CHAPTER 912: CHAPTER 911: SUDDEN UPHEAVAL

Amid many people’s expectations, Yue Duo stood up. As the unique successor of the Qingkong Sword Sect, her status among these Daoist lineages was unique, not evolved in a day, but resulting from the accumulated prestige over tens of thousands of years.

There was an inexplicable intuition that even if the Daoist Sect and the Buddhist Sect could not accomplish it, the Sword Sect certainly would.

Strangely, although she stood up, she did not immediately wield her sword but quietly gathered her strength. During this process, no one disturbed her, nor did anyone act as the center of attention.

Everyone was waiting, facing their own hearts in shame.

Going to the Jinxiu Continent was every person’s wish and also their task, but they used this method to pressure a Sword Cultivator, a woman, with the so-called principles and great virtues.

Everyone has a scale in their hearts, concerning justice, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, right and wrong; in the Cultivation World, these have no definitive conclusion. Cultivators always use many reasons to blur the concept, environment, situation, position, history, and other forced reasons, but dare not truly face their own hearts.

But this time, at this moment, they were ugly, the female Sword Cultivator was beautiful, undoubtedly.

However, acknowledging is acknowledging, but no one stood up to deny all this because there is a human emotion called selfishness.

If you stand up, are you going to complete the deadly mission? Sacrifice myself for everyone’s happiness?

No one was willing to do so. What they could do is erect a monument in the future, the significance of which is to remind themselves once when they forget, then feel sentimental when in a good mood, and continue to act as they please.

This set of things, the Daoist Sect and Buddhist Sect mainstream have been playing for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, proving that living ignobly is more important than dying nobly.

Yue Duo was still gathering strength, very slowly because she was not sure whether her junior brother was comforting her or if it was true. Feeling the solid breathing beside her, her heart settled, knowing he had already gone in.

The people before her would never understand what it means to triumph over nature, which is why the Sword Sect’s glory has existed for tens of thousands of years.

They do not understand sacrifice, hence they will accomplish nothing.

.........

Hou Niao sat cross-legged on the ground, his spirit rapidly entered the Soul Realm, just as he expected. He was at the entrance of the corridor, and from afar, he could see the stupidly large pillar in the huge space ahead. The only thing that surprised him was countless Wandering Soul Ghosts still drifting in the space; when he appeared, paths of eerie ghost flames stared at him.

He had no choice but to charge through.

The Purple Mansion Mysterious Light spun wildly, cutting out paths of sword light piercing through, then each sword light divided into four, and four into sixteen, in an instant, forming a Sword Qi River of hundreds of paths of sword light,

Target, all the drifting soul entities ahead!

The sword flow charged forward, the soul group exploded, as if a tiger had intruded into a flock of sheep.

He pushed his speed to the limit, closely following the sword group; the flying swords were continuously consumed, and he continually replenished them, keeping the sword group always full.

Here, he would not die, only his Soul Body would be injured, so he did not consider defense at all.

No tricks, no detour, not even tactics, his only goal was to burn his spirit and deliver a fatal blow to the pestle.

He did not want his senior sister to take the risk, perhaps in the Qingkong Sword Sect, there were many principles, the master should stand at the forefront, the teacher should stand before the disciple, the senior sister before the junior brother, but he also had his own principle,

A man should stand before a woman.

As he fearlessly risked his life forward, the space, though vast, was only a matter of breaths under the rushing Sword River. He had never tried so desperately in the Soul Realm before, but there’s always a first time.

The distance was enough. Before those soul entities could tear his Soul Body apart, Unification Sword, the sky full of sword light transformed into a massive Light Sword, striking directly onto the pestle. With a loud bang, the pestle emitted a roar akin to a human, splitting into two under this originally insignificant sword light.

The powerful countershock force and the surrounding soul entities’ gnawing made Hou Niao’s Spiritual Body unsustainable, dissipating like smoke.

Did it succeed?

It should have succeeded.

.........

Yue Duo could feel Hou Niao’s spirit burning at the last moment. Although he sat there motionless, she knew he was fighting desperately for his life. She could not stop it, nor did she intend to stop it. She was proud of her junior brother.

Then, she just felt Hou Niao’s spirit weaken, as if severely injured, with a painful twitch at the corner of his mouth, was it all over?

She sensed that the layer of mysterious power had been stripped away!

Her turn had come!

The flying sword leapt up, hovering above her head, emitting dazzling brilliance instantly, swinging forward, slashing down from mid-air!

No Sword Light Division, no First Slash, because she could feel that when facing an Innate Spiritual Treasure, any Sword Intent without a seeking-death mindset could not cut open the other’s hard defense.

Heavenly Return Inch Slash!

The pestle let out an earth-shattering roar, the pillar cracked, but still not completely broken, desperately maintaining its position, unwilling to leave, and the pillar body injured by the Heavenly Return Inch Slash was rapidly mending.

And Yue Duo was already unable to slash a second sword. Under the pull of heaven, if the pestle did not die, she had to die!

"Count me in!"

Lou Yiren leapt into the air, using Jiuchong Mountain’s secret technique, Bring the Head to See!

He charged up, slightly widening the just-mended wound; at the last moment, he opted to follow his heart, otherwise, he could no longer maintain his Dao Heart.

"I really didn’t want to go up there!"

Wei Yi shook his clothes and rose, the Ancient Martial Soul, how could he be timid before an opponent?

"Daoist Sect and Buddhist Sect, heh heh!"

Gu Zai followed closely, opening his heart chamber, holding nothing back with his blood essence.

At this moment, among the hundreds of cultivators, dozens of figures unhesitatingly surged forward, without the mindset of certain death, they could not do anything to the Spiritual Treasure.

In the continuous onslaught of dozens of cultivators, the pestle could no longer support itself, shattering into countless dust particles. At the same time, the space channel emitted a frightening hum, a prelude to energy gathering, about to open.

The next moment, the channel was penetrated, twin stars converged, Hell Star and Jinxiu Continent connected.

However, it was not a single path but a fork.

After the pestle shattered, the force of the Innate Spiritual Treasure dissipated, opening another path, sweeping up all the cultivators who initiated the final desperate assault on it, vanishing in a flash within this path, along with a frantic consciousness,

"Dare to have the intent to kill an Innate Spiritual Treasure, such calamity befalls!"

The change came abruptly, dazzling people, impossible to make an effective response, yet some remained calm throughout.

Zhi Xuan Daoist slightly smiled, "Infinite Venerable, very good, very good."

A Yijie Monk recited the Buddhist sutra, "Amitabha Buddha, well done, well done."

Hou Niao opened his eyes, a gaze as still as silence.

Fine, friends have all left, now I can kill without restraint!