We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real? - Chapter 262: Xiao Mo, You Cannot Kill Me
“Qing Yuan! Leave now!”
Xue Kui gripped Qing Yuan’s arm tightly, her expression tense beyond measure, wishing she could immediately push her close friend away.
“Xue Kui, what’s wrong? What did you see?”
Qing Yuan had never seen Xue Kui so tense before.
If Xue Kui had merely been discovered by Ding Jingyi, it would not have been nearly so dramatic.
“There’s no time to explain. We need to leave first!”
Xue Kui grabbed Qing Yuan’s hand and was about to fly out but at that very moment, the voice of Ten Thousand Dao Sect’s sect master Ding Jingyi came from the direction of the main peak, “Would the two elders not consider staying a bit longer before departing?”
As Ding Jingyi’s voice fell, a sword light slashed toward Karma Blood Peak where Xue Kui stood.
“Damn it!”
Xue Kui cursed, her brow furrowed as she simultaneously wielded her blade.
Blood-red blade qi collided with Ding Jingyi’s sword qi, and the turbulent spiritual power spread outward, creating an oppressive aura that made one nearly suffocate.
Every cultivator in Ten Thousand Dao Sect felt a chill in their heart and turned their gaze toward Karma Blood Peak, unsure of what had occurred.
How could the sect master and the Karma Blood Peak master suddenly be fighting?
In the next moment, Xue Kui’s voice, amplified by spiritual energy, echoed throughout the entire sect.
“Ding Jingyi! You beast, you have imprisoned ten peak masters and elders of Ten Thousand Dao Sect beneath your main peak, using the life essence and spiritual power of my master and nine other peak masters to nourish an ancient divine being, attempting to break its seal! Have you gone mad? Do you not know the consequences of doing so?”
As Qing Yuan and all the cultivators throughout the sect heard Xue Kui’s words, their hearts filled with tremendous shock.
They even suspected they had misheard.
What had Elder Xue Kui just said?
The sect master used the life essence of ten peak masters and elders to irrigate an ancient divine being? Attempting to break its seal?
Xue Kui swept her arm outward once more, releasing a divine thought that projected everything she had witnessed at the main peak into the air above.
The image showed the ten peak masters of Ten Thousand Dao Sect in a state worse than death!
“Master!”
“Father!”
“How can this be?”
“Was my master not supposed to have died in the White Bone Secret Realm? How is he imprisoned at the main peak?”
When the masters of various halls including the leader of the Rakshasa Hall saw their masters locked at the main peak, continuously having their life essence drained, their hearts were seized with shock!
They knew that Xue Kui would not deceive them.
For truth or falsehood, they need only go to the main peak and look for themselves!
Just as everyone thought the sect master would attempt to defend himself, Ding Jingyi’s mouth curved into a slight smile. His expression remained serene as he slowly spoke, his voice carrying throughout the sect with no attempt at concealment, “So what if it is true?”
Everyone, including Xue Kui, felt their hearts lurch.
They had expected Ding Jingyi to defend himself, yet he directly admitted it.
“Sect Master, what exactly do you intend to do?” Qing Yuan stepped forward and questioned.
“What do I intend?” Ding Jingyi smiled. “I merely wish to pursue the great way. This is my most fundamental purpose.”
Ding Jingyi opened his arms and raised his head toward the fathomless heavens, “You have not entered the Ascension realm at perfection, so you do not know what such a realm is like. You do not know the torment of being unable to advance even a single step. You cannot fathom that when you step into the Ascension realm at perfection, you possess an ability that reaches the heavens, yet the path to heaven is severed, such despair!”
“You also cannot understand that you stand at the highest place, and need only jump to obtain all those stars filling the sky, yet you cannot obtain them, such suffering! At first, I accepted my fate. But one day, I saw a different scene in the White Bone Forbidden Land!”
The more Ding Jingyi spoke, the more crazed his expression became. At this moment, Ding Jingyi seemed as though intoxicated, “I saw it! I saw the divine beings filling the sky. I saw them controlling the laws of the world, establishing rule after rule for this realm. I saw the blurred silhouette of a man. Though I could not see his face clearly, as a human, he stood beneath the firmament, one man and one sword, scorning all divine beings. With each sword strike he made, a divine being fell. He transformed himself into countless laws. He cut across all ages!”
Ding Jingyi withdrew his gaze and continued to look at the two before him, “If that man could do it, why cannot I? We later generations, why must we be inferior to those who came before?”
“Beast!” Xue Kui gripped her blade tightly.
“For your own selfish desires, do you wish for the blood of our ancestors to be shed in vain? Do you know how hard-won is the prosperity of the ten races today? Do you know what it means to lift the seal of divine beings?”
“It will not happen,” Ding Jingyi shook his head. “The divine beings will not be resurrected. They will only become my nourishment, to be absorbed by me, and I shall become the sole divine being of this world!”
Ding Jingyi extended his hand toward Xue Kui and Qing Yuan, “I admire you both. Surrender to me and become my aid, and I can overlook everything you have done.”
“Bah! Delusional wishful thinking! This old woman finds you disgusting just looking at you!” Xue Kui spat, and without hesitation, unleashed a slash!
Blood-red blade light spread across the entirety of Ten Thousand Dao Sect in an instant.
Though Ding Jingyi was a full realm above Xue Kui, he did not dare underestimate her.
Ever since Karma Blood Peak was established, it had been the strongest combat force of Ten Thousand Dao Sect. Though the cultivators were few, none dared look down upon them.
After all, the dominance of the Blood Demon Sword Formula was rarely matched in the world.
“Boom!”
With a thunderous crash, blood-red blade qi scattered wildly once more.
After neutralizing the blade qi, Ding Jingyi stood in the air. He reversed the long sword in his hand, then released his grip with his tiger’s mouth, allowing the entire blade to fall from the sky but the sword disappeared into the air like sinking into a lake surface. The blade body slowly vanished in the air, leaving only tens of thousands of leaves.
All the leaves were formed from shattered sword shards.
“Go,” Ding Jingyi pointed forward, and the leaves formed from sword shards swept toward Xue Kui.
Qing Yuan’s brow furrowed as she summoned several mechanical puppets.
As a Mohist cultivator at the Immortal realm, though Qing Yuan’s combat strength could not compare to Xue Kui, who was naturally born for slaughter, she should not be underestimated either.
As Qing Yuan’s fingertips moved.
The four mechanical beasts of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise rapidly enlarged.
In size and appearance, the four were virtually indistinguishable from the true four spirit beasts.
In the instant the Black Tortoise blocked the sword leaf shards, the other three spirit beasts had already pounced!
At the same time, the masters of various halls including the leader of the Rakshasa Hall also rushed toward Ding Jingyi.
Though the situation had developed too suddenly, the fact that their masters were being used as nourishment was undeniable.
How could they swallow such humiliation!
“Do not linger in battle! Leave first!” Xue Kui shouted to everyone, and simultaneously pulled Qing Yuan’s small hand as she flew toward the outside of the sect.
For Xue Kui, even if the opposing side activated the sect-protecting grand formation, with her strength, she could break through and carry Qing Yuan out.
“I said, you will not be leaving,” Ding Jingyi shook his head.
He took a single step forward.
As the sect-protecting grand formation activated, the main peak of Ten Thousand Dao Sect released a dazzling light.
The light burst in the air like fireworks.
In less than two breaths of time, fragments of light filled the surroundings of Ten Thousand Dao Sect. The light rapidly condensed, forming a gigantic crystal dome that covered the entire Ten Thousand Dao Sect.
“Xue Kui, I told you before, if you had discovered this any earlier, my plans might have faced some trouble. But now, everything is too late,” Ding Jingyi chanted incantations.
The main peak of Ten Thousand Dao Sect suddenly exploded, and the divine being’s stone statue floated into the air.
Ten peak masters including Zhou Rushi were bound by chains, standing around the statue.
When Ding Jingyi finished the incantations from his mouth, all cultivators in Ten Thousand Dao Sect at the Jade Simplicity realm and below felt their realms continuously descending, as if their bodies had broken a hole and water was flowing downward ceaselessly.
“Ding Jingyi! What exactly are you doing!”
The peak masters including the Sword Peak master roared.
How could they not understand that Ding Jingyi was now sacrificing the sect’s fortune to revive this divine being!
If it were unrelated to them, they would not care. After all, those being sacrificed were not themselves, and they could simply watch but now, they felt their realms continuously flowing away, and their years of cultivation would come to nothing. How could they bear this?
“Trash dares make noise?” The Grand Elder Xia Kong stepped forward from the void. With a casual wave of his hand, he directly slapped the Sword Peak master into a blood mist.
“We respectfully greet Sect Master!” Xia Kong and four other Immortal realm cultivators stood beside Ding Jingyi.
They had known about everything the sect master was doing from the beginning.
Xue Kui’s gaze swept across the crowd.
After the calamity of the White Bone Secret Realm three thousand years ago, there were now ten Immortal realm cultivators in Ten Thousand Dao Sect. As a result, five of them now stood beside Ding Jingyi.
“Mm,” Ding Jingyi nodded and looked toward Xue Kui and the others. “Since they are unwilling to pledge allegiance to me, kill them.”
“Yes!” Xia Kong and the others obeyed, each summoning their life-bound magical artifacts and attacking.
Xue Kui and the others knew they could not escape now.
Since escape was impossible, they could only fight to the death.
Xue Kui gripped her long blade, and centered on her, crimson blood-killing energy spread outward, her eyes turning scarlet.
Heaven and Earth Illusory Red was instantly deployed!
Xue Kui approached and slashed her blade directly toward Ding Jingyi.
At Ding Jingyi’s thought, the blade leaf shards coalesced before him, blocking this slash but in the next moment, Xue Kui’s figure disappeared, flying toward her master’s direction, attempting to sever the chains.
But how could Ding Jingyi allow his opponent to succeed so easily?
Tens of thousands of sword blade shards transformed into dragons, blocking Xue Kui’s path.
Xue Kui was struck by the sword dragon and plummeted through the air, shattering a mountain peak.
Dust rose to a height of a hundred zhang but Xue Kui charged out of the dust again and engaged Ding Jingyi in combat.
Had it been an ordinary Ding Jingyi, Xue Kui felt she could barely fight to a standstill, at worst only at a slight disadvantage but now, Ding Jingyi, empowered by the sect-protecting grand formation and having absorbed the sect’s fortune, was considerably stronger than usual.
After merely fifty exchanges, Xue Kui gradually fell into a disadvantageous position.
“Qing Yuan!” Xue Kui called out to Qing Yuan.
Qing Yuan immediately understood Xue Kui’s meaning, “But Xue Kui, your body…”
“I’m nearly dead anyway, what use is this? Help me quickly!” Xue Kui shouted, thinking her close friend was good in all ways except for being too indecisive.
Qing Yuan gently bit her lip and quickly made her decision.
She controlled the four great spirit beasts to pounce on Ding Jingyi together.
Xue Kui leaped up and stood on the Azure Dragon’s back, raising the long blade in her hand high. Blood-red killing energy continuously condensed on her blade.
The heavenly way itself seemed to tremble incessantly.
The space around Xue Kui’s blade seemed to have been torn open into faint voids.
The entire heaven and earth dimmed, with only black and white remaining, leaving only the blood-red of Xue Kui’s blade!
Blood Demon Sword Formula, Ninth Form, Opening Heaven.
The Blood Demon Sword Formula had nine forms in total, with one form learned per realm but Xue Kui and Xiao Mo possessed extraordinary talent. The two learned all the forms while at the Immortal realm.
However, unleashing them across realms placed greater burden on the body yet now, Xue Kui had no way to concern herself with such matters.
When the blade momentum reached its peak, Xue Kui slashed downward!
“The lineage of Karma Blood Peak is indeed troublesome,” the sect master of Ten Thousand Dao Sect shook his head.
He raised his right hand, and tens of thousands of sword blade shards coalesced into a single long sword.
The divine being’s statue radiated light, empowering the sword energy dragon. It seemed as though a true divine dragon had descended!
“So this is the power of a divine being?” Ding Jingyi took a deep breath and slashed with his sword!
In an instant, spiritual energy and blood-killing energy exploded outward.
Centered on the sect master of Ten Thousand Dao Sect and Xue Kui, the ground within Ten Thousand Dao Sect cracked like a spider’s web.
“Xue Kui…” Qing Yuan cried out, her heart dead within her.
Xue Kui slowly fell from the sky like a leaf.
Qing Yuan wanted to rush forward and embrace Xue Kui, but was immediately blocked by several cultivators.
In Xue Kui’s blurred vision, the sect master’s long sword in his hand thrust downward toward her.
“Am I dying? Damn it! That boy better not come back…” Xue Kui watched helplessly as the sword drew ever closer.
Just as Xue Kui was about to calmly accept her death, suddenly, the entire Ten Thousand Dao Sect trembled violently.
The previously impenetrable formation cracked open at that moment.
A red light descended from the sky, and in less than a breath, a man wielding a long blade, dressed in a black robe, appeared before Xue Kui.
Only to see the man slash his blade upward.
A blood-red blade qi struck Ding Jingyi’s body.
Even with hundreds and thousands of sword fragments blocking before Ding Jingyi, the blood-killing energy penetrated through!
Ding Jingyi dissipated the blood-killing energy and calmly regarded the man before him.
“You indeed possess some ability. No wonder Xue Kui holds you in such high regard,” Ding Jingyi’s mouth curved slightly.
“Your Immortal realm is the strongest I have ever seen,” Ding Jingyi extended his hand toward Xiao Mo. “Become my disciple, and you shall be second only to one and above ten thousand. I can give you everything you desire!”
Xiao Mo casually flicked his blade, and the blade qi that fell carelessly split the earth, “Then what I want is your life.”
Ding Jingyi shook his head, his expression appearing quite disappointed and regretful, “Xiao Mo, think carefully. You cannot kill me.”
“Is that so?” As Xiao Mo’s words fell, blood-red blade qi filled the entire sky.
“Then let me try.”
