1045: Chapter 1014 Swordsman, Can You Let Me Go?
1045: Chapter 1014 Swordsman, Can You Let Me Go?
The power of incense fire gathered from billions of devotees roared and bellowed, calling upon their deities, harboring malicious intent towards the lone green-clothed youth who remained, wishing nothing more than to flay him and devour his flesh.
Such malice permeated the heavens and the earth, as if the cultivator had been forsaken by the entire world.
However, all this malice could not come within a thousand miles of the green-clothed youth; anything that approached would be instantly annihilated.
What multitudes of people, what billions of beings, all were useless.
Daring to attack, clearly making their choice, regardless of the reason, they must die.
âThese forces of incense fire are truly tiresome.â
Jiang Ding frowned.
The malice of living beings, if abundant and sustains over centuries, can lead to dire consequences, involving causality and fate, a highly complex matter.
This is a world where spirit can influence matter.
If a cultivator is not powerful enough, the curses of billions of beings could indeed kill them.
âHandle this quickly, aside from a few stubborn zealots, most of the common folk are innocent, deceived by Xi Pingâan, they need to be quickly rescued.â
Jiang Ding sighed.
He flew down from the sky, wandering within this fifth-order low-grade undersea spiritual vein for several days, calculating data on various spiritual veins, earth qi, sea waves, and tides, processing rapidly in his sea of consciousness.
âTo think there are no fifth-order formationsâŠâ
Jiang Ding grimaced.
Xi Pingâan in the past relied solely on the Incense Fire Divine Court to dominate the East Sea, never intending to set up any fifth-order formations.
This meant there was nothing to utilize; everything had to be built from scratch, bearing all costs oneself.
âNever mind, starting from scratch is better, convenient.â
Jiang Ding grimaced, then vanished, returning several days later.
He now held a formation setup in his hands, the fifth-order low-grade Mist-Water Wave Formation, very suitable for the environment of the East Sea, and crucially, it was cheap, requiring only 520 billion low-grade spirit stones, making it the lowest price among such formations in the Xianmen Sects.
Actually, if he waited another 201 years for a promotional event, it could be further discounted by 700 billion low-grade spirit stones, Jiang Ding hesitated for a long time before finally giving it up with difficulty.
âLetâs quickly finish up the East Sea as its output in a few years can cover the discount.â
Jiang Ding flew in the sky.
Surrounding him, hundreds of thousands of Array Flags, jade tripods, azure water droplets, jade pillars, and other formation instruments appeared, along with some reserved Boundary Formation interfaces, densely filling the sky, mostly made of jade and stone materials, without any metal due to the nature of the Mist-Water Wave Formation.
âSet!â
Jiang Ding lightly tapped his finger, a jade tripod descended without causing a splash, melting into the sea and then delving deeper to the ocean floor, finally settling at a node of the spiritual vein.
Array Flags, jade pillars, jade talismans were laid down, array patterns continuously spreadâŠ
Jiang Ding had become very adept at setting formations, his Divine Sense splitting into thousands, moving simultaneously, almost instinctually, requiring hardly any thought.
Months later, accompanied by the trembling of heaven and earth, a vast expanse of array patterns and mist appeared between heaven and earth.
From afar, the entire sea area was shrouded by mist, impenetrable to Divine Sense and vision, indistinctly revealing illusions of pavilions and towers, resembling the Penglai Fairyland.
And this was not incorrect.
This place would be the center of the Eastern Sea Cultivation World, indistinguishable from Penglai Fairyland in the hearts of many low-to-middle stage cultivators.
âItâs doneâŠâ
Jiang Ding was about to activate the formation, opening the accompanying ultra-long-range teleportation formation to transport the cultivators from the Tushan Central Court to handle various matters, when suddenly he had a thought.
âCome forth.â
Jiang Ding remained expressionless, performing a mana technique, extracting a fist-sized golden sword from the center of the spiritual vein.
This golden sword was deeply buried within the spiritual vein, only revealed when the formation was fully activated.
Before Jiang Ding did not realize, besides the interference of the Fifth-Order Spiritual Vein, the main reason was that he was too weak, even weaker than a Qi Practitioner, inferior to ordinary mortals, where even a slight breezeâs energy fluctuation was greater than his.
âSwordsmanâŠâ
Xi Pingâan emerged from the golden sword, barely managing a sycophantic smile on his face.
âCan you spare me?â
âKilling me benefits you nothing, Iâve already told you, my father has left a restraining prohibition on me, if you kill me youâll fall into madness, the kind you canât ever escape.â
âYou should know, my father is the Great Sun Sword Master who is about to break through the Refining Nothingness stage, he might even be able to kill a cultivator at the Unity Realm Stage, mastering the Power of Causality, those avoidance methods you mentioned are useless.â
Xi Pingâan pleaded.
âOh?
Werenât you always seeking revenge on me?â
Jiang Ding asked curiously.
He didnât care about Xi Pingâanâs threats.
Because he wasnât alone, he had the backing of the Xianmen Sect.
Back then, Xianmen Sect was able to directly kill the Great Sun Sword Master!
Now, a mere technique left by the Great Sun Sword Master, they surely have the capability to solve it, undoubtedly, being a Domain Overlord power, one of the nine gangsters.
âThis is my misjudgment.â
âAssuming the worst of a gentleman with a villainâs heart.â
Xi Pingâan said with a playful smile: âWhen my father was still a Swordsman, he would seek out people to kill indiscriminately, friends or foes alike, and after advancing to Refining Nothingness he even deliberately allowed the Eastern Devil School to grow, forcing the Eight Great Immortal Sects to support the Eastern Devil School, just to make stronger enemies appear, then kill them one by one, honing his sword to the ultimate peak, and then break through above Refining Nothingness.â
âHe had terrifying ambitions, not content to stop at Refining Nothingness, wanting to be invincible even in realms above Refining Nothingness, enhancing the power of his enemies as much as possible.â
âIn the endâŠâ
Xi Pingâan showed a trace of sadness.
âHe died.â
âDied on the path of seeking the Sword Dao, slain by a stronger power, though he was in a weakened state.â
âBut Sword Dao, does not need reasons, only results, victory or defeat.â
âHe, Xi Yuan, was not strong enough and died, thatâs all.â
âWhen leaving the Mother Realm, he just smiled at me, telling me to survive, just that, never mentioned revenge.â
âA Swordsman uses the blood of the strong to sharpen his swordâs edge, dying by this, is truly fitting.â
âFor seniors, relatives, and descendants to use this as an excuse for revenge, for a Swordsman, is the greatest shame.â
âThis means that his descendants are no longer true Swordsmen, no longer recognize the sanctity of Sword Fights.â
âSo, we hold no grudges.â
Xi Pingâan concluded, âMoreover, Iâve been cowardly since childhood, unsuited for the Sword Dao, and have never been to the battlefield to kill anyone from your Eastern Devil School, as between us, we were mere strangers, without any cause and effect.â
He gave many reasons.
âIt doesnât make sense.â
âIt just doesnât make sense.â
Jiang Ding did not agree with this, shaking his head: âWhat the Swordsmen are I donât care about nor do I need to know, I am just me.â
âI still remember,â
Jiang Ding looked at Xi Pingâan, finally showing a look of deep hatred: âYou have chased to kill me!â
âYou despicable, shameless person!â
âTaking advantage of when I was weak, you hunted me down, nearly killing me!â
âDo you think I would forget?!!â