IS Chapter 13

Chapter 13

The pitch-black seal suddenly transformed into the size of a palace, crashing down on Ye Zhuo!

Ye Zhuo swung his sword to block, his figure rising and falling amidst the mountains.

A snow-white seal also appeared like a specter behind Ye Zhuo, the sound of cranes crying out mournfully, like a giant crane spreading its wings and diving down.

Either of these would be more than enough to crush a Body Integration stage cultivator.

In the blink of an eye, Ye Zhuo had already exchanged blows with both natal magic treasures. The black one had a whole other world inside. No matter how much sword energy was unleashed, it would be absorbed by a dark light within, severing all connection.

The white one grew stronger with each attack it received, its power rebounding onto him.

However, Ye Zhuo was neither a Daoist cultivator nor an artifact cultivator, and he had no interest in unraveling the mysteries within.

Blood-red baleful flames burned forth from the sword’s body, fiercely encompassing a chilling sword aura. Ye Zhuo no longer dodged, but instead met the two seals pressing down on him head-on, attacking directly!

Sword energy could be swallowed, but the Reverse Scale Sword itself could not be drawn away. So he simply met force with force. Sword cultivators had always been about pure offense.

No matter how tough the main material of the magic treasure was, it couldn’t withstand the merciless intent of the sword.

No matter how strong the rebounding force, it couldn’t break the true dragon’s heart-protecting reverse scale.

In this area, both above and below, spiritual energy was indeed dwindling.

–Then it would come down to whether the spiritual energy was exhausted first, or the magic treasures were shattered first.

He knew a little about Daoist cultivation, so his consumption of spiritual energy was not particularly great.

Moreover, if spiritual energy ran out, he still had his own essence and soul. If essence and soul ran out, he still had his nascent soul.

The red-clad figure between the two seals no longer dodged, but instead leaped up against the suppressing force, hacking upwards with one sword strike after another.

Just like how he had whittled away Lou Shi’s beast soul phantom, each strike was filled with killing intent and delivered with his full strength.

Once the sword was drawn, there was no turning back.

Behind him seemed to swirl scarlet flames, surging against the torrent, only advancing and never retreating.

In fact, this was already approaching a kind of “Dao.”

That red figure with fluttering sleeves was like a climber on a cliff, facing an endless abyss below.

Cracks gradually began to appear on the magnificent seals.

Initially, they were clearly pressing downwards, but now they were being forced upwards into the air.

Tai Hao and Tai Zi exchanged a glance.

“Interesting, interesting!” Tai Zi clapped his hands and laughed, “Sword cultivators are truly interesting. One peerless figure after another emerges in the ruthless sword path. One day, I’ll cultivate it myself.”

“Doesn’t quite resemble the ruthless sword path,” his senior brother, True Man Tai Hao, mused. After a moment, he too adopted a teasing smile: “Who hasn’t seen the ruthless sword path before? Others are like the bright moon in the sky, but he’s more like a jinxed demon star.”

“Haha, senior brother also thinks this little thing is good, right!” Tai Zi said, “Why don’t you and I capture him and study him in detail?”

“Don’t speak nonsense.”

As the two conversed and laughed, the two seal magic treasures were already covered in cracks, and the circulation of energy within was affected, greatly diminishing their effectiveness.

True Man Tai Hao’s figure floated up and casually waved his sleeve.

Tai Zi also drew runes in the air and struck forward.

The two seals were instantly drawn back into their sleeves.

The world suddenly became dim.

Ye Zhuo raised his head. Above him was no longer the sky, but a black and white Taiji diagram that covered the four fields.

True Men Tai Hao and Tai Zi each stood beneath the yin and yang poles, becoming the core of the entire Taiji formation.

The yin and yang energies rotated and transformed, enveloping Ye Zhuo within. This thing was neither real nor illusory, could not be cut or broken. Any attack that landed in this realm of two extremes would first be devoured and annihilated by the black energy, then transformed into the power of white energy, endlessly regenerating.

Yin and yang give birth to each other, chaos becomes complete.

Presumably, this was their “Dao.”

“This is the domain of the Great Dao of my senior brother and I. It is not connected to the Heavenly Dao of the outside world,” True Man Tai Zi’s ethereal voice came. “Ye Zhuo, let me see, even if you have peerless sword skills and heaven-defying opportunities, what can you do?”

Ye Zhuo could feel the spiritual energy in his body rapidly dissipating, and his existence was being rejected by the entire realm of two extremes, being devoured and transformed.

Within such a realm, the two were the masters of the Great Dao, and his strength was suppressed to the lowest level. There was no escape, because the two extremes returned to one. Whether he fled towards the black or the white, he would eventually return to the beginning with the cycle of birth and death.

The two True Men watched him with smiles, as if watching a trapped beast fight.

Ye Zhuo stopped his sword, suspending it in mid-air. The power of yin and yang stirred his sleeves. One was “annihilation,” and the other was “birth.” When they intersected, it was like a giant vortex churning on the sea, and his existence was like a swaying leaf boat, about to be swallowed by it.

After a few more breaths, this black and white world of two extremes was completely formed.

Two huge black and white crane shadows suddenly appeared from the two poles, cried out, and their giant wings spread and dove down, their sharp beaks suddenly attacking Ye Zhuo.

This strike was meant to destroy his body and spirit.

Ye Zhuo’s sword did not move.

Instead, he saw him holding the scabbard at an angle with his left hand, meeting the black and white cranes!

In an instant, it was as if morning bells and evening drums suddenly rang out.

An invisible and colorless, gentle and solemn, yet supremely firm and strong force spread out from the scabbard like ripples, repelling the two cranes!

The two cranes cried out, unwillingly flying up again, circling above Ye Zhuo’s head.

Tai Hao and Tai Zi simultaneously became serious and looked at the scabbard in Ye Zhuo’s hand.

Previously, their attention had been only on the Reverse Scale Divine Sword, and they had not found anything special about the scabbard.

Now, looking closely, they saw that the scabbard was slender and thin, dark and dull, its material resembling both gold and wood, and a strange flower and leaf inscription was engraved on one corner.

“Not like something from this world,” Tai Zi said.

Tai Hao’s gaze was deep, looking at the corner pattern: “It’s Sala sacred wood. Everyone said that he had obtained the supreme secret inheritance of the Sumeru Upper Realm in the Spirit Mountain,It’s true。”

“Saro Holy Wood？”

“Saro double wood，Days，Yes，Words，The wood。”

At least, it had never been seen in this human world.

“Reverse Scale as the sword, sacred wood as the scabbard, truly a heaven-defying opportunity.” Tai Zi’s gaze was dark and uncertain, no longer the playful demeanor of the beginning, “Senior brother is right. This man must die.”

Immediately, they no longer watched from the sidelines, but silently chanted incantations and attacked, the black and white cranes scattering and gathering again, carrying a storm of attacks towards Ye Zhuo again and again!

The scabbard in Ye Zhuo’s hand seemed to have become another sharp weapon. For a time, he was only seen using offense as defense, hitting the black and white cranes several times, and black and white bloody crane feathers scattered in the two extremes realm.

–No.

The two extremes realm had suddenly disappeared.

A mountain breeze suddenly blew, and around them was again the scene of the Silver Moon Slope’s chaotic mountains. But looking up, the two extremes diagram, solid to the extreme, with a profound and terrifying aura, was crashing down on him like a heaven-opening hammer!

Obviously, Tai Hao and Tai Zi no longer intended to slowly wear away his life. At this moment, they were condensing the power and laws of the entire realm into a weapon to kill him on the spot.

At that time, it would be more than just his physical body that was injured, but also his essence and soul.

No matter how divine an object was, even if it could protect itself, it could not protect its master.

For Tai Zi and Tai Hao, this was also a last-ditch effort.

“Universe, change positions!” Tai Hao and Tai Zi shouted in unison.

The black and white colors of the Taiji diagram instantly intertwined and suddenly pressed down!

The instant all the power was condensed into one point, its power even surpassed the Heavenly Dao of this world.

In that instant, Ye Zhuo was struck from mid-air to the ground by the extremely strong impact.

Steadying his figure, Ye Zhuo slowly returned the sheathed sword to his waist.

The sword and the man seemed to become one.

There were no other actions. His gaze was focused with extreme calm.

“Still standing?” Tai Zi looked him over, surprised, “Interesting.”

As expected of a sword cultivator, he would rather break than bend. Even if forced to the limit, he would only prefer mutual destruction to preserving himself.

–But this was just the beginning.

The Taiji diagram roared down, its terrifying aura even increasing, and as it approached the ground, it was like a pendulum of a heavy hammer reaching its lowest point, all the power accumulated here. The moment it collided with these continuous mountains and the boundless earth would be the moment Ye Zhuo was reduced to ashes.

Ye Zhuo was still looking there.

The suddenly falling yin and yang Taiji was reflected in those calm and empty eyes, instantly magnifying and enveloping his entire vision.

As if the final moment had arrived, he raised his left hand, as if to touch the aura at the black and white boundary.

A loud roar echoed through the heavens and earth.

It was as if a dormant earth dragon had suddenly turned over, the earth cracking and the sky collapsing, even the mortal towns thousands of miles away felt the aftershocks of this tremor.

“…An earthquake!”

“The houses are collapsing!”

The fear and bustle of the mortal towns would naturally not be taken into the eyes of the two Tribulation Transcendent True Men. Tribulation Transcendent powers possessed the might to destroy the heavens and earth. Creating a slight disturbance was quite common.

They were just looking at the center of the impact.

Noon sunlight shone down.

Smoke and dust dissipated.

The black and white Taiji diagram trembled incessantly, still emitting a continuous stream of pressure.

But it had not crashed to the ground as Tai Hao and Tai Zi had expected–nor had it even crushed anything beneath it into dust.

Because Ye Zhuo had caught it.

Beneath the overwhelming yin and yang Taiji, that figure still stood. As the flying sand and rocks dispersed, they saw him raising his left hand, his scarlet sleeves fluttering in the wind.

–Using one hand to receive the entire two extremes realm.

Since he had a heaven-defying opportunity, how could he not have heaven-defying abilities?

His sleeve slipped down, revealing the Buddhist beads wrapped around his left wrist, as red as dripping blood.

A red lotus Dharma seal as thick as fresh blood instantly condensed in his hand!

They heard a Brahmanic sound like a great bell and drum, more shocking to the mind than the morning drum and evening bell when the scabbard had blocked the cranes. The supreme and solemn vibrations were locked in a stalemate with the two extremes diagram.

The two extremes diagram trembled incessantly.

True Man Tai Hao stared at the Dharma seal.

Even if he didn’t know its origins, with his insight, he could see that it was a Buddhist method, and definitely not ordinary. In the Sumeru Upper Realm, which was far higher in status than this human world, it must be a secret that was not passed down!

What exactly did this Ye Zhuo learn on Spirit Mountain!

Since he went to Spirit Mountain, why did he come down!

The next moment, they saw Ye Zhuo slowly retract his five fingers.

Was he finally exhausted, unable to support it alone?

Tai Hao and Tai Zi continued to chant incantations to activate the two extremes.

They saw that those seemingly slender jade fingers, after lightly retracting, suddenly gathered ten times more power and slammed into the Taiji two extremes!

Two completely different, but equally terrifying, methods finally collided violently.

The red lotus Dharma seal, like a prairie fire, instantly increased a hundredfold and swept out, turning the sky blood red!

–But they did not feel the scorching heat of the flames.

They only felt a desolate coldness that everything would be swallowed.

The Dao of nature is self-generating and endlessly reborn.

The Dharma of Buddhism is Nirvana, ultimately silent and extinct.

A huge explosion sounded between heaven and earth, like the first thunder when chaos first opened.

But no one heard that sound, because it had exceeded the limit that the human body could hear. People within a thousand miles only felt that their hearing was lost for a moment. In that instant, there was only a blazing blank in their minds, and then, all the sounds of the mortal world returned to their ears like a tide.

After the collision, the two extremes formation and the red lotus Dharma seal simultaneously dissipated.

The remnant formation re-formed into the shadows of black and white cranes, and flew towards their masters in a panic.

The red lotus Dharma seal turned into strands of scarlet Dharma patterns in the air, floating around Ye Zhuo, like unextinguished embers, or like falling red lotus petals.

Tai Hao and Tai Zi each spat out a mouthful of blood, their faces pale.

Both stared at Ye Zhuo.

–This man was clearly not yet Tribulation Transcendent, and had clearly not yet condensed his own “Dao.”

But who could believe that the strength he displayed was only that of a Body Integration stage sword cultivator of just over twenty years old?

True Man Tai Hao saw clearly that the red lotus Dharma seal was not activated by any external object, nor was it driven by any talisman or incantation. It was clearly struck by Ye Zhuo himself.

What this man obtained on Spirit Mountain was definitely not just secret methods and treasures, but a complete inheritance!

In that instant, many rumors of the pugilistic world flashed through True Man Tai Hao’s mind.

Some said that Ye Zhuo was the disciple of a reclusive immortal master, which was why he had never appeared in the world before the Ullambana Assembly.

Some said that what Ye Zhuo obtained on Spirit Mountain was a sword technique inheritance, which was why he was so talented and unparalleled.

Wrong! Completely wrong!

Tai Hao shouted, “Who exactly are you! Who are your parents! Where did you learn your skills!”

Ye Zhuo stood in place, raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his lips, and looked coldly at True Man Tai Hao, “What does it have to do with you?”

Tai Hao: “What you obtained on Spirit Mountain was clearly a Buddhist inheritance! Then who created your sword skills? Who passed them on!”

Ye Zhuo grasped the hilt of his sword, and “No Self” was drawn again.

“You ask about sword skills?” His gaze was extremely calm, and he looked mockingly at Tai Hao, “My own sword, I don’t need others to pass it on.”