Chapter 628

This time, the divine stone was consumed far too severely by the God of Immortality, and the balance of power within had long since become unstable.

If it were not returned beneath Lei Fengta, into the grand formation set by Goddess Nüwa, soon the divine stone would surely encounter problems.

Fortunately, Old Fahai snatched the divine stone back in time.

Also fortunately, the top experts of the Qinglong Society had no intention of seizing the divine stone.

While hurrying on his way and pondering matters at once.

He suddenly felt a burst of sinister sword qi stab toward him from six directions—above, below, left, right, front, and back.

Fazhi was startled. He pressed his palms together, circulated his true essence, and activated the Immovable Bright Lord Golden Body of Jin Shan Temple.

A shimmering golden phantom of the Bright Lord suddenly appeared behind him.

Then, countless rays of golden light radiated out from the Bright Lord phantom, laying down a golden light barrier around him.

Clang-clang-clang!

The moment the golden light barrier took shape, six streams of sword qi arrived just in time, striking sparks flying across the barrier.

"Mysterious Yin sword intent—Jian Chen?"

Seeing those six streams of sword qi, Fazhi immediately recognized them as the Mysterious Yin Six Swords and shouted,

"Jian Chen, you disgrace the legacy of the Unnamed. Wielding the Hero General, you still stoop to such petty villainy."

After his concealment was exposed, Mysterious Yin Jian Chen, gripping the Hero General, appeared before Fazhi,

"Truly a top disciple of Old Fahai—to still have such a trick up his sleeve.

Hand over the divine stone, and I will let you leave."

"Have you gone mad? Every word I just spoke on Dragon God Isle was true, not a single syllable false.

The divine stone is extremely unstable now. If it is not returned beneath Lei Fengta soon, it will be in grave danger."

Fazhi stared at Mysterious Yin Jian Chen in utter shock, unable to fathom why this man could not tell good from bad.

439 — Ximen Wudi had actually anticipated this step?

"The world roars on—what has it to do with me? I only need the divine stone!"

Mysterious Yin Jian Chen was utterly crazed, unleashing the full might of the Mysterious Yin Six Swords.

In the Sword Realm, the Mysterious Yin Sword Constellation may not be the most demonic of swords, but it is absolutely the most sinister.

The so-called Mysterious Yin Twelve Swords were born from the evil obsessions of countless sword cultivators across the world, gathered into the Sword Pool.

Fortunately, because the Mysterious Yin Twelve Swords were too sinister, when Ximen Wudi tore open the Sword Realm and fled, they split in two.

The latter six swords found Hayato Tenyin, who extracted their essence and fused them into the Dao of Yin within his Ten Thousand Dao Sennin.

Thus was born the Dao of Mysterious Yin!

As for the former six swords, they noticed that Jian Chen's sword intent was weak, his sword heart unstable, and that he was a disciple of the renowned sword master, the Unnamed—so they latched onto him.

At first, these former six swords remained dormant, constantly letting Jian Chen see massive surges in his strength.

They made him lose himself in this illusory yet real power, unable to break free.

Once Jian Chen grew increasingly addicted to the Mysterious Yin Six Swords, the six swords finally seized their chance and completely took over his consciousness.

Therefore, the Jian Chen of today can only be called Mysterious Yin Jian Chen.

And Mysterious Yin Jian Chen happens to be able to unleash the full might of the Mysterious Yin Six Swords.

Six streams of evil sword qi ceaselessly battered Fazhi's Bright Lord Golden Body barrier.

The two forces happened to be one righteous, one evil.

Every time the Mysterious Yin sword intent attacked, it used its utterly evil sword intent to strip away the Buddhist intent from the Bright Lord Golden Body.

Moreover, by devouring that wisp of Buddhist intent, the Mysterious Yin sword intent actually grew stronger still.

If left unchecked, continuing to take these passive beatings.

Mysterious Yin Jian Chen would only grow stronger and stronger, while Fazhi would grow weaker and weaker.

Just as Fazhi prepared to open the barrier and close in for close-quarters combat with Mysterious Yin Jian Chen.

In the distant sky, another faint human figure stood there.

Was it not Sword Prison, who had been traveling alongside Mysterious Yin Jian Chen!

In truth, Sword Prison possessed the Heavenly Origin Sword Art, and his strength was even greater than Mysterious Yin Jian Chen's.

However, to unleash his full power, he either had to be within the Sword Realm, or in this main world, he had to slay as many sword dao experts as possible.

Each time he killed a sword dao expert and absorbed their sword intent, Sword Prison's strength would unlock another fraction.

Since fleeing the Sword Realm, he had already slain twelve sword dao experts.

His overall strength had barely recovered to fifty percent!

But he was skilled at concealment, and he himself knew he was no match for the God of Immortality, so he lay low and obeyed the God of Immortality in participating in the Tian Qiwu Dragon Slaying.

Yet both the God of Immortality and Old Fahai saw clearly how formidable this man's strength was.

Therefore, Old Fahai had long warned Fazhi: if he ever faced Sword Prison, he must not underestimate him.

Now it was truly a wolf in front and a tiger behind.

If he did not open the Bright Lord Golden Body barrier and let Mysterious Yin Jian Chen continue like this, it would be no different from suicide by a blunt blade.

But if he opened the Bright Lord Golden Body barrier, Sword Prison in the distance would surely launch a thunderous strike.

With two top experts joining forces, how could Fazhi possibly survive?

In truth, Fazhi, as Old Fahai's successor, had long regarded life and death with indifference.

What he truly cared about was sending this divine stone back to Lei Fengta and activating the barrier, ensuring no expert below the Shattered Realm could obtain the divine stone.

But given the current situation, escaping was already impossible for him!

"Teacher, if you were here, how would you handle this?"

Fazhi could not help but murmur silently in his heart.

Granted, Old Fahai's strength was above Fazhi's, but more importantly, Old Fahai was worldly-wise and seasoned, always resourceful when matters arose.

Otherwise, he could never have been entangled with the immortal god for so many years.

The moment he thought of Old Fahai, a sudden stirring rose in Fazhi's heart.

"That's right! Why did Seeing Di Shitian leave behind that one remark before parting!"

A thought suddenly struck him, and he glanced at the divine stone alms-bowl in his hand, an expression of utter astonishment spreading across his face.

Could it be that Ximen Wudi had actually foreseen this very step?

Then he raised his head and said to Mysterious Yin Jian Chen and Sword Prison,

"The two of you — are you not afraid I will activate the divine stone and crush you both to death?"

"Oh? You bald-headed fool, so obstinate and stubborn. The divine stone has already reached its critical point now — do you dare to activate it?"

Mysterious Yin Jian Chen had also spent some time together with Old Fahai and Fazhi, master and disciple.

He knew these two hailed from Fomen, opening their mouths with 'Amitabha' and closing them with 'Merciful Buddha.'

Yet in their hearts, they placed the welfare of all living beings under heaven first.

Beneath Lei Fengta, without the divine stone's suppression, a cataclysmic flood would erupt in an instant, drowning every region across the Nine Provinces.

Experts could naturally survive, but the hundreds of millions of common folk would suffer calamity.

Given Fazhi's character, he would absolutely never allow the world to be plunged into disaster.

"Amitabha, Benefactor. Since you insist on pressing us so relentlessly, this old monk can only apologize for the offense."

So saying, Fazhi slapped one hand onto the divine stone alms-bowl, then seized his kasaya and hurled it forth.

The kasaya swelled against the wind, and in the blink of an eye it blotted out the sky and sun, sweeping toward Mysterious Yin Jian Chen to wrap him up.

Mysterious Yin Jian Chen was both shocked and furious, and immediately exerted every ounce of his ability, striving to resist the kasaya.

Only this move was not merely Fazhi borrowing the power of the divine stone alms-bowl.

More crucially, this move was in truth a technique developed by Jin Shan Temple specifically to coordinate with the divine stone alms-bowl.

This technique could be said to utilize the divine stone alms-bowl's power to a hundred percent.

In other words, this move had actually amplified the power a hundredfold.

Fazhi was no weakling to begin with, and now he was wielding a power amplified a hundredfold.

Although there was still some gap from the Shattered Realm, he had already touched the very edge of half-step Shattered.

Such power — to say nothing of Mysterious Yin Jian Chen possessing only the first six swords of the Mysterious Yin, even if all twelve swords were at his command, he might not necessarily be able to withstand it.

After all, the Mysterious Yin Twelve Swords were fearsome in their own power, but to reach their maximum might they still had to be combined with the strength of the host wielding them.

This was also the reason why Hayato Tianyin's latter six swords far surpassed Mysterious Yin Jian Chen's first six swords in might.

Jian Chen's strength was far too weak!