Chapter 210
Chapter 210
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: Avici Sword's Fatal Turn
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In that instant, as his eyes met Lu Yang's smiling gaze, an intense sense of crisis surged within Many Treasures Child, as though he had glimpsed his own doom.
Yet the first emotion to stir in him was not terror.
It was derision.
'With you, trying to kill *me*?'
A mid-Foundation Establishment Perfected Being was no easy mark to kill. Besides, Many Treasures Child might hail from a minor sect, but he was still a Perfected Being with a legitimate inheritance.
Ordinary loose cultivators lacked orthodox teachings. They fixated on whatever scraps of inheritance they scraped together, grinding away regardless of flaws. In the end, their natal divine abilities and innate divine abilities specialized in a single domain—powerful, yes, but riddled with vulnerabilities. Exploit one, and they crumbled, body and soul perishing.
Wu Cang was the textbook case.
Foundation Establishment allowed no regrets. Once the path was set, there was no turning back. Loose cultivators might rampage for a spell, but they could never rival great sects.
Who among them could truly start over, after all?
Many Treasures Child was a different story.
As a direct lineage successor of Treasure Dividing Cliff, he had climbed to the role of Sect Master. The divine abilities he had refined were hardly the patchwork messes of loose cultivators.
The next moment, Many Treasures Child twisted his body in place.
"[Worldly Stride]!"
This innate divine ability aligned with the Tian Gang position [Bright Yang], a Gui Water divine ability and a form of divine escape art that borrowed earth and wood qi to vanish and flee.
Unleashed by Many Treasures Child, it activated at once, ready to whisk him away.
But the next instant, his motion froze. In a haze, a colossal mountain seemed to crash down from empty air, snuffing out his divine ability's radiant glow in a heartbeat.
[Mountain-Embracing]!
It unconditionally sealed a single innate divine ability—or one facet of a natal divine ability—plunging Many Treasures Child into even deadlier peril without delay.
A mote of spiritual light had already flickered to life at Lu Yang's brow.
[Star River Sword Pellet]!
Another relic from Sword Pavilion's Ye Xingfeng, badly damaged with only [Barrier Breaking] of its three mysteries intact, yet its edge remained peerlessly keen.
Bathed in the sword light, Many Treasures Child reflexively squinted, tears streaming as the glare stabbed his eyes. His skin prickled with needle-like agony. And this was merely from gazing upon the sword pellet. A true slash from Lu Yang, and death was certain!
In that split-second blaze, only one option flashed through Many Treasures Child's mind.
The next breath, a crimson spirit sword materialized in his grip, blooming with its own luster to parry the sword light Lu Yang unleashed.
[Avici Sword]!
"Hahaha, demon! In the end, man's schemes fall short of heaven's will!"
Many Treasures Child's heart brimmed with elation.
"You never dreamed the spirit treasure you meant to trap me with would save my skin instead, did you?"
With a spirit sword in hand, what was there to fear?
Let Lu Yang swing. He'd swing right back. Even on the back foot, outmatched, he wouldn't lose his head in one stroke.
That decided, Many Treasures Child funneled mana into the sword with frantic abandon.
The [Avici Sword] morphed into a ravenous gold-swallowing beast, gorging on his mana as its sword light swelled to majestic immensity.
—All in the blink of an eye.
Next instant, the Five Elements Perfected Being unfurled the [Primordial Chaos Five Elements Umbrella] anew, holding off Yin Shan and company. The others rushed to Many Treasures Child's aid.
"Kill!"
Once more, six Perfected Beings struck as one. Roiling radiance churned the heavens, shattering divine senses amid encroaching gloom.
When clarity returned, all froze.
Lu Yang had vanished.
Then Climbing Cloud Sect's Fairy Yun He stared at Many Treasures Child, her lovely eyes wide with shock.
"Many Treasures... why didn't you strike?"
The others glanced over and saw it: amid what should have been a united onslaught, Many Treasures Child—who ought to have led the charge—stood dumbstruck, [Avici Sword] ablaze in his grasp yet unmoving, locked rigid.
"No... I... I can't control it!"
Sweat poured from Many Treasures Child as he wrestled the sword, helpless as a third mystery bloomed upon its blade.
[Named Treasure].
From the outset, the [Avici Sword]'s true master had always been Lu Yang. Without his willing surrender, all refinement was illusion.
Enlightenment dawned on Many Treasures Child.
The [Avici Sword] had only been humoring him. Every move obeyed its owner's will.
"...You beast!"
An outraged bellow tore from Many Treasures Child, futile. Most of his mana was already sunk into the [Avici Sword], leaving him powerless.
The next instant, the blade whipped around.
—Its tip trained on Dragon-Fishing Old Man.
"...Eh?"
Dragon-Fishing Old Man's spiritual senses and thoughts clashed violently. Reason screamed danger at the pointed sword, yet his instincts insisted all was well—no peril, perfect safety, mere hallucination...
Until sword light plunged through his crown.
"Pfft!"
Silently, it bored through his celestial cap, carving down through brow, nose bridge, lips and teeth, neck, chest and gut, legs...
In the same heartbeat, the [Avici Sword] fully unsheathed!
Crimson light flickered and faded—the straw that broke the camel's back. Dragon-Fishing Old Man had no chance to invoke his spirit treasure or divine ability!
In that final moment, one thought consumed him:
*Why me?*
I'd been cautious enough. I didn't lead the chase or hurl threats. I kept the lowest profile from start to finish.
Yet *me* they target!
Why!?
I'm not reconciled!
Resentment and rage welled in Dragon-Fishing Old Man's heart, only to shatter under the blade, unveiling Lu Yang amid a fresh sheen of divine ability radiance.
A wholly new brilliance.
Even Perfected Being Yin Shan gaped in disbelief at the smiling Lu Yang.
"A second innate divine ability...?"
[Star Hidden Glory]!
More precisely, not innate second but mimicked via [Imperial Mansion Golden Seal Tushita True Edict]—a pivotal trump card in the clutch!
[Star Hidden Glory] struck when yang fire waxed and yin fire waned, dawn sun rose and stars withdrew; even stark causality veiled its gleam. It cloaked karma and qi flows, hoodwinking Foundation Establishment crisis senses. Many Treasures Child had sensed murder in the air; Dragon-Fishing Old Man registered nothing!
Lu Yang had marked him from the beginning.
Dragon-Fishing Old Man puzzled over it, but to Lu Yang, the pick was obvious: the lone loose cultivator present.
Loose cultivators were softest targets. Kill him or who?
Still, to leave no doubt, Lu Yang invoked [Imperial Mansion Golden Seal Tushita True Edict], boosting his cultivation to late-stage mid-Foundation Establishment peak.
The [Avici Sword]'s contingency fired too.
Casual on the surface, all-in underneath, dual assault. Thus, before all eyes, one sword felled Dragon-Fishing Old Man!
Next came the thunderous crash!
"Boom!"
Dragon-Fishing Old Man's dharma body detonated. Sword light minced every shred of flesh and blood; the [Avici Sword] devoured his Dao Foundation whole, wasting nothing.
Awash in the radiant fallout of his demise, Lu Yang narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.
"Yep, stomping small fry *is* the most fun..."
Without [Star Hidden Glory]'s veil, Dragon-Fishing Old Man might have slipped away. With it, success was inevitable.
Ultimately, [Imperial Mansion Golden Seal Tushita True Edict]'s realm uplift clinched it.
Overmatch the weak, and victory was assured!
Leap tiers, and dominate utterly!