Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Great Battle
Cao Qubing, one of those in the lead, spoke in a frigid tone. "They’re finally here!"
Li Xingyue stared at the attire of the dozens of figures, his teeth clenched. "The Ancient Nether Sect!" he spat.
Hearing this, Xiao Chen and Gu Yun also realized the dozens of figures before them were disciples of the Ancient Nether Sect. They immediately prepared for battle, their True Yuan faintly radiating from their bodies, their auras menacing.
It was simple: when members of rival sects met, sparks were bound to fly.
The Profound Celestial Sect and the Ancient Nether Sect were mortal enemies.
The sect’s decree was clear: any disciple abroad who encountered a member of the Ancient Nether Sect was to kill them on sight, if at all possible.
But why were these two titans of the Eastern Profound Domain such bitter enemies?
The Ancient Nether Sect had once been the sole hegemon of the Eastern Profound Domain.
That is, until a thousand years ago, when the Profound Celestial Sect arrived from beyond the domain and established itself here.
The arrival of such a powerful sect naturally made the local hegemon wary, especially as the newcomers began to carve out a share of the Eastern Profound Domain’s vast resources for themselves.
Ultimately, the two powers inevitably clashed in a protracted war between sects.
Legend has it that the war tore the very heavens and split the earth across the Eastern Profound Domain, causing the ambient Spiritual Qi to thin and decline. In the end, the Ancient Nether Sect was outmatched and suffered a bitter defeat.
The fighting only ceased when the supreme experts from both sides—beings who had surpassed the Tongxuan Realm—personally intervened. The exact terms of the truce they brokered remain unknown.
The Ancient Nether Sect was forced to relinquish its hegemonic status to the Profound Celestial Sect and cede the majority of the Eastern Profound Domain’s resources.
For a time, the Ancient Nether Sect remained quiet, lying low in an era of peace.
But in the last two centuries,
the Ancient Nether Sect’s power surged for reasons unknown.
It began to stir once more,
secretly hunting and killing many of the Profound Celestial Sect’s chosen, hoping to sever its line of succession.
They even went so far as to dispatch a Tongxuan True Monarch to ambush and assassinate the Profound Celestial Sect’s Ye Xuantian. To the Ancient Nether Sect’s astonishment, however,
in that battle, Ye Xuantian unleashed power far surpassing the True Martial Realm. Wielding a host of profound techniques, he fought the Tongxuan True Monarch in an earth-shattering confrontation.
He ultimately managed to grievously wound the True Monarch from the Ancient Nether Sect, forcing his opponent to resort to a self-mutilating technique and a blood-fueled escape art to flee. The True Monarch’s injuries were said to be horrific.
Bear in mind, this Tongxuan True Monarch had been a prodigy in his youth and was an old monster who had lived for centuries.
Yet he was defeated by Ye Xuantian, who at the time was only twenty-eight years old and at the peak of the True Martial Ninth Layer, bridging an insurmountable gap between realms.
The uproar this caused was unimaginable. A True Martial expert had defeated a Tongxuan master. The feat cemented Ye Xuantian’s divine reputation.
He became known throughout the Eastern Profound Domain as the number one of the younger generation: the peerless prodigy, Ye Xuantian.
After the incident, the upper echelons of the Profound Celestial Sect were enraged and retaliated fiercely, causing the conflict between the two sects to escalate even further.
Moreover, when the Black Flame Sword Sect had provoked the Profound Celestial Sect within the Eastern Profound Domain, they were all but exterminated for their trouble.
The few survivors who escaped to the Chaotic Star Sea seemed to have been incited by the Ancient Nether Sect as well.
Gu Yun’s gaze was frigid as he scanned the dozens of figures across from them. Most were at the Spiritual Martial Ninth Layer, but the three in the lead had all reached the True Martial Realm.
One of them was none other than Xu Tianjie, a True Disciple of the Meteor Blade Sect.
"Since when did the Meteor Blade Sect dare to collude with the Ancient Nether Sect?" Gu Yun’s tone was sharp and cold.
Xu Tianjie’s expression remained just as cold; he was completely unfazed.
For some unknown reason, a flicker of pain mixed with other complex emotions crossed Li Xingyue’s eyes. His loathing was palpable, and it quickly erupted into a single-minded fury. "Kill!"
When facing the enemies of his sect, there was no need for words. There was only killing!
Only through slaughter could he soothe his restless heart and quell his lingering resentment.
He lunged, and a wave of Saber Qi shot into the air. It shrieked as it tore through the void, slashing toward the Ancient Nether Sect disciples like a striking Flood Dragon.
Seeing Li Xingyue attack,
Xiao Chen no longer hesitated. He followed right behind him, his body erupting with a torrent of Fiery Flaming True Essence.
The essence condensed into a colossal Flame Fist.
He threw the punch, and a torrent of fire crashed down on his opponents like an erupting volcano.
Gu Yun’s expression was even colder, and his power was terrifying. His True Yuan, as deep as an abyssal sea, burst forth completely.
Arcs of lightning crackled around him, like a frenzy of thunderous Flood Dragons.
In an instant, he formed a massive Celestial Thunder Hand in the air, which lunged toward the enemy to devour them.
"Excellent!"
He watched the three opponents attack without the slightest hesitation. ’As expected of the Profound Celestial Sect’s chosen,’ he thought. ’Decisive and ruthless!’
Xu Tianjie sneered.
His eyes were as sharp as blades, seeming to tear through the very air.
HUMMM!
The Overlord Saber on his back instantly appeared in his hand, letting out a sharp, vibrating cry that shook the air and echoed across the sky.
He took a step forward, and a terrifying momentum radiated from him like a vast ocean, making the very space around him seem to tremble.
As Xu Tianjie’s ferocious momentum surged, his long hair billowed around him, stirred by no wind.
The Overlord Saber in his hand hummed, shaking the space around it before unleashing a terrifying wave of Saber Qi that shot skyward like a rampaging dragon.
Beside him, Cao Qubing’s expression was frigid as he gripped his Longsword.
A flash of sword light suddenly illuminated the world, transforming into a beam of Sword Qi that pierced through the air and shot toward the heavens.
The other Ancient Nether Sect disciples in the Spiritual Martial Realm also attacked, launching streams of Spiritual Qi. Their efforts, however, were like ants trying to shake a great tree.
BOOM!
High in the air, the vast True Essence Power of the two sides clashed and annihilated one another, unleashing an overwhelming force.
A terrifying storm of energy instantly erupted in the sky!
BANG!
The ants from the Spiritual Martial Realm were caught in the violent shockwave. They were all thrown to the ground—some dead, others grievously wounded.
Then,
the shockwave radiated in all directions. The dead trees in the barren landscape were instantly uprooted before being blasted into dust by the terrifying aftershocks.
Gu Yun’s expression was glacial. Facing the members of the Ancient Nether Sect, his killing intent soared.
At some point, the Thunder Listening Saber had appeared in his hand.
His figure flickered, moving like a bolt of lightning.
In a flash, he was before Xu Tianjie, slashing down!
Xu Tianjie’s expression remained unchanged. He reacted in an instant, swinging his Overlord Saber in a backhand arc to meet Gu Yun’s attack head-on.
CLANG!
The two incomparably ferocious flashes of saber light collided, producing a deafening roar!
After their fierce collision, both Xu Tianjie and Gu Yun vanished. They reappeared in the sky above the barren wasteland,
their figures flashing like lightning. Saber light clashed with saber light, shattering the void again and again. The terrifying True Yuan vibrating from their bodies made space itself ripple.
Every flicker of their forms was accompanied by a powerful impact and a piercing shriek of steel.
It was as if countless blades of light were clashing and battling in the void, creating a continuous roar that swept out in every direction.
Down below, Li Xingyue and Xiao Chen fought against the two remaining enemy disciples.
Xiao Chen, his body erupting with Fiery Flaming True Essence and wielding his Flaming Spear, was a picture of raw power, like a War God of flame.
He forced Cao Qubing into a steady retreat, leaving the other man in a miserable state.
’Damn it! How is this kid so strong?!’ Cao Qubing’s expression was grim.
He roared, brandishing his Shadow Longsword. "Die!"
A cold wave of Sword Qi tore through the air with a piercing whistle, slashing toward Xiao Chen’s Flaming Spear.
For a moment, the entire barren expanse within the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm was filled with terrifying explosions of power.
The resulting storm of True Yuan kicked up sand and stones across the wasteland, plunging the world into darkness as if a natural disaster had struck.
The barren, dry hills were shattered by the aftershocks of the terrifying True Yuan explosions.
Cold gleams of light from swords and spears swept across the battlefield.
The earth of the wasteland, as soft as tofu, was instantly carved with a crisscrossing network of massive ravines.
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