The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 538 - 512 Two Swords_1

Chapter 538: Chapter 512 Two Swords_1

Pang Jian’s sword came down, and the Witch Ghost Flag that obscured a corner of the lake shattered to pieces.

The Witch Ghost Flag was a Holy Artifact, and Xing Heng was of the Immortal Realm.

An Immortal Realm Great Cultivator, wielding a Holy Artifact, could not block a single sword strike from him.

Only after this stroke did Pang Jian realize how much his experience of wandering the spiritual soul across the Outer Starry Sky had helped his mastery of this sword technique.

Merely relying on his gaze upon the starry space from within the Purgatory World, and his spiritual soul’s dedicated perception, he could never truly understand the actual scene of the Outer Domain Galaxy.

Without stepping out, just by looking, merely by contemplating, this sword could never contain the true essence of the Star River.

Only by truly stepping out of Purgatory, immersing himself in the desolate and dark depths of the Star River, feeling the cold from beyond the domain, and comprehending the complex and unpredictable starry space supernatural ability, could he manifest the wonders of the Star River with his own power!

In the Outer Starry Sky, he came to know the real situation of Purgatory, understood that Purgatory was always moving within the Mysterious Fog.

Those ancient stars, seemingly close within Purgatory, were in fact still separated by vast emptiness.

It was only after going beyond that he realized, what appeared to be two stars sitting side by side were actually still separated by an immense void.

This clear understanding of the starry sky, when he wielded the Power of Stars for this stroke, elevated the sword instantly.

The sword light suddenly became exceptionally dazzling!

After the sword stroke, the sounds of sharp intakes of breath were ceaseless.

The many Cultivators dispersed nearby were all shocked by this single sword stroke.

When the sword light faded, when the Witch Ghost Flag was torn into two, they were still savoring the profoundness of this sword technique.

Some felt as if they were still in the Outer Domain Galaxy.

A Sword Cultivator’s stroke of the sword plunged people into the Sword Intent, leaving them long unable to settle their minds, a feat only a true Sword Dao genius could achieve!

"This sword, has vaguely touched the divine!"

"After the flash of the sword light, a piece of the Star River seemed imprinted in Purgatory, and imprinted deep within my soul."

"Pang Jian, truly a sword prodigy of the new generation!"

The Individual Cultivators of Hongdu Fragment Land couldn’t stop praising him.

They had only seen Pang Jian’s fierce battle with the Devil Scale Tribe’s Dazzling Shadow and his sudden killing of Zhou Yi of the Jiuli Sect through the images left in the Mysterious Heavenly Divine Mirror.

During his time on the Qian Tian Continent, the image of Pang Jian slaying the God Son Lie Yi of the Yao Clan was only widely spread among the Alien Tribes.

Therefore, their understanding of Pang Jian was limited to hearsay.

Today, at this moment, they realized that after Pu Zhaotian, another sword genius had emerged from Sword Tower!

With his cultivation at the Extinction Realm, a single stroke of his sword split the Holy Artifact controlled by a Gui Sacrificial Sect Immortal Realm Great Cultivator, enough to prove that all the rumors about Pang Jian were not exaggerated.

And some even underestimated Pang Jian’s combat power!

"Pang Jian, you destroyed my Witch Ghost Flag, hindering our capture of the malevolent beings of the Blood Spirit Sect, do you know what this will bring upon Sword Tower?"

After his rage, Xing Heng quickly calmed down and berated with righteousness, "At this critical time for the Human Race, all the Sects are working to eradicate the Alien Tribes of the Fifth Realm, and as a member of the Sword Tower..."

His stern accusation was cut off by Pang Jian’s second sword stroke.

Another sword of the same Star River, turned the Witch Ghost Flag that was ripped into two, directly into four pieces.

In this Star River sword, additional faint bluish thunder exploded out, causing the ferocious spirits and evils above the Witch Ghost Flag to turn into ash and dust one after another.

The first sword shattered the Holy Artifact.

The second sword obliterated the evil spirits within the artifact.

After two strokes, the Witch Ghost Flag belonging to Xing Heng, was completely destroyed.

And after the second sword, Xing Heng, always one to invoke righteousness, silently went pale.

He clearly realized that this cold and imposing young talent from Sword Tower did not care what he said, nor did he regard his status as a Protector of the Gui Sacrificial Sect.

Facing such an unyielding character, Xing Heng began to think calmly.

Why did Pang Jian dare to act so rashly and recklessly?

What was it that he, Xing Heng, didn’t know about?

And who had given Pang Jian such boldness, enabling him to dare to draw his sword twice?

Although he was a whole realm above Pang Jian, Xing Heng appeared to be full of apprehensions, secretly using his spiritual soul to perceive his surroundings, feeling that the Immortal Realm elders of the Sword Tower might be lurking somewhere, backing Pang Jian.

...

At the bottom of the lake, as the injured Dong Tianze made his escape, seeing the lake’s surface covered by a black, flag-like curtain, he knew that something terrible had happened.

He understood that surely a Great Cultivator of the Immortal Realm from the Gui Sacrificial Sect had intervened.

With only the Soul Wandering Realm as his cultivation level, two cultivators from the Extinction Realm had already given him a headache, where could he escape to with the arrival of someone from the Immortal Realm?

Just as he was at his wit’s end, suddenly he saw a dazzling sword light tear through the black sky curtain.

The next instant, another stroke of the same sword light turned the sky curtain into four pieces.

The many ghost objects, a level or two higher than his "Spirit Evil," were also annihilated by the lightning within the sword.

Thus, he knew Pang Jian had arrived.

Thus, while still being pursued by Copper Coin and Dark Ghost, he calmly stopped at the bottom of the lake.

He no longer fled.

Qian Bo and Yang Ronghao also dared not pursue the victory when he suddenly fell still.

Because the "Witch Ghost Flag" had shattered, and because above the surface of the lake, there was a chilling gaze staring at the two of them.

That chilling gaze, even colder than the sword light that tore the "Witch Ghost Flag," made their hearts skip a beat.

Any further action towards Dong Tianze, and that chilling gaze seemed like it would instantly condense into sword light.

Qian Bo and Yang Ronghao, both of the Extinction Realm, developed a fear of being instantly killed, so they didn’t dare make a move.

Then, right before their eyes, Dong Tianze sat down as if no one else was there, took out a pill, swallowed it, and began to regulate his breathing.

The previous anxiety, struggle, and irritation disappeared from his face, his eyes once again becoming serene.

In that serenity, there was a hidden, harsh brutality.

Faced with such a Dong Tianze, thinking of his mere Soul Wandering Realm cultivation, and considering that it took him only about twenty years to achieve his cultivation in the Soul Wandering Realm,

Qian Bo inexplicably explained, "We too were only following orders."

Dong Tianze didn’t say a word, just cracked a smile.

The cruel smile, full of violent intent, made Yang Ronghao’s temples pulsate as if he were being targeted by a bloodthirsty ferocious beast.

He instantly understood that as long as Dong Tianze survived today, sooner or later, both of them would not escape this man’s deadly grasp.

...

Pang Jian held his sword aloft.

"Let the two below come up, you all leave on the ship, and I will not draw my sword again,"

He pointed with the tip of his sword at the Ghost Cloud Ship that was hovering in the high sky, and said, "I have no need to explain to you, Xing Heng. If you are unwilling to leave, then it won’t just be the Witch Ghost Flag that gets torn apart."

The threatening implication in his words was extremely clear.

Today, as the momentum of the declining Sword Tower continued, Pang Jian still had the audacity to threaten the protector of the Gui Sacrificial Sect.

The Individual Cultivators couldn’t believe it, and neither could Xing Heng make sense of it.

If he couldn’t understand, then he had no choice but to take out the Black Jade Waist Token and listen to the instructions from the higher-ups of his sect.

A new order was clearly conveyed, "Kill Pang Jian, leave Dong Tianze alive."

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