The Sword of World Domination's Master, Tuoba Xiaoyao, and His Two Greatest Secrets
The Sword of World Domination’s Master, Tuoba Xiaoyao, and His Two Greatest Secrets
Afterward, Gu Changge learned from Jiang Chuchu about the many troubles the Mortal Palace had recently encountered, and they were more or less in line with his guesses.
The outbreak of the Absolute Yin Heaven calamity was one aspect.
On the other hand, the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty within the Xiluo Heaven beside the Sky Domain seemed to have discovered an ancient world that had never been opened up before.
Although this news had yet to be confirmed, in Jiang Chuchu’s view, it was likely close to the truth.
Jiang Chuchu had no way whatsoever to deal with the Absolute Yin Heaven calamity. Now that Gu Changge had come, he simply sent Ah Da off with a Grand Flask condensed from runes, and paid it no further mind.
A calamity of that level did not contain much Source of the Eternal Overcast, so Ah Da could naturally collect it by bringing the flask along.
Instead, it was the matter of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty that caught Gu Changge’s attention.
If he remembered correctly, back in Kunwu City, the Eldest Princess of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty, Yu Feiya, had once come looking for him.
However, at that time Gu Changge was busy laying out his plans and had no time to see her. Later, the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty’s party left, and unlike the other sects, they did not head to Kun Mountain to rescue the Ji Family’s Founding Ancestor.
But based solely on his impression of Yu Feiya when cutting the Seven Divine Rocks in the market back then, Gu Changge felt that this woman was anything but simple.
First of all, she carried a massive amount of Fortuity, and her cultivation strength seemed shrouded in a layer of mist—absolutely not comparable to the likes of the Sky Demon Sovereign or the Young Holy King.
Of course, Gu Changge had no plans to investigate this matter for now.
The Golden Fortuity Crown he had left at the Mortal Palace for a long time had now accumulated quite a bit of Power of Faith, enough for him to condense another Faith Dharma Body.
The previous Faith Dharma Body had manifested its divinity before the masses at the Boundary Marker Sea, but it had also quickly consumed the accumulated Power of Faith.
Gu Changge had now reached the realm of a True Daoist. If he condensed another Faith Dharma Body, it should be able to exert power at the True Daoist level.
The Beyond was so vast and boundless that as long as someone sincerely chanted his name, he could easily descend with a Faith Dharma Body and harvest massive amounts of Fortuity and Power of Faith.
Since ancient times, many ancient beings had the habit of establishing temples, and their purpose was naturally to collect faith from all corners of the world.
The Power of Faith was extremely mysterious. There was even a saying that even if a Cultivator perished, their soul scattering into nothingness...
As long as someone in the world still remembered them and chanted their true name, they could reshape their body from within endless darkness and return to the world.
Of course, the premise was that the faith had to be firm enough.
“Tuoba Xiaoyao, hand over the Sword of World Domination, and we’ll spare your life.”
“Tuoba Xiaoyao, you’re already at death’s door. If you know what’s good for you, hand over the Sword of World Domination. A divine object like that is far beyond what you deserve to possess. In your hands, it’s nothing but a waste of a heavenly treasure.”
“If you don’t want the family behind you to be implicated, you’d better obediently hand it over.”
“Perhaps Young Master Changge, in his magnanimity, will spare your life and leave you an intact corpse.”
“A divine object like the Sword of World Domination can only be wielded by someone like Young Master Changge. What the hell do you amount to?”
At the peak of Absolute Soul Cliff, the cold wind pierced to the bone, miasma surged to the sky, and the voices were incomparably clamorous.
A young man in tattered clothes, covered in blood, had fled all the way here.
Although he faced such a deadly situation, his gaze remained cold, and a mocking smile hung at the corner of his mouth.
He stood there like a long spear, one that could pierce through the heavens.
On all sides were enemies who had come to hunt him down, black clouds billowing to the sky, blotting out the heavens and covering the earth.
Every one of them possessed heaven-defying cultivation, standing tall in the firmament, their auras terrifying, their gazes cold to the extreme, their words icy, without the slightest trace of emotion.
“You really think highly of me, sending so many experts to hunt me down, and even using my clan to threaten me.”
“As dogs of that Gu Changge, you lot really do work yourselves to the bone.”
The young man sneered, then began laughing up at the sky, as if utterly unrestrained.
“The Sword of World Domination is in my hands. If you want it, come and take it. I’d like to see who dares come before me to die.”
Even facing such an inescapable, certain-death situation, the young man exuded an invincible aura.
As he spoke, an immortal sword appeared in his hand, radiant with rosy light, as if forged from Immortal Gold. Its sword light was dazzling, with countless phenomena of ascension manifesting around it.
Merely the trembling of its blade was like a peerless Sword Immortal reviving, swallowing mountains and rivers, its blood qi like a blazing sun, making heaven and earth tremble.
“You don’t know life from death, still stubbornly resisting at a time like this. Young Master Changge has a merciful heart—for the sake of Princess Feiya, he would spare your life.”
“But since you’re courting death yourself, don’t blame us.”
A black-robed old man sneered, his gaze fixed on the young man ahead as if looking at a corpse.
As his words fell, everyone behind him surged forward, intending to suppress and kill the man before them.
An unimaginably terrifying battle erupted here. The young man was covered in blood, his injuries severe.
Yet he was still like a peerless Sword Immortal, looking down upon all directions, slashing out thousands upon thousands of sword lights that blotted out the sky and swept forth, causing heaven and earth to lose their color.
“That bitch Yu Feiya—I treated her with such sincerity, regarded her as my beloved, yet she leaked the news that I possessed the Sword of World Domination, drawing Gu Changge’s covetous eyes...”
“And causing me to end up like this...”
“If there’s a next life, I will never forgive her...”
Hearing the black-robed old man utter the words “Princess Feiya,”
the young man’s eyes instantly turned red, like a savage beast, and a furious roar erupted from deep within his throat.
At this moment, anyone could feel the despair and rage in his heart, as well as the deep unwillingness and hatred of being betrayed by his beloved.
However, the many enemies around him acted as if they hadn’t heard, continuing to charge at him.
The battle here erupted once more. Blood splattered, severed limbs flew, and blood flowed across the ground.
Killing intent filled both heaven and earth. Even if he were a hundred times stronger, he could never escape.
Today was already a dead end, with no path to survival whatsoever.
Boom!
However, at that moment, heaven and earth suddenly trembled violently. A terrifying aura like a vast ocean descended, suppressing everyone present until they could barely breathe, their skin on the verge of splitting, about to collapse limply to the ground.
The young man, who was fighting his many enemies, also suddenly felt a chill run through his entire body, and turned to glare savagely at the sky above.
There, a figure in black robes was descending—tall and slender, with cold brows and eyes, every inch of him exuding nobility and mystery.
Behind him followed a noble, elegant, and breathtakingly beautiful woman.
Gu Changge, Yu Feiya...
Seeing the two descend upon this place, the young man’s eyes could no longer conceal his bone-deep hatred, and his voice roared.
“Greetings to Young Master Changge, Princess Feiya.”
Everyone present also stopped what they were doing and respectfully saluted the two in the sky.
“Gu Changge, even if I become a ghost, I will never let you go.”
The young man stared at the black-robed man who had sent people to hunt him down and seize the Sword of World Domination in his hand, wishing he could cut him into a thousand pieces and grind his bones to dust.
“A ghost? That depends on whether you even get the chance. Hand over the Sword of World Domination, and today I can leave you an intact corpse.”
The black-robed man’s expression was cold, unchanged in the slightest by Tuoba Xiaoyao’s words. His face was like an iceberg that had not melted in ten thousand years, without the slightest ripple of emotion.
“Don’t even think about it. Even if I destroy the Sword of World Domination, I won’t let you have it.”
Tuoba Xiaoyao laughed loudly, but this aggravated his injuries, and he couldn’t help coughing blood from the corner of his mouth.
Then, he fixed his gaze on the elegant, beautiful woman behind the black-robed man, his voice filled with bone-deep hatred.
“Yu Feiya, I treated you with such sincerity, wishing I could tear out my heart and lungs and give you every good thing in this world. Yet in the end, you curried favor with the powerful, told Gu Changge about the Sword of World Domination in my possession, and caused my family to be destroyed, reduced me to this state. Tell me, do you feel even the slightest bit of guilt in your heart?”
“Xiaoyao, you have to believe me, I never harmed you.”
“I’m not what you think. I never told anyone about you possessing the Sword of World Domination.”
“None of this has anything to do with me. It was Father Emperor who made me...”
At this moment, hearing Tuoba Xiaoyao’s words, a trace of pain appeared on the face of the elegant woman in phoenix robes, and she shook her head.
But Tuoba Xiaoyao had no mind to listen to her explanation. With a furious roar, his entire body began to burn, and the Sword of World Domination in his hand radiated dazzling, brilliant light, as if tens of thousands of divine swords were reviving, ringing out as they slashed toward the black-robed man in the sky.
This was his desperate strike, his strike of despair.
“A mantis trying to stop a chariot—you don’t know life from death.”
However, facing this life-burning strike, the black-robed man’s expression remained utterly without ripple.
He merely pressed a single palm down toward the ground below, blotting out the sky and sun, as if a star were crashing down from the cosmos—utterly terrifying.
Such a vast gap was like an insurmountable chasm.
Despair surfaced in Tuoba Xiaoyao’s eyes, and his entire body began to crack under this aura.
Even without touching that palm, it was like a hundred thousand great mountains pressing down upon him, about to shatter him to pieces, destroying both body and soul.
“Xiaoyao...”
However, at that moment, a figure in phoenix robes suddenly darted in front of him, blocking the palm descending from high above for him.
Pu!
Blood light shot into the sky, turning incomparably scarlet and blinding, exploding across this place.
“What...”
“Feiya, you...”
Tuoba Xiaoyao froze on the spot, seemingly unable to believe what he was seeing before his eyes.
At the critical moment, it was actually Yu Feiya who had rushed over to block this palm for him.
His head buzzed and went blank, his entire person seemingly turned to a dazed fool. How was this possible...
“I never harmed you. You have to believe me.”
The last thing he saw was the woman in phoenix robes, a mournful smile on her lips, as if she meant to prove her resolve with death.
“Since you want to die, then you can go down with him.”
The black-robed man’s brows furrowed slightly, seemingly not expecting the woman in phoenix robes to block this strike for Tuoba Xiaoyao. But his expression remained unchanged, and the palm continued to fall.
Boom!
The next moment, a bloody mist burst apart, and only a tattered silk scarf fell from the sky, stained with blood.
Tuoba Xiaoyao stared blankly at this scene and let out a heart-rending, lung-tearing roar.
“Feiya...”
Pu!
But what answered him was still a palm descending from high above—simple and direct—instantly enveloping and covering him.
The world turned to complete darkness, all color vanishing.
...
Huff, huff, huff...
The Great Yu Celestial Dynasty, the General Residence.
Inside a room, a young man with regular features and a tall, upright build suddenly jolted awake from a dream, his face deathly pale.
He was like someone who had just been rescued from drowning, gasping for breath in great gulps, his entire body drenched in cold sweat.
Then, after a long while, he seemed to finally come back to his senses, his fists clenched tight, making cracking sounds.
“Ten years. A full ten years have passed, yet I still can’t forget.”
“In this life, I will definitely protect you, Feiya... I won’t let anyone hurt you... including Gu Changge...”
He silently swore in his heart, an unconcealable light of hatred hidden deep within his eyes.
This was none other than Tuoba Xiaoyao. In his heart, he actually hid two extremely deep secrets, which he had never told anyone.
Each secret concerned his origins.
He was not actually a person of this world, but came from another world.
To be precise, he came from an extremely ancient, vast world where the Sword Dao had flourished to its peak.
In that world, while observing the Ancestor of his sect undergo tribulation, he was accidentally struck dead by heavenly lightning, and was then reincarnated into this world.
At the age of thirteen, he suddenly awakened the memories of his past life—everything he had just experienced in that dream!