Chapter 25 Drawing the Sword!

"Rumble, rumble, rumble—!!!"

The sky above the Taixuan Dao Sect fell into a completely suffocating darkness.

That inverted black ocean seemed to lose all gravitational restraint, crashing down toward the Taixuan Main Peak with hundreds of millions of tons of seawater and endless deep-sea pressure!

"Crack... Bang!"

The protective Sect array, which had barely been holding on, instantly shattered into a rain of light under the sheer weight of the pressure, like a fragile soap bubble!

"It's over! All over! The three-thousand-year foundation of the Taixuan Dao Sect will turn into underwater ruins today!"

Immortal Master Qingxu slumped onto the ground in despair, watching the black tide that was close at hand and seemed ready to swallow everything.

In the deepest part of the ocean, an Ancient Sea God, hidden in endless mist and too massive to be measured by the naked eye, let out a cruel, maniacal laugh:

"Since you won't hand over the Abyss Pearl, then all the ants of the Eastern Desolation shall be buried with me! Sea God's Wrath: World-Ending Deluge!"

"Crash—!"

Hundreds of millions of tons of seawater poured down like a heavenly river. The tens of thousands of Disciples of the Taixuan Dao Sect could even smell the pungent scent of the sea; the shadow of death loomed over everyone.

However.

In this moment of world-destroying despair.

In the backyard of the Nine Heavens Carefree Immortal Palace at the Taixuan Back Mountain.

Lin Yuan stood barefoot, his pajamas of celestial silkworm ice-silk fluttering loudly in the violent sea wind.

He slowly raised his head, the falling inverted sea reflected in his deep, dark eyes.

"Boom—!"

Within Lin Yuan's body, exactly fifty thousand Divine Elephant Particles erupted in a simultaneous roar that shook the ages!

A surge of ancient physical blood-qi, heavier, more overbearing, and purer than that ocean, transformed into a pillar of dark-gold light that shot into the sky, forcibly holding back the seawater crashing toward the palace for a split second!

And taking advantage of that moment's pause.

Lin Yuan's fair and slender right hand steadily gripped the hilt of the verdigris-covered baleful sword, zhutian, at his waist.

Three years.

Exactly three years and one month!

Since Lin Yuan drew this sword in the deepest part of the death row prison and comprehended the supreme sword Dao, the Heaven-Slaying Draw-Sword Technique, it had never left its scabbard!

The core Profound Truth of the Heaven-Slaying Draw-Sword Technique was extremely simple and crude—invincible upon drawing the sword!

It didn't require any fancy Moves; it only required nurturing Sword Intent within the scabbard day after day, year after year. The longer it was nurtured, the more terrifying the power that would erupt the moment the sword was drawn! If nurtured for a hundred thousand years, it could even cleave the Immortal Realm in half!

And Lin Yuan, using the extreme blood-qi of fifty thousand Divine Elephants combined with the ultimate Sword Intent from his Max-Level Comprehension, had nurtured it for a full one thousand one hundred days!

"These old seafood pieces are putting on quite a show; I just wonder if their meat is firm enough."

A cold arc curled at the corner of Lin Yuan's mouth.

The next second.

His wrist exerted a slight force.

"Clang—!!!"

A high-pitched, crisp supreme sword hum that seemed capable of piercing the thirty-three heavens exploded between heaven and earth!

There was no flashiness in this sword hum, only the purest form of ultimate destruction that could extinguish all Laws of all things in the world!

Under the frozen gazes of the tens of thousands of people in the Sect, the spies from the Central Continent's heroes, and the vast army of the sea race.

Lin Yuan drew his sword.

A dark-gold Sword Qi, thinner than a strand of hair and extremely deep, was slowly drawn from the simple scabbard of the zhutian sword!

The moment the sword light left the scabbard!

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi of the entire Shenhuang Continent, and even the Laws of space and the flow of time, fell into absolute stillness at this moment!

"That... what is that?!"

In the giant eyes of the Ancient Sea God hidden deep within the black ocean, which were like two blood moons, an unprecedented ultimate fear from the depths of his Soul suddenly surged!

He had lived for a hundred thousand years and witnessed the heaven-defying methods of countless great experts, yet before that faint dark-gold sword light, his proud ancient divine body actually trembled uncontrollably!

It was the fear of encountering a natural enemy, a high-dimensional power that could erase him in an instant!

"Retreat! Retreat quickly!!! Full army, retreat!!!"

The Ancient Sea God let out a shrill, distorted scream, desperately trying to turn the hundreds of millions of tons of seawater to flee back to the Forbidden Sea.

But it was too late.

"Slash."

Lin Yuan's arm swung gently from bottom to top with extreme casualness.

"Boom—!!!"

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any brilliant radiance of Spells.

That dark-gold sword light, only as thick as a hair, expanded rapidly against the wind the moment it left the blade!

Ten feet! A hundred feet! Ten thousand feet! A hundred thousand feet!!!

A hundred-thousand-foot-long Extreme Sword Qi spanned the entire sky of the Eastern Desolation. Like the first ray of dawn at the creation of the world, carrying the absolute physical kinetic energy of fifty thousand Divine Elephants, it sliced through the inverted black ocean without any hindrance!

"Sizzle—!"

It was as smooth as a hot knife through butter!

That vast ocean, enough to submerge half the continent, was split perfectly in two from the very center by that dark-gold Sword Qi!

Not just split in two!

The Extreme Sword Intent and Divine Elephant Blood-Qi attached to the Sword Qi produced unimaginable, terrifying high temperatures and physical annihilation power!

Tens of millions of tons of seawater near the cut didn't even have the chance to turn into steam; they were directly "evaporated" into an invisible Void Realm by that terrifying force!

A "Grand Canyon in the Sea," tens of thousands of feet wide and bottomless, appeared in the sky!

After cleaving the seawater, the unstoppable sword light continued unabated, accurately striking the Ancient Sea God who was hiding in the depths and preparing to flee!

"No!!! I have lived for a hundred thousand years... how can I fall here... I am not reconciled—!!!"

"Puff!"

The indestructible ancient scales of the Ancient Sea God, which would take a Mahayana Stage Cultivator hundreds of strikes to breach, were as fragile as thin paper before this Heaven-Slaying Draw-Sword Technique that had been nurtured for three years!

The sword light flashed.

The Sea God's roar came to an abrupt halt.

His massive body stiffened in mid-air for a moment, and then a perfectly straight bloodline spread from between his brows all the way to his tail.

"Splash!"

That overlord of the Forbidden Sea, who had lived for a hundred thousand years and struck fear into the super forces of the Central Continent, was sliced cleanly in half by Lin Yuan's single strike!

Divine blood filled the sky, pouring down like a torrential rain!

The split inverted sea, losing the support of the Sea God's magic power, also collapsed, turning into a rain of Spiritual Qi that nourished the parched earth below.

Silence.

Inside and outside the Taixuan Dao Sect, in the heavens and on the earth, everything fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone gaped, staring blankly at the two halves of the Ancient Sea God's remains falling from the sky and the gradually dissipating terrifying sword scar.

One strike!

Cleaved the sea that blotted out the sun! Instantly killed the hundred-thousand-year-old Ancient Sea God!

Such power... even the legendary Immortals of the Upper Realm wouldn't be more than this, right?!

Immortal Master Qingxu pinched his thigh, and after confirming he wasn't dreaming, he began to twitch on the ground in excitement:

"Old Ancestor... the Old Ancestor... he gave the sky a middle part with one sword strike!!!"

"Taixuan shall prosper! Taixuan shall prosper indeed!!!"

Meanwhile, in the backyard of the Nine Heavens Carefree Immortal Palace.

Lin Yuan slowly sheathed the baleful sword, zhutian.

With a "clink," the sword hum ceased, and the suffocating extreme pressure between heaven and earth dissipated.

"Phew... held it in for three years; swinging this sword has left me feeling refreshed."

Lin Yuan twisted his neck comfortably.

Just then, the two halves of the Ancient Sea God's corpse crashed heavily onto the open ground of the Taixuan Back Mountain, letting out a thunderous "boom" that shook the entire palace.

Lin Yuan looked closely, and a bright "foodie's light" suddenly erupted in his eyes.

"Oho! I thought it was some weird-looking old turtle, but I didn't expect..."

Lin Yuan strode to the edge of the palace, looking down at the two halves of the mountain-like corpse.

It was surprisingly an Ancient Purple-Gold Emperor Crab, with a body larger than ten aircraft carriers combined!

Each of those thick crab legs was like a pillar supporting the sky, covered in a purple-gold hard shell. At the breaks in the shell, crystal-clear, top-quality crab meat was revealed, emitting an enticing Spiritual Qi and the fresh scent of seafood!

"I'm rich! I'm rich! Such a huge emperor crab... the ancient water Spiritual Qi in this leg meat is even more nourishing than a hundred-thousand-year-old ginseng!"

Lin Yuan rubbed his hands excitedly and shouted back at his stunned maid and pet:

"Tantai Jinyue! Xiao Bing! What are you standing there for? Hurry to the back mountain and set up a pot! Dismantle those crab legs for me!"

"Go to the medicine garden and pull a few hundred pounds of Ten-Thousand-Year Spiritual Onions and Immortal Garlic! Today, our entire Sect will have a crab leg feast! Garlic steamed, spicy stir-fried, chilled sashimi—arrange it all for me!"

Hearing Lin Yuan's shout, Tantai Jinyue and Xiao Bing woke up as if from a dream.

"Yes, Young Master (Master)!"

The person and the Dragon were so excited that tears almost fell.

That was the meat of an Ancient Sea God! One bite would be worth ten years of bitter cultivation! Following the Young Master, not only could they watch others show off, but they could even feast on the corpses of ancient experts. This was truly a divine life!

In mid-air, the remaining millions of the Forbidden Sea army watched their invincible "Sea God Ancestor" turn into a giant ingredient for garlic emperor crab.

The courage of all the shrimp soldiers and crab generals completely shattered at this moment!

"Run! Run quickly! These two-legged beasts on land are too brutal; they're actually making sashimi out of the Lord Sea God!!!"

"Hurry back to the deep sea! Any later and we'll all be stir-fried in a pot!"

The sea monsters in the sky cried out for their mothers and fathers, abandoning their armor and fleeing back toward the Forbidden Sea.

"You think you can come and go as you please?"

Lin Yuan looked at the fleeing seafood, frowned slightly, and said to the remnant Soul of Demon Venerable Wanhua, who had just gotten up:

"Old Wan, go and pick some tender octopuses, lobsters, and such. Catch a few thousand and bring them back. This emperor crab is huge; we just need some side dishes for a seafood medley."

"This old slave obeys! I guarantee I'll pick the fattest ones for Master!"

The remnant Soul of Demon Venerable Wanhua agreed excitedly and turned into a purple ghostly light, charging straight into the sky. A dignified Mahayana Stage old monster had skillfully transformed into a "heartless seafood harvesting machine," frantically selecting top-quality sea monsters from the fleeing army.

In less than half an hour.

On the back mountain square of the Taixuan Dao Sect, a super large black pot with a diameter of several hundred feet was set up. This pot was made overnight by the Artifact Refining Hall Elder under Immortal Master Qingxu's orders, who urgently melted down a copper mountain from the Sect.

Beneath the large pot, Tantai Jinyue extravagantly used Nine Netherworld Karmic Fire as firewood, controlling the heat.

Inside the pot, the milky-white thick soup bubbled, and several giant Purple-Gold Emperor Crab legs, like pillars, emitted a mouth-watering fragrance.

Nearby, the Soul Transformation Stage Xiao Bing was diligently breathing out cold air to rapidly chill and preserve a large plate of emperor crab sashimi sliced as thin as a cicada's wing.

Meanwhile, Immortal Master Qingxu and the other Taixuan Elders sat around the lower seats, extremely constrained yet fanatical. Everyone held a bowl, staring longingly at the bubbling Immortal seafood soup.

Lin Yuan sat on the purple-gold divine seat at the head, picked up a piece of chilled sashimi, dipped it in a sauce made from crushed Ten-Thousand-Year Spiritual Garlic, and put it in his mouth.

"Hmm... the meat is firm and melts in the mouth. This hundred-thousand-year-old crab really has an authentic flavor."

Lin Yuan gave a thumbs up and waved his hand. "Don't just watch, start eating! The whole Sect is on holiday today; eat as much as you want! If you can't finish it, pack it up and take it with you!"

"Thank you for the food, Old Ancestor!!!"

Cheers that shook the heavens and earth erupted from the entire Sect.

This was the meat of an Ancient Sea God!

Immortal Master Qingxu excitedly picked up a piece of crab meat soaked in soup and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Boom!"

With just one bite, the vast and pure ancient water Spiritual Qi exploded within him. His Nascent Soul Great Perfection Bottleneck, which had been stagnant for a hundred years, actually showed a faint sign of loosening!

"Delicious! It's so delicious! Long live the Old Ancestor!!!"

The entire Taixuan Dao Sect fell into an extremely absurd yet incredibly joyful seafood carnival feast.

...

And while the Taixuan Dao Sect was feasting on Sea God hotpot.

In the deepest secret chamber of the Huangtian Divine Sect in the Central Continent.

Divine Son Jun Wudao was kneeling before an Ancient Bronze Mirror, fearfully reporting everything that had just happened in the Eastern Desolation to the blurry figure inside the mirror.

"Old Ancestor... that man is simply a monster! He not only subdued the remnant Soul of Demon Venerable Wanhua... but scouts just reported that he cleaved through the inverted ocean of the Forbidden Sea with one strike and turned that hundred-thousand-year-old purple-gold Sea God... into hotpot on the spot!!!"

Jun Wudao's voice was trembling violently.

There was a long silence in the bronze mirror.

Then, an extremely ancient, low voice that seemed to carry the million-year Luck of the Central Continent slowly drifted out:

"One strike to slay a hundred-thousand-year Sea God? Such strength... is definitely not something someone from the Lower Realm could possess. He must hide a shocking secret capable of overturning this Heavenly Dao."

"Wudao, do not act rashly. Order all the major Holy Lands in the Central Continent to block all passages to the Eastern Desolation starting today. Before we uncover his true background, no one is allowed to provoke him."

"Yes... Old Ancestor. But are we just going to watch him occupy the Eastern Desolation all by himself?" Jun Wudao asked with extreme reluctance.

The figure in the mirror let out a cold laugh:

"Occupy the Eastern Desolation? He has provoked a massive trouble without even knowing it. That purple-gold Sea God was merely a watchdog at the edge of the Forbidden Sea. Now that the sea god abyss pearl is lost, those 'True Gods' in the deepest parts of the Forbidden Sea will never let this matter rest."

"Not only that, he caused such a huge commotion that he even drew the Heavenly Dao Lightning Punishment. Do you think the Heavenly Dao of this continent will allow an uncontrolled variable to exist?"

"We only need to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. When he and the Forbidden Sea, or even the Heavenly Dao, are both wounded, it will be the best time for our Central Continent to harvest all the fortunes..."