Chapter 395 - Chapter 395: 395 Four Directions Alliance (1/2)
Chapter 395: 395 Four Directions Alliance
“Gone… it’s gone…”
Elder Tang stared at the place where the once greatest female cultivator had vanished with the wind, her presence entirely gone without a trace. He was stunned, hardly daring to believe his own eyes.
A Demi-god level anomaly… slain with a single sword strike?
He even thought that he was losing control, hallucinating in his last moments.
But that wasn’t right.
In the past, he had encountered Demi-god level anomalies. During the battle, he had teetered on the brink of losing control, but it hadn’t felt like this.
“Am I okay?”
Quickly recovering, he subconsciously touched his eyes; they had not undergone any strange transformations.
Confirming that he was not on the verge of losing control, he finally understood.
All of this was not a hallucination.
The anomaly had truly been slain by that man in white with a single sword strike.
Who in the world was he?
Elder Tang looked at the tall figure not far in the distance, the sword in his hand flickering with a dazzling light. His heart was filled with astonishment.
A Demi-god level anomaly was slain with a single strike of his sword.
Was this man a powerful being from the legendary Hollow Void Realm?
…
“Run!”
Just as Xu Tianxing was feeling shocked and confused, he saw Gu Yang turn his head and look at him. The chill in his eyes made Xu Tianxing’s heart shudder, and without any hesitation, he turned and ran.
The Streaming Light Sword transformed into a Sword Light and, in a blink of an eye, disappeared into the horizon.
…
“He sure can run fast.”
Gu Yang didn’t chase after him. Firstly, Xu Tianxing was slightly faster than him, and even if it was just slightly, he couldn’t catch up.
Secondly, even if he did catch up, it would be a tough battle.
He was able to slay a Celestial Being realm anomaly with a single sword strike because these anomalies were quite simple-minded, with straightforward and direct attack patterns.
His Zhanxuan Sword Technique was perfect for dealing with these pure energy beings.
Even a Celestial Being level anomaly would be reduced to ashes under his Godslayer move.
If his opponent was Xu Tianxing, striking down the former Supreme Sword Master of the world would not be an easy task. There would certainly be a bitter battle.
With the speed of his opponent’s Flying Sword, it was possible for Gu Yang to be counter-killed if he wasn’t careful.
If the two were to fight, the odds would be roughly 6 to 4.
He had the 6.
On the other hand, if Xu Tianxing encountered a Celestial Being level anomaly, he would be at a complete loss. Apart from fleeing, if he was cornered, he would most likely die a miserable death.
This was the restrain effect of Cultivation Techniques and Sword Techniques.
Gu Yang didn’t want to waste time chasing after Xu Tianxing, because there were easier anomalies to deal with here.
After he had slain the anomaly earlier, he had successfully obtained a fragment.
Just as he had guessed before, slaying a Celestial Being level power would yield a fragment.
If his guess was correct, these so-called fragments were likely fragments of the Dao.
He picked up the sword left behind by the anomaly, holding it in his hand.
It was a spiritual treasure, but it seemed to have been corrupted by the anomaly’s power. The sword blade had turned a pale color, identical to the face of the anomaly earlier.
He wondered whether the spirit within the weapon had also been corrupted into an anomaly.
[Fragment detected, Do you wish to extract it?]
Suddenly, a prompt appeared before Gu Yang’s eyes, bringing joy to his heart.
It turned out that fragments could be extracted from spiritual treasures too, what great news.
Without any hesitation, he said, “Yes.”
This sword was indeed a spiritual treasure, but with the corruption, he didn’t feel comfortable giving it to Su Qingzhen and the others to use.
[One fragment has been extracted, current fragment count: five.]
Gu Yang was overjoyed.
He hadn’t come to the wrong place indeed. For him, the easiest to deal with among the Celestial Being level powers were the anomalies of the Yellow Springs.
Of course, the deities from the Golden Court weren’t difficult to deal with either, but there were at most three Celestial Beings there, and killing all of them wouldn’t yield much.
When it came to quantity of Celestial Beings, the Yellow Springs held the most.
Moreover, he felt no guilt when killing these anomalies.
Once again, Gu Yang experienced the joy of his first visit to the Yellow Springs. Everywhere was a potential energy source for him.
“Greetings, Immortal.”
At this moment, Elder Tang respectfully greeted him.
“Immortal” was a term of respect for a Human Immortal, a ceremony from ancient times.
Actually, both of them were in the same realm, so there was no need for such formality.
But Elder Tang had personally seen Gu Yang slay a Demi-god anomaly in person, and regarded him as a powerful figure of the Hollow Void Realm. There was no way he would dare to be disrespectful.
Gu Yang gave the elder in front of him a once-over. Apart from one vertical pupil, he didn’t seem to have any other abnormalities.
Being a Celestial level being, his appearance was more normal.
However, he could sense the imbalance in the old man’s body, it was not the state a Human Immortal should be in.
Recalling how the elder had kindly warned him and even assisted him earlier, and how his attitude was quite friendly, he asked, “May I know your name, Daoist friend?”
Elder Tang respectfully replied, “This one is Elder Tang Yue from the Four Directions Alliance.”