Chapter 1864: A Surprise Saved for Today

Chapter 1864: Chapter 1864: A Surprise Saved for Today

"Playing you? You’re overestimating yourself." Han Yan said with disdain, dismissively.

For someone else, perhaps playing around like this would indeed be interesting, but for Long Wucuo, she felt that directly slapping him across the face would be more satisfying. Honestly, it was only a coincidence that this situation occurred. She really felt a bit wronged.

"Mu Hanyan, do you think this will defeat me?" Long Wucuo, once again angered by Mu Hanyan’s disdainful gaze, slowly stood up, flipping his wrist, and another longsword appeared in his hand together with the sheath.

He absolutely couldn’t accept such defeat. He still had a stronger trump card!

"Mu Hanyan, if you had surrendered earlier, I might have spared your life. Unfortunately, you’ve chosen a path to death. Don’t blame me." Long Wucuo stood straight, clutching the sword sheath, blood slowly seeping from the corner of his mouth, coldly smiling, looking exceptionally sinister.

"How conceited." Mu Hanyan still wore a face of contempt. Seeing the sword in Long Wucuo’s hand, she almost burst out laughing: heading for death, who’s really heading for death here?

"You’ll soon find out if I’m being conceited or not. This sword is called the Chaos God Sword. Maybe you haven’t heard of its origins, but it doesn’t matter, you’ll experience its terror soon enough," Long Wucuo said proudly.

"Chaos God Sword, this is the Chaos God Sword!" A shout of astonishment arose from below the platform.

In fact, among the priests of various halls, there were very few who hadn’t heard the famous name of the Chaos God Sword. For a very long time, the Chaos God Sword was the divine weapon that low-level priests longed for and the nightmare of high-level priests. It’s said that though it’s possible for a priest to win by cleverly applying divine arts, only a divine weapon like the Chaos God Sword could enable a divine priest to defeat or even kill a Divine Heart Priest.

It’s said that the Chaos God Sword had vanished hundreds of years ago, but it unexpectedly fell into the hands of Long Wucuo. No wonder, even after being severely wounded, he had such confidence.

It seemed Mu Hanyan was ultimately inescapable from death, after all. People who thought this battle was already conclusive felt deep sympathy for her once more.

To be fair, Mu Hanyan’s strength was indeed quite formidable. That divine art just now exceeded everyone’s expectations, even astonishing the main priests, but unfortunately, her opponent was Long Wucuo—Long Wucuo with the Chaos God Sword in hand.

Thinking this in their hearts, they didn’t notice the wry smile flickering in Mu Hanyan’s eyes.

"Mu Hanyan, die!" Long Wucuo fiercely drew the Chaos God Sword, slashing towards Mu Hanyan.

Probably because of psychological factors, that cold glint appeared mesmerizing and fantastical.

"Ah!" A young priest couldn’t help but exclaim, as if they had already seen Mu Hanyan disturbed, the Chaos God Sword landing unhindered, blood splattering five feet around.

At that moment, a fiery sword light flashed, forming a spear engulfed in flames, rushing directly at Long Wucuo.

It was as if needle locked against awl; the fiery spear and the Chaos God Sword met head-on. With a series of cracking sounds, the legendary Chaos God Sword, known for its ability to triumph over stronger foes across several levels, shattered into silver fragments!

"How is this possible!" In an instant, everyone was dumbfounded.

The Chaos God Sword wasn’t known for its sharpness or durability, having failed and fractured multiple times in its forging. Thus, it’s not surprising it shattered in a duel of strength. The true power of the Chaos God Sword lay in its disruption of the mind, preventing priests from casting effective divine arts. The priest who crafted it could vanquish strong opponents as a Divine Priest because of this.

But look at Mu Hanyan now, not the slightest sign of mental disruption. The power of her fiery spear is no less powerful than the previous divine art. Could her Divine Sense be so strong that it’s immune to the Chaos God Sword?

Long Wucuo himself was equally stunned. He couldn’t believe that his greatest trump card—the Chaos God Sword—had no effect on Mu Hanyan. If he hadn’t tested its power before, he might suspect the sword in his hand was a fake.

Yet, he had tested it himself; the absolutely real Chaos God Sword, totally ineffective against Mu Hanyan?

In reality, what he didn’t know was that the Chaos God Sword he used earlier was indeed genuine, but the one in his hand now was a complete fake.

On the night of the ancestral shrine fire, the Chaos God Sword had been swapped by Mu Hanyan. Originally, Mu Hanyan intended to take the Chaos God Sword and surprise him. But following Ling Baobao’s suggestion, she decided to save the surprise for the divine ritual.

The Chaos God Sword’s appearance was simple and unadorned, not much different from an ordinary priest’s longsword. Coupling this with Mu Hanyan’s skills in sword casting and alchemy, plus the support of the Chaos Heavenly Fire, any random priest’s longsword could be mimicked fairly successfully. At the last moment, the Chaos Heavenly Fire, just beginning to show a Spiritual Sense, even gave Mu Hanyan an additional surprise, mimicking the sword’s chaotic aura almost perfectly.

However, aura was just aura; such a counterfeit sword could never possess the true one’s power. If Long Wucuo had examined it carefully, he would have noticed the differences. Unfortunately, because of the fuss with the ancestral shrine fire, he hadn’t carefully inspected it, only took a quick glance before going to rest early, needing to restore his energy for the divine ritual.

So much so that even Long Wudang couldn’t see any clue from his face, mistakenly worrying that Mu Hanyan had failed and spent the night restless.

And this surprise, just as Mu Hanyan hoped, waited till now.

"Shh!" With a whistling sound, the fiery spear penetrated Long Wucuo’s chest, inertial force sending him flying off the platform, a trail of blood beads scattered along the way.

"Wucuo!" Long Aoli leaped off the high platform, unexpectedly reaching over and catching Long Wucuo with outstretched arms.

Several other Long Family priests also intervened, only a step behind Long Aoli, and together they cast hand formations to dispel the fiery spear.

"Father..." Long Wucuo wanted to say something but spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted in Long Aoli’s arms.

Mu Hanyan frowned slightly. Initially, she intended to kill Long Wucuo right then, but he narrowly escaped, probably because he wore protective armor beneath his priest robe, otherwise, he wouldn’t have survived that fiery spear.

This was thanks to the Heaven and Earth Rules of the Divine Continent. On another plane, with the strong power of the Chaos Heavenly Fire to incinerate all things, not just one piece of protective armor, even ten or eight pieces wouldn’t save him.