The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 539 - 513 Mysterious Ghost Sacrifice _1

Chapter 539: Chapter 513 Mysterious Ghost Sacrifice _1

Xing Heng began to doubt if he had heard it wrong.

Kill Pang Jian? Spare Dong Tianze?

If he were to swap their positions, deeming to kill Dong Tianze and spare Pang Jian, that would have made sense to him.

Without the backing of a powerful background, Dong Tianze, after being identified as a remnant of the Blood Spirit Sect, wouldn’t cause too much trouble or strife if he were killed.

But who was Pang Jian?

The new generation’s Sword Dao prodigy of Sword Tower and Pu Zhaotian’s closest disciple—a transcendent being who bore the potential to one day carry the mantle of Sword Tower!

Would Sword Tower not be turned upside down if he died?

Putting aside identities, and just talking about individual combat power, Pang Jian shattered the Witch Ghost Flag with two sword strikes—how could he be so easily killed?

Xing Heng’s face shifted uneasily, as he clutched the Black Jade Waist Token, hesitating to reply using his Divine Sense.

Nor did he make any further movements.

He was tormented internally, continually weighing the pros and cons: on one side was Pang Jian, the Sword Tower prodigy, and on the other, a lofty Sect leader.

He remained motionless, and so did Qian Bo and Yang Ronghao in the lake, their feet as if rooted to the spot.

A multitude of Individual Cultivators, who had gathered from all across the Hongdu Fragment Land, also remained silent.

Their gazes shifted restlessly between Pang Jian and Xing Heng, waiting for their next move.

"Xing Heng, take your men and leave, immediately," commanded Pang Jian with a bland yet chilling indifference across the silent surface of the lake. The impatience in his eyes was noticeably clear.

He held the sword in his right hand while gently clutching the Sword Command with his left.

Inside the mini-universe of the Sword Command, the Sword Light Symbols representing Yao Junhong, Xu Yu, and Great Elder Jiang Ran were constantly flickering.

Flickering meant that Yao Junhong, Xu Yu, and Jiang Ran had embedded a thread of their mind into his Sword Command.

It also meant that these three Sword Tower Elders of the Immortal Realm were closely monitoring the messages he was sending.

When he learned that Dong Tianze was being hunted by the Gui Sacrificial Sect and decided to go to Hongdu himself to snatch Dong Tianze from their clutches, he candidly informed Yao Junhong, Xu Yu, and others.

After all, he was facing the Gui Sacrificial Sect—an imposing Sect that had been standing in South Abyss for tens of thousands of years, boasting two True Gods.

He figured that since Li Wang was aware of his secondary identity as a Realm God, the Gui Sacrificial Sect’s Ghost Mother must surely also be well aware.

Yet, the matter concerning Dong Tianze was unlikely to escalate to involve the Ghost Mother; therefore, she probably hadn’t been informed.

If things were to truly escalate with the Gui Sacrificial Sect, undoubtedly the Ghost Mother would be disturbed.

As a Realm God of the new era, he would serve as a link between the Human Race and the Demon Race.

Owing to the extreme threat posed by the Alien Tribes, creating immense pressure on the Human True Gods, they would eventually need his service.

The fact that Li Chu from Desolated Terrains had not appeared for a second time above the Panshi Fragment Land indicated that his previous assumption was correct—

—his identity as a Realm God was very useful!

It’s precisely because of this underpinning confidence that he dared to step into Hongdu Fragment Land and provoke an Immortal Realm Protector of the Gui Sacrificial Sect.

Besides his Shifu Pu Zhaotian, no one else in Sword Tower knew of his Realm God identity.

And with his Shifu in a critical stage of recuperation and seclusion, he couldn’t even communicate using the Sword Command.

In such a scenario, those Sword Tower Elders of the Immortal Realm, unaware of his hidden strength as a Realm God, only knew that he intended to rescue a friend from the hands of the Gui Sacrificial Sect.

And Xu Yu relayed the news right away.

Yao Junhong, Guanghe, and Wang Ce, three Great Elders of the Immortal Realm, had also arrived at the Teleportation Array when he descended upon Hongdu Fragment Land.

Including Jiang Ran, who didn’t see eye to eye with his Shifu!

Four Immortal Realm powerhouses surrounded the Teleportation Array of the Panshi Fragment Land, ready to enter Hongdu at any moment!

After Pu Zhaotian’s failed attempt to ascend to the True God Realm, at the lowest point of Sword Tower’s morale, they still offered him such unconditional support!

They knew full-well that he was facing the Gui Sacrificial Sect from the First Realm’s South Abyss, yet not one of them hesitated or acted out of self-interest, nor did they consider the consequences.

This was the essence of Sword Tower!

The Human Race needed Sword Tower, and even this Purgatory needed Sword Tower—such a Sword Tower could not be allowed to fall.

Pang Jian slightly unleashed his Alien Power, and in his hand, the black-golden Divine Sword suddenly shone with a dazzling brilliance that captured everyone’s gaze.

The Source Demon within had already ceased examining the essence of the Demon Pearl. The six Secret Realms, fortified by Demon Element Power, were now exhibiting their own mysterious and wondrous aspects.

He was at the peak of his life, wielding a world-shaking Divine Sword, with the entirety of Sword Tower at his back.

To a mere Xing Heng, he was confident of bringing him down by sword!

"With Shifu’s descent in realm causing a decline in Sword Tower’s prestige and morale, then let me take his place. Let me be the one to restore Sword Tower’s visibility amongst the gods!"

"The more powerful I prove myself to be, the more the True Gods will accept me! If I can kill Xing Heng of the Immortal Realm while I’m in the Extinction Realm, it will prove that I can become the new generation’s Sword God!"

"The Human Race needs a Sword God, and if this Sword God is also a Realm God, then no matter how much they despise me, they will let me live well!"

With his resolve strengthened, as Xing Heng lingered in doubt, Pang Jian struck with his sword once more.

Sword Intent emerged suddenly—the temperature in the northern mountains of Hongdu Fragment Land plummeted drastically!

Delicate six-petaled ice flowers blossomed from the black-golden Divine Sword that Pang Jian raised, elegantly and shockingly scattering in all directions.

Though it was a time of fierce sunshine and intense daylight,

with every ice flower that descended, the sky above where Pang Jian stood transformed in an instant into an extreme cold alien space-time.

The Sword Light had not yet brightly emerged, but the Sword Intent already permeated the heavens and the earth!

In fact, each of those beautiful and distinctive ice flowers was a refined expression of Pang Jian’s Sword Light!

His strike was no longer a conventional long river of light; the Sword Light no longer condensed but instead dissipated among each of the ice flowers, filling the entire space-time domain!

When the snowflakes fell, the Extreme Cold Alien Power enveloped everything, with corresponding Great Tao principles hidden within the Sword Intent.

Then, an unmistakable intent to kill suddenly erupted!

Xing Heng, with his heart wavering, was startled by the intent to kill that emerged among the snowflakes. He sensed that this new star of the Sword Tower actually harbored the desire to kill him!

Pang Jian, now not only intent on saving Dong Tianze, also aimed to kill him!

"How audacious!"

Xing Heng was truly enraged.

Already seen as easy prey, why should he hesitate uncertainly?

If Pang Jian died, what intense reactions the Sword Tower would have afterward, he did not care one bit.

"Mysterious Ghost Sacrifice!"

Beneath his feet, a Gray Stone Ritual Platform emerged.

There were prisms, and various rocks carved with reliefs, along with dead bones and rotten wood, all floating around the Gray Stone Ritual Platform in the void.

"Huff! Huff huff huff!"

A host of fierce ghost creatures, densely emerging from the prisms, relief carvings, dead bones, and rotten wood.

They had ferocious appearances, their aura was chilling, and they numbered in the tens of thousands!

They were the souls of deceased human cultivators, refined Spirit Beasts and Ferocious Beasts, as well as a few souls from alien tribes of the Fifth Realm.

These Exotic Spirits, collectively called ghost creatures, were tightly sealed in prisms, dead bones, and rotten wood. Now summoned by Xing Heng, they worshiped before the Gray Stone Ritual Platform where he stood.

As if worshipping a God Spirit of ghostly faith!

A faint ghostly light suddenly appeared at the Sea of Consciousness between Xing Heng’s eyebrows, on his forehead.

This ghostly light, like a deep abyss black hole, gathered all the worship power of the thousands of fierce ghost creatures in an instant!

"Whoosh!"

A "Mysterious Ghost" that looked very similar to Xing Heng, but was a thousand times larger, suddenly coalesced behind him.

The "Mysterious Ghost," crafted in his image, opened its mouth and, with a mighty inhale, devoured all of the fierce ghost creatures.

Commanding the Gray Stone Ritual Platform, amid the falling snowflakes, it met Pang Jian who was releasing Sword Force from a higher place.

The snowflakes, containing the essence of Extreme Cold, made a heavy "crack crack" sound as they landed on the large shadowy form of the "Mysterious Ghost."

Each snowflake, when touching any solid object or Soul Body, became unimaginably heavy, with the Extreme Cold Alien Power inside exploding violently with the Great Tao.

The "Mysterious Ghost," stained with snowflakes, merely trembled slightly.

However, as the snowflakes hit the ground, landing above ancient trees in the forest, drifting upon the rocks, and entering the lakes, they caused a tremendous upheaval.

"Boom! Boom boom!"

The north of the Fragment Land roared without end!

Trees that touched the snowflakes burst apart, stones smashed by snowflakes instantly turned into stone powder.

In the lakes, large sunken pits formed one after another.

Only then did the onlookers realize that the seemingly inconspicuous snowflakes contained such tremendous Sword Force!

"You think just because you have borrowed the power of a Divine Artifact to slash my Witch Ghost Flag, you can overpower me? Pang Jian, even your Shifu Pu Zhaotian, when he challenged Li Chu in the past, they were of the same realm!"

"You are merely at the Extinction Realm, an entire great realm below me, what gives you the right to harbor thoughts of killing me?"

"Who gave you this blind confidence?"

Xing Heng shouted as he cast his spell with a fierce gesture of his hands.

The "Mysterious Ghost" bared its teeth and, with a breath, spewed out a burst of Qingming Ghost Flames, submerging the void where Pang Jian was, and annihilating all the strange phenomena of that Extreme Cold world.

The Soul Spirits and ghost creatures that the "Mysterious Ghost" refined had just given birth to this stream of Qingming Ghost Flames. Any living being that came into contact with even the smallest amount would transform into a chilling ghost creature in an extremely short span of time.

"Hiss hiss!"

A Qingying Spiritual Power Strong Shield aptly appeared at that moment.

Xing Heng sneered as he changed the spell with his hands.

Though he was far away, the "Mysterious Ghost" served as one of his Exotic Spirit bodies!

The "Mysterious Ghost’s" arms turned into ghostly claw blades, ignited with the cold and quiet "Qingming Ghost Flames." Like a god of the underworld rushing into the mortal world with a ghost knife, it aimed to extinguish living souls.

The Spiritual Power Strong Shield protecting Pang Jian, under the slashes and rips of the "Mysterious Ghost," immediately began to deform.

"Being an entire realm above does grant a tremendous advantage."

Lin Miaojin from the Wind Listening Tower anxiously flew up from the treetop to midair.

She looked down at the battlefield from a higher vantage point, watching Pang Jian enveloped by the Qingming Ghost Flames.

She also saw an egg-shaped Qingying Gang Shield appear in time to envelop Pang Jian.

However, the shield, though keeping Pang Jian isolated from the Qingming Ghost Flames, was constantly being torn at by the terrifyingly large "Mysterious Ghost," causing the shield to tremble and nearly shatter.

"Huang Qi, when do you think an Immortal Realm Elder from the Sword Tower will show up?"

She naturally assumed that since the Sword Tower had allowed Pang Jian to rise in the Hongdu Fragment Land, there must be an Elder lurking in the shadows ready to help if Pang Jian got into trouble.

Like this moment, for instance, she felt certain that the Sword Light of some Elder was about to flash across the Hongdu Fragment Land.

"Not sure," Huang Qi shook his head.

Tens of miles behind the two of them, the old man with the hooked nose suddenly sneered and murmured to himself, "There is no lurker, and the one who could have arrived at any moment is not going to make it in time."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Space Teleportation Array set up in Hongdu City inexplicably collapsed with a thunderous crash.

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