Chapter 1296 - 629: Sword Sacrifice

Chapter 1296: Chapter 629: Sword Sacrifice

Chen Xuantian floated in space, staring at that "Gate" on the far side of the moon.

The Mercury Sea surged and rolled, and the gigantic truncated-cube octahedron as tall as mountains blossomed in the metallic storm with blazing radiance, flickering like Venus, casting endless light that was reflected off the Mercury Sea, as if lighting a white incandescent bulb in the night sky, its dazzling brilliance illuminating more than half the firmament.

Chen Xuantian could see that the "Gate" was opening; the light did not merely shine upon this world, it was Jumping into different dimensions, flickering outwards. This twinkling mercury star was like a lighthouse, toward the boundless void, toward the Multi-universe, summoning the company’s fleet.

Yet this time, he did not use the Netherworld Spring to pull the switch and turn off the lights; he simply floated quietly in space, watching the Gate open.

Kun hopped out of the Void, apologizing over and over, saying it had just gone to pick someone up.

Chen Xuantian looked at it,

"Who is my master?"

Kun indicated it was Xuantian.

Mm. Kun had never really hidden things from him; mainly because it didn’t know much—most things it didn’t know. After all, it was just a Kun.

Chen Xuantian asked,

"Is it Tie Dan?"

Kun shook its head, indicating not Tie Dan, but Old Egg, the other one, the one you’ve met.

"Oh, that old man with Huangfu Yijian."

Chen Xuantian understood,

"So if you people hadn’t come to do this Reversing Fate thing, what I would have seized wouldn’t just have been Xuan Du’s Dao Body.

I schemed in every possible way, playing the master, the friend, the disciple, and in the end seized Egg’s Dao Body as well, is that it?

So it was me, by every kind of plotting, by all my schemes, who set him up and harmed him.

So in the end my Divine Soul was shattered and I fell into that Baobao’s hands.

So the way you’re treating me now is because I deserve it, because I owe him. Because I owe you all, right?"

Kun shook its head—no, it was just that he...

"I don’t owe anyone anything."

Chen Xuantian looked at the flickering moon, at the flickering stars, at the flickering cosmos,

"I was only seeking the Dao, that’s all.

Compared to those Daoists Favored by Heaven’s Will, I’m nothing but a mortal.

I had nothing, and I wanted a higher, stronger, better Dao Body—was that wrong?

I was going to seize his body, yes, but I also stayed with him all the way to the end.

Whatever he wanted, I gave him. What do I owe him?

All along this path, I hacked through every pass and calamity; no matter who stood in my way, I wouldn’t stop.

Just because I knew the road I walked was a dead end, was I supposed to give up halfway?

Just because I won, does that mean I owe someone?

If I lost, would you people feel you owed me?

You wouldn’t.

Doesn’t matter.

When the Great Dao clashes, each relies on their own ability. If I win, it’s mine; I don’t owe anyone...

Of course, I know he wouldn’t think that way.

A disciple is supposed to protect his master; a master is supposed to protect his disciple; brothers share a shout and a cup of wine, friends walk a lifetime together.

Egg, that bastard, is exactly that kind of corny cliché type, always going on about who owes who..."

Kun patted Chen Xuantian’s shoulder with its fin.

At that moment, the stars all over the sky suddenly lit up, and the brilliance reflected off the mercury sea-surface, in an instant lighting the entire starry ocean!

No! That’s not right! That wasn’t reflection!

There were countless beams of intense light! No weaker than the octahedron’s blazing radiance! Shooting out from the mercury!

They were the lighthouses of the countless universes of the Multi-universe, responding to the Gate’s summons, casting their light here!

So the mercury star projected these thousands of starlights into the Milky Way across the sky! Casting flickering shadows along the paths of light!

Then it was as if countless eyes opened in the Void, by the thousands! By the tens of thousands, Gates opened all at once! Converging into a resplendent river of stars! Linking the entire Multi-universe together!

This was—the Starways of the Constellations!

Then Chen Xuantian drew his sword.

Key of the Gate

With a single sword he split open the flashing truncated-cube octahedron.

And then the endless Netherworld Spring gushed out of the cracked octahedron, like waves, like a flood, pouring back into the sea.

Indeed, it merged into the Mercury Sea; in just an instant it blended into one, and that mercury-like satellite was stained a pitch-black ink color.

Then, in the next instant, the stars were annihilated.

They vanished, as if someone had suddenly turned off the lights. The resplendent river of stars disappeared, the bright night sky disappeared, and the stars of the cosmos actually all vanished.

That entire sky of brilliant stars, in a single instant, flipped, directly changing from stars of light into black holes, from one living, thriving star after another into a host of black holes stepping into Doomsday.

At a glance, the black surface of the sea reflected the endless lightless deep-space like a Bright Mirror, almost indistinguishable from the deep-space itself, leaving only a void. It was as if Taiji Heaven, in a single instant, had plummeted into an abyss and sunk into eternal darkness.

Staring at the endless darkness, at the boundless Void, at the empty Void Abyss where nothing remained, Chen Xuantian understood.

"It wasn’t about opening the Gate to let you all come over. It was about opening the Gate to let Taiji Heaven go across. This place—this is already Doomsday."

"No, not yet. Those are just the reflections on the other side of the Gates, the other worlds! You still have time here! We still have a little time!"

Baobao burbled with excitement,

"But I really didn’t think you’d actually open the Gate! I was just thinking it’s over, it’s over, that old bastard is probably going to screw everything up! Hey! Didn’t expect it actually worked!

No way, Lingxu can actually change his nature? Don’t tell me even a mule can be saved... wait, wait, hold on, I’ll send some helpers over right now to—"

Chen Xuantian said coldly,

"No need. I’ve done what I promised you. The rest is my own business; I’ll settle it myself."

Then Chen Xuantian left Kun behind, using tunneling to depart; in the space of a snap of the fingers, he dropped straight down to the Cloud Platform.

On the Cloud Platform side, a great decisive battle was raging as well.