Chapter 280: Asserting Dominance!
BOOM! In the thick of battle, Ku Xin's desperate resistance was of some use, but not much. Amidst the swirling vortexes, the storm of sword energy he unleashed collapsed on the spot!
Yun Xiao's enhanced Wuji Dao Art, filled with the annihilating force of the void, struck Ku Xin, shattering the four layers of magic barriers protecting him. It even ripped apart his life-saving Lower Silva grade magic armor, the True Spirit Sword Armor!
This piece of armor was a precious artifact, a treasure not even many Supreme Adjudicators possessed.
"Ahh!" With a scream that could tear the heavens, Ku Xin's arms and legs, lacking the protection of the True Spirit Sword Armor, were instantly torn to a bloody mist under the spatial vortexes.
Had it not been for the True Spirit Sword Armor, his torso and head would have also been pulverized in a single blow!
Up to this point, Yun Xiao was utterly dominating!
"Keep screaming, the louder you wail, the more tragic your family's end." Yun Xiao turned his gaze to those who were shouting threats.
This brutal scene struck the tens of thousands of righteous justice-seekers like a heavy hammer, leaving them feeling as if their heads were splitting apart.
"Ku Xin, they say you're cunning, but in the face of absolute power, all your schemes are but illusions." Yun Xiao approached the human swine, his footsteps sounding like the hammers of death.
"No!" Ku Xin gazed in despair at his blood-soaked body. With a howl, he miraculously pulled out a Pouch of Holding from his chest using the Burning Bone Sword Soul!
In that moment, his despair and fury transformed into a more ferocious killing intent.
"What reincarnation of a true Immortal? Once dead, everything turns to bones!" Ku Xue roared, bloody tears running down his face. He summoned the ancient power of slaughter from a gray, unassuming sword he pulled from the Bag of Holding.
"Sword Heart!!"
The crowd was in an uproar.
Ku Xin had actually brought the forbidden Sword Heart into the arena?
No wonder he dared to clash head-on with an Exiled Sword Immortal like Yun Xiao!
In the blink of an eye, amidst this clash of lightning and fire, two different forces erupted.
"Kill the demon spawn!"
"Ku Xin broke the rules! Save the Exiled Sword Immortal!"
A million hearts trembled.
At this desperate juncture, Ku Xin, choosing to defy death, wasted no time. He even regretted his choices. He should have used the Sword Heart right from the start!
BOOM! That Sword Heart, clearly left by a powerful ancestor, was now being activated by Ku Xin's bloodline.
This was the first time anyone had used a Sword Heart against Yun Xiao!
Humming and buzzing, the Sword Heart unleashed a dark storm!
This was the killing blow containing the strength of a peak ancestor accumulated over a lifetime suddenly unleashed. With a resolve to embrace death, it hurled towards Yun Xiao with a piercing intent!
"The demon spawn is dead, haha!"
"Rejoice, everyone!"
Seeing this, the tens of thousands of righteous justice-seekers began celebrating prematurely.
The entire venue of the Immortal Sword Rankings plunged into utter chaos, filled with shouts and trembling hearts.
On a viewing tower, the mother-daughter duo of the Mu Family, caught off guard by this shocking turn, burst into tears of panic.
Yet, Yun Xiao remained the calmest of all! Facing a deadly crisis? Without a second thought, he lifted his sword.
HUM! The moment the dark storm came piercing through, it suddenly changed course. It transformed into a warm stream, wrapping around Yun Xiao's Heaven Burial Sword Soul...
"Huh?" Ku Xin felt like he'd been struck by lightning, his eyes nearly popping out.
"Thanks for the gift, I'll take it." Yun Xiao grinned.
SPUTTER! Ku Xin suddenly spat blood. For the first time, fear emerged in his eyes. What kind of monster was this? His mind was a blank slate. And he wasn't the only one frozen in place; a million Sword Cultivators were too!
Over a million pairs of eyes, as if encased in ice, stared dumbfounded at Yun Xiao's Heaven Burial Sword Soul.
Those tens of thousands who had been screaming for justice, who had been celebrating what they thought was right, now found themselves outclassed by the tyrannical demon king himself. Their faces turned as sour as if they had swallowed something foul.
Ku Xin was finished. Once towering above a million disciples in the Sword Ruins, revered beyond measure, he was now as insignificant as an ant before Yun Xiao.
There were many ways to defeat a person, but Yun Xiaos method was always the kind that plunged one into despair. He always seemed to be at a disadvantage in cultivation, but he crushed his opponents so completely they couldn't catch their breath.
This was the mark of supreme talent!
"The Ku Family, perhaps we chose the wrong side" As this thought flickered through Ku Xin's mind, he was already convulsing in despair.
Yun Xiao couldnt care less about him. He was ready to finish Ku Xin off and move on to the next battle! But just at that moment, something unexpected happened!!
From afar, a divine sword shot through the air, shattering the protective enchantments of the arena and aiming straight for Yun Xiao's head!
"Who dares attack Exile Yun?!"
This was even more audacious and blasphemous than Ku Xin's rule-breaking use of a Sword Heart!
Only a powerhouse of the Sword Ruins, one among the top ten of the Eternal Sword Prison, could shatter the barrier of the Immortal Sword Rankings in an instant!
"Oh?" Yun Xiao remarked. The attack came so suddenly he had no time to react. If no one intervened, he would be slaina true blow from a master of swordsmanship.
Blue Star and Red Moon were ready to act. Having consumed so many of Yun Xiaos treasures, they were prepared for this moment.
In a world teeming with mighty beings, the inevitable demise of geniuses at the hands of the powerful made having a fallback crucial. Yun Xiao always prioritized feeding them, preparing for this very moment!
However, just as the sword was about to reach Yun Xiao, someone else intervened.
KLANG! An invisible blade of light struck from the side, colliding with the murderous Flying Sword!
The two swords clashed, the resulting shockwave sending Yun Xiao flying back almost a hundred meters!
It was clear that both the attacker and the savior were forces to be reckoned with.
"It's the Sword Warden." Yun Xiao knew that on the Sword Warden's turf, no one could lay a finger on him.
The Sword Warden had been alerted to this fact previously.
"But who was that attacker?"
Yun Xiao's eyes narrowed as he looked up. There, descending from the heavens, was a woman in a white dress! Her long hair was tied high, adorned with a sword-shaped cyan hairpin. Her face was cold as ice, her eerie cyan eyes swirling with sword energy.
This woman was icy and stunning! She brought a wave of cold with her, and as she descended, the temperature around the Immortal Sword Rankings seemed to drop, as if a chill had swept through.
The previously noisy surroundings fell into a hushed silence.
With just one glance, Yun Xiao recognized her. She was the granddaughter of the Withered Bone Keeper, the beloved daughter of Ku XuanQingzan!
A Sword Cultivator under forty, yet immensely powerful, the foremost of her generation, rivaling even the Sword Warden in skill! Impressive indeed, if not a bit plain-looking.
"A plain face coupled with a fiery temper?" Yun Xiao recalled Mu Dalong, and comparing her with Qingzan of the same age, came to a somewhat one-sided conclusion.
"This lady attacks me on sight, quite the grand entrance!" Yun Xiao remarked. After all, he was an Exiled Sword Cultivator! And her, to put it plainly, was a woman married into the Calamity Seal Purgatory, representing outsiders!
Qingzan's attack spoke volumes. She didn't come alone; behind her were over twenty people. Several among them were extraordinary young individuals. They must be Inscription Cultivators!
So, the intent to challenge and suppress was unmistakable.
As many Sword Cultivators frowned, Ku Xuan cheerfully appeared, approaching Qingzan.
"Look who it is? My daughter has returned home." Ku Xuan's face beamed with joy, seemingly forgetting the intimidating first strike just moments ago.
Facing her father, Qingzan remained as cold as ever. She glanced at Ku Xuan and, leading a group from the Calamity Seal Purgatory, walked towards a high building. She spoke indifferently, "I hear that in our Sword Ruins, we now have two Exiled Sword Immortals?"
"Yes," Ku Xuan replied with a smile.
"Which is genuine, which is fake, I wonder Were they bought in bulk, or perhaps with gold?" Qingzan asked blandly.
"You still know how to joke." Ku Xuan pointed to Yun Xiao on one of the battle platforms in the arena. "Qingzan, he's one of the two Exiled Sword Immortals. Your attack on him was quite disrespectful."
"You're kidding. Why is an Exiled Sword Immortal participating in a contest between disciples?" Qingzans icy eyes glanced at Yun Xiao and then back to Ku Xuan. "Dad, you're telling the truth? Then, I suppose I've just committed the crime of attacking an Exiled Sword Immortal."
"You were just eager to save someone and unaware of his identity. I believe the Exile Yun won't hold it against you," Ku Xuan said with a chuckle. His grandson had already attacked Yun Xiao with a Sword Heart; there was no need for pretense now.
With just a few words, Ku Xuan had justified Qingzan's intimidating entrance. He quickly turned to a man beside him, "Go and bring down Ku Xin."
This man was Ku Xin's father and Qingzan's brother, Ku He.
Qingzan's sword strike, she knew, couldn't kill Yun Xiao. It was meant to save someone while also asserting her power! She stood with her hands behind her back, looking back at Yun Xiao with a slight smile, her eyes roiling with cold waves.
The intent to intimidate was crystal clear!
By then, Ku He had already descended on the arena. He wasn't as renowned as his sister Qingzan, being a Supreme Adjudicator himself. Seeing his son reduced to such a state, his heart burned with rage. He clenched his teeth tightly and picked up his son.
"Rest assured, with your aunt back, he's as good as dead," Ku He assured.
"Dad..." A faint glimmer of life returned to Ku Xin's dim eyes.
"Wait."
Just as Ku He was about to leave the arena, Yun Xiao's cold voice echoed from behind.
"Exile Yun, what can I do for you?" Ku He turned back calmly to ask.
"Did I say you could take him away?" In an instant, as Yun Xiao finished speaking, the Heaven Burial Sword Soul in his hand, freshly infused with the Sword Heart, transformed into a whirlwind of flying swords!
This Sword Heart, originating from a former Sword Warden in the Sword Ruins, was Ku Xin's hefty investment to kill Yun Xiao. And now, its divine might burst forth in a single moment, transforming into an azure dragon, lunging at Ku He and his son at close range.
"What..." Ku He, holding his son, couldn't believe Yun Xiao would attack so suddenly. Nor could he have imagined that Yun Xiao could meld the Sword Heart's power with the Sword Soul...
Theoretically, that Sword Heart should have been depleted! This was a life-ending strike from a former Sword Warden of the Sword Ruins!
ROAR! As the storm of sword energy swept through, Ku He and Ku Xin's eyes widened, their bodies trembling!
Several Flying Swords came to their rescue, only to be blocked by others!
SLASH SLASH SLASH! The Heaven Burial Sword Soul pierced through Ku Xin's body and then Ku He's heart, killing them instantly, intertwined in death!
SIZZLE! An azure inferno engulfed them, leaving behind two lifeless bodies that crashed to the ground!
Father and son had died together!
All of this happened in the blink of an eye!
"What..." Including the tens of thousands of justice seekers, a million Sword Cultivators lost their ability to think, staring at this scene as if in a dream, breathless for a long time.
After doing all this, Yun Xiao slightly raised his head. With a disdainful gaze, he swept over the crowd, focusing on the frosty Qingzan. "If you are a person of the Calamity Seal Purgatory, leave this place immediately. Go and wash your neck clean, waiting for me to sever your head.
"And if you still consider yourself a part of the Sword Ruins, crawl to me now and kneel in submission!"
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