The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 379: 316: Second Sword, Red Sun Martial Venerate’s Ambition

He swung eight consecutive slashes, and in a flash, the sword energy reached out in all eight directions, lingering for quite a while.

These eight strands of sword energy shot up into the sky, occupying the eight positions of Heaven and Earth, merging with the imagery of the Eight Trigrams – Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui.

Instantly, an Eight Trigrams pattern formed by sword energy appeared in the sky. The eight strands of sword energy complemented, restrained, and propelled each other. They continued without end in a ceaseless cycle.

Second Sword·Eight Extremes!

The Eight Trigrams sword pattern descended from the sky.

Observing the descending Eight Trigrams sword pattern, the usually composed Red Sun Martial Venerate instantly changed his expression, for he noticed something.

That was, although this sword pattern seemed to confront head-on, the truth was that its sword energy had already sealed all his escape routes, blocking every direction, omnipresent.

Moreover, what was originally just ordinary sword energy had, under the boost of this Eight Trigrams pattern, became immensely more powerful, each successive wave stronger than the last, reaching dreadful heights.

Unarguably, the most terrifying part was that this Eight Trigrams sword pattern was absorbing limitless Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, which ignited the eight Trigrams positions once infused, imbuing the sword chart with an additional layer of power.

“This is my created swordsmanship, Second Strike·Eight Extremes, please taste it,” Pei Xuanjing announced loudly.

This sword technique was not only conceived based on his understanding of swordsmanship, but it was also inspired by some insights from his discourse with Ye Daoyuan.

If Ye Daoyuan could draw talismans in the void, absorb Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, and then use these talismans to form the Heavenly Luo Earth Network, why couldn’t he transform his sword energy into an Eight Trigrams sword pattern?

Of course, the most important point was to thank the Magical Domain displayed by Red Sun Martial Venerate.

At the beginning, even though Pei Xuanjing had already initially created the rudiments of this sword technique, he always felt that this technique was not perfect, as if something was missing, and it never reached perfection.

However, it was during his recent fight with the Red Sun Martial Venerate that he gained a great understanding of the Magical Domain.

Magical Domain!

This move of Pei Xuanjing’s could also be called the Sword Domain.

As long as Heaven and Earth Essence Qi didn’t deplete, and sword energy didn’t extinguish, this Eight Trigrams sword chart could persist indefinitely, functioning as a perpetual Sword Domain.

The slight pity was that the killing power of this technique wasn’t strong. Its main purpose was to trap people.

As expected!

The countless sword energies cascaded down, and with Red Sun Martial Venerate’s power, they could easily be blocked.

He also noticed the flaw in the Eight Trigrams sword pattern — it can only trap people, its killing power wasn’t as great as he had expected.

“What a pity, your move hasn’t yet reached maturity,” said the Red Sun Martial Venerate, grinning as he stood within his Magical Domain.

When the Red Sun Martial Venerate’s Magical Domain permeated him, the sword energies were unable to immediately break through his Magical Domain. To do so, the power of the Eight Trigrams sword pattern was insufficient for the time being and would require multiple attacks.

However, for someone as powerful as he was, the blink of an eye was enough time for him to maintain his Magical Domain.

“Yes, indeed!” Pei Xuanjing was not discouraged.

This move was at its earliest stages of creation and still required time for refinement. Being able to perform this effectively was already satisfactory for him.

After all, the fact that he was able to complete this sword technique during his visit here was already a pleasant surprise.

His real trump card in a duel with the enemy was not this.

“I have another move. Please have another taste,” Pei Xuanjing said with a smile.

Shenxiao Heavenly Will Sword!

This was Pei Xuanjing’s real trump card, and also his ultimate killing move.

Originally, he had another move called Immortal Ascending the Heavens, but he clearly understood that this move was only slightly more powerful than his Nine Luminaries and there was no need to use it again.

Therefore, he decided to play his real killing move.

This sword was truly his crowning achievement in swordsmanship.

Upon arriving in this world, Pei Xuanjing had not yet fully revealed this sword. Although he had used it when he broke through to the Heavenly Rank, he had never truly given his all.

Moreover, over this past year, his strength improved rapidly. Having studied numerous swordsmanship sutras from this world and incorporating them, the power of this strike had also evolved.

Therefore, the extent of the power of this sword, executed with his current strength, was honestly unknown even to Pei Xuanjing.

He slowly raised his sword. Above his head were the flashing lights of cyan, red, yellow, white, and black, interweaving and quickly merging together to form an extremely complex painting scroll.

It seemed to symbolize spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and included the Five Directions and Five Elements and the Four Seasons and Five Orders.

A purple-cyan light on Pei Xuanjing’s body flashed and disappeared into it. The purple-cyan light seemed to transform into a thunderbolt serpent roaming and coiling in the scroll.

This was the projection of the foundation of the Great Tao that Pei Xuanjing had condensed upon breaking through to the Heavenly Rank – the projection that reflects the essence of his Tao, the foundation of his Great Tao.

Although he had not yet released his move, the moment when the projection of his Great Tao foundation appeared, the face of Red Sun Martial Venerate changed significantly, and his eyes shone brightly, finally muttering, “My Tao is indeed not wrong.”

He never imagined that he would discover what he had been longing for on this seventeen-year-old young man.

This was what he longed for in his dreams, the Tao he strived for for decades, but ultimately never achieved.

Why did Ye Daoyuan say that Red Sun Martial Venerate took the wrong path? Because Red Sun Martial Venerate had taken this very path.

The path he chose to achieve the level of Heaven-human was to use his Red Sun Divine Skill as a foundation, creating a true Red Sun, hence achieving the realm of Heaven-man. By that time, he would naturally break through to the Heaven-human level, and probably become the most powerful Heaven-human in history.

But after decades of training, decades of meditation, he had never succeeded, or rather, he had not even really taken the first step.

That’s why Ye Daoyuan said he was on the wrong path, and even after decades of getting nothing, Red Sun Martial Venerate himself was losing confidence, thinking he was on the wrong path.

But at this moment, when the projection of Pei Xuanjing’s Great Tao’s foundation appeared, Red Sun Martial Venerate understood that the path he sought was not wrong.

“My Tao is not wrong! My path is right!” Red Sun Martial Venerate roared in his heart, his face filled with excitement.

It was a kind of exhilaration suppressed for decades, a joy from finally seeing the light after groping in the dark.

At this moment, he was full of confidence in his future. He would undoubtedly become a Heaven-human, and not just that, he would become the most powerful Heaven-human in history.

But what he didn’t know was, although his Tao wasn’t wrong, he would never reach this realm in his lifetime.

It had nothing to do with his talent and perception, nor with his efforts, it was his inherent deficiency. No matter how hard he tried, he could never achieve it.

Unless, one day, he could make a resolution.