Chapter 1207 - 1207: Do I Have to Swim?

Hearing this, Yingchi Daoist Venerable felt a jumble of emotions in his heart.

Because he himself had just said almost the same thing to Jiang Cheng not long ago.

Back then, when he threatened Jiang Cheng to submit, his ultimate trump card was "not giving you a chance to throw your talisman."

Who knew that only a moment later, those exact words would be returned to him intact.

A Celestial Venerable actually saying he wouldn't leave two Daoist Venerables a way to live?

This was a serious provocation to his pride.

On top of his rage, he also felt a deep sense of humiliation.

However, he had no way to refute it.

Facing a freak who had mastered fifteen Sword Hearts, all at Full Tier, he simply couldn't muster the slightest fighting spirit now.

"What exactly do you want?"

He gripped the sword in his hand tightly; his other hand wanted to grab the Emperor Sword Talisman, but he didn't dare.

The Daoist Venerable behind him had already chickened out completely.

"I can drop my weapon. Can you give me a way to live?"

Brother Cheng was amused.

"Don't you think it's a bit late for that?"

Now if he wanted the other party's weapon, he could just kill him and grab it. Why would he need the other guy to offer it up himself?

"You!"

That Daoist Venerable was both ashamed and furious. He was already planning to surrender, and this guy still wouldn't accept it?

"Don't push people too far. At the end of the day, you're just a Celestial Venerable. Once we get out of here, you'll be beaten back to your true form…"

"But can you get out right now?"

Jiang Cheng coldly cut him off.

"Enough. Weren't you two just saying something about kowtowing a hundred times and shouting a hundred times? I think that proposal is very constructive. You can give it a try."

As soon as he said that, the Daoist Venerable's face filled with the resolve to die.

"A scholar may be killed, but not humiliated!"

Jiang Cheng certainly wouldn't be moved by an enemy. After all, when the other side wanted to kill him earlier, their attitude had been firm as hell.

"Then go die."

As he swung his sword, that Daoist Venerable also swung his.

This guy really had given up his way out; he didn't even plan to pull out the Emperor Sword Talisman.

At the final moment, he did, for once, show some unyielding spirit.

Their Sword Hearts collided in midair, and then Jiang Cheng naturally crushed him in a one-sided stomp.

He blasted open the opponent's Sword Heart and struck his body.

And during this brief battle, Yingchi Daoist Venerable saw a path to survival.

The fight between his companion and Jiang Cheng lasted no more than a brief instant.

In that instant, he didn't take the chance to pull out the Emperor Sword Talisman, because he knew it would still be too late.

He chose to draw his sword as well!

With one slash, his target wasn't Jiang Cheng.

It was the "long boat" under their feet.

The leaf-blade boat wasn't particularly sturdy; under that sword strike, it shattered on the spot into countless pieces.

"Hahahahaha…"

Yingchi Daoist Venerable leaped into the air, laughing wildly as he used the chaos to pull out the Emperor Sword Talisman.

This was his perfect escape plan.

His companion would hold Jiang Cheng back while he destroyed the leaf they were standing on.

In this situation, Jiang Cheng wouldn't have any time to chase him, because Jiang Cheng was about to fall into the Celestial Dao Sword Sea below.

At such a golden opportunity, he would be able to calmly toss out the Emperor Sword Talisman and escape alive to the outside.

And Jiang Cheng would be left with only one option.

Which was to also throw his Emperor Sword Talisman and escape outside together with him.

Once outside, with him as a fully fired-up Daoist Venerable, wouldn't crushing this kid be a piece of cake?

He could even take the chance to get revenge and completely reclaim his dignity!

He sure thought it through nicely, but misjudged Jiang Cheng's choice.

That Emperor Sword Talisman he had gotten with such difficulty—how could he possibly throw it away?

"What are you laughing at?"

Behind Yingchi Daoist Venerable came Jiang Cheng's cold voice.

The Daoist Venerable from just now had already been effortlessly insta-killed by him.

Now it was the "mastermind's" turn.

Yingchi Daoist Venerable suddenly realized he couldn't throw away the Emperor Sword Talisman, because the right hand holding it was being gripped in an iron hold.

Then a tremendous pulling force came.

Inside Emperor Sword Star, without Immortal Power and Rule Realm, they couldn't even fly; they could only make brief leaps.

With that yank, he was dragged straight from midair into the sea.

The two of them hit the sea almost at the same time.

There was no splash, no sound.

The moment they touched the sea's surface, Yingchi Daoist Venerable felt his body rapidly melting.

That kind of melting was completely irreversible and impossible to resist.

What was being devoured wasn't just his body, but also his Divine Soul, his Will, every trace of his existence in this world…

Using the last of his strength, he roared.

"Are you insane?"

With nowhere to stand, this guy actually didn't throw away his Emperor Sword Talisman to Transmission out, choosing instead to drag him down to the sea and perish together!

This was sheer lunacy!

But the next moment, his eyes bulged.

Jiang Cheng, who had dragged him down together, was completely unscathed and was looking at him with a mocking smile.

The Celestial Dao Sword Sea surged around him, yet that terrifying Power of the Celestial Dao didn't harm him in the slightest.

Let alone devour him.

In the final instant before his death, Yingchi Daoist Venerable felt he'd just seen the most absurd sight in the world!

Even more absurd than seeing Jiang Cheng use fifteen Sword Hearts just now.

Someone could actually be immune to the Power of the Celestial Dao?

Even though this Celestial Dao Sword Sea was just a projection of the Heavenly Dao, not the true Power of the Celestial Dao.

It still involved the exalted Heavenly Dao, after all!

Aside from a Celestial Emperor who was highly acknowledged by the Heavenly Dao, no one should be able to survive in here, right?

How was this possible?

This kid was just a Celestial Venerable!

Could it be he had the same level of fortune as a Celestial Emperor?

Was he also someone acknowledged by the Heavenly Dao?

Who exactly was he?

In that instant, Yingchi Daoist Venerable thought of many, many things…

Unfortunately, he no longer had the chance to speak.

Very soon, the Heavenly Dao devoured his last trace of consciousness, and his entire being vanished without a trace.

In Jiang Cheng's hand, he was holding a Tier Seven Dao Sword he had just seized.

That was taken from the Daoist Venerable he had killed earlier.

As for the other spoils, he had already stashed them in the System Warehouse.

There was nothing he could do; Storage Rings didn't work here.

In this Celestial Dao Sword Sea, he wasn't in any danger of losing his life.

Even though he had never been acknowledged by the Heavenly Dao, back in the real Celestial Dao Space he'd been bouncing around alive and well, let alone now in a mere projection of the Heavenly Dao.

What really annoyed him was that both "boats" had been destroyed.

"Don't tell me I have to swim this trial, man?"

He did know how to swim; even without Immortal Power, his stamina far surpassed Celestial Venerable Level, enough to support him swimming on for many years.

The problem was that the scene looked utterly ridiculous.

And downright comical.

After paddling twice in the sea, he stopped in place and fell into deep thought.

"Like this, I really don't look very suave."

"Totally doesn't fit my main-character image."

"Everyone else is riding boats while I'm flailing around in the sea. Where's the prestige in that?"

He rummaged around on himself and pulled out the Emperor Sword Talisman.

He was a bit torn, wondering if he should just toss this thing and Transmission out.