Chapter 370
Chapter 370
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: [Unknown]
Chapter Title: Sword Heart Illumination
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The words had barely left his mouth when Lu Yang already regretted them.
It wasn't that he regretted turning against the Myriad Poison Sect—rather, it was that he regretted phrasing it that way.
After all, as a true person of the Sword Pavilion, how could he resort to such brazen robbery? And talk of exterminating the entire sect? How barbaric! That was the Primal Saint Sect's style.
The Sword Pavilion way would be: "Today, I take the [Ten Thousand Calamities Imperishable Gilded Silkworm] and the [Metal Element], owing you all a karmic debt in return. In that case, I'll send you all to reincarnation right now, and in your next lives, I'll guide you to join the Sword Pavilion—thus settling this karma."
—Now *that's* more like it!
But in a slip of the tongue, he'd blurted out his inner thoughts, turning his righteous declaration into something downright bandit-like, easy for anyone to spot the inconsistency.
*Eh, my love for the Primal Saint Sect runs too deep after all.*
The wistful thought flashed through Lu Yang's mind and vanished in an instant. The next second, he struck without hesitation, utterly unconcerned with the fate of the Myriad Poison Sect.
From the start, they had no path to survival anyway.
Publicly speaking, the Northern Frontier Divine Martial Sect had already been wiped out by the Primal Saint Sect. If the Sword Pavilion spared the Myriad Poison Sect, it might one day find itself besieged from both north and south.
Privately speaking, there was that Moon-Worshipping Sacred Pool.
*A natural earth-nurtured windwater treasure land, even capable of birthing [Metal Element]. If I place my immortal spirit body within, it will surely accelerate the gestation!*
He might even catch the tail end of this grand era's sixty-year cycle!
By comparison, even the [Ten Thousand Calamities Imperishable Gilded Silkworm] was secondary. Great if he got it, no big loss if he didn't.
"Clang! Clang!"
A piercing sword cry echoed through heaven and earth. Empowered by [Upholding the Dharma], Lu Yang's aura instantly broke through the gateway, surging to the level of a grand true person.
[Minghe Eternal World's Upright Metal-Holding Sword]!
Without a moment's pause, Lu Yang summoned his sword foundation, radiating a thousand brilliant hues. With a flash of the [Intent Trap] divine ability, Long Yue was instantly drawn inside.
Long Yue merely frowned slightly, sensing something off, but as someone from a minor sect with far shallower foundations than Lu Yang, she couldn't pinpoint it despite her suspicions. She assumed it was some soul-shaking technique.
"Activate the array! A fight to the death!"
Long Yue's beautiful eyes burned with resolve, her earlier girlish demeanor gone. Only now did she truly show the bearing of the Myriad Poison Sect Master, revered by all true persons.
Since Lu Yang insisted on total annihilation,
She would stake her life in return!
The next instant, the array over the sacred mountain of the Five Poisons Sect reactivated. Beams of brilliant light shot into the sky, severing the inner and outer worlds.
[Five Sages Moon-Worshipping Profound Array]!
As the array ignited, heaven and earth transformed in a flash. Day turned to night, a bright moon hung in the sky, and rolling moonlight essence poured down like a waterfall!
Lu Yang stood tall amid the surging profound light, utterly calm. He scanned his surroundings: *I felt something was off before they vanished. Sure enough, someone was watching me from the shadows! Who? The Sword Pavilion's Ye family? Or that Prince Who Pacifies the South from the Dao Court?*
"[Heavenly Spider Prisoner], [White Snake Lord], [Inverted Horse Poison]!"
At that moment, Long Yue chanted incantations, forming hand seals. She summoned a white snake, a spider, and a scorpion in succession.
The Myriad Poison Sect's cultivation revered gu insects above all.
Among them, five supreme gu transcended all others, known as the [Five Saints]. As sect master, Long Yue naturally cultivated these five saint gu.
"[Heavenly Spider Prisoner]!"
The next instant, a vast white spiderweb unfurled across heaven and earth, threads weaving everywhere—not attacking Lu Yang directly, but sealing off the space around him entirely.
In a flash, Lu Yang felt a weight upon him, like a butterfly trapped in a web, his thoughts and movements sluggish. His brows arched, and vast sword qi erupted, but Long Yue remained composed, conjuring layer after layer of spider silk, soft and entangling, binding him in place.
Seeing this, joy flickered in Long Yue's eyes.
The Myriad Poison Sect had long dwelled in the southern frontier as neighbors to the Sword Pavilion, treating sword cultivators as hypothetical foes and devising countless counters.
*Sword cultivators are formidable, but not without flaws.*
*Their greatest weakness is also their strength: their flying swords! They rely on swordflight for speed and unmatched offense, neglecting their physical forms. It's fine while zipping about invincibly, but restrict those, and they're helpless.*
In short, glass cannons.
Long Yue used binding arts against Lu Yang precisely to curb his speed and power, forcing a contest of physical forms and qi reserves!
*With my [Sun-Swallowing Toad], I can devour all external qi and wounds, and the array shares the damage for me.*
*How could he outlast me?*
Long Yue brimmed with confidence. With a thought, her remaining two divine gu—the [White Snake Lord] and [Inverted Horse Poison]—surged toward Lu Yang.
"Boom!"
A terrifying sonic wave roared through the Myriad Poison Sect's sacred mountain, even drowning out Lu Yang's sword qi thunder sound, engulfing his figure completely.
Heaven and earth wove with myriad幻彩.
Each strand of幻彩 manifested a divine ability—seemingly ordinary, yet containing vast might. Falling on the outer seas, it could shatter an island.
Moments later, a figure finally emerged at the center of the幻彩.
Long Yue's eyes lit with a smile at the sight, but it froze on her face as the figure sharpened.
Because Lu Yang was unscathed.
Around him coiled roiling black qi forming a majestic, three-headed, six-armed phantom wreathed in mysterious flames, which had tanked Long Yue's divine abilities head-on.
[Supreme Heaven Encompassing All Phenomena Dharma Body]!
This dharma body was solemn and majestic. One hand clamped the [Inverted Horse Poison] scorpion, its tail piercing flesh without eliciting a flinch.
Another hand thrust skyward, its thick arm coiled by the [White Snake Lord]'s body, muscles bulging. Its fingers gripped the snake's vital point at the seventh inch, heedless of its fangs tearing into flesh. Every second, the dharma body's wounds worsened.
Yet what chilled Long Yue was this:
Despite the mounting injuries, its aura showed no decline—instead, it intensified, climbing toward some limit!
*What *is* this thing!?*
Even in the Primal Saint Sect, Foundation Establishment true persons with second-grade true techniques were rare. Far-off in the southern frontier, Long Yue naturally couldn't recognize Lu Yang's dharma body.
The Prince Who Pacifies the South, Wu Tai'an, might have.
But under the [Five Sages Moon-Worshipping Profound Array]'s shroud, even his view was cut off, unable to spy undetected.
Of course, this was within Lu Yang's expectations.
Why else fight Long Yue here in the sect? Only in such secrecy could he unleash his full arsenal!
The next second, Lu Yang opened his eyes.
The dharma body's mystery deepened wounds into power. With a palm turn, a sword of flowing radiant light appeared in his grasp.
"Zheng—!"
The sword cry rang again. Lu Yang gripped [Calamity Wave], and where his gaze fell, time seemed to halt. Heaven and earth held only him.
Even the sword qi thunder sound faded to silence.
Countless thoughts and distractions dissolved into nothingness. Lu Yang's mind and body entered a wondrous, ineffable state.
Around him, his divine abilities manifested naturally.
[Soldier Armament Lord], [Stubborn Gold Duke], [Solemn Profound Frost]. And one evolved from [Upholding the Dharma]'s profundity—formless, shadowless.
Only a tolling bell resounded.
[Heaven-Sounding Bell]!
The four innate divine abilities swirled around the sword in Lu Yang's hand, merging seamlessly, ultimately fusing entirely into it.
*Guarding stillness to reach ultimate void... Sword heart illumination. So *this* is sword heart illumination?*
Realization dawned in Lu Yang's mind.
Memories of the Sea-Cleaving Sword from his previous life surfaced.
He drew.
"[Proclaiming Might]"
The blade unsheathed, instantly claiming all light between heaven and earth. Long Yue's gaze locked inescapably upon it, unable to shift.
Lu Yang's true body had charged this strike long ago, amplified by the dharma body pushing his divine abilities to the peak, bolstered by the Sword Pavilion's [Sword Heart Illumination] method. As a grand true person with top-tier sect divine abilities and treasures—how could a minor sect's Long Yue withstand it?
"Shua!"
A lovely head soared.
Her graceful body shattered under the sword light's aftershock. Only her soul fled, but before reaching the [Underworld], a banner intercepted it.
*A late Foundation Establishment banner spirit.*
Mine!