Immortal of the Ages

Chapter 588: Sword Descending From the Heavens!

However, the slaughter was far from over!

As the death toll rose, the crowd's anger subsided into fear and disgust. These emotions swirled around Yun Xiao like a tidal wave, making his eyes darken and bleed!

"Run!"

"This monster is terrifying."

"Liu Mumu must be a devil, otherwise, how could she have such a brutal helper?"

"The calamity of Sky Soaring City! The calamity of Sky Soaring City!"

Those who had been puzzled about the affairs of the mortal realm now began to waver too.

Their eyes, fixed on Yun Xiao at this moment, were filled with terror!

This fiend was too savage!

"Arbiter Lu, tell me, who else is your enemy?!" Yun Xiao roared in a low voice, his slaughter unrelenting, unstoppable. His eyes were a churning sea of blood, his body threaded with bloody strands, his sword haunted by countless spirits!

Hissing sounds filled the air!

Under his will and malevolent thoughts, the blood on the ground surged up, rushing in one direction!

Yun Xiao suddenly raised his blood-streaked head!

Before him, 3,000 Arbiters huddled together, forming a defensive array, and behind it, an elder with an ashen face was commanding everyone!

It was Jiang Taiping, the governor of Sky Soaring City!

"We'll trap him until reinforcements from other cities and the Thunder Department arrive!"

"This man has committed a first-class serious offense against the Celestial Court! Don't panic, he is doomed to die!" Jiang Taiping bellowed.

Deeply strategic, even now, with such massive losses, his heart remained somewhat calm—at least he himself was alive.

He guessed that the adversary's goal was to take Liu Mumu. As long as he did not interfere, he should be safe!

For many years, he had remained behind the scenes, preserving peace and surviving till now.

However, just as he finished speaking, the fiendishly violent devil didn't take Liu Mumu with him. Instead, like a streak of blood, he hesitated not a moment before charging at Jiang Taiping!

"Damn!" Seeing this, Jiang Taiping was at a loss! If he wanted to survive in the Thunder Department, facing such a ferocious incident, he certainly couldn't flee.

And so, he soared amidst the 3,000 Arbiter formation!

His presence, like a pearl in the night, finally roused the people of Sky Soaring City, igniting a glimmer of hope!

"This devil must be vanquished!"

Roars erupted one after another.

"Hmph!" Jiang Taiping suddenly stretched forth his hands.

In his right hand, a Life Sigil condensed, swirling with five worlds akin to real oceans—these were Rune Prisons, miniature worlds each formed from 10,000 Runes!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! A mere Sea Calming Sigil now seemed like five oceans, pressing down upon the skies of Sky Soaring City, the misty vapor exerting a crushing weight upon all!

Jiang Taiping possessed five Rune Prisons, revealing his true cultivation—a few realms above even the Divine Self Realm, far stronger than Yun Xiao in his normal form!

However, Yun Xiao, in his Sword Devil state, grew more brutal with each kill. With malice surging, his lethal force was boundless and defied conventional wisdom.

BOOM! Following the Sea Calming Sigil, Jiang Taiping’s other hand now held the most famous celestial weapon of Sky Soaring City!

All eyes were upon him!

It was a needle, blue in the middle and black at both ends. It seemed incredibly small, but its appearance stilled even the five nearby oceans!

This was the top-grade Boundary Defining Divine Needle!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Under Jiang Taiping's chilling control, the needle transformed into a towering pillar, grasped by the elder!

"A Needle to Calm the Sea!" Jiang Taiping combined the Sea Calming Sigil and the Boundary Defining Divine Needle. As the weight of the five Runes Prisons pressed upon the needle, its weight surged dramatically!

Holding the needle, Jiang Taiping stood at the center of the 3,000 Arbiters, like a Sea God descending, his divine might surpassing that of many other city governors!

"With the needle here, the sea calms, the devil's calamity shall disperse!" Jiang Taiping's roar echoed through the night sky of Sky Soaring City, uplifting the spirits of countless people.

"Vanquish!"

The roars thundered through heaven and earth.

The louder their cries rang, the redder Yun Xiao's eyes became!

When he glimpsed the Boundary Defining Divine Needle, all the hatred in his heart erupted!

The myriad worlds where he belonged was on the verge of being obliterated!

Arbiter Lu An had met an unjust death!

Liu Mumu sought only to spread the truth, yet she faced disgrace and a fatal end!

Yun Xiao had ascended to the Celestial Court, only to be boiled in a soup!

How many hopeful ascenders had their souls shattered in the Ascension Pool?

Yet, here in the Celestial Court, revelry echoed daily!

Yun Xiao wondered bitterly, "Why?"

The Boundary Defining Divine Needle unleashed the wild fury in Yun Xiao's heart. This rage, mixed with his devilish killing intent, drove his desires of greed, wrath, and foolishness to the brink!

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Yun Xiao roared and shrieked, charging forward! His three-foot-long sword gathered countless malicious thoughts.

At this moment, his lethality was several times stronger than before!

Such a fiend was enough to strike terror into the hearts of the 3,000 Arbiters! But they would have to clench their teeth and brace themselves, controlled by Jiang Taiping.

"Hear my command, attack!" Jiang Taiping, hidden within the defensive array, declared majestically, his voice still dripping with disdain for the doomed.

"Fool! How dare you try to defy the heavens? You're nothing but duckweed in the wind!!" Jiang Taiping sneered.

"Haha!" Yun Xiao laughed menacingly, his eyes a stormy sea of blood. "There are no true heavens in this world, but if there were, I’d pierce through them."

Amidst his sinister laughter, Yun Xiao suddenly conjured masses of black smoke and blood mist, soaring to the clouds above Jiang Taiping and the 3,000 Arbiters!

"What is he planning to do..." Liu Mumu stood atop a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, her heart taut.

"Is he finally about to flee?" Jiang Taiping and the 3,000 Arbiters sneered.

Amid the attention of the masses, the youth wrapped in black smoke and blood mist suddenly looked down and coldly said, "Ever seen a sword technique that descends from the heavens?"

Jiang Taiping flinched, his aged face twitching.

Suddenly, above in the sky, the world fell into a deadly silence.

The youth, his hair and eyes as dark as blood, suddenly raised his longsword and thrust it towards the heavens.

"Oh thunder of the Celestial Court, heed my call, converge!"

With a deafening crack, the sword pierced the sky.

BOOM! Centered on this strike, a dense mass of black and crimson lightning snakes furiously gathered, the sound of millions of electrical explosions thundering through the air.

CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE! In a mere moment, the full power of the Sword Soul was unleashed!

Within the swirling black smoke and blood mist, Yun Xiao’s blood-streaked hair and eyes gradually faded, replaced by a defiant power that attracted the dark thunder of the heavens, creating brilliant flashes upon this devilish blade!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! In an instant, a vortex of black and crimson lightning, large enough to encompass half of Sky Soaring City, gathered above the Skyruler Immortal Manor. It resembled a miniature version of the Thunder Immortal Formation, and also had a fierce devilish face, brutally glaring down at everything below!

ROAR! This devilish face opened its bloody maw, unleashing a roar that shook the entire city!

Jiang Taiping's face turned pale, and he called out to his allies, "Hold together!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! He waved the Boundary Defining Divine Needle, the five Rune Prisons propped up, forming a shield of ancient oceans above, while the celestial weapons, Sword Souls, and Life Sigils of the 3,000 Arbiters also moved in unison, striking towards the heavens!

BUZZ! Yun Xiao was completely engulfed by the black and crimson lightning snakes!

His sword was the center of this thunderous vortex!

Amidst the storm, Yun Xiao fixed his gaze below, his voice thundering, "In early spring, thunder roars, rain scatters, awakening the earth, bringing prosperity to the crops!"

Spring thunder! The awakening! This was normally a beautiful scene in the mortal world, signifying rebirth, and so it was the Sword of Life!

Yet, under Yun Xiao’s transformation, this sword bore only wrath, ferocity, and a fatalistic courage, a resolve to destroy before rebuilding!

This sword came from the Celestial Court!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! After reciting those words, Yun Xiao swept up a tempest of dark lightning snakes, descending from the heavens like a thunderstorm, obliterating everything in its path!

Jiang Taiping felt the terror of that final, decisive strike and lifted his head in horror.

"Ascend the Heavens, Awakening of the Spring!"

The Awakening of the Spring, the first move of this celestial sword technique, indeed struck like a spring thunder from the heavens!

But... how could it be this thunder of destruction!

The same, yet not the same!

In that moment, Jiang Taiping shuddered to his core, his eyes fixed on Yun Xiao's figure, remembering a youth he had once revered!

He had acquired the Su Family's Misty Rebirth technique and used it immediately!

So, changing the Ascend the Heavens technique was not difficult for him, was it? Jiang Taiping's heart skipped a beat, the Boundary Defining Divine Needle in his hand trembling. Amidst the storm, he shouted to the heavens, "You are Lu Yao!!"

However, his shout was swallowed by a thunderclap, unheard by anyone!

Within the burst of black and crimson lightning, the youth's eyes wept blood, his aura murderous!

"Jiang Taiping, starting with you, every celestial being in the Great Dao Celestial Realm who has committed atrocities, no matter their station, shall not live!!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! A sword descended from the sky, unleashing a storm of blood and thunder like a monstrous beast striking down, crashing into the five-layered Rune Prison. The brutal, ferocious lightning transformed into a sky of sword energy, spreading destruction everywhere!

PUFF! PUFF! PUFF! Under the onslaught of this surging lightning sword light, the defense of the 3,000 Arbiters instantly collapsed, their bodies shredded into blood powder, exploding at the gates of the Skyruler Immortal Manor!

"Lu..." Under this massacre, Jiang Taiping was seized by boundless fear. As he stared up, the Boundary Defining Divine Needle was knocked out of his grasp, and the heavenly sword descended, stabbing directly into his crown!

SPUTTER! The sword pierced from his head down, the tip emerging from his tailbone, forcing him to kneel down with a thud, the sword's tip stabbing into the bluestone pavement!

And so, the sword replaced Jiang Taiping’s spine, forcing him to kneel upright!

"GUUUGH…!" In agonizing pain, Jiang Taiping’s vision blurred. He struggled to open his eyes, and a youth floated down and stood before him, holding the Boundary Defining Divine Needle.

That youth, at last, smiled.

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