Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

Chapter 6531 Heaven Slasher

“What?!”

Countless people stared in disbelief. Moments ago, Dong Mingyu’s dagger had slashed toward Qian Jie’s neck, but some mysterious power had repelled it.

As the dagger could slice through Divine Sovereign magical items like tofu, everyone knew just how sharp it was, but it still couldn’t cut through Qian Jie’s neck.

On the other hand, Yue Zifeng’s Sword Qi had not only shattered Qian Jie’s bronze saber, but it even retained its edge afterward. It was sharp enough to cleave half of Qian Jie’s body away.

This was a heaven-and-earth-shaking sword, one that shook the entire battlefield, stunning friends and foes in one slash. It seemed as if the sword could slash through heaven and earth, exterminate the universe, and even destroy time and space. Nothing in the nine heavens and ten lands could stop it.

After executing that terrifying slash, Yue Zifeng sheathed his sword and slowly bent his body forward into a sword-drawing posture. An invisible force gathered in his hand.

“The Dao of the Sword has two edges. One faces enemies; the other faces yourself. Those who hold the sword must maintain a heart of respect. The law of the sword exists in the heart, follows the will, and acts through the hand. The art of the sword is the embodiment of skill and training merged into the body. From Dao comes law, from law comes art, from art the heart is refined. The divine hides within the law...”

As Yue Zifeng chanted, heaven and earth changed color. A terrifying pressure was compressing Heaven Earth power.

“The Sword God Mantra... That’s the Sword God Mantra! Kill him right now! Don’t let him accumulate power!” the Heaven Cauldron commanded, its voice containing a hint of shock.

“Heaven Power—Recovery!” Qian Jie howled, and his severed body instantly healed back.

Qian Jie rapidly formed a series of hand seals, and the sky rumbled. Endless runes condensed into a giant sword that exuded a sharp heavenly might throughout the battlefield. In front of it, all lifeforms seemed like ants.

“Heaven Power—Heavenly Punishment!”

As lightning flashed on top of this sword, it instantly sucked the world’s murderous air.

BOOM!

The giant sword pierced straight for Yue Zifeng. It was an unstoppable sword that made everyone else feel despair just by looking at it.

However, Yue Zifeng didn’t even look at that immense sword at this moment. He was still in his original posture, chanting.

Suddenly, the whole Dragonblood Legion appeared before Yue Zifeng, and over seven thousand Dragonblood warriors formed hand seals. As their dragon manifestations resonated, their powers merged toward Guo Ran.

Guo Ran was holding two oddly shaped sabers. While the sabers looked incomplete and their edges were still rough, there were complicated diagrams carved on top of them.

When Guo Ran crossed these two sabers, their edges suddenly appeared. The rough sides instantly transformed into two immensely sharp blades.

The next moment, the lazy dragon in Guo Ran’s manifestation opened its eyes, like two suns bursting forth. The dragon then absorbed all the manifestations of the Dragonblood Legion.

As Guo Ran’s armor lit up, endless power flowed through it into his sabers.

“Dragonblood Cross Slash!”

An unprecedented attack shot out of Guo Ran’s dual sabers, brimming with the full power of every warrior in the Dragonblood Legion.

BOOM!

In front of countless shocked gazes, the Dragonblood Cross Slash blew apart the heavenly execution sword containing pure Heaven Dao. It cleaved a massive cross in the sky.

“That... that is truly heaven-defying!”

Everyone was stunned by the Dragonblood Legion’s combined attack.

But the cost was steep. After unleashing that strike, the Dragonblood warriors collapsed from the sky one after another. They had been fighting for too long, and having their dragon blood drained left them with nothing to stand on.

Only Gu Yang, Li Qi, Song Mingyuan, Xia Chen, and Guo Ran were still standing. As the Dragonblood warriors collapsed, the Hidden Dragon Legion’s warriors quickly caught them mid-fall and pulled them back to safety.

Cracks covered Guo Ran’s sabers. These were divine weapons he had crafted specifically for the Dragonblood Cross Slash, but they were still incomplete. Now, he had to refrain from using them until he had repaired them.

Guo Ran himself had gotten pale. Although he had the support of his dragon soul and battle armor, the sheer power he had carried on behalf of over seven thousand Dragonblood warriors had nearly crushed him. Containing it alone had drained every ounce of his strength.

“... The sword bound to the art, the art bound to the law, the law bound to the Dao. Thus, from the Dao comes the law, from the law comes the art, from the art comes the flow of the sword, and from the sword’s flow, the swordsman is born. To be unrestrained by sword arts or sword laws is to see the true Dao—to be a Sword God.”

While the Dragonblood Legion held off Qian Jie, Yue Zifeng’s chanting did not cease. His voice only grew louder, ringing through heaven and earth.

“To see the true Dao, to be a Sword God.”

“To see the true Dao, to be a Sword God.”

“To see the true Dao, to be a Sword God.”

...

The mantra echoed endlessly across the battlefield, drowning out even the roaring shockwaves of Heaven and Earth.

Yue Zifeng slowly lifted his head, his eyes locking onto Qian Jie.

And Qian Jie froze.

His hair stood on end as the suffocating sense of death engulfed him. He had never felt this before.

“The power of the Sword God is my true self,” Yue Zifeng intoned. “My sword can sever the heavens. This technique’s name is... Heaven Slasher.”

The world shook and flashed.

“Master, save me!” Qian Jie screamed in terror.

SSH!

The sound of Yue Zifeng drawing his sword rang like a dragon’s cry.

As this streak of sword-light tore through heaven and Earth, the will of the Sword Dao overturned the world.

Qian Jie tried to move, but he could not. He was sealed in place by Yue Zifeng’s sword.

Just then, a bronze cauldron appeared above Qian Jie’s head—the Heaven Cauldron itself. As Qian Jie was its item-slave, it wouldn’t let Qian Jie die so easily.

However, it was in the middle of merging with the Earth Cauldron, so it could only split a portion of its power to help Qian Jie.

Still, it was one of the ten great primal chaos divine items—a supreme existence. Even a portion of its power could easily wipe out dozens of legacy Divine Sovereign magical items. That was especially true now that its power now contained the Earth Cauldron’s toughness. Their combined power was enough to wipe out anyone beneath a Divine Sovereign.

But to everyone’s surprise, the sword-light slashed through the bronze cauldron along with Qian Jie.

“What...?”

Silence swallowed the battlefield. Every gaze locked onto the two severed halves of the Heaven Cauldron and its item-slave.