458: Sword Thirteen's shock!

Su Ming didn't expect this.

The existence he once fought to the death and viewed as the ultimate threat,

in the eyes of the Immortal Sword Manor, was actually something deliberately left behind just to maintain balance.

This huge gap in perception made it difficult for him to digest for a moment.

Sword Thirteen ignored everyone's astonishment and continued.

"To cut off the shortcut for the Eerie Clan's army, Revered Master personally destroyed the Realm Teleportation Array of the Vast Immortal Domain many years ago."

"Now, if the Eerie Clan wants to descend on a large scale, there is only one way—crossing the Chaos Void."

He pointed at his feet, then at the pitch-black abyss above their heads.

"That is why Revered Master takes our Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters to guard the Outer Heaven all year round."

"That is the only gap, and also the final line of defense."

"As long as there is still one person standing in the Immortal Sword Manor, those filthy things can forget about stepping foot into the Immortal Realm."

Su Ming listened from the side, breaking into a cold sweat.

"Are those corpses outside all those who tried to sneak in from the Outer Heaven?"

"So, the entrance to the Outer Heaven is right here?"

Hearing this, Sword Thirteen revealed a meaningful smile.

"This Abyss Fissure is the entrance from the Vast Immortal Domain to the Outer Heaven!"

"The Immortal Sword Manor exists specifically to guard these entrances!"

After hearing this, Su Ming immediately realized something.

"In the Vast Immortal Domain, are there a total of three entrances to the Outer Heaven?"

Sword Thirteen nodded.

"Correct!"

"The other two are guarded by Hundred Herb Valley and Tidal Pavilion respectively."

Lin Tian, who was nearby, gasped upon hearing this.

He looked at Sword Thirteen and asked in a deep voice.

"Since the situation is so tense, why not unite all the forces in the Vast Immortal Domain?

"Wouldn't it be better to have everyone contribute together than for your three families to hold on alone?"

Sword Thirteen laughed until his shoulders shook, as if he had heard a great joke.

"Tell them?"

"Tell those fellows who are busy with internal strife all day, fighting until their heads bleed for a few resources?"

"You overestimate the human heart."

"They have grown accustomed to their current comfortable lives and are unwilling to take action!"

"And the juniors with lower Realms don't even know the truth about the Vast Immortal Domain, wholeheartedly viewing the Eerie Clan within the Immortal Realm as the threat."

Speaking to this point,

the sharp edge in Sword Thirteen's eyes faded, replaced by a deep sense of powerlessness.

"In this current weird era, even if we gathered all the power of the Immortal Realm, what could we do?"

"As strong as the Cangmang Dao Palace was back then, it vanished into ashes overnight. How much stronger can our Immortal Sword Manor be compared to it?"

His voice wasn't loud, but it felt like a giant boulder weighing on everyone's hearts.

The atmosphere instantly became much heavier.

These words caused everyone's hope to be instantly extinguished.

A deathly silence.

So quiet that one could hear a pin drop.

After a long time,

Sword Thirteen took a deep breath, and his cloudy eyes became clear again.

"Let's not talk about this anymore."

He waved his hand, his gaze sweeping over Su Ming's group.

"Tell me about yourselves. Why did you come to my Immortal Sword Manor?"

Hearing this, Su Ming let out a long sigh, showing his exhaustion.

"We offended the Nine Heavens Immortal Sect and are now being hunted by them across the entire Immortal Realm."

Subsequently, Su Ming briefly and concisely explained how Su Qingyuan possessed the Xuantian Glazed Saint Body, was coveted by an Elder of the Nine Heavens Immortal Sect, and had been fleeing all the way.

As Sword Thirteen listened, his cloudy eyes turned to the silent Su Qingyuan. After examining her for a moment, he suddenly let out a sneer.

"Snatching someone's Dao Bone... this kind of thing is indeed something that group of hypocrites from the Nine Heavens Immortal Sect would do."

The disdain in his tone was undisguised.

"But you can rest assured."

Sword Thirteen's tone shifted.

"Once you enter the gates of my Immortal Sword Manor, the hands of that Nine Heavens Immortal Sect won't be able to reach this far!"

These words caused the tense nerves of Su Ming and the others to relax slightly.

"However..."

Sword Thirteen's voice suddenly turned cold. The previously easygoing atmosphere instantly froze, and an invisible pressure as sharp as a sword's edge pressed down on them.

"I must put the unpleasant words first!"

"Once you enter the Sect, from then on, your enemy will no longer be a mere Nine Heavens Immortal Sect, but the Eerie Clan!"

"In the future, every one of you will have to go to the Outer Heaven and use your own lives to protect the Vast Immortal Domain behind you!"

His gaze swept across everyone one by one, as if examining whether they could carry this heavy fate.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Wushuang took a sudden step forward, making a dull thud on the floor.

"No problem!"

He clenched his fists tightly, his eyes filled with a hatred that could burn everything.

"My life is kept specifically to kill all the Weird!"

"All my motivation to Cultivate is to avenge Sister Yaoyao!"

At that moment, Sword Thirteen's gaze suddenly narrowed.

He stared intently at Ye Wushuang, as if trying to see right through him.

The faint Battle Aura on him couldn't hide from his eyes at all.

"This is... the Battle Saint Body?"

For the first time, a violent fluctuation appeared on Sword Thirteen's face.

It was as if he had discovered some peerless treasure, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Haha! Good! Excellent!"

While laughing, he circled Ye Wushuang twice, clicking his tongue in wonder.

"My goodness, the Battle Saint Body, a saint body that appears only once in ten thousand years, and I actually encountered it!"

"Wait... this is? Have I stumbled upon a nest of Geniuses?"

His gaze swept back and forth across Su Ming's group.

Finally, his gaze suddenly fixed on Ye Chuxue, the smile on his face not diminishing at all.

"This... there's also a Taiyin Body here?!"

"And this is the Immortal Eyes?"

...Sword Thirteen's mouth was practically grinning from ear to ear now.

The way he looked at Su Ming and the others was like looking at several golden buddhas.

"Good, good, good!"

"You will stay in the manor and Cultivate peacefully for the coming days."

"Things like Cultivation resources might be scarce in other Sects, but here, we have more than enough!"

"I'll go to the Outer Heaven now to inform Revered Master about this and let the old man have a good laugh too."

Sword Thirteen chuckled. Before Su Ming could say a few words of courtesy, the Void Realm trembled slightly.

His entire being transformed into a streak of sword light and instantly disappeared from everyone's sight.

In the days that followed,

Su Ming and the others Cultivated peacefully within the Immortal Sword Manor.

Zhuge Qing also told everyone that the deduction from the Nine Heavens Immortal Sect had disappeared.

This let them know that the Nine Heavens Immortal Sect could not deduce their location and thus did not dare to come looking for them.

After learning this news,

Su Ming and the others breathed a complete sigh of relief.

Just like that, everyone Cultivated within the Immortal Sword Manor for eight years.

After eight years of peaceful Cultivation, Su Ming's cultivation also successfully broke through to the Late Stage of the Immortal Realm.

However, what Su Ming didn't expect was that Sword Thirteen would be gone for eight years.

Even after his simulator's cooldown ended, Sword Thirteen had not returned.

"Could it be... something happened in the Outer Heaven?"

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