Chapter 42: Divine Dragon? Evil Dragon

In the boundless sea, waves shook the heavens, and a streak of red sword light traced across the Tianqiong.

"This kind of sword light..."

Sword Saint and Nameless stared at the divine radiance enveloping them; both were myths of the Sword Dao, their perception of swords was exceptionally keen, the radiance shrouding them was terrifying to the extreme, the sword intent was restrained, but once it erupted, it would likely possess the power to destroy heaven and earth.

Nameless and Sword Saint exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes.

"I fear the martial arts of the Lord of the Tianxia Alliance have advanced again; I do not know what cultivation realm he has reached."

"At this speed, it is no wonder Jiang Xuan is bringing them along in flight."

"This terrifying speed was like flowing radiance; within the shroud of the divine radiance, the two felt nothing of the ferocity of the external gang winds."

Jiang Xuan learned the location of Dragon Island from the Bodhisattva of Mud; once the news of dragon slaying spread throughout the Tianxia, he found Nameless and Sword Saint, and immediately his aura rushed straight to the clouds, transforming into a streak of divine radiance as he flew into the sky.

Arrogant beyond measure, not concealing it at all.

Suddenly, a green point of light appeared within their field of vision; at this terrifying speed, looking down further, this green dot turned out to be a remote island.

"Dragon Island..."

"That island is where the Divine Dragon resides; the Divine Dragon sleeps in the Huo Hu, and besides the Divine Dragon, there is also Shui Shen Lao Zu in Dragon Island, an existence of the Myth Realm."

Jiang Xuan slowly spoke to remind the two.

The sword light landed, and immediately an old man in strange attire appeared, wearing a hemp cloth on his head, with colored paint on his face; the old man stepped forward, his expression unfriendly:

"This place is the ancestral home of my Divine Dragon clan; outsiders are not welcome here, please leave quickly, all three of you."

Nameless hesitated, wanting to speak and explain, but did not know where to begin.

Sword Saint's eyes were filled with battle intent, eager to try, wishing to test the martial arts of this Shui Shen Lao Zu; this Shui Shen Lao Zu appeared only slightly older than Nameless, much younger than him, and was also an existence of the Myth Realm; previously, he had truly underestimated the heroes of the Tianxia.

Jiang Xuan's eyes flowed, looking through layer upon layer of village houses toward a pool of Huo Hu.

The piercing mysterious qi surged, stirring the four directions of the world, the soaring aura trembling space.

"Roar!"

A vast and tyrannical dragon's roar shook Tian Di, carrying endless anger, as if it wanted to burn to ashes the insects that disturbed its slumber.

"Ah, the Divine Dragon is enraged, you people who blaspheme the Divine Dragon..."

Shui Shen Lao Zu was terrified; the Divine Dragon they had guarded for generations was enraged, and they, these guardians, had failed in their duties, truly deserving of death ten thousand times over.

Jiang Xuan's expression remained unchanged, calmly looking at the Divine Dragon about to rise into the air.

In the High Sky, a dragon tail tens of zhang long, thick enough for ten men to embrace, suddenly smashed down toward the village houses below, wantonly playing with these weak insects; watching the insects struggle in pain under its divine might was one of its few pleasures after each awakening.

It prepared to first properly appreciate the sight of these weak insects fleeing madly but ultimately dying almost completely; this was a very tasty appetizer.

Then it would properly torture and kill those few slightly larger insects in front.

Jiang Xuan flicked his finger, a streak of red sword light appeared, like the first light of Pangu's Axe opening heaven and earth.

The moment the sword light appeared, space and world shattered bit by bit; in an instant, the sword light that slaughtered all things pointed directly at the evil dragon.

Immortal Trapping Sword Qi, one-fourth of the Zhu Xian Sword Array, energy of the Slaughter Sword.

As soon as the Immortal Trapping Sword Qi emerged, the Divine Dragon's giant tail, originally about to fall upon the village houses, suddenly trembled, and it fell in disarray into the Huo Hu; a terrifying hole appeared on its dragon body, retaining Immortal Trapping Sword Intent, with blood gushing out.

"This... why does the Divine Dragon want to destroy us?"

At this moment, Shui Shen Lao Zu seemed to have lost his faith; he did not understand that his clan had guarded the Divine Dragon for generations, yet the Divine Dragon, which they protected with their lives, now wanted to destroy its own subjects.

Shui Shen Lao Zu was dispirited, as if he had lost all strength in his body.

"The so-called Divine Dragon is nothing more than an evil beast favored by Tian Di, lacking wisdom."

A calm voice sounded; Jiang Xuan's eyes were calm and waveless; this evil dragon had talent, but because it lacked wisdom, it could not develop the Shen Zang within its body.

After all, he was a strong expert of the Myth Realm; hearing this, Shui Shen Lao Zu quickly adjusted his mindset, cupped his hands toward Jiang Xuan, and quickly flew toward the village to evacuate the clansmen.

"Roar!"

Accompanied by the terrifying sound of an explosion, an angry dragon's roar came from the Huo Hu, trembling space.

This sound was like an ox, like a lion, like a tiger, leopard, wolf, or jackal, but extremely difficult to describe, more desolate and terrifying than the roar of any creature.

Boom rumble rumble!

The Divine Dragon rose from the Huo Hu; a head the size of a house, ferocious, thrust straight into the Tianqiong; eyes the size of washbasins flickered with bloodthirsty ferocity, emitting an unparalleled demonic might that subdued all spirits and dominated Tianxia.

"Is that all?"

Accompanied by a light laugh that seemed contemptuous, beneath Jiang Xuan's martial and upright body, divine power surged; with fingers joined like a sword, his entire body emitted a demonic power that destroyed all things.

Immortal Trapping Sword Qi covered the sky and earth, like a true sword that slashed immortals and extinguished gods, slashing toward the Divine Dragon.

With a raise of his hand, Jiang Xuan's figure was heroic and spirited; the surrounding air, gang winds, plants, bamboo, stones, lakes, seas, and even cloud layers and thunder all condensed into a sword qi of the Slaughter Dao that annihilated all things; as Jiang Xuan pointed, it surged mightily toward the Divine Dragon and slashed down.

Immortal Trapping Sword Qi pervaded space; the aura that suppressed the four directions surpassed the Divine Dragon's furious ferocity, completely collapsing the evil beast's intent to destroy all things.

The cloud layers scattered, the lake water dried up, all things around turned to dust, and the entire Dragon Island became a world of swords.

Under countless swords of slaughter, the Divine Dragon roared and howled; its terrifying eyes emitted peerless ferocity, dragon might shook the four directions, and rolling sound waves thundered like exploding thunder.

The dragon tail swept!

As the dragon body, like a small mountain range, twisted, a claw came slapping down, meeting the sword light of slaughter that came rushing at them; space exploded, emitting a sound of metal and iron clashing.

Boom!

A mountain of a hundred meters suddenly exploded, unable to withstand the aftermath of the clash between one man and one beast; countless rubble and stones pierced the sky.

"Ferocious flames soar to the sky, utterly lacking wisdom; such an evil beast is actually the leader of the Four Great Auspicious Beasts, truly laughable, but perhaps, as Jiang Xuan said, its dragon core can grant longevity."

Nameless sighed softly; the people of Shen Zhou often called themselves descendants of the Divine Dragon, but the dragon before them was clearly an evil beast without any spiritual intelligence.

He and Sword Saint did not act; Jiang Xuan's martial cultivation realm was incomparably high, already beyond the range they could understand, and they did not need to assist him.

【57, "More importantly, they had other arrangements."

More importantly, they had other arrangements.

The Divine Dragon roared; in one collision, its dragon body broke through space, and a distance of several thousand zhang arrived in an instant; scales the size of a dou emitted a cold, ferocious metallic radiance.

A thick claw came down again; gang winds, electric light, thunder and fire accompanied it; a dragon claw the size of a house was cold and piercing to the bone, tearing space.

"Now this looks like a dragon, not bad, not bad."

Chi!

A single sword cry pierced the Heavenly Vault, resounding through Heaven and Earth.

Standing with hands behind his back amid the endless gale-wind-thunder-fire, Jiang Xuan directed the sword with two fingers; a Single Thread of heaven-piercing Sword Intent suddenly shot out from his fingertips.

Chi chi!

Sword Qi crisscrossed, Divine Light blazed, instantly spreading across the entire Heavenly Vault, filling all of Dragon Island, like the Milky Way flowing backward — reaching up to the Heavenly Vault, down to the Nine Netherworlds, leaving nowhere unreached, nowhere unattained.

In all eight directions, within every inch of Heaven and Earth's Void, there gathered a scroll painting that annihilates all things, that slaughters all under Heaven.

That scroll painting brimmed with crimson radiance; all Laws, all Qi, all wills, every energy in the World returned to ruin beneath the scarlet red light.

It seemed to be expanding at a speed beyond the limits of perception, as if to freeze a world within the scroll painting, yet also seemed not to have moved a single fraction.

"This Sword Intent, this Sword Radiance..."

The Sword Saint's Mu Guang boiled, blazing, as if on pilgrimage beholding the god of the Sword Dao.

With this one sword alone, there is no sword under Heaven.

At this moment, it seemed even the sea waves fell silent.

All Heaven and Earth sank into a dead silence; insects, fish, birds, beasts, wind, clouds, thunder, lightning — everything tangible and intangible, at this moment, were like lambs stretching their necks for slaughter.

The Immortal Slaying Four Directions rose with red light!

"Ang!"

A hiss-roar filled with heaven-shaking fear rang out; whoever heard it could perceive the shock, the bleakness, and the wailing within that roar.

A vast, boundless crimson Sword Radiance dyed Heaven and Earth blood-red, instantly flying to the Divine Dragon's head top, descending from above — straight like a planet smashing down from the Heavenly Vault, shattering endless Void.

"Ao hou!"

Beneath this sword, the Divine Dragon desperately thrashed its dragon body in despair, bleak roars unceasing.

Before the Sword Radiance arrived, the Heaven-and-Earth Divine Beast's innate biological instinct frantically warned; its body, its Soul, its Life Essence Qi, its everything — under this Sword Radiance that grinds all to dust — would be pulverized, thoroughly and completely, without a single shred of survival possibility.

This insect is too terrifying; in its long Years it has never seen such a powerful insect; in the past Years, insects this large were often its food.

Sword arrives, dragon falls.

A basketball-sized Dragon Core emerged from the Long Corpse's mouth, shaped like a golden sun, emitting endless Life Essence Qi.

Yet at this moment.

Shua! Shua!

Two human figures instantly flew out from the Void, tearing Space, heading straight into the Dragon Core.

(Chapter End)