Chapter 305 - 47: Golden Saber Slays the Fierce Tiger

Chapter 305: Chapter 47: Golden Saber Slays the Fierce Tiger

Chen Ye slowly opened his eyes, feeling the vast power surging like a river within him. An unprecedented sense of strength filled his entire body.

If the Sea Condensation Realm was about opening up a Qi Sea within the body, then the Inner Realm was about constructing one’s own world upon that Qi Sea.

A single thought could stir the winds and clouds; a mere gesture could command the Power of Heaven and Earth.

This was the might of the Inner Realm!

"Old bastard, what do you have to say for yourself now?" Chen Ye looked toward the distant Elder Jian, whose expression was utterly grim, and spoke with a playful tone.

Elder Jian never would have dreamed that Chen Ye would actually dare to break through in the middle of a confrontation, under the watchful eyes of all, and actually succeed!

A Chen Ye at the Peak of the Sea Condensation Realm could already severely wound Jian Wuchen with a single strike and effortlessly kill several cultivators of the same rank.

Now that he had broken through to the Inner Realm, to what terrifying heights had his power soared?

At this thought, Elder Jian felt his eyelids twitching uncontrollably. He finally understood the source of last night’s ominous premonition. Yet, even now, he refused to show weakness and sneered.

"Insolent brat! Do you think breaking through to the Inner Realm means you can do whatever you want in front of my Celestial Sword Manor?!"

"Do whatever I want?" Chen Ye sounded as if he had heard a hilarious joke. "Coming from someone from Celestial Sword Manor, that’s truly ironic."

"Enough nonsense. Let’s see you take one of my strikes!"

The words barely left his lips before Chen Ye moved.

His figure flickered, and he vanished from his spot like a phantom. When he reappeared, he was already standing before Elder Jian!

Fast!

Impossibly fast!

Elder Jian’s pupils contracted violently. A fatal sense of crisis made the hairs on his entire body stand on end.

Without a second thought, he grabbed Jian Wuchen and retreated, simultaneously mobilizing what little True Essence he had left to erect layers of defense.

But it was too late.

A flash of saber light slashed through. The defenses Elder Jian had spent a great deal of True Essence to construct were as fragile as paper before Chen Ye’s blade, shattering layer by layer without holding for even an instant!

Not only that, but after breaking through the defenses, the saber light shot straight for Elder Jian’s vitals.

Terrified out of his wits, Elder Jian dodged desperately. Though he managed to protect his vitals, his right arm was still exposed to the saber light.

In that instant, Elder Jian felt a cold sensation on his arm, followed by an indescribably strange power that frantically surged into his body through the wound, destroying everything in its path with unstoppable force!

Meridians, flesh, bone, and even the True Essence he had painstakingly cultivated for centuries all crumbled and disintegrated before this power!

"AHHH!!!"

Elder Jian screamed miserably and staggered backward, his entire body trembling violently like a sieve. Jian Wuchen, who was in his arms, slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground.

On the Observation Platform, the disciples who had just been preparing to form an array, as well as all the spectators around the square, couldn’t help but gasp in horror at Elder Jian’s tragic state, their scalps tingling with fear.

Elder Jian’s arm, the one struck by the saber light, was now covered in the exact same fine, web-like cracks that had appeared on Jian Wuchen!

The cracks started from his palm and were spreading rapidly toward his shoulder and even the rest of his body at a speed visible to the naked eye!

A desolate, deathly aura continuously seeped from the cracks, extinguishing all signs of life wherever it passed!

"This... What in the world is this Demon Technique?"

"How terrifying! Elder Jian is a Core Formation Realm expert! Even if it’s a Fake Core, he should be far beyond the Inner Realm. To think... he couldn’t even take a single strike?"

"Elder!"

"Protect the Elder and the Young Manor Master!"

Seeing this, the remaining few disciples from Celestial Sword Manor on the Observation Platform were both shocked and enraged. They drew their swords, formed a crude Sword Array, and were about to attack Chen Ye with several intersecting beams of Sword Light.

Chen Ye didn’t even bother to turn his head. He simply swung his saber backhanded.

SWOOSH!

A chilling saber light flashed past.

The bodies of the few Celestial Sword Manor disciples in the Sword Array suddenly stiffened, the expressions on their faces frozen.

The next second, their bodies were sliced cleanly in two at the waist. Their upper torsos slid off as blood and entrails spilled out in a gruesome mess, creating a scene of utmost carnage.

Another instant kill!

Everyone was stunned by Chen Ye’s ruthless and unparalleled methods.

The other Elders and disciples of Celestial Sword Manor didn’t dare to approach. As for the people from Qingzhou Prefecture City and the other Sects, they exchanged glances and, with a tacit understanding, chose to remain spectators.

In recent years, Celestial Sword Manor had grown increasingly tyrannical and arrogant, but because of their power, people could only harbor anger they dared not voice.

So now, seeing their misfortune—with even their carefully groomed successor, Jian Wuchen, beaten to the brink of death—these people, though they showed no emotion on their faces, were secretly gloating. They even hoped Chen Ye would go ahead and kill Elder Jian as well, so naturally, they weren’t about to intervene.

Meanwhile, Elder Jian was completely consumed by terror.

He could clearly feel his body falling apart. The sensation of collapsing from the inside out was more torturous than any physical torment.

He frantically circulated his True Essence, trying to suppress and dispel this bizarre power. But just like when he had tried to heal Jian Wuchen, the moment his True Essence came into contact with that power, it was instantly shredded and devoured, having no effect whatsoever.

"No... I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!" His survival instincts made him let out a mournful cry.