Experiencing What Despair Feels Like, Like a Dream
Experiencing What Despair Feels Like, Like a Dream
Before Ancient Mulberry City, there was dead silence. Only bone fragments mixed with blood mist still drifted through the void, telling everyone what had just happened.
Even the Snow Sword Immortal, who had wanted to step in and stop it, stared blankly at all of this, seemingly still unable to react.
The several great families within the city fell utterly silent, terrified to the extreme.
The various family heads trembled uncontrollably, looking at Gu Changge as if gazing upon some great terror.
What terrifying power.
Ah Qing, Princess Xuan Die, and the others all widened their eyes, wondering if they had seen wrong.
Although the Star Sword Immortal was not particularly famous within the Profound Sword World, he was still a genuine Earth Sword Immortal, one of the handful of people standing at the very peak.
Yet now, he had been directly killed by a single punch from a subordinate behind Gu Changge, body and soul annihilated.
They had never imagined that the subordinate who had always stood silently by Gu Changge’s side could be terrifying to such a degree.
This scene was simply too shocking. Many people’s minds buzzed and went completely blank.
“A Physique surpassing the Earth Sword Immortal Realm... how is that possible? He didn’t even use any magic power...”
In a certain area of Ancient Mulberry City, Lin En’s pupils contracted sharply, and huge waves surged in his heart as well.
His insight was extraordinarily keen, so he could naturally see it clearly.
That tower-like terrifying figure just now had merely relied on pure physical force to suppress the Star Sword Immortal.
Then, catching him off guard, he smashed down with boundless might, like a hundred thousand Mystic Mountains crashing down, leaving no possibility of resistance. That power could only be described as destructive.
This was a horrifying, shudder-inducing fact.
He felt that even if his true body descended in person, he would likely find it difficult to withstand that sudden punch.
Lin En even clearly saw that beneath the void that figure had stepped across, terrifying grey cracks were left behind, from which Chaos Energy and astral winds spewed out.
Such a Physique could only be described as monstrous.
The fall of an Earth Sword Immortal caused a huge commotion in Ancient Mulberry City.
Everyone who had witnessed that scene with their own eyes trembled in terror to the extreme, feeling as if the sky was about to collapse.
In their eyes, an Earth Sword Immortal was the very symbol of invincibility, yet now one had been killed by a single punch from that Otherworldly Sky Demon’s subordinate.
This was no different from their world gradually crumbling apart.
Looking at Gu Changge atop the city wall, his expression calm and still utterly nonchalant, everyone felt a chill crawl up their spines, seized by inexplicable fear.
The death of an Earth Sword Immortal seemed, in his eyes, no different from crushing an ant.
“It seems I worried too much.”
The Snow Sword Immortal took a deep breath, calmed down, and descended from the high sky.
Although she could not bear to see the Star Sword Immortal fall like this, he had brought it upon himself, and no one else could be blamed.
“There should be a force behind him.”
Atop the city wall, Gu Changge unhurriedly lifted his gaze and then withdrew it, seemingly unconcerned by what had happened, and asked the Snow Sword Immortal.
After all, Ah Da had been born bathed in the Demon Lord’s True Blood. The terror of his Physique was in no way inferior to that of an ordinary True Daoist.
Moreover, in Gu Changge’s view, the Earth Sword Immortals of this world were at most at the Quasi-Emperor level.
The gap in strength between the two sides was so vast that calling it a chasm between heaven and earth would not be an exaggeration. How could the Star Sword Immortal possibly have withstood Ah Da?
“Behind him is the Star Sword Valley. This matter was the Star Sword Immortal acting on his own obstinate will; it has nothing to do with the Profound Sword World.”
For some reason, the Snow Sword Immortal felt a chill wash over her. The expression on her face beneath the mask shifted slightly, but she still forced herself to answer.
She had not felt this sensation for a very long time, not since she had stepped into the Earth Sword Immortal Realm.
Before Gu Changge, she always felt restless and ill at ease, the hairs on her skin standing on end, trembling involuntarily.
As for today’s events, she had already tried to dissuade the Star Sword Immortal, but he had paid no heed whatsoever and still insisted on striking at Gu Changge. Whatever consequences resulted should be borne by the Star Sword Immortal himself.
Moreover, she faintly guessed the purpose behind Gu Changge’s question.
“Star Sword Valley...”
Gu Changge’s expression did not change. He still smiled casually and said, “Although I have always been one to stay out of worldly disputes, since someone has come provoking me, I can’t very well do nothing at all.”
“Ah Da.”
At this point, the smile on his face faded, and he said indifferently, “There is no longer any need for that force to exist in this world.”
“Yes, Master.” Ah Da received the order, his face still wearing that cold expression, and directly tore open the void before him with a large hand, stepping inside.
To him, killing the Star Sword Immortal was no different from crushing an ant.
As for the Star Sword Valley, he could annihilate it with a lift of his hand.
Seeing this scene, everyone within Ancient Mulberry City trembled, their faces pale with fear.
They had never imagined that Gu Changge would, over a single disagreement, move to destroy the Star Sword Valley—a great power comparable to the Southern Light Empire.
Although the Snow Sword Immortal wanted to stop it, she could only sigh softly and remain silent.
The Star Sword Immortal was the strongest being of the Star Sword Valley. Since even he had died so miserably, there was no need to think hard about what fate awaited the Star Sword Valley.
From another perspective, she also came to understand a truth.
To Gu Changge, their lives and deaths were unimportant. What mattered was not obstructing or provoking him.
Gu Changge was no kind-hearted soul either.
Ah Qing, Princess Xuan Die, and the others also fell silent. At a juncture like this, who would dare to dissuade Gu Changge? They were not fools.
Although Gu Changge usually treated them with great warmth and courtesy, that did not mean they occupied any significant place in his eyes.
Among those who had reached such a realm, who could possibly be a simple character?
“Since you’ve all come, why are you in such a hurry to leave?”
At this moment, Gu Changge’s gaze fell upon a certain spot, and he spoke again, his expression unchanged.
The Snow Sword Immortal and the others were slightly shaken at his words and looked toward the direction Gu Changge indicated.
Boom—
The next instant, heaven and earth shook violently, and a terrifying aura that reached boundlessly far spread out.
Gu Changge stretched a palm forward, seizing toward a certain point in the void.
As this palm reached out, heaven and earth grew dim, all light vanishing, as if sinking into eternal darkness.
A boundless, terrifying giant hand seemed to reach out from within a cosmic black hole—mighty and dreadful. With a single tremor, all eight directions were annihilated; everything was destroyed.
The void collapsed in the first instant, countless dense cracks appearing like a spider’s web, shattering into nothingness.
“What is that?”
“Is the world about to be destroyed?”
Within a radius of tens of millions of li, countless living beings and Cultivators felt their souls tremble, wanting to prostrate themselves toward that direction in worship.
The people of Ancient Mulberry City felt it most deeply, as if an apocalyptic calamity had descended. Their breathing nearly stopped; their bodies and souls were on the verge of collapse under this aura.
They were incomparably horrified.
Even the Snow Sword Immortal’s soul trembled, her expression graver than ever before, as she felt Gu Changge’s terror.
Even though the world’s rules suppressed him, under these circumstances it was still enough for him to sweep across the world single-handedly.
Ahhh—
Through heaven and earth rang out a teeth-aching sound of shattering bones and miserable screams.
A certain spot in the void rapidly collapsed, blood seeping out from within, as several figures hidden inside were revealed.
But now they were all in an utterly wretched state, gripped by a terrifying pitch-black giant hand, unable to move, clutched in its palm, their expressions horrified and despairing, bones exploding, bodies collapsing.
“That’s... Heavenly Monster Grandma, the Dust Sword Immortal, and a peerless old Imperial Lord of an empire!”
The people within Ancient Mulberry City trembled in terror as they recognized the identities of these figures.
Without a doubt, these were all existences of the Earth Sword Immortal Realm.
Especially that disheveled old crone—the renowned Heavenly Monster Grandma, possessor of the Heavenly Monster Sword Spirit.
Four thousand years ago, she had already made a mighty name for herself within the Profound Sword World, far beyond what the Star Sword Immortal could compare to.
Yet today, her eyes were filled with misery, her whole body covered in blood, her bones shattered and collapsing, on the verge of annihilation of body and soul.
The other two Earth Sword Immortals were equally wretched, suppressed so thoroughly they could barely move, nearly crushed into a mist of blood.
That terrifying black giant hand blotted out everything, like the hand of a Supreme Ruler, carrying a heart-palpating, despair-inducing might, gripping three Earth Sword Immortals as if clutching three little bugs.
“They should all have answered the Sword Immortal Order and come together with the Star Sword Immortal. Seeing the situation turn bad, they tried to retreat.”
The Snow Sword Immortal frowned. Among them was her old acquaintance, Heavenly Monster Grandma. The two had once clashed, their strength evenly matched.
But later, as she comprehended the Divine Domain of ice and snow, Heavenly Monster Grandma proved no match for her and vanished from the world, never to be seen again.
She had never imagined Heavenly Monster Grandma would appear here in such a manner.
Looking at Heavenly Monster Grandma’s miserable state, she could not help but feel complicated emotions.
The people within Ancient Mulberry City also watched this scene with trembling fear. The Earth Sword Immortals who usually stood high above, figures they needed to look up to and worship—
Today were begging for mercy so wretchedly, reduced to fish on the chopping block, their lives and deaths no longer their own. Such an enormous contrast left them even more horrified and aghast.
“With just the likes of you, you thought to capture and kill me?”
Gu Changge’s expression did not change. Standing atop the city wall, he spoke casually.
“Spare us!”
“We all came under the Sword Immortal Order of the Shu Sect’s Old Sword Immortal! This has nothing to do with us! We were only following orders, with no ill intent at all!”
Heavenly Monster Grandma and the others all wore miserable, terrified expressions, blood mist continuously seeping from their bodies, bones crackling, nearly crushed into ash.
Just moments ago, after seeing the Star Sword Immortal fall, they had sensed the situation turning bad and wanted to flee.
But a terrifying pressure, like the World’s Will itself, descended and sealed off every inch of the void.
Then a sky-blotting giant hand reached over, within which entire universes seemed to condense. They had nowhere to escape. For the first time since becoming Earth Sword Immortals, they experienced what it meant to be weak and what despair felt like.
That was simply not a power they could contend against.
How laughable—they had actually thought that with numbers on their side, they could capture and kill Gu Changge, thereby forcing back the many Otherworldly Sky Demons.
That was simply no different from a dream.
In this hopeless situation, they only wanted to survive.
“The Old Sword Immortal of the Shu Sect?”
“The Sword Immortal Order... Rest assured, he will soon go down to accompany you all.”
Gu Changge chuckled softly, his eyes without the slightest ripple.
“Spare us!”
Feeling Gu Changge’s killing intent, the three Earth Sword Immortals, Heavenly Monster Grandma among them, revealed despair and terror in their eyes. Never had they imagined that after dominating the world their entire lives, they would die in such a wretched manner today.
Before Ancient Mulberry City, everyone trembled in terror to the extreme, feeling that today something would surely happen that would sweep across the entire Profound Sword World, setting off heaven-shaking waves.
The next moment, Gu Changge gently shook his head. The terrifying black giant hand in the void suddenly clenched shut. Endless radiant light seemed to interweave and fall within it, and then—with a bang—it exploded, turning into a sky-filling mist of blood.