Chapter 641: Chapter 276: World-Shocking Sword Might, Peak Sword Saint (Part 3)
Accompanied by the First Generation Sword Saint’s proclamation, patterns of the future kept appearing and extinguishing on the stone chessboard beneath him.
In those deduced future scenes, one could see a figure in white floating within the territory of Divine Sword Sect, being besieged by endless terrifying titans and swallowed by the vast army of powerful cultivators.
Only until this moment did Ye Xiaofan realize that years ago, Dugu Nan and Qi Yun were not truly playing chess for entertainment; instead, they were using this Celestial Secret Sacred Artifact to continuously deduce the future, to foresee the Sword Saint’s future, striving to avoid more risks and dangers for him.
The final outcome of the deduction revealed the entire Hundred Broken Mountain Range collapsing, skies and earth plummeting, as the figure in white was engulfed by the vast army of powerful cultivators, eventually vanishing into the sea of people, with the deduced image terminating at that instant.
It was evident that despite years of deducing by the Sword Saint and Talisman Saint, they only advanced to this step, yet in the deduced scenes, the figure in white’s fate seemed to have already formed.
At this moment, the Sword Saint’s words seemed to be confirmed—could destiny truly be inevitable?
Even though he had set numerous barriers along the path of his return in the ’Hundred Sects Battle Domain’, even choosing to sit for transformation to sever his return thoughts, yet he still appeared in this world, as if everything was destined, a hidden order beyond alteration.
After a deep sigh, Dugu Nan seemed to accept this fact, his lifeless eyes slowly turned towards the young man kneeling before him, towards the Blood Spirit Pearl and the "Godslaying Sword Technique" floating in the youth’s hand, a mix of heartache and compassion.
"Child, you have suffered, but it’s good that you are back, good that you are back."
Listening to the old man’s words "it’s good that you are back", Ye Xiaofan’s eyes instantly moistened.
However, after gently stroking the youth’s cheek again, Dugu Nan slowly lifted his gaze, scanning the overwhelming sea of murderous intent.
In the next moment.
Suddenly, without giving Ye Xiaofan a chance to react, nor anyone else.
A voice, aged yet full of dominance, reverberated through this realm.
"Soul Return—!!!"
Boom—!!!
Accompanied by the Sword Saint’s gentle call, the entire Endless Territory of Divine Sword Sect instantly exploded with thunderous sounds, endless scary Great Dao auras emerged, the entire world seemed to quake.
Moreover, at the Cangqiong Peak, lightning and thunder flashed instantaneously, as if certain taboos were instantly awakened, triggering a systemic reaction.
Millions of cultivators staring at this unprecedented change had their minds blown, eyes filled with utter horror.
Especially infinite contemporary titans and ancient figures, all were greatly shocked, faces showing terror as they observed the extraordinary transformations around them.
For a moment, everyone witnessed countless phantom figures condensing from all directions of heaven and earth, some descending from the sky, others stepping out from space rifts, some soaring from deep within the earth, while more appeared out of thin air, extremely ethereal.
These phantom figures were all scattered souls, their features and outlines closely resembling those of the Sword Saint Dugu Nan from bygone days.
Remarkably, they were all souls of the Sword Saint, transformed by the ceiling of Sword Dao into myriad Divine Souls, hidden within the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
Now, the endless scattered souls emerged, crazily converging upon the elderly, exhausted figure at Cangqiong Peak, like a vast river merging into his body.
"Forbidden Cultivator—Soul-Gathering Technique?"
"What did you say? Soul-Gathering Technique?"
"It’s the Soul-Gathering Technique, my heavens, it really is the Forbidden Cultivator, Soul-Gathering Technique, has he truly lived a second life?"
Countless titan cultivators all were stunned, staring blankly at this earth-shattering scene, their hearts engulfed by immense tidal waves.
And when the words ’Soul-Gathering Technique’ exploded in the firmament, countless cultivators turned to stone in place, all stunned, their inner worlds upheaving with rolling waves.
"Elder, what is the Soul-Gathering Technique?"
Immediately, an inquisitive cultivator spoke out, not quite understanding this forbidden technique.
However, faced with everyone’s inquiries, numerous terrifying elder figures gasped heavily, eyes full of shocked waves.
"It is a forbidden technique personally comprehended by cultivators. This type of forbidden technique lacks inheritance, each person’s understanding of it is unique, yet the effects are universally consistent."
"Such forbidden techniques are said to be fields some world-stunning figures only enter when their life approaches an end. They can dissolve their three souls and seven spirits into thousands of Divine Souls, hiding within the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, nourishing the Divine Souls, remodeling the spirits, until some day they return, living out a second life."
Clatter—!!!
Upon these words, endless cultivators were greatly shocked, meaning that although the aged voice had succumbed to transformation, he had touched upon the opportunity of a second life, secretly nourishing the Divine Souls, planning to amalgamate a myriad souls to reclaim the peak.
For a moment, not only countless cultivators, but endless titans and Saint Realm overlords were thunderstruck, shocked beyond measure.
Looking throughout times immemorial, hundreds of thousands of years past, the Hundred Broken Mountain Range region had not seen anyone live a second life in millions of years, yet that aged figure had found a heaven-defying method suitable for him, planning to overturn the heavens, carve a new path towards a second life.
What an earth-shatteringly sensational feat this is. Only at this moment did the entire Hundred Broken Mountain Range region realize, what are the limits of today’s Sword Saint, how terrifyingly advanced he truly is.
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