A sword howl shook the heavens.
From the smooth cut on the dragon skeleton’s neck, a streak of purple sword qi suddenly emerged.
In the next instant, Old Nine’s finger jerked back as though he had glimpsed something utterly horrifying.
“It really is you!”
Shock, fear, and fury filled Old Nine’s voice.
“Old Nine, who is it?” Ye Qiu asked.
“You will meet him sooner or later.” As Old Nine finished speaking, a line of characters appeared on the smooth cut at the dragon skeleton’s neck.
These characters were neither seal script nor demonic script. They formed an extraordinarily strange script, twisting like dragons and serpents, yet containing astonishing divinity.
“Bloody hell, what script is this? This poor Daoist has never seen it before!” the Long-browed Real Person cried out.
Ye Qiu stared fixedly at the line of characters.
Strangely, the moment he saw them, he recognised them at once and read softly, “Those who obey me prosper, those who defy me perish. A mere dragon dares to proclaim itself emperor!”
Having read the words, chills ran through Ye Qiu’s entire body.
“This is what the line says?”
The Long-browed Real Person said discontentedly, “What sort of person speaks with such arrogance? Anyone who did not know better would think he is the lord of heaven and earth.”
Old Nine said gravely, “You are not wrong. He is the lord.”
At these words, the Long-browed Real Person froze in shock and asked, “Ninth Master, could the one who killed the Dragon Emperor be the Heavenly Dao?”
“The Heavenly Dao?” Old Nine’s severed arm pointed towards the sky, his words thick with disdain. “The Heavenly Dao is merely a bully that fears the strong. Even the Heavenly Dao would not dare act recklessly before him.”
Good heavens!
The Long-browed Real Person was so stunned his eyeballs nearly fell out. He thought: if even the Heavenly Dao dares not provoke that person, who exactly is he?
Ye Qiu too felt profound shock and could not help asking, “Old Nine…”
He had only just spoken when Old Nine continued.
“Legend has it that billions of years ago, a supreme being of boundless mana wielded a divine axe and split open the heavens to create the earth.”
“Thus, the Six Realms came into existence.”
“The Six Realms are the Human Realm, Demon Realm, Devil Realm, Buddhist Realm, Underworld Realm, and Divine Realm!”
“For a very long time, the Six Realms coexisted peacefully. But later, the Divine Realm conquered the other five realms through overwhelming military might. From then on, the Divine Realm stood supreme among the Six Realms, and all beings in the other five realms became slaves.”
“The Divine Realm enslaved the five realms for an extremely long period. They held absolute power over life and death, lording high above while the five realms suffered unspeakably.”
“Much later, for reasons unknown, civil strife broke out within the Divine Realm.”
“It is said that someone rebelled against the Divine Realm, severed the ancient starry path, and used supreme methods to seal away the Divine Realm, cutting off all contact between it and the five realms.”
“Yet, to prevent the rise of numerous powerful cultivators in the five realms who might one day seek vengeance against the Divine Realm, powerhouses of the Divine Realm placed a curse upon the five realms. This is why, across countless tens of thousands of years in the cultivation world, only one Great Emperor emerges.”
“From that time onward, the five realms experienced rebirth.”
“All escaped the control of the Divine Realm, developed independently, and coexisted peacefully once more for a very long period…”
Zheng! Zheng!
Suddenly, heaven-shaking sword chants rang out again from the line of characters. Each character resembled a divine sword radiating sacred light.
The might was overwhelming.
Ye Qiu’s expression grew solemn.
He had never imagined that a mere line of text could emit such powerful sword dao will.
Ye Qiu could tell that the sword intent radiating from the characters could easily slay cultivators at the Divine Connection realm.
Remember that this line had remained here for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, yet even now it retained such terrifying power. It was simply inconceivable.
Ye Qiu and the Long-browed Real Person simultaneously retreated a considerable distance.
“Little brat, the person who wrote these characters is no ordinary figure!” The Long-browed Real Person narrowed his eyes and stared at the text. “The characters contain extremely strong sword intent. Clearly, the writer was a sword dao powerhouse.”
“Nonsense!” Ye Qiu replied. “Could someone capable of slaying a Dragon Emperor be ordinary?”
Boom!
At that moment, heaven and earth trembled. Strands of sword qi burst from the characters, forming a dazzling curtain of light.
Then, around the edges of this sword qi curtain, golden lotuses bloomed one after another.
Around these golden lotuses appeared clusters of dense purple qi filled with noble aura.
“Zheng!”
With a sword cry, the purple qi instantly transformed. The Black Tortoise roared to the heavens, the Vermilion Bird spread its wings…
All manner of phenomena manifested.
Ye Qiu and the Long-browed Real Person paled dramatically.
They had never expected a single line of text to produce so many phenomena. It was truly terrifying.
“Good heavens, who exactly wrote these characters?”
The Long-browed Real Person shouted.
Boom!
At that instant, a streak of sword qi burst from the characters, shattering the light curtain and extinguishing every phenomenon.
This seemed less like sword intent and more like a terrifying divine spirit.
The sword intent soared skyward.
Nothing could stand in its way.
It was not merely sword intent. It also carried a belief in absolute supremacy under heaven.
From this sword intent, Ye Qiu sensed an unparalleled domineering aura that severed all ages.
He had once felt such domineering aura from his father, Ye Wushuang, yet the sword intent before him was billions of times more powerful than his father’s.
Ye Qiu realised anew that the person who left these characters was not only the slayer of the Dragon Emperor, but an utterly invincible existence.
Gradually, the streak of sword qi evolved into eight large characters.
Still in that same strange script.
“Little brat, what do they say?” the Long-browed Real Person asked.
Ye Qiu drew a deep breath and answered, “Across the Six Realms of the world, I alone reign supreme!”
Golden light blazed brilliantly, swallowing mountains and rivers.
This was an invincible conviction!
“Ninth Master, you surely know who left these characters, do you not?” the Long-browed Real Person asked.
Before Old Nine could reply, he suddenly noticed Ye Qiu staring fixedly at the eight large characters, his eyes blazing with battle intent.
“Kid, pretend you saw nothing. Do not try to challenge it,” Old Nine warned urgently.
Yet Ye Qiu could not.
At this moment, he felt his blood boiling uncontrollably. The Nine Revolutions Divine Dragon Art activated on its own, and a layer of brilliant golden PROCED golden light appeared across his body.
“What is happening to you?” Old Nine sensed something wrong.
“I do not know. I cannot control it.” Vast battle intent rose from Ye Qiu. He wished to clash against the invincible conviction within those eight characters.
Perhaps sensing the provocation, the eight characters seemed to awaken like divine spirits, abruptly erupting with immense sword intent.
“Boom!”
Ye Qiu held nothing back.
Or rather, he simply could not restrain the operation of the Nine Revolutions Divine Dragon Art. Intense battle intent now radiated from him as well.
Instantly, the sword intent from the eight characters grew even more terrifying.
For reasons unknown, hatred suddenly surged in Ye Qiu’s heart, as though the writer of those characters shared an irreconcilable enmity with him. Unable to hold back any longer, hatred mingled with fierce battle intent as he threw a punch.
Old Nine leapt in alarm. “This is bad…”
