The world of martial arts, the immortal swordsman in the mortal realm.

Chapter 246 Extra Chapter 9: One Sword Suppresses Ten Thousand Gods!

There is a huge "gateway" on the mountain.

It was a huge light screen, tens of meters in diameter, shaped like a vortex, and emitting a pale light.

Various bizarre shapes, seemingly randomly pieced together from a variety of insects, wild beasts, birds, and reptiles, give a distorted and deformed feeling, and the monsters that give you nightmares just by looking at them are swarming out of the light screen.

Four years ago, the calamity of the demonic beasts that caused Lu Chen to lose his parents in this life only involved a few thousand demonic beasts.

At this moment, the number of demonic beasts that have already emerged from the light screen is probably already in the tens of thousands.

But Lu Chen didn't even frown; instead, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, revealing a smile.

"So much calamity energy, and we can eat our fill!"

Lu Chen flew over the horde of monsters.

With a flick of his sleeve, four sword lights flew out from the cuff, heading in the east, south, west, and north directions respectively.

Then, four sword lights hovered in the air in four directions. In the next instant, four figures appeared out of thin air, standing in four directions, each holding a long sword.

It was none other than the four sword spirits: Dugu Feng, Wanwan, Shi Feixuan, and Li Xiuning.

As the four gripped their longswords, their auras instantly merged into one, aligning with the aura of Lu Chen, who was positioned in the center and wielding the "White Rainbow Sword."

When the five people's energy connected, the void trembled slightly.

The portal of light in the mountains, as well as the space where all the demonic beasts resided, suddenly seemed to be separated from the rest of the world, becoming an independent little world unrelated to the outside world.

All the demonic beasts that had already broken out of the secret realm, as well as those that were continuously emerging from it, were completely trapped in this "small world" with nowhere to go.

"let's start."

Lu Chen murmured.

As soon as he finished speaking, the sky darkened.

Inside the sword formation, everything suddenly turned pitch black, and then, above the dark sky, "starlight" twinkled like a galaxy.

As the starlight twinkled, streaks of starlight-like sword light plummeted down, gradually transforming into meteors with long, fiery tails and crackling lightning as they fell.

Boom boom boom boom…

The meteor fell to Earth, creating a deafening roar.

No matter how large a monster's size or how tough its scales, it cannot withstand the bombardment of a meteor. If it is hit directly, it will instantly turn into dust. Even if it is only hit by the aftershock of the meteor falling to the ground, its bones will be broken and its tendons will be broken, and it will be unable to get up again.

As meteors fell in disarray.

The ground also began to shake and tremble.

Blazing sword lights burst forth from the ground, instantly melting even rocks and soil into crimson magma. Demonic beasts were even more vulnerable; once pierced by the sword light, they were engulfed in a raging inferno from the inside out, turning into ashes in just a few breaths.

Then a strong wind suddenly arose, sweeping back and forth through the gusts, with countless silver threads shimmering in the wind.

Those silver threads, as thin as spider silk, seemed incredibly soft and fragile, as if they could be broken with a single breath. In reality, they were sharp and indestructible. Every demon beast swept by the strong wind froze, its body then cracked and crisscrossed, before its body crumbled into tiny fragments.

Amidst the bombardment of meteors, the piercing flames of the earth, and the sweeping gales, the limbs of the demonic beasts within the sword formation flew wildly, blood splattered, and they perished in droves, utterly powerless to fight back.

The demonic beasts, stripped of all senses by the sword formation, didn't even know where the attack came from, nor could they find Lu Chen, who had set up the formation, or the four sword spirits. They could only run around aimlessly like headless flies, only to be swallowed up by the meteors, lava, and hurricanes in the blink of an eye.

Thousands upon thousands of demonic beasts pose a tremendous threat to mortals.

If this horde of monsters were to sweep into Qingtu City, out of the city's hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, very few would likely survive.

But they were no match for the sword formation set up by Lu Chen and the four sword spirits.

These grotesque and terrifying beasts, whose strength should not be underestimated, were as fragile as lambs or even ants, and were slaughtered at will by Lu Chen and his group of five, turning into resources for Lu Chen's growth.

One minute.

In just one minute.

The tens of thousands of demonic beasts that had already broken out of the secret realm were all wiped out.

Not even many corpses were left behind; they were all reduced to ashes by the Thunderfire Meteor and the Earthfire Sword. Next year, the Great Green Mountain will surely be lush with vegetation and blooming with wildflowers.

From within that vortex-shaped portal of light, demonic beasts continued to pour out in droves.

Lu Chen was like a farmer celebrating a bountiful harvest, his eyes filled with the joy of the harvest, blocking the doorway and reaping the spoils.

Stars rained down from the sky, fiery springs gushed from the ground, and sword winds swept all around. All the demonic beasts that rushed out of the secret realm's gate, before they could even let out an excited roar, were transformed into nourishment for the sinking land and the earth in their bewilderment.

I wonder how much was harvested.

The monsters that emerged from the portal of light gradually thinned out.

When a monster resembling a hybrid of a lizard and a mantis, covered in ferocious bone spurs and as large as a small mountain, was blasted into fragments and reduced to dust by the Thunderfire Meteorite, no more monsters emerged from the light barrier portal.

Wait a while longer.

Seeing that no more demonic beasts had indeed emerged, Lu Chen said to Dugu Feng and the other three:

"You all stay outside and form a defensive formation. I'll go in and take a look."

"careful!"

"Don't worry. This secret realm... feels quite familiar."

Lu Chen smiled as he spoke, then gently flapped his Wind and Thunder Wings and flew into the vortex of light.

……

This secret realm isn't very large.

From the air, one can see the boundaries in all four directions.

The terrain is not complicated, with low hills, winding rivers, twisted and deformed plants, and a few monsters.

Although it looked like a desolate and treacherous place, even filled with a decaying and cold aura, as the saying goes, yin gives rise to yang. In this extremely dangerous secret realm, Lu Chen sensed some extremely pure spiritual vitality.

Following his senses, he found a place of spiritual vitality, where he saw a short tree with gnarled branches growing beside a dark pool surrounded by poisonous water and filled with poisonous miasma.

On the low trees, orange-yellow fruits resembling kumquats grow, emitting an enticing fragrance.

Lu Chen did not know what the fruit was.

But he could sense that this fruit was a rare and precious treasure that would greatly benefit spiritual practice.

He came to the sapling and was about to pick a fruit to taste when a splash of water erupted from the deep pool. A jet-black tentacle burst out from the water and slammed down on Lu Chen.

Lu Chen smiled wryly, pointed his finger, and the sword light flashed, the tentacle bursting into dozens of pieces. Then the sword light pierced into the pool, and a shrill roar came from the bottom of the pool, followed by a large number of bubbles, and pieces of corpses of different sizes floated to the surface.

The demonic beast that had been lurking at the bottom of the pool, guarding the strange fruit on the tree, was brutally torn to pieces by Lu Chen before it even had a chance to show itself.

Lu Chen sheathed his sword, plucked an orange-yellow fruit, and without peeling it, popped it into his mouth to savor it for a while, muttering to himself:

"It's sweet and delicious, very nourishing, and can even slightly boost your spirits? Great stuff! I'll take it back for Rong'er and the others to help them recover."

With a flick of his sleeve, he uprooted the sapling and stored it in his storage space.

Afterwards, they went to the places where they sensed spiritual vitality one by one and found many rare treasures, including those that could strengthen the body, enhance cultivation, and nourish the mind, as well as rare treasures that could preserve beauty and even increase lifespan.

"The Pei family wants to explore the secret realm, and these rare and precious materials are probably one of their goals... but..."

Lu Chen looked towards the center of the secret realm, where a stone mountain that looked extremely abrupt stood out.

The rocky mountain was a thousand meters high, shaped like a giant mushroom, and was completely gray and bare, without a trace of grass or soil.

In nature, it's clearly impossible for such a tall, mushroom-shaped rock mountain to exist. Lu Chen intuitively felt that the rock mountain was extraordinary, and that the Pei family's ultimate goal in developing the secret realm was very likely that mushroom mountain.

He carefully sensed the danger for a while but did not detect any signs of peril. He then flapped his Wind and Thunder Wings and flew towards Mushroom Rock Mountain.

Soon, he arrived at the top of the umbrella-shaped mountain, which was several hundred meters in diameter.

The mountaintop was also completely bare, without a single blade of grass or even a speck of mud.

In the very center lies a huge human skeleton.

The skeleton is about ten meters tall from head to toe. Although it is humanoid, its legs have reverse joints, its feet are like tiger claws, its head is like a skull bull's head, with a pair of huge gray-white curved horns, and a pair of broad wing bones on both sides of its shoulder blades.

Lu Chen had seen many strange and bizarre monsters before, so he wasn't surprised by the appearance of these skeletons.

What truly surprised him was that the skeleton was actually alive!
Indeed, this skeleton with a bull's head, tiger's claws, and giant wings on its back, though lying motionless on the ground and appearing lifeless, could be keenly perceived by Lu Chen, with his current mental cultivation, as a powerful life force lurking deep within the skeleton's lifeless aura.

He even sensed divinity.

The divinity hidden within life force was so pure and powerful that it far surpassed the faint and weak divinity that Pei Xi and Chen Yixin displayed when they revealed their true forms.

"god?"

Lu Chen muttered to himself:

"Is this a so-called god? The bloodline power of the Jing royal family and the founding families originated from an existence similar to this skeleton?"

Chen Yixin once said that the "gods" in the secret realm are neither dead nor alive, but are in a state of "slumber".

The skeleton before them, brimming with vitality and imbued with divinity, perfectly corroborated Chen Yixin's statement.

"Did the royal family and founding clans of Jing Kingdom steal their bloodline power from such a slumbering 'god'? And was the object of their sacrifice also such a 'god'?"

Lu Chen stroked his chin, looking at the skeleton, and thought to himself:
"Then what is it that has caused these so-called 'gods' to fall into slumber?"

at this time.

The once lifeless and motionless skeleton suddenly trembled slightly.

Two points of eerie blue light suddenly ignited within the eye sockets of the skull.

The dormant vitality and divinity stirred, and a heavy, mountain-like pressure emanated from the skeleton, enveloping Luchen.

A muffled roar, a mixture of bull's bellow and tiger's howl, also rang in Lu Chen's ears:

"Now that you have seen the deity, why do you not bow? Kneel down, kneel down!"

The oppressive aura enveloped his entire body, threatening to bend Lu Chen's back and knees; the roar shook his mind and spirit, aiming to erode his will.

But Lu Chen remained completely unmoved.

Not only that.

When that heart-piercing roar reached his ears, his "Heart Sword" trembled slightly, transforming into a wisp of sword light that followed the impact on his mind and eroded the mind of the skeleton in the opposite direction.

As the sword struck, the skeletal creature's roar suddenly turned into one of terror and fear:

"What is this? A sword... How can it be a sword? No, don't even think about it..."

The skeleton was restless with divine energy, the entire skeleton rumbled and groaned, and strange runes emerged from every inch of the bone surface, radiating a dark purple light.

As the runes appeared, a purple light surged forth, and the skeleton, devoid of any flesh or blood, suddenly showed signs of growing flesh and blood.

A volcanic eruption-like force surged from the skeleton, and the invisible pressure enveloping Lu Chen increased tenfold.

But just as the skeleton was about to go berserk without any regard for anything else.

A clear, melodious sword rang out.

A phantom image of an ancient-looking longsword appeared above the skeleton's skull.

Then, the phantom of the longsword gently pierced downwards, disappearing into the top of the skeleton's skull.

The skeleton let out a miserable howl, and the volcanic eruption-like aura vanished instantly. The flesh and blood that were growing rapidly withered and decayed, and the runes and purple light on the skeleton disappeared and dimmed in an instant. The eerie blue flames in the eye sockets also went out in an instant.

The boiling, restless vitality and divinity were sucked in and devoured by the phantom of the longsword!

Just this once.

The skeleton returned to its deathly stillness, lying motionless on the ground. The invisible pressure that had enveloped Lu Chen had long since dissipated, as if the earlier commotion had been nothing but an illusion.

As Lu Chen gazed at the phantom of the ancient longsword, a storm of emotions surged within him.

This sword shadow was not a manifestation of his "Heart Sword".

It was not triggered by the Zhuxian Sword Intent deep within the sea of ​​consciousness.

It was purely provoked by the restlessness of the skeleton, and easily suppressed it just as it was about to go berserk.

at the same time.

The sword intent of Zhuxian deep within Lu Chen's sea of ​​consciousness suddenly trembled, radiating brilliant light, as if echoing the sword shadow.

So he suppressed the skeleton, then devoured its life force and divinity, plunging the skeleton into complete stillness. Then, the sword shadow flashed and appeared in front of Lu Chen, the tip pointing to the ground and the hilt facing Lu Chen's chest.

Lu Chen pursed his lips, took a deep breath, raised his hand, and gripped the hilt of his sword.

It was clearly just a phantom.

But when Lu Chen's hand gripped the sword hilt, he felt as if he were holding a real object.

Subsequently.

The phantom of the ancient longsword transformed into a stream of light, disappearing from Lu Chen's palm and entering the depths of his consciousness, merging with the intent of the Immortal Execution Sword.

The moment the two come together.

Lu Chen's aura surged, and information mixed with images surfaced in his mind.

In those dreamlike scenes.

A colossal demon god roams the void, devouring everything in its path, a scene of utter destruction.

There are also illusions of divine swords flying down from the heavens and slaying gods and demons with a single strike.

The dead demons, with their remaining divinity and flesh, evolved into evil gods.

But before those evil gods could even roam the world, the divine sword that had been suppressing their heads split into countless sword lights, nailing each and every one of them to death.

Afterwards, the sword light isolated the void, opened up a secret realm, and sealed all the evil gods within it.

The demons in the secret realm were born from sensing the aura of the evil god.

Its instinct is to devour humans, precisely to sacrifice blood to the evil god, to strengthen the evil god's vitality and divinity, and ultimately to resurrect it.

But under the suppression of the divine sword, not a single evil god was able to successfully revive.

Any slight disturbance will be met with the suppression of sword light.

"To subdue all gods with a single sword?"

Having finally uncovered the secrets of the main world, Lu Chen couldn't help but smile with delight.

He was getting closer and closer to the true form of the Immortal Execution Sword.

(End of this chapter)