Chapter 186: First Duel with Sword Pavilion

Above the Star Constellation Sea, sword qi soared into the sky, clearing the cosmic dome. It resulted in a cloudless sky for a thousand li, blending the sea and sky into one color, completely natural—truly a magnificent and beautiful scene.

“Pity, someone is spoiling the scenery…”

Lu Yang sighed, then looked at the young man with sword eyebrows eyeing him covetously directly in front: “Fellow Daoist has chased me all the way. Wonder what your name and surname are.”

“Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion , [Tian Xing]!”

Ye Xingfeng made no concealment. Rather, Sword Cultivators of the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion never deigned to conceal their origins, taking even more pride in their identity.

After all, even against the Primordial Saint Sect, the Sword Pavilion could stand as an equal.

Throughout history, in the Righteous-Demonic Great Wars, the Dao Court and Pure Land were slackers just getting by. Only the Sword Pavilion pressed forward with indomitable will, charging at the very front to fight life and death against the Saint Sect.

The blood feud between the two sides was self-evident.

Therefore, seeing this, Lu Yang could only sigh: “This humble one has been at Foundation Establishment for less than a hundred years and hasn’t killed anyone from the Sword Pavilion yet. I have no grudge or enmity with Fellow Daoist, right?”

Ye Xingfeng shook his head upon hearing this: “No grudge or enmity, but there is karma. You obtained the inheritance of the Shaman-Ghost Dao and joined the Jiangbei Demon Sect to commit evil. This is the evil cause. Today I come to kill you; this is the evil result. This is also because you brought it upon yourself and didn’t accumulate blessings and virtues; thus, you should undergo this tribulation this time.”

“…Worthy of the Sword Pavilion.”

Lu Yang recalled Yun Miaozhen whom he had met before, and didn’t find it surprising. After all, if they were that crazy at Qi Refining , it was honestly normal for Perfected Ones to be a bit more outrageous.

“Shameless to the extreme…!”

Behind Lu Yang, Patriarch Nether Whisper was equally trembling with anger, recalling the words spoken by that Golden Core Perfected Lord when he slaughtered the Shaman-Ghost Dao with one sword a thousand years ago.

[You come from the Demon Dao, yet forcibly seek Wall-Top Earth. This is the evil cause. Today I kill you to eliminate demons and defend the Dao; this is the Righteous Result. Considering your cultivation is not easy, having obtained the Righteous Result this time, you have formed a karmic affinity with my Sword Pavilion. In the future, when you reincarnate and become human again, I will come to guide you into the Sword Pavilion to cultivate.]

The meaning of this sentence was simple:

Although I killed your whole family, I did it for your own good. Although your whole family died, you also obtained an opportunity. You can join my Sword Pavilion after reincarnating.

Is this human speech?

Thinking about reincarnating in the future, unable to break the Mystery of the Womb, and ending up joining the Sword Pavilion in a muddle-headed state, treating the enemy who slaughtered his sect as family and friends…

Patriarch Nether Whisper hated to the point of madness!

If not for this, how could he only reincarnate within the secret realm, forcibly dragging out an ignoble existence? He would rather his soul scatter than become a disciple of the Sword Pavilion!

Murderous intent filled Patriarch Nether Whisper’s heart, but in the end, he calmed down, turning to look at Lu Yang: “This person cultivates the Great Unity Heavenly Force Sword Aura and built the [Great Unity True Gold Dao Foundation]. He should have refined an Innate Divine Ability long ago. His cultivation base is a notch higher than yours.”

“Moreover, Sword Cultivators are inherently good at combat… temporarily avoid clashing head-on.”

Patriarch Nether Whisper’s tone was very calm. Lu Yang was now the only hope of the Shaman-Ghost Dao. Compared to him, his own hatred was simply not worth mentioning.

However, in the next second—

” you are joking. I avoid clashing head on?” Lu Yang held the [Avici Sword] firmly, sneering— “Today, at this moment, the one who should avoid clashing head on should be him!”

Whoosh—!

Before his voice fell, the [Avici Sword] in Lu Yang’s hand was already raised. Crimson sword light slashed straight towards Ye Xingfeng. Having accumulated power for a long time, one sword strike separated the four seas!

“Excellent!”

Ye Xingfeng wasn’t alarmed but delighted seeing this. He immediately summoned a sword pellet that swirled with spiritual energy. With a spin, it split into over a hundred sharp sword qi.

These sword qi spread out like a peacock displaying its tail, or mercury pouring onto the ground, covering directly over the crimson sword light of the [Avici Sword].

The trajectory of every sword qi was like an antelope hanging its horns—leaving no trace, yet peak in ingenuity, hitting exactly the weak points of the Avici sword light.

Crack!

Before long, the crimson sword light Lu Yang slashed out with accumulated power was twisted to pieces by the sky-filling sword qi. Then, the sword qi gathered, re-manifesting the appearance of the Sword Pellet.

This object was Ye Xingfeng’s Life-Bound Flying Sword.

Looking at the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion, most direct blood relatives of Perfected Lords like him would use countless precious materials to refine a Life-Bound Flying Sword starting from Qi Refining.

For this, the Sword Pavilion even specially created a secret technique— merging the Life-Bound Flying Sword into the Dao Foundation during Foundation Establishment. Not only could it increase the chance of Foundation Establishment by ten percent, but after Foundation Establishment, it could even be operated as a Divine Ability. The better the quality of the Life-Bound Flying Sword, the stronger the power.

For example, Ye Xingfeng’s [Star River Sword Pellet].

This Sword Pellet used [Heavenly River Star Sand] as material, combining and refining the Five Metals. There was even a Perfected Lord taking action to fetch a stream of [Shang Zhang] Geng Metal Qi to merge into it.

Even among Superior Spirit Treasures, this was top-grade!

It contained a full three divine wonders, respectively [Break Barrier], [Remove Thought], and [Slay God]. Without exception, all were slaughtering divine wonders.

[Break Barrier] could break defensive obstructions. [Remove Thought] could sever spiritual consciousness and souls. [Slay God] could slash and extinguish Divine Ability based on spiritual qi.

With these three abilities combined and driven by sword intent, the result was the ultimate sword sought by countless sword cultivators — a single sword that could break all laws!

Rumble!

In an instant, Ye Xingfeng merged his body with the Sword Pellet, slashing out one sword. Wherever it passed, sword qi resonated like thunder, slashing in front of Lu Yang in a blink!

Unmatched sharp qi made Lu Yang narrow his eyes involuntarily.

On that sword edge, spiritual light flickered slightly. Seemingly just an inconspicuous white dot, but truly seeing it would make one sink in involuntarily.

Sword Intent locked on, unable to escape!

A lion fights a rabbit using full strength, let alone Ye Xingfeng as a Golden Core direct descendant? At this moment, he slashed out one sword, even synchronously using all his Divine Abilities!

Life-Bound Divine Ability [Ten Directions Great Unity Divine Edge]!

Innate Divine Ability [Master of Armaments]!

At this moment, the [Investigating Heaven Instrument] at Lu Yang’s brow operated rapidly. Opening his ture eye, he took all the Divine Abilities Ye Xingfeng displayed into his view in a flash of lightning.

The majestic Sword Intent even made him feel a stinging pain at his brow.

The opponent’s Divine Abilities were completely different from his.

[Ten Directions Great Unity Divine Edge] similarly had four profundities. Each profundity was simple to the extreme— all-round enhancement, strengthening his sword!

As for the Innate Divine Ability [Master of Armaments], it similarly enhanced the power of spiritual treasures. The two combined directly stacked his stats to an outrageous level!

Facts proved that stacking stats was indeed useful.

The reason Wu Cang couldn’t do it was only because he was a noob and his stats weren’t high enough. But Ye Xingfeng’s sword could slash apart any Divine Ability or karma with one strike!

No complex mechanics, just overwhelming stats.

Under the enhancement of such stats, he simply didn’t need superfluous operations. Just draw the sword and slash over, and it would be successful everywhere and invincible!

“So strong, too strong…”

Lu Yang sighed with emotion, then threw out [Embrace and Guard Mountain].

In the next second, sky-filling black light brushed down onto Ye Xingfeng’s unparalleled sword qi, sealing the divine wonder [Slay God] on his Sword Pellet specially used for slashing and extinguishing Divine Abilities.

Although this divine wonder under Ye Xingfeng’s enhancement was already no different from a Divine Ability, able to slash and extinguish even Life-Bound and Innate Divine Abilities with one sword, [Embrace and Guard Mountain] had both illusory and tangible transformations. Falling in illusory form at this moment, sword qi simply couldn’t touch it, and could only let it press on the body.

Boom!

In an instant, Ye Xingfeng’s aura decayed rapidly. The sword light also dimmed a lot. Although still sharp and unmatched, it no longer possessed the ability of “One Sword Breaks all Laws.”

Almost simultaneously, Lu Yang’s fingertip rubbed out another brilliance.

[Determine Intimacy and Distance]!

“See you.”

Before Ye Xingfeng could react, his vision spun abruptly. By the time he managed to stabilize his figure with difficulty, where was Lu Yang’s figure in front of him?

He already ten thousand li apart.

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