dognovel Chapter 1626
Chapter 1626
In contrast, the Gu Shen Sect Master was quite confident and disdainful in the face of the invasion, but when the black-clad youth named Bei Ming unleashed a single sword strike, it seemed as if only that dazzling sword light that traversed the Milky Way remained in the world, followed by the blooming of a thousand lotuses.
The light barrier, which was as thick as the sky, was interwoven with the five immortal-level formations. However, it shattered inch by inch the moment the sword light swept across it. The figures of three or four hundred Void Realm cultivators, along with the magic weapons and Gu worms they had summoned, were all turned into dust in the enveloping and strangling effect of the sword light lotus.
Immediately following, the lotus flowers of the Water and Fire Avenue bloomed and extended once more. The crimson lotus petals, like molten lava, were wrapped in a dark blue light like ice, swaying and rotating in the starry sky. Each unfolding brought with it a sharp sound that tore through the void, and each strangulation burst forth with black smoke burning with sin. Those who were killed were all top-level combatants of the Gu God Sect in the Void Realm.
Lotus Sword Realm is one of Chen Xuan's few large-scale sword techniques. Once unleashed, it is breathtakingly beautiful, like a painting splashed by the gods. However, in the eyes of the remaining disciples of the Gu God Sect at the Nascent Soul, Myriad Manifestations, and Foundation Establishment stages, it becomes a nightmare that he can never shake off for the rest of his life.
"Run! Run! The elders... the elders have all been cleaved into ashes by a single sword strike! What can we use to defend ourselves?" A disciple at the Myriad Manifestations Realm collapsed to the ground, his fingers digging into the obsidian tiles beneath his feet, his nails cracking and bleeding, his voice trembling like a candle flickering in the wind.
"The sect's protective formation! It's the sect's protective formation that has sealed off the space! We can't escape!" Someone frantically pounded on the invisible array light barrier in front of him, oblivious to the fact that his finger bones were shattered, and blood vessels filled the whites of his eyes.
"Sect Master! Open the formation! Please, Sect Master, open the formation and let us go!" The roars were filled with sobs. The panic of the millions of Gu God Sect disciples at all levels converged into a torrent of despair, causing the entire floating mountain gate to tremble slightly.
As the last water-fire lotus crushed the ninety-nine primordial Gu worms that charged forward into a bloody mist, the white-robed sect leader felt a surge of bloody sweetness in his throat. Unable to suppress it any longer, he spat out a mouthful of crimson blood onto the jade tablet in front of him.
The blood droplets rolled onto the jade pendant, sizzling and producing white smoke, before shattering instantly.
These primordial Gu worms were the foundation of the Gu God Sect, the "seeds" cultivated by successive sect leaders over millions of years, and now they have all perished beneath the lotus.
He understood with utter despair that even if Bei Ming didn't exterminate him completely, his sect, which had been passed down for thousands of years, would be nothing but an empty shell.
"Who exactly are you?" The sect leader stared intently at Chen Xuan, veins bulging on his pale face. "My Gu God Sect has no grudge against you, so why do you insist on severing my lineage and destroying my entire sect!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan sneered, his voice clear and cold like ice water striking stone: "When the Gu God Sect took root in this world and used billions of mortal beings as vessels for Gu worms, did you ever think about the word 'grudge'? Your entire sect, from beginning to end, is nothing more than Gu worms raised by others."
These words struck the hearts of everyone in the Gu God Sect like a thunderbolt. The sect leader was stunned, his pupils contracted sharply, and even the disciples below who were crying and fleeing froze, looking up at Chen Xuan in confusion, as if seeing the truth of this sect for the first time.
Chen Xuan flipped his hand over, and a ruler with a faint golden light appeared in his palm. The ruler was engraved with mysterious runes, and a faint aura of merit flowed around it. "This is the embryo of a Great Dao merit artifact," he said in a calm voice as if he were talking about an ordinary object, "I obtained it on my way here by killing a third-level Celestial Immortal."
As soon as he finished speaking, a collective gasp of astonishment filled the entire Gu Shen Sect.
Slaying a third-class Celestial Immortal while in the Nascent Soul Realm? And you say it so casually?
“That celestial being probably didn’t take me, a mere ‘Nascent Soul Realm ant,’ seriously,” Chen Xuan said, rubbing his fingertips against the ruler’s body, his eyes slightly cold. “She said that after killing me, she would come to collect the merits accumulated in this nebula so that this artifact embryo could advance.”