forcing True Person Jian Ku to divide his natal flying sword into twenty-four sword lights, intersecting hundreds of layers of sword nets in front of his chest, and only after thousands of collisions with extremely soft sword qi could it be resolved.

After receiving one sword, True Person Jian Ku was already sweating profusely and couldn't care about Qian Chen coming up to snatch things!

The god in the sword sensed Qian Chen approaching, and the dragon-roaring sound of the Tengkong Sword grew louder. The stars, sun, and moon in the sword intent wavered and fell, transforming into a golden sword qi that slashed out, heading straight for Qian Chen!

"The cliff is like a cut melon, the mountain light breaks the cliff green." Qian Chen didn't hesitate and met it with his sword horizontally.

The sword mark on the waterfall behind him triggered the meta-magnetic true water crashing down from the Tianhe, gathering infinite metal qi. That sharp qi remaining in the meta-magnetic true water, left over from polishing the mineral sand, pierced through the waterfall and was drawn by the true water sword in Qian Chen's hand, transforming into countless sword qi.

The sword qi was vast and mighty like the Tianhe across the sky, and with one sword, it slashed open that expanse of sun, moon, and stars.

Within the Tengkong sword qi, the Green Lotus sword intent was like the Tianhe, penetrating the entire world. Qian Chen stepped on the Tianhe with his sword and faced that god directly.

Not far away, Sima Yue, who was huddled in the Eastern Palace Forbidden Hall, suddenly widened his eyes, looking at the infinite sword qi that pierced through the waterfall, and a trace of luck actually arose in his heart: "Sure enough, that sword mark is strange!"

He thought that if he hadn't endured that moment of anger just now, this sword would have been slashed at him. In Li Taibai's hands, everything could be a sword; a broken iron sword, a green bamboo, and even a bamboo leaf all had invincible power.

Even the arrangement the Fangshi used to block them, the Tianhe waterfall and meta-magnetic true water, could be transformed into his own sword in his hands.

This level of sword Dao cultivation was truly terrifying, and even more stressful to him than the Tengkong Sword, which only had divine power!

The emperor god of the Tengkong Sword had an indifferent expression, but a flash of wisdom passed through his eyes. He raised the Tengkong Sword again and swung it. The stars, sun, moon, cities, mountains, scholars, farmers, artisans, merchants, and all phenomena in the world appeared again.

This time, every blade of grass and tree in the phenomena, a butcher, a chick, everything, actually transformed into sword light. This sword was the ultimate of complexity. Every star shot out a sword technique containing its own principles. Every living being in the city transformed their life into a sword light. Even the butcher in the sword slashed out a killing sword that slaughtered countless living beings, and the prostitute in the brothel transformed her love, hate, and sorrow, her joys and sorrows of a lifetime, into a lingering sword qi.

These countless sword lights intertwined into a complex, powerful sword array like a world.

It was going to strangle Qian Chen!

The charm of this sword, if it weren't for the Tengkong Sword being an imitation, Qian Chen wouldn't have been able to support it for even one breath before turning into ashes, and only the Dao Dust Bead could have survived in the sword light.

"The Tianhe comes from the middle, white clouds rise in the river valley."

The Green Lotus Zang Zang Jian Ge encountered a sword intent that was even higher for the first time. Qian Chen withdrew the countless sword qi transformed by metal nature and triggered the waterfall behind him. The Tianhe waterfall behind him transformed into a sword, carrying the momentum of ten thousand years of pouring, carrying the great trend of countless years of accumulation, carrying more than billions of meta-magnetic true water, and with an absolutely powerful trend, it forcibly broke that sword.

Although the Tengkong Sword's sword intent was extremely high and subtle, containing the Heavenly Emperor's sword intent, it still only had the power of a magic treasure.

Facing the natural trend triggered by Qian Chen, using the power of the Fangshi's seal, the sword he transformed, although the sword intent was far beyond "The Tianhe comes from the middle, white clouds rise in the river valley," it was forcibly broken by the powerful force contained in this sword.

The intertwined Heavenly Dao killing sword and the myriad phenomena sword array collapsed.

But Qian Chen also lost control of the meta-magnetic true water. He was able to issue this sword by using the sword mark to infect the meta-magnetic true water, and then using the previous sword to trigger the metal qi remaining in the meta-magnetic true water for ten thousand years.

And that previous sword refined the metal qi into Green Lotus sword qi, and at the most critical moment, used the Green Lotus sword qi that gathered all the metal to draw the vast meta-magnetic true water in the Tianhe.

This series of methods was like dominoes, using relatively weak power to draw stronger power, sword after sword, finally triggering the monstrous power of nature.

But this sword also exhausted all the metal qi accumulated in the Tianhe waterfall for ten thousand years. Losing the traction of the metal qi, the meta-magnetic true water returned to its original trajectory and was no longer under Qian Chen's control. This sword of his had exhausted the accumulation, but the god of the Tengkong Sword could raise the divine sword again and evolve the myriad phenomena of the world!

But, this one sword was already enough!

"So that's how it is!"

Just now, Qian Chen split the Tengkong sword light and truly glimpsed the essence of this divine artifact.

"Red characters on the jade case, the eyes of the world cannot read."

Qian Chen whispered softly, shook the water-light long sword in his hand, and slashed out flatly.

The sword light was icy and crystal clear, ethereal like an autumn swan. This sword was no longer the charm of the Green Lotus Zang Zang Jian Ge, but a sword technique derived from Qian Chen's Dao heart, derived from the Great Liberation Demon Blade, the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, the Ice Soul Blade Light, and the sword he slashed at Miaokong during the Blood Demon mission. It was free and easy, unrestrained, and thus could slash directly at the soul.

"Ascending to the blue sky, the pine wind brushes my feet."

This free and easy sword intent broke free from Taibai's barriers and fell onto the Tengkong divine sword, onto the god in the dark.

This sword asks about the past.

It is called—Disconnecting the Wi-Fi!

Clang!

All the divine light of the Tengkong Sword dissipated, and it fell into the dust like a piece of scrap iron.

The god in the sword, that infinite power, that myriad of phenomena, all disappeared. After the divine light dissipated, it was no different from the broken iron sword worth three hundred taels of silver that Qian Chen used before.

Qian Chen bowed slightly and picked up the "Tengkong Sword." But at this time, the divine sword had already transformed into an ordinary utensil with only a little spirituality and materials that were somewhat extraordinary, without a trace of the divine power from just now.

True Person Jian Ku looked at the divine sword in Qian Chen's palm in a daze and hesitated: "The divine artifact is hiding its brilliance?"

Qian Chen stared at the divine sword in his palm and shook his head slightly: "No!"

He laughed loudly: "The Fangshi's ideas are indeed interesting!"

He casually sent the Tengkong Sword in his palm into True Person Jian Ku's hand. True Person Jian Ku put his magic power into it and probed with his spiritual sense, only to find that it was empty inside. No seals, no gods, no Dao marks or laws—nothing at all. It was just like... holding a dead iron lump cast from divine metal spirit materials. He lifted the divine sword in disbelief and said in a panic: "How is it possible, how is it possible? Where is the divine artifact?"

"Where is the divine sword intent from just now?"

"Why did the divine sword turn into such stubborn iron!"

Jian Ku investigated for a long time, finally looking wooden, and returned the divine sword to Qian Chen, asking foolishly: "This... why exactly is this?"

"I'll explain it to you later!" Qian Chen raised the Tengkong Sword in his hand and said calmly: "Now, I will first physically disconnect the network connection here!"