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Chapter 126: Chapter 123 Sky Extreme Sword
"Chi Ying!"
Gu Jinlai barked in a low voice, staring at him, "Are you saying that the Venerable Xuan Tian is holding a Spiritual Artifact in his hands!?"
"Yes, a Spiritual Artifact with strong spirituality, probably a Supreme Grade Spiritual Artifact. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be enough to cause such a stir in the Human Immortal Hall."
As Chi Ying spoke, he seemed to think of something and excitedly said, "Did you sense it?"
"I sensed it, but what I sensed isn’t just a simple Spiritual Artifact."
Gu Jinlai looked towards a location ten miles away, where a terrifying wave of spiritual fluctuations shot straight into the sky, slicing through the void, "I believe... it’s a Dao Artifact!"
"A Dao Artifact!? The information passed to us by the Human Immortal Hall mentioned a Spiritual Artifact..."
Chi Ying’s face changed, and he quickly thought of something, "He deceived us!?"
It’s very likely.
After all, the value of a Dao Artifact is so precious!
It’s enough to drive Devas crazy for such a treasure.
"Are you sure that’s our target?"
"Ten miles away, one glance and you will know."
Gu Jinlai said.
The spiritual fluctuations couldn’t be concealed, indicating that the opponent still couldn’t control this Divine Weapon that might be at the level of a Dao Artifact. How could Gu Jinlai let it slip away?
Chi Ying’s expression changed several times as he seemed to think of something, struggling with the decision.
But in the end, he followed Gu Jinlai.
The two specifically chose a hill, planning to get within a few miles and observe from a distance.
However, before the two could get within three miles of their target, the other party seemed to have a keen sense of something and leapt out from their hiding place, darting away at high speed.
Gu Jinlai looked far into the distance.
That was...
A youth with an extremely young face, yet with already graying temples.
"It’s him!"
Chi Ying suddenly let out a low cry, "Venerable Xuan Tian!"
But in the next second, Chi Ying’s face changed again.
The youth that had darted out wasn’t trying to escape, but...
He was heading straight for Gu Jinlai and Chi Ying.
By his demeanor...
He wanted to silence them!
"What audacity!"
Chi Ying shouted lowly, "Heavenly Monarch Gu, he has yet to refine that Dao... Supreme Spirit Sword, without a flying sword for Divinity Transformation, with the Slaughter Spirit Artifact in your hand, you can definitely..."
He didn’t finish his sentence. The Venerable Xuan Tian, who came charging in, drew his sword.
Spirituality.
A flood of spirituality.
To a Heavenly Master, or even a Great Heavenly Master, unless one purifies and bursts their spirituality to the extreme, or cultivates a specific secret technique, it is difficult to cause substantial damage to ordinary cultivators.
At most, they would experience hallucinatory manifestations.
After all, ordinary people’s spirituality is deeply buried within the soul and not externalized, naturally avoiding harm.
But when spirituality breaks through to the level of the True Spirit, its impact and damage on cultivators will gradually become significant.
If supplemented with secret techniques like the Eternal Divine Light, it can even twist and solidify a person’s thoughts.
For the Yin God, which is somewhat similar to spirituality, it can inflict substantial damage.
However, at present, as the Venerable Xuan Tian unsheathed his sword, the spirituality emanating from that Divine Sword...
Was stronger than that of the True Spirit.
It was as if it had broken through the barriers of the void and reality, creating something out of nothing, forging into sword light that could penetrate thoughts and souls, coming from three miles away in all directions.
In an instant, Chi Ying’s thoughts solidified.
His spirit, his consciousness, seemed to be pierced, sliced, and even ground away by those "real" swords of light...
Threatening to collapse.
A cultivator as powerful as Refining God, when faced with such spirituality condensed into Sword Qi, had no choice but death.
However...
Next to him was Gu Jinlai.
Gu Jinlai, who had manifested his True Spirit.
Even though his True Spirit was rather small compared to a real Heavenly Monarch, as the True Spirit manifested, an overwhelmingly bright Great Sun suddenly emerged above his head, radiating infinite light and heat.
Eternal Divine Light.
The sword energy that bore through the void and threatened to erase the soul melted away rapidly, like snow rushing towards the Fierce Sun under the scorching and radiant light and intense heat of the Great Sun.
But...
There were too many swords of light.
Some of them actually withstood the scorching flames of the bright Great Sun and shot into Gu Jinlai’s illusory formation of the Great Sun manifested by the True Spirit.
For a time, his True Spirit shook violently, on the verge of collapsing.
"Buzz, buzz!"
Spirit Light spread.
Gu Jinlai immediately employed a stream of Spirit Light to repair the tiny being within his consciousness, and simultaneously, with a sudden lift of his right hand, he raised the Short Range Defense Cannon, causing flames to jet out with a thought!
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"
Beams shot out like startling rainbows!
A visibly fiery chain shot towards the Venerable Xuan Tian from two to three miles away, a piercing whistling sound continually ripping through the void.
Facing such a barrage, the sword-wielding Venerable Xuan Tian hesitated for a moment and began to flicker crazily at unbelievable speeds.
Such shifts in his movement technique...
Were breathtaking to watch.
Meanwhile, the sword in his hands, undoubtedly of Dao Artifact level, burst forth with visible sword light that tore through the void, struck the bullets, and plowed layers into the ground.
Where the sword light and bullets collided, a dense shower of sparks burst forth.
Within just a second, the Venerable Xuan Tian realized something, pulled away sharply, and the distance between them rapidly increased.
It wasn’t until this moment that Chi Ying seemed to finally snap out of the pain and terror of his soul nearly being pierced by Sword Qi.
"Sky Extreme Sword!"
He let out a cry of horror, disbelief, and incredulity. Staggering, he retreated frantically, wanting to get as far from Venerable Xuan Tian and that figure as possible.
In the distance...
The youth watched as the Great Sun phantom, barely affected by the onslaught of Sword Qi from Gu Jinlai, furrowed his brow.
Considering the relentless pursuers behind him, he made a quick retreat three to four li away, leaping through the air and continuing to widen the gap until he vanished from Gu Jinlai’s line of sight.
Even so, Gu Jinlai still dared not relax in the slightest.
His eyes were glued to the direction where Venerable Xuan Tian had disappeared, with the Short Range Defense Cannon’s radar tracking relentlessly.
Six li, ten li, twenty li, thirty li...
Only after Venerable Xuan Tian had made a complete and swift departure did he finally exhale a long breath and deactivated his True Spirit’s heightened state.
Suddenly...
A wave of exhaustion mixed with a tingling pain surged in his heart.
"My True Spirit is injured..."
Gu Jinlai quickly realized something.
Venerable Xuan Tian’s sword strike had injured his True Spirit.
Even though he had pushed his True Spirit Power to its limit burning Eternal Divine Light to melt away the Spirit-Qi-formed Sword Qi, he was still wounded by a single strike from his foe.
This was still the crudest, most basic application of the Spirit Sword’s Spiritual Power...
It was akin to wielding a sniper rifle and using the barrel to bludgeon someone.
"Sky Extreme Sword! Sky Extreme Sword! That is the Sky Extreme Sword!"
At this moment, Chi Ying’s voice trembled with fear and awe from behind Gu Jinlai.
"Sky Extreme Sword?"
Gu Jinlai had heard Chi Ying’s cries before, and upon hearing him mention it again...
A burst of Spirit Light exploded in his mind.
"The Sky Extreme Sword you’re talking about, could it be..."
"Yes."
Chi Ying nodded vigorously, his voice trembling: "It’s the same Sky Extreme Sword that Emperor Tianji wielded back in the day! That Supreme Divine Sword that established his unparalleled reputation!"
"The Sky Extreme Sword! It’s actually that Sky Extreme Sword!"
Gu Jinlai too felt a shock within.
As the greatest master of the past century, Emperor Tianji’s life and experiences had been thoroughly studied and understood by countless people.
The Sky Extreme Sword, Light, Void, Star Heart, World Sword, and several other Divine Weapons were all Supreme Treasures unearthed from a Holy Sanctuary Relics site long ago.
No one knew which Floating Island in the Holy Land had collapsed into the ocean, but its many treasures were claimed by people, leading to the rise of powers like the Daqian Royal Family, Sanqing Holy Temple, Heavenly Immortal Temple, and other top-tier major sects.
It’s also because of the existence of these Divine Weapons that the Qiantian Cultivation World seemed to have polarized.
Forces without Divine Weapons struggled to even produce a Deva.
And those with Divine Weapons... 𝔫𝖔𝔳𝖕𝖚𝔟.𝔠𝔬𝖒
Saints were born, and even Earthly True Immortals became abundantly prevalent.
Looking in the direction where Venerable Xuan Tian disappeared, Gu Jinlai desperately wanted to follow and seize the Sky Extreme Sword for himself.
But reason held him back.
Human Immortal Hall must know that the Sky Extreme Sword was with Venerable Xuan Tian, and if he truly took possession of the Sky Extreme Sword...
He would immediately face persecution from this power housing Devas.
Moreover, Venerable Xuan Tian was no weakling.
Even without mastering the Sky Extreme Sword, its inherent might was enough to pose a lethal threat to him.
He even thought, thankfully he was a Heavenly Monarch, and his Visualization of the fierce and radiant Great Sun allowed him to dissolve the Spiritual Sword Qi shot by the Sky Extreme Sword with Eternal Divine Light.
If it were a Primordial Spirit True Monarch instead...
They might have very well perished under Venerable Xuan Tian and the Sky Extreme Sword.
The first Divine Sword of Qiantian.
It was by no means an empty title.
"I have informed Xuzhen Tower of the news using a special method; this matter is beyond our ability to intervene. Soon, a Golden Sword Envoy will take charge, and possibly even the Tower Master personally," Chi Ying suddenly said.
As he spoke, his expression was somewhat nervous.
Gu Jinlai had a guess.
Chi Ying was afraid he would silence him to keep the secret.
After all...
That was the Sky Extreme Sword.
However, Gu Jinlai said nothing but simply asked, "So, is our mission accomplished?"
"Not only accomplished, but also overdelivered," Chi Ying immediately said. "The intelligence on the Sky Extreme Sword is worth a golden mission in itself, and afterwards, our Xuzhen Tower might even offer a bonus reward."
"That’s good to hear," Gu Jinlai nodded.
Since Chi Ying had already sent the message using an unknown method, he couldn’t possibly kill him now.
He even had to consider the possibility that Xuzhen Tower might want to keep this information to themselves and might attempt to kill him.
Therefore, he had to make some preparations.
Right then, he said, "Let’s return, then."
Chi Ying originally wanted to say that when the responsible Golden Sword Envoy arrived, they would need to report the details, but because the Sky Extreme Sword was so important, both parties were worried about provoking each other into a situation where they would be forced to kill to suppress the news.
Ultimately, Chi Ying did not dare to stop Gu Jinlai.
With this cautious vigilance between them, they quickly left Champsosaurus Swamp.
Once out of Champsosaurus Swamp, Gu Jinlai no longer wasted any time. He didn’t even bother to inquire about the Aries Star Lord intelligence and parted ways with Chi Ying, heading straight for Lingxiao City.
Once Gu Jinlai had gone, the nearest direct lineage Golden Sword Envoy hurried over.
After understanding the specifics, the Golden Sword Envoy could only sigh: "Given the circumstances, it’s no longer realistic for our Xuzhen Tower to keep this secret. Furthermore... we shouldn’t let the Sky Extreme Sword ruin our reputation... Let’s sell this information as a piece of Golden Clothes Intelligence."
Chi Ying nodded. "What about the Silver Sword Master Gu Jinlai..."
"He..."
The Golden Sword Envoy was silent for a long while before finally saying, "Offering golden intelligence deserves a reward according to our Xuzhen Tower’s rules."
"Understood."
With the Tower’s attitude clear, Chi Ying took a long, relieved breath.
