At this moment, when he met Lü Yang’s smiling eyes, the sense of crisis in Duo Bao Child’s heart soared violently, as if he had seen his own end.
However, the first emotion he felt was not fear.
It was mockery.
‘Just you, trying to kill me?’
How could a Foundation Establishment mid-stage True Person be so easily killed?
Not to mention, although Duo Bao Child came from a small sect, he was still a True Person with a lineage.
Ordinary rogue cultivators, without orthodox inheritance, would immerse themselves in bitter cultivation upon gaining some incomplete techniques, regardless of flaws.
Though severely damaged, with only the 【Barrier Breaking】 function remaining, it was still incomparably sharp.
Under the sword light, Duo Bao Daoist could not help but squint his eyes.
His eyes stung and teared up from the sword light.
His skin felt as if pricked by needles.
And this was only from looking directly at the Sword Pill.
If Lü Yang truly slashed with this sword, Duo Bao Daoist would undoubtedly die!
In that split second, Duo Bao Daoist could only think of one thing.
In the next instant, a crimson spiritual sword appeared in his hand.
Brilliance flickered on it, blocking the sword light Lü Yang unleashed.
【Abi Sword】!
“Hahaha, demon, in the end, man proposes but heaven disposes!”
At this moment, Duo Bao Child’s heart was full of joy.
“You never expected that the spiritual treasure you originally intended to trap me with would turn around and save my life, did you?”
With this spiritual sword in hand, what was there to fear?
Even if Lü Yang slashed with all his might, he could slash back as well.
Even if he fell into a disadvantage and was no match, he would not be decapitated in one strike.
With this thought, Duo Bao Child immediately poured all his mana into the sword.
And the 【Abi Sword】 transformed into a devouring beast, crazily consuming Duo Bao Child’s mana, while the sword light it emitted grew grander and mightier.
——All of this happened in an instant.
In the next moment, the Five Elements True Person once again opened the 【Primordial Five Elements Umbrella】, blocking Yinshan and the others, while the rest came to aid Duo Bao Child.
“Kill!”
In an instant, the six True Persons joined forces once more.
The surging divine brilliance flooded everything, shattering divine senses, and the surroundings once again plunged into dimness.
However, when everything became clear again, everyone was stunned.
Lü Yang had disappeared.
Immediately after, they saw Fairy Yun He of the Panyun Sect staring in astonishment at Duo Bao Child.
“Duo Bao… why didn’t you strike just now?”
Everyone looked over.
Only then did they realize that just now, when everyone had joined forces to attack, Duo Bao Child, who should have struck the most decisively, had stood dumbly in place.
The 【Abi Sword】 in his hand shone brightly, yet he had not swung it, instead stuck there stiffly.
“No… I… I can’t control it…!”
They saw Duo Bao Child sweating profusely, desperately trying to suppress the 【Abi Sword】 in his hand.
Then they watched in horror as a third profound pattern emerged on the sword.
【Named Artifact】.
From the very beginning, the ownership of the 【Abi Sword】 had always belonged to Lü Yang.
Unless he willingly relinquished it, no amount of refinement was more than an illusion.
Duo Bao Child suddenly realized the truth.
The 【Abi Sword】 had merely been toying with him all along.
Everything had been under the master’s command.
“…Beast!”
Duo Bao Child let out an unwilling roar.
Yet, more than half of his mana had already been poured into the 【Abi Sword】, leaving him powerless to resist.
In the next moment, they saw the 【Abi Sword】 reverse its blade.
——And pointed it toward Old Man Dragon Fisher.
“…Huh?”
At this moment, Old Man Dragon Fisher’s spiritual perception and logical thought became severely disjointed.
By all reason, having a sword pointed at him should be dangerous.
However, his spiritual perception kept insisting that there was no issue, no danger, that he was perfectly safe, and that it was all just an illusion.
Until a sword light pierced through the crown of his head.
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“Pfft!”
The sword light silently passed through his skull.
It cut through his brow, nose bridge, lips, teeth, neck, chest, abdomen, and down to his lower body.
Almost simultaneously, the 【Abi Sword】 was fully unsheathed!
The crimson sword light flashed and disappeared, becoming the final straw that broke the camel’s back.
Old Man Dragon Fisher didn’t even have time to summon his spiritual treasure or use his divine ability!
At this moment, there was only one thought left in his mind:
‘Why me?’
I had been cautious enough.
I wasn’t the first to pursue him.
I wasn’t the one who had uttered harsh words.
From beginning to end, I had kept the lowest profile.
Yet, it was me who was killed!
Why!?
I refuse to accept this!
Countless grievances and resentments surged in Old Man Dragon Fisher’s heart, only to be slashed away by a single sword strike.
Lü Yang’s figure emerged, surrounded by divine brilliance flowing all over his body.
It was a brand-new divine brilliance.
Even Yinshan True Person, upon seeing this divine brilliance, revealed a look of shock and stared at Lü Yang with disbelief.
“The second innate divine ability…?”
【Star Concealing Radiance】!
Strictly speaking, it was not a second innate ability.
It was simulated using the 【Imperial Palace Golden Seal Doushuai True Command】, yet at the critical moment, it had become Lü Yang’s killing move!
【Star Concealing Radiance】.
At the moment when yang fire was born and yin fire retreated, when the rising sun emerged and the stars hid.
Causality became obscure, hard to reveal its light.
It could conceal causality, qi flow, and mask the crisis sense of Foundation Establishment True Persons.
Thus, Duo Bao Child sensed killing intent, but Old Man Dragon Fisher had no reaction at all!
From the start, Lü Yang’s target had been him.
Old Man Dragon Fisher was confused, but to Lü Yang, it was the simplest choice.
Because among everyone present, only he was a rogue cultivator.
Rogue cultivators were the easiest to kill.
If not you, then who?
Even so, just to be safe, Lü Yang had used the 【Imperial Palace Golden Seal Doushuai True Command】 to temporarily raise his cultivation to the peak of Foundation Establishment mid-stage.
In addition, he had activated the 【Abi Sword】's hidden trick.
It looked effortless on the surface, but in reality, he had gone all out with a two-pronged strategy, allowing him to slay Old Man Dragon Fisher under everyone’s watchful eyes with a single sword strike!
In the next moment, a loud explosion rang out!
“Boom!”
Old Man Dragon Fisher’s dharma body exploded with a thunderous roar.
The sword light shredded every drop of his flesh and blood.
Even his Dao foundation was devoured clean by the 【Abi Sword】.
Nothing was wasted.
Bathed in the myriad streaks of divine light from his opponent’s fall, Lü Yang squinted his eyes in satisfaction.
“Sure enough, crushing the weak is still the most enjoyable…”
Without 【Star Concealing Radiance】 masking the enemy’s perception, he really might not have been able to kill Old Man Dragon Fisher.
But with 【Star Concealing Radiance】, everything had fallen into place.
In the end, it was because of the blessing of the 【Imperial Palace Golden Seal Doushuai True Command】 that his realm had been elevated.
Bullying the weak with superior strength, how could he not be invincible?
Challenging across realms should naturally be unstoppable!