Chapter 276
Chapter 276
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 276
Chapter Title: Severing the Sea!
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Kill him for a good thrill!
As soon as Lu Yang finished speaking, Suo Huan looked over in astonishment.
"From what I know, fellow Daoist, you're not the type to compete fiercely or excel in combat."
Lu Yang shook his head at those words.
"I'm not unwilling—I'm just capable."
With that, he directly inverted Calamity Wave behind his back and said calmly,
"Besides, the path ahead lies before us, with no way to retreat. Why not just fight it out!"
"Fine then—let's fight!"
Suo Huan's brows relaxed as he straightened his back.
"Anyone below Great Perfected Being, I'll leave to you, fellow Daoist. As for any Great Perfected Beings, feel free to leave them to me."
At those words, Lu Yang immediately glanced at Suo Huan.
As a Perfected Being of the Saint Sect, he naturally harbored three parts suspicion toward anyone.
If not for the fact that the two of them were now grasshoppers on the same string, there would be no such harmonious atmosphere between them.
But now, he revealed a quite genuine smile.
"Then I thank you, fellow Daoist."
"Hahaha!"
Suo Huan burst into hearty laughter.
There was one thing Lu Yang did not know.
As a cultivator from beyond the heavens who had labored in overseas seclusion for six hundred years, he addressed everyone as fellow Daoist, yet no one had ever truly accepted him.
He had called many people fellow Daoist, but no one had ever called him fellow Daoist in return.
Those with lower cultivation called him senior.
Those at the same level called him the loose cultivator from beyond the heavens.
Those with higher cultivation simply called him a heretic of the side paths.
Some even directly called him a "parasite."
Thus, this was the first time.
The first time someone addressed him as fellow Daoist.
It made this prodigy of old, who had wandered for over six hundred years, feel a rare surge of exhilaration.
More importantly, since they were now grasshoppers on the same string, there was no need for scheming or mutual wariness.
Instead, they could collaborate with complete sincerity and trust.
This was a first in Suo Huan's life—and in Lu Yang's as well.
Rumble!
Suo Huan took the initiative to conceal his figure, leaving Lu Yang alone.
He inverted Calamity Wave, and the sea beneath his feet surged wildly, instantly whipping up waves a myriad zhang tall.
Clang clang!
Calamity Wave in his hand trembled violently.
Within the sword light faintly appeared a girl similar to the spirit of the Avici Sword from before, but far larger.
The Avici Sword had originally been the most spiritually intelligent among the many spirit treasures in Lu Yang's possession, akin to a true person.
Thus, after all the treasures were reforged into Calamity Wave, she naturally became its core.
Even more, having absorbed the spirits of many treasures, her appearance had undergone a massive change, becoming far more mature.
Now manifesting her form, she immediately bowed to Lu Yang.
Lu Yang smiled faintly at the sight and said softly,
"Will you come with me?"
"To shatter the enemy for my master."
As her words fell, the sword spirit swiftly merged back into Calamity Wave.
Lu Yang immediately circulated his magic power, drawing the spiritual tides from all directions madly into the sword!
Almost simultaneously, at the Primordial Magnetism Divine Mountain.
".Hmm?"
Dragon King Sui Ling, who had been regulating her breathing, instantly sensed the shift in the world's spiritual qi.
She snapped open her dragon eyes and looked toward Lu Yang.
She saw that Lu Yang had fully unleashed his aura without any concealment.
A mass of cloud qi rose above his head.
His Dao foundation manifested through the qi, propping up a golden auspicious cloud that stretched vast and boundless.
Wherever it passed, seas and mountains inverted, pure qi rolled through the skies, and his towering magic power unfurled like bolts of thunder slashing across the firmament!
Such momentum was utterly shocking!
This was Lu Yang's first time unleashing his full power.
He felt as if he had shed an invisible shackle, utterly refreshed and unrestrained.
".It's you!"
At nearly the same moment, Sui Ling recognized Lu Yang and sensed the thick scent of blood qi on him—that was her brother Sui Ying's blood qi!
"You killed Sui Ying?"
"Demon Sect's Yuantu?"
Sui Ling let out a long howl.
In an instant, the four hundred ninety thousand demon soldiers moved in unison.
Rolling demon clouds transformed into a lifelike demon dragon that stared straight at Lu Yang.
But what answered her was a streak of sword light.
Proclaiming Might!
In the next second, Lu Yang offered Calamity Wave into the air.
The magic power he had just infused into the sword fully transformed in this moment into blazing sword radiance.
In the demon soldier formation, monks like Hui Ku from the Pure Land origins had seen Lu Yang appear so openly and boldly.
They rubbed their fists, eager to charge forward.
But upon seeing the sword light Lu Yang now unleashed, they immediately withdrew their sleeves and retreated, even hiding their Buddhist light.
Sui Ling naturally saw this scene as well.
But she was dragon nobility.
Even having heard of Yuantu's fame, she knew it only as tales of filthy deeds.
She saw him merely as a silver thief.
What was so impressive about him?
Right now, she commanded four hundred ninety thousand demon soldiers in formation, arrayed against the enemy.
Four hundred ninety thousand against one—he was no Great Perfected Being.
Could he really turn the tables?
"Roar—!"
With that thought, Sui Ling shook her body and revealed her true form: a slender, elegant true dragon coiled at the center of the myriad demon clouds.
The four hundred ninety thousand demon soldiers formed the array, with seven array anchors.
Each anchor was manned by an early Foundation Establishment mixed-blood dragon descendant—dragon carp, dragon turtle, dragon softshell turtle, dragon horse, and so on.
They all unleashed their auras at once, clustering around Sui Ling as the grand array beneath their feet boomed to life.
Heavenly Demon Sea-Commanding Grand Array!
In a flash, the billions of mu of seawater around the entire Overturning Sea was lifted by an invisible force, forming a sky-shrouding water curtain!
The heavenly river crossed the skies, the four seas inverted!
Even without anything else, the mere collapse of these billions of mu of seawater could pulverize an entire state.
If infused with being-rank power, it could even smash a Foundation Establishment cultivator to death.
Evidently, though Sui Ling was indignant, she showed no carelessness.
She struck with full force.
This was overseas after all, her domain as a true dragon, where she could maximize her water control.
The billions of mu of seawater condensed into a single beam of water light, crashing down like a toppling mountain or pillar of jade.
In response, Lu Yang struck with a single sword.
This sword swept through the boundless void like shooting fire and flowing lightning.
It counter-slashed against that beam of water light condensed from billions of mu of seawater, trailing a brilliant sword gleam.
Boom!
A world-shaking thunderclap rang out.
The heavens and earth, already merged into one color of sea and sky under Sui Ling's influence, were now cleaved by Lu Yang into clear distinction!
On this side of the sword light: harmony of heaven and earth.
On that side of the sword light: mountain of corpses and sea of blood!
The Heavenly Demon Sea-Commanding Grand Array, on which Sui Ling had placed such great hopes, had only just begun to unfold when Lu Yang's single sword rent the sea and sky apart, shattering it into ten thousand fragments!
Half of the four hundred ninety thousand demon soldiers were instantly blasted to powder by the thunderous sound of the sword light's impact.
Another half were swept by the sword light after it broke the array, reduced to scattered limbs and severed arms across the ground.
The remaining half were struck by the aftershocks, vomiting blood and falling into near-death states.
As for the seven early Foundation Establishment anchors?
Four were shocked to death on the spot.
Of the remaining three, two were beheaded by the sword light.
Only one crawled away bloodily, escaping with his life.
"Your Highness! Run quick—"
But as the demon blurted the words, it was as if a breath leaked from it.
A crack suddenly appeared at its brow.
It subconsciously wiped it with a hand—only to see palms full of scarlet.
".Huh?"
Before the words finished, the demon shattered into a spray of blood light across the sky.
Only then did Sui Ling finally react.
The pungent stench of blood assaulted her nostrils, chilling this true dragon nobility's heart to the extreme.
'Impossible!'
She could never have imagined that four hundred ninety thousand demon soldiers in formation, commanding the waters of the entire Overturning Sea and empowered by being-rank, would end like this.
'How could a single sword do this?'
From her deployment of troops, casting spells to command the sea, Lu Yang had struck only once.
Yet that one sword could not be halted even by the full might of the Overturning Sea.
One sword—severing the sea!
Looking out, Sui Ling instinctively took a step back.
Beneath the dying sun, Lu Yang held his sword and strode toward her.
His pitch-black eyes reflected the mountain of corpses and sea of blood at his feet, gleaming with flecks of red light.
(End of chapter)