King of Creation
Chapter 478 - 472: When It’s Time to Turn Things Around

Chapter 478: Chapter 472: When It’s Time to Turn Things Around

Boom!

Five bright flames suddenly burst forth from Chu Jun’s heart, lungs, stomach, liver, and kidneys, which were his signature Five Internal Spirit Fire.

However, compared to the Five Internal Spirit Fire he wielded in the great battle with Ye Zhen more than two years ago, Chu Jun’s flames had become more refined. Back then, the color of Chu Jun’s Five Internal Organs Spirit Fire was uniformly red, without any distinction.

But now, Chu Jun’s Five Internal Spirit Fire even contained a trace of the Five Elements color associated with each organ; the spirit fire of the lungs had a faint white hue, while the spirit fire of the kidneys flickered with black flames.

As the Five Internal Spirit Fire circled around Chu Jun’s body, forming a layer of Protective Fire Force, it suddenly swirled together; five fire flood dragons coiled towards Meng Xiaoyue. Wherever the fire flood dragons passed, the air hissed with the sound of burning, their might extremely terrifying!

This move made Ye Zhen’s eyebrows raise slightly. From this move alone, it was clear that Chu Jun hadn’t wasted the past two years. With such a technique, an average martial artist at the second or third stage of the Soul Sea Realm wouldn’t be able to handle it.

At the initial stage of condensing the Five Internal Spirit Fire, there could be slight mutual generation changes according to the Five Elements during an attack. Such changes not only greatly increase the power of the Five Internal Spirit Fire but also add countless variables, truly formidable!

Whoosh!

Sword Light flared, a highly mysterious Sword Dao momentum rising from Meng Xiaoyue’s form, making Ye Zhen feel a slight vibration within his first Sword Vein.

A dense flurry of Sword Light suddenly flew from Meng Xiaoyue’s hands, constructing a huge Ice Sword Web before her, slicing at the fiery flood dragons.

Like the finest fishing net, the Ice Sword Web instantly cut the five fiery flood dragons into thousands of pieces, each fragment turning into the purest energy and dissipating into the world in the blink of an eye.

Chu Jun’s complexion suddenly turned extremely ugly.

The Five Internal Spirit Fire was his strongest attack technique. Although there were countless variations, he couldn’t fathom how Meng Xiaoyue could break it so easily.

Chu Jun didn’t know the reason, but Ye Zhen knew.

Because Meng Xiaoyue used her most powerful technique right from the start.

Ye Zhen could feel that right from the outset, Meng Xiaoyue had used a Sword Dao Divine Skill from the same lineage as Ye Zhen’s, except Meng Xiaoyue’s was offensive, whereas Ye Zhen’s was defensive.

After a move that shattered the enemy’s attack, countless beams of Ice Sword Light burst forth from Meng Xiaoyue’s hands, covering the sky, and piercing towards Chu Jun.

Every beam of Ice Sword Light was extraordinarily powerful; wherever the Ice Sword Light went, even large trees three or four meters away would snap in half due to the Sword Qi.

Lucky that the duel was relocated outside the main hall of Lishui Sect; otherwise, Meng Xiaoyue might have demolished the Sect Main Hall.

Ye Zhen faintly felt that in terms of Sword Dao cultivation, Meng Xiaoyue might even surpass him, of course, in the way of offensive Sword Dao!

If it were about defensive Sword Dao, or in terms of dissolving Sword Dao, Meng Xiaoyue would definitely not be Ye Zhen’s match. This was because of the differences in the Sword Dao Divine Skills the two had inherited back then.

The Sword Dao Divine Skill that Meng Xiaoyue inherited likely enhanced the power of her sword techniques, otherwise breaking Chu Jun’s Five Internal Spirit Fire wouldn’t have been so effortless!

Moreover, the mere fact that any Ice Sword Light possessed such formidable power made it clear that Chu Jun was not having an easy time dealing with it!

Hum!

Suddenly, the first Sword Vein within Ye Zhen vibrated intensely.

An odd premonition caused Ye Zhen’s gaze to suddenly fixate on one notably conspicuous Sword Gang amidst the hundreds of beams of Ice Sword Light.

The next instant, realizing the truth, Ye Zhen was utterly astonished!

Heart Sword!

The hidden killing move within Meng Xiaoyue’s Ice Sword Light turned out to be the Heart Sword!

Its Sword Light was mysterious and elusive, its tip vibrating at an extremely strange frequency as if constantly adjusting its direction; it was nearly identical to Ye Zhen’s Heart Sword.

Yet, upon a closer sensation, there was a difference!

The Sword Gang’s power was less than Ye Zhen’s, but the Sword Dao within it was slightly stronger than Ye Zhen’s Heart Sword.

The reason for this Ye Zhen understood was likely related to that segment of Purple Sword Light within his first Sword Vein. Otherwise, Ye Zhen’s Heart Sword should have been weaker than Meng Xiaoyue’s in terms of power.

Ye Zhen knew more clearly than anyone that this battle had already ended!

The moment the Heart Sword emerged, it was over!

The might of Ye Zhen’s Heart Sword could not be borne by even martial artists at the peak of the Fifth Realm of the Soul Sea!

The might of Meng Xiaoyue’s Heart Sword against Chu Jun, who was only at the peak of the Fifth Stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, posed no problem whatsoever!

With the appearance of the Heart Sword, the expressions of those from Lishui Sect watching the battle, especially the Master of Lishui Sect, Chu Taiping, changed dramatically!

Now, he finally understood where Meng Xiaoyue’s confidence in seeking battle originated.

With his keen eyesight, how could he not perceive the terror of this Heart Sword?

In a flash, Chu Taiping’s energy stirred, indicating he might intervene.

But as his energy flickered for a moment, an extremely cold and terrifying Sword Momentum suddenly rose from beside Chu Taiping, shocking him and making it clear that intervening in the battle was utterly impossible!

"Be careful..."

Chu Taiping only managed to roar these two words before seeing that peculiar Sword Light pounce toward Chu Jun like a dragon. Following two attempts by Chu Jun to block with spirit fire, both shattered by the Heart Sword, his figure flickered hundreds of times in an instant, but he still failed to evade the Heart Sword!

Thud!

The sound of sword light penetrating flesh rang out instantaneously!

Followed by the hissing sound of leaking spiritual power, streaks of red flame spiritual power sprayed wildly from the wound in Chu Jun’s dantian, resembling a balloon with a burst seam, his essence, qi, and spirit rapidly draining away!

Just now, Meng Xiaoyue’s piercing Heart Sword had directly penetrated Chu Jun’s dantian!

As spiritual power leaked from the wound in his dantian, Chu Jun’s own spiritual power dissipated; he looked down at his abdomen in disbelief, his complexion turning deathly pale in an instant.

The attending Sect Elders of the Lishui Sect were equally stunned!

A dantian pierced through by Sword Gang meant an injury nearly beyond salvation and consequences that were the hardest to bear, more so than losing limbs or being crippled!

A regular sword wound to the abdominal area wouldn’t be much of an issue, but being penetrated by Sword Gang meant the destruction of the dantian’s sea of qi, indicating that his cultivation would be thoroughly ruined from that point on!

In other words, Chu Jun was still alive, but now he had become nothing more than a cripple!

At best, he was now a robust cripple!

Due to reaching Great Accomplishment in his Acquired Spiritual Body, he could live several more decades with strength comparable to Martial Artists of the Blood Training Realm and the True Essence Realm. With his insight, perceptiveness, and brute strength, perhaps he could defeat Martial Artists from the Blood Training and True Essence Realms, but anyone above the True Essence Realm would find squashing him as easy as crushing an ant!

Under one sword stroke, a fall from the heavens to the abyss!

Chu Jun took a plummet from the clouds, his future thoroughly devastated!

Three zhang away from Chu Jun, Meng Xiaoyue stood propped by her sword, breathing heavily, her chest rising and falling dramatically—it was clear that her previous Heart Sword move had consumed almost all her spiritual power and Divine Soul Power.

Meng Xiaoyue’s inherited Divine Skills likely hadn’t yet achieved Vein Forging, and forcefully activating it came with tremendous consumption. Ye Zhen could sense that her Divine Soul Power had been nearly exhausted by a single Heart Sword strike.

Hiss!

As the last trace of spiritual power leaked from the wound at Chu Jun’s dantian, the last hint of his spiritual power fluctuations disappeared, signaling that Chu Jun had become an utter cripple starting from this moment.

Moreover, as time passed, his already cultivated Acquired Spiritual Body would also regress without the support of spiritual power, constantly declining until it reverted to a mere mortal physique.

"Hahaha...."

At this moment, Meng Xiaoyue burst into loud laughter.

"Chu Jun, how does it feel now?"

"Today, I, Meng Xiaoyue, will not kill you. It would be too easy on you to die by my sword! Now, you can taste what it’s like to be a mere mortal, experience the bitter and sweet of ordinary hardship! Feel the struggles my grandmother faced back then!"

"An defenseless old woman under the watchful eye of your Lishui Sect, she struggled to survive until she was executed by you as easily as one might kill a chicken or dog!

Now, it’s your turn to taste this. One day, you might also be slain like a chicken or dog! Live well, Chu Jun!

From today on, you shall taste all the bitterness of this mortal world! What’s worse, those who will bring you this bitterness will be the ones who were once closest to you!

Perhaps, an unintentional glance, word, or gesture from them will cut you to the quick! This, even with your father being a powerful Vein Forging Realm cultivator, cannot be changed...."

Boom!

A fearsome might suddenly rose from Chu Taiping, as a sword light composed purely of a combination of water and fire colors fiercely emerged behind him.

Divine Power Martial Skill, Lishui Divine Sword!

"Such a malicious heart!" Chu Taiping roared in fury!

Almost instantly, a massive sword light in the shape of a profound ice triangular prism congealed, poised to cleave down, while Liao Feibai swiftly positioned herself in front of Chu Taiping.

In her right hand, the sword light of profound ice; in her left, a concealed and pure profound ice chill barely visible.

"I’m the one with a vicious heart? When you killed my grandmother and pursued me for thousands of miles, did you care about being kind or cruel then?"

"Sect Leader Chu, if you’re unwilling to keep the terms agreed upon before the duel, I don’t mind engaging in three hundred exchanges with you!" Meng Xiaoyue’s mocking laughter mixed with Liao Feibai’s cold chuckle resounded simultaneously.

All the Sect Elders of the Lishui Sect turned their gaze to Chu Taiping, clearly ready to attack at his command.

Chu Taiping’s elder face turned an ashy blue, the Lishui Divine Sword at his back trembling incessantly, clearly hesitating whether to strike or not!

"Heavenly Dao is cyclical; karma is unerring! Chu Jun, can you now appreciate the feelings Meng Xiaoyue had five years ago?" Having said that, Ye Zhen turned slightly towards Chu Taiping and bowed: "Sect Leader Chu, the present calamity of Chu Jun, its root cause, also originated from you!

A saying goes, ’Do not underestimate even an ant, for it will have its day to turn the heavens!’ Sect Leader Chu, I hope you will take this as a lesson for the future!"

With those words, Ye Zhen stepped beside Meng Xiaoyue and, taking her along, called out gently to Liao Feibai and Zhongli Jing, "Let’s go!"

The next moment, Ye Zhen, Meng Xiaoyue, Liao Feibai, and Zhongli Jing joined hands and strode out from the midst of the Lishui Sect, unchallenged by anyone they passed.

Behind them, the Lishui Divine Sword at Chu Taiping’s back trembled ceaselessly, before gradually dispersing away.

As the Lishui Divine Sword dissipated, Chu Taiping closed his eyes, and inadvertently, two lines of turbid tears fell.

In front of him, Chu Jun, with eyes devoid of any spirit, had already slumped to the ground, a face of utter despair....(To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome to qidian.com to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)