The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 688 - 650 Li Yuqing’s Path!_1

Chapter 688: Chapter 650 Li Yuqing’s Path!_1

Li Yuqing spoke earnestly, her expression somber and stern.

The enormous silver-white sword hovering behind her, the sword intent that could tear apart heaven and earth slowly fermenting, gradually began to emit a "shush" of alien sounds.

Many silver-white sword lights, like sprightly fish, burst into existence, playfully swimming around in the area before her.

The sword lights like fish as if swimming in a real sea, joyful and lively.

This place was in the Mysterious Fog, only empty, void-like mist, nothing else.

Here, not even the slightest force existed, neither the Filth Alien Power nor the nature’s spiritual energy.

Yet those sword lights gave off a sense of vibrancy, as if they were alive.

"Please enlighten me."

Li Yuqing clasped her hands and her gaze suddenly became intensely focused.

From the moment the first strand of silver-white sword light emerged, flying from that sword, the smirk on Qi Xu’s face vanished.

Her eyes, interwoven with scarlet lightning, stared at the "fish-like" sword lights, and a profound feeling, elusive to measure, suddenly surged in her heart.

She felt that each of these "fish" was none other than Qi Xu herself!

Qi Xu herself, as if freely swimming in the mysterious River of Destiny, struggling in the mundane world, enduring the washing of the river’s waters.

The next moment.

"Whoosh!"

A river that was not wide appeared, as if an illusory existence, a figment of a dream, a memory faded away.

The river stretched from Li Yuqing towards Qi Xu.

It was not brilliant, but ethereal and insubstantial, elusive and hazy.

Even Pang Jian, at first, did not sense the sharpness of the sword light, but only perceived the overwhelming sword intent.

A river constructed by the sword intent, by the "Tao," Pang Jian was seeing for the first time.

Originally, he was going to persuade Li Yuqing to retreat, to inform this talented girl that he could flee using instant-teleportation techniques, but he also worried that upon his departure, Li Yuqing might fall into this place.

While he hesitated, Li Yuqing had already made her move!

With the rise of sword momentum, and the appearance of sword intent, Pang Jian was suddenly bewildered.

Shifu Pu Zhaotian had taught him all he knew, elaborating in detail all the profound and mysterious sword techniques and secret skills of the Sword Tower.

Jiang Ran’s Heaven Gate Sword, which harbors the grand ambition of opening the gates of heaven with a sword.

Qi Qingsong’s Dream Sword, which wields the supreme Sword Dao using the most beautiful dreams in one’s heart.

Similar to these, the Sword Dao Profound Argumentation that could lead one to the True God, Shifu either mentioned them or demonstrated their truths, hoping to inspire him.

Because his sword technique was named "Chaotic Sword Skill," as he bore within him the Chaos Sea.

He thought that the sword techniques realized and cultivated by all the sword cultivators under heaven, he had more or less incorporated into himself.

When Li Yuqing’s sword intent appeared, he immediately realized he was mistaken.

That sword called "Sky-splitting Sword" was known throughout the world for its unparalleled sharpness.

He thought that Li Yuqing’s Sword Dao pursued sharpness too, that kind of edge that could cut through any obstacle!

Now, he knew he was greatly mistaken.

Just like his shifu, Li Yuqing had also been concealing the true Great Tao that was hers.

It was a Sword Dao that Pang Jian had never heard of, perhaps one that had never appeared in the Purgatory World before, and this sword must be the peak of all swords!

"Whoosh!"

The sword intent served as a river of ethereal and elusive mist, those strands of sword lights that Pang Jian faintly perceived, seemed like river fish suddenly flashing into view.

Those fish-like sword lights seemed to suddenly transform into the Qi Xu of the Flame Clan, becoming a series of vivid images.

The sword intent began at Li Yuqing and, within the gentle stream of the ethereal river, started to evolve Qi Xu’s life.

A luxurious Flame Clan family, with grand palaces, a young Flame Clan woman cradling a baby girl in her arms.

The young mother cried tears of joy, and beside her, a tall Flame Clan warrior had a face full of doting affection.

This was the start of the river of sword intent.

Afterward came the growth of the Flame Clan baby girl, under her father’s careful protection, constantly tempering her bloodline.

The sword intent river continued to flow forward.

The girl’s talent gradually became apparent, her aging father overwhelmingly content, her mother proud and boastful, and the entire Flame Clan cheered for her success.

Not long after, her father died in combat against the Ghost Clan, and her mother passed away sunk in melancholy and grief.

The young lady, undeterred, joined the Flame Clan’s great army.

She, a daughter of the clan, did the same as the sons.

She accompanied the army to battle the Ghost Clan, fought the Horned Demon Clan, and clashed with the Feather Wing Tribe.

Countless bloody battles dominated the main stages of the river of sword intent, filling most of her life.

She was a warrior born for battle.

Untiring, she found joy in battle, only occasionally, in moments of solitude, would she hold her parents’ relics and reminisce about the past.

She was powerful, battle-hungry, fierce, and considered the men of the Fifth Realm as nothing.

She was the rising star of the Fifth Realm before Dazzling Shadow; there were hardly any warriors of her generation who could compare with her.

At one time, she looked down on all the men of the world.

When the great calamity arrived, she, now a ninth-level warrior, was favored by the Fire God Yan Lie, who painstakingly taught her various truths of fire.

When Filthy Essence reemerged, it was Yan Lie himself who protected her path, aiding her to ascend as a level-ten supreme.

As the sword intent river continued, Qi Xu’s glorious past slowly unfolded.

Until it came to an end.

The past had passed, and the present resurfaced.

Under Yan Lie’s orders, she fell from the Xuan You Continent of the Third Realm, entered this Mysterious Fog Sea, and arrived before Pang Jian.

Then, Li Yuqing came riding on her sword.

This was the present.

The river of sword intent finally came to a halt.

From beginning to end, Qi Xu watched the mysterious river of sword intent, witnessing her own past life with her own eyes.

In the visions that emerged from the river, the clarity surpassed her own memories, more direct and understandable.

The parts she had forgotten were all brought back by the river of sword intent, suddenly triggering her recollection.

She was in awe of the river of sword light.

She had never thought that someone could cast a single sword strike and display her entire life so completely.

This was not a miracle; it was a divine act!

She didn’t realize it was her gaze, her tracing back through her memories, that had been propelling the river of sword light forward.

It existed only because of her attention, stirred by all her emotions, and her will had settled into it.

"Why has it stopped?"

Still looking eagerly forward, she couldn’t help but ask.

Unknown to her, Li Yuqing had been floating in front of the river of sword intent stretching towards Qi Xu, the Sky-splitting Sword shrunk countless times over, already in her small hand.

She didn’t look at Qi Xu, but gazed down at the halted river of sword intent, her expression calm.

In the stream, the last image of Qi Xu inside kept a consistent gaze at Li Yuqing, the same as the real Qi Xu outside.

Both Qi Xus were bewildered.

"The river of destiny shall break today, henceforth there will be no continuation."

Li Yuqing struck down with her sword.

"Whoosh!"

Those revealed visions, extending from the beginning of the river of sword intent, all the countless Qi Xus, the countless radiant images, all turned into sword light and sword radiance!

The river reversed from the beginning!

A mystical force, as if engulfing the past and present, strived to extinguish the future!

Life, would end here!

"Pfft!"

Qi Xu spat out blood.

She hadn’t had time to use any divine skills, didn’t gather her Bloodline Power, only fixated on watching the river of sword intent as it unexpectedly filled her with sword intent.

This was the sword meant to sever her future fate!

Using her past and present, to sever her future, this was Li Yuqing’s true "Tao".

Such a "Tao" was not an epiphany, but an innate gift!

Just like their bloodlines, it was truly fated by heaven!

Engulfed in a fiercely burning ball of fire, alongside the fireball, Qi Xu hastily drew into the "Fire Domain" she had constructed, and took out the Divine Artifact "Flame Star" to ignite a drop of Divine Blood gifted by Yan Lie.

"Whoosh!"

A blazing flame star suddenly appeared above Qi Xu’s head, with streams of flames cascading down.

In her veins, within her bones, and the depths of every drop of her blood, the sword intent that could sever fate was ignited due to the supremacy of the Divine Blood from that domain!

The life-threatening river of sword intent, with its rolling surge of countless Qi Xus, countless suddenly spectacular visions, started to burn within the river itself.

Past and present were no longer forces that snuffed out the future.

In the Divine Fire, the powers of the past and present that were destroying Qi Xu’s future gradually turned to ash.

Qi Xu was severely injured but not dead.

Li Yuqing, who struck with the sword, saw her snow-white arm first burst open, then suddenly turn into a segment of blood and bone.

Skin and flesh, veins and arteries were eroded in an instant and detached.

She seemed indifferent to the pain, looking at Qi Xu, who had retreated into the "Fire Domain," watching the gradually vanishing river of sword intent.

With some regret, she said, "My Tao is too strong, but my realm is a bit low. I can’t push my Tao to the end with my current strength, I can’t cut off her future."

"If I can’t sever the river of destiny with one sword, then I will be the one to die."

She gave Pang Jian a helpless smile.

Her frail body, her hand holding the sword, as the river of sword light vanished completely, suddenly fell into a state of rapid weakening.

Her life force was visibly draining away, her eyes filled with exhaustion.

As if, in the next moment, she would no longer be able to open her eyes, as if she would fall into eternal slumber.

Recklessly wielding the power of "destiny," to cut down the future of another with a sword, forcefully changing another’s life and death, was an extraordinary and divine ultimate Dao.

This kind of Dao was not taught, but was innate from childhood.

Like the "Chaos Sea," inherently inside Pang Jian’s body from birth, so was the Dao of destiny for her.

Now, she had not yet ascended to be a True God, merely stepping into the Immortal Realm.

Even so, she struck out with her sword, and Qi Xu’s life nearly ended.

Had it not been for the drop of "Divine Blood," given for saving one’s life by Yan Lie, this level-ten supreme member of the Flame Clan might have truly been killed by that single sword strike, with no future left to speak of.

"Pfft! Pfft, pfft!"

Qi Xu’s mouth flowed with blood, unable to stop it.

This level-ten supreme warrior of the Flame Clan looked at Li Yuqing as if she were the most terrifying demon in the world.

"Destiny!"

Qi Xu screamed, gasping violently, her throat whistling like a leaky bellows.

She suddenly remembered what Yan Lie said, that in the vast and endless Star River, there was a Sovereign who even that great person dreaded, one who dominated the Hall of Gods with this very Dao.

This Dao, not attainable through postnatal enlightenment, belonged to those born with it.

In Purgatory, during the great calamity that comes once every hundred thousand years, a young girl of the Human Race had this terrifying Dao!

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