238: Employing the Great Way of the Sword

Cao Bu cursed inwardly.

What a ruthless woman.

To preserve her reputation, she could even fabricate a reason like 'her son being possessed'.

As expected of an Empress who Cultivates the Destruction Law, her heart is hard enough.

He coughed up several more mouthfuls of blood and smiled bitterly. "Mother, you just don't want to face what happened just now, so you'd rather believe I'm a fake, right?"

These words were like a poisonous thorn, stabbing fiercely into the most painful corner of Luo Qingcheng's heart.

Her delicate body trembled slightly, and the last trace of hesitation in her eyes was completely extinguished, replaced by pure, icy killing intent.

"Scoundrel, today I will definitely avenge my son!"

Luo Qingcheng extended her jade arm, and a crimson light that made the Divine Soul tremble erupted from the Void Realm.

A dark red spear slowly emerged from her palm.

The supreme dao emperor weapon, nirvana beauty spear!

Cao Bu sighed inwardly again.

It was only a hundred times, was this necessary?

It seemed she was truly determined.

However, this was exactly what he wanted.

Cao Bu sank his mind into the Time Wheel Emperor Palace.

He saw Gu Yun lying on the ground, his eyes hollow and despairing, only fluctuating slightly when he sensed Cao Bu's will.

With a thought, Cao Bu forcibly forced out the damaged ten directions world-suppressing cauldron from Gu Yun's body.

The current Gu Yun was simply powerless to resist.

"Pfft—"

Gu Yun spat out a mouthful of blood, his aura withering once more, and his Primordial Spirit suffered a heavy blow.

Outside.

Cao Bu raised his hand with a beckon, and the ten directions world-suppressing cauldron appeared before him, its body flowing with a dim halo.

"Hmm?"

Luo Qingcheng's phoenix eyes narrowed, and a deeper flash of pain crossed them. "The ten directions world-suppressing cauldron is connected to Yun'er's Primordial Spirit. Even if he was possessed, it would be extremely difficult to use it by force in the short term."

"Mother! Do you see? This is my life-bound Emperor weapon!" Cao Bu hid behind the cauldron, his voice filled with 'grief' and 'grievance', yet a barely perceptible curve hooked at the corner of his mouth. "If you really believe I'm a thief who has taken over this body, then how can this cauldron be driven by me?"

"Just now, it was only because the love poison was hard to suppress for a moment, leading to a grave mistake!"

"Mother, whether you want to beat me or punish me, or even cripple my cultivation, I will accept it!"

"But I beg you, do not be so heartless, and even more so, do not deceive yourself!"

These words, seven parts truth and three parts acting, captured the possible state of mind of 'Gu Yun' perfectly.

Furthermore, it cast another huge stone into Luo Qingcheng's already chaotic heart.

The hand Luo Qingcheng used to hold the spear trembled for a nearly imperceptible moment.

"You thief who possessed my son, how dare you disturb my Dao Heart. Die!"

He fled, she pursued; he was unable to escape even with wings.

In the Youming Abyss Secret Realm, a bizarre chase continued to play out.

Cao Bu appeared to be in a wretched state, yet he always managed to narrowly avoid the fatal blows just before they landed.

Luo Qingcheng's attacks grew increasingly sharp, but also increasingly anxious.

At the same time, she was inwardly shocked.

This 'son' had such terrifying talent, reaching the first level of Quasi-Emperor in just a few short years.

He could even use the ten directions world-suppressing cauldron to contend with her to this extent?

She, an Empress, seemed somewhat powerless instead?

"Mother, I am leaving the Secret Realm."

Cao Bu imitated Gu Yun's tone, his voice carrying 'exhaustion' and 'sorrow'. "Rest assured, your son will definitely keep this secret strictly confidential."

As his voice fell, he turned and prepared to dash toward the Secret Realm exit.

At that very moment.

Luo Qingcheng suddenly stopped her pace.

She slowly closed her eyes, her long eyelashes casting shadows on her pale cheeks.

When she opened them again, those phoenix eyes held not a shred of human emotion, leaving only the most pure and extreme destruction will, along with a trace of pain buried deep within.

She raised her left hand, pressing her fingers together like a sword, and lightly tapped her brow.

A drop of Essence Blood containing infinite Laws slowly seeped from her brow.

At the same time.

A terrifying will that transcended all Laws awakened from the deepest part of her Bloodline.

In this moment.

All living beings in the Spirit Realm felt as if a sword were suspended over their heads, as if it could fall at any moment.

The Divine Senses of over a hundred Emperors and Quasi-Emperors flooded toward this place.

Just as they were about to rush into the Secret Realm, they were blocked by a terrifying Emperor's Might.

Even the Divine Senses of several Heavenly Emperors could not penetrate it in the slightest.

The Divine Thoughts of several Heavenly Emperors intertwined in the Void Realm, their tones filled with shock.

"It's that layer of Restriction again, cutting off our investigation."

"Strange, not long ago the Spiritual Qi of the ten provinces flooded into this Secret Realm, and now another terrifying aura is emanating from within. Could a supreme treasure have appeared?"

"Something's not right. Don't you feel that this overflowing aura is somewhat familiar?"

Meanwhile.

Back with Cao Bu.

The crimson Essence Blood fused with that formless Sword Intent, transforming into a semi-transparent sword shadow that hovered above Luo Qingcheng's palm.

That was the Will of the Great Dao of the Sword!

It was a wisp of the Sword Dao's Origin will that Gu Qingtian had stripped away with a supreme Divine Ability before his Ascension, sealed deep within her Bloodline as the final trump card for protecting the clan.

Once this item was used, it would cause a massive drain on her own Origin, and it could only be used once in a lifetime.

The duration of its use depended on her strength.

At this moment, Luo Qingcheng had already cast the original purpose of this trump card to the back of her mind.

She only wanted to kill Cao Bu now.

And at the instant the sword shadow appeared.

The ten directions world-suppressing cauldron in front of Cao Bu let out an overburdened wail. The cracks on the cauldron's body grew visibly larger until, with a 'crack', it completely shattered and turned into nothingness.

The 'grief' and 'grievance' on Cao Bu's face instantly froze, turning into pure 'horror'.

Immediately after, wild joy welled up within him.

"This is it! This is it! Hahaha... I didn't expect to actually force out the trump card Gu Qingtian left for her!"

Without the slightest hesitation, in the moment before the Essence Blood and Sword Intent had fully fused.

Cao Bu let out a strange cry and transformed into a streak of sword light, instantly vanishing from the spot and rushing into the dense mountain forest ahead.

"Gu Yun, big brother is giving you a great gift, I guarantee you'll like it."

The moment he rushed into the dense forest, after sensing that Luo Qingcheng's Divine Sense had not swept over him, Cao Bu's mind moved.

In a hidden corner, he threw the dying Gu Yun out from the Time Wheel Emperor Palace.

Then, he reverted to his original appearance, suppressed his aura, and quickly disappeared into the depths of the mountain forest.

Gu Yun was forcibly thrown out of the Time Wheel Emperor Palace and fell heavily onto the forest floor covered in dead leaves.

Intense pain and weakness made his consciousness blurry. Cold air poured into his lungs, causing him to cough up black blood containing fragments of internal organs.

He struggled to prop up his upper body, his vision a blur.

But in the next moment.

A familiar aura came from the sky.

Gu Yun used all his strength to lift his heavy head and, through the gaps in the tree canopy, saw that familiar figure.

Luo Qingcheng stood in the air, her hair disheveled, the destruction aura permeating around her and the transparent sword shadow hovering in her palm making her look like a female goddess of slaughter in charge of life and death.

She looked down from above, her Divine Sense sweeping across, instantly locking onto Gu Yun's position.

"Mother." Gu Yun's throat was dry, and almost instinctively, he used his last bit of strength to scream: "Save me, I am Yun'er."

Above the sky, Luo Qingcheng's gaze swept over indifferently.

When it touched Gu Yun's face, which bore some resemblance to her own, there was not the slightest fluctuation.

"Thief, die."

An icy voice, devoid of any emotion, echoed within this Secret Realm.

The commotion here had long since attracted the six women, including Ye Linglong, who had just finished ravaging the 'Gu Yun Clone Talisman' to death.

They felt this fatal crisis and were about to head in this direction to find Cao Bu.

But in the next moment, Cao Bu's figure appeared before them.

"Enter the ten thousand fragrances paying homage to the phoenix diagram, I will take you away."

Seeing this, Gu Lingshuang said unwillingly, "But Cao Bu, Gu Yun escaped."

"You sensed the aura of Eldest Adoptive Mother in the distance, didn't you? She's about to sacrifice her family for the sake of justice now." Before his voice could fade, Cao Bu forcibly took the six women into the diagram and then transformed into a streak of sword light to flee into the distance.

It was too terrifying.

Even from millions of miles away, he still felt his scalp tingle.