Chapter 609 - 569: Giant Heaven-Supporting Power and a Decisive Victory
Chapter 609: Chapter 569: Giant Heaven-Supporting Power and a Decisive Victory
"She’s burning her Lifespan." Yun Liuguang’s voice was cold, without a hint of emotional fluctuation.
Du Xingheng’s expression was savage, her eyes filled with a crazed malevolence. Hearing Yun Liuguang’s icy words, she suddenly burst into laughter. "Since we are both Celestial Prides of the Human Race, how could I let someone else steal all the glory? She doesn’t hesitate to burn her Lifespan, so why would I be stingy with a mere Golden Core?"
Before she had even finished speaking, her dragon-claw-like hand moved, plunging fiercely into her own Dantian.
SHHCK—
Flesh and blood were torn, and what followed was a sound like the wailing of a newborn baby.
Du Xingheng, however, twisted her sharp claws into her Dantian. Then, just like that, with the speed of furious lightning, she forcibly tore a bloody Golden Core from within herself!
The moment the Golden Core was ripped out, several dark red threads remained connected to the flesh of Du Xingheng’s Dantian.
THUMP THUMP THUMP!
The fleshy Golden Core throbbed and shrieked.
Du Xingheng gripped the throbbing Golden Core and roared, "Yun Liuguang, can you still draw your sword or not?"
The veins on Yun Liuguang’s slender, pale wrist bulged. The hand gripping the sword hilt tightened with a sudden burst of force.
And just like that, he drew the Calamity Sword!
The instant he drew the sword, a gaping hole tore open in his chest. His heart ruptured, blood gushed out, and his face instantly turned ashen white.
But the Sword Intent surging around him only grew sharper and more intense. With a flicker of the Spirit Sword, its edge passed through the air, severing the dark red threads connecting Du Xingheng’s Golden Core to her Dantian.
SCREEE—
In the darkness, the shriek was frenzied.
The Golden Core in Du Xingheng’s hand suddenly burst through her palm, trying to fly away toward the Human-faced Giant Insect in the square.
At that moment, a flash of sword light sliced through the air again, flowing like water.
This was a formless, traceless strike. Devoid of emotion, it was pure sharpness.
The sharpness of a silent world, the sharpness of relentless time.
This ultimate sharpness lightly grazed the escaping Golden Core. This time, there was no sound. The throbbing Golden Core was simply sliced in two, and the pieces fell gently to the ground.
Then, a wisp of Light Smoke began to rise.
The fallen halves of the Golden Core silently ignited, then silently dissipated into ash.
Yun Liuguang was still losing a massive amount of blood from his chest. He stood tall, his heart ruptured, but his hand gripped the Spirit Sword tightly. He spoke faintly, "To find life in the face of death is also the path of ruthlessness. The Heart-Slaying Sword... why slay the hearts of others when you can slay your own? I don’t need to overcome the trials of emotion. To see through one’s own heart and dare to face death surpasses a thousand emotional trials."
Then, under Du Xingheng’s gaze—as if she were looking at a madman—he once again plunged the Calamity Sword into his own heart!
In the darkness, a pillar of Sword Intent shot toward the heavens.
Yun Liuguang merged his body with the sword, offering his spirit as a sacrifice to the blade.
The ten-meter-tall Uncle Dong lay on the ground, only his head raised. His empty eye sockets turned toward the rising Sword Intent as he continued to curse, "These people... these outsiders! Is a single one of them normal? I... What the fuck? Is this really happening?"
In his perception, the mountain-like aura of the Human Race’s Celestial Pride was climbing once more.
Then, standing on the giant insect’s back, Song Ciwan once again drew upon the starlight.
Star Cross Skill, Big Dipper Death Injection.
Empowered by the "Dao" Character Technique and the "Strong" Character Technique.
At the same time, she raised her hand and, with forceful, rapid strokes, wrote a new Character Technique in the void: the "Abyss" Character Technique!
"Vast Sea Tower Library," "Wenyuan Spaceship," "Qiangong Machinery"—these names were composed of new Huaxia characters Song Ciwan had seen earlier that day in this Heaven-Reaching City.
From the characters comprising these names, she first comprehended the one meaning ’collection.’ Now, at the absolute limit of her burning Lifespan, she had also comprehended the one for ’abyss.’
Infinite Power, Star Cross.
I am the high mountain, I am the deep abyss.
Ten years, a hundred years, five hundred years...
The moment Song Ciwan’s Lifespan burn reached five hundred years, her Infinite Power Divine Technique was finally pushed to the Fourth Layer: the Giant Heaven-Supporting Realm!
At that instant, the frantically struggling Human-faced Giant Insect let out one final howl.
"Wuuu..."
The giant insect shrieked: "WUUUUU—"
The giant, Uncle Dong, still prone in the darkness, had blood seeping from his eardrums, his face pale and grim.
But the giant insect’s shriek came to an abrupt halt.
BOOM!
At the last moment, Song Ciwan, standing on the giant insect’s back, unleashed Heaven and Earth Transformation.
Heaven and Earth Transformation was also a Divine Technique. Song Ciwan had learned it long ago but had never used it in front of anyone.
Her body instantly grew to a hundred zhang tall. Her Infinite Power, having broken through to the Fourth Layer’s Giant Heaven-Supporting Realm, made her not just as heavy as a mountain but like... the entire sky, pressing down.
BANG!
The giant insect that had occupied the entire Starry Sky Square was, just like that, stomped into mush.
Uncle Dong, lying prone in the darkness, was rendered completely speechless. He could only suspect that his blindness and deafness were causing his senses to deceive him.
And at the very moment she stomped the giant insect to bits, Song Ciwan’s Heaven and Earth Scale suddenly dipped.
Countless globes of emotional energy—to say they flew in like snowflakes would be an understatement. They were more like meteors pouring into the Heaven and Earth Scale!
Among them, the heaviest and most eye-catching were the various energies from the Human-faced Giant Insect!
[Divine Breath, leaked from a variant of the Ancient Divine Insect Race. Hatred, hatred, hatred. Five catties and seven taels. Tradable.]
[Divine Breath, leaked from a variant of the Ancient Divine Insect Race. Hatred, hatred, hatred. Seven catties and nine taels. Tradable.]
[Divine Breath, leaked from a variant of the Ancient Divine Insect Race. Hatred, hatred, hatred. Ten catties and one tael. Tradable.]
...
Globe after globe of energy appeared, each heavier than the last.
The final globe of energy weighed over ten catties!
And that wasn’t all. Divine Breath, Hatred—these were clearly the emotions of the Human-faced Giant Insect.
It was not a mechanical, emotionless creature. On the contrary, the intensity of its emotional fluctuations surpassed most living beings in the world.
However, the giant insect’s emotions were remarkably simple. Besides hatred, there was only more hatred.
Besides the Divine Breath, at the moment Song Ciwan crushed the giant insect, she also received: [Death Qi, from the death of an Ancient Divine Insect Race variant. Thirty-six catties. Tradable.]
Thirty-six catties!
What an immense amount of Death Qi!
[Bad Luck, from the death of an Ancient Divine Insect Race variant. Thirty-nine catties. Tradable.]
[Malice, from the corpse of an Ancient Divine Insect Race variant. Ninety-one catties. Tradable.]
Ninety-one catties!
No wonder the Balance Plate of the Heaven and Earth Scale seemed to dip.
Song Ciwan’s mind reeled, the blood boiling in her chest, but she did not forget what was important.
She sensed it. The instant the Human-faced Giant Insect died, besides the emotional fluctuations of the nearby creatures, something was happening above the sky-curtain—
Or rather, behind the sky-curtain, in the Heaven Beyond Heaven, in some unnamed place, an infinite storm of chaos seemed to be gathering, colliding, and howling.
An indescribable aura of terror descended, like black clouds gathering before a storm.
The sky-curtain had clearly reformed, yet there was a sense that it could be torn open again at any moment.
Song Ciwan immediately pressed her hand downward. The next moment, the giant insect’s mountain-like corpse, along with all the fragmented flesh and blood that had splattered everywhere, was completely absorbed into her Heaven and Earth Scale.
In a flash, the sky cleared and the starlight shone brightly once more.
The giant insect was gone, just like that.
Song Ciwan also released her Heaven and Earth Transformation, returning to her normal size. She hovered in the air, looking up at the sky.
Yun Liuguang arrived on his Flying Sword, his earth-shaking, razor-sharp Sword Intent now without an opponent. He was too late.
The Flying Sword brushed past the hovering Song Ciwan, and the vast, river-cold Sword Intent suddenly pointed toward the heavens.
Song Ciwan turned to look at this second-ranked Celestial Pride of the world, but she saw no person, only a shining Spirit Sword.
That beam of sword light shot forth, like a great, flowing river of time, rushing from the desolation of the mortal world toward the vast, open sky.
From within the sword light came a voice, cold yet clear: "Having witnessed this battle, know that the great calamity of heaven and earth cannot be resolved by the strength of one person in one moment. Only through courageous advancement, by finding life in the face of death, can one find a sliver of hope."
"I shall point my sword to the heavens!"
And just like that, the Flying Sword shot toward the sky.
What was in the sky?
There was the endless, distant starry curtain, the feeling of an impending storm behind it, and a remote, hazy roar that sounded like a furious shriek—
But the roars were indistinct, as if they didn’t truly exist.
Finally, the sword exploded beneath the starry curtain.
A sky full of sword light scattered like stardust.
The giant, Uncle Dong, still lying on the ground, muttered to himself, "Did he self-destruct? Where’s the person? What kind of lunatic is he..."