bioinnovel Chapter 590 The Ancestor of the Qinglan Sect Appears
Chapter 590 The Ancestor of the Qinglan Sect Appears
He could clearly sense that he couldn't withstand this sword strike! To be touched by it meant certain death, with no chance of survival!
Endless regret welled up in his heart. If he had known earlier that his opponent possessed such an incredible trump card, he would never have chosen to fight head-on.
But under that imperial sword intent that locked down time and space, he was completely deprived of even the chance to escape.
"My life is over..."
Zhang Tianming closed his eyes in despair.
Just when the Thunderfire Sword Qi was about to completely engulf Zhang Tianming and annihilate him, at the critical moment!
A sigh, tinged with helplessness and resolve, suddenly echoed from the shattered void above the battlefield.
"Alas... one should be lenient when one can, young friend, your killing is far too heavy."
Om-!
With that sigh, an elderly man in a gray robe, hunched over and with age spots all over his face, suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Tianming without warning.
The old man appeared silently, as if he had always been standing there, perfectly blending into the surrounding void.
Faced with the earth-shattering thunder and fire sword energy, a dazzling light suddenly burst forth from the old man's cloudy eyes.
He stretched out his withered hand, and a long, emerald-green sword, as if carved from the purest jade and radiating vibrant life, appeared in his hand.
"Green trees bloom in spring, all things wither and flourish. One sword, and it's over!"
The old man gave a low shout and thrust his emerald green longsword forward.
boom!
A terrifying aura, vast and boundless, even faintly surpassing the realm of Sendai, suddenly erupted from the old man's body.
The emerald green sword energy, like a surging sea of life, instantly collided with the raging thunder and fire sword energy.
Rumble! ...
The collision of the two unparalleled forces triggered a destructive storm in the sky that was even more dazzling than a supernova explosion.
The terrifying shockwave completely razed the already ruined main peak of the Qinglan Sect below into a bottomless sinkhole.
After a stalemate lasting for more than a dozen breaths, the Thunderfire Sword Qi, lacking the support of subsequent power, finally dissipated into the void along with the emerald green sword energy in a violent flash.
"Cough cough cough..."
The old man staggered back more than a dozen steps, each step leaving a large spiderweb-like crack in the void beneath his feet.
He clutched his chest and coughed violently a few times. A trickle of bright red blood slowly oozed from the corner of his mouth, and the emerald green longsword trembled slightly.
Although he barely managed to block the sword, the old man clearly paid a considerable price.
Zhang Tianming had been saved from the brink of death. When he saw the figure blocking his way, he was so moved that he knelt down and wept uncontrollably.
"This unfilial descendant, Zhang Tianming, pays respects to the Ancestor! I have disturbed your peaceful cultivation; I deserve to die!"
The person who arrived was the previous sect leader of the Qinglan Sect, who is also the sect's greatest asset today.
Rumor has it that this ancestor's cultivation had already reached the peak of the Sendai Realm, and he had been in seclusion for many years in order to break through to the legendary Dao-Slaying Realm.
Lin Hanzhou held his long sword, standing in mid-air, coldly watching the old man who had suddenly appeared and blocked his fatal blow.
He merely glanced at it, and with the incredibly sharp eyes of the emperor from his previous life, he instantly saw through the other party's seemingly unfathomable true nature.
Half-step Dao-Slaying Realm.
In the vast and boundless world of cultivation, a cultivator's journey is like climbing a sacred mountain with no end in sight.
The Sea of Wheels refines essence, the Dao Palace nourishes qi, the Four Extremes connect heaven and earth, and the Dragon Transformation shapes one's bones. Once one crosses the shackles of the Dragon Transformation Peak, one can construct a high platform of the divine soul and step into the Immortal Platform Realm, which is revered by the world as a "Great Power".
However, on the Sendai, there is another terrifying barrier, like an insurmountable chasm, that is—the Dao-Slaying!
The so-called "severing the path" means cutting off the most lingering worldly attachments in a cultivator's heart and comprehending a unique path of heaven and earth that belongs to them.
This step is a crucial leap for mortal life to transform into a higher level of life form governed by laws.
Throughout history, countless brilliant geniuses have been able to dominate the Sendai realm, yet they have spent their entire lives stuck at the threshold of the Dao-severing stage, unable to take that crucial step.
If one fails to break through the Dao, at best one's cultivation will be completely destroyed, and at worst one's Dao heart will collapse on the spot, leading to death from demonic possession.
The hunched-over, age-spotted patriarch of the Qinglan Sect before us had clearly forced himself into seclusion to break through to the Dao-Slaying Realm as his lifespan was about to end.
Although he ultimately failed and could not completely sever the tangled shackles of the mortal world, he was fortunate enough to survive and even touched upon a trace of the profound truth of the Great Dao.
This level of strength has already surpassed the Sendai realm.
No wonder he was able to barely block the power of the Emperor's Law just now with the Daoist longsword in his hand.
"Young friend..."
The Qinglan Sect patriarch's voice was hoarse, carrying a sense of weariness and helplessness as he seemed to have seen through the vicissitudes of life.
His cloudy eyes stared at the endless ruins below, now reduced to scorched earth. His heart bled, but he still suppressed the overwhelming hatred that wanted to tear Lin Hanzhou to pieces, trying to use the most humble posture to exchange for the last bit of life for the sect.
"It's better to resolve enmity than to let it fester. I don't know what terrible trouble my good-for-nothing descendants have gotten into, but you have destroyed most of the foundation of my Qinglan Sect and killed so many inner sect elders and innocent disciples. Shouldn't your resentment have subsided by now?"
"If you're willing to stop now, I'm willing to open the Qinglan Sect's treasure trove for you to choose from, as a way of atoning for my sect's sins. What do you say?"
The Qinglan Sect's patriarch clearly did not want to be enemies with Lin Hanzhou.
Because his right hand, which held the emerald green longsword, was now trembling uncontrollably and violently within the wide sleeves of his gray robe.
That collision just now shattered most of the meridians in his right arm.
"To appease? To atone?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Hanzhou's eyes remained completely undisturbed.
He didn't want to listen to even a single unnecessary word from that old man.
His blood and qi, which had just been tempered to the Great Perfection Realm and was coiled in his spine like a prehistoric dragon, suddenly boiled over!
Om-!
He suddenly clenched his left hand into a fist, bringing his five fingers together!
Just as he clenched his fist, a terrifying aura, countless times hotter than when he used the Thunderfire Sword Technique before, erupted from his body like an ancient active volcano that had been dormant for millions of years, shooting straight into the sky!
This was none other than another imperial technique—the Great Sun Divine Fist!