My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1073 Law of Chaos
"Thank you for your guidance, Heavenly Venerable. As the saying goes, 'If one hears the Dao in the morning, one can die content in the evening.' My doubts have all been resolved, and I have nothing left to worry about. Even if my primordial spirit is annihilated, I will not feel any regret."

Yun Zhongzi bowed to Wen Rui and sincerely thanked him, saying, "Master Yuanshi founded the Chan Sect. I have no right to comment on his merits and demerits. However, as a disciple of the Chan Sect, I am deeply grateful for Master's teachings, which are as good as being reborn."

"I know I am no match for the Heavenly Venerable, but I will not surrender and wait to die. I will fight to the death to repay my master's kindness. I beg the Heavenly Venerable to use his full power and grant me death!"

After speaking, he slowly retreated in front of Wen Rui, each step he took showing extreme caution.

It's like a weak mortal encountering a tiger in the mountains. Even if he's not terrified and still has the courage to survive, he has to be extremely careful, walking on thin ice as if facing death.

"Uncle-Master, wait a moment..."

Wen Rui slowly raised his hand, intending to make a gesture to stop him, but Yun Zhongzi misunderstood and thought that Wen Rui's action was to use supernatural powers. His slowly retreating figure suddenly accelerated, and he flew backward and rushed into the clouds.

As they created some distance, a giant sword that resembled both gold and wood appeared out of thin air in front of Yun Zhongzi. He placed his right hand on the hilt of the Giant Sword, and spiritual light poured into the sword like a tide.

The giant sword suddenly grew dozens of feet tall, its blade cleaving through the clouds and refracting the midday sun into dazzling sword light. The bluestone on the ground crumbled under the pressure of the sword energy, and the thick, ribbon-like sword energy crashed down like a jade pillar that split the sky.

Yun Zhongzi once launched a sword attack on the martial arts puppet created by Wen Rui using the flying sword mode of the Juque Sword, but the puppet broke the sword technique with a casual move.

Breaking the flying sword technique with a puppet is as easy as eating and drinking. How could Yun Zhongzi dare to repeat the same trick on the puppet's creator? So he completely changed his sword-wielding method, abandoning the flying sword technique and instead using sword energy to defeat the enemy.

This sword energy condensed Yun Zhongzi's lifelong cultivation, carrying the righteous spirit of "slaying demons and eliminating evil spirits, making ghosts and gods flee." Even the void was scratched by the sword wind, and the power of this sword seemed to be able to split Zhongnan Mountain in two.

Yun Zhongzi's swordsmanship was different from that of ordinary sword immortals. He did not follow the path of lightness and speed. Even when he released flying swords, he relied on the surging true energy attached to the Juque sword to kill demons. Often, before the sword even reached him, the demons locked by the flying swords had already been suppressed and killed by the sword energy.

Back then, he merely hung the sword on a pillar in the Yin Shang royal palace, and under the oppressive power of the sword's aura, the nine-tailed fox demon, who had cultivated for thousands of years, felt excruciating pain and nearly died.

Knowing that Wen Rui's magical power was unfathomable, Yun Zhongzi simply made the most of his strengths. He used the flying sword as a weapon, unleashing his full power and bringing the way of sword energy to its peak.

This sword strike was the culmination of Yun Zhongzi's lifelong cultivation. In past battles against demons, anyone targeted by this sword would shatter instantly, with a success rate of almost 100%—making it arguably the most powerful and "flawless" strike among his peers in the Chan Sect.

However, just as the Giant Sword was about to strike Wen Rui, the moment the blade touched the space three feet around him, the originally condensed azure light began to dissipate, and the runes on the sword dimmed one by one, as if they were being stripped away by an invisible force.

Yun Zhongzi's pupils contracted sharply. He could clearly feel that the spiritual power contained in the sword was dissipating in a way that defied common sense. The once sure strike was now accompanied by a sense of stagnation and weakness.

"Could this be... the Law of Chaos?"

A wave of emotion surged through Yun Zhongzi's heart; the anxiety that had been hanging over him finally subsided.

Ever since Wen Rui appeared, Yun Zhongzi had sensed an inexplicable and mysterious power surrounding him. It was this power that exerted immense pressure on him, making him feel that if he took a wrong step and came within three feet of Wen Rui, he would surely perish. This power felt somewhat familiar, but Yun Zhongzi couldn't recall when or where he had encountered it before.

When he tried it out himself, it was as if the floodgates of Yun Zhongzi's memory had been pierced, and he immediately recalled everything.

When he charged into the Zhuxian Sword Formation, a chaotic sword aura swept over him, almost tearing Yun Zhongzi and his sword to shreds. If it weren't for the protective talisman bestowed upon him by his master, Yuanshi Tianzun, before the battle, he would have died long ago.

Within that chaotic sword energy lay a trace of chaotic law. Under the chaotic law, immortal techniques, supernatural powers, realms... everything was distorted and disrupted. No matter how high your cultivation level was, if the rules of power were reversed, you would be no different from a salted fish waiting to be slaughtered, and could only helplessly await your death.

The reason why the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation can slay immortals is that within the sword formation, the rules of the immortal realm no longer exist. There is no difference between immortals and mortals, so slaying immortals is no different from killing people.

In other words, Yun Zhongzi is knowledgeable and experienced.

The True Martial Emperor had not experienced the Investiture of the Gods war, nor had he gone with the immortals of the Chan Sect to attack the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation. Even though his divine position and cultivation were a notch above Yun Zhongzi's, he could not see through Wen Rui's probability reversal strategy. Yun Zhongzi, however, discerned it in a single move.

As Yun Zhongzi had predicted, the bizarre scene unfolded.

—The Giant Sword suddenly veered off course, its blade grazing Wen Rui's shoulder. The sword energy, which should have cleaved through the rocks, only scattered a few fragments of stone when it hit the ground.

Even more surprisingly, a tiny crack appeared on the sword, as if it had not been slashed, but rather struck something harder than itself.

It should be noted that the Giant Sword is an innate spiritual treasure, and ordinary attacks cannot harm it in the slightest. However, it is now affected by the "Law of Chaos," and its strength has been reversed, making it impossible for it to remain intact.

At this moment, just like before, Yun Zhongzi seemed to be in the Zhuxian Sword Formation once again. Back then, he was like a rat rushing into traffic, feeling countless forces that could crush him descending in a disorderly and random manner. He could do nothing but run away with his head in his hands and pray for God's protection.

As for resistance, can a rat crossing the street resist being crushed by the wheels of a hundred-ton king?

Every chaotic sword energy that struck could reduce a Primordial Golden Immortal to their original form, stripping them of their saintly status and reducing them to the mortal realm, making them no different from pigs and dogs.

Having lost all their cultivation, how pathetic must the Golden Immortal of the Chan Sect be? When the three flowers on the top of his head were cut off in the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation, his ugly state was already fully revealed.

The Chaos Sword Qi is even more powerful than the Primordial Golden Cauldron. It not only reduces cultivation level but also has a killing effect, making it as easy as slicing melons and chopping vegetables to kill immortals.

Although Wen Rui's protective domain did not reach the terrifying effect of the chaotic sword energy of the Zhuxian Sword Formation, it still contained a wisp of chaotic law power. This wisp of law power alone made Yun Zhongzi feel utterly desperate.

The Zhuxian Sword Formation cannot be broken without the combined presence of the Four Saints. Even with its significantly diminished version, Wen Rui's Chaos Shield is still a terrifying power that Yun Zhongzi, a mere peak Golden Immortal, cannot withstand.

(End of this chapter)