Chapter 770
I Can See Through Everything – Chapter 770
Chapter 770: Demonic Might Overwhelming, A Dao-Integration Standoff!
“The Gui Xu Secret Realm is about to close?”
“How is that possible? The Gui Xu Secret Realm’s opening time has always been a hundred years. How long has it even been this time!”
“What on earth changed?”
Outside the Guixu Immortal Palace, when the powerhouses of all factions received the information that suddenly surfaced in their minds, the entire place erupted into turmoil.
Because a situation like this had never happened before.
According to the information left behind by their predecessors, the previous two openings of the Gui Xu Secret Realm both lasted a full hundred years before closing.
Yet this time, it had only been open for a little over twenty years, and it was already going to close.
This abrupt, unexpected change immediately sparked all kinds of speculation among the many powerhouses.
“We just got out, and the secret realm is already closing?”
On the plaza, Yu Jian and Qing Xi both looked uncertain and alarmed.
The two of them had just been eliminated by the trial passage and teleported out from the eighth sword dao checkpoint, and right after that they received the message that the secret realm was about to close.
It was impossible not to read into it.
“So a Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations expert fell in the secret realm, and even Mo Tushan is dead?”
On another side, a middle-aged man in a robe embroidered with a cauldron-and-pill motif felt his mind shake when he heard his disciples’ report.
He hadn’t expected that while he was clearing stages in the alchemy trial passage, something this huge had happened outside.
Not only had a Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations powerhouse been slain, but even the incomparably domineering Mo Tushan—along with all the disciples of the Black-and-White Temple—had been completely wiped out.
“Good thing I kept a low profile and used a secret treasure to conceal my aura. I didn’t offend anyone. Who would’ve thought that among the powerhouses who entered this time, there would be someone this ruthless.”
The middle-aged man in the alchemy robe felt a wave of relief.
This time, he had concealed his identity and slipped into the Gui Xu Secret Realm in hopes of finding a chance to break through.
So he had been using a secret treasure to alter his aura the whole time, only displaying the cultivation of a Seven-Tribulation Nascent Soul, staying out of the spotlight.
Now it seemed that decision had been truly wise.
If he had been like the clan leader of the Great Yuan Immortal Clan—trying to rely on his realm to bully others and seize their treasures—he would likely have met the exact same end.
“It’s just a pity that the Gui Xu Secret Realm’s trials are too difficult. Even with my alchemy attainments, I could only stop at the eighth checkpoint.”
The middle-aged man in the alchemy robe sighed inwardly.
He had hidden his identity to enter this time, thinking he could reach the Immortal Palace, only to fall one step short in the end.
But at least he hadn’t come away empty-handed.
During the process of breaking through the trial passage, he had gained plenty of inspiration.
After returning, if he took time to digest and refine it, it might not be impossible for him to go a step further and reach the realm of Nine-Tribulation Perfection.
“I just don’t know why the Gui Xu Secret Realm is closing early. Could it be related to that mysterious person who killed the Great Yuan Immortal Clan’s clan leader and Mo Tushan?”
No matter how many guesses the powerhouses had, the fact remained: the Gui Xu Secret Realm was about to close.
No one dared to slack off. They all hurried toward the exit.
Otherwise, if they missed the chance to leave, the next time the secret realm opened would be a hundred thousand years later.
“No sign of that person?”
At the exit, Yu Jian searched around, but he still didn’t see Lu Qing.
The other powerhouses did the same, all trying to find Lu Qing among the crowd.
But no matter how they searched, they still couldn’t find him.
“Could it be…”
As the secret realm was about to truly shut, Lu Qing still hadn’t appeared.
Many powerhouses immediately understood—their suspicions were likely going to be confirmed.
This early closing of the Gui Xu Secret Realm had to be connected to that powerful sword cultivator.
It was even highly possible that he had already entered the Guixu Immortal Palace and obtained a supreme fortune no one had ever gained before!
When they thought of that, an overwhelming jealousy rose in their hearts.
That was the Immortal Palace left behind by the Daoist of Transcendence—over hundreds of thousands of years, no one had been able to glimpse its mysteries.
And now someone had taken possession of it. Who knew how many fortunes and treasures he would obtain.
Just imagining it was enough to make them jealous to the point of madness.
But no matter how envious they were, there was nothing they could do.
The secret realm was about to close. If they didn’t leave now, they would never be able to get out again.
With their cultivation realms, without resources to support them, they wouldn’t survive for a hundred thousand years.
So no matter how unwilling they felt, they had to leave first.
“Go, get out quickly. Once we’re back, immediately mobilize all the sect’s力量 and find out that sword cultivator’s background!”
“That’s right. Best if we can bring our patriarchs over to stand guard outside the secret realm. I refuse to believe that sword cultivator will never come out!”
“Even if he got a fortune, he can’t hide inside the Guixu Immortal Palace forever. He has to leave one day. When that day comes, that’s our chance!”
As the secret realm began to slowly close, the assembled powerhouses stopped hesitating. One after another they summoned treasure ships, left the secret realm, and under the protection of their tokens, charged outward.
“Fellow Daoist Yu Jian!”
As the disciples of the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect boarded their treasure ship, two figures suddenly rushed over, faces full of pleading as they looked at Yu Jian.
They were the two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators Yu Jian had saved earlier. Unexpectedly, they had survived safely until now.
All of their fellow sect members at the Nascent Soul Realm had been slaughtered by Mo Tushan, and even their tokens had been stolen.
Without the protection of a token, there was no way they could safely cross the Star River Formation outside.
“Come up.”
Facing their plea, Yu Jian didn’t refuse. He nodded slightly.
“Thank you!”
The two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators were overjoyed and hurriedly, carefully climbed aboard the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect’s treasure ship.
On the other side, the Great Yuan Immortal Clan’s people felt both bitter and relieved.
Bitter because they had entered with blazing ambition, only to gain little fortune and even lose their clan leader’s life here.
Relieved because fortunately, back in the trial passage, since the clan leader wanted to advance alone to clear stages, he had handed the treasure ship and token ahead of time to one of the clan elders.
Otherwise, they might all have been trapped to death inside this secret realm.
And so, the powerhouses of all factions left the Gui Xu Secret Realm with complicated thoughts.
…
While Yu Jian and the others were crossing the Star River Formation.
In the starry void outside the formation, an incomparably vast figure—like a sky-supporting giant—stood suspended in midair.
That giant wore black-and-white dao robes. His long hair flowed like a waterfall from the Nine Heavens, and every strand seemed sharp enough to cut through the starry void.
Even his eyes alone were larger than the star-sailing treasure ships of the various factions.
The aura he released made the entire starry void tremble.
Those other factions who had failed to enter the secret realm and had stayed outside hoping to profit as fishermen—
At this moment, they only dared to shrink into a corner near the giant’s feet, trembling as they looked at the giant in utter terror.
“Why would a Dao-Integration realm grand elder of the Black-and-White Temple appear here?”
“Wasn’t it said that Dao-Integration realm great powers can’t casually leave their respective holy lands?”
“This one is clearly here in anger. What happened inside the Gui Xu Secret Realm!”
“Could it be that he’s going to ignore the rules and seize all the fortunes inside?”
The many powerhouses waiting outside carefully restrained their auras while guessing in their hearts.
This Dao-Integration realm powerhouse of the Black-and-White Temple had appeared not long ago.
The moment he arrived, he stared toward the position of the Gui Xu Secret Realm. Could it be that something had happened inside?
“Look! There’s movement in the Sea of Annihilation! Treasure ships are flying out!”
“How can they be coming out so fast? It’s only been a bit over twenty years!”
“Could this be why that one suddenly appeared?”
Seeing the Sea of Annihilation suddenly ripple—and the many star-sailing treasure ships flying out from within—the outside powerhouses all widened their eyes.
At the same time, the giant in black-and-white dao robes also trembled slightly, triggering a wave of spatial fluctuation in the starry void. More than ten star-sailing treasure ships not far away were all thrown aside, overturned, as his gaze locked onto the fleet of ships flying out.
“What happened up ahead? Who is that giant?!”
The commotion outside the Star River Formation naturally couldn’t be hidden from the powerhouses still crossing the formation.
When they saw the vast giant—and the terrifying might with which he casually flipped multiple treasure ships—everyone was shocked.
Yu Jian’s pupils contracted. “That is… Mo Cangtian of the Black-and-White Temple. Why would he appear here? That’s right—every disciple of the Black-and-White Temple fell in the secret realm. That heretical faction can’t sit still anymore!”
Thinking that, Yu Jian didn’t hesitate at all. He immediately took out the item the Sword Master had given him before their departure and crushed it in one squeeze.
“Senior Brother Yu Jian, what do we do? That looks like Mo Cangtian, the Black-and-White Temple’s grand elder. He’s brutally cruel, and he’s a Dao-Integration realm great power—we can’t deal with him!”
At this moment, Qing Xi’s anxious voice came from a treasure ship nearby.
“Mo Cangtian should be here for Mo Tutian’s death. I’ve already notified the Sword Master—just don’t know if he can make it in time,” Yu Jian said heavily.
“Heavens, that’s Mo Cangtian, the Black-and-White Temple’s grand elder!”
At this time, the other powerhouses also recognized the giant’s identity, and panic spread.
After all, those qualified to enter the Gui Xu Secret Realm were all long-standing, deep-rooted forces.
They still had some understanding of the old Dao-Integration realm monsters famous across the starry void.
But precisely because of that, they were even more frightened.
“Why is Mo Cangtian here? Is he going to tear up the covenant?” a powerhouse couldn’t help shouting.
Mo Cangtian’s notoriety was monstrous. Legend had it that in a single fit of rage, he had blood-sacrificed the lives of an entire small world.
Countless wrongful souls stained his hands—he was a true demonic giant of the dao.
With such a ferocious god waiting outside the Star River Formation, demonic qi surging as he stared at them, how could the assembled powerhouses not be terrified?
Worse still, the Gui Xu Secret Realm was closing right now. Before long, even this Star River Formation would fall silent.
They had no retreat at all. Even if they wanted to avoid him, they couldn’t—they could only grit their teeth and keep sailing outward.
Not long after, the fleet of treasure ships finally slowly exited the Star River Formation.
And at the very instant they left the formation’s range, Mo Cangtian reached out and grabbed.
At once, a demonic palm that blotted out the heavens—vast as a star—appeared in the starry void, clutching toward all the treasure ships.
In an instant, space twisted. More than ten star-sailing treasure ships that had just emerged from the secret realm were pulled uncontrollably toward that sky-covering demonic palm.
“No! Senior, as a Dao-Integration realm great power, are you really going to disregard your status and strike at us juniors!”
“Senior, spare my life! I haven’t offended you in any way—please show mercy!”
“Senior, the deaths of the Black-and-White Temple disciples have nothing to do with us. Please see clearly!”
Watching their treasure ships fly toward Mo Cangtian’s palm, everyone was terrified beyond measure and shouted frantically.
But hearing them, Mo Cangtian’s gaze only grew colder, and the spatial power he drove became even more violent.
Just as those ten-plus treasure ships were about to fall into his grasp—
In the next moment, a sudden upheaval.
A gray figure abruptly appeared between the fleet of treasure ships and Mo Cangtian’s sky-covering palm.
And with that figure’s appearance, the entire world seemed to freeze.
The surging, raging spatial fluctuations quieted, and even that sky-covering palm stopped in place, unable to advance a single inch.
“The Sword Master!”
Seeing that gray figure, Yu Jian finally let out the breath he’d been holding.
He could guess that Mo Cangtian had come for Mo Tushan’s death, and that the deaths of the Black-and-White Temple disciples had nothing to do with them.
But he didn’t dare trust Mo Cangtian’s character, and he didn’t believe the other party would give them that chance.
The Black-and-White Temple had never been on good terms with the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect and the Kongming Sect.
No one could guarantee Mo Cangtian wouldn’t simply crush them to death in one squeeze.
Now that the Sword Master had arrived in time, Yu Jian could finally relax.
“That’s the Sword Master of the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect! We’re saved!”
The other powerhouses also recognized the gray figure’s identity and cheered.
The Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect was domineering, but compared to the Black-and-White Temple, it was absolutely considered an upright and reputable sect.
At the very least, they would never slaughter the innocent indiscriminately.
“Xuantian, you dare stop me?”
Mo Cangtian’s face immediately showed anger when he saw the gray figure block him.
“Mo Cangtian, you’ve crossed the line.”
The Sword Master of the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect clasped his hands behind his back and spoke lightly.
Compared to Mo Cangtian’s enormous body, his figure was as tiny as an ant.
Yet the feeling he gave was not the slightest bit weaker than Mo Cangtian.
Like a stabilizing divine needle, he completely suppressed the space of the entire starry void.
“What do you mean, crossed the line? Dozens of true disciples of my Black-and-White Temple—almost all of them—fell in the Gui Xu Secret Realm. Are you saying this venerable one can’t come and demand an explanation?”
The Sword Master’s gaze shifted.
He had only just arrived and didn’t yet know what had happened. He hadn’t expected that the Black-and-White Temple’s disciples had all fallen in the Gui Xu Secret Realm.
He also didn’t know why Yu Jian and the others had come out so quickly.
Fortunately, at this moment, Yu Jian’s transmitted voice rang out in time: “Sword Master…”
Listening to Yu Jian’s rapid account of what had happened in the secret realm, the Sword Master’s expression remained calm, but waves were already surging in his heart.
He hadn’t expected so many events to unfold in this opening of the Gui Xu Secret Realm.
And Mo Tushan had actually fallen inside the secret realm as well—no wonder this old demon was so enraged.
“In any case, I’m taking these people no matter what. If you dare stop me, then let our two sects go to war!”
Mo Cangtian’s furious voice rang out again.
But the instant his words fell, another voice echoed through the starry void.
“What a big mouth, Mo Cangtian. I’d like to see what ability you have to seize my Kongming Sect disciples right under my nose!”
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