Chapter 500 - 334: Fall of the Zhe Family

Chapter 500: Chapter 334: Fall of the Zhe Family

In that same instant, Shangguan Yutong and the others—six in total—all attacked in the same direction!

Zhe Wushuang roared, "Get the hell out of my way!" If, at this point, the Zhe Family’s sole remaining Sword Venerable still couldn’t see how powerful Ling Xiao was, he might as well have just dropped dead!

Unfortunately, just as Zhe Wushuang shouted those words, several blood-curdling screams rang out from within the Cold Iron Sword Array! Ling Xiao had long since refined the nine hundred and ninety-nine Cold Iron Short Swords to perfection. Their power was immense; how could Sword Emperor Realm powerhouses possibly be a match for them? In a single onslaught, two of the Zhe Family’s Sword Emperors were slain!

Zhe Wushuang’s eyes looked ready to split from rage. The aura erupting from him caused his long robes to swell and flap violently. A jet-black short sword suddenly appeared in his hand. He pointed it at Ling Xiao, and a vast, colorless wave of Sword Qi shot toward him!

Ling Xiao hovered in the air, empty-handed and utterly fearless. As Zhe Wushuang stared, dumbfounded, Ling Xiao opened his mouth, and a streak of red light flashed out! The finger-sized beam of red light shot toward Zhe Wushuang’s eyes at an unbelievable speed!

Zhe Wushuang cried out in alarm and used the Sword Qi from his short sword to intercept the red light!

The entire space seemed to detonate, producing a cataclysmic boom unlike any clap of thunder ever heard!

BOOM!!!

An impossibly brilliant ball of light erupted in midair! Not even the noonday sun was as blinding as the light from this explosion!

After the light detonated, a massive, nearly transparent ring of energy expanded vertically! The moment it touched the ground, it sliced the earth wide open!

Compared to this, the immense destruction wrought by the Sword Emperor Powerhouses just moments ago looked like mere child’s play!

Two Zhe Family Sword Emperor Powerhouses, too slow to dodge, were swept over by this immensely powerful shockwave and instantly sliced in two! They didn’t die right away. Dragging the upper halves of their bodies, they let out the most piercing, miserable wails! Every member of the Zhe Family who heard them was utterly horrified.

The immense force of the explosion also blasted Zhe Wushuang several thousand meters back through the air! He was almost knocked all the way back to the Zhe Family Manor! What he found impossible to accept was that not only was Ling Xiao’s figure completely unaffected, but he was now streaking toward him like a bolt of lightning!

His movements were like a phantom’s, leaving a trail of countless afterimages across the twilight sky!

’How can he be this strong?!’ Zhe Wushuang watched the approaching figure in disbelief, so stunned his mind went completely blank.

’A young man not even twenty years old... could he really possess the same level of power as Yun Zilan back in his day?’

"Kid! Today, one of us dies!" Zhe Wushuang hadn’t been injured by that unbelievably powerful explosion. So, while he was shocked by Ling Xiao’s astonishing strength, he didn’t dwell on it. ’It looks like killing him is impossible unless I’m willing to pay the price of grievous injury!’

That finger-length beam of red light was none other than the Demon Blood Red Lotus Sword, which Ling Xiao had completely refined through sacrifice!

At Ling Xiao’s current Early Nascent Soul Stage of cultivation, the Demon Blood Red Lotus Sword could finally be housed within his Purple Mansion, grasped in the hands of his fully formed Nascent Soul. Nourished by the boundless True Essence within his Purple Mansion, the Demon Blood Red Lotus Sword had at last been refined by Ling Xiao into his own personal Immortal Sword!

Of course, this so-called Immortal Sword was merely a powerful magic treasure for a Cultivator; it obviously couldn’t compare to the true Immortal Artifacts of the Immortal Realm. However, based on the quality of the Demon Blood Red Lotus Sword, it would absolutely be considered a Middle-grade Spiritual Artifact even in the Cultivation Realm!

Slaying a Sword Venerable like Zhe Wushuang would be no problem at all!

Zhe Wushuang was horrified to feel himself locked onto by an immensely powerful killing intent. The unbelievably fast beam of red light shot toward the spot between his eyebrows, its speed finally striking an inexplicable terror into his heart.

He focused all the energy in his body in front of him. At the same time, he pointed his jet-black short sword at Ling Xiao and bellowed, "Spiral Sword Qi!"

As Zhe Wushuang roared, a powerful force erupted from his sword. For an instant, the very sky seemed to twist!

A force resembling a tornado swept violently toward Ling Xiao!

Another sword suddenly materialized beneath Ling Xiao’s feet. He carved a sudden arc through the air, dodging Zhe Wushuang’s attack, then pointed a finger at him. "Slay!"

Zhe Wushuang stared, dumbfounded, as the finger-sized beam of red light suddenly erupted into a hundred-meter-long, crescent-shaped wave of red Sword Qi. Even from a great distance, he could feel its bone-chilling aura and the heaven-shaking killing intent it carried!

Zhe Wushuang’s body shot upward, leaping high into the sky.

Ling Xiao gave a cold smile and shouted, "Burst!"

The crescent-shaped red Sword Qi shattered into tens of thousands of smaller, meter-long blades of Sword Qi, all of which shot upward toward Zhe Wushuang!

An astonishing power flared in Zhe Wushuang’s aged eyes. He didn’t retreat; instead, he wheeled around and charged downward. The jet-black short sword in his hand suddenly condensed, forming a long, ink-black serpent!

It was immense—a hundred meters long and incredibly thick! It slithered and coiled, opening its cavernous, bloody maw to devour Ling Xiao’s red Sword Qi!

At the same time, an unnatural flush appeared on Zhe Wushuang’s face before it rapidly drained of all color, turning deathly pale. Clearly, executing such an astonishingly powerful sword technique was an immense strain on him, inflicting considerable damage on his body!

But to kill Ling Xiao, Zhe Wushuang was willing to die and take him with him! The moment they had exchanged blows, he knew that if he could not slay Ling Xiao today, the Zhe Family was doomed to face a great catastrophe!

The Demon Blood Red Lotus Sword, hovering in the air, seemed to become both excited and enraged upon seeing the black serpent. It let out a draconic roar as its form swelled explosively! In a flash, it transformed into a gigantic red sword a hundred meters long and over ten meters wide!