Chapter 748: Thirty-Six Celestial Emperors (1/2)
“What is this?!” Aghast, the Crimson Firmament elder discovered with great dismay that the reborn Sugato Sword was stronger than his faction’s ultimate weapon!
Shimmering sword radiance and limitless might shook the sword cauldron, carving one deep mark after another onto the cauldron’s surface.
Hummmmm.
The sword cauldron keened with distress.
Clang!
Busy clashing with the Skyturning Seal on the other side, the sword bell quaked violently and tolled resonantly, sending a purple bell shadow to clap down protectively over the cauldron. The bell tolls carried on, firing ripples of sword energy at the Sugato Sword.
“This isn’t possible! The Sugato Sword didn’t showcase this level of strength ten thousand years ago in the hands of Lord Sugato!” Panting heavily, the elder directed the sword cauldron in a joint defense with the sword bell.
“The Sugato Sword was buried in the human emperor’s Last Repose for ten thousand years. It’s absorbed the strength of humanity’s sacred land, so it’s no surprise that it’s returned to its peak and even surpassed its previous form.” The purple-clad youth of the Purple Firmament stared fixedly at the jewel embedded in the hilt of the Sugato Sword—that wasn’t its own jewel, but the one that’d once belonged to the Sword Pagoda.
It hadn’t been present when Lord Sugato wielded the treasure. Countless aeons ago, when the Green Firmament’s Sword Pagoda had been demolished, its jewel had fallen to the underworld. Yet somehow, it’d found its way to the Sugato Sword refined from the corpse of the Sword Pagoda and become one with it again.
Add to that ten thousand years of soaking in the energy of the human emperor’s Last Repose, the Sugato Sword was now a king of weapons and boasted strength superior to the cauldron and bell. The latter had to work together to barely fend off the sword’s attacks.
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Battle raged on between the other participants; Lu Yun was holding off the two scarlet apes by himself. Though he was a peak origin dao immortal, he didn’t come off any worse for the wear against two scarlet apes that’d long broken through origin dao realm!
An unsheathed Violetgrave scattered violet sword energy through the air like a drizzle of rain. The two scarlet apes had taken their original forms and were physically throwing themselves at Lu Yun. The head of the Dark North Sword Sect, master of Ingress Island, Yin Jiuying, and celestial emperors of the nine majors, ten lands, and four immortal seas charged toward the Central World with an army of dozens of crippled origin dao immortals and countless other dao immortals.
Qing Yu could not be allowed to fully refine the Central World, even at the cost of their own lives.
There were simply too many treasures in it—just a single one of the Immortal Subjugation Seal, countless heritage, or the Dao Tree that could no longer be spoken of was enough to turn men mad with greed, to say nothing of them altogether.
The thirteen merchant alliance leaders and five forefathers of the Star Demon Sect couldn’t hold them off. Each spewing mouthfuls of blood when they were defeated, they were all bombarded into the East Sea.
“Kill!” Qi Hai yelled. His pill furnace had arrived beneath the Central World and was greater than the facet itself. Flames raged as he prepared to refine Qing Yu along with the Central World.
“You can fuck right off!!”
Wham!
An enormous palm descended from the heavens and smacked the furnace out of the area. Qi Hai vomited a mouthful of fresh blood as his body crackled like a porcelain vase.
“Senior brother!!” shrieked the Destiny city lord from his position in his city. Instead of participating in the battle for the Central World, he’d remained behind to protect home ground.
Qi Hai’s body shattered to reveal... another Qi Hai beneath. Incredibly different from the first, he now looked to be a young man with an extraordinary vigorous presence. It wasn’t the power of immortal dao that wreathed around him, but another more tyrannical and imperious.