Chapter 541 - 64: Enlightenment Stone

Chapter 541: Chapter 64: Enlightenment Stone

BOOM!!!

The sword aura that erupted from the fissure in the Decree was like thunder from the void, instantly blanketing the entire sky!

The terrifying sword light crushed the space in a three-hundred-zhang radius, slashing toward Shen Changchuan with the force to sunder mountains!

This was an attack on the level of the Divine Travel Realm!

The sky seemed to tear apart, and the only thing left between heaven and earth was that brilliant sword aura!

In that instant,

even Nangong City, several miles away, felt a deathly terror, as if his Divine Soul had been locked on with no hope of escape!

Just the faintest aftershock of its aura,

from miles away,

was enough to make Nangong City’s blood run cold, freezing him in place!

The power contained within it,

filled Nangong City’s heart with utter terror,

and at the same time, extreme regret!

He was wrong!

’I should have stopped Shen Changchuan from chasing after him!’

That Bai Jingyuan was from the Bai Family of the Qi Essence Domain, a Top Level family in a Small Domain with no fewer than five Divine Travel Realm experts presiding over the clan.

And Bai Jingyuan was around his own age.

To have reached the Soul Emergence Sixth Layer Peak at such a young age, he was undoubtedly one of the most valued young prodigies of the Bai Family’s new generation.

When a person like that travels,

he is bound to carry a life-saving trump card bestowed by a Divine Travel Realm ancestor of his family!

Facing such a character,

if you couldn’t kill him in the first moment,

the consequences of him tearing open his ancestor’s protective talisman in a desperate counterattack would be unimaginable!

A colossal wave of regret washed over Nangong City.

He flew forward desperately,

praying that Shen Changchuan could retreat in time to dodge this fatal blow from the Divine Travel Realm.

However,

what Nangong City never could have expected was that,

BOOM!!!

in the distance, Shen Changchuan’s body suddenly erupted with a dazzling golden light. He unleashed an even more formidable might, a vast power sweeping through the sky like a torrent!

In an instant,

his aura, originally at the Eighth Layer Middle Stage, actually reached the level of the Ninth Layer!

Then,

faced with the lock of that Divine Travel Realm Level sword strike,

Shen Changchuan neither dodged nor evaded. He met the sword aura head-on, unleashing an even greater power as he charged straight into it!

’Oh no!’

Nangong City’s heart skipped a beat,

and he froze in mid-air,

staring blankly as Shen Changchuan, miles away, charged toward the overwhelming sword aura like a moth to a flame.

His mind went blank.

RUMBLE!!!

As the two beams of light collided,

in a flash,

the earth shook and the mountains swayed!

As the world-shaking collision erupted, that patch of sky seemed to be torn asunder. The only things left between heaven and earth were the brilliant sword aura from the Decree in Bai Jingyuan’s hand and the golden radiance bursting from Shen Changchuan!

Vast swaths of air collapsed as the terrifying energy impact materialized into a tsunami-like shockwave. A visible, ring-shaped blast wave expanded in all directions!

The world within a hundred-zhang radius was utterly annihilated in that instant!

The ground was overturned as if by an invisible, giant plow. The topsoil for a thousand zhang in all directions burst outward in a radial pattern. The seven nearest mountain peaks were snapped in half, and the roar of their collapse couldn’t even keep up with the speed of the shockwave!

Even Nangong City, who was several miles away,

was caught in this terrifying storm of qi,

and was forced to land on the ground to avoid being swept away.

But even so,

the torrent of qi, thick with dirt and sand, swept past him, obscuring his vision. The impact of the debris felt like countless knives scraping against his body!

A good while later,

the storm subsided slightly,

but its aftershocks still raged between heaven and earth.

But Nangong City couldn’t wait any longer.

After the most violent part of the blast had passed,

he shot back into the sky,

flying rapidly toward the site of the collision.

’Brother Shen, Brother Shen, how could you be so reckless! That was an attack at the Divine Travel Realm Level! How could mere Soul Emergence Realm Cultivators like us possibly withstand it?’

’You have to be alive!’

At this moment, Nangong City’s eyes were bloodshot as he flew at an unprecedented speed.

In just a few breaths,

Nangong City had crossed several miles and arrived at the location where Shen Changchuan had collided with the Heaven-Reaching Sword Aura.

But,

the scene before him made him stop dead in his tracks,

freezing him on the spot.

His eyes widened, and his mouth fell slightly agape.

Like a goose with its neck squeezed, he couldn’t make a sound.

"Brother Shen, you... you’re okay?"

Shen Changchuan was hovering in mid-air, dangling the unconscious Bai Jingyuan from his left hand.

The sleeve of his right arm was completely tattered, revealing a bare arm dripping with blood, its skin covered in fine lacerations.

This was the arm that had taken the Divine Travel Realm sword strike head-on.

But while it looked gruesome,

the injuries hadn’t reached the bone.

He clearly hadn’t suffered a fatal blow.

’What... what’s going on?’

For a moment, Nangong City couldn’t process it.

It was no wonder he reacted this way.

He knew very well the sheer gap between the Divine Travel Realm and the Soul Emergence Realm!

To withstand a strike from the Divine Travel Realm with the mere body of a Soul Emergence Cultivator...

in his mind,

the best-case scenario would be losing an arm, with half the body being sliced off along with it.

In the worst case,

the person would be utterly obliterated, turned to dust!

The difference between the Divine Travel Realm and the Soul Emergence Realm was a qualitative one.

It was a gap that the latter could never hope to bridge.

Anyone who dared to face its edge head-on,

would meet an end like a moth flying into a flame!

’But what is happening right now?’

Nangong City was completely bewildered.

He could clearly sense,

that the Shen Changchuan before him wasn’t just putting on a brave front while hiding severe internal injuries.

He had, in fact, only sustained minor wounds!

"It’s not so bad."

Shen Changchuan said, glancing at his scarred right arm and raising an eyebrow.

He lifted his arm and flexed it a few times,

confirming there were no major issues.

He nodded in satisfaction.

"The master of that sword aura must have only just entered the Divine Travel Realm not long ago."

"So it wasn’t much of a problem."

Indeed, it wasn’t much of a problem.

In fact,

Shen Changchuan had sensed that the sword strike’s aura was only slightly stronger than that of the Corpse Refining Sect’s ancestor he had faced back in the Nanyue Territory.

That Corpse Refining Sect ancestor had only entered the Divine Travel Realm a few years prior,

so the master of the attack contained within the Decree Bai Jingyuan tore open was likely also in the Divine Travel Realm Early Stage.

That was why he dared to meet it head-on,

to test,

whether his Physique, enhanced through Body Forging at Thunder Flame Mountain, combined with methods like the Golden Wind Jade Dew Gu, could withstand an attack from the Divine Travel Realm.

It seemed now,

that the answer was yes—he could withstand it!

’My calculations were correct. A Cultivator in the Divine Travel Realm Early Stage probably can’t stop me anymore!’

Shen Changchuan thought to himself.

Although he probably still lacked the ability to face a Divine Travel Realm expert in a direct confrontation.

But as long as he could rely on his powerful Physique to tank the opponent’s attack, and then use the Void Escape Gu to flee...

With this combo,

at least those in the Divine Travel Realm Early Stage no longer posed much of a threat to his life!