Chapter 444: Sword Divine (1/2)
The rules of the arena changed after Lu Yun went on a killing spree, targeting the most powerful of the contestants. Those who’d been solo-hunting the weak began to form teams, and all thirty-six returned void realm cultivators came together.
“We must eliminate Qing Yu and his Sidekick first,” one of them said firmly. “Otherwise, none of us will survive to the end!”
He was a top genius who’d gained the blessings of the Dao Flower and created his own void realm method upon ascension. He’d thought he’d be unrivalled in the arena and that there was no way he wouldn’t be listed in the Sovereign Ranking.
However, a mere sidekick had forced him to band together with the other top contestants. The thirty-six returned void realm cultivators were the strongest in the arena!
“Qing Yu’s Sidekick isn’t necessarily more powerful than we are, but he’s too unpredictable,” complained another cultivator. “We can’t even sense where he is!”
He’d seen Lu Yun cutting a returned void realm cultivator down with a single slash; his opponent hadn’t even seen Lu Yun even upon the moment of elimination. If this cultivator hadn’t happened to witness the scene, he wouldn’t have noticed anything either, since Lu Yun didn’t register in his senses at all; not even when Lu Yun made his attack!
Or… perhaps the traces he left couldn’t be detected by contemporary cultivators.
“He’s made a mess of everything!”
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“You don’t have to join hands against him,” a calm voice traveled forth from the void. “I can kill him myself.”
A figure shrouded in shadows slowly descended from the air. He was tall and burly, his arms long enough to reach past his knees. On his back was an immortal sword.
“Who are you? Why can you also bring an immortal sword into the arena?!” The thirty-six returned void realm cultivators were inordinately shocked to see him. Their gazes fell on the sword on the man’s back. Unlike Lu Yun’s shamanic treasure, this was an immortal sword!
“You may call me Sword Divine.” The man’s words drifted in the air, sounding as close as a whisper by the ears, but as distant as an echo from the firmament. It was impossible to remember his voice.
“Sword Divine… He’s a divine!” Someone immediately picked out the salient bit of information from the newcomer’s name.
There were divines among the thirty-six returned void realm cultivators, but even they were confounded by Sword Divine’s emergence. There was no heavyweight like him among the divine race!
The shadow divines who’d shown up at the end of the Ingress Path weren’t part of the current divine race, either. The senior divine council were also clueless as to who they were. They’d backed down from the center stage of society as a whole, and there was no reason for them to make an enemy out of the entire world—at least, not yet.
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“Who are they talking to?” asked an immortal in Destiny City. None of them could see Sword Divine!
“Qing Yu’s Sidekick talked to the air like he was facing his worst enemy during the second round. Is there… really someone we cannot see?” That realization sent chills down everyone’s spine.
“It seems the Sovereign Meet this time really isn’t being controlled by the will of the immortal dao.” An origin dao immortal frowned.
“Look, Qing Yu’s Sidekick is fighting Wu Tulong!” someone exclaimed.
Wu Tulong!
Three years ago, he’d been among the five youth sovereigns and had been responsible for restoring the returned void realm—the last of the void realm. Now, he’d ascended to that very same realm.