37: Slay the Heavenly Sword Elder and confiscate the property of the Heavenly Sword Sect

After one strike, Old Man Tian Jian ceased his attack, because in his perception, your aura was already extremely weak.

His goal was to search your soul, not to kill you.

After the dust cleared, your disheveled figure came into the eyes of Old Man Tian Jian.

"Now you know the gap between us, right? No matter how strong an Innate Realm Martial Artist is, they are no match for the Primordial Spirit Realm."

As he spoke, Old Man Tian Jian instantly arrived by your side, grabbed your head with a sinister smile, and began to forcibly search your soul using his Divine Thought.

However, the next instant, the sinister smile on Old Man Tian Jian's Face suddenly froze.

His fingers did not feel the warmth of flesh and blood; instead, it felt as though he had grabbed into a mass of ethereal mist, and a strange sensation of emptiness came from his fingertips.

The Sea of Consciousness, which should have been surging, was now like a flower in a mirror and the moon in the water; as soon as his Divine Thought intruded, it was like a clay ox entering the sea, with no feedback whatsoever.

"This is impossible! How could this just be a Clone? How can a Clone be this strong?" Fine beads of cold sweat seeped from Old Man Tian Jian's forehead as he realized he might have been toyed with.

At this moment, the True Essence contained within your Clone had been exhausted, and your Clone began to gradually fade.

"Your sword technique has decent power, but it lacks accuracy; you didn't hit the Immortal Master." Before the words finished, this Clone collapsed with a boom, turning into spiritual light that filled the sky, drifting between heaven and earth like fireflies.

The Old Ancestor trembled all over, not only because of the humiliation of being toyed with, but even more so because of an unprecedented sense of crisis.

If this was just your Clone, then where is your true body? Did it escape? Or…

Old Man Tian Jian lifted his head abruptly, his Divine Sense frantically sweeping the surroundings, only to discover that the entire world seemed to be watching him; every wisp of wind, every cloud, seemed to be your eyes.

"The battle has only just begun." Your voice at this moment was not loud, but it emerged naturally from every inch of air, every wisp of wind, and every piece of land within a hundred-mile radius, making it impossible for one to ignore.

The words had just fallen, and before Old Man Tian Jian could react, the originally clear sky suddenly turned overcast. Thick clouds began to be gathered by an invisible force, forming a giant palm several thousand meters across, pressing down toward him.

Looking at the giant palm pressing down on him and feeling the vast power of heaven and earth contained within it, Old Man Tian Jian's eyes were filled with disbelief.

However, seeing the giant palm so close, he did not hesitate. The sword shadow behind him suddenly radiated divine light, and he successively slashed out ten sword lights, finally shattering the giant palm.

"Impossible! Under the pressure of my Divine Thought, it is fundamentally impossible for your Mental Energy to gather so much power of heaven and earth." After blocking the giant palm, Old Man Tian Jian roared, directing his doubts toward the surroundings.

You were simply challenging his understanding, because with normal Innate Realm Mental Energy, under the pressure of a Primordial Spirit Realm Divine Thought, one could not borrow even a shred of the power of heaven and earth.

"Since you have asked so sincerely, I will show mercy and tell you. To prevent… pft, sorry, I mixed up my lines."

After acting a bit crazy, you actually answered Old Man Tian Jian's question truthfully.

Divine Thought is indeed a dimensionality-reducing strike against Mental Energy; under the suppression of Divine Thought, even you could not borrow the power of heaven and earth.

However, in your view, the one with the strongest control over the power of heaven and earth is, of course, heaven and earth itself.

And you used a Realm that is one level higher than the Unity of Heaven and Man to integrate your vast True Essence and Mental Energy into every flower, tree, blade of grass, and piece of wood within a hundred-mile radius.

Within this hundred-mile radius, you are equivalent to being in a state of minor Dao integration; of course, this state is very shallow, and you can withdraw from it at any time.

It is a pity that your research into the Physical Body is not deep enough yet; otherwise, your Physical Body could also merge into heaven and earth.

In this state of Dao integration, your control over the power of heaven and earth is naturally much stronger than that of a Martial Artist, and the amount of the power of heaven and earth you can control is naturally greater.

It is a pity that the power of heaven and earth permeates between heaven and earth; you have only merged with the heaven and earth of the hundred-mile radius, but you cannot seal the space within that hundred-mile radius.

Otherwise, with your current level of control, Old Man Tian Jian wouldn't even dream of borrowing a shred of the power of heaven and earth.

"Alright, I have told you everything you wanted to know; it is time for you to hit the road. Sigh, I am still too kind; I cannot bear to let you go on your way with questions."

As the words fell, you pressed down with another palm. This palm strike was not like the previous one; it was a formal attack you executed by combining the Way of Xuanhuang with True Essence and the power of heaven and earth.

The palm pressed down like the firmament collapsing, with the overwhelming might of heaven crashing down. In the eyes of Old Man Tian Jian, this palm strike seemed as if the entire world was pressing down on him.

He knew that if this palm strike landed, he would definitely not escape death. He began to burn his Dharma Power and Primordial Spirit, continuously slashing out sword lights toward this palm.

Watching as his hundreds of consecutive sword lights failed to shake the palm print even in the slightest, Old Man Tian Jian began to descend into despair.

He shrieked miserably, "No, you cannot kill me! I am a person from Divine Sword Mountain; if you kill me, Divine Sword Mountain will definitely not let you off."

To this, you turned a deaf ear. Divine Sword Mountain this, Divine Sword Mountain that—do you know who you are?

Finally, the giant palm fell, leaving a palm print ten thousand zhang wide on the ground, and the figure of Old Man Tian Jian vanished.

You were not surprised that Old Man Tian Jian could not withstand your palm strike. His Dao of the sword was inferior to your Way of Xuanhuang, the intensity of the energy he used was inferior to your True Essence, and the power of heaven and earth was crushed by you; what did he have to win against you?

While you were lamenting, a streak of light suddenly shot out from where Old Man Tian Jian had been and fled into the distance. Unfortunately, it had not even run ten miles before it was firmly locked by a chain formed from your True Essence, and finally, it was contained within a bottle you condensed with True Essence.

This thing was none other than the Primordial Spirit of Old Man Tian Jian. Old Man Tian Jian did not know what method he used to preserve his Primordial Spirit under that strike, wanting to escape by leveraging the speed of the Primordial Spirit, which far exceeded that of the Physical Body.

Unfortunately, he did not know how strong you were in the state of Dao integration. Unless he could traverse space, he would fundamentally never escape from the palm of your hand.

After collecting the Primordial Spirit of Old Man Tian Jian, you restored the battlefield. You leveled the ground, and then you raised a few high mountains, which counted as covering up the traces of the battle.

It was just a pity about your xuanhuang dao soldiers; they were all destroyed by Old Man Tian Jian's Sword Qi.

Thinking of this, the more you thought about it, the angrier you became. You first severely tortured the Primordial Spirit of Old Man Tian Jian, and then you headed directly to the location of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

After arriving at the location of the Heavenly Sword Sect, you didn't say a word and directly began to raid the place.

Under your Qi Observation Technique, you simply slashed anyone who was filled with the aura of sin.

As expected of the Sect where the villain Old Man Tian Jian belonged; a dignified Righteous Path Sect actually had more than half of its people steeped in sin.

After slaughtering half of the people in the Heavenly Sword Sect, you happily left with your spoils of war.

Next, you did not intend to let the xuanhuang dao soldiers continue collecting True Qi; instead, you were going to keep a low profile for a period of time.

Of course, this was not because you were afraid of Divine Sword Mountain, but it was, after all, a top-tier power with a Legacy of over ten thousand years, so you would give it some Face.