Chapter 722: The Storm is Settled!

Between life and death, one's resolve is revealed!

Li Yuan pushed the demonic shadow to its utmost, tens of thousands of strands of magic power burning at once; he nearly melted, the fierce searing pain threatening to dissolve even his niwan palace.

Yet even amid such agonizing pain, he still precisely seized the gap where the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword split the immortal light.

He plunged into the void!

"Success!"

The instant he broke free of the sword realm, Li Yuan rejoiced in his heart, but Yu Yu Xuanji—his surroundings quaked, and the dazzling immortal light returned.

The magic power that had gone out on his body reignited, his fleeing steps abruptly pulled back, as if time itself were flowing in reverse!

In an instant, beneath his shocked gaze, he was dragged back into the sword realm, and once more beheld the immortal light flooding the myriad cave-heavens of the sword realm.

"One Mind evolves ten thousand laws; Chaos bears the One Mind!"

Grand daoist echoes reverberated inside and outside the sword realm, in the ears and hearts of every cultivator; nearly everyone, in a daze, saw that towering figure wreathed in immortal light.

He stood within the sword realm, terrifying aura rolling outward as if to reach the deepest reaches of the Opening Gui Xu:

"Just awakened and already met a Chaos Sacred Body—clearly this lord's fortune has not run out. Tai Shan Xuan, in this battle, in the end, it is you who have lost!"

"Die!"

The immortal light was torn apart by sword light; the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword raged to the extreme, its blade trembling, ten thousand laws and ten thousand scenes reflected forth, evolving endless killing phenomena.

In that instant, the sword realm quaked; outside the sword realm, a host of cultivators had long sensed something amiss and retreated in haste.

"One Mind Sword Lord!"

Daoist Daoist Tongqing and Master Fufa both pressed down on Master Master Fufa, withdrew, and together urged their Gu Gu Shentong; but to their astonishment, Master Master Fufa's sudden fury vanished, and he let them drag him out of the sword realm's range.

Instead, it was Jiu Ji Tian—amid boundless surging auras, the Dong Dong Ershisan rings of dao behind him trembled in unison, divine light converging into a single divine sword.

"Hmph!"

Casting only a contemptuous glance at Master Master Fufa withdrawing from the field, Jiu Ji Tian leapt up.

As the layered rings of light flowed and intertwined, a towering, immense figure appeared behind him, as if formed from the convergence of all daos.

Many great cultivators stared in astonishment.

They felt a majestic presence rushing toward them; that shadow wore a crown of jade beads, all daos and all laws converging—an ancient sword god wielding a heavenly sword, slashing out with one strike.

Boom—!

An aura that blotted out the sky and earth rolled like a sea, yet was split open by Jiu Ji Tian's single sword strike!

Its momentum undiminished, growing ever more vast and mighty—beneath the stunned, horrified gazes of the great cultivators, it actually slashed toward the sword realm, as if to hack its way inside.

"This madman!"

Seeing this, Daoist Fuxiong cursed inwardly, but dared not linger; with a sweep of his great sleeve, he bundled up Jiu Yunji and the others who had tumbled out of the sword realm and retreated at full speed.

"Break!"

Jiu Ji Tian's wild hair flew about, like a god, like a demon.

One sword strike was followed by another almost simultaneously; including the Bei Dou Fa Jie domain, the Shi San Zuo Fa Jie domains all quaked at once, boundless great forces converging upon him.

As this sword fell, a 'Crack!' rang out—the sword realm had actually been split open at one corner by him.

Then, with hardly a pause, he was about to hack his way into the sword realm!

"Get lost!"

Li Yuan heard a great rebuke; immortal light surged before his eyes like a tide; he focused his gaze and saw Jiu Ji Tian drowned in that immortal light.

"Boom—!"

Daoist cries rang out, each louder than the last.

With one palm, he slapped Jiu Ji Tian out of the sword realm; the dao-shadow of the One Mind Sword Lord emitted immortal light once more, and one illusory figure after another materialized from emptiness, stepping out from the void.

"This is…"

Li Yuan's eyelids twitched wildly; among those figures he saw Mu Mu Xiantian, and even the Tai Shan Xuan Sword Lord himself—one body, three presences!

But unlike when they had fought him, the auras of these few now were incomparably powerful—clearly all dao-shadows above the Liu Qi Jing.

"Slash!"

The Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword cleaved down; the sea-like immortal light was instantly riddled with holes, those illusory figures all cut down by the sword light; its momentum undiminished, it thundered toward the One Mind Sword Lord.

"You are far too foolish."

Facing the slash of the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword, the One Mind Sword Lord's expression was indifferent; illusory figures appeared once more—not born from the immortal light, but emerging directly from the Tai Shan Xuan sword itself.

"Clank-clank-clank~"

Accompanied by the grating clanking of chains, that very Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword was bound by myriad chains of immortal light; no matter how it struggled, it could only be unwillingly gripped in the One Mind Sword Lord's palm.

"A dead thing is, in the end, a dead thing. How vast are the Nine Epochs? Yet you have not advanced a single step—forget attaining the Mu Xiantian rank, you can no longer even maintain your original station."

The One Mind Sword Lord pressed down on the endlessly struggling Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword:

"Just because Tai Shan Xuan was a Mu Xiantian Sword Dao Sacred Body, you insisted on seeking a Zun San Jing Mu Xiantian Sword Dao Sacred Body—never realizing that Tai Shan Xuan himself only reversed to Mu Xiantian at the Qi Jing…"

"Argh!"

The Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword was unwilling, furious to the extreme.

Those myriad chains of immortal light—it had itself allowed that dao-shadow to strike them into its body earlier; this drove it to madness, that it had actually been blinded.

It had never imagined that the One Mind Sword, long perished for a million years, would still leave behind an obsession—and after nine epochs, transform into a strange demon.

"Boom!"

Outside the sword realm, thunderous roars rang out; dao-shadows formed of immortal light blocked every outsider cultivator who sought to enter the sword realm.

"Do not dream of resurrection!"

The Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword suddenly blazed crimson; it would rather self-detonate than allow this One Mind Sword to be tainted by its master's will and resurrect.

"Fool."

Facing the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian sword's struggle, the One Mind Sword Lord merely tapped lightly, suppressing even the trembling sword realm along with it:

"Tai Shan Xuan's will has already been claimed by this sovereign; your struggle is meaningless."

"……"

At the edge of the Sword Realm, amid immortal light, watching helplessly as the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian Sword was suppressed just like that, Li Yuan couldn't help cursing inwardly at the waste.

A supreme-grade Dao treasure, and it had been outmaneuvered by a single strange demon.

In fact, in his perception, the aura of the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian Sword was far stronger than that shadow-form One-Heart Sword Lord by an immeasurable margin…

"Has Master not arrived yet?"

Li Yuan was feeling somewhat anxious.

That great teleportation of the Tai Shan Xuan Tong Tian Sword had come too abruptly, completely disrupting his plans.

A Dao Lord's will could sweep across all realms, but even a Heavenly Master was not omniscient; if the Sword Realm cut off inside from outside, even chanting his Master's true name would be useless.

Therefore, at the very instant he was drawn into the Sword Realm, he had sent a divine-sense message to his own Master.