Chapter 619 – Killing Zhou (The Middle of the First Season) (2/2)

This ball of blood was incredibly real as if condensed from actual, fresh blood.

The crabapple tree in the courtyard regained its green leaves, yet like it had been afflicted by some illness, it shed countless leaves.

Countless dried husks of insects appeared in the cracks of the stone steps.

Zhou Tong's body was immersed within this sphere of blood, presenting an extremely bizarre sight.

This sphere of blood was his Star Domain.

This was his world.

Zhou Tong's face was very pale, flickering in and out of the blood, sinking down and floating back up.

The blood began to seethe, releasing an unpleasant and bloody scent. For anyone who smelled this scent, their soul would easily become discouraged and descend into madness, all the way until the soul left the body and died.

Only after Cheng Jun retreated to the back of the room was he able to remain free of its effects. As he watched this sight, his eyes were filled with fear.

Chen Changsheng had bathed in dragon blood, and his stainless constitution had its own special characteristics, so he was not affected and continued to stab towards the ball of blood.

Zhou Tong's pale face in the mist of blood was even more distinct. He gazed upon the sword glow and Chen Changsheng with eyes of absolute indifference.

The Star Domain of a peak Star Condensation cultivator could be said to be infinitely close to perfection. It possessed almost no weak points, let alone any gaps.

How could Chen Changsheng's strike break through this sea of blood?

The Stainless Sword was clearly stabbing towards Zhou Tong's throat, yet no one noticed that in the space above Chen Changsheng was another sword glow!

Whoosh! The sword glow pierced through the sea of blood and stabbed at his left eye!

Zhou Tong's cruel and thin lips issued a harsh whistle as his two sleeves swiftly danced!

The crimson official's gown violently shuddered like a turbulent sea of blood. The immortal birds and monsters woven into the official's robe seemed to come alive, and from the abyss of the sea of blood came an uncountable number of formless wailing souls. With mournful shrieks of resentment, they hurled themselves at the sword image.

This bright sword glow easily tore those wailing souls into pieces and continued to advance forward, stabbing at Zhou Tong's left arm!

With a squelch, a spurt of blood shot out!

The perfect Star Domain of a peak Star Condensation cultivator was actually broken!

Gazing at this absolutely impossible scene, Cheng Jun's face paled, his body trembled, and he was utterly powerless to speak.

Yes, this had originally been an absolutely impossible matter, but when Chen Changsheng was wielding the sword, this matter seemed to become comprehensible.

It could be said without exaggeration that in the countless years between now and the most distant past, he was the one that had accomplished the feat of an Ethereal Opening cultivator breaking a Star Domain the most times.

Because in the Mausoleum of Books, he had understood the relationship between the multitudinous stars in the sky and the Star Domain of cultivators, and because in the desolate lands of the north, the sword styles that Su Li had passed down to him had conferred upon him two intelligent eyes that could see through a Star Domain.

The Intellectual Sword was a sword style, or method of battle, that was extremely taxing on the spiritual sense, exhausting on the mental faculties. It was a method Su Li had passed on to him specifically for breaking through Star Domains.

The focus of this sword style was to comprehend the relationship between the starry sky and living beings, from this calculating the gaps in a cultivator's Star Domain.

Chen Changsheng's experience of comprehending the Heavenly Tome Monoliths in the Mausoleum of Books was unique, so although his calculation abilities were lacking compared to Xu Yourong and Su Li, his comprehension of the Intellectual Sword was not.

From the Plum Garden Inn to here, he had been constantly calculating, all for the purpose of finding, or guessing at, the weak points of Zhou Tong's domain of blood.

His sword had long since been unsheathed, so how could it miss?

Blood was sent flying as the sword intent erupted, and the temperature of the courtyard rapidly climbed. Chen Changsheng knew that the difference between him and Zhou Tong in terms of actual cultivation level was enormous, so to succeed, he did not dare tarry. He used his spiritual sense to ignite the radiance in his body and transform it into an unimaginable amount of true essence which he poured into the Stainless Sword to propel it forward!

The Stainless Sword glowed even brighter, exuding sacred white rays of light and heat, ready to destroy Zhou Tong's life in the next instant. Yet at the moment of truth, this scene did not occur…the real sword clearly pierced through the sea of blood and stabbed into Zhou Tong's body, yet it seemed to stab into nothingness, nothing beneath the edge of the sword!

Zhou Tong's real body was not in the sea of blood!

The great crimson official's robe gently swayed in the night wind. At some point, he had drifted into the air, emitting a blood-soaked and monstrous might!

A sphere of blood appeared in the palm of his right hand. Was it his Star Domain of blood?

The Star Domain was the most powerful defensive tool of Star Condensation cultivators and could be considered their personal world. Just who would be willing to leave their own world and then place this world in the palm of their hand?

Chen Changsheng had seen such records in the Daoist Canon, but he had never encountered it in an actual battle. This was his first time seeing such a scene.

Zhou Tong had left his own world and made the sea of blood that was his Star Domain a ball of blood in his palm.

This also meant that despite the countless complex and challenging calculations engaged in before using the Intellectual Sword to break through the Star Domain, it was already impossible for him to harm Zhou Tong's body. On the contrary, his sword had entered the sea of blood, which meant that it was now under Zhou Tong's control. It was impossible to continue stabbing forward.

From the feeling transmitted by the edge of the sword, Chen Changsheng very quickly confirmed this heart-chilling fact.

Zhou Tong looked down on him from above and expressionlessly asked, ”This is that sword?”

From the moment he determined to kill Chen Changsheng, even before the summer of last year, he began to gather all the information concerning Chen Changsheng. That carriage had always been parked inside Hundred Flowers Lane, so he knew what Chen Changsheng had done in the wilderness and in Xunyang City. He knew that Su Li had taught him three sword styles, and even that one of these sword styles was focused on calculation.

Since he knew, as one of the most famous schemers of the continent, an important personage who planned and schemed, how could he not calculate that Chen Changsheng would use this sword?

The domain of blood that he had spread was real, that it had been broken by Chen Changsheng was real. His response was very risky, even if he had already prepared a backup plan.

All this was for a single objective.

He wanted to shatter Chen Changsheng's sword.