244: A world-shaking sword strike, snatching food from the tiger's mouth

Sword Venerable Ye Gucheng drew his sword.

There was no earth-shattering might, no world-destroying light and shadow.

He simply, unassumingly, drew the ancient longsword from his back and thrust it, plainly and simply, towards Old Monster Cang Xuan's seemingly impregnable Void Return Domain.

This sword strike was very slow.

So slow that every person present could clearly see every inch of the sword's trajectory as it cut through the Void Realm in their Divine Sense, even discerning the ancient, time-worn patterns on the sword's body.

Yet, this sword strike was also incredibly fast.

So fast that it seemed to ignore spatial distance, sever the flow of time, and in the instant it was thrust out, it had already appeared above that hazy Void Return Domain!

This sword strike contained a Sword Intent that was pure to the extreme.

An intent that had abandoned everything and severed everything.

When man is sword, and sword is man, when all beliefs, all Dao, exist only for this one sword strike.

This sword strike then possessed the power to shatter Laws!

Crack!

A crisp, extreme cracking sound abruptly exploded in the silent battlefield!

That indestructible Void Return Domain, which could easily erase the combined attack of five Soul Transformation Cultivators, was actually forcefully cleaved by this pure sword strike, leaving a tiny but bone-deep black crack!

The crack only existed for a thousandth of a second before being smoothed over by the Domain's terrifying self-healing ability, and everything returned to normal.

But, it did appear!

This sword strike shattered Old Monster Cang Xuan's god-like, invincible absolute control!

"What magnificent Sword Dao! What magnificent purity!"

For the first time, genuine astonishment appeared in Old Monster Cang Xuan's turbid eyes, which had remained motionless for millennia!

He had lived for nearly five thousand years and had seen countless astonishingly talented Sword Cultivators, but none could walk the Sword Dao to such a pure, extreme degree as the person before him!

Just one more step, and this person's sword would truly touch the Origin of the Dao!

"What a pity, how can the light of a firefly contend with the brilliance of the moon? After all, he's just a Soul Transformation Cultivator, not enough!"

Old Monster Cang Xuan praised, yet his words carried an aloof indifference. He flicked his finger at the sword light that had cut into his Domain.

Ding!

A soft sound, like a jade bead falling onto a plate.

That peerless sword light, capable of shattering Laws, began to crumble inch by inch from its tip under that flick, transforming into countless sparkling light feathers and vanishing without a trace.

Pfft!

Solitary City Ye grunted, his figure swayed violently, a trickle of crimson blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and his face instantly turned pale.

He suffered a significant backlash.

But on his stern face, there was no trace of dejection; instead, a more fervent, more insane Battle Intent erupted, as if meeting a worthy opponent!

However, it was this thousandth of a second of flaw!

It was this insignificant moment when Old Monster Cang Xuan's Divided Soul was occupied with countering Solitary City Ye's world-shaking sword strike!

That was precisely seized by one person, in a ghostly, unpredictable manner!

Everyone present, including the Half-step Void Return Old Monster Cang Xuan, had their entire attention drawn by Solitary City Ye's astonishing and peerless sword strike.

No one noticed.

The green-robed figure who had been standing at the entrance of the medicinal garden, as if scared senseless, never moving from beginning to end.

Moved!

Shen Yuanmo's figure did not transform into a streak of light, nor did it tear through space, nor did it even cause the slightest fluctuation of spiritual power.

He simply, unassumingly, took a step forward.

Yet with this one step, his figure instantly became ethereal, as if merging into the folds of space and treading upon the nodes of time!

His figure, in a way that completely defied logic, even bizarre.

Directly ignored Old Monster Cang Xuan's spatial confinement that still enveloped the entire area, and with one step, instantly traversed several thousand zhang.

Arriving later but reaching first!

While everyone was still immersed in the shock of Solitary City Ye's sword breaking the Domain, Shen Yuanmo's figure had silently appeared before the heart of chaos origin, which was suspended in mid-air and exuded supreme Dao charm!

This was his ultimate application of the Law of Space, analyzed to its extreme after billions of Perfect Deductions!

"What?!"

This scene caused Old Monster Cang Xuan, who had just shattered the sword light, to have his pupils violently contract into dangerous pinpricks!

How did he get here?!

Although his Void Return Domain had a negligible flaw, the Domain's Law confinement still existed!

How did this junior, who wasn't even a Soul Transformation Cultivator, ignore his Laws like a ghost and directly arrive before the divine object?

However, Shen Yuanmo gave him no time to think!

Facing this supreme divine object that could drive any Cultivator mad, there was not a trace of greed in Shen Yuanmo's eyes, only absolute calm and rationality!

He did not use his spiritual power to grasp it, because through Insight into Origin, he had long seen that any spiritual power imbued with the will of an Acquired Cultivator would be instinctively repelled and rebounded by this pure Origin heart!

Forcibly grasping it would only result in one's Divine Soul being annihilated by the creative power it contained!

Shen Yuanmo slowly extended his right hand.

On his palm, there was no spiritual power, no Qi and blood.

Instead, there were five divine lights of different colors, which were the lights of Origin representing the sharpness of Metal, the vitality of Wood, the moistness of Water, the intensity of Fire, and the profoundness of Earth!

The five divine lights rapidly circulated, intertwined, collided, and finally perfectly merged in an incredibly profound trajectory!

The Five Elements generate each other, endlessly cycling!

A nascent, purest miniature world, free of any Acquired will or Distractions, quietly formed in his palm!

This 'nascent world' aura, and that heart of chaos origin, were of the same source on the level of Dao charm!

Buzz—!

That heart of chaos origin, which originally repelled everything external and was incredibly arrogant, actually let out a joyous hum when it sensed the familiar and intimate aura in Shen Yuanmo's palm.

It was as if an infant, having drifted for billions of years, had finally found its mother.

It abandoned all resistance and caution.

Actively, it transformed into a chaotic stream of light.

And obediently plunged into Shen Yuanmo's palm, merging with that miniature world!

Shen Yuanmo succeeded!

Under the encirclement of seven top powerhouses!

Right under the nose of the Half-step Void Return Old Monster, who considered himself a god!

This Half-step Nascent Soul Cultivator, who was the most inconspicuous, weakest, and once considered a mere background character, not even worthy of having his name remembered, in everyone's eyes.

Seized the ultimate and only supreme fortune of this struggle, in a way that no one could comprehend, even overturning their understanding!

Time, at this moment, seemed to be completely paused.

Space, too, solidified into a transparent amber.

On the Nine Dragon Chariot, Ji Changkong's arrogance and confidence completely froze, leaving only a blank expression.

The frenzied smile on the twisted face of the Demon Path Colossus Ancestor Xuan Ming stiffened, like a grotesque puppet.

Dragon Emperor Ao Guang, True Monarch Fu Hai, and the Master of the Evil Nether Hall, each stood dumbfounded as if struck by lightning, their brains completely crashed.

Even Sword Venerable Ye Gucheng, who had just unleashed that world-shaking sword strike and was ready for another three hundred rounds of battle, for the first time, showed an indescribable look of bewilderment and confusion on his perpetually icy face.

How... how did he do it?

And as the center of attention, Old Monster Cang Xuan, the intrigued expression on his face, like a dried orange peel, finally vanished.

His turbid eyes stared intently at Shen Yuanmo, at the heart of chaos origin in his palm, which had already merged with him and emitted a soft glow.

In the depths of his eyes, there was first extreme bewilderment.

Then an incomprehensible absurdity.

Finally, when he fully realized what had happened, all emotions transformed into a volcanic eruption of towering rage, capable of incinerating the Nine Heavens!

He had plotted for three thousand years, faked his death to escape, and patiently waited for the divine object to appear, all for this very moment!

But now, the supreme fortune he considered within his grasp had been snatched away right before his eyes by an ant he had never even bothered to notice!

What an humiliation!

What a mockery!

"You! Little! Beast! You! Are! Courting! Death!"

Old Monster Cang Xuan's voice was no longer hoarse or old, but transformed into an endless chill and killing intent capable of freezing Divine Souls and tearing apart the Great Dao!

Boom!!!

The next instant, seven terrifying killing intents, capable of destroying this world, like seven materialized world-ending storms, roared from all directions, locking onto Shen Yuanmo's not-so-tall figure!