Chapter 836 - 834: Celestial Sword, Bloodslayer

Chapter 836: Chapter 834: Celestial Sword, Bloodslayer

"The Lord of the Wu Division of the Blood Marsh is right outside."

HISS!

Yuan Mie gasped sharply, his legs turning to jelly.

Late Stage of Golden Immortal.

Mo Baijun frowned deeply. Although he had lost control and fallen into demonic deviation for years, the Blood Marsh had known some things prior to this. The Blood Marsh consisted of five divisions, and the Lord of the Wu Division was at the Late Stage of Golden Immortal, yet he was simultaneously the weakest among the five lords of the Blood Marsh.

"Let’s give it a try."

With the Lord of the Blood Marsh right outside, it was entirely predictable that Xu Yang was in massive trouble. Otherwise, Mo Baijun wouldn’t have needed to say those words. He didn’t have a choice either.

"Kid, what kind of trick are you playing?"

A cold shout suddenly rang out, carrying the supreme oppression of the Late Stage of Golden Immortal. Xu Yang trembled all over, his face deathly pale. Unable to control himself, he let out a painful groan and fell to one knee, coughing up fresh blood. The bones and sinews across his body emitted a series of CRACKS, shattering in multiple places.

It was a bone-deep, agonizing pain!

His expression contorted, Xu Yang forcefully endured the intense pain. Slowly raising his head, he glared ferociously at Gui Ying. "You mongrel, today is the day you die."

"What?" Gui Ying’s face was filled with astonishment. The day he died? Him? What a joke. His expression instantly darkened. "You dare play tricks on me? I won’t even let you die an easy death," he said coldly.

BOOM!

The space in all directions violently twisted and contracted, sweeping up a vast tide of blood that pressed down on Xu Yang all at once. At this moment—

CLANG!

A blood-red hue, distinct from the surrounding scarlet, appeared out of nowhere. A blood-red sword beam, like a breathtaking flash of lightning, tore through the space in all directions, shattering the boundless scarlet. The clear and melodious hum of a sword echoed endlessly, causing the heavens and earth to tremble.

Gui Ying’s pupils shrank as he stared in disbelief at Mo Baijun, who had appeared out of thin air.

"Middle Stage of Golden Immortal? How is that possible?" Gui Ying gasped in disbelief. "I didn’t sense him at all."

This was simply unbelievable.

"You..." He suddenly fixed his gaze on the blood-red ancient sword in Mo Baijun’s hand, his expression undergoing a drastic change. His eyes immediately locked onto Mo Baijun’s face. "The Blood Slaughter Ancient Sword, one of the four Celestial Swords of Celestial Sword Mountain! Are you that person from Celestial Sword Mountain’s Slaughter Peak? That’s impossible! Didn’t you succumb to demonic deviation and disappear?"

He hadn’t recognized Mo Baijun, but he recognized the ancient sword in his hand. Celestial Sword Mountain was renowned for its Sword Dao. It housed numerous powerful ancient swords, but the most outstanding were the four Celestial Swords passed down to this day. As the former head disciple of Slaughter Peak, Mo Baijun controlled the Blood Slaughter Ancient Sword, which was one of them. Just from this, one could understand how astonishing Mo Baijun’s innate talent had been back then. Of the four Celestial Swords, he possessed one.

At this moment, Gui Ying was incomparably shocked. The name Mo Baijun had vanished for several years; nowadays, probably few people in the Eastern Continent could even remember it. But any cultivator who had lived through Mo Baijun’s era knew exactly how powerful the man was.

And now, Mo Baijun was fully lucid.

Gui Ying took a deep breath. "You really surprised me," he said with a slow, cold sneer. "To think that you, Mo Baijun, unknowingly broke free from your demonic barrier of slaughter. However, it’s a pity you are only at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal.

"If you want to deal with me, that’s not enough."

"Is that so?" Expressionless, Mo Baijun looked down at the Blood Slaughter Ancient Sword in his hand.

CLANG!

The ancient sword, mentally linked to its master, let out a resounding hum.

WHOOSH!

A blood-red light soared into the sky, exploding brilliantly across the firmament. The wilderness, stretching for thousands of miles, was instantly blanketed by boundless, blood-red Sword Qi. The Sword Qi was like an ocean, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

SWISH!

Mo Baijun’s figure shot straight upward. The Sword Intent on his body skyrocketed madly, possessing the momentum of surging tides and torrential waves, crashing like a collapsing mountain or a roaring tsunami. The sheer pressure caused the surrounding void to tremble violently, on the verge of collapsing. Boundless Immortal Spirit Qi swarmed over, forming a massive, majestic vortex above the Sword Qi. In an instant, Mo Baijun was submerged by the ocean of energy.

Gui Ying’s expression changed. "He’s trying to break through?" he thought. "With such a commotion, his breakthrough to the Late Stage of Golden Immortal is practically guaranteed. Damn it. It hasn’t been long since the Starry Extreme Night passed, so the Immortal Spirit Qi and life essence between heaven and earth are currently at their thickest. With his astonishing accumulations and a breakthrough in his Sword Intent, this advancement... I absolutely cannot let him break through!"

Surging with killing intent, Gui Ying vanished from his spot, whipping up a vast tide of blood that covered half the sky as it crashed toward Mo Baijun. Even at the Middle Stage of Golden Immortal, Mo Baijun could exchange blows with him by relying on the Celestial Sword, Blood Slaughter. Once Mo Baijun broke through to the Late Stage of Golden Immortal, Gui Ying wouldn’t just lose—he would definitely die!

As the former top monstrous genius of Celestial Sword Mountain, Mo Baijun practiced the supremely offensive Slaughter Sword Dao and wielded a top-tier Celestial Sword. It was no exaggeration to say that Mo Baijun was practically a terrifying killing machine. He had to stop Mo Baijun from breaking through. But no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn’t figure out why Xu Yang was with Mo Baijun, nor how Mo Baijun had appeared out of thin air.

Down below, Xu Yang scrambled wretchedly, clawing at the ground as he continuously retreated. A battle at the Late Stage of Golden Immortal was far too terrifying. Even the aftershocks could obliterate him. Watching from a distance as the world beneath the firmament completely transformed into a clash of Sword Qi and tides of blood, Xu Yang’s mind fell silent. It was too powerful.

This was especially true for Mo Baijun. The Slaughter Sword Intent surging and erupting from him as he broke through his realm was simply indescribable. It was as if he were the very incarnation of slaughter. The tangible Sword Intent coiled around the heavens and the earth. Yet, instead of destroying everything, it infected the countless weeds, boulders, and ancient trees in the wilderness with a bloody aura, causing them to breed their own Slaughter Sword Intent. This instinctive control over Sword Intent was absolutely terrifying.

"Mo Baijun shouldn’t have any problem breaking through," Xu Yang thought. "He was trapped in demonic deviation for years and suffered immense depletion in the Minor Immortal Realm, but all of that served as accumulation. Now, the Immortal Spirit Qi in the world is even denser. But Gui Ying..."

Seeing Gui Ying launch an attack, Xu Yang’s heart leaped into his throat, his eyes full of worry.

BOOM!

The tide of blood erupted around Mo Baijun like a massive, blood-red sun. The sight was dazzlingly blinding and soul-shaking. The shockwaves rippled outward like waves, shattering everything in their path. The rolling surge was like a destructive wall of waves woven from blood-red Divine Weapons, hurtling outward.

Xu Yang’s expression changed drastically. He summoned Yuan Mie and had him take him away to retreat. Disregarding everything else, Yuan Mie roughly grabbed Xu Yang and fled. The pursuing shockwave from behind made his scalp tingle with numbness, as though he had been plunged into the jaws of death.

Xu Yang stared fixedly at the center of the bloody tide. It wasn’t until a blood-red sword beam, radiant to the extreme, erupted and viciously tore through the tide of blood that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

CLANG!

BOOM!

The Blood Slaughter Ancient Sword rose across the sky, as blood-red as jade. It stained the heavens and earth, surging violently as it whipped up world-covering lightning that crashed toward Gui Ying. Behind the sword, Mo Baijun stood tall with his eyes tightly shut, greedily devouring the Immortal Spirit Qi between heaven and earth.

He was too hungry. At this moment, his body was like a bottomless black hole, refusing nothing that came its way. As for his breakthrough, as long as there was enough energy, there was no suspense at all. These several years of demonic deviation, followed by his awakening, had allowed him to see through the incredibly profound essence of the Slaughter Sword Dao. Furthermore, his Will Primordial Spirit had received an unprecedented tempering. He even felt that breaking through to Saint Immortal in the future wouldn’t pose much difficulty. This was something even those old monsters in Celestial Sword Mountain could hardly compare to.

"The Celestial Sword, damn it!" Gui Ying cursed, his face looking incredibly ugly. "To think the Celestial Swords of Celestial Sword Mountain are this terrifying!"

The might of the Celestial Sword—even without Mo Baijun actively controlling it—actually made him feel extremely troubled. He had never experienced the might of a Celestial Sword before. Only today did he realize that the four Celestial Swords did not hold an empty reputation; they truly lived up to being the pinnacle of sword weaponry in the Eastern Continent.

BOOM!

A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes as he erupted to his utmost limit. His immortal foundation’s origin surged as a small, blood-red seal suddenly appeared in his hand. Shaped like a pagoda, it absorbed the majestic power pouring into it. Under his control, it expanded to the size of a massive mountain and ruthlessly smashed toward the Celestial Sword, Blood Slaughter.