Heaven-Defying Rebel Sage
Chapter 124: The Four Sword Masters Reveal Their Divine Might

Chapter 124: Chapter 124: The Four Sword Masters Reveal Their Divine Might

The poem says:

Ten years of sharpening a sword, frost blade never tested.

Today I show it to you, who says justice isn’t bested?

In ten years’ time, Yan Shisan and his three comrades refined their Sword Hearts, achieving the Taiyi Golden Immortal, condensing the Sword Elixir, meticulously tempering their own Sword Dao, unlike ordinary cultivators could compare.

Ye Gucheng confronted the Great Ming King Dharma Body, who was born with six faces, six arms, six legs, seated on a quaking throne, carrying flames on his back, wielding halberds, bows, lassos, swords, arrows, staves and other magical treasures, with angrily bulging eyes, his appearance extremely fierce and unparalleled.

Ye Gucheng let out a light shout, hand twisting a sword technique, and suddenly upon the sword blade rose angry dragons one after another, with dragon aura emerging, pressing towards the Great Ming King Dharma Body! The Great Ming King had already sent his six magical treasures forth, merging with the Dharma Body; he was now thoroughly gearing up to battle Ye Gucheng.

The Great Ming King raised his Demon-Subduing Staff and bathed in Buddha’s Light, conjuring a Vajra that grabbed one of the angry dragons with one hand, instantly crushing it to dust!

Ye Gucheng’s demeanor was calm as still water, but his swordsmanship was light as dandelion fluff, making it seem extremely incongruent! His Sword Form was practiced to the state where the sword moved with the heart, so his sword technique appeared incredibly ethereal and elusive, each strike light as fluff, yet truly as heavy as Mount Tai. If one were struck squarely, they would likely be split in two.

The Great Ming King’s advantage lay in his six faces, six arms, six legs, more hands and more feet, more faces and more eyes, naturally managing to block Ye Gucheng’s sword moves.

"Sword like floating fluff scattered in the wind, intention flowing like water to any direction!" Ye Gucheng twirled a sword technique with his hands, and his sword moves became sharper and more elusive, even the Great Ming King found them increasingly difficult to ward off.

The Great Ming King uttered a True Word "Om", and suddenly a massive Sanskrit character as imposing as a mountain pressed down.

Ye Gucheng’s expression remained unchanged, and he let out a light shout, "Lifting as if weightless!"

His three-foot green blade in hand was light as fluff, striking towards the True Word; with a single blow, the True Word was sent fluttering away, shattered into eight pieces.

The Great Ming King drew his bow and nocked an arrow, letting it fly. But Ye Gucheng drew a Taiji Circle with his sword, guiding the momentum, and redirected the arrow back towards the Great Ming King’s head. Annoyed in his heart, the Great Ming King had to resort to using the Demon-Subduing Staff to block, and only after deflecting it did he take back the arrow.

Ye Gucheng closed in on the Great Ming King, and suddenly put his indistinctly ethereal sword technique into full display; the Great Ming King swept his staff around, but Ye Gucheng parried with his sword, borrowing the force to leap backward fiercely. While still in midair, Ye Gucheng’s wrist vibrated, his sword drawing thirty-six spinning blossoms, and with a shout he said, "Celestial Being Flies Beyond!"

One sword from the west, a celestial being flies beyond!

Ye Gucheng’s Celestial Being Flies Beyond was as renowned as Ximen Chuixue’s One Sword From The West. With this thrust, it was as if a Sword Immortal descended to vanquish foes in the blink of an eye. The thirty-six sword blossoms bore down on the Great Ming King, Ye Gucheng’s eyes cold as frosty stars, aiming those thirty-six blossoms straight for the thirty-six critical acupoints on the Great Ming King.

The Great Ming King’s complexion changed drastically—his true form was a Sect Founder level expert, and this Dharma Body was at least of the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, and along with four other Ming Kings, formed the Buddhist Nation Formation in hand, also having imbued magical treasures from his main body, his combat prowess was naturally unquestionable! But Ye Gucheng’s Sword Dao was so fierce, even at the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm, which was yet to reach Perfection, it displayed such radiance that the Great Ming King felt an overwhelming struggle.

"Nine Heavens Profound Killing, transform into Divine Thunder. Tremendous Heavenly might, draw it with the sword!" The thirty-six sword blossoms exploded like fireworks on the Great Ming King, and without time to catch his breath, Ye Gucheng twisted a sword spell in his hands, and suddenly Divine Thunder descended from the sky. He led the Divine Thunder with his sword, striking towards the Great Ming King.

Meanwhile, Ximen Chuixue was up against Jun Tili Ming King, his expression cold, hand on the hilt of his sword, yet still not having made a move.

Jun Tili Ming King felt sweat cover his body. The pressure from this person was too great; the overwhelmingly icy Sword Dao will pressing down was enough to shatter courage and gall! After all, he was just a Dharma Body, not the main body.

"Daluo Golden Immortal... nothing more than that," said Ximen Chuixue indifferently.

Being belittled by Ximen Chuixue, Jun Tili Ming King naturally felt anger and was about to make a move, but then he heard Ximen Chuixue say, "One sword."

Caught off guard, Jun Tili Ming King asked, "What do you mean by one sword?"

Ximen Chuixue replied, "I kill with only one sword."

Jun Tili Ming King burst into a mocking laughter out of rage and said, "You mean to say, you’ll kill me with just one sword?"

Ximen Chuixue shook his head and said, "I kill anyone with just one sword. If they do not die, then I die."

Ximen Chuixue’s sword was extremely peculiar. Ever since stepping into the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, he had killed with only one sword, regardless of the enemy’s strength—one sword only! This one sword concentrated all his cultivation, all his Sword Dao mastery, all his Sword Dao will. The might of so many things expressed in one sword was imaginable.

Jun Tili Ming King’s pupils slightly constricted, thinking to himself, "This fellow doesn’t seem to be boasting."

Ximen Chuixue took one step forward, drawing his sword!

Just as Jun Tili Ming King was about to act, he saw a cold gleam burst forth from the scabbard, making the whole world seem to lose color and darken, the only thing visible being that gleam shooting out from the scabbard! He could even see a pale arm grasping the hilt, bringing that cold light sweeping towards his neck; though clearly visible and appearing to move as slowly as a snail, when he tried to dodge, he found his movements to be hundreds of times slower than the gleam!

What he saw were mere illusions; Ximen Chuixue’s sword was hundreds of times faster than him!

This sword nearly broke the limits of space and time, reaching the ultimate pinnacle of the Sword Dao.

Jun Tili Ming King felt a chill take over his whole body, his throat growing cold as the gleam drew out a trail of blood.

Ximen Chuixue’s eyes were as cold as the light of his sword; he raised it, gently blowing off a speck of blood on the blade...

The Great Ming King Armytide’s eyes bulged as he collapsed with a thunderous crash, the several Magical Treasures in his hand soared into the sky, breaking through the formation and returning to the main body.

"What? Defeated? So quickly?" the main body of the Great Ming King Armytide asked three questions in a row, clearly surprised.

Ximen Chuixue wiped the blood off his blade and sheathed his sword, then turned to see that Xie Xiaofeng had also reached the decisive moment.

Xie Xiaofeng burst into mad laughter, his sword moving faster and faster, but with its speed, the Sword Rhyme became even more profound, as heavy as the Emperor Heaven and Houtu, and his Sword Dao will also erupted, faintly materializing, with one sword strike following another, forcing the Ming King of Three Lifetimes to retreat again and again.

After all, these five Great Ming Kings had just been refined by Tathagata, and naturally, their Magical Treasures had not reached the stage of perfect harmony. And since this was a Dharma Body, their use of the main body’s Magical Treasures was even less effective.

"Wind, Flower, Snow, Night!" Xie Xiaofeng softly exclaimed, executing a sword technique as the blade in his hand flashed with cold light, bringing a flurry of wind and snow.

The Ming King of Three Lifetimes was immediately mesmerized by the illusions before him, but Xie Xiaofeng did not pause, thrusting his sword and hitting the throat squarely!

The Ming King of Three Lifetimes collapsed with a bang!

Xie Xiaofeng’s eyes narrowed slightly, and he indifferently said, "Everyone says that those who become Buddhas and Founders have their six desires extinguished. Heh, the Buddhist Sect is indeed adept at deceiving people. If the six desires were truly extinct, how could my ’Wind, Flower, Snow, Night’ bewitch you?"

Ye Gucheng had also determined the victory over the Great Strength Ming King. Ye Gucheng had executed an unknown Sword technique. A hundred and eight blossoms of Sword flowers trapped the Great Strength Ming King, and in an instant, he was ground into dust!

"Defeated?"

"Defeated?"

The Great Strength Ming King and the Ming King of Three Lifetimes were both shocked. They couldn’t believe that their Dharma Bodies at the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm had been defeated!

They were Patriarchs, and all those on the path of cultivation were concerned with face. Naturally, they could not use their true bodies to bully the younger generation in full view of the public. Otherwise, not only would the Taoist Sect of the Eastern Lands despise them, but so would the Buddhist Sect and the Demon Path. They had thought that the Dharma Bodies at the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm would be almost certain to win, but they had been slain! It was simply unbelievable.

Yan Shisan’s Fifteen Lethal Swords were simply divine and shocked the world. Fifteen streaks of Sword Qi dismembered the Vajra Yaksha Ming King!

"Defeated!" The Vajra Yaksha Ming King sighed in defeat.

This Immovable King Dharma Body was the most formidable, but the Heaven-Defying Taoist, with the support of the Great Revolution Seal, fought him to a standstill. As the Great Dao Principles circulated within his body, they constructed various spells, and suddenly, the entire sky was filled with multicolored radiance dancing everywhere, along with Sword Qi, True Fire, solar essence, Karmic Fire, and so on, intertwining into a mass, tearing the void into powder.

The Heaven-Defying Taoist shouted, "Die!"

He held the scythe with one hand, knocking open the Immovable King’s Vajra noose, and his right hand brought the axe down fiercely!

This axe instantly grew to several hundred feet in size, falling with a momentum like Pangu Splitting Heaven and Earth, encapsulating the profound and heavy essence of mountains and rivers!

The Heaven-Defying Taoist today was no longer what he used to be. The Great Dao within him, having reached Perfection, could circulate freely, and having comprehended many essences, his combat power naturally surged several times over.

With the will of all beings in revolution, plus the weight of mountains and rivers, how enormously heavy could that be? It could crush aeons!

"Rumble!"

Even the main bodies of the five Great Ming Kings changed color, as their formation nearly broke under this one axe.

The Heaven-Defying Taoist had a sudden moment of clarity in his heart, and thought, "This Buddhist land in my palm is a small world unto itself, so I’ll take the essence of Pangu’s Splitting Heaven and Earth! Hongmeng Purple Qi, turn for me!"

The Hongmeng Purple Qi within him suddenly started circulating, and veins on the Heaven-Defying Taoist’s body bulged like coiling dragons, and with one axe strike, relying on the Hongmeng Purple Qi, he captured a thousandth of Pangu’s essence of Splitting Heaven. It was only one-thousandth, but still astonishing enough that even the Heaven-Defying Taoist’s body could hardly bear it, causing blood to spray from his seven orifices.

But this axe strike still came thundering down!

"Splitting Heaven and Earth!" The Heaven-Defying Taoist roared with a thunderous fury, as if he had transformed into Pangu in that instant, as if he had realized the Great Dao itself.

The Immovable King couldn’t move an inch under the triple-weighted essence and was reduced to ashes by a single axe strike!

"Boom!"

With a deafening explosion, the formation was broken by an axe, and the Heaven-Defying Taoist was exhausted, nearly falling to the ground.

"Haha, hahaha!"

The five of them broke the formation and couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

The Heaven-Defying Taoist even pointed angrily at the five Great Ming Kings and laughed wildly, "You wanted to shatter my Dao heart, but it’s not that easy!"

As for what happened afterward, please listen to the next part.