384: Supreme Sword Twenty-Three

The dark red patterns grew brighter and brighter, as if magma were flowing within them; within those scarlet pupils, flames of destruction were almost ready to burst forth!

"Hahaha! Old monkey, your death day has arrived!"

Xiao Jingtian laughed wildly, his speed suddenly increasing by more than thirty percent. He threw a punch, but it was no longer a pure concentration of power; instead, it drew upon the power of the night that had already become active in the surroundings!

"Four Absolutes of Chaos: Raging Night Tides!"

Where the wind of his punch passed, it was no longer burning heat and thunder, but transformed into a viscous, cold wave of darkness that seemed capable of swallowing all light, sweeping towards Xu Fu!

"Damn it!" Xu Fu's scalp went numb as he pushed his Free-Willed Ascension Steps to the limit, his figure leaving countless afterimages in the air while his hands moved rapidly:

"Mysterious Ice Ultimate: Thousand Peaks Polar Wall!"

"Emperor Heaven Raging Thunder: Three Thousand Thunderous Movements!"

Thick and hard walls of mysterious ice instantly rose from the ground, stacking layer upon layer to block his front, while pitch-black thunder transformed into layers of rings, protecting his entire body!

However—

"Crack! Boom—!"

The wave of darkness swept over; the mysterious ice walls shattered upon contact, and the layers of thunder rings formed by Three Thousand Thunderous Movements only held for an instant before being eroded and swallowed!

Xu Fu was heavily struck once again, his Protective Aura completely shattered. Blood sprayed from his mouth as if it were worthless, and his whole body was sent flying backward like a withered leaf, his aura instantly withering to the extreme!

He even felt that it had become incredibly difficult to even execute the Seven Nothings Ultimate Realm!

Xiao Jingtian's power had specifically increased its suppression of his Cultivation Technique.

"Old Ninth Lu! Save me!"

Xu Fu's roar sounded particularly shrill in the night sky!

Just at the moment when the wave of darkness was about to completely swallow him, and the ferocious grin on Xiao Jingtian's face grew even more savage,

"Hum—!!!"

A terrifying Sword Intent that could not be described in words descended with a boom from above the Nine Heavens!

No! It was not just Sword Intent!

Space, at this moment, turned into amber.

The roaring wave of darkness, the splashing sparks and ice crystals, the wildly laughing Xiao Jingtian, the desperate Xu Fu... everything within sight, along with sound, light, and even the flowing Origin Qi, all solidified!

Absolute stillness! Absolute dead silence!

Only thoughts could still struggle to operate in this frozen space-time.

The savage grin on Xiao Jingtian's face froze, his pupils reflecting shock.

He felt as if he had been embedded in invisible crystal; even moving a single finger had become a luxury, and even the surging power of the Four Absolutes of Chaos within his body had fallen into stagnation!

Xu Fu maintained the posture of being knocked away and opening his mouth to call for help, but his eyes erupted with wild joy. He knew this move; the Sword Saint had used it before he died!

In the center of this absolutely still space-time, a point of light lit up.

The light was initially faint, then rapidly expanded and condensed, finally transforming into a massive, heaven-supporting Dharma Body!

The Dharma Body's features were blurred, yet it carried the Supreme majesty of ruling the eight wildernesses and holding the power of life and death.

He was draped in a black imperial robe, upon which the sun, moon, and stars circulated, and mountains and rivers rose and fell.

On the left, a Phoenix phantom as blazing as the great sun circled and cried out; on the right, a majestic and sacred five-clawed golden dragon coiled and hummed;

Beneath his feet, he was stepping upon a Dragon Turtle phantom that bore mysterious runes and exuded an aura of vicissitudes!

The three phases of Dragon, Phoenix, and Turtle circled and guarded the center!

This was precisely the Supreme Dharma Body manifested by Lu Jiuyuan, combining his Supreme mental will with the Imperial Ultimate World-Shocking Record, the Dragon Turtle, phoenix blood, and the Son of Heaven's Dragon Qi!

The Dharma Body slowly raised its right hand, fingers together like a sword.

Countless 01 characters gathered in an orderly fashion at his fingertips, forming a brilliant sword light.

"Screech—!" The Phoenix cried clearly, the power of creation merging into the Sword Intent, endowing it with the rules of "Certain Hit" and "Endlessness"!

"Roar—!" The dragon's roar shook the sky, the Son of Heaven's Dragon Qi merging into the sword light, endowing it with the powers of "Judgment" and "Law-Breaking"!

The Dragon Turtle was silent, but its heavy shell phantom imprinted a will of unbreakable solidity onto this sword strike!

It was precisely the Supreme Heaven and Earth Jian Er Shi San, which fused his own power with the Sword Saint's peerless ultimate technique!

Lu Jiuyuan's Supreme Dharma Body, with an indifferent gaze, crossed the solidified space and landed on the immobile Xiao Jingtian.

He stepped on the still Void Realm, taking one step forward. Beneath his feet, the solidified space rippled with invisible rings like the surface of water.

Just like that, holding that point of brilliant sword light which had condensed the power of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Turtle and represented ultimate extinction, he slowly walked towards Xiao Jingtian.

His pace was not fast, but it carried an inevitability of destiny descending and Karma ending!

Impossible to dodge! Impossible to resist! Impossible to block!

Xiao Jingtian could only watch helplessly as that terrifying Dharma Body, holding the sword light of death, approached step by step.

His Soul let out a silent shriek within his solidified body; the power of the Four Absolutes of Chaos clashed crazily in the dead silence but to no avail, and the profoundness of the Myriad Paths of Sylvan Darkness lost all its variations under this absolute suppression!

This was the number one divine sword of the Feng Yun world, the Supreme among swords. Before the appearance of the Six Extinctions No-Self Jian Er Shi San, this was the strongest existence.

Before the sword had even arrived, that Sword Intent which transcended everything had already begun to erode and disintegrate Xiao Jingtian's vitality and Primordial Spirit!

"No—!!!" Xiao Jingtian let out a final, unwilling roar from the depths of his Soul.

Lu Jiuyuan's Supreme Dharma Body had already arrived before him. That finger, containing the ultimate Profound Truth of Jian Er Shi San, carrying the Supreme might of the Phoenix and Dragon accompanying it and the Mysterious Turtle supporting it, ignored all defenses and barriers, pointing straight at his brow!

If this finger fell, it would surely result in the destruction of both body and Soul, with no chance of reincarnation!

An unexpected change occurred once again without warning!

A mellow, ancient will that seemed to encompass all changes of heaven and earth, like spring rain moistening things silently, quietly seeped into this Domain dominated by absolute Sword Intent and spatial Law.

This power did not forcibly resist the destructive rules of Jian Er Shi San, nor did it attempt to break the solidification of space-time.

It was like the most brilliant chess player, gently plucking the most subtle, yet most crucial, string in the river of destiny.

"Clang—!" A bell toll that seemed to come from the ancient primordial era resounded in the depths of the still space-time.

Lu Jiuyuan's sure-kill finger, at the moment before it touched Xiao Jingtian's brow, actually paused slightly!

It was precisely this pause!

"Crack!" The barrier of absolutely solidified space was seized by that ancient will that had permeated in, taking advantage of this fleeting flaw to forcibly tear open a tiny fissure!

A gentle yet irresistible force wrapped around Xiao Jingtian's body, violently pulling him out from beneath that fatal fingertip and dragging him into the space-time fissure!

"Hmph!" Lu Jiuyuan's Supreme Dharma Body let out a cold snort, and that paused finger pointed out without hesitation!

"Swish!" The sword light swept past; although it did not hit directly, the dispersing ultimate extinction Sword Intent still followed into the fissure like maggots on bones!

"Ugh!" A muffled groan!

The next moment, the fissure closed, and Xiao Jingtian's aura, along with that ancient intervening will, completely disappeared from this airspace.

The solidified space-time returned to normal. Xu Fu fell to the ground with a thud, coughing up blood, still shaken.

The night sky remained the same, as if the scene of heaven-destroying, earth-shattering space-time solidification just now was merely an illusion.