Chapter 259 - 31: Breakthrough to the Sea Condensation Realm, Fierce Tiger Sword

Chapter 259: Chapter 31: Breakthrough to the Sea Condensation Realm, Fierce Tiger Sword

"So you... are dead meat!"

Chen Ye ignored her shouts, raising his saber once again.

"Is that so? Then I’d like to see just how tough this little turtle shell of yours really is!"

He took a deep breath. The True Essence in his Dantian Qi Sea began to boil once more, surging madly into the Jingzhe Saber.

The cold gleam on the blade grew deeper and more solid.

"Break for me!"

Chen Ye roared, and the Jingzhe Saber in his hand swung down like a furious tempest, viciously hacking at the white barrier of light!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

A rapid series of metallic clashes, dense enough to make one’s scalp tingle, erupted wildly through the forest.

In that single instant, Chen Ye lost count of how many times he had struck.

Every strike used all his strength!

Every strike landed on the exact same spot!

Under his frenzied assault, the seemingly indestructible white barrier of light began to tremble violently. Fine, thread-like cracks appeared on its surface, like glass about to shatter.

Inside the barrier, the smug look on Xiao Zhanbai’s face froze, replaced by endless terror.

"How is this possible...?"

She couldn’t believe her eyes.

This was a Protective Jade Pendant personally refined by Elder Jian. How could it not even last a moment under this guy’s saber?

CRACK!

Just as she was overwhelmed with horror, an even crisper cracking sound rang out.

The white barrier of light finally gave way. After a violent flicker, it shattered with a boom, dissolving into a sky full of motes of light.

A powerful backlash instantly struck Xiao Zhanbai.

"Pfft!"

She spat out another large mouthful of blood. Her already faint aura grew even weaker, and even the light in her eyes began to dim rapidly.

Chen Ye raised the Jingzhe Saber, its blade glinting with a grim, cold light, and aimed it at Xiao Zhanbai’s completely bloodless face.

But at that very moment, a terrifying aura, so immense it was indescribable and could change the color of the heavens and the earth, suddenly shot skyward from the direction of Qingzhou Prefecture City!

It was a Sword Light!

A dazzling, domineering, and ferocious Sword Light!

The moment the Sword Light appeared, it was as if the entire sky above Qingzhou Prefecture City had been lit up.

Immediately after, the Sword Light circled in the air and let out a deafening roar.

The roar was not the cry of a dragon nor the song of a phoenix, but the furious, heavenward bellow of a peerless, fierce tiger!

Wherever the roar passed, the winds and clouds shifted color, and even the clouds in the sky were forcefully blasted apart.

Countless Cultivators within Qingzhou Prefecture City were startled by this terrifying tiger’s roar.

They rushed out of their rooms one after another to look up at the night sky. When they saw the Sword Light, as brilliant as a sun, everyone’s face filled with awe and shock.

"Heavens... what is that?"

"It’s a Sword Light! Such... such a terrifying Sword Light!"

Some knowledgeable old Cultivators cried out in alarm after getting a clear look at the Sword Light’s form.

"It’s the Fierce Tiger Sword! It’s the Fierce Tiger Sword of Jian Wuchen, the Young Manor Master of Celestial Sword Manor!"

"That’s right! It is the Fierce Tiger Sword! That domineering, incomparably ferocious Sword Intent that looks down on the world... there’s no mistaking it!"

"Why would the Young Manor Master suddenly make a move? Did something major happen?"

"Look at the direction... that Sword Light is heading outside the city!"

Sounds of discussion and cries of alarm rose and fell in every corner of Qingzhou Prefecture City.

After letting out its tiger roar, the brilliant Sword Light transformed into a golden meteor and shot toward the dense forest outside the city, streaking through the air at a speed nearly impossible for the naked eye to follow!

Wherever the Sword Light passed, the air was torn apart, creating a series of ear-piercing sonic booms and leaving a long golden trail in the night sky.

「Meanwhile, in the dense forest.」

Chen Ye also felt the terrifying, suffocating pressure descending from the heavens.

Every hair on his body stood on end in an instant, and a fatal sense of crisis surged madly from the depths of his heart.

But upon seeing the Sword Light on the distant horizon, an unprecedented brilliance erupted in Xiao Zhanbai’s eyes.

’It’s the Young Manor Master’s Fierce Tiger Sword!’

’He’s come to save me!’

An immense sense of joy and relief instantly washed away the fear and despair in her heart.

’I’m saved!’

In her eyes, as long as the Young Manor Master made a move, the outcome was no longer in question.

After all, Jian Wuchen was hailed as the most talented prodigy the Manor had seen in a hundred years. At only twenty-five, his Cultivation had already reached the Inner Realm, and his Sword Dao Cultivation had even attained the legendary Severed Thought Realm. His strength was unfathomable.

Furthermore, his personal weapon, the Fierce Tiger Sword, was one of Celestial Sword Manor’s most prized treasures. It was a genuine divine weapon, rumored to contain the sealed spirit of an Ancient Tiger God, making it boundlessly powerful.

With him taking action, this kid named Chen Ye would have no hope of survival, even if he had three heads and six arms!

She could already picture Chen Ye’s miserable end: torn to shreds, his Divine Spirit annihilated, by the Young Manor Master’s incomparably domineering Fierce Tiger Sword.

Because she was about to be saved, and because of her absolute confidence in the Young Manor Master’s strength, her Heart Spirit, which had been taut for so long, finally relaxed.

However, she had overlooked one crucial thing.

The tiger was still far off.

But the Death God’s butcher knife was already hanging over her neck.

In the instant her Heart Spirit relaxed and her momentum plummeted...

Chen Ye moved!

There was not a shred of hesitation or retreat in his eyes. Instead, a ruthless look flashed within them.

"Die!"

The Jingzhe Saber swung down resolutely, filled with an unswerving killing intent!

SCHLICK!

There was no resistance.

The head that countless people had envied, coveted, and looked up to was lopped off with such ease. It carved a bleakly beautiful arc through the air before landing in the grass several yards away.

Xiao Zhanbai’s face still bore a trace of relief at having survived a disaster, along with her hopes for the future.

Her eyes were wide open, as if even in death she couldn’t believe that in the moment right before the Young Manor Master’s Fierce Tiger Sword arrived, she had actually... died. Just like that.

’Why?’

’How could he dare?’

’Isn’t he afraid of death?’

Three consecutive questions flashed through her mind, but she would never know the answers.