147: Chapter 147 Palm Print

A giant golden palm obscured the sky; Laws were imprisoned, and space was compressed.

Every living being within Startling Thunder Canyon was as insignificant as dust before that power.

This was the absolute suppression belonging to an Immortal King's Domain.

An indifferent expression hung on Venerable Scarlet Gold's face, as if he had already pronounced the final verdict.

Facing that world-destroying palm print, Bai Yu pushed the god unification pill to its limit, pouring the entire torrent of power gathered from the wills of fifteen people into the true immortal sword.

He intended to use this castle in the air to clash head-on with a god.

However, at the very moment he was about to strike with his sword—

Hum!

The true immortal sword trembled violently, letting out not a clear sword chime, but a dull, suppressed wail.

On the sword's body, the tiny crack left behind after the battle with the upper realm heavenly dao suddenly expanded!

A wisp of ink-colored light, deeper than the Void Realm and purer than the night, seeped out from the crack.

That was not light, but a pure "nothingness," an "Oblivion" will capable of devouring all things and obliterating Laws.

Alarm bells rang wildly in Bai Yu's heart.

Something was wrong!

As soon as this power appeared, instead of bolstering his sword intent, it acted like a greedy black hole, beginning to frantically devour the massive power gathered within him by the god unification pill!

"Pfft!"

Below the canyon, Medicine Not So's face turned pale instantly as a mouthful of heart's blood sprayed out, and his whole being withered.

"Master! The power is draining! No, it's being devoured!" His voice carried unprecedented terror.

Immediately after, Chu Han, Gu Dusheng, Lin Tian... all the Disciples connected to Bai Yu's Divine Soul were struck as if by lightning, their faces turning deathly pale, their auras decaying at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The power of the god unification pill was being ruthlessly stolen by the true immortal sword!

"What's happening?!" Bai Wuji forced himself to remain standing, staring fixedly at the mutating sword in his Master's hand in mid-air.

That sword, which had accompanied his Master all this way, now seemed like an awakening ancient Vicious Beast, devouring all of their lives!

"Hahahaha... Borrowed power is ultimately a tower of sand, unable to withstand a single blow!"

Seeing this, Venerable Scarlet Gold let out a mocking laugh, increasing the downward pressure of the giant palm by another thirty percent.

Bai Yu's eyes were bloodshot; he could clearly feel the Divine Soul links with his Disciples being forcibly torn and crushed by a tyrannical power.

He tried to cut off the spiritual power supply to the true immortal sword, but was horrified to find his hand seemingly welded to the hilt, unable to break free.

This sword was turning on its Master!

"Get... away from me!"

Bai Yu roared, his Divine Soul power transforming into a sharp blade, viciously slashing at the connection point with the hilt.

At that very moment, the ink-colored light completely erupted.

It was no longer a wisp, but a black sun rising steadily from the crack in the true immortal sword.

The moment the black sun rose into the sky, an aura more ancient, more domineering, and more unreasonable than Venerable Scarlet Gold's Immortal King pressure swept across the heavens!

The black sun ignored Bai Yu, instead splitting into two pitch-black chains.

One met the giant golden palm that covered the sky.

The other actually wound directly around the sword light Bai Yu was about to unleash, which was fused with the power of annihilation!

Boom! Crack!

The giant golden palm collided with the black chain, producing a sound like shattering glass.

That supreme strike from a quasi-Immortal King, sufficient to suppress an entire Lower Realm, was actually pierced through with a hole by that seemingly slender chain! The golden light quickly dimmed and collapsed!

On the other side, Bai Yu's sword light, capable of slaying a Peak Immortal Venerable, was also tightly bound by the black chain, dissolving inch by inch without even causing a ripple.

"What on earth is this thing?!"

The indifference and mockery on Venerable Scarlet Gold's face froze instantly, replaced by extreme shock and a hint of fear he hadn't even noticed himself.

He had lived for fifty thousand years and had never seen such strange, such domineering power!

That power did not belong to immortals, did not belong to gods, and certainly did not belong to the Heavenly Dao!

It seemed to transcend all things, viewing everything as food!

Within the black sun, a blurry figure loomed, and a voice—ancient, raspy, as if awakening from an eternal slumber—echoed deep within everyone's Divine Soul, carrying endless weariness and disdain:

"Ants from two different eras, you dare to... fight for the Mandate of Heaven before me?"

Two eras?

Bai Yu's heart shook violently.

What did that mean?

He had no time to think, for after the black sun devoured the attacks from both sides, it became even more solid. It suddenly contracted, then exploded!

"Pfft!"

Ten thousand feet away, Venerable Scarlet Gold was heavily struck, spitting out a large mouthful of golden blood; his figure staggered, and his aura instantly became chaotic.

He had actually had his Origin directly injured by the aftershock!

And Bai Yu, at the center of the storm, endured an even more terrifying impact.

The link of the god unification pill was brutally torn apart, and the backlash from the fifteen Divine Souls surged into his body like a landslide and tsunami.

His Meridians were shattered!

His Divine Soul was torn!

Bai Yu's vision went black, and he fell straight from mid-air, his white robes stained red with blood, while the true immortal sword flew out of his hand.

"Master!"

Bai Wuji and the others were filled with grief and rage, rushing forward recklessly.

The true immortal sword that had left his hand hovered in mid-air.

The cracks on the sword's body had spread across the entire blade, as dense as a spiderweb.

The black sun slowly contracted, burrowing back into the sword, but the leaking ink-colored aura transformed into a pitch-black hand that gripped the hilt.

It was as if an invisible entity had taken hold of the sword.

"true immortal sword... Heh, what a ridiculous name."

The ancient voice rang out again, with a hint of self-mockery.

"This sword shall be named... heaven slasher."

As the words fell, the black hand holding the crack-covered true immortal sword casually swung it toward the chaotic group below who had just caught Bai Yu.

There was no sword light, no Sword Qi.

Everyone only felt their vision go dark, as if all light and sound in the world had been completely stripped away at that moment.

An irresistible shadow of death, originating from the deepest depths of the Soul, enveloped everyone.

In this moment of despair, a familiar yet helpless voice rang out above the Heavenly Sword Sect, sounding as if it came across endless time and space.

"Sigh... I knew it."

From the Void Realm, a hand abruptly reached out—not large, yet it seemed to encompass the entire world.

That hand did not move to block the certain-kill strike, but instead gave a gentle flick.

The time and space of the entire Startling Thunder Canyon seemed like plucked harp strings, undergoing a momentary displacement.

The trajectory of the heaven slasher's swing missed the position of Bai Yu and the others by a hair's breadth.

The sword's edge missed, striking empty space.

That patch of empty space was slashed with an unhealable, pitch-black wound flowing with Chaos.

"Lord of the Void?"

The black hand holding the sword paused for a moment, and for the first time, a hint of gravity entered that ancient voice.

"You intend to interfere as well?"

The figure of the Void slowly stepped out from that hand. He glanced at the unconscious Bai Yu and the heavily injured crowd below, then at the distant, uncertain-faced Venerable Scarlet Gold, before finally letting his gaze fall upon the hovering heaven slasher.

He sighed, his face showing unprecedented seriousness.

"I am not interfering."

Looking at the sword, the Void said word by word.

"I am here... to close the door."