Chapter 169: The Might of the Immortal Sword!
The Power of Law you commanded was not as profound as Wilderness Boss’s, but you had the advantage in quantity, so for a time it was difficult to determine a victor.
Thus, you abandoned the clash of the Power of Law. Ten thousand spirit swords appeared out of thin air, fusing one by one.
In the end, the ten thousand spirit swords became a single Returning Unity Sword, its sword qi sharp and cold, as if it would pierce through the void.
The Returning Unity Sword in your hand, bolstered by the Law of Time, moved at extreme speed. Even Wilderness Boss, a peak Return-to-Void realm cultivator, found it hard to dodge.
At the critical moment, Wilderness Boss relied on instinct and released a life-preserving artifact, forcefully blocking your Returning Unity Sword for a moment.
And that moment was enough for Wilderness Boss to grasp the situation and respond to your Returning Unity Sword.
Your Returning Unity Sword pierced through the life-preserving artifact, its residual might undiminished as it stabbed toward Wilderness Boss again, but Wilderness Boss reacted in time, and in the end only lost an arm.
“What a pity. You actually managed to dodge it.” You shook your head and sighed.
“Good. Very good indeed!” Wilderness Boss clutched his severed arm, staring at you with a savage expression. This was the first time in this long battle that he had fallen to a disadvantage.
Wilderness Boss slowly drew out a spear, its tip pointed at you, radiating waves of cold.
“A Heaven-Rank Artifact!” You recognized the grade of this treasure at a glance, your brow furrowing slightly.
“Game over. Die!!!”
Bolstered by the Heaven-Rank Artifact, Wilderness Boss’s strike was directly comparable to the full-power strike of an ordinary Fusion realm cultivator!
Any Return-to-Void realm cultivator would be reduced to nothing beneath this blow!
“Ah, you forced my hand.” You sighed inwardly. A plain, unremarkable Broken Sword appeared in your hand.
Immediately after, you merged the Returning Unity Sword into the Broken Sword. Your entire body’s spiritual power poured in, a trace of the Immortal Sword’s might was stimulated, erupting with powerful energy!
“Not good!” You heard a cry of alarm, and then the Immortal Sword’s might was fully released. Everywhere it passed, the void collapsed, the earth split apart, and the entire Secret Realm seemed to teeter on the verge of collapse, as if it would be annihilated by this one sword strike!
After a flash of white light, Wilderness Boss vanished from before you. A fissure was carved into the sky above, and the Power of the Void seeped out.
A bottomless sword scar appeared in the earth beneath your feet! Immeasurably powerful Sword Intent lingered upon it, enough to annihilate Return-to-Void realm cultivators!
The entire world fell silent. Your face was pale, your whole body trembling, as if you had been completely hollowed out.
“Not good, I overdid it!” This was the first time since your breakthrough that you had stimulated the Immortal Sword’s might without reservation. Even you could not control this vast power.
Because of this, the spiritual power in your body was exhausted. Your fleshly body could hardly withstand such might. Wounds covered you, blood flowing across your entire body — a wretched sight beyond compare.
Even you could hardly estimate the power of that sword. Inwardly, you grew vigilant. You could not do this again.
Badly wounded, in order to quickly recover to peak condition, you found a safe place and directly used the secret art, the Life-Seizing Origin-Restoring Art!
The world’s spiritual qi poured into your body. Your dantian was like a bottomless pit, madly absorbing the world’s spiritual qi. Your withered dantian slowly regained vitality.
The essence of heaven and earth was forcibly stripped away by you, used to repair the wounds on your body, returning your fleshly body to peak condition.
An hour later, the spiritual qi within dozens of li was completely drained by you. The vitality of the surrounding spirit herbs was stripped away.
What had originally been a place rich in spiritual qi and full of vitality instantly became a land of death!
Your cultivation and body all recovered to peak condition. This was also the reason you dared to fight Wilderness Boss for so long.
With this secret art, as long as you did not die immediately, you could recover to peak condition.
By then, even if a Fusion realm mighty figure arrived, you could handle them with ease.
Rumble————!
A pillar of light shot into the sky. Every surviving cultivator in the Secret Realm could see it.
You knew — the passage out of the Secret Realm had opened!
“The passage will close in one month. Leave quickly, all of you!” A voice came from outside the passage.
You looked at the pillar of light. After a moment’s hesitation, you resolutely returned to the deepest part of the Core Zone. There was still a door there, one you had never opened.
After all you had been through, if you did not investigate exactly what was inside, your heart would not be at ease.
An hour later, you arrived before this door. Both hands on the stone door, you pushed with all your strength.
A door that over a hundred cultivators could not budge was slowly pushed open by you. A sliver of light shone into the doorway, producing a sizzling, burning sound.
A cold, chilling aura emanated from within the door. You looked upon the scene inside, and your entire body froze.
“This is……”
Inside the door, you saw the corpses of numerous cultivators. Some had already become skeletons, while others still maintained their appearances from when they were alive.
But without exception, all of them stood in place, weapons in hand, as if attacking, yet also as if defending.
Your gaze swept across the corpses, and you actually saw quite a few familiar faces among them.
After a slight moment of thought, you understood why they were familiar.
It was because the residual heaven-and-earth Law Dao of these long-dead cultivators had once fought against you!
You stood in place and bowed to the dead cultivators. No matter what, these dead cultivators had helped you.
The dead are to be respected. You expressed the reverence they deserved.
Afterward, you formally stepped through the door, advancing deeper step by step.
Passing by one cultivator after another, you suddenly felt as if they were all still alive!
On their bodies, you failed to discover any wounds. You could not see their cause of death.
“Ten thousand cultivators dying at the same time, and not a single wound on their bodies — just what kind of existence could accomplish such a thing?”
You walked to the end. A young man sat there, seemingly the leader of these cultivators.
“We meet again, little one.” As you studied the young man before you, the corpse suddenly grinned and spoke to you.
“Fuck!” A shock went through your heart. Instinctively, you swung a palm strike at him, but it was blocked by a force.
You hurriedly retreated, putting distance between yourself and this revived corpse, warily scanning your surroundings, afraid that the other corpses would revive as well.
“Don’t be nervous. I’m just a lingering wisp of divine sense.” The young man smiled.
“It’s you!” Only now did you study him properly. A scene suddenly flashed through your mind, and you said in shock.
The young man nodded and said, “Correct. I indeed did not misjudge you.”
“In just over ten years, you have actually grown to such a degree.”