Chapter 250 - 132: Daoist Technique: One Sword
Chapter 250: Chapter 132: Daoist Technique: One Sword
The atmosphere on the Heavenly Patrol Guard’s Flying Vessel was somewhat subdued.
After a long while.
A Daoist from the Sun and Moon Daoist Sect gazed at the terrifying, ten-thousand-zhang pillar of Primordial Qi, finally speaking with great difficulty.
"Everyone... I’m not remembering this wrong, am I?"
"According to the ancient texts, shouldn’t Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment only be a thousand zhang high?!"
"Don’t tell me it’s actually supposed to be ten thousand zhang?"
At this moment, no one could answer his question.
But they knew one thing for certain.
This absolutely wasn’t Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.
This was, without a doubt, the greatest Foundation Establishment in history!
’My Foundation Establishment is complete!’
’Next, it’s time to forge my Lifebound Dao Skill.’
Su Chen closed his eyes. In his inner vision, he saw something new beneath his Longevity Dao Tree. It looked like a Bronze Cauldron, yet also like a Dao Foundation of the Great Dao. It pulsed with a seven-colored, glassy divine light as it slowly took shape.
This was his Dao Foundation!
It was the very symbol of his Foundation Establishment Realm.
A normal Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment should radiate a golden light as dazzling as the sun.
However,
his radiated a seven-colored, glassy divine light.
’This should be normal, right?’
Su Chen decided to stop dwelling on it. His Foundation Establishment was complete, and at the very least, it was a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. Three Sword Techniques now surfaced in his mind.
After the Foundation Establishment Realm, one no longer deployed mere Skills.
But Techniques!
Foundation Establishment Daoist Techniques!
These Daoist Techniques were also divided into two types: common Daoist Skills, and Lifebound Dao Skills!
Common Daoist Skills could be cultivated by anyone. Lifebound Dao Skills, however, could only be elevated from an exceptionally powerful Qi Cultivation method, and passing them down to others was a monumental task.
The three great Killing Dao Skills and three great Sword Control Skills of the Eastern Domain were all potent Lifebound Dao Skills.
The masters who created them were all Celestial Prides who had once commanded the world and dominated the Eastern Domain for an era.
At this moment,
Su Chen could clearly sense it.
His three sword techniques—Burial Star, Moon-slaying, and Sun-Chasing—could all be elevated. Here, within the ten-thousand-zhang pillar of Primordial Qi, as he stepped into the Foundation Establishment Realm, they could transform into even more fearsome Lifebound Dao Skills.
However,
Su Chen did not make that choice.
Instead, he began the Inference of his fourth sword technique, which was already in its embryonic form!
Su Chen closed his eyes.
Within this ten-thousand-zhang, purple-gold pillar of light, he would use an even stronger fourth sword to forge an even greater sword of the Immortal Dao!
At that moment, the heavens and the earth themselves responded.
Winds converged!
Snow roared!
Above the roiling clouds, the tens of thousands of already agitated lightning bolts grew ten times more frenzied. Whenever a mighty Celestial Pride is born, they plunder the world’s fortune. In response, the world itself births a tribulation to stop them.
This was a fact well-known to all cultivators in the Eastern Domain.
"Still, this time is a little too outrageous, isn’t it?"
Aboard the Flying Vessel.
The disciples from the Five Great Sects—even those who weren’t Daoists were core disciples, the elite of the elite—were all staring dumbfounded, as if they had witnessed the impossible.
One hundred thousand bolts of lightning were converging in the sky above.
Outrageous!
Utterly outrageous!
First came the ten-thousand-zhang pillar of Primordial Qi.
That already surpassed the thousand-zhang pillar phenomenon of a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment by a factor of ten.
And now, the creation of a Lifebound Dao Skill was drawing a hundred thousand bolts of lightning.
"Fellow Daoist Yunle."
"Years ago."
"When your Yun Family ancestor created the Great Li Sword Technique, when he completed the Inference for the Divine Power Scroll, the tribulation the heavens sent down was *only* a hundred thousand bolts of lightning, right?"
At this, a Daoist spoke, his voice strained and hoarse.
An even deeper silence fell over the flying vessel.
They didn’t understand.
It was just a Daoist Technique for the Foundation Establishment Realm. Why would one hundred thousand bolts of lightning descend, intent on wiping it from existence?
A tribulation of this magnitude nearly rivaled the calamity that would descend for a fearsome Core Formation Divine Technique!
Moreover,
the Sword Dao Divine Technique of the Great Li Sword Technique was ranked among the absolute best, even when compared to all other Core Formation Divine Techniques.
The implication of this...
was self-evident!
Terrifying!
This Nine Lives Prodigy... was simply too terrifying.
Was he even a normal cultivator?
"You think it’s possible this person is actually a True Core Giant?"
Yunle, too, was in a daze.
Aside from lacking a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, he stood at the very pinnacle of Spirit Seed Foundation Establishment. He was an undisputed Celestial Pride of the Foundation Establishment Realm. Yet now, facing Su Chen—another cultivator in the same realm—he felt an inexplicable sense of being no more than an ant.
「Just then.」
From the abandoned residence, a surge of Sword Intent erupted, shooting toward the heavens and hurtling directly at the Flying Vessel.
BOOM!
A terrifying pressure descended.
In that instant, the Daoists aboard the Flying Vessel felt a terrifying pressure, as if they were facing one of their Sect’s False Core Elders.
"An attack!"
Yunle’s expression changed drastically. He summoned his Sword Pill, unleashing a terrifying sword strike in an attempt to cut down the incoming Sword Intent, but it was futile.
He was defeated!
Utterly and completely defeated!
The Sword Intent struck the Flying Vessel, snapping it in two. As the vessel plummeted with a great crash, the disciples of the Five Sects scrambled to steady themselves in mid-air, some using Sword Control, others Wind Manipulation.
’How is this possible?’
’I’m also in the Foundation Establishment Realm!’
’Even though I only achieved Spirit Seed Foundation Establishment, I did it twice, and my cultivation is at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm! Can none of that bridge this gap? I couldn’t even block a single strike from a Nine-Life Celestial Pride?’
In that moment, Yunle—a True Disciple and the future Sect Master of the Great Li Sword Sect—felt his Dao Heart on the verge of shattering.
"Oh, so you don’t know the Great Li Sword Technique."
"I thought you did."
"That’s why I sent out that strike. I wanted to force you to use the Great Li Sword Technique!"
"My apologies."
"I was a bit too heavy-handed."
"I didn’t expect you wouldn’t be able to take it..."
Su Chen’s voice narrated from the ruins.
At these words, Yunle’s face flushed crimson. He opened his mouth to say something, but no words came out. He, who had always been so proud and arrogant, was so incensed that he nearly tumbled from the sky.