Chapter 909: No Return Ultimate Sword
"Oh? Only a minor injury?" Looking at Yun Che's condition, Xuanyuan Wentian's pitch-black eyes showed deep surprise, but quickly turned into a sneer: "Very well, this venerable will thoroughly enjoy your struggling posture!"
Xuanyuan Wentian's voice became wild and arrogant. When he released the power of the Divine Path, Yun Che's power could no longer exert any pressure on him at all. He laughed loudly, the Eternal Night Demonic Sword slashed down from the sky, a dark sword beam a full hundred zhang wide crossing space, chopping toward Yun Che.
Yun Che's gaze condensed, he leaped up, rising a thousand zhang, a black flash under his feet, and the sea below was instantly cut into a dark chasm by the dark sword beam. He raised his hands high, locked onto Xuanyuan Wentian's position, flames burning on his sword, and a Celestial Wolf's roar resounded across the vast sea.
"Phoenix—Celestial Wolf Strike!!"
Tssss!!!!
Space was torn like silk, the dense dark aura was fiercely gouged open, passing through several li of space in one go, the Shadow of the Celestial Wolf directly blasted toward Xuanyuan Wentian's heart.
"Hmph, before this venerable's Demon God power, this bit of strength can only be a joke!!"
Xuanyuan Wentian did not use his sword, instead directly reaching out, a mass of black light colliding with the Celestial Wolf flame shadow. Amidst the abruptly erupting sharp howl, the trajectory of the Celestial Wolf flame shadow twisted drastically, darting past Xuanyuan Wentian's side, then exploding behind him. The erupted power storm was quickly devoured entirely by the darkness.
Yun Che: "..."
"See? This is the power of the Divine Path, this is the gap between you and this venerable!" Xuanyuan Wentian extended three fingers stained with black light toward Yun Che: "Thirty breaths, within thirty breaths, this venerable will reduce you to dark powder! Even if you use the Primordial Mystic Ark, don't think you can escape from this venerable's grasp!!"
"Then it'll be that little phoenix!!"
"Your so-called 'infinite possibilities' and 'future' are nothing but jokes in my eyes!!"
Darkness swirled, Xuanyuan Wentian swept up an illusory black shadow in the darkness, rapidly closing in on Yun Che. The Eternal Night Demonic Sword slashed out again, cleaving a bizarre hexagonal sword beam. When it blasted in front of Yun Che, it had already transformed into a massive dark sword formation, stabbing Yun Che's soul with an intense pain.
A struggle flashed across Yun Che's face; ultimately, he chose not to take it head-on, using Star God Remnant Shadow to swiftly dodge, completely evading the sword formation. Xuanyuan Wentian instantly re-locked onto his position, thrusting out a second sword horizontally, a spatial fissure like a galloping lightning bolt charging toward Yun Che.
Yun Che flashed again, shattering into five afterimages, appearing fifty zhang away.
Boom!! Boom!! Crack!!
Xuanyuan Wentian unleashed five consecutive sword strikes, all of which missed under Yun Che's unpredictable Star God Remnant Shadow.
The strength of Yun Che's core profound art, the Evil God Art, lay in its profound force berserk. The heavy sword in his hand could maximize his destructive power. Thus, what he had never feared was a head-on clash.
Usually, Star God Remnant Shadow was mostly used to make up for his movement technique deficiencies, leaving opponents no way to avoid, forced into a head-on confrontation with him. This was the first time he had continuously used Star God Remnant Shadow to avoid a head-on clash.
Because the previous two strikes alone had already inflicted considerable injuries on him. The terror of the Divine Path power had truly far exceeded his expectations.
"Flee?" Xuanyuan Wentian's face was ferocious: "This venerable wants to see how you flee!!"
Xuanyuan Wentian suddenly reached out his palm, grabbing fiercely toward the space where Yun Che was.
In an instant, the space for several hundred zhang around Yun Che twisted completely, then converged toward Yun Che's location within the twist.
Yun Che's expression immediately changed because he clearly felt the space tightening. Every part of his body felt like it was being pressed by thousands of jun of iron plates, and even his breathing was severely obstructed. He quickly tried to move away, but with just a slight sway of his body, the surrounding space suddenly contracted violently again, the pressure on his body abruptly increasing several times, making him unable to even lift his arm for a moment.
This... this is...
"At this venerable's level, space is so fragile." Xuanyuan Wentian withdrew his palm and approached unhurriedly: "This is the interference of Divine Path power with space, a mighty force you have no chance to touch in this lifetime!!"
"Let this venerable see if, when you despair, you will also wag your tail and beg for mercy like those lowly ants! Hahahahaha..."
Facing Yun Che, already a turtle in a jar, Xuanyuan Wentian laughed wildly, swung the Eternal Night Demonic Sword, and a pitch-black sword beam a full three zhang long, carrying the terrifying Divine Path power, flew toward Yun Che who was sealed by space.
"Urgh!!!"
Yun Che gritted his teeth and groaned, struggling with all his might. This seal was completely different from the "Dark Prison" Xuanyuan Wentian had used before. Dark Prison used dark demonic breath to forcibly restrict the target's mobility, but what was now imposed on Yun Che was a spatial seal achieved purely by interfering with space using powerful force.
Yun Che had encountered spatial seals before, but had never experienced such a terrifying one.
He madly released his profound energy throughout his body, but it only managed to shift his body slightly to the side. Meanwhile, the dark sword beam had pierced through space, shooting straight at his chest.
Puff!!!
The dark sword beam from the Eternal Night Demonic Sword, which even the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword couldn't fully disperse, slammed heavily into Yun Che's chest. As the black light exploded, a large spray of blood mist burst out, instantly staining most of Yun Che's upper body red. A pained groan also escaped his mouth.
"Mm?" Xuanyuan Wentian, however, squinted his eyes... because this strike of his, one brimming with Divine Path power, had directly hit Yun Che's chest, yet it hadn't pierced through his body.
"Such a tenacious body." Xuanyuan Wentian murmured slowly, a mocking look in his eyes, but within him there was lasting shock and disbelief. Because he was very certain that if his own body had been hit by that sword beam, it would have been pierced through without fail.
Could it be that Yun Che's body was actually superior to this venerable's demonic body!?
Absolutely impossible!!
"Then what about this strike...!"
Xuanyuan Wentian curled his lips into a demon's sinister grin. Suddenly, a nearly hundred-zhang-long pitch-black sword beam shot up from the Eternal Night Demonic Sword. Then, this sword beam rapidly contracted instead, from a hundred zhang long down to less than two chi.
Sizzle...
The space around the pitch-black sword beam emitted a wailing sound, as if trembling in fear beneath this sword beam of utmost terror.
"Die!!"
Bang!!
The space around the Eternal Night Demonic Sword completely exploded, shattering into countless spatial fragments. A pitch-black sword beam, darker than the abyss, cut through the broken space, carrying the aura of death, flying toward Yun Che's heart.
Almost at the same instant, a dazzling golden flame light suddenly burst from Yun Che's body.
"Yellow—Springs—Ashes!!!"
Boom boom boom boom boom boom—
The Golden Crow flame furiously exploded centered on Yun Che's body. With each boom, a layer of flame light blasted outward. The space that had been extremely compressed and sealed by Xuanyuan Wentian's profound force was forcibly burned through. Even the flying sword beam, after piercing over twenty layers of flames, was completely incinerated several zhang away from Yun Che's chest.
"Oh?" Xuanyuan Wentian's pupils widened again. Then he let out a wild roar, whether of anger or excitement: "Yes! Struggle like this! Struggle to your heart's content!!"
Facing the madly exploding terrifying flames, Xuanyuan Wentian charged forward amid his wild roar. All the black aura behind him gathered onto the Eternal Night Demonic Sword in an instant, then, with the swing of the sword, transformed into a massive dark arc, smashing into the still rapidly spreading Golden Crow sea of fire.
Woom bang!!
The exploding Golden Crow flames were instantly cut in two by the dark arc. From a distance, it looked like a blazing sun had been viciously sliced in half. Yun Che, who had just broken free from the spatial seal and exerted himself to unleash Yellow Springs Ashes, hadn't yet caught his breath when a sky-covering heavy pressure came down from above.
Yun Che gritted his teeth hard, forcibly mobilizing his entire body's now chaotic profound energy. With a loud roar, he smashed the Heaven-Defying Sword upward with all his might.
"Annihilation of Heaven and Earth!!"
A vermilion heavy sword aura field soared upward, slamming heavily into the dark arc from the Eternal Night Demonic Sword. The power of the dark arc instantly weakened, but it was still something Yun Che's hastily delivered strike could not block. After a brief stalemate, the heavy sword power collapsed with a bang. Yun Che let out a muffled groan, like a withered leaf swept up by a hurricane, flying far sideways.
"It seems your struggle ends here! This time... die completely!!"
Xuanyuan Wentian slowly raised his arm. An invisible sword intent silently reverberated between heaven and earth. Then, he gently pushed the Eternal Night Demonic Sword forward.
The world suddenly became silent for an instant. All colors, sounds, and things were completely frozen. Between heaven and earth, there was only a great dark sword, as if from the depths of hell, piercing through heaven and earth... that pitch-black trail was like a cut splitting the entire firmament in two.
No Return Sword, the ultimate sword technique that could only be unleashed at the highest realm of Tian Wei Ultimate Sword, and also the pinnacle sword of Xuanyuan Wentian's lifelong sword attainment.
Since the day he mastered it, no one had ever been able to dodge this sword strike.
This sword was too fast, so fast that even with Yun Che's eyesight, he could not catch any trace of its trajectory. But a deadly coldness pierced his soul. His body, before his consciousness, instinctively activated the Evil God Barrier.
Crack!!!!!!!!
In the instant the Evil God Barrier formed, the Eternal Night Demonic Sword flew out as if from a spatial rift, slamming into the Evil God Barrier.
Yun Che felt as if struck by lightning. His body, already in a backward flight state, instantly fell like a plummeting meteor. In an instant, he was carried dozens of li away.
"Ssssss~~~~~~~"
Yun Che's teeth were almost ground to pieces. All his strength was concentrated on the Evil God Barrier. All the wounds on his body also split open thoroughly. This seemingly simple sword strike carried a terrifying power he had never seen before. When it collided with the Evil God Barrier, Yun Che felt as if all the bones in his body had been nearly shaken apart.
In an instant, only a moment so brief it could be ignored, he was carried flying fifty to sixty li. The Evil God Barrier also cracked with countless fissures in that instant, on the brink of complete collapse. The tip of the Eternal Night Demonic Sword, so close, had already stabbed deeply into the barrier, less than five cun away from his heart, and was rapidly approaching.
This was the sword of the number one swordsman in Tian Xuan Continent.
And it was his ultimate sword under the power of the Divine Path.
That he could sustain this single instant with mortal strength was already a miracle worthy of being recorded in the annals of Tian Xuan Continent.
And the next instant, there was no way he could hold on.
"Heaven—Shattering!!"
Yun Che bit down fiercely, blood foam splattering from his mouth, and activated the Fourth Evil God Realm Gate.
Bang!!!!!!!!
Profound energy surged, profound light burst forth, the defensive power of the Evil God Barrier instantly multiplied, and then it exploded with a bang.
At this moment, Yun Che had already been carried nearly a hundred li by the Eternal Night Demonic Sword. His back was less than ten li away from the Supreme Sea Palace.
Under the shattered Evil God Barrier, the Eternal Night Demonic Sword was finally, with extreme difficulty, shaken off. A long line of blood spilled through the air, carrying Yun Che straight down into the sea.
And this distance was enough for the many powerhouses of the Supreme Sea Palace to clearly witness this scene.
"Brother Yun!" Feng Xue'er, with her face drained of color, cried out in alarm, no longer caring about anything else. Phoenix flame ignited all over her body, and she flew straight north. Feng Zukui and Feng Tianwei hurriedly tried to stop her, but only grasped at air.
But before she could fly out of the sea palace area, Yun Che's voice suddenly came to her ears: "Xue'er, don't worry about me, protect Yuan Ba and the others."
The voice was somewhat weak and pained, but exceptionally calm. Feng Xue'er slowly stopped, staring at the vast sea that had swallowed Yun Che, lost in thought for a long time.
The Eternal Night Demonic Sword drew a long black shadow in the air, then flew back into Xuanyuan Wentian's hand.
"He actually forcibly blocked it," Xuanyuan Wentian murmured with narrowed eyes, then gave a sinister laugh: "Seems he used some kind of final trump card, but he's probably about dead."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly sensed Yun Che's aura coming from deep under the sea, and it was getting farther away.
"Mm?" Xuanyuan Wentian's dark eyes narrowed sharply: "Still has strength left... Heh, trying to flee?"
"This venerable wants to see where you can flee!!"
Xuanyuan Wentian's body descended, sinking into the endless sea, chasing directly after Yun Che's aura.
In the vast deep sea, no edge in sight, no return place known, and unable to distinguish direction. Yun Che put away the Heaven-Defying Sword, pressed one hand against his chest, quickly calming his injuries, parted the cold seawater with his body, and fled at the fastest speed toward even deeper waters.
Behind him, Xuanyuan Wentian's aura suddenly enveloped down and rapidly approached. His wild, arrogant laughter pierced through the seawater to his ears: "Yun Che, flee to your heart's content, flee with all your might! But even if you flee to the ends of the earth, don't think you can escape from this venerable's grasp!"
"..." Yun Che did not turn back, his speed increasing again. His whole body seemed to transform into a sharp sword, cutting through the layers of obstruction in the seawater, charging quickly into even deeper sea regions.
Behind him was Xuanyuan Wentian's increasingly heavy and eerie dark aura. When Xuanyuan Wentian closed in to just one li away, the two had already sunk to over ten thousand zhang under the sea.
Ten thousand zhang deep in the sea, complete darkness, not a trace of light. The water pressure here was enough to crush a Xuan adept into a pulp in an instant; it was a terrifyingly deadly zone.
And right here, Yun Che, who had been fleeing toward the deep sea, suddenly stopped... the moment he turned his body, a flash of dense black light passed through his pupils. The corner of his mouth, still slowly oozing blood, tilted up into a strange, faint smile.
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