Chapter 619: Shadow of the Beginning

“Run!”

The eyelids of Xuanming, Chixiao, and the other Sword Sect Nascent Souls twitched wildly.

With a surge of Magical Power, they grabbed the disciples on Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain and fled!

The next moment!

WHOOSH!

The world went dark!

The two forces collided. There was no sound, no explosion—only an invisible ripple that spread out in a sphere, annihilating everything in its path!

Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain, thousands of zhang high, was swept by the aftershock and disintegrated inch by inch, turning into a hollow ruin!

Even the center of Luofu State was gouged out, leaving a crater hundreds of kilometers wide. It punched straight through the planet’s crust, and seawater could be seen seeping in to form a lake!

“So terrifying…”

“This is practically the might of the Divinity Transformation realm… isn’t it?”

Gazing at this scene from afar, Qixia’s legs went weak. His expression was a spectacular mix of bewilderment, fear, and shock. Luckily, he was flying; otherwise, he probably would have collapsed to his knees.

‘Compared to monsters like that, the difference between a Nascent Soul cultivator like me and a mortal is probably not that great, is it?’

Miss Sanhua’s expression was also difficult to control.

She muttered under her breath, “Those two monsters… those two monsters…”

“Haaa…”

She took a deep breath.

Her elegant brows furrowed as she extended her Divine Sense, probing the center of the battlefield.

She had to find out who had won!

‘I hope they took each other out!!!’

‘Damn them!’

Miss Sanhua ground her teeth.

…

BZZZZ.

The Power of Annihilation gradually receded, finally ceasing its expansion.

The violent, raging Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth calmed. The many observing Nascent Soul True Monarchs eagerly stretched out their Divine Sense, extending their perception toward the heart of the battlefield!

WHOOSH!

A figure was seen plummeting from the sky like a meteor!

A crater a hundred zhang in diameter exploded into existence. At its center lay an old man with an ashen face, his white robes tattered and soaked in blood, his breathing as faint as a silken thread.

“Sword Master!”

Xuanming was horrified. Disregarding the threat of Su Ye, he prepared to fly over and save the Sword Master!

But in the next moment, the Jade Void Sword Master’s stern voice rang directly in his ear, “Don’t come any closer!”

“But…”

Xuanming hovered in mid-air, hesitation appearing on his face.

‘The Sword Master’s command, or the Sword Master’s safety? How am I supposed to choose?’

Fortunately,

Su Ye made the choice for him.

WHOOSH.

From the void, several eerie blue tentacles suddenly shot out!

A Dao Source Prototype suppressed and sealed Xuanming’s Magical Power, and then the tentacles closed in, seizing him in their grip!

“No—”

BZZZT.

An icy-silver light formed into solid ice, rapidly encasing Xuanming. The heavily injured late-stage Nascent Soul Grand Cultivator was turned into an ice sculpture, his face frozen in a look of astonishment!

Then,

The void rippled, and Su Ye’s figure slowly emerged.

He was completely unscathed!

However, the thousand-armed, thousand-eyed Immortalized Dharma Body behind him appeared much dimmer and smaller than before, though its structure remained relatively intact.

‘Good! The legacies and scriptures of the Sword Sect are mine!’ Su Ye thought, glancing at Xuanming, who had been captured by the Immortalized Dharma Body.

The Sword Sect’s Scripture Pavilion was on Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain and had already been turned to dust. But that didn’t matter. For a major sect like the Jade Void Sword Sect, the most important knowledge was passed down orally.

Given Xuanming’s status, his memories *were* the legacy of the Jade Void Sword Sect.

Then,

After storing Xuanming away, Su Ye slowly descended, stopping a few zhang in the air to look down on the Jade Void Sword Master.

“Jade Void Sword Master, do you have any last words?”

Su Ye asked leisurely, confident in his victory.

‘To be honest, when the Jade Void Sword Master unleashed his full power, he was actually slightly stronger than me.’

‘It couldn’t be helped. The man had lived for over a thousand years, consumed countless Spirit Pills, practiced Secret Techniques, and honed his Sword Intent… he had pushed nearly every aspect of his cultivation to the absolute limit.’

‘He had even paid an enormous price, using the thousand-year accumulation of the Sword Mausoleum and his own life force as fuel to launch an attack of mutual destruction!’

‘If I had taken that attack head-on, I would have been severely injured, if not killed.’

‘—Although even if I died once, I could resurrect myself with Reversing Destiny and Returning to Life, so I would have won in the end. But doing so would have cost me at least a thousand years of my lifespan!’

‘Therefore, at the moment of the clash, my strategy was to use the Immortalized Dharma Body to escape into the Umbral World and evade the Jade Void Sword Master’s final, desperate strike!’

‘The Jade Void Sword Master’s Dao Source Prototype was unstable and already starting to disintegrate. So even though he used it to lock down the surrounding space, he couldn’t stop me from escaping into the Umbral World!’

‘—My priority is higher than yours!’

‘That advantage in priority was what secured my victory!’

“Cough, cough, cough…”

Using his sword as a crutch, the Jade Void Sword Master struggled to his feet.

He lifted his head. His face was now as pale as paper, without a trace of color.

A gray aura of death shrouded his glabella. Every movement carried the air of a dying man whose time had run out—a flickering lamp, its oil spent.

He was about to die.

The final battle with Su Ye had left him grievously wounded, and his metamorphosing Dao Source Prototype had crumbled and disintegrated.

Furthermore, in his bid for victory, the Jade Void Sword Master had burned his own life force as fuel, exhausting all of his essence, energy, and spirit.

Such a loss was beyond the cure of any medicine. As for life-extending treasures… given the Jade Void Sword Master’s status, any that could still work on him were nearly impossible to find in the entire Jade Light Cultivation Realm.

Therefore,

even if Su Ye didn’t make a move, the Jade Void Sword Master would perish within minutes.

“Qianji Hall, the Scripture Pavilion, the Sword Mausoleum…”

He looked around. Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain had been completely leveled, forming a wide basin connected to the ocean, which was already on the verge of becoming a deep lake.