Chapter 404 - 167: Killing Life Daoist, Life-taking Sword Point! Suppressing Toad Wrath
With an almost inaudible cracking sound.
The void shattered.
Then, a dark red Divine Sword burst forth from the South Celestial Gate. It was ancient and mottled, seemingly stained with the endless blood of gods and buddhas.
TSSSS!
It was like a meteor streaking through the vast, desolate night, instantly carving a path through the endless air currents.
It was nothing more than an almost inaudible cracking sound.
Within the vast Sealed Space, for tens, even hundreds of thousands of miles, everyone’s vision went black. An immense terror flooded their Heart Spirits, stirring up waves of dread.
It was as if they had been plunged into an abyss, a bone-deep chill spreading through them.
Whether friend or foe, no matter where they stood, everyone seemed frozen in mid-air, utterly unable to move.
All they could feel was an aura of absolute slaughter, a presence of incomparable sharpness.
An aura that sought to obliterate them, body and soul.
Cui Yanliang felt it the most keenly.
The moment the sword light flared, he felt it in his very Heart Spirit. Every inch of his flesh, even the microscopic particles that formed his body, began to tremble violently.
It was as if they were facing the most terrifying thing imaginable—death itself!
This was the sword of absolute slaughter!
A sword capable of instantly annihilating a person, completely and utterly, down to the most fundamental level!
In a daze, amidst the terrifying waves crashing through their minds, three words suddenly surfaced.
Killing Life Daoist!
The feeling was incredibly bizarre!
They had clearly only seen a sliver of sword light, yet their entire Heart Spirit had plunged into absolute darkness.
They could see nothing and hear nothing.
But those three words were like a crimson brand, seared deep into their minds.
Impossible to ignore, let alone forget.
However, the charging Toad Wrath perceived things differently.
It glanced sideways and saw, thousands of miles away, a streak of dark red sword light tearing across the sky.
All surrounding color was utterly annihilated. For a moment, the entire world—heaven, earth, and all of creation—faded to black and white.
And that streak of dark red sword light became the line that divided the realms of black and white.
It carried an endless intent of slaughter and annihilation, tearing through the void in an instant!
And yet, amidst the endless aura of slaughter and the surging tide of Malice...
...the dark red sword light was incomparably calm and natural.
It was like flowing water from a high mountain, like birdsong in a quiet valley, like a painter’s splash of ink, or a monk’s burning incense.
Wherever it passed,
the world was paper, and the sword was its brush.
It left behind one character after another, each one filled with a chilling killing intent.
Execute! Slaughter! Purge!
Sever! Obliterate! Kill!
A cold, cruel aura of slaughter permeated the world. It was like a cosmic storm erupting from the starry sky, threatening to engulf everything.
As if to exterminate all living beings and cleanse the entire world!
This was the path of slaughter in its purest form.
It was also a powerful technique Su Bai had deduced from the Fist Scripture.
Its name: Life-taking Sword Point!
And now, in Toad Wrath’s eyes, Su Bai had become the very embodiment of the Killing Life Daoist!
The void was torn asunder.
Color, dust, the omnipresent Heaven and Earth Essence Qi...
Even the countless auras of life and death contained within this space...
...were all, in that instant, split in two by the sword light!
For that one instant, even Toad Wrath’s Heart Spirit couldn’t help but tremble.
In that sword strike, it seemed to see the shadow of the bloodthirsty Venerable Bai You from the past, and even the Netherworld Venerable Master, whom it could never forget to this day!
"Damn you, damn you all!!"
As if an old wound had been viciously torn open, Toad Wrath let out a heaven-shaking roar:
"KILL!!!"
Then, wrapped in a vast and endless Power of Destruction, it charged fearlessly toward that annihilating sword of slaughter!
TSSSS!
But in the next instant, the sword light drifted past as gently as water, as soft as a light breeze.
What followed was the sound of something being torn apart.
WHOOSH!
Not even a full instant seemed to pass.
The colors that had vanished from the world returned, and the sounds reappeared.
The frozen void returned to normal.
The clouds flowed, and the wind stirred.
Everyone could move freely again.
Without a moment’s delay, everyone turned to look at the point of impact between the man and the demon.
The giant toad Dharma Aspect, the seemingly endless violent aura, the cold and cruel sword light of slaughter...
The terrifying poison gas that could kill any living thing, and the countless points of starlight too brilliant to behold...
...had all vanished, as if they had never existed.
Thousands of miles away, Chen Shaoyou couldn’t see a thing.
Even when he focused his surging True Qi into his eyes, his current Cultivation wasn’t high enough to see things clearly from thousands of miles away.
But everyone else, besides him, saw it all with perfect clarity.
𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
There, in the vast sky, amidst the flowing wind and moving clouds, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun...
...Su Bai stood with his hands clasped behind his back.
His white Daoist Robe, which hadn’t even stirred during the incredibly intense collision, now fluttered in the breeze.
A thousand miles in front of him, hanging in mid-air, the little jade toad had returned to its original form. It was as still as a stone statue.
For a time, the world was silent.
It was like a silent landscape painting.
Everything that had just happened seemed like a dream.
Even the Celestial Secret Sect Master was dazed by the sight, a flash of disbelief in his eyes.
’This... It’s over just like that?’
Monk Taixuan’s hands trembled, and the expression on his blood-stained face shifted again and again.
For a moment, he too found it hard to comprehend.
The next moment, the two exchanged a look.
Both saw the shock and bitterness in the other’s eyes.
As well as a hint of regret.
"Senior..."
Jin Yunfeng was also in a daze.
He had long known that this senior’s Cultivation was profound, his Divine Techniques vast, and his Cultivation Technique peerless.
But this was a Great Demon Ghost on the Seven Heroes and Three Fiends Level!
One of the Seven Heroes and Three Li, who had rampaged for hundreds of thousands of years and only ever suffered a single defeat at the hands of the Netherworld Venerable Master!
In the legends, even the battle between the Netherworld Venerable Master and the Seven Heroes and Three Li had lasted for ages.
For a moment, a sense of unreality flashed through his mind.
’To think that back then, by a stroke of pure chance, I went to that tiny Ning Village and actually met someone like him...’
’This must be what they call fate...’
KRAK!
Only then did peals of thunder suddenly begin to boom across the sky.
The displaced shockwaves rolled back in, and a continuous series of sonic booms echoed through the sky.
And below, within the Death Qi Space sealing Toad Wrath’s True Body, the seal suddenly made a sound like shattering jade.
Compared to the roiling sonic booms in the sky, this sound was insignificant.
But the expressions of Cui Yanliang, the Celestial Secret Sect Master, and Monk Taixuan all changed at once.
They all lowered their gazes to look.
Then, they saw a sword scar, thousands of miles long, appear in the sky.
And the Sealed Space had been sliced wide open!
RUMBLE!
An incredibly dense Death Qi seemed to boil over. The land and mountains, which had just been green and vibrant, instantly turned a deathly gray.
The earth trembled and mountains shook. Plumes of dust like roaring True Dragons billowed into the sky, and an endless deluge of earth and stone crashed in all directions like a tsunami.
A massive, straight, black fissure had appeared on the land at some point, snaking across its surface.
Its length and depth were unknown, but it was tens of miles wide and had brutally sliced through dozens of towering mountain peaks!
Looking down from above,
...one could see that it had completely sliced open the toad’s head, which was as large as the moon and stars, crouching upon the earth!
The aura that had poisoned the mountains and the land was leaking out from that very sword scar.
"This sword strike..."
The low, hoarse voice sounded again.
Toad Wrath’s Dharma Body, now back to the size of a fist, glanced sideways at Su Bai.
"Very good!"
"You... are very good!"
The low voice was laced with a venomous resentment so potent it would kill an ordinary person on the spot or drive them mad.
"I must disagree. It wasn’t good enough."
Su Bai shook his head, a hint of regret in his voice.
"If it were truly good enough, that strike would have killed you outright."
’If I had a few more years to build my power, the might of that Sword Point would be on another level entirely.’
’But alas, there are no ’what ifs’ in this world.’
’As I am now, I can’t kill Toad Wrath completely with just my Divine Techniques and Cultivation Technique, let alone erase every trace of it from the world.’
"You junior, taking advantage of my weakness... Very good!"
Toad Wrath’s voice finally betrayed emotion. Filled with ultimate resentment, it fixed Su Bai with a deathly stare.
"A pity you can’t kill me yet. The day I truly emerge will be the day you die!"
"And it will be the day of death for all the Ten Thousand Spirits in this world!"
BANG!
As its voice echoed, Toad Wrath’s Dharma Body exploded in mid-air!
A pure, jade-green light bloomed like a lotus. For ten, a hundred, a thousand, even ten thousand miles, the void roiled with a profound Death Qi.
This entire region of the void had been poisoned to death.
BOOM!
At the same time, within the ruptured Death Qi Space, the giant toad formed from countless mountains trembled for a moment before falling still.
RUMBLE!
As rock and earth crumbled away,
...a jade-green toad head, larger than any mountain, was revealed.
A deep sword scar was branded across its skull.
Su Bai gazed down at Toad Wrath’s true form, sprawled across the boundless earth like the moon and stars, his eyes deep and inscrutable.
A ball of Purple Gold Divine Soul Power slowly formed in his mind.
"Just because that strike couldn’t kill you doesn’t mean I have no way to kill you."
’Stars have lifespans, and even the universe cannot last forever. He refused to believe that a mere old toad could truly be immortal and indestructible!’
’He had never expected to kill this Great Demon Ghost—a creature countless heroes throughout history had failed to slay—with a single strike.’
’But for him, this strike’s significance was immense.’
’Even if that strike only wounded one ten-thousandth of its body, that was enough for Su Bai.’
’Because the Purification Tripod now had information on Toad Wrath.’
At that moment, his gaze shifted, and a pane of light flashed before his eyes.
Toad Wrath’s information was laid bare!
[Criminal: Toad Wrath]
[Sin Level: Ten-Star!]
[Strength: Heavenly Destiny Realm Ninth Layer]
[Status: Sealing (Sealed)]
[Suppression Involvement: 1%]
[Reward: 5,000,000 Experience Points / Hour]
Su Bai smiled to himself after reading Toad Wrath’s information.
This was one of the reasons he had been waiting for the Seven Heroes and Three Li.
The next moment, with a thought, a small, ancient altar appeared in his palm.
"If you truly are immortal, perhaps that’s a good thing for me..."
He hadn’t used this Wish-fulfilling Altar since he had sacrificed Xie Nian Daoist in his entirety.
’Immortal and indestructible... couldn’t that also be interpreted as...’
’...an inexhaustible, unending supply?’
’If so, wouldn’t that mean he possessed an endless source of offerings for the sacrifice?’
Su Bai squeezed the altar, his mind racing.
"Teacher!"
"Teacher!"
Just then, Cui Yanliang streaked across the sky, and Ye Xiaoyu flew over as well, carrying Chen Shaoyou.
The two of them bowed to Su Bai in unison.
"There’s no need for such formalities between master and disciples."
Su Bai dismissed his thoughts and waved his hand.
Only then did the two straighten up.
Then, Su Bai’s gaze fell upon Chen Shaoyou, who looked dazed, his limbs gone weak.
Feeling Su Bai’s eyes on him, Chen Shaoyou trembled and hastily bowed.
"S-Senior, th-this junior, Chen Shaoyou, p-pays his respects..."
"Chen Shaoyou..."
Looking at Chen Shaoyou, who was struggling to compose himself, Su Bai’s gaze flickered.
A faint smile touched his lips.
"You’re from the future?"