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Chapter 131: Chapter 128 Eternal Heavenly Curse
"Not good!"
In the high building, Tan Qingquan’s face changed dramatically.
The flying sword controlled by the Yin God spun swiftly, rushing towards the heavens.
With white waves scattering from the sword tip, its speed abruptly soared to nearly a kilometer per second, attempting to shake off the laser-like Flying Fire Meteor shooting at it.
This speed...
Surpassed the velocity of Short Range Defense Cannon projectiles.
It’s known that the length of a flying sword is often less than one meter.
And its maximum speed reaches a kilometer per second.
A target of one meter traversing at a speed of a kilometer per second, for the Short Range Defense Cannon to form a hundred percent interception barrage is like dividing one thousand by one, which means a bullet interception ratio of only 0.01, requiring thousands of bullets to be poured out in one second to completely eliminate such a target.
Yet even the powerful 1130 Short Range Defense Cannon in Gu Jinlai’s hands had a maximum firing rate of only one hundred eighty bullets per second, meaning, the interception probability per second was only eighteen percent.
Not to mention that the flying sword is more flexible and unpredictable than missiles, capable of making various maneuvers to increase the difficulty of interception.
From this, one can see the deterrence power of the flying sword.
But now, as his Mental Realm climbed, Gu Jinlai seemed to have the ability to "predict" the trajectory of the sword strikes.
He not only easily locked onto Tan Qingquan’s flying sword strikes but also successfully struck them, forcing them to change direction and evade.
Only...
It was useless.
"Zzzzz!"
With the Mysterious Mental Realm, Gu Jinlai slightly turned, carrying the Short Range Defense Cannon, and Tan Qingquan’s flying sword seemed to voluntarily crash into the barrage of bullets.
No matter how he manipulated the flying sword to change direction or break through, there was always a bullet that sparked off the sword.
Had it not been for the traits of breaking the sky and tenacity in Tan Qingquan’s flying sword, it would have been blown up in the air by now.
"Gu Jinlai! How dare you commit fratricide within our Sect!?"
Tan Qingquan’s angry yell came from within the building.
"Fratricide?"
Gu Jinlai’s expression was indifferent, "I’m already here in Baihe City with a hundred masters and two Short Range Defense Cannons. Don’t you think it’s too late to say that?"
"Do you really think I’m afraid of you!?"
Brilliance burst from Tan Qingquan’s eyes.
He did not know how Gu Jinlai was able to constantly lock onto his White Creek Sword but he realized that if he continued to dodge this way, even though his Spirit Sword contained the trait of tenacity, it would still be shredded by this terrifying metal storm.
Therefore...
"Kill!"
With a low roar, Tan Qingquan’s Yin God burned fiercely.
The speed of the sword, which was already close to a kilometer, astonishingly climbed again, breaking through the kilometer limit, reaching one thousand one and even one thousand two hundred meters per second.
At this terrifying speed, even a Divinity Transformation Cultivator like Refining God could only vaguely see some shadows of the flying sword, let alone a Hugging Pill, who couldn’t capture the sword’s position at all.
Carrying the burst of power brought forth by the burning Yin God, Tan Qingquan’s sword blade spun rapidly, in an instant breaking the sound barrier, and incredibly quickly closing the distance between the flying sword and Gu Jinlai.
A thousand meters!
Six hundred meters!
Three hundred meters!
Just as the flying sword shot to within a hundred meters of Gu Jinlai, he slightly lifted his head.
A dazzling divine light surged out from within him.
In Tan Qingquan’s Yin God perception, it seemed as though a halo of the Great Sun appeared behind Gu Jinlai.
Immediately after, an unprecedented radiance burst forth, carrying with it the destruction that washed away and annihilated the Yin God’s spirituality and consciousness, and directly bombarded the White Creek Sword shot in front of him at thirty meters.
Eternal Heavenly Curse.
Unlike the Great Sun Eternal Radiance, the Eternal Heavenly Curse belongs to an individual Soul Secret Technique.
In past moments, Gu Jinlai simply couldn’t lock onto or capture the flying swords shot by Divinity Transformation Cultivators; even when a flying sword closed in, he could only rely on skills like Great Sun Divine Light that affected an area to block them.
But now...
Simulating the Mental Realm with spirituality, the perception of the outside world grew geometrically, and with this perceptive lock-on, he allowed the White Creek Sword to complete its thrust, and at the moment it shot close to him, he cast an Eternal Heavenly Curse.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
From the spiritual world, a sound like that of a great bell roared!
The flying sword shot by Tan Qingquan was as if struck by a nuclear bomb, with endless brilliance mixed with the annihilating high temperature that instantly shattered the spirituality on the White Creek Sword, as well as the Yin God attached to it.
Like...
A sandcastle before a tsunami, collapsing upon touch.
Tan Qingquan’s Yin God didn’t even have time to let out a piercing scream before rapidly dissolving in face of this intensely bright radiance.
"Buzz, buzz!"
Gu Jinlai suddenly stretched out two fingers.
The White Creek Sword, its Yin God and spirituality annihilated, was firmly clamped between his index and middle finger, unable to move any longer.
"Ah!"
The backlash from the collapse of the Yin God made Tan Qingquan scream in agony from the tall building ahead.
But Gu Jinlai paid no heed.
He looked at the White Creek Sword that had been hit by at least a dozen, or even dozens of bullets, yet remained unshredded, and sincerely admired, "Good sword."
Then, turning his gaze toward the direction from which the screams were coming, he smiled slightly, "Thank you, Elder, for the flying sword."
While speaking, the barrel of the Short Range Defense Cannon in his hand, originally used to block the White Creek Sword, turned.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"
Flames jetted out.
Countless metal shell casings poured out, falling onto the ground with a "ding ding dang dang" sound.
The laser beam-like Flying Fire Meteor merged with the original Short Range Defense Cannon, shooting straight toward that same flying sword located a kilometer away, seemingly just to restrain him.
Although the Divinity Transformation Cultivator controlling that flying sword was extremely cautious, maintaining a sufficient dodging distance, as the firepower of the two Short Range Defense Cannons interweaved, within half a second, a burst of light erupted.
The struck flying sword paused slightly and was immediately torn apart by the barrage of bullets that followed.
After exploding the flying sword, Gu Jinlai’s figure did not delay for an instant; his feet burst with power, and his body over three meters tall, like a Demon God, charged toward the tall building with a surging evil aura.
During the charge, the two Short Range Defense Cannons continued firing at full force, the barrage of bullets wildly blasting toward the high-rise.
Even though the high-rise was constructed of precious materials, it still couldn’t withstand the barrage’s onslaught and was ripped apart, with wood chips flying and stone debris scattering.
Even walls made of brick and stone crumbled and shattered under the onslaught of these streaking lights.
In mere seconds, this luxurious high-rise in Baihe City was riddled with ragged holes.
"Boom!"
Debris flew everywhere.
Dust filled the air.
A figure that had thought to avoid the Short Range Defense Cannon’s fire by hiding inside the building suddenly burst forth, attempting to break free under the cover of dust and smoke.
It was Ye Yiren, the Divinity Transformation Cultivator from the Taihe Sword Sect.
However, the dust and smoke did nothing to impede the Short Range Defense Cannon, which was locked onto its target by Divine Thought. The cannon’s muzzle turned...
"Zzzzzt!"
Flames over two meters long erupted from the muzzle once again.
"Heavenly Monarch Gu... spare my life..."
Ye Yiren’s terrified cries came from within the smoke.
The next moment, True Qi scattered, and a crimson spray of blood burst from the dust cloud.
Ye Yiren, who had leaped from the high-rise and was still in mid-air, hadn’t even landed when a bullet-like laser decimated his True Qi and then tore him to pieces.
But while Gu Jinlai was gunning down Ye Yiren, from another direction, Tan Qingquan suddenly burst out of the nearly destroyed building. With incredible speed, he ran off in another direction.
That direction...
Was where the third red dot was located.
"Think you can escape!?"
Gu Jinlai growled softly.
He ended the Co-spirit State with the Short Range Defense Cannon, abandoning the two cannons as their Spirit dwindled rapidly, signaling their imminent ’death’. He then exploded with power underfoot...
"Boom!"
With the ground cracking beneath him, he shot through the void like a cannonball, engulfed in a monumental dust and Qi wave, in hot pursuit of the fleeing Tan Qingquan.
Movement technique—Crossing the World.
"Gu Jinlai!"
Tan Qingquan let out a terrified roar.
Yes, terrified!
His eyes no longer held the indifference, arrogance, or full confidence from before.
Instead, deep horror and fear took their place.
And...
Regret!
He should have realized that this man was not one to be taken lightly when Gu Jinlai faced off against two from the Cold Moon Sect, Wuchenzi and White Elephant, and sent them packing in Sunset City.
Only, he hadn’t expected...
Gu Jinlai to be this powerful.
Not only did he possess two formidable Slaughter Spirit Artifacts, but he had also penetrated the depths of the Mental Realm!
It was precisely because of the sensitive perception of the Mental Realm that the strikes from his flying sword fell short.
Especially when he realized that the speed at which Gu Jinlai burst forth with his Crossing the World movement technique was even faster than his, weakened from the backlash of his Yin God’s collapse, his horror and regret skyrocketed.
"We both are elders of our Sect, and it’s a great taboo to fight among fellow sect members! If you kill me, the Sect will never let you off!"
Tan Qingquan bellowed.
He hoped that this would dissuade Gu Jinlai from pursuing him any further.
"This battle, which you began, will end on my terms,"
Gu Jinlai’s voice thundered from behind like a muffled roar.
Even without a threatening tone, it still brought an unspeakable pressure to Tan Qingquan.
As the distance between the two closed, the sprinting Gu Jinlai bent his knees slightly, and in the next moment...
Leapt!
Like an arrow shot from a fully drawn bow!
The ground fractured and debris scattered, and with that, his lunging speed surged. The suffocating oppression caused Tan Qingquan to involuntarily shout ahead, "Sha Wujin! Are you just going to watch me die here!?"
"Whoosh!"
A sword light broke the sky!
A thousand meters away in a courtyard, a whip-like sword light tore through the waves of Qi, speeding towards Gu Jinlai with unbelievable rapidity.
And with it came a Divine Thought transmission.
"To spare someone when you can, Elder Gu, Elder Tan has already been punished enough with his Yin God shattered, please..."
"Scram!"
Gu Jinlai growled.
The sound exploded like thunder.
His eyes shot open as he clasped his empty hand, and a brilliant orb of spirit light condensed, as if cradling a sun inside.
The next moment, the sun erupted, forming a fiercely radiant laser column that struck down the approaching flying sword from the heavens.
Eternal Heavenly Curse!
"Buzz buzz!"
The collision of spirit against spirit ignited a display of resplendent light in the void.
Taking advantage of this, Gu Jinlai’s figure swiftly closed in behind Tan Qingquan, and the heavy sword in his hand thundered down.
"Die!"
"Gu Jinlai!"
Tan Qingquan roared defiantly, his body erupting with all its strength.
But with his Yin God destroyed, the remnants of his Divine Thought couldn’t fully mobilize his internal power.
Alongside the thunderous descent of the Giant Sword, his defiant roar quickly turned into a cry of despair.
"No!"
"Boom!"
The blood mist exploded.
The body of the Purgatory Sect Elder was instantly reduced to a mist of blood by the terrifying kinetic force of the heavy sword.
