Waste Paper Bridge
Chapter 58 Severing the Sky with a Single Blade
A spiritual root beyond the highest grade, of an unknown classification, granted Ye Chuxiao powerful energy absorption. And his body, tempered by multiple cycles of the Nine Deaths Devil Art, allowed him to unleash a vast amount of energy in an instant.
When Ye Chuxiao unleashed this astonishing strike, the entire Storm Sea was bound to quiet down because of him.
Accompanied by the blade's mournful cry, the saber light, surging against the evil, tore through layers of cabins and decks, dispersing the dark clouds overhead in an instant.
The rampant lightning also dimmed its clamor at this moment.
The flood dragon, which had been resting in the clouds, was also awakened from its dream by this strike, peering down at the dark ocean below with a hint of fear.
The saber light shattered the dark clouds, and the long-lost sunlight poured down from above, illuminating the Storm Sea filled with the sounds of battle. The people who were fighting fiercely all raised their heads in astonishment.
Following the trajectory where the clouds were torn apart, although the light of the saber's amazing rise had dissipated, the power of its aftermath still continued to spread.
A cold snort, a powerful pressure, came from the high heavens.
The great cultivator, who had only been sealing off this area to prevent Ye Chuxiao from leaving, no longer held back, stimulated by Ye Chuxiao's strike, and planned to personally take action.
Tens of thousands of golden runes spread out in the void, forming a chain of circulating symbols.
The clouds in the sky changed their appearance under the intersection and connection of the rune chains, and began to spin according to specific trajectories and rules.
The entire sky transformed into a giant array disk composed of clouds driven by runes.
And when this array disk was reflected on the sea surface, a reverse array disk also appeared on the sea surface, rotating counterclockwise along with the array disk in the sky.
The array disks in the sky and on the sea formed a positive and negative rune array, possessing the power to seal the heavens and isolate the earth.
Even in the Storm Sea, where energy was as manic as it was, the energy between heaven and earth became stagnant and rigid under the clamping of these two positive and negative array disks, making it difficult to mobilize.
Ye Chuxiao looked up at the sky.
At this moment, he was riding on a dilapidated warship, hovering between heaven and sea, small and vulnerable in the face of the huge rune array.
The originally silver-bright treasured saber in his hand had also become dim and covered with fine cracks due to the domineering swing of the previous strike.
Leaping out of the bottom of the cabin and standing on the cracked deck, Ye Chuxiao's long hair fluttered wildly, his face full of unrestrained arrogance.
"You want to kill me?"
"Then come on!"
He raised his saber, and the divine tree spiritual root flickered and rotated in his spiritual platform.
The stagnant energy of heaven and earth was still forcibly extracted by the divine tree spiritual root, a large portion of it, and quickly squeezed into Ye Chuxiao's body.
The two rune arrays in the sky and the sea were enraged by Ye Chuxiao.
Following the pull of the heaven and earth energy.
Tens of thousands of runes, like fine lightning, surged into Ye Chuxiao's body along the trajectory of energy circulation.
Ice, fire, thunder, earth, poison, weakness, death, decay, disease... a large amount of power that could be recorded and carried by the runes poured into Ye Chuxiao's body at this moment, and then erupted in a concentrated manner.
This was an angry strike from a seventh-realm rune array great cultivator.
Naturally, Ye Chuxiao's body was destroyed in an instant.
The power of the runes, and even the power of the array, raged in every cell of his body.
But after a moment, Ye Chuxiao was resurrected under the dual effects of the Nine Deaths Devil Art and the Strong Life Talent, with the help of the vast energy he had absorbed before.
At this time, the power of runes and arrays had been integrated into his bones and blood, and imprinted on his body and soul.
The divine tree spiritual root, possessing all 'attribute tendencies', had added two more close connections with Ye Chuxiao at this time.
From then on, Ye Chuxiao could also use the power of the divine tree spiritual root to drive the energy of heaven and earth, and unleash a large number of runes in an instant to form a powerful array.
Ordinary cultivators, after crossing the Sea of Bitterness and establishing their spiritual roots, could no longer cross the Sea of Bitterness of cultivation types not indicated by their spiritual roots.
Because fixed spiritual roots limited their possibilities.
Ye Chuxiao did not have this limitation.
His spiritual root had infinite possibilities, and of course, he still retained the infinite possibilities of the Bitter Realm.
This also meant that even if Ye Chuxiao had reached the Energy Realm, he still had one foot in the Bitter Realm.
He could cross more Seas of Bitterness at any time and truly break into more types of cultivation.
The purpose of crossing the Sea of Bitterness was to temper and adapt. In essence, the ultimate goal of any cultivation's Bitter Realm was for this.
And Ye Chuxiao successfully borrowed the power of a seventh-realm great cultivator to complete the Bitter Realm cultivation of runes and arrays in an instant.
This was almost equivalent to a seventh-realm great cultivator of runes and arrays passing on his skills and methods to him.
"How audacious!" Ye Chuxiao's changes naturally could not be hidden from the seventh-realm great cultivator who condescendingly overlooked Ye Chuxiao.
A dignified seventh-realm expert, relying on his strength to bully a third-realm Energy Realm cultivator with a single strike, not only failed to obliterate the other party, but instead fulfilled him. This was a great shame for the seventh-realm cultivator.
The two arrays in the sky and the sea began to descend and rise, seemingly to overlap together.
At the same time, the space between the sky and the sea was also being squeezed and compressed.
At the moment the array rotated, everyone was sifted out and not affected, except for Ye Chuxiao... he was the only victim.
The space became increasingly solidified, and every inch of air released malice and killing intent.
The energy of heaven and earth lingering in this space was also expelled, leaving not a trace.
The flood dragon, which had been brandishing its claws and teeth on the edge of the clouds, also shrank its head and put away its tail at this moment, for fear of being caught in this calamity.
Ye Chuxiao still wanted to forcibly extract vast amounts of energy with the divine tree spiritual root, but he could no longer repeat his old tricks.
Because the environment he was in was a constantly collapsing and compressing vacuum.
"Know when to stop!"
"Goodbye, this world. The next time I come back, it will be when I take away all the information stored in the shared spiritual root. Of course, it will also be when I come back to settle accounts with you." Ye Chuxiao thought, and a Dao rhythm that had already been used naturally dissipated in the golden clock.
In just an instant, Ye Chuxiao's figure disappeared into the void between the sky and the sea.
Bang!
The two array disks in the sky and the sea completely overlapped at this moment.
All the substances wrapped in it were annihilated in an instant.
"He actually escaped?"
"Is it Heavenly Evasion Without a Trace? Or is there a cultivator who has reached the Immeasurable Realm rescuing him from afar?"
"Or did he spend more than three Dao rhythms in advance to buy insurance on the Ship of Genesis?" The old cultivator riding the paper crane looked at the rotating two arrays, thinking in his heart, his face becoming more and more ugly.
A dignified seventh-realm great cultivator, making two moves, actually let a small cultivator who had just entered the Energy Realm run away.
This made the old cultivator so angry that he wished he could kill everyone present to silence them.
However, thinking of the warning before his departure, the old cultivator had to restrain his emotions and instead waved thousands of runes, like raindrops, into the bodies of every cultivator in this place.
Erasing the memory of his previous actions from these cultivators' minds.
Therefore, the last memory these cultivators in the Storm Sea had of Ye Chuxiao was the shocking saber light that soared into the sky.