MF-novel Chapter 258: Sword Light?
Chapter 258: Sword Light?
Chapter 258: Sword Light?
Tianyi paused and turned around. He saw over ten immortals rushing from the Profound Leakless Formation. At the head was a young man around Tianyi’s age and the one who shouted.
“Naturally, I’ll stop if you tell me what happened,” Tiany said. “Though, it doesn’t really take much to guess. I’ll change my question, where are the elders?”
The man in the front didn’t say anything, and the Leakless Sect’s immortals stopped after a certain distance. “Release Elder Jia and Elder Qiang, and I’ll tell you.”
Tianyi laughed. “Do you really think I’m that gullible?”
The man frowned. “Vast Heaven Young Master, if you release them now, I can allow you to leave unharmed.”
At this, the other immortals started to furiously reject, but they were all suppressed by the young man. “What do you think? Even if you are a genius, you can’t possibly defeat all of us.”
Tianyi’s answer was to raise the martial immortal and the spear immortal in his hand and bashed their heads together, caving them in. If they weren’t immortals, they would have already died from the trauma, but Tianyi wasn’t finished as black qi emerged from his sleeve and engulfed the two.
“Stop!” The young man shouted. Two enormous gauntlets over a hundred meters large appeared and shot towards Tianyi.
Tianyi dropped the two and punched the two gauntlets but discovered the gauntlet’s strength exceeded his imagination and was pushed back. The gauntlets ignored Tianyi and grabbed the two falling elders.
The young man checked the two immortals and handed them to one of the immortals behind him, who attempted to heal the two. He then glared at Tianyi. “I originally thought since we had some friendship from the Heavenly Connection Meeting, I would spare you, but since you aren’t grateful, I can only kill you.”
“I’m sorry, but have we met?”
Tianyi’s words further enraged the young man, and he roared, “Xi Tianyi, don’t try to aggravate me!”
The two giant gauntlets shrunk down and slotted onto the young man’s hand. Then, a helmet, chest plate, waist armor, two grieves, and a cape covered him. He flicked his arm, and a spear appeared in his hand.
Tianyi blinked. He could sense that all nine artifacts were immortal artifacts, and they exuded an extremely similar aura to the young man. He snapped his fingers and said, “Oh, you’re the person with nine lifebound artifacts, San Jiuling!”
Those words only seemed to enrage San Jiuling further. “And after today, no one will remember the Vast Heaven Immortal!”
Tianyi reared his fist back and met San Jiuling’s spear thrust. Fist met spearhead, and sparks exploded between the two. Tianyi’s body shot backward a few times, and only after Tianyi stabilized did he stop.
San Jiuling also retreated a few paces in the air, but less so than Tianyi. Still, despite seemingly winning the first confrontation, he felt his inner organs disturbed from the powerful force Tianyi had unleashed.
“Again!” Tianyi said as he rushed forward. Simultaneously, an outer robe seemingly created from the night sky appeared on Tianyi’s body. His expression became even more excited. ‘It’s been so long since I’ve used the cosmic cloak.’
Upon seeing Tianyi’s cosmic cloak, San Jiuling’s nine lifebound artifacts began to vibrate and emitted a low glow. Especially the spearhead, which became electric blue and left an arc in the air as it pierced towards Tianyi.
The two exchanged over a hundred moves, but at the end, San Jiuling’s body flew back and crashed into the ground, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
“Junior Sect Master!” The immortal following him cried out.
San Jiuling wiped the blood off his chin and glared unwillingly at Tianyi.
He had expected Tianyi to suddenly enlarge the sword to smash him, but he had other pressing matters than fantasizing.
“Junior Sect Master, we can’t go on like this. Our qi is depleting at an increasing rate. If we don’t break out of this formation, only death will await us,” one immortal said.
San Jiuling stayed silent as he continued to fend off Tianyi’s attack. He sighed and said, “Do you have a method to escape?”
“No matter how powerful a formation is, there is always a limit. As long as we can escape that range, we’ll be safe. We can’t fight the Sword Sovereign’s son head-on. We’ll need at least a hundred more immortals or use the Profound Leakless Formation’s strength,” The immortal said.
San Jiuling nodded.
The Leakless Monarch War Formation suddenly disengaged from Tianyi, turned tail, and fled in the opposite direction. Tianyi didn’t chase, but a knowing smile appeared on his face.
“Is he chasing?” One of the immortals asked.
San Jiuling glanced behind him. They had already fled for five minutes, and Tianyi’s figure had long disappeared. It puzzled them why Tianyi didn’t give chase, but they didn’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, so they continued to flee.
After another ten minutes, San Jiuling’s brows furrowed, wondering why it took so long to leave the range of Tianyi’s formation. Although the Leakless Monarch had the power of an immortal monarch, in theory, that was only the full version that took one hundred immortals. He only had little more than ten, and he hadn’t fully comprehended a complete law. The only reason they barely reached the threshold of an immortal monarch’s strength was due to his nine lifebound artifacts.
Suddenly, they spotted a figure ahead, and the Leakless Monarch War Formation came to a screeching halt. The figure was none other than the backside of Tianyi.
Tianyi turned around with a knowing smiled and asked, “Yo, back so soon? I thought you didn’t want to play anymore.”
San Jiuling’s expression turned livid. He almost engaged Tianyi again, but the immortals woke him up. Instead of talking, he controlled the Leakless Monarch War Formation to turn and flee to another direction.
After the third attempt, they finally gave up on escaping.
“Junior Sect Master, I once heard the news that Xi Tianyi could use a temporal healing technique. Techniques are created based on laws and concepts, and those that use temporal techniques often comprehend the temporal law. Although not every cultivator of the spatial law comprehended the temporal law, everyone who cultivates the temporal law has some mastery of the spatial laws,” The immortal said. After a moment of hesitation, he continued. “To prevent the Leakless Monarch War Formation from escaping and linking space, I’m afraid that he is only one breath away from mastering the full Law of Space.”
Upon hearing this, San Jiuling’s expression turned ugly.
When most cultivators thought of the Laws of Space, they mostly thought of its auxiliary capabilities such as teleportation or their powerful domains, but spatial techniques included devastatingly powerful physical attacks as well.
Worst, if you were weaker than a spatial cultivator, then escape was all but impossible. Even an immortal monarch might not be able to escape from an immortal lord that specialized in space.
Those in the Pathfinding Immortal Realm had two titles, true immortal and immortal lords. True immortals were all those who still were in the process of comprehending the worldly laws and forming their daoseeds. Immortal lords, in contrast, were those just one step away from comprehending a full law or those that comprehended it but did not enter the Seamless Immortal Realm.
“Done running?” Tianyi asked as he floated in front of the Leakless Monarch War Formation.
San Jiuling didn’t answer as the war formation brandished its spear toward Tianyi. A moment later, nine different colored lights encased the nine lifebound artifacts, and their strength dramatically increased. It seemed like San Jiuling wanted to defeat Tianyi to escape his formation.
Tianyi smiled and raised his sword. He charged towards the giant war formation fearlessly with his sword raised. Unlike the previous time, the difference between the two wasn’t as great, and Tianyi even felt hints of suppression from the war formation, but it was far from enough.
He had near unlimited qi while San Jiuling and the Leakless Monarch War Formation were on borrowed time. As Tianyi continued to fight, he suddenly discovered that his sword strikes became stronger and stronger, and the Law of Mass that he had mastered was fully integrated into his sword.
Tianyi slashed forward, and an arc of light followed. With a large sound, he rebuffed the Leakless Monarch War Formation’s spear backward. He glanced down at the light covering his sword. “Sword Light?”