CHAPTER 625: THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF ALL THINGS IS REINCARNATION

Chapter 625: The birth and death of all things is reincarnation

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The icy declaration echoed through the deathly silent forbidden ground.

The Sword Intent sharp enough to pierce the heavens caused Blood Blade True One's ferocious grin to freeze completely on her face.

The Gray-robed Elder and the Scar-faced Elder also instantly had their expressions replaced with gravity and horror!

Shouldn't Sword Cultivators be skinny, frail, and ethereal with Immortal Qi?

The man before them, built like an iron tower with bulging muscles, didn't seem related to Sword Cultivators at all!

Yet, he undoubtedly was one.

That Sword Intent couldn't be faked.

If he was already so ferocious with his fists, what would he be like with a sword...?

"A Sword Cultivator?!" the Gray-robed Elder's voice was shrill. "Hah, so what if you are a Sword Cultivator?!"

There was no room for fear at this moment; as a Supreme Elder of the Kunlun Immortal Palace, he could not afford fear.

He reacted the fastest, the killing intent in his eyes surging violently.

The bone claw that had been shattered earlier instantly reformed, becoming even larger and more ferocious, entwined with a thick, congealing gray death energy. It tore through the air, once again grabbing towards Zhang Yibai.

This time, the space around the bone claw's path distorted faintly, emitting a grating, teeth-jarring sound.

Simultaneously, "Haaah—!" the Scar-faced Elder let out a roar of furious rage, the muscles all over his body bulging grotesquely, the scar on his face seeming to come alive.

He abandoned fist techniques, abruptly clapping his palms together and then pulling them apart violently—the muscles all over his body seemed to writhe towards his palms for an instant, and then a condensed, extremely pale impact wave, carrying an aura capable of tearing the earth apart, shot towards Zhang Yibai like a solid pillar of light! RåNꝋ𝖇Ěş

This was his once-famous ultimate technique — the Turtle Destruction Wave.

Back in the day, he had used this Turtle Destruction Wave to defeat all opponents, unmatched under heaven.

He would absolutely not use it unless pushed to the brink.

Because although this technique was powerful, it truly consumed a significant amount of True Essence.

After a brief moment of shock, the ferocity in Blood Blade True One's eyes intensified.

She no longer fixated on ambush tactics but instead raised her blood blade high—the blade hummed, and a bloody light shot skyward.

Infinite bloodlust blade intent transformed into a massive crimson blade energy that spanned across space,

carrying a vicious, soul-corrupting, bone-rotting killing intent. Coordinating with the attacks from the other two Void Shattering realm experts, it viciously slashed down.

The three attacks almost completely sealed off all of Zhang Yibai's possible escape routes.

Facing this world-destroying pincer attack, Zhang Yibai showed no fear. Instead, he laughed wildly, "Ha! Well met!"

He moved!

He simply made a single, simple slash with the Black Scales Sword in his hand.

There was no earth-shattering commotion, only an extremely condensed pitch-black sword arc that seemed capable of slicing through time and space.

Sschlik!

The seemingly invincible, death-energy-charged giant bone claw was effortlessly cut through by this pitch-black sword arc as if it were rotten wood, the cut surface smooth as a mirror. The sword arc's momentum didn't diminish, precisely grazing past the Gray-robed Elder's withered arm.

"Ahhh—!" The Gray-robed Elder let out a shrill, distorted scream.

His right arm, infused with death energy and hard enough to rival magic treasures, along with his shoulder, was cleanly severed at the root.

No blood gushed from the wound, only a strange deathly gray color, as if all vitality had been instantly stripped away.

The residual, terrifying Sword Intent madly eroded his wound and his Divine Soul, causing him unbearable agony.

He felt his Divine Soul aging at an unimaginable rate and had to mobilize all his True Essence to barely suppress it.

Almost at the exact same moment his arm was severed, Zhang Yibai flicked his wrist. The Black Scales Sword changed from a slash to a slap, the flat of the blade carrying a mountain-like force, fiercely smashing against the pale impact wave.

BOOM—CRACK!

It was like a giant hammer striking a frozen river.

The condensed impact wave was violently smashed into pieces by the sheer force.

The violent energy turbulence scattered in all directions. The Scar-faced Elder grunted as if struck by a heavy blow, his burly body flying backward like a kite with its string cut. He slammed hard into the stone wall at the edge of the forbidden ground, creating a deep crater as rubble clattered down.

"No... impossible!" Blood Blade True One's pupils constricted sharply. Before her crimson blade energy could even land, she saw one Void Shattering elder screaming with a severed arm and the other sent flying. Alarm bells screamed in her mind, and an unprecedented shadow of death instantly enveloped her entire being.

Escape?

No!

There was still a chance!

A flash of madness and cunning passed through Blood Blade True One's eyes.

She stopped attacking Zhang Yibai, her figure abruptly shooting backward as she pounced towards another large coffin nearby, covered in carved talismans.

If she could just awaken one more Supreme Elder... no, two! Three!

They could overwhelm him with numbers, even if it cost lives!

"Awaken for This Venerable One!" she roared, her palm condensing immense blood energy, ready to slam down fiercely.

However, just as her palm was mere inches from the coffin lid—

A streak of black light, faster than the concept of distance itself!

Zhang Yibai didn't even turn his head, merely flicking his sword backward in a reverse-handed motion!

A more condensed, deeper Sword Intent, seemingly containing the flow of time, the cycle of life and death of all things, swept forth silently.

Reincarnation Sword Intent — The cycle of life and death is reincarnation.

Sschhi—!

There was no earth-shattering explosion. The massive coffin, along with the Void Shattering realm expert inside who had not yet awakened but whose aura was recovering, was instantly ground into scattered ashes as if thrown into a millstone of time.

Not even a struggle or a scream was uttered before they were completely annihilated within the Reincarnation Sword Intent, as if they had never existed.

"Th-this... what in the world... is this?!" Blood Blade True One's still-raised hand froze mid-air.

Watching the drifting ashes before her, the madness on her face was instantly replaced by boundless terror.

What kind of sword technique was this? What kind of Sword Intent?

It could directly erase a slumbering Void Shattering expert?

"Ahhhhhh! My Xiaocui! You... you'll pay with your life!" The Scar-faced Elder suddenly burst out from the crater in the stone wall, looking utterly insane. Ignoring his injuries, his entire body ignited with pale flames, carrying a desperate, mutually-destructive ferocity as he charged at Zhang Yibai again.

The one Zhang Yibai had just erased was his Dao Companion, Liu Cuihua.

Could he tolerate this?

Zhang Yibai paid no heed to any of this. His eyes were cold as he thrust the Black Scales Sword forward once more.

It was still that seemingly simple yet Reincarnation-imbued sword strike, lightly touching the Scar-faced Elder's burning chest.

The entire world fell silent for an instant.

In this silence, the Scar-faced Elder's charging momentum ceased abruptly.

The Divine Soul flames burning on his body extinguished instantly.

The ferocious scar on his face twisted with his convulsing facial muscles, his eyes filled with extreme terror and disbelief.

Immediately after, his burly body seemed to have all moisture and vitality drained from it.

His skin visibly withered, became sallow, and covered in wrinkles at a rapid pace.

His gray hair turned snow-white in an instant, then fell out the next second.

His powerful muscles atrophied, his large skeleton emitting groans of strain.

In less than a single breath—

A furious Void Shattering expert, who had been burning his life force to charge forward, turned into a hunched, dried-up skeleton clad in rags under the horrified gazes of Blood Blade True One and the Gray-robed Elder.

The skeleton maintained its charging posture, swayed slightly.

Then, with a clatter, it scattered into a pile on the ground.

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