Chapter 421 - 391: Battle of the Peak Sword Cultivators

Chapter 421: Chapter 391: Battle of the Peak Sword Cultivators

The dark clouds hadn’t scattered.

On the contrary, they grew even denser. The auras emanating from the two Golden Core cultivators surpassed even the dozen-plus Great Demons from before.

The pitch-black clouds streamed overhead like a torrent of water. Meanwhile, the sea beneath them churned into a tumultuous tide. From a distance, Dan Kongzi and Chen Che looked like Sea Demons riding the waves.

"Che’er..."

Meng Changtu started to say something else, but Meng Qianxun placed a hand on his shoulder.

Gazing at the two figures locked in a standoff, she slowly shook her head.

"We can’t interfere in a battle of this magnitude. Let’s fall back thirty li so we don’t distract Che’er."

Powered by a fresh supply of True Essence, the damaged Spiritual Boat slowly rose into the air, flying away from the shattered reef. The half-missing gunwale was crowded with people, every one of them staring until the two figures dwindled in the distance.

But the sea did not calm. Instead, the roar of the waves grew even more violent, mirroring the turmoil in everyone’s heart.

"Will the Valley Master win?"

Zhao Changping asked quietly.

But no one could answer.

No one knew just how strong Dan Kongzi was.

He had stood by idly the entire time, and to still dare to stand forth alone after Xu Chuan and the others had been completely annihilated... that audacity had to be born from absolute power.

Furthermore, compared to someone like Fang Shuxian, the ethereal detachment he displayed when he attacked—and the casual ease with which he suppressed both Meng Qianxun and Meng Changtu in a single move—had left a deep, ominous shadow on everyone’s hearts.

As the two remained locked in their standoff, the clouds pressed even lower.

As their auras surged, a hurricane began to rage, accompanied by flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder. Even the sea beneath their feet began to churn and rotate, forming a waterspout tens of feet in diameter. But the waterspout shattered almost the instant it took to the air.

Because Dan Kongzi had made his move.

With one hand resting on his Sword Box, he simply pointed forward with the other. His long hair whipped about, his robes snapping in the wind.

Having witnessed Chen Che’s strength, he held nothing back. The pointing finger slashed forward, cleaving the very surface of the sea in two. A vast wave of Sword Qi shot out for dozens of li, its immense power even parting the clouds overhead.

A sword scar appeared on both the surface of the sea and in the clouds, stretching all the way from Dan Kongzi’s feet to right before Chen Che.

"This..."

The onlookers were dumbfounded.

Meng Qianxun, in particular, felt a chill. She had no doubt that if that attack had been aimed at her, she would have long since been smashed to dust.

"Break!"

But Chen Che was utterly unafraid as he faced the attack that had split the Black Tortoise Calm Sea.

He channeled his True Essence and slashed out fiercely with the Ruyi Wind and Thunder Sword. The strike roiled heaven and earth, dragging down the dark clouds to reveal the clear sky above. His blade descended, crashing violently into the incoming Sword Qi.

BOOM—

The Sword Qi exploded. The sea’s surface ripped apart, revealing countless fissures radiating outward.

Water from the explosion arced high into the sky. Just then, Dan Kongzi’s second attack arrived. With a wave of his bare hand, the splashing droplets elongated, transforming into tiny, finger-long Water Swords.

The ripples on these Water Swords were perfectly uniform, their edges gleaming with a cold light—a feat that obviously required incredible precision and control over one’s True Essence. Each tiny blade held enough power to pierce through and kill a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

And how many of these Water Swords were there? Far more than just thousands; there were tens of thousands.

"Hmph!"

Chen Che took a step forward, True Essence erupting from his body.

BANG! BANG! BANG!—

The sky full of Water Swords seemed to crash against an invisible wall, bursting violently into a fine mist that filled the air.

"Dan Kongzi, didn’t you want to test your skills against mine? Is this all you’ve got?"

Without pausing, Chen Che took another step, striding across the turbulent sea as if it were solid ground. In a single bound, he shot through the mist, transforming into a brilliant Sword Rainbow that bore down on Dan Kongzi in the blink of an eye. He brought the Ruyi Wind and Thunder Sword crashing down.

As the blade fell, the seawater parted violently.

In an instant, the sea beneath Dan Kongzi’s feet split apart, forming two towering, bottomless walls of water.

"I never thought I’d be looked down upon by a junior. Very well. In that case, I shall let you witness my true power."

Hearing this, Dan Kongzi didn’t grow angry. Instead, he laughed.

His right hand, which had been resting on his Sword Box, suddenly lifted.

"BANG!"

A beam of sword light shot into the sky, leaping up to collide with the Ruyi Wind and Thunder Sword. Dan Kongzi remained motionless, but the force of the impact knocked Chen Che back dozens of yards.

But that was a Sword Box. A box that held swords.

If that was the case, how could there be only a single beam of light? In an instant, one became a hundred, and a hundred became ten thousand. Tens of thousands of rainbow-hued lights shot into the sky, their dazzling radiance like a meteor shower streaking across the night, shining to an extreme.

The onlookers all stared, their eyes wide with disbelief.

It was a swarm of countless Flying Swords, and the brilliant, flowing colors were the light trailing in their wake as they streaked madly through the air.

"Kill!"

Dan Kongzi’s gaze sharpened, and he clenched his fist.

The Flying Swords froze in mid-air for a moment, then shot out like tens of thousands of Crossbow Arrows being fired at once, blasting forth from above and below. In that instant, the already tattered clouds were completely blown away, revealing the cool light of the sun.

But in the sunlight, the Flying Swords shone all the more brilliantly.

"A Sword Box?"

Chen Che chuckled. "Let’s see how it compares to my Sword Pill!"

"Go!"

He formed a sword-hand and pointed. The Sword Pill split, instantly multiplying from one into ten thousand as a swarm of countless Flying Swords dove down.

The Sword Qi trailing from the two swarms of swords formed long, feathery tails of light. One swarm descended while the other ascended, like a falling meteor and its reverse appearing in the same sky. An eternity seemed to pass in a single instant.

The thousands upon thousands of Flying Swords collided in mid-air, erupting in an infinite shower of sky-shaking sparks.

BOOM—

The onlookers were all dumbstruck. In their eyes, it was a collision between two meteor showers. There was a sound like a great temple bell; the air itself seemed to contract for a moment before a deafening roar swept out in all directions.