Chapter 718: Invincible Within the Three Realms, The Profound Mystery Sword Lord (Combined Chapter)

Seeing that the Daoist was still looking left and right in the starry sky, seemingly wanting to release demon shadows to devour again, Sword Light sneered inwardly—if not for the fact that above the tenth layer of the Sword Realm it could not interfere too much.

He wished he could have the garrison kill him on the spot!

"Damned bastard!"

Sword Light roamed through the void, overlooking the starry sky, also observing the other small grotto-heavens.

……

Whooosh~

In the starry sky, Li Yuan stood tall.

He silently adjusted his Commander Troops Registry, gazing at the slowly approaching meteor; not only was he unafraid, he was even somewhat eager to try.

Since joining Mount Mount Dongxuan, he had not made a move in the present world.

Because of his wariness of the Grand Void Mirror, even on the Combat Platform and the Heaven-Supporting Martial Arena, he had only activated the Commander Troops Registry with restraint; as for the White-Robed Five-Dragon Immortal…

"Relying on these two new combinations of mine, even if some Five-Dragon Immortal were to leap out of this Sword Realm, I might not be unable to fight!"

His churning emotions gradually returned to stillness; Li Yuan adjusted his state.

His Niwan Palace trembled lightly, the nine true forms poised to strike, the Profound Vine Tree swayed gently, and within the tree's shadow Ying Mo Shen sat cross-legged, ten thousands of demon shadows spreading through the divine realm to cover his entire body.

Through nine layers of bloody battle, the demon shadows had been mostly destroyed, but the remaining small half still contained over two hundred thousand strands of Ying Mo Fa magic power whose quality rivaled upper-grade!

In his dantian, the five strands of golden-natured Refine-Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword were also humming, as if eager to leave its sheath.

"Hum~"

Under Li Yuan's gaze, that meteor stopped ten thousand miles away.

From here, he could see that atop the meteor sat an unremarkable-looking old Daoist cross-legged; behind him wondrous scenes manifested—sometimes mountains and rivers, sometimes nine ancient temples within.

Before him stood a sword case about a zhang tall, and before his knees lay a pale golden ancient scroll.

【Profound Mystery Sword Scripture (Upper) (Seventeenth-Tier)】

Separated by ten thousand miles of starry sky, Li Yuan could feel the bone-chilling killing intent rushing toward him, and the name of this sword scripture naturally surfaced in his eyes.

"It can be commanded!"

Li Yuan's eyes instantly blazed.

Though his perception was extremely vague, its grade actually reached as high as seventeenth-tier—and this was only the upper volume!

"This person…"

Li Yuan focused his perception, and atop that meteor saw the old Daoist's identity.

【…Mu Mu Xiantian, Grand Elder of the Profound Mystery Sword Sect…】

"Profound Mystery Sword Sect?"

Li Yuan's mind stirred; thanks to his intelligence-gathering, he actually found information about this person.

More precisely, information about this person.

The Profound Mystery Sword Sect, one of the sword dao holy lands originating from the glorious age of the Origin Divine Dynasty, its gates crowded with powerful experts, revered across all realms.

Even after countless epochs, when the word "Sword" no longer existed, the Profound Mystery Gate remained the strongest holy land in the Bei Dou Fa Jie!

And this Mu Mu Xiantian was an ancient god worshipped by the Profound Mystery Gate many epochs ago; later he was suspected to have vanished into the depths of Opening Gui Xu, and gradually his fame was surpassed by that of his junior disciple, the 'Sword Spirit God.'

"This Mu Mu Xiantian, even if not a Dao Lord, is probably among the strongest below a Dao Lord…"

Li Yuan's eyelid twitched.

The garrison of the tenth layer of the Sword Realm was actually an existence of this caliber?

Then what about the eleventh and twelfth layers?

All Dao Lords?!

"No wonder almost no one can clear the tenth layer of the Sword Realm…"

Li Yuan furrowed his brow.

The Sword Realm was not the Combat Platform; from the first layer onward, it was life-and-death combat against experts at the peak of the Three Realms. Even a world-shocking prodigy, by the time they reached the tenth layer, would certainly no longer be at full strength.

If one's luck was poor, like Yu Yu Wangxian, by the time he finished the ninth layer he was already Shen Shou Zhong, his magic power exhausted; even if he still had strength remaining, he would not dare to step into the tenth layer.

【…This person was named 'Mu Xiantian' because he was born with the 'Innate Sword Body'…At the height of his fame, he came before our gate to seek the sword; though defeated, his sword, his art, his dao had much worth taking…】

"Innate Sword Body—this is Senior Brother Master Master Fufa's constitution, also a Slaughter Dao Body, just inferior to the Sword Dao Sacred Body…"

Li Yuan matched the information on the meteor with the intelligence he had gathered.

"This 'I' should be the 'Profound Mystery Sword Lord'…"

Relying on the intelligence he had gathered, Li Yuan already knew who the sword dao Dao Lord who left the stele was—the 'Profound Mystery Sword Marquis' of the Origin Divine Dynasty, nine epochs ago!

"Chi~"

At this moment, Li Yuan's heart stirred.

He saw that atop the meteor, the sword case before the old Daoist cracked open, and Yu Yu Xuanji, a brilliant radiance tore through the starry sky—one became two, two became four, four became eight…

In the blink of an eye, it had transformed into tens of millions of sword lights, weaving and crisscrossing, evolving into myriad scenes of destruction!

"Fine sword!"

Li Yuan inwardly praised.

His perception was keen; amid the interweaving sword lights he could sense hundreds and thousands of sword dao spells circulating—this single strike alone was enough to cleave through Lin Yue's Reverse Demon Body.

And within that sword case, who knew how many such sword lights there were!

"Lii!"

Li Yuan vaulted into the air, as if the cries of ten thousands of phoenix birds burst forth from his body—he had clearly activated his Gu Gu Shentong Suppressing Prison.

Facing such a powerful expert, even though both were of the Three Realms, he did not dare the slightest carelessness; as he stepped forth, profound purple light flowed across his body's surface, the Profound Vine Tree transforming into armor to protect him.

"Wuu~"

One step across the void covered ten thousand miles; Li Yuan stretched out an arm, five-colored light flowing between his fingers—this was precisely the 'Five-Element Divine Light,' which he had painstakingly cultivated for half a year and was now beginning to show its edge.

"Mm?"

The Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword watching the battle from beyond the void trembled lightly; its eyesight was extremely sharp, and at a single glance it could tell that this boy also possessed a body-tempering Gu Gu Shentong, and was far stronger than it had anticipated.

In its perception, it was as if a great demon was awakening within him, erupting with a startlingly immense power.

"Boom!"

Under the gaze of the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword, in less than a thousandth of an instant, the interwoven and arrayed myriad sword-lights had been pierced through with a thunderous crash by that five-colored interwoven palm-strike.

"Hiss—"

One sword was extinguished, yet ten thousand more were born.

The old Daoist who had been sitting cross-legged had at some unknown moment already risen to his feet; with one hand he slapped the sword-case, and myriad sword-qi burst forth from within, crisscrossing and interweaving like a Brother Qiao Tianhe pouring down.

"Roar—"

Tens of millions of sword-keens merged into a single dragon's cry; that flood of sword-light rolled like a dragon, its terrifying killing intent surging in all directions, and a chilling cold froze the void.

This was pure killing sword-light, yet within it was contained an extremely large number of spells.

The moment Li Yuan raised his hand and blasted apart the first sword-light, he instantly sensed dozens to hundreds of various spells descend upon him—immobilization, immobilization, fixing the void, curses…

Even with the support of the Prison-Suppressing Gu Gu Shentong, he felt his body stiffen for a moment.

It was only a single brief pause, so short that even an ordinary Ren He San Jing cultivator would not feel it, yet that old man's grasp of timing was clearly exquisite to the extreme.

At the very moment of that pause, the sword-dragon woven from myriad killing sword-lights also happened to swallow Li Yuan whole!

"Boom!"

Sword-keen rang out, dazzling and resplendent, like a lotus of swords blooming, erupting with the ultimate sound of destruction.

This sword-dragon contained within it nine strands of killing sword-qi, and each one was a top-grade killing spell forged from the essence of numerous spells; nine returning to one—even a Ran Shi Si Jing cultivator would have their spiritual treasure, body, and protective spells all slashed to nothing!

Even reaching straight to the Ni Wan Shen Jing!

Slashing the body, and slaying the spirit as well!

"Eh?"

As this sword erupted, the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword let out a startled "eh."

Almost at the same instant, Li Yuan had already stepped out from within that killing sword-light that nearly reached the Ren He San Jing limit; the bark armor on his body had cracked, yet was healing again at an extremely rapid speed.

This sword-dragon's killing intent was extremely fierce, piercing through the "defense set" he commanded, and even wounded the bark armor, but it still failed to reach his physical body.

"Stronger than Lin Yue, and stronger than Senior Brother Huang Yuan, but compared to the White-Robed Five-Dragon Immortal, there's still a huge gap."

Raising his hand to shatter the Feng Feng Mantian of sword-light, Li Yuan already roughly understood the strength of the one before him.

Even without the augmentation of the Soldier-Controlling Register, against himself it would be at most a six-four split.

And if the Soldier-Controlling Register were added…

"Hum—"

The instant he stepped forth, Li Yuan had activated the "killing set" of the Soldier-Controlling Register.

In less than an instant, the magic power he himself had refined was mostly burned away, but the Ying Mo Shen dwelling within the acupoints around his body replenished the expenditure in a flash.

"This is what power feels like…"

Li Yuan let out a long breath, feeling as if the starry sky around him had become incomparably fragile; Yu Yu Xuanji, his five-colored interwoven palm suddenly clenched together and gently thrust forward.

"?!"

The instant Li Yuan threw a punch, the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword trembled violently, instantly communed with the Sword Realm, yet received the answer that this was not Ba Ba Waili.

'Could this be a Shen Tong Fa he cultivated himself?!'

The thought of the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword had not yet flashed past.

When a muffled 'poof' was heard, the meteorite, the old Daoist, together with the starry sky behind him, had already been swallowed by that fist-light woven from five-colored radiance!

A truly overwhelming devastation in the truest sense!

That Mu Mu Xiantian Dao-shadow possessed all the spells of its Ren San Jing self; its reaction was extremely swift, and when one sword failed, it had already fully Cui Fa.

Behind it, nine ancient temples rose up, sword-light cascading like waterfalls and seas, enough to make any Ren He San Jing cultivator dare not face it directly, yet it was extinguished by a single punch.

And its protective spells were like thin paper, collapsing in a single strike!

"Rumble!"

The Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword trembled violently; it only heard the roar ring out, the tenth layer of the Sword Realm on the verge of collapse, and it suddenly came to its senses, a wisp of sword-light bursting forth to stabilize the tenth layer of the Sword Realm.

"Excellent!"

After throwing that punch, Li Yuan felt nothing but utter comfort throughout his body.

The new "offense set" augmented him tremendously; although that instant placed enormous pressure on his body, the Prison-Suppressing Gu Gu Shentong could fully resist it.

With the two layered together, he felt that apart from the Five-Dragon Immortal, within the scope of the Ren He San Jing, perhaps no one could stand shoulder to shoulder with him anymore!

"This Shan Gong spent—very worth it, extremely worth it!"

Li Yuan was inwardly satisfied, feeling that even if he fought the Five-Dragon Immortal again, victory was not necessarily out of reach.

He dispersed the augmentation of the Soldier-Controlling Register, raised his eyes to look, and the old Daoist had naturally vanished without a trace, yet that scroll of sword scripture had not disappeared.

"According to the intel, the ninth layer of the Sword Realm only requires one battle, but the tenth layer seems to be two?"

A thought flashed through Li Yuan's mind.

In the distance, that scroll of sword scripture trembled lightly, a streak of rainbow-light already sinking into the depths of the starry sea; faintly, one could see meteorite after meteorite circulating.

It seemed the Sword Realm was assessing him, or perhaps choosing an opponent for him?

"Which one to pick?"

In the void, the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword trembled violently; it could not help but commune with the Sword Realm—the boy's power had suddenly surged explosively, this absolutely could not be the ability of the Chaotic Holy Body!

Not to mention he was still only a Hun Dun Fa body; even if he reversed into the Innate Chaotic Holy Body, he could not do it!

But…

"He really cultivated this himself?!"

Sensing the Sword Realm's response, Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian Sword wished it could descend personally to test it, but this was clearly not permitted by the Sword Realm, leaving it to choose reluctantly.

Yet this very selection truly gave it a headache.