Chapter 182: One Strike to Kill, Cultivation
“Get the hell down here!!!” Princess Anle shouted furiously. As someone who had personally experienced the Secret Realm, she understood your strength all too well, and she feared you would step onto the stage yourself and cut this man down on the spot.
“Sect Master Ye, there’s no need for you to take part in a contest between juniors.”
“When one does wrong, one must be punished. How can it be brushed aside so easily?” you said in a deep voice, and then, ignoring Princess Anle’s attempts to stop you, you appeared on the competition stage.
“If you can take one move from me, I will pardon this rudeness of yours!”
“One move? Tch, who do you think you’re looking down on!” the Wilderness Clan cultivator said arrogantly.
“It seems you don’t know what happened in the Law Secret Realm,” you murmured to yourself.
“What are you muttering about? Stop dawdling and hurry up!”
“Your Highness the Princess, watch how I take him down!” the Wilderness Clan cultivator called out loudly to Princess Anle.
“A thing courting death!” Princess Anle flicked her sleeve and left, not even glancing at the Wilderness Clan cultivator below the stage. In her eyes, he was already a dead man!
You said no more. You pressed two fingers together, and a sword qi condensed from spiritual power appeared.
“Not using a dharma artifact? Are you looking down on me!”
“Heh!” You let out a cold laugh, then struck out with a single sword strike!
The sword qi was fast beyond measure, so fast that the Wilderness Clan Return-to-Void cultivator had no time to react at all. A bloody hole instantly appeared on his once-smooth forehead!
That casual wave of sword qi had pierced straight through the Wilderness Clan Return-to-Void cultivator’s skull!
Even in death, the Wilderness Clan cultivator’s face was still covered in an expression of utter arrogance.
The entire Martial Grounds was silent. Every cultivator stared at the fallen Wilderness Clan cultivator, faces filled with shock.
“Who else wishes to challenge me?!!!”
Your domineering voice echoed through the sect, instantly jolting the Imperial Family members awake.
“An instant kill? Is he really a Return-to-Void cultivator?” a disciple of the Imperial Family muttered.
“It’s over, something terrible has happened!” a core figure of the Imperial Family said, looking utterly distraught.
A disciple was dead, yet not a single person came to make trouble for you.
The Grand Tournament was also forced to a halt because of your strike.
That evening, Princess Anle came to find you again. “Sect Master Ye, word has come from the Imperial City. We are ordered to return at once. This contest can only be suspended.”
“No matter. If there is time, I can bring my people and go as well.” You waved your hand. A Wilderness Clan cultivator had died here, and there was no telling what trouble it might stir up.
“By the way, Sect Master Ye, regarding cooperation, you may still consider it. This Empress will await your answer at any time.” Princess Anle chuckled lightly at you, then tossed you a token.
“If you come around, you can use this token to find me.”
“Until we meet again!”
You toyed with the token in your hand, watching Princess Anle lead her people away.
“Sect Master.”
“Go back. Summon all the sect’s Ancestors. We’re holding a meeting!”
“Yes!”
Within the Sect Main Hall, the eight Ancestors who had emerged from seclusion gathered. Everyone looked at you, waiting for what came next.
You took out the token Princess Anle had given you and let the Ancestors examine it.
At the same time, you recounted the matter of Princess Anle seeking cooperation with you, as well as the cooperation between the Imperial Family and the Wilderness Clan.
“We absolutely must not cooperate with the Imperial Family!”
“Our Heavenly Blade Sect and the Wilderness Clan cannot coexist under the same sky!”
“Indeed. If the Imperial Family takes offense, we old fellows will bear it. Sect Master need not worry.”
“With those words from you Ancestors, This Sect Master is reassured.” You looked around at everyone and smiled.
“Sect Master has gathered us here this time. I fear it is not only for this matter, is it?” an Ancestor asked.
“The Imperial Family is so urgently seeking partners. There must be something major about to happen.”
“This Sect Master’s strength is shallow. I will need you Ancestors to keep watch and guard against the unforeseen.” You cupped your hands toward the Ancestors.
“That is only natural. We will keep this matter in mind.” The eight Ancestors all agreed.
“By the way, Ancestors, why does our sect bear such great hostility toward the Wilderness Clan?” you suddenly asked.
The Ancestors fell silent. Finally, Ancestor Kongling said, “If Sect Master wishes to know the reason, you may go to the Library Pavilion and read our sect’s history. You will understand at once.”
The meeting ended, and you headed straight for the Library Pavilion to read the sect’s history.
“Ten thousand years ago, the Wasteland Realm’s Remnants invaded, shattering the Path to Immortality and severing the Passage Between the Two Realms.”
“Since then, no one in this world can ascend to immortality!!!”
“The Heavenly Blade Sect gathered the full strength of the sect. More than ten Great Vehicle stage Ancestors fell, and over ten thousand Tribulation Transcendence stage Elders and disciples died. In the end, it could not be reversed.”
“The Heavenly Blade Sect’s Sect Master, Ancestor Yunyi, ordered the sect sealed and withdrew from the world, and thus the sect survived.”
“Severing the Path to Immortality, the sect’s fighting strength all but wiped out. No wonder!”
“A hatred like this cannot coexist under the same sky. There is no possibility of resolution at all!”
A clarity came to your heart, and you understood a little of that war from back then.
“Severing my Path to Immortality — even if it is a Wilderness, they must die without question!”
The sect returned to calm, and you settled into cultivation. With the Fusion realm Ancestors watching over things for you, you did not fear any moves from the Imperial Family.
You took out the divine ability, Shrinking the Earth to an Inch, and earnestly studied it.
“Shrinking the Earth to an Inch, cultivated to a profound level, can actually span continents!” You were quite satisfied with the strength of this divine ability.
“If the descriptions within are true, then this divine ability is definitely not merely Heaven-rank. At the very least, it must be Immortal-rank!”
“Spanning continents — even teleportation formations cannot accomplish such a thing.”
“If I succeed in cultivating it, self-preservation will no longer be a problem!”
In the first year, you earnestly studied the divine ability Shrinking the Earth to an Inch, yet you could never even enter the threshold.
You suspected your comprehension of the Laws of Time and Space was still insufficient, so you began to delve into the Laws of Time and Space.
To speed things up, you entered the sect’s Cultivation Chamber.
The flow of time inside the Cultivation Chamber was ten times that of the outside world!
Cultivating ten days inside was only one day outside. Though it could not compare to the formation in your Jade Seal, it was still quite good.
Xuanyuan Yue was nowhere to be found. You currently had only one chance to open the Jade Seal space, so naturally you would not use it so lightly.
In the second year, you stayed in the Cultivation Chamber for a full ten years, earnestly comprehending the Laws of Time and Space through the cultivation insights left behind by the Heavenly Blade Sect’s Seniors.
Your comprehension of the Power of Law of Time and Space gradually deepened, already reaching the verge of Dao Integration.
You felt you could now attempt to cultivate the divine ability Shrinking the Earth to an Inch.