Maximum Comprehension: Taking Care of Swords In A Sword Pavilion

Qin Suyang possessed both the grandeur of Confucian Dao and the unstoppable force of sword cultivation.

It can be said that in today’s battle, Nine Mysteries City revealed not just strength, but also depth.

“It seems Nine Mysteries City may truly start to rise,” murmured an elder in a black robe from afar, a gleam shining in his eyes.

Even the Yukun Heavenly Palace, ranking over thirty on the Heavenly List, could not breach its defenses; Nine Mysteries City’s rise was imminent.

As the cultivators from Yukun Heavenly Palace fled in defeat, the resistance of the Cloud Jade Sky Net, a supreme treasure, grew weaker.

With one more assault, it would be captured by Nine Mysteries City.

By now, the Heavenly Beads forming inside the walls of Nine Mysteries City were almost fully materialized and could be harvested at any moment.

With these heavenly beads, the cultivation abilities of the city’s sword cultivators could be further elevated.

“Condense—” A resounding cry echoed through the city, numerous sword lights merging into a three-foot-long sword, slashing towards the scattering spiritual light of the Cloud Jade Sky Net.

This strike was bound to cleave the Heavenly Net and claim it.

“Hum—” The sword light collided with the Heavenly Net, causing it to tremble.

The spiritual light dimmed, and it wailed.

“Presumptuous.”

Just then, a voice emerged.

A figure materialized in the void, holding a severed head in hand.

It was the head of the leading Han Muye from Yukun Heavenly Palace who had escaped earlier.

The one holding the head was a young Daoist clad in a cloud-patterned Daoist robe, nearly ten feet tall, with each strand of his hair held in place by a golden Dao crown.

The aura of the Daoist was so dense it made the space around him seem like an illusion, with the rolling clouds above unable to come near.

This was a powerful being whose cultivation had reached an extreme, having already torn asunder the sky and earth.

“To covet our Yukun Heavenly Palace’s Cloud Jade Sky Net— for this, you all can go die,” said the Daoist, his voice laced with indifference and killing intent.

He casually tossed the head he was holding and then pressed his palm towards Nine Mysteries City below.

“Boom—”

A giant palm appeared.

Covering ten thousand miles in radius, this palm, akin to a mountain, eclipsed the sky above Nine Mysteries City and plummeted downwards.

“Heaven-Suppressing Earth-Dominating Palm!”

“This is the fusion of Dao with the physical body, the pinnacle of Immortal Venerate!”

“Not only that, but it’s also enhanced by other powers; when Dao transforms into the Limitless Divine Ability, even the origin and rules can be suppressed!”

All the cultivators watching from the sky around were shouting in alarm, their expressions drastically changing.

This scene was truly staggering.

With their Dao merged and their methods reaching the Ultimate Boundary, this was a top-tier existence in a universe; the presence of such a powerhouse in the Contend of Ten Thousand Realms equated to an existence that crushes everything.

When such a powerful being makes a move, without an equivalent expert to counter, it’s an unsolvable situation.

Take, for instance, the palm currently falling; despite the surrounding sword lights from the city swirling and piercing upwards, they are unable to withstand or resist even slightly.

The palm descends as if it embodies the weight of heaven and earth, pausing for nothing.

And not just that – as soon as this palm descends, the already weakened Cloud Jade Sky Net revitalizes, its spiritual light surging, it solidifies once more, completely sealing off Nine Mysteries City, leaving no one able to escape.

In doing so, it aims to squash all life within Nine Mysteries City with the force of one palm strike—to establish dominance.

The prestige that was lost by the palace just moments ago could now be regained with a single hit.

Not only regained, but with a single strike killing all the sword cultivators of Nine Mysteries City, the scattered origins would inevitably coalesce into a million Heavenly Beads.

This truly would be a case of killing two birds with one stone.

“In this world of cultivation, nothing is left to one’s own volition…” sighed a middle-aged man in a green robe from afar, watching the ten-thousand-mile wide, mountainous palm slam down.

Nine Mysteries City had strength, strategy, and elite fighters, fighting against the odds and demonstrating unimaginable tenacity.

For the vast majority of cultivators who have continuously risen through the ranks, this is the grassroots’ counterblow.

Yet, in the end, this counterblow was halted.

A single strike from a top-tier powerhouse was all it took to shatter all the efforts and opportunities of the ordinary and the insignificant into dust.

“The Great Dao is formless, heaven and earth have intent, I shall replace the heart of heaven and earth with my heart.”

“My heart will not die, nor will heaven and earth collapse.”

Qin Suyang’s expression was solemn as he held his sword upside down and stepped forward, drawing upon the entire power of Nine Mysteries City and charging towards the heavenly palm above.

This strike was Qin Suyang’s attempt to forcefully concentrate his own Dao and merge it with the Dao of heaven and earth.

Although his cultivation was not yet at that level, at that moment he risked everything to fuse his own pathway with the heavenly Dao.

Surrounding him, the power of heaven and earth coalesced into golden characters, each as large as ten thousand miles, colliding with the palm above.

The characters struck with deafening booms.

The space around Qin Suyang trembled and shattered, inch by inch.

His body too began to feel as if it was fading into nothingness.

This was the backlash of the power of heaven and earth.

Uncontrollable and unable to defeat the divine palm above, he was bound to be sacrificed.

“Insects, biting off more than they can chew,” snorted the young Daoist who had struck the palm.

This was a display of comparative power levels, and bravery alone could not bridge the gap.

“Roar—”

A colossal golden elephant, a hundred-thousand-feet-tall, burst forth, with figures of demon beasts and divine beasts looming behind it, converging beneath Old Master Qin Suyang.

With the power of the Demon Path, they replenished Old Master Qin Suyang’s strength.

“To possess the body of the Heaven Raising Elephant but lack its strength is to have appearance without substance,” said the young man taking action, his gaze landing on the giant elephant that Xiang Lingshuang had transformed into, the divine light in his eyes flickering.

He desired that divine elephant’s body for himself.

His cultivation was supreme, but he lacked a physical body capable of handling sufficient power.

If he could condense this divine elephant into an incarnation, his combat strength would increase by at least eighty percent!

At his level, to speak of an increase of eighty percent in cultivation abilities, even a ten percent boost would be unimaginable.

“Hmph, since you are stubbornly ignorant, then all of you—”

Before he could finish speaking, his expression suddenly changed.

“Rip—”

The sound of fabric tearing echoed.

His figure flashed and then reappeared ten feet away.

There was a cut beneath the left rib of his garment.

At the spot where he had stood moments before, a one-armed youth holding a short sword shook his head with regret on his face.

“It turns out my cultivation was just a bit lacking, what a pity,” he said.

Pointing the short sword forward, the young man revealed a hint of wildness, “Nine Mysteries City, Zhao Youzhi of the Nine Mystic Sword Sect, seeks instruction—”

To seek instruction.

This was the meaning of a challenge.

This simple request for instruction made countless people in the void dramatically change their expressions.

Even the gloomy-faced youth, brushing his hand over the cut on his ribs, was visibly surprised.

Nine Mysteries City, the Nine Mystic Sword Sect!

The person in front was speaking of, Nine Mysteries City, the Nine Mystic Sword Sect!

Nine Mysteries City ranked rather low on the Heavenly List.

But the Nine Mystic Sword Sect was a top-ten existence on the entire Heavenly List.

The Nine Mystic Sword Sect and Nine Mysteries City were indeed branches of the same force!

What Yukun Heavenly Palace had offended was not the insignificant Nine Mysteries City but a major power within the Upper Third-Rank Domain, the Nine Mystic Sword Sect!

“What is the Nine Mystic Sword Sect? I, the Immortal Sovereign—” The young man gritted his teeth, not finishing his words, as his figure moved again.

Behind him, a short sword traced an arc, then joined with a three-foot-long sword, landing in the hands of a youth in a green Daoist robe.

“Nine Mystic Sword Sect, Disciple He Xuanqi seeks instruction.”

“Nine Mystic Sword Sect’s Lu Gao is here.”

“Nine Mystic Sword Sect’s Lin Shen.”

“Nine Mystic Sword Sect’s Gao Changgong.”

“Nine Mystic Sword Sect’s Deng Chungang.”

“Nine Mystic Sword Sect’s Li Three.”

…

One after another, figures appeared in mid-air, their bodies radiating sword light that solidified into reality.

Each one of them was a formidable sword cultivator whose extremes of sword intent had already hardened into their most unyielding will.

Their origin was the Sword Dao, their cultivation rules were the Sword Dao.

Sharp.

Fearless.

“The Nine Mystic Sword Sect? Hmph, my Yukun Heavenly Palace is not afraid,” the young man who almost shattered Nine Mysteries City with a single palm scoffed, arrogance shining in his eyes.

Below, the giant palm was only a thousand feet from Nine Mysteries City, as darkness enveloped heaven and earth—the moment of destruction was imminent.

In the distance, numerous cultivators watched, their eyes glinting with excitement.

They never expected Nine Mysteries City to actually have the same origin as the Nine Mystic Sword Sect, and that they would now come to its rescue.

Now, the question was whether any member of the Nine Mystic Sword Sect, ranked in the top ten of the Heavenly List, could intervene and break through the Limitless Divine Ability of that Peak Immortal Venerable Expert.

If they couldn’t, it would mean that despite the Nine Mystic Sword Sect’s claim to be a top-ten force on the Heavenly List, its strength was merely cumulative.

There was no true powerhouse to suppress others.

A force without a true strong person at the helm is nothing but a house of cards, easily crushable.

“Haha, it has been countless years since I’ve truly taken action,” a voice boomed above Nine Mysteries City, as a sixteen-armed Demon God soared into view, kicking fiercely with one foot.

In that moment, heaven and earth resonated, and the entire expanse was imprisoned!

A single kick held the power to shatter aeons and crack thousands of layers of space!

This was a true Ancient God and Demon!

The divine might that pulverized ten-thousand miles of space with one blow began to crumble under that single foot!

Heaven Trampling Immortal Venerable, Zhenxiong Huang, had arrived.