Chapter 6517 First Essence Rune
A scale-like pattern appeared along White Scale’s edge. Its sharpness and speed had soared to unprecedented levels, incomparable to before. Only now did Zhao Yue realize that her comprehension of the Sword Dao was incredibly lacking compared to Mu Qingyun.
White Scale struck again. A half-step Sovereign Lord tried to block with his sword, only for sparks to fly and his sword to snap. He spat out blood and flew back.
With Zhao Yue’s return, the pressure on Mu Qingyun eased. She exclaimed, “Big Sister, you’re brilliant! You managed to understand your sword so quickly!”
After forcing back the closest experts, Zhao Yue saw Mu Qingyun’s excited expression. That pure innocence made her feel a wave of shame.
After all, Zhao Yue had felt jealousy at Mu Qingyun’s power. On the other hand, when Mu Qingyun saw her grasp even the tiniest fraction of the Sword Dao’s true essence, Mu Qingyun could only feel happiness. Zhao Yue felt that such magnanimity was something beyond her reach.
“Big sister... will teaching me the Sword Dao upset Senior Zifeng?” Zhao Yue asked cautiously amidst the chaos.
“This has nothing to do with him. Brother San taught it to me. Ah, that’s right, Brother San is their boss. Let me tell you one thing—Brother San is very stingy and won’t teach you for free,” transmitted Mu Qingyun, not daring to say such a thing out loud.
“Long Chen?”
Zhao Yue’s heart shook. Long Chen wasn’t even a sword cultivator, so how could he give pointers to Mu Qingyun on the Sword Dao?
Mu Qingyun said, “Let’s work together with the Sword Servant to block them. Although we have comprehended the law of the Sword Dao, it's only the basics. Using this law power will be exhausting—both to us and the swords in our hands. Since all we need to do is tie them down, we shouldn’t use this power against them unless we have to.”
“Alright!” Zhao Yue accepted willingly.
Even though they had just met, Zhao Yue had absolute trust in Mu Qingyun. She never dared to imagine this could happen. From the moment she was born, she had never trusted anyone like this.
Just like that, Mu Qingyun and Zhao Yue joined forces, working with the Sword Servant to block the High Heaven Sword Sect’s experts.
Even though they were surrounded by three hundred thousand terrifying sword cultivators, they had a powerful trump card in the form of the Sword Servant. That was enough for them to hold on.
When either of them was in danger, they would use their Sword Dao’s laws. And once the danger passed, they would stop.
Mu Qingyun told Zhao Yue that this would be a long battle, and they couldn’t exhaust themselves too early. Their goal was to hold on until Long Chen came out of seclusion.
That made Zhao Yue take a look at the entire battlefield. The bloody battle continued to rage, but the Dragonblood warriors’ defense was like an impenetrable wall. No matter how the other side attacked, they couldn’t get through.
She also noticed something strange. With so many experts clashing, mountains of corpses should have littered the ground, but all she saw was a sea of blood there—no corpses at all.
Unbeknownst to her, there were tentacles within that blood sea dragging the corpses into Long Chen’s primal chaos space.
Within the primal chaos space, the black soil was practically boiling. It immediately devoured as many corpses as were thrown in.
After absorbing their essence runes, the black soil directly transformed them into pure life qi that spread throughout the primal chaos space. Thanks to it, the Fusang Trees and Moon Trees were rapidly growing, producing endless flame energy.
The Golden Crows and Jade Rabbits greedily absorbed this flame energy, and their auras grew stronger and stronger.
Beneath the Heavenly Dao Tree, fruits were falling like rain, forming a flood in a corner of the primal chaos space. In that place, there was a mountain of fist-sized Heavenly Dao Fruits.
Every single one of them emitted a different aura, representing each slain race, and the different runes represented different core energies.
Up in the sky, the golden lotus seed was like a blazing sun illuminating the world. Two dragons coiled through lightning and fire near it, while dragon roars occasionally rang out.
Their roars were heavy and long, like groans of pain. Lei Linger and Huo Linger were undergoing their own transformations, undergoing some kind of nirvanic rebirth.
The Heaven Flipping Seal and the Demon Moon Cauldron also floated in the air, with endless runes swirling on top of them. By the minute, their auras grew increasingly profound and sacred.
In particular, the Demon Moon Cauldron was transforming. With the Earth Cauldron’s guidance, Yao Linger had been working hard to cultivate and control her body. The current Demon Moon Cauldron was finally exuding a trace of the aura of a true primal chaos divine item.
Within the Earth Cauldron, Long Chen was forming hand seals. Violet Grandmist qi enveloped him, and his own violet blood was burning crazily as it absorbed the energy. Long Chen’s violet blood was transforming, and law runes swirled endlessly through him.
At the same time, the Earth Cauldron’s own runes flashed continuously, specks of violet light drifting toward Long Chen like dust in the wind.
Evilmoon, who was surrounding the Earth Cauldron in the form of billions of petals, was the first to realize that something was wrong.
“You old cauldron, you...”
The Earth Cauldron was using its core energy to nourish Long Chen. If it were human, it would be like using its own blood to feed Long Chen.
“Don’t disturb Long Chen...” said the Earth Cauldron.
“If you exhaust yourself now, how are you going to face the Heaven Cauldron?!” demanded Evilmoon.
“Don’t worry. I have my own means,” responded the Earth Cauldron.
Hearing that, Evilmoon fell silent. It was absorbing the energy of heaven and earth as well as the energy in the primal chaos space. With this much energy, its petals’ runes were growing. Evilmoon’s aura grew stronger and stronger.
Suddenly, Long Chen’s body shuddered. Violet runes gathered toward his body, and a “☷” rune appeared on his forehead.[1]
When this “☷” rune appeared, the violet divine runes around Long Chen’s body vanished, and a profound law power dispersed the violet qi around him.
“Success!” the Earth Cauldron exclaimed, filled with delight.
With the rune’s emergence, Long Chen’s entire aura shifted, now carrying an air of humility. The land across the heaven-region battlefield trembled as the rune formed, as if drawn toward the rune’s power.
As the violet qi in Long Chen’s body reached saturation, the rest of it poured down below him, which was Xia Chen’s spirit-gathering formation. When this qi entered the formation, all the experts inside shuddered. Their essence runes suddenly grew brighter.
“This qi helps them condense their essence runes?! Absolutely heaven-defying!” shouted the onlookers.
Before their surprise could cease, seven-color divine light spread from Long Chen’s body, creating a ripple that passed throughout the entire heaven region’s battlefield.
The seven-color ripple retracted, shaking the world itself. The ten thousand Daos cried out, and countless Heavenly Dao runes poured toward the Earth Cauldron from every direction.
“Damn it, again?! Stop him!”
Furious roars filled the air. Long Chen had seized the fortune of heaven and earth to absorb violet qi and condense an essence rune. Though blocked by the Earth Cauldron, the enemies could somewhat sense the extraordinary power it contained.
Now, Long Chen was doing it again. Now, even those who had not been participating in the battle raised their weapons toward the retracting seven-color ripple.
1. This ☷ is the symbol for Kun in the eight trigrams, referring to Earth. ☜