Celestial Dragon Sword Venerable-Chapter 164: This Is So Embarrassing
"This is the Heaven-Slaying Spirit Sword, an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact that can both protect and kill. I normally disdain using a weapon, but unfortunately—you’re too strong! To die by this sword, Ye Tianling, should be an honor. You can die smiling in your grave."
Holding the sword, Xia Xinyan was no longer on the back foot. She looked as if she hadn’t been injured at all. Instead, she became incredibly transcendent, her aura incomparably void spirit and restrained.
An air of peerless invincibility and solitary supremacy materialized, almost tangible.
Ye Tianling’s heart turned grim. Without further hesitation, he gathered his Talent with his Dragon Blood and infused it into the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword as the obsession in his heart reached its zenith.
’Only absorb thirty percent of my Talent and Dragon Soul!’
Ye Tianling focused his obsession to its absolute limit and viciously slashed out with the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword.
It was his best trump card yet again—the Celestial Evil Heaven-Breaking Annihilation Dao.
And it was still executed in the style of the Tree Cutting Technique—the Panhuang Life and Death Killing Dao.
In that instant, the world went dark.
Everything around them seemed to fall into a state of absolute, deathly silence.
The very air seemed to freeze solid.
Not a sound could be heard.
Ye Tianling’s bloodline abruptly withered and fell silent.
CRACK—
Just then, the Imprisonment on the eleventh level of the Space-Time Soul-locking Tower between Ye Tianling’s eyebrows broke open. The tower suddenly became scorching hot, its Energy flaring to life.
BOOM—
The Dragon Blood and Dragon Soul Energy from ten levels all converged, only to be devoured in a single gulp by the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword.
Even though Ye Tianling had focused his obsession to its limit, this Devouring still cost him over seventy percent of his Dragon Soul Energy and bloodline foundation.
Without the amplification of Divinity, and since it wasn’t a complete Devouring, not to mention his Dragon Soul’s foundation was already heavily depleted, the lethality of his Celestial Evil Heaven-Breaking Annihilation Dao was nowhere near the killing power he’d used to slay Long Tianxiao.
It lacked the divine essence of Sword Dao God.
It lacked the devastating storm that could sunder heavens and slaughter earth in a single strike.
But even so, when the sword struck, Xia Xinyan was completely powerless to resist.
Her sword had just unleashed a strike that seemed capable of Breaking Dao, a blow that contained nearly one hundred and thirty percent of her Battle Power.
Yet when faced with Ye Tianling’s attack, she still couldn’t defend against it.
SHLICK—
Her three-meter-long Heaven-Slaying Spirit Sword, an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact, was struck head-on. The Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword pierced straight through it, from tip to hilt.
Its momentum unbroken, the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword continued on toward Xia Xinyan’s chest.
THWACK—
Xia Xinyan’s body was run through, the immense force shattering the better part of her flesh.
Three layers of blood-red light erupted from her body, and the Energy of six Guardian Prohibition Talismans manifested simultaneously to envelop her, but they still failed to stop the blow.
"Ptoo—"
Xia Xinyan coughed up blood again and again. Her body was almost completely mangled, and her Dantian had suffered a fatal blow.
But in the instant she was sent flying, she activated a Blood-Colored Token.
The Blood-Colored Token shot out an azure ray of light, which formed an azure halo in the void.
Her figure flew directly inside.
It all happened too fast.
She had used the Attack and Kill Power of Ye Tianling’s Celestial Evil Heaven-Breaking Annihilation Dao to fling herself backward, escaping with incredible speed.
Ye Tianling didn’t give chase.
After Xia Xinyan escaped, his hand began to tremble violently. The skin all over it split open, and blood gushed out uncontrollably.
Forcibly controlling the Celestial Evil Heaven-Breaking Annihilation Dao resulted in this kind of destructive injury, which was even more terrifying than a backlash.
Although he had only expended eighty percent of his power and had a little left in reserve, the outcome was far from optimistic.
"Ptoo—"
Ye Tianling spat out another mouthful of blood. He was completely drained, as if he were carrying a heavy mountain on his back. He could barely stand and was on the verge of collapsing to his knees.
’If every Saint Son and Saintess is like this... just how difficult will this path of Cultivation be?’
Ye Tianling sighed. This had been a huge blow to him.
After all, he had been so arrogant before, thinking that all the so-called geniuses in the world were idiots and that he was the only badass around.
Now it seemed that the Cultivators he had met before were not true geniuses.
Or perhaps his own level had been too low, and he had only ever encountered bottom-tier cultivators, leading him to form a deeply flawed perception.
’The circles you move in really are important, as is having an accurate read on your own strength!’
Ye Tianling muttered to himself, then circulated the Returning Butterfly Cocoon Technique to recover some of his strength.
He then circulated the Muscle Strengthening Scripture and other Cultivation Techniques, using them in conjunction with his powerful Sword Venerate Dominating Body to heal.
Roughly half an hour later, Ye Tianling had recovered nearly thirty percent of his strength.
He got to his feet, activated the defensive power of his Ice Spirit Armor, and prepared to find Wan Xuegui. But first, he decided to check on the condition of that "dead rat."
After all, it was because of him that the poor rat had been suppressed in a latrine.
...
「Blood Killing Heaven. The Blood Sea Plain.」
When Xia Xinyan’s figure materialized, she was already wearing a blood-red gauze dress.
She looked completely unharmed, without a single speck of blood on her.
But her face, pale as paper, was proof enough that her very Origin had been wounded.
"You failed, didn’t you?"
A blood-red figure materialized before her.
"Yes, Master. This disciple was incompetent."
Xia Xinyan’s pretty face was filled with dejection, and her eyes had lost some of their Spiritual light.
The woman who was once as proud and aloof as an Ice Mountain Snow Woman was no longer so confident.
"Ye Tianling... Ye Fengyang... In fact, information about Ye Tianling’s identity has pretty much been revealed. I was watching your battle from afar and can now fully confirm it."
The blood-red figure solidified, revealing a stunningly beautiful woman with an enchanting figure.
"Master, do you mean... that boy with the Innate Deficiency... has some extraordinary background?"
Xia Xinyan’s heart trembled slightly as she asked.
"Heh. Something happened recently. The First Saint Son of the Cyan Dragon Lineage, Long Tianxiao, was killed. The one who supposedly took action was the Cyan Dragon Saintess, Long Tianyu. However, there’s something fishy about the whole affair."
The beautiful woman said softly.
A look of confusion appeared in Xia Xinyan’s eyes.
"You grew tremendously in this battle, and it was an excellent way to hone your Battle Power. You should go fight him more in the future. If you end up developing feelings for him from all that fighting, even better. This Ye Tianling is worth getting to know!"
The beautiful woman said with a light chuckle.
"Ah—Master, you..."
Xia Xinyan’s pretty face flushed slightly. She couldn’t help but recall Ye Tianling’s incredibly handsome face after he broke out of the cocoon and restored his original appearance, and her heart skipped a beat.
"What’s the big deal? Didn’t he ask you to blow for him? So go blow."
The beautiful woman smiled, her eyes curving into crescents. She actually looked rather charming and cute.
"Master—!"
Xia Xinyan whined, her face burning hot with embarrassment.
’Did Master see and hear everything from the battle earlier?’
’This... This is just too humiliating.’
’And what’s even more humiliating is, how could you say something so... so shameless, Master?’
