146: Fourth Generation: Overlord (42)

Before his voice could even fade, the Auras of Wusut and the Wolf King beside him became completely linked, as blood-colored spiritual power and gray demon power violently intertwined and spiraled, forming a heart-palpitating vortex of energy!

The Aura of the man and the wolf climbed to the Peak, like a volcano on the verge of eruption!

Facing this terrifying power that would make any Late Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator take it seriously, Xu Yuan only gave it a faint glance, his lips curling into a cold and contemptuous arc.

"You wish to test me?"

Xu Yuan sneered in a low voice, his laughter carrying a sense of indifference.

"You are not qualified."

"Let the Tianlang Kingdom Lord come in person; perhaps... he could at least give me some exercise."

The moment his voice fell, Xu Yuan moved!

Though Wusut was shocked by Xu Yuan's speed, his battle instincts remained. With a roar, the blood-colored saber in his hand transformed into an all-encompassing blood-colored blade-net, unleashing his proudest technique, the "Blood Wolf Seven Slaying Sabers"!

This blade technique was something he had comprehended amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, polished over a hundred years. The blade's momentum was ruthless and tricky, each strike containing the Blood Evil power that could tear flesh and erode the Divine Soul. The seven consecutive forms were like countless bloodthirsty mad wolves pouncing, enough to tear any Cultivator of the same level into pieces!

"First Slaying: Wolf Thrust!" The blade light was like a blood wolf charging, piercing straight for the center!

"Second Slaying: Wolf Bite!" The blade's momentum shifted unpredictably, like a vicious wolf tearing and biting, enveloping Xu Yuan's vital points!

"Third Slaying: Wolf Shadow!" The blade light split into thousands of blood-colored shadows, hard to distinguish truth from falsehood, as they all slashed down at once!

...As Wusut's blade momentum unfolded, blood-light soared into the sky and Evil Qi filled the air, as if the surroundings had been transformed into a bloody purgatory!

He was confident that even a Late Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator, when faced with this slaughtering blade technique he had steeped himself in for a century, would need to temporarily avoid the edge and respond with caution!

However, facing this dazzling blood-colored blade-net filled with hidden killing intent, Xu Yuan's expression did not change in the slightest.

He didn't even look at the sky full of blade shadows, merely raising his right hand with his fingers pressed together like a blade.

His movements were still simple, even appearing somewhat "slow," but every time his fingertips moved, that "hand blade" wreathed in a purple-gold hue would always appear with incomparable precision at the most critical and weakest "point" of Wusut's flowing blade momentum!

"Puff!"

With a soft sound, the aggressive momentum of the "Wolf Thrust" was struck by Xu Yuan's fingertip at the most unsupported part of the blade's spine just as its power was about to be unleashed. The blood-light suddenly dissipated, and the blade's momentum came to an abrupt halt!

Wusut's wrist went numb, and in his horror, he hurriedly changed to the "Wolf Bite," the blade light coiling upward like a venomous snake!

Xu Yuan's fingertips turned slightly, as if he had foreknowledge, moving half a breath early toward the pulse of Wusut's wrist—a point he was forced to defend—forcing him to pull back his blade momentum and causing his blood and Qi to surge!

The thousands of blade lights split from "Wolf Shadow" were even more of a joke. Xu Yuan didn't even bother to distinguish between the real and the fake; his fingertips traced a mysterious trajectory, as if invoking some kind of natural Laws, causing all the blade shadows to collide and annihilate each other on their own!

Every time Xu Yuan struck, it was like Pao Ding carving an ox; he did not see the whole ox, but only sought the gaps to enter!

Wusut's seemingly violent and fierce blade technique, tempered a thousand times, was like a child swinging a wooden stick in front of him, filled with laughable flaws!

The power he used was clearly not much stronger than Wusut's, but his understanding of the "blade," his grasp of "Aura," and his insight into "flaws" had already reached a Realm that Wusut could not comprehend!

"Impossible! This is impossible!!!"

The more Wusut fought, the more alarmed he became, and the more he fought, the more he felt despair!

He felt as though he were not fighting a Cultivator, but facing an insurmountable Saber Dao monument!

His proud century of Saber Dao cultivation was simply too crude to look at in front of his opponent!

The other party seemed to completely see through the intention of his every Move, the trajectory of every variation, and even predicted the nodes of his spiritual power flow!

This all-around crushing gave him a deep sense of powerlessness and absurdity!

"You... what kind of monster are you?!!"

He could not believe how a young Shang King could possibly surpass a battlefield veteran like himself—who had been honed in mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and had been to Cultivate his blade techniques day and night for a century—in his comprehension of the Saber Dao!

"Playing with a blade in front of me?"

He sneered in a low voice, his laughter carrying a pride that looked down upon the world, originating from the depths of his Soul.

"Who gave you the courage?"

Before his voice could fade, the Move of Xu Yuan's right hand, which he used as a blade, suddenly changed!

It was no longer just seeking gaps to break the technique, but a simplification of the complex—a direct thrust!

This thrust had no fancy variations and no heaven-shaking momentum; it only possessed an ultimate "purity"!

The purple-gold hue wreathing his fingertips seemed to transform into the most fundamental Origin of "sharpness," as if it could pierce the Void Realm and penetrate the Law!

In this life, although he did not have the stunning "Innate Blade Heart" and special sword bones of his previous life, his three cycles of Reincarnation—especially his previous life as the Overlord Blade Sect Dao Child, fighting in the South Domain Elite Battle, sitting before the enlightenment tablet, and finally burning everything in a life-and-death struggle against his arch-rival Ye Feng—had left the Saber Dao comprehension, experience, and Realm he accumulated deeply imprinted in his Soul, never dissipating with Reincarnation!

That was an understanding of the essence of the "Sword," a cognition that transcended specific Aptitude and reached the level of "Dao" and "Reason"!

Furthermore, at the moment of his life-risking final strike in his previous life, intended to perish together with Ye Feng, his Saber Intent had already touched a corner of the Law of the "Sword" in the unseen, faintly reaching the edge of the "Metal Position"!

It could be said that, solely in terms of attainments and vision in the Dao of the "Sword," Xu Yuan already stood at the vertex of what could be achieved at the Foundation Establishment level of life!

Now, facing Wusut's so-called "Blood Wolf Seven Slaying Sabers," Xu Yuan didn't even need to use those exquisite blade Moves from his previous life. Merely by using his fingers as a blade and relying on a vision several levels higher than his opponent's and his understanding of the Origin of the "Sword," he was enough to form an absolute crushing!

"Chih—!"

That pure-to-the-extreme thrust seemed to ignore all of Wusut's futile defenses and scattered blade lights, striking with incomparable precision at the core node of his blade technique's operation, the absolute gap where his old strength was exhausted and his new strength had yet to arise!

"Crack!"

A tooth-aching crisp sound rang out!

The blood-colored saber in Wusut's hand, which had accompanied him through years of war, drank countless blood, and reached the level of a High Grade Magical Artifact, actually manifested dense, spiderweb-like cracks at the point of collision with Xu Yuan's fingertip, which contained ultimate sharpness and a trace of Law Concept!

The spiritual light faded rapidly, and the blade wailed incessantly; its spirituality was clearly greatly damaged!

"My Blood Wolf Blade!!!"

Wusut's eyes bulged as if to burst, and he let out a roar of heart-wrenching pain!

This saber was not only his strongest weapon but also a symbol of his status and glory. Now, it had been cracked by the opponent's bare hands in a single encounter!

After the shock came heaven-soaring fury and the madness of a dead end!

He suddenly looked up, staring fixedly at Xu Yuan. There was no longer any rationality left in his eyes, only a beast-like crimson and a determination to die together!

"Junior! You destroyed my precious blade and ruined my cultivation!!! I will fight you to the death!!!"

Wusut let out an inhuman roar. The blood-colored spiritual power that had been dissipating due to his damaged Dantian now began to burn and boil madly once again in a destructive manner!

Countless eerie blood-colored runes emerged on the surface of his skin, his body swelled as if being inflated, and his Aura climbed rapidly at an abnormal speed, even temporarily breaking through his previous Peak and reaching an extremely dangerous and unstable critical point!

He looked as if he truly intended to take Xu Yuan down with him!