Chapter 307: Unity Stage Dao Sovereign
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Translated by Frog in the Well
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Clang! Clang! Clang!
The instant a lightning sword larger than an ordinary building drove down right into the center of the station.
“Jin So-myeong! Jin So-myeong has appeared!”
Someone’s urgent cry resounded, and the battlefield, which had been engulfed in chaos, began to be sorted out at rapid speed.
“Deploy the array!”
The Void Refinement stage Asuras, who opened their eyes wide at the sudden turn of events, surrounded him on three sides, and the large army that lay scattered here and there caught in the shockwave formed arrays.
“Kill him!”
Since enemy met enemy, conversation was unnecessary.
The Void Refinement stage Asuras, who glared with eyes full of killing intent, burst their hearts all at once and rushed forward, kicking the ground.
At the sight of them trying to land a blow by any means, exposing their vital points openly as if throwing away their lives…
He unleashed the Annihilation Slash.
The gap existing between time and time.
As he split and entered the interval, all creation lost its color.
Even the Void Refinement stage cultivators swinging their fists prepared for death, and the spells bombardment poured out by the large army.
Everything stopped.
Staring at the color-lost pupils glaring as if to kill in the bizarre silence, he took a step forward.
And he swung his sword.
Exactly three times. The blade drawn horizontally severed skin and cut through bone.
In that manner, simultaneously with the end of the Annihilation Slash state, three heads dropped with a thud.
“…Huh?”
The expressions of the Asura army, which had been pouring onslaughts from all directions, changed completely.
“The Heavenly Lords have already been taken down?”
“That cannot be! What nonsense…”
As if throwing cold water on flames that had just begun to blaze, the boiling morale vanished as if washed clean.
In the blink of an eye, three Void Refinement stage Heavenly Lords had their necks severed without even being able to offer resistance.
The late Void Refinement stage cultivators, who were strong experts ranking among the top even across the human and Asura races, had failed to bear even a single sword strike.
This, this…
Fear had before long settled into the gazes that had been full of astonishment, shock, and dismay.
Was it because the shock exceeded limits?
Even the bellicose Asuras lost their fighting spirit.
For no one wished to fight against a natural disaster.
“E-Escape!”
Looking blankly at their leaders who had died futilely, the Asuras turned their backs one by one.
They fled after realizing that no matter what they did or what means they employed, it was meaningless.
“Grr…! Cowardly bastards!”
“You shame to the Asura race!”
Of course, there were unique ones everywhere.
A few who still held their ground even after sufficient time to flee had passed gritted their teeth and continued to pour out spells.
Whether they had squeezed out courage or lost their reason, he did not know, but… to an enemy harboring hostility, the only thing to return was the sword.
Clang!
The instant a silver sword light resembling starlight made a metallic sound, there was nothing moving any longer.
Jin So-myeong, looking at the ruins dyed in silence, remained quiet for a moment and then opened his sub-space.
Thud, thump, thump, thump!
Lightning swords popping out from the empty sky flew drawing parabolas and drove down here and there in the station.
He unleashed the Limitless Sword Heaven with a total of seventeen lightning swords.
With his current ability, this was his best. If the number of lightning swords increased further here, he could not control it.
Next, as he poured out the leftover mid-grade immortal stones to breathe energy into the sword array, the lightning swords covering the station began to vibrate with humming sounds.
Clang, clang!
Beginning with the initial seventeen sword Qi cutting the empty sky, the entire heaven was filled with silver.
He regulated his breathing while looking at the sword Qi that divided in an instant and grew to an astronomical number.
He had devastated one station, but this was only the beginning.
If it was true that the Asura Unity stage Dao Sovereigns were targeting him, there was no way they would miss such a golden opportunity.
‘Let us concentrate.’
Standing in the midst of the raging sword Qi storm, he unleashed the Lightning Insight Spell-Breaking Eye.
He guarded his surroundings, piercing through a far distance that could not even be reached by his Divine Sense.
How time passed?
‘They are later than expected…’
Are they even coming? According to calculations, it was normal for them to have arrived long ago, but the surroundings were still quiet.
Just as he maintained tension, sharpening his senses that were about to dull in spite of himself, a chilling coldness surged up along his spine.
It was a simple intuition, but he did not dismiss it lightly.
He immediately unleashed the Lightning Insight Spell-Breaking Eye to its limit and swept in all directions rapidly.
However…
There was no one. The instant his eyes narrowed after failing to discover anything strange no matter how much he examined, “···!”
He raised his head reflexively at the pressure that withered his mind and body, and beyond a vast distance, his eyes met with an Asura man who appeared through the Nine Heavens Wild Wind.
To stroll freely within the Nine Heavens Wild Wind, which made one unable to control their dharma power merely by touching it.
There was no time to even be surprised.
Even before he could properly perceive the man’s appearance, an exceptionally distinct palm pointed in this direction.
An instant.
The shockwave heated bright red due to friction, an energy in the shape of a palm, instantly expanded hundreds of times and flew in, crushing the atmosphere.
Clang, clang, clang, clang!
The palm-shaped energy drawing closer moment-by-moment collided with the sword Qi storm of the Limitless Sword Heaven.
Would the newly devised sword array indeed work against an Unity stage Dao Sovereign?
He focused and examined with a heart mixed with tension and expectation, but… regrettably, there was no great effect.
The blow unleashed by the Unity stage Dao Sovereign was so domineering that the sword Qi storm flying in like a swarm of bees was simply bounced away futilely.
He had believed that the Limitless Sword Heaven was an array possessing Integration-grade power. Was it an illusion?
His disappointment was brief.
The palm-shaped energy that drew closer while crushing all resistance became slightly dim.
Because sword Qi numerous enough to dye the entire heaven in silver shaved and shaved it, even the blow unleashed by the Unity stage Dao Sovereign lost its momentum.
Boom!
The palm shape drawing closer moment-by-moment eventually scattered to pieces along with the sound of a bomb exploding.
‘It works.’
The Limitless Sword Heaven was indeed a sword array possessing Integration-grade power.
The instant his eyes shone, feeling the worth of having spent time and care to devise the sword array, crackle.
Along with an ominous sound, fine cracks appeared on the lightning swords constituting the sword array.
It meant it was still slightly lacking, but this much was fine. For if there was a problem, he only needed to resolve it.
In the first place, this actual combat was also intended to clash with an Unity stage Dao Sovereign directly and grasp the improvements.
‘It cannot even endure the aftermath of the collision. Do I need to raise the durability of the lightning swords?’
Putting aside the thoughts flashing through his mind, he concentrated.
He poured the Supreme Great Ability into the lightning swords covered in fine cracks. Just as he unleashed the Myriad Flows Restoration divine ability to revive the half-destroyed sword array, the Secret Realm of the Mind, the divine ability engraved in his soul, responded.
‘Hmm…?’
He could vaguely feel it.
That the Secret Realm of the Mind possessed potential not yet bloomed, and that it would be of immense help when unleashing the Limitless Sword Heaven.
It was an achievement he had not even expected and was unanticipated, but there was no time to examine it properly.
“You… have already surpassed the level of the Void Refinement stage.”
A voice heard clearly even within the battlefield filled with explosions.
He turned his gaze toward the bleak tone in which no emotion could be felt, and only then could he check the opponent’s appearance.
He was a man who had a giant hole pierced in the part where a heart should reside, and the dark blue smoke swirling in the hole seemed to substitute for a heart.
‘He is the Myeolsim Dao Sovereign.’
He was one of the four Asura Unity stage Dao Sovereigns, but what cultivation method he used as his primary was unknown.
The very moment his eyes narrowed to measure the opponent, a strange light flickered in the Myeolsim Dao Sovereign’s glass-like pupils, and his head grew dazed.
Just as he was startled at the bizarre phenomenon where all thoughts were forcibly removed, ‘Ugh!’
A pain as if gouging his brain with fingernails followed, forcing him to lose balance and stagger.
‘A Divine Sense attack.’
He instinctively felt within the intense pain that if he had not possessed Integration-grade Divine Sense, he would have been defeated futilely at this very moment.
However, to put it conversely, it meant he could endure it thanks to possessing Integration-grade Divine Sense.
He forcibly seized the energy that had invaded at some point to destroy his soul and swallowed it with the Chaos Origin Wheel.
‘Sigh.’
The Chaos Origin Wheel that swallowed the Integration-grade energy vibrated violently, but at any rate, he caught his breath thanks to it.
The instant he felt relieved as the pain gouging his brain vanished, rumble!
He realized that an energy in the shape of a fist was flying toward his solar plexus.
It was an attack targeting the gap when his Divine Sense was shaken, but thanks to the Limitless Sword Heaven, he could buy time to respond.
If the sword Qi storm filling the sky had not slowed its offensive, his heart would have been pierced before he could even gather his mind.
The very moment he grasped the situation while looking at the fist-shaped energy flying toward his vital point, boom!
Out of nowhere, a rock at his feet exploded and rushed forward as sharp stone fragments.
They were stone fragments that looked insignificant at a glance, but he must absolutely not let his guard down.
‘Unity stage authority.’
It was not only the stone fragments that caused the strange phenomenon. From the scattering dust to the sunlight shining through the clouds, everything lunged forward as lethal deaths.
The realm where will soon becomes the Law …when the Unity stage Dao Sovereign harbored killing intent, heaven, earth, and nature responded to kill him.
It was a moment to flee immediately, but… he did not flee.
Because he instinctively felt that this was precisely the opportunity to unleash a counterattack.
Ignoring the death tightening from all directions, he swung his sword.
The Burning Moon Slash.
The energy of the Moon-Deducing Dao Scripture stored in Mugeuk. Unleashing an abbreviated Moon-Deducing Dao Scripture, he threw a slash.
Did the counterattack thrown as if struggling look insignificant?
There was no change in the Myeolsim Dao Sovereign’s expression.
Revealing no emotion, he calmly swung his fist, and the bright red fist-shaped energy sought to bounce off the Burning Moon Slash.
Watching that calm response, ‘Now.’
He unleashed the second divine ability of the Lightning Insight Spell-Breaking Eye.
Law-Breaking.
The instant the lightning flickering deep within his pupils illuminated the world, from the stone fragments pouring like grapeshot to the fist shape traversing the empty sky, all Laws threatening his life lost their strength and collapsed.
“…”
Simultaneously with the startled Myeolsim Dao Sovereign furrowing his brow, his left vision was dyed in darkness. He went blind in one eye as the price of unleashing Law-Breaking.
And, clang…!
The Burning Moon Slash, which flew without any hindrance, hit the back of the Myeolsim Dao Sovereign’s hand, splitting the skin and causing blood to ooze out.
‘…To think that would not be severed.’
Blood drops dripped, but that was all.
The Myeolsim Dao Sovereign, looking at the wound on the back of his hand, frowned, but regrettably, there seemed to be no great blow.
To stop at merely piercing the skin when it was a fateful blow for which he had even accepted internal injuries, he vaguely felt that the chances of victory were slim.
Should one say it was fitting for an existence that had risen to the Unity stage through body tempering? His body’s durability was absurd.
‘It will not be easy…’
If this was the case even when he fought in a favorable environment after laying out arrays in advance, the difference in weight class had to be viewed as overwhelming.
He could hold on somehow, but that was the end.
If it went to a long-drawn battle, it was a certain defeat. Going to a short battle did not mean it was advantageous either.
The sword Qi of the Limitless Sword Heaven, which raged like a storm, poured toward the Myeolsim Dao Sovereign, but collapsed without approaching beyond a certain distance.
“…”
While the Myeolsim Dao Sovereign stared blankly at the back of his hand, he pondered within a brief instant of leisure.
In truth, the reason he came here today was to lightly experience how strong an Unity stage expert was.
He had intended to withdraw after fighting moderately, but… now that the enemy was in front of him, his feet would not move.
He had clearly realized that there was almost no chance of winning, but even so, he wanted to have a proper bout.
Just as he gritted his teeth tightly, he saw the Myeolsim Dao Sovereign raising his fist silently, and the worry cluttering his head vanished.
‘Yes, very well.’
Being at a disadvantage did not matter. What was lacking could be filled while fighting.
Just as he resolved to have a proper bout, shhhhh…
Suddenly, the entire world was covered in pure white frost.
The instant he stepped back startled by the chilling cold that dulled the sensation in his fingertips, the Myeolsim Dao Sovereign also stepped back, narrowing his eyes.
Crunch, crunch.
A sound as if stepping on a snow-covered field resounded, and an elegant woman in a white palace robe appeared.
In a world covered completely in pure white, her red lips alone drew an arc.
At the gaze of the woman looking with a gentle smile, he realized.
Fairy Yeongwol.
One of the three pillars supporting the human race. The Unity stage Dao Sovereign had descended.