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Chapter 344: Chapter 341: Tremors of the Spirit Realm
"Master!"
"No!"
"Stop it, please!"
Xuanqing, Xuanwu, Xuan Chi, and Wu Zhen, the four great Devas, simultaneously let out piercing and furious howls.
One after another, they erupted with the control over Heaven and Earth Power peculiar to Devas, attempting to resist.
But under the horror of the Sky Extreme Sword that piersed the void and annihilated everything, it was all meaningless.
Everyone felt their very flesh being crazily sliced by the Sword Qi of the Sky Extreme Sword, with countless blood trails covering their bodies.
The fierce Sword Qi crisscrossed the void, shredding the earth for hundreds of meters around into pieces.
Even the ancient tree that had grown for hundreds of years and whose canopy spread over a hundred meters was riddled with splinters by the sweeping Sword Qi before finally collapsing with a thunderous crash.
"You deserve to die!"
Having witnessed the piercing through Master Wushi’s head, Wu Zhen seemed to have completely lost his sanity.
He let out a heaven-piercing howl, soaring into the air, and brandished his sword recklessly.
The sharp sword light burst forth in the void immediately after.
However, before this burst of sword light could fully unfold, it shattered like an epiphyllum amidst a barrage of gunfire, bursting apart with a bang.
The Sword Qi that ripped through this dazzling display surged forward, roaring and slicing through, engulfing Master Wu Zhen’s body.
That feeling...
...was like a person attempting to intercept a torrent of steel pouring from a metal storm with their bare flesh and blood.
"Hiss hiss hiss hiss!"
Dozens of sprays of blood erupted and scattered from Wu Zhen’s body, engulfing him entirely, and in less than a second...
...burst into full bloom.
"Uncle-Master!?"
Amidst Xuanqing’s shocked and fearful cries, the top Deva who had been in charge of Master Wushi’s safety after his seclusion, was pierced and shredded by numerous Sword Qi all at once, turning into a mist of blood and falling on the spot.
"Boom!"
It was only at this moment that a figure breaking through the void from high above suddenly plummeted to the ground like a cannonball, smashing fiercely onto the earth.
The shockwave formed by the release of power spread wildly, sweeping up storms, gravel, dust, and blasting out dozens of meters away.
At the place where the figure landed, a crater about four to five meters in diameter appeared.
Amidst the dust and debris, the silhouette of Venerable Xuan Tian gradually emerged.
There he stood holding the Sky Extreme Sword, looking at Master Wushi who had closed his eyes and whose head was pierced by Sword Qi...
Because every Divine Weapon has the divine peculiarity of annihilating spirit, he could clearly sense that the soul’s aura and life’s aura of the Earthly True Immortal had completely disappeared.
He was dead.
He was the most astounding and supreme Hall Master since the establishment of the Sanqing Holy Temple.
He was the unparalleled prodigy who, apart from the era when Emperor Tianji emerged, had always been the foremost under the heavens.
He was the sole invincible existence among Earthly True Immortals in the present Qiantian — dead.
Dead at the hands of Venerable Xuan Tian.
The supreme Master Wushi was dead...
So...
"Now, am I the foremost under the heavens?"
Venerable Xuan Tian murmured to himself.
He looked at the sword in his hand, then back at the former number one under the heavens, dead beyond any doubt, without a trace of aura left, and it seemed to take him a while to accept the reality before him.
Dead.
Master Wushi was truly dead.
He had received the message from Emperor Qian.
Master Wushi, who had been in a deep slumber for years, would not be very alert upon awakening.
So he used Xuan Yue to hide a strand of Sword Qi within him, pretending to be severely injured by a Demon Spirit. When Master Wushi used his Spiritual Sense to try to remove this model simulated by the Sky Extreme Sword’s Sword Qi, the two would come into direct contact...
Like thinking it was merely a bullet to be retrieved, only to find that bullet was a miniature bomb.
The bomb exploded, Master Wushi’s Divine Sense was severely damaged, and then he, approaching Wuchen Residence under the guise of bearing guilt, once again drew his sword fiercely, delivering a fatal blow...
And so.
He had succeeded.
Venerable Xuan Tian looked over and over again at the disintegrated soul and dissipated aura of Master Wushi.
"The foremost under the heavens, dying by my hand, now, I am the new number one."
Venerable Xuan Tian said to himself.
He seemed to be telling himself, just as much as he was convincing himself.
This peculiar emotion lasted for a while before he suddenly burst into laughter: "Haha, hahaha, hahahaha..."
Laughing exuberantly!
"Number one under the heavens! Hahaha! From this day forth, I am the number one under the heavens!"
Yet within this exhilarating laughter...
...there seemed to be pain, sorrow, anger, and even madness.
This somewhat frenzied laughter caused Xuanqing, Xuanwu, and Xuan Chi, who were still furious but had momentarily calmed down after the fall of Master Wu Zhen, to shudder.
They looked at the Sky Extreme Sword in Venerable Xuan Tian’s hand...
That was, after all, the strongest Divine Weapon ranked number one!
Xuan Yue, as the successor to the World Sword, only needed to become a Deva and then wield the World Sword. With the power of the Divine Weapon, he could fear no Saint. 𝘯𝘰𝑣𝘱𝑢𝘣.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Even Wu Zhong and Wu Nian, the two great Saints, were no exception.
Yet Master Wushi, who had once claimed the World Sword and the Star Heart as his, wielding the might of two Divine Weapons, still fell before the Sky Extreme Sword.
If not for joining forces with Tai A, the Abyss Lord, and Wuying, three Earthly True Immortals, in a combined assault, they wouldn’t have been able to kill Emperor Tianji.
And after slaying Emperor Tianji, the four Earthly True Immortals also paid a heavy price.
Emperor Master Tai A and Wuying, two Earthly True Immortals, died on the spot.
The Divine Weapon Bright was directly slain.
Yes!
Each Divine Weapon can be seen as a form of life.
And since it is life, it can be killed.
The spirit of the Divine Weapon Bright scattered, the weapon dead, reduced to at best a Dao Artifact powerful in its own right, forged from countless top-notch materials.
It is for this reason that Imperial Advisor Tai Yuan, despite having a Divine Weapon, has never truly been able to slay Blood Demon Emperor Luo.
Two Earthly True Immortals and one Divine Weapon gone!
They say the Abyss Lord went into hiding due to severe injuries.
From this, one can see just how powerful the Sky Extreme Sword, this Divine Weapon, truly was.
Therefore...
Xuanqing, Xuanwu, and Xuan Chi, despite the intense rage and hatred they harbored towards Venerable Xuan Tian for killing their Master Wushi, none dared to act like Master Wu Zhen, bravely facing death to avenge Master Wushi.
Laughter echoed through the Wuchen Residence.
It went on and on.
Even Xuanqing cursed in her heart, wishing that this devil would laugh himself to death in one go.
Unfortunately...
Her curse was obviously ineffective.
After a long while.
The satisfied and unrestrained laughter of Venerable Xuan Tian finally came to a halt.
"The first under the heavens, I’ve finally become the first under the heavens."
He continued to talk to himself, completely ignoring the three Devas of the Sanqing Hall around him.
"From now on... I can act according to my own wishes..."
With the sword in one hand, he stood up straight, slowly lifted his head, and gazed into the sky.
Because of Sword Qi breaking the sky, all the clouds had been torn apart, revealing a spotlessly blue sky before his eyes.
The slightly intoxicating sunlight gently fell upon him, bathing his face in an unprecedented sense of peace and harmony.
"Alive."
He could now walk in broad daylight upon this vast earth, living his life in peace and tranquility.
No longer would he have to worry about someone suddenly emerging...
To kill him, to seize the Sky Extreme Sword, to put an end to his life.
Yet, the moment he truly realized this, he inexplicably felt a sense of loss,
And...
Emptiness.
An unprecedented emptiness.
From the moment his Sect was destroyed, his master, senior sister, junior brothers, junior sisters were all killed, and he was captured by the Human Immortal Hall, he hadn’t dared to stop, nor had he taken a moment’s rest from his arduous cultivation.
The goal was to live.
But now, having become the first under the heavens, finally able to walk freely upon the land and live as he pleases, his life seemed to have lost its purpose.
All that was left for him was endless emptiness and desolation.
"Heh..."
His face wore a smile that was not quite a smile.
Turning around, he walked out of the Wuchen Residence.
Xuanqing, Xuan Chi, and Xuanwu, the three great Devas, didn’t dare to make a single move.
And Venerable Xuan Tian never cast his gaze upon them again.
In a daze, he recalled the first time he saw the Sky Extreme Sword.
...
The Sky Extreme Sword was alive.
Looking at him, it appeared in his spirit.
"For the sake of revenge, what are you willing to give up?"
The Sky Extreme Sword could not speak.
But, he knew, this was its question.
His response at the time was...
"Everything."
...
"Boom!"
His spirit trembled.
What no one knew was that after the fall of Master Wushi...
Or rather, when a figure resembling Master Wushi soared towards the depths of the True Spirit Realm, all the Heavenly Monarchs of the Qiantian World felt a shake at the core of their spirits.
Wan Wusheng, Zhang Daoyan, Zhang Lihuo...
And Gu Jinlai.
This tremor rocked their spirits.
While the other Heavenly Monarchs didn’t know what had happened, Gu Jinlai figured it out immediately.
The Spirit Realm!
The True Spirit Realm!
This severe tremor originated from the True Spirit Realm.
Sitting atop a Mechanical Tyrannosaurus, meditating and marching towards Blue State, Gu Jinlai suddenly opened his eyes.
He didn’t even care that his state hadn’t fully recovered, forcibly projecting his True Spirit into the "True Spirit Realm."
And within the "True Spirit Realm," which should have been calm without any ripples, a storm seemed to emerge, fierce and unstoppable.
In the midst of that storm within the True Spirit Realm, he vaguely sensed a familiar Qi.
Or rather, spiritual fluctuations.
These fluctuations...
"Is it that mysterious Heavenly Monarch who taught me the Projection Technique?"
Gu Jinlai instantly made the connection.
He was somewhat wary and guarded against this mysterious Heavenly Monarch.
After all, in this world, there’s no such thing as unprovoked love or hate.
A pie falling from the sky often signals a trap.
However, now, as he operated the Void Projection Technique, attempting to find traces of that mysterious Heavenly Monarch, there was no sign of him to be seen.
It was as if he...
Had vanished.
...
All the Heavenly Monarchs felt the tremor in their spirits.
But unlike Wan Wusheng, Zhang Daoyan, and Zhang Lihuo, who were at a loss, Gu Jinlai was barely able to enter the True Spirit Realm and probe around.
And within the Qiantian Realm, another who could venture into the True Spirit Realm to investigate was a Heavenly Monarch from the Xuanji Sect, brought by Hong Ye from the Purgatory Sect, who had escaped from the Endless Mountain and was now recuperating in a city of Winter State.
Unlike Gu Jinlai, who was clueless about the implications of such a drastic change, upon entering the True Spirit Realm, his face was filled with shock and horror.
"What is this!?"
His spiritual fluctuations surged violently, his face full of disbelief.
"Has a Heavenly Monarch burned everything in an attempt to merge with the Spirit Realm, condense the Holy Spirit Body, and become the Creator!?"
