Buzz!
The sword blazed with light, and there was even a faint gleam of scarlet. This sword pointed straight at his soul placed unimaginable pressure on every cell in Wang Chong’s body, every sliver of his soul. A moment later, the skies went dark as the sword rose from the ground!
The final moment had come!
“It’s not right!”
Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy and Stellar Energy were rapidly fading. Under the pressure of death, Wang Chong stimulated all his latent potential, and he suddenly sensed that something wasn’t right.
The Origin Immortal Lord could have never designed such a death trap! If he was going to do this, he might as well have cut the chains and never let anyone cross! After all, there’s no such as perfectly pure gold, and no such thing as a perfect human. Given this sword’s properties, no one would be able to inherit the Origin Immortal Art, or even get close. Not even the Origin Immortal Lord would have the right to use this divine sword! This can’t have been the Origin Immortal Lord’s original intention!
Wang Chong had a sudden flash of insight, and his mind began to spin like never before. Time felt like it had slowed to a crawl.
A human will have flaws! Desires, greed, envy, pride, anger, killing… these are basically all the possible weaknesses a person could have. No one can escape them, not even the forger of the sword.
The more tense the moment, the calmer Wang Chong became.
The sword is the king of weapons and a tool for killing. To use a sword meant for killing to judge those who have killed is already very strange. There must be something that I haven’t thought of. Perhaps this isn’t a sword that judges crimes at all!
Chapter 1517 - : Pulling Out the Sword!
Chapter 1517: Pulling Out the Sword!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Wang Chong felt like a lightning bolt had blazed through his mind, leaving it rumbling with thunder. Wang Chong immediately realized that he had developed a small, yet fatal, misunderstanding of the sword.
The meaning of this sword, its core principle, could not be about judging evils. But if that was not the case, what was it?
There was very little time for Wang Chong to think. He was tottering on the abyss as he struggled to seize that last sliver of hope!
Desire is the root of human evil. Ignorance, resentment, and hatred all arise from desire. The opposite of desire is no desire, and to have no desire is to be upright! Integrity is the source of all good!
As this thought occurred to Wang Chong, his body trembled in understanding. He felt like he had grabbed onto a line that led to the very heart of the problem.
If killing is a crime, the opposite of killing is not killing. And to not kill is to be benevolent!
Buzz!
Wang Chong once more trembled like he had been struck by a bolt of lightning, his eyes flying open.
Benevolence and righteousness!
…Right, the Origin Immortal Lord was no member of the evil path, nor did he absolutely abhor all evils. The ideologies propagated in the Spring and Autumn Era were not about punishing evils but promoting good!
Wang Chong’s eyes erupted with the light of understanding.
The opposite of pride is courtesy!
The opposite of envy is wisdom! Only with wisdom can one restrain one’s envy!
The opposite of anger is kindness, modesty!
The opposite of lust is righteousness! Only when one’s heart enshrines righteousness and reason can one avoid lust!
This divine sword was not promoting violence to restrain violence, was not about punishing evil. It was about promoting good. At its core was not killing, but benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, kindness, and modesty!
Wang Chong felt like his mind was about to explode.
He suddenly understood what kind of sword this was!
This was not a sword of punishing evil, but a true Sword of Kings!
In front of this Sword of Kings, no lust or desire could survive!
Ishinishidu had made the wrong judgment about this sword, merely treating it as some rare sword of immense might, resulting in his death. Bagushidu had also not understood the nature of this sword, so if he dared to test its might, he would die just like his predecessor.
There was no such thing as a perfect human. Everyone had their flaws and weaknesses! What was most important was for this sword to sense one’s integrity and righteousness!
The Origin Immortal Lord had not left this sword behind to guard this lightless world. His goal was to have the sword choose those people with true integrity and compassion. This was why those two chains existed rather than being cut down.
He was helping this sword choose its next master.
Boom!
As Wang Chong’s thoughts turned, the mental world also began to undergo a heaven-shaking transformation, thunder booming and the fog seething. Suddenly, with a mighty crash, the mountainous pressure on Wang Chong’s body disappeared.
Several words began to emerge on the surface of the golden sword, written in a bold and flourishing style: ‘Benevolence, Righteousness, Courtesy, Wisdom, Modesty’.
These words penetrated straight into his mind.
Buzz!
Wang Chong suddenly stood up, his eyes shining as brightly as the stars. He knew what he had to do now. He completely opened up his heart and let his hopes and desires run free.
He had experienced death and disaster and come back to life for the sake of the world and its people, so that civilization could continue to thrive for all eternity.
He would reveal all his thoughts to the world!
No desire or wish would be concealed!
……
Wang Chong slowly closed his eyes and opened his mind. The scenes from his last life, the mountains crumbling and the riverbeds cracking, the burning flames, the corpses of the people… various hellish sights surged from his mind into the divine sword.
His life was worth as much as an ant compared to that of the world itself!
If the divine sword had a soul, he requested its assistance!
Buzz!
A moment later, those thousands of golden swords shooting at Wang Chong froze in the air. Clang! The bent chain that was viciously swaying in the wind was pulled straight as a ramrod by some bizarre strength.
The fog ceased to churn and the winds died away. Golden light erupted as the fog parted, revealing the Origin Immortal Sword that had hitherto remained hidden, now exuding a grandiose and majestic energy.
Bagushidu instantly grimaced, and he suddenly had an ill foreboding.
Swoosh!
While Bagushidu was still shocked and confused, Wang Chong, who had been in grave peril just moments ago, shot like a lightning bolt toward the other end of the chains.
“Wang Chong, halt!” Bagushidu’s roar resounded through the space.
The last trial left by the Origin Immortal Lord had been fraught with danger, and even Bagushidu felt it would be hard to overcome. This was why he had used Wang Chong as a sacrifice. Although he said that he hoped that Wang Chong would take the divine sword for him, Bagushidu had never believed that it was possible.
The distant Wang Chong didn’t seem to hear, and he continued to plunge forward. The end of the chain wasn’t far now.
“Halt!” Bagushidu once more called out, his voice tinged with fury and concern. But Wang Chong cared not.
It’s all up to this move!
Wang Chong raised his head, his eyes bright.
Bagushidu would never let him go. Wang Chong had known this from the very start.
Whether it was to complete his deal with Ozmish Khagan and remove this great calamity for the Eastern Turks or to obtain the divine sword, Bagushidu would never let him live.
If he continued charging forward, he might have a chance to survive, but if he obeyed Bagushidu, he would end up tightly held in the hands of his foe. He would be like a drowning man being pushed under the waters to
descend into the abyss.
More importantly…
Just now, after obtaining the acknowledgment of the divine sword, Wang Chong felt like he had formed a connection with it.
Moreover, just now, Wang Chong sensed that the energy of the Origin Immortal Sword Formation had begun to flow into his body, restoring his nearly exhausted reserves.
Wang Chong’s dried-up dantian began to rapidly recover, as did Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy.
But what shocked Wang Chong the most was the divine sword’s suppression of Bagushidu’s strength.
The black Stellar Energy Bagushidu had sent into his body was sinister and cold, and it was brimming with the savagery of a wolf of the Turkic steppe. But this kind of negative energy was exactly what the Sword of Kings naturally countered. Wang Chong sensed that as he got closer to the sword, the black Stellar Energy Bagushidu used to control his body grew that much weaker.
Wang Chong immediately understood that the sword at the end of these chains was his only hope of escaping Bagushidu!
The last section!
Wang Chong looked at the other side. All the flying swords had already stopped now that he had obtained the recognition of the divine sword, completely ignoring Wang Chong. This was unprecedented in the history of the Origin Immortal Treasury. At this moment, Wang Chong could finally see the divine sword.
Swoosh!
Wang Chong made a leap, rising into the air like a dragon as he moved from the chain to the fog-shrouded altar. In front of the altar loomed the mighty figure of the first-generation successor, standing there like a god. But even more dazzling was the Origin Immortal Sword thrust into the ground before him.
Wang Chong reached out and grabbed onto the hilt of the Origin Immortal Sword.
Far in the back, Bagushidu nastily scowled. Earlier, Bagushidu had comforted himself by believing that Wang Chong had truly not heard him under all the pressure he was facing, but when Wang Chong stepped onto the altar and gripped the sword, he understood that all of it had been intentional.
There was no question that Wang Chong had betrayed him.
He was no longer under Bagushidu’s control.
“Fool! King of Foreign Lands, you’re seeking death!”
Bagushidu’s pupils constricted and his face turned as cold as winter. What did it matter how intelligent he was? Did he really think that he could escape Bagushidu’s control just by getting across the chains? How ignorant!
Crack!
Bagushidu’s fingers closed together, the cracking of his joints echoing through the abyss.
The moment his fingers closed together, the same moment Wang Chong gripped the Origin Immortal Sword, Bagushidu activated his supreme sealing art of the Earth Sect, the Dark Moon’s Flame!
Bang!
The black seal buried deep in Wang Chong’s body began to blaze like a wildfire.
“Get out of my way!”
Sensing the black flames within him, Wang Chong gripped the Origin Immortal Sword’s hilt and pulled with all his strength, hoping to remove this divine sword that seemed to weigh as much as a mountain.
Chapter 1518 - Vitalizing Ember!
Chapter 1518: Vitalizing Ember!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Rumble!
As Wang Chong pulled on the Origin Immortal Sword, a shaking came from the deepest depths of the earth. Far above, the dome of the cavern sent down countless large chunks of rock and dirt, and even pieces of the metal ore vein. One of the large slabs fell on the chain and immediately caused it to fiercely sway.
For a moment, it felt like the underground world was on the verge of collapsing.
“What’s going on? What happened?”
Crssh! Crash! In another part of the caves, as dirt and dust fell from overhead, a group of focused and nervous martial artists raised their heads. One by one, they began to look in shock at the direction of the shaking.
“How could there be such major shaking? What in the world happened?”
At the same time, in another part of the caves, several evil path experts also looked up in shock and alarm. This vibration was simply too powerful, like the caves were about to come down and bury them here. No martial arts technique could possibly be capable of this.
“Haha, the Origin Immortal Art, it must be the Origin Immortal Art! Someone must have found it! Let’s go!”
In a third place in the caves, a martial artist seemed to understand something, and before his comrades could react, he began to shoot toward the source of the vibrations.
Buzz!
Within the underground palace, the world was swaying and dust was falling from the ceiling. Boom! Crash! A thick metal pillar collapsed, crashing to the floor in a cloud of dust. The Righteous Alliance party instantly came to a stop.
“Alliance Lord?”
Everyone looked toward the man at the very front, Righteous Alliance Lord Song Yuanyi.
Song Yuanyi said nothing, only turned toward the source of the shaking. In a rare moment, the usually unperturbed righteous path leader slightly frowned.
“It seems like someone has already gotten there!” The familiar voice of Vice Alliance Lord Xie Guangting came from the back, and the man himself walked up to stand together with Song Yuanyi.
“The underground palace is guarded by the six generations of the Origin Immortal Lord’s disciples, and the entire journey is fraught with challenges. What sort of person would be able to advance with such speed?”
Xie Guangting’s brow was tightly furrowed and his expression was solemn. Many experts had gathered in the northwest and the Righteous Alliance had almost fully mobilized its forces, but they had still not been able to obtain the Origin Immortal Art. This was a major setback for the Righteous Alliance!
“I hope it’s not him!”
This was all that Song Yuanyi said, but his words caused Xie Guangting to pale. Before anything else could be said, Song Yuanyi vanished as he rushed forward.
“Let’s go! No matter what price we must pay, we have to force our way through!”
“Someone must have found the Origin Immortal Art! Let’s go!”
Anxious shouts echoed through the palace. At the same time as Song Yuanyi was leading his group of Righteous Alliance experts charging at the core, the Black Yin Ancestor had transformed into his black dragon form and was bellowing as he led the way. Behind him was a massive bone devil and numerous Five Ancestor Alliance experts.
The Five Ancestor Alliance had lost many experts to the dangers of the underground palace, but they could no longer worry about such things. If they did not obtain the Supreme and Infinite Origin Immortal Art, they would have come to this place for nothing, and all those deaths would have been in vain.
Most importantly, the martial arts titans of the evil path could never countenance someone stealing treasure from right under their eyes.
Rumble! The group swiftly vanished into the passages as they rapidly made their way toward Wang Chong’s group.
At this moment, anyone in this underground world who was able to feel the vibrations cast aside everything else to rush toward it.
Wang Chong was completely unaware of these developments, unaware that his pulling of the sword had driven everyone mad.
“Yield to me!”
At this time, Wang Chong was completely focused on the sword before him. When he had exerted his strength, the entire world had shaken, and Wang Chong sensed that he was not pulling on the sword, but the world itself.
Bang!
After a seemingly interminable second, Wang Chong once more exerted his strength, the veins on his entire body bulging. Finally, with a massive boom, the ground cracked and the sword emerged in an explosion of golden light.
The moment he pulled out the sword, an immense tide of energy traveled from the divine sword into Wang Chong’s body.
Pop! Bang! This righteous, solemn, and dignified energy from an ancient era flowed through Wang Chong’s meridians a
nd rushed into his dantian, extinguishing the energy Bagushidu had hidden within him in one fell swoop.
Not even a peak Great General was able to withstand the power of Bagushidu’s Dark Moon’s Flame. In the history of the Earth Sect, numerous peerless experts had died to this supreme sealing art. But in the face of the majestic and righteous energy of the Origin Immortal Sword, this energy melted away like snow before the scorching sun.
Moreover, as the immense energy surged through him, it nourished his every cell and meridian, restoring the energy he had previously consumed.
This energy was different from any other energy Wang Chong had encountered. While similar to the Origin Immortal Stellar Energy, it was even denser.
And while the Origin Immortal Stellar Energy was entirely gold, the divine sword’s energy was gold tinged with violet, and it exuded a divine aura.
And what shocked Wang Chong the most…
When this energy surged into Wang Chong’s body, it obliterated all the thousands of different kinds of energy absorbed by the Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art, annihilating them in a single blow.
One had to realize that Wang Chong’s cultivation defect had been caused by the thousands of different kinds of energy in his body clashing against each other. But as the divine sword’s energy flowed into his body, the problem of mixed energies that had burdened Wang Chong for so long was instantly resolved.
This also meant that Wang Chong’s cultivation defect had been completely cured!
“Wonderful!”
Wang Chong was ecstatic upon realizing this, almost not daring to believe his senses.
Without this internal problem, he could once more use his peak strength, perhaps be even stronger than before.
Wang Chong was now in perfect condition.
But Wang Chong had far more to be shocked and surprised about.
“You’re finally here!”
At this moment, a deep voice resounded in Wang Chong’s ear, one tinged with dignity, respect, and a deep relief.
Bang!
The sound of a knee striking the floor echoed in his ear, and then Wang Chong realized in shock that the imposing figure of the first-generation successor had gotten down on his knees and lowered his proud head.
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