Born with immortal seed

Chapter 374 Fifth-Order Flying Sword vs. Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure
Ding!
The Tai Xuan White-Headed Sword once again unleashed countless sword lights, but the Black Dragon swallowed it whole, forcing it to reveal its true form as a flying sword, which was then knocked away.

Tang Fei's life force was instantly extinguished, and his physical body turned into withered straw and parchment.

The nascent soul escaped, and with a snap of its two small hands, the realm completely collapsed, and the power of the void gathered around its body.

The nascent soul appears and disappears intermittently, about to teleport away.

The black dragon roared, unleashing pure killing intent from its mouth. The nascent soul, which had already vanished into the void, turned deathly pale and was thrown out.

Snapped!
Like a ball exploding, the immense spiritual energy scattered and all flowed into the black dragon's body.

After the storm had passed, a murderous sword, now several inches longer, hovered in the air, gleaming with an eerie black light.

One glance is enough to draw you in with the deep, abyss-like darkness of the sword, and you'll be irrevocably immersed in it.

That was pure slaughter, the ultimate death, revealing the true meaning of the Great Dao.

A bolt of purple lightning struck down, hitting the Killing Demon Sword before anyone could react, without any warning.

The Killing Demon Sword suddenly sprang up, and in a daze, it seemed as if a thunder dragon had been slain. At the same time, the sword's spiritual light was damaged, and it wilted.

It spun around in the air, head bobbing, and headed straight for Kong Bai, landing directly in his palm.

"Senior Brother Xiang..."

As Kong Bai stroked the brand-new Killing Demon Sword, the sword spirit showed obvious signs of attachment and directly told him the method of refining it.

I know there must be some connection to the influence of the Xiangji (a traditional Chinese medicine term), otherwise why would they have volunteered to come here?

"Brother!"

Yan Yuanzai was overcome with grief and inexplicable sorrow.

Before coming, Tang Fei had already told him that he was prepared to die for this sword duel.

However, after breaking through on the battlefield and reaching the realm of sword light differentiation, Yan Yuanzai truly felt that he had seen an opportunity to turn defeat into victory.

Who could have imagined that Xiang Ji would take such an extreme path, even at the cost of his own soul's annihilation, to achieve his ultimate goal of forging the sword?

In his heart, he was willing to give up everything for the perfect Killing Demon Sword.

At the cost of the lives of two top sword cultivators, the Killing Demon Sword was pushed to the fifth rank and successfully survived the Spirit Treasure Tribulation.

"This lightning was several times stronger than the last lightning bolt in the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation. Yet, the Killing Demon Sword annihilated the spiritual essence of the lightning in the blink of an eye, causing the heavenly lightning to degenerate into ordinary divine lightning. It dissipated after striking once... Otherwise, even if the first lightning bolt had been blocked, it would have returned within a few breaths, with a second and a third endless stream of heavenly lightning descending."

Ge Cang possessed the true form of Thunder God and was a master of thunder magic, so he saw through the mystery of the previous heavenly lightning at a glance.

"So it turns out that when a spiritual treasure is promoted to a Heavenly Spiritual Treasure, it will also attract a Heavenly Tribulation... Only by overcoming it can it become a Heavenly Spiritual Treasure; if it fails to overcome it, it will probably become a pile of scrap metal and won't even be able to maintain the fourth rank."

Bai Zichen witnessed firsthand the fourth-order flying sword advance to the fifth-order flying sword, and thus had an estimate of the difficulty of this feat.

Tang Fei was able to cultivate to the fourth realm of swordsmanship, and Xiang Ji was able to forge the Killing Demon Sword himself, using his own swordsmanship and endless killing to push this sword to the peak of the fourth-tier flying sword.

Both of them possessed extraordinary talent in swordsmanship.

Given so many external conditions, and having taken a shortcut, they still needed to use their combined essence and spirit to open the final threshold.

No wonder there are very few fifth-order flying swords in the world, from ancient times to the present, that have been clearly recorded.

Of these, half were either treasures bestowed by the upper realm or swords worn by banished immortals when the Ascension Platform existed.

The natal flying sword of a Nascent Soul cultivator receives the power of the celestial cave when advancing to Nascent Soul, attracting the tide of primordial energy from heaven and earth. Nearly half of them also advance by leveraging the feedback of the power of the Great Dao.

Less than half of the fifth-tier flying swords were directly forged by swordsmiths in the cultivation world or advanced from fourth-tier flying swords.

This fifth-tier killing demon sword is already worthy of being recorded in history, its brilliance lasting for eternity.

The names of Xiang Ji and Tang Fei will be passed down through generations along with this fifth-tier flying sword.

As long as the Killing Sword remains intact, I will live on forever.

This is indeed true for Xiangji, who became part of the Killing Demon Sword; it's just a pity for True Monarch Tang Fei.

"That was a split sword light! If Xiang Ji hadn't sacrificed himself to give the Killing Demon Sword the power of a fifth-order flying sword, Senior Tang Fei would have had a great chance of cultivating to the late Nascent Soul stage within his remaining lifespan, catching up with the strength of the sect's founder, True Monarch Tianhe."

Before they arrived, no one could have predicted that this sword match would take so many twists and turns.

The cultivation world faces a common enemy, the demon realm inherits its legacy, the True Demon Saint Body appears, and Du Heng, the city lord of Zengguang Immortal City, turns out to be the mastermind behind the storms that have stirred up the Northern Region over the past century.

Xiang Ji's purpose in the sword duel was indeed to use Tang Fei as a whetstone, attempting to absorb his essence and spirit to create an opportunity to break through to the fifth-tier flying sword.

Unexpectedly, Xiang Ji was so determined that he sacrificed himself after Tang Fei broke through in battle, thus giving birth to a fifth-tier flying sword.

It is said that disciples of the Killing Sword Sect are prone to becoming addicted to killing and going down the demonic path.

On the surface, Xiang Ji seemed to have controlled his killing intent, but in reality, from the day he embarked on forging the Demonic Sword of Killing, his fate had already been deeply bound to this flying sword.

For him, this outcome was the fulfillment of his desires.

"Without the terrifying shock of life and death, Senior Brother would not have been able to comprehend the differentiation of sword light... Being able to advance to the next level of swordsmanship before death is already acceptable for a sword cultivator."

Yan Yuanzai adjusted his mindset and buried his sorrow deep in his heart.

"That demonic body of the True Demon Saint is raising its arm; Du Heng is about to make his move again!"

Master Cheng Tuo couldn't understand how the situation could have changed so drastically in such a short time.

Two Nascent Soul stage sword cultivators perished together. So what if they forged a fifth-order flying sword? Could it possibly stop Du Heng in Kong Bai's hands?

The power of the True Demon Saint Body is well known to any cultivator who has ever learned about the ancient war to seal the demons.

At that time, the Ascension Platform still existed and was full of vital energy. The communication between the human world and the upper world was not very close, but as long as one sincerely worshipped, one would often receive a response from the ancestral master of the upper world once every few hundred years.

Every few thousand years, there are rumors of reincarnated immortals or banished immortals descending to earth, many of which are true.

The number of Nascent Soul cultivators was far less than it is today. They even had to worry about losing their vital energy if they used their full strength, so they tried their best to stay out of the world.

After the ancient demon descended upon this world, it slaughtered countless living beings and committed boundless atrocities.

This ultimately sparked public outrage, and all races and sects felt a grave threat of annihilation.

Led by a banished immortal and joined by dozens of Nascent Soul level experts, they surrounded the ancient demon in the Valley of Burial Immortals.

Influenced by the laws of this realm, the ancient demon, who was restricted to the perfected Nascent Soul stage, wielded the fully formed Demon Dragon Cone and manifested the True Demon Saint Body.

Outnumbered and outgunned, the battle raged for years, carving a canyon through the plains.

If it weren't for the array that restrained its power and confined it to one place,

Otherwise, the affected area would be at least thousands of times larger, and it is highly likely that the northern region would sink, the land would crumble, and the entire region would become barren.

The True Demonic Body displayed thirty-six supernatural powers and seventy-two transformations, and in such an unfavorable situation, it managed to kill five Nascent Soul stage experts.

Several others were seriously injured in the war to seal the demons, and passed away less than a century after the war.

Even if the avatar Du Heng created didn't have a grasp of the True Demon Saint Body as good as the Ancient Demon, the strength it could unleash would definitely far exceed that of a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator.

With Du Heng's main body and the Demon Dragon Cone also present, there was no way the remaining few people could survive.

At most, only Kong Bai might be able to escape with the protection of a fifth-tier flying sword.

"A wonderful sword duel, and you even contributed a fifth-tier flying sword... I'll gladly accept it. It's a waste of a gem to fall into the hands of a junior like you!"

Du Heng used one hand to support the crown on his head, and with the other hand, he thrust out the Demon Dragon Cone horizontally.

At the same time, the demonic body behind it made the same move, and the phantom of the demonic dragon cone was generated in its hand.

Several enigmatic magical runes flashed, and a phantom of a demonic dragon cone descended from the sky, locking onto Kong Bai and instantly appearing in front of him across space.

Ding!
The Killing Demon Sword automatically leaped up, its black light slashing away the illusory image of the Demon Dragon Cone. The collision of the two Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasures directly caused ripples and cracks to appear in the space.

The fourth-order grand formation set up on Meili Snow Mountain had already suffered some damage, and now it could no longer be maintained, as the wind and snow dissipated.

Du Heng focused all his energy on the Demon Dragon Cone; otherwise, even if it was a temporary formation, it wouldn't have been dispersed by the residual power of the Heavenly Treasure.

In terms of quality, the Demon Dragon Cone and the Killing Demon Sword are both top-grade Heavenly Treasures, and are equally matched.

However, the Demon Dragon Cone has only awakened to the level of a low-grade Heavenly Treasure, which is inferior to the Killing Demon Sword that has just been upgraded.

However, the strength of the two treasure wielders differed greatly. With the help of his demonic body clone and the power of the magic crystal, Du Heng was able to control the Demon Dragon Cone to a certain extent.

Kong Bai was completely unable to control the Killing Demon Sword. He relied solely on the spirituality of the fifth-tier flying sword to fight on his own, and could only unleash the most basic power of the flying sword itself.

With a single blow, Kong Bai was sent flying far away, spitting out blood that stained a large patch of white snow.

"Fellow Daoists, this demon is incredibly powerful and cannot be defeated by force... Let's split up and run away to spread the word!"

Before Master Cheng Tuo finished speaking, he had already stepped onto a palm leaf and flown two snow-capped peaks away.

The Arhat who held up the flower chanted a Buddhist prayer, and lotus flowers bloomed beneath his feet as he stepped through the air.

With each step, the lotus flower beneath his feet was already ten miles away, a speed no slower than that of Master Cheng Tuo's palm-leaf Dharma treasure.

Instead, Bai Zichen and the other two did not flee. The Moon Spin Sword and the Star Jade Sword collided, and the two flying swords cheered at the same time, with moonlight and starlight covering the snow peak.

"It turns out that my Xingyao Sword and your Yuexuan Sword are a pair of flying swords. When used together, they are not quite at the level of fifth-tier flying swords, but they far exceed the level of fourth-tier flying swords. They can be considered as near-fifth-tier flying swords."

The Heavenly River Sword Sect is not far from the Burial Immortal Valley, and its emphasis on the True Demon Saint Body is definitely the highest among the major Nascent Soul sects.

Yan Yuanzai immediately told the two that they shouldn't even think about escaping.

As expected, the demonic body let out a cold snort and used the Heaven and Earth Transformation Divine Power, growing to about a thousand feet in length.

Two demonic hands reached forward and grabbed the two Nascent Soul True Monarchs who were already dozens of miles away. Neither of them could escape; they were captured one in each hand.

Ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators are so vulnerable in the face of the True Demon Saint Body.

(End of this chapter)