Chapter 2550 - A Duel of Lightning and Sword

Dazzling lightning shot forth, illuminating the nine heavens.

Before the old Daoist’s voice had even finished echoing through the air, he attacked suddenly.

“Take this!” His hands formed a seal, and his feet pressed down. Nine streaks of lightning of the natural order whooshed forth, manifesting nine boundless, coursing rivers of lightning.

The rivers interwove, silently manifesting a nine palaces diagram.

The power of the area’s formation surged into the diagram, creating an unbelievable, miraculous vision.

Nine palaces diagrams were ordinary and commonplace, but the old Daoist’s diagram was manifested out of the lightning of the natural order. Its electricity manifested nine supreme Laws of Lightning: Magic Fire Bright Lightning, Elemental Water Profound Lightning, Sweeping Gale Void Lightning, Creation True Lightning, and the Yin Mountain Lightning, among others.

When the power of the formation surged into the diagram, it transformed into a lightning domain. It seemed as vast as the heavens themselves, perpetual and everlasting.

Boom!

Heaven and earth shook violently. The air of destruction was shocking.

Everyone felt a prickling pain in their eyes. Their hearts quivered, and their hearts were suppressed. They couldn’t sense anything at all.

When the nine palaces took shape, they sealed off heaven and earth!

This was the unparalleled divine ability of a Half-Step Eternal. How could it possibly be ordinary?

Off in the distance, Su Yi was instantly trapped in the diagram. He seemed as tiny and insignificant as an ant that had fallen into a lightning pool.

Countless streaks of dazzling lightning surged forth, seemingly intent on slicing him into mincemeat and grinding him away completely.

Su Yi’s gaze remained calm, as tranquil as the waters of an ancient well.

Not long ago, he and Yue Qiong, a Half-Step Eternal of the Ravening Wolf Daoist Court, had dueled. Su Yi had long since grasped the strength of this level.

The moment he found himself trapped in the Nine Palaces Diagram, he rose to his full height, and...

Boom!

Solemn sword intent pierced the firmament.

And when Su Yi raised and swung his hand, surging lightning scattered like flurries in a blizzard. The nine palaces diagram split down the midline, sliced like paper. The dividing line was perfectly straight, and the lightning collapsed like an avalanche!

Su Yi, meanwhile, emerged from the lightning without a scratch.

But his sword force connected heaven and earth, intimidating even the soul.

The old Daoist’s pupils constricted. Then, he snorted coldly, his sleeves flying backward as he pushed the air.

Boom!!

Throughout the surrounding area, heaven and earth abruptly collapsed and shrank.

Countless dazzling, resplendent streaks of lightning surged forth, as if creating a lightning prison to trap and kill Su Yi.

Everything became void. All was eradicated on all sides!

This, too, was an unparalleled killer move. It was imbued with Eternal truths, and it was even more terrifying than the nine palaces diagram.

But Su Yi didn’t even look at it. Sword intent surged around him, flowing like a river and striking eight times in a flash.

The eight strikes encompassed all eight directions. Wherever they passed, the lightning prison collapsed, as if its foundations had been cleaved apart. It collapsed with a bang, scattering into a rain of light.

The old Daoist’s expression was instantly noticeably more solemn.

He broke through my killer move? And in just one strike again? Who is this guy?

What terrifying sword force! And what shocking attainments in the Dao of the Sword!

Even as his thoughts raced, the old Daoist’s movements never slowed.

Practically the same moment his strike broke, he leaped, soaring like a dragon. Lightning condensed into lotus flowers and bloomed beneath his feet as he shifted through space and swung his fist at Su Yi.

His punch seemed unstoppably forceful and brimming with Yang energy, but instead of an impact, it produced a lifelike lotus flower.

The lotus swayed, lightning condensing into mists of supreme Yin and supreme softness!

The fist’s power and force were starkly different, yet it perfectly combined supreme Yin and supreme Yang, softness and firmness, into a single blow.

It was like the natural fusion of Yin and Yang, of the hard and soft. Together, it seemed perfect in its completeness.

This strike was known as the Lotuses of the Cycle of Yin and Yang!

The old Half-Step Eternal’s power was now on full display. Not even another expert of the same level would have dared face his attacks head-on.

Because wherever his fist passed, the lotus swayed, shattering the Undying and penetrating the Grand Dao!

Su Yi’s eyebrows rose, and he chuckled. Instead of retreating, he advanced, meeting this attack head-on.

“Shatter!” He suddenly swung his sleeve.

A fierce wind rose, stirring up an endless windstorm of sword qi that shattered both heaven and earth.

It blew the swaying lotus away, too!

The flower petals filling the sky dimmed and withered.

A lotus dissipated beneath the raging wind sword qi.

And the wind continued with unstoppable force, sending the old Daoist’s ten-foot frame flying!

Su Yi leaped after him, swooping in for the kill. One step carried him right to his target!

“Hah!” The old Daoist steadied himself, his eyes bulging and his voice booming like spring thunder. A snow-white whisk flew out of his sleeve and struck the air.

Boom!

Stars condensed out of lightning in midair, seven in total, organized in the shape of a ladle, as if they’d formed that way naturally.

Endless starlight fell, transforming into one starry domain after another and overlapping in front of the old Daoist.

Seven Stars Reach All Worlds!

This was a defensive divine ability. When used, it seemed as if endless distance separated the user from their assailant, making them seem endlessly far away.

This ability was imbued with supreme spatial Laws.

Su Yi couldn’t help but nod approvingly to himself.

The old Daoist’s abundance of combat experience and wondrous divine abilities really are terrifying.

But even as he thought this, Su Yi attacked.

He threw a simple punch, and...

Boom!

The seven stars shook violently, and the countless starry domains shook violently, surging like tidewaters.

But before the surging ended, Su Yi attacked again and again in rapid succession, lightning quick.

Whenever his fist landed, he was ready with another punch, the attacks coming in waves, building and building until a raging tidal wave of accumulated fist force swept through the sky.

That sword force was manifested entirely out of sword intent. In it, Su Yi’s attainments in the Dao of the Sword were on full display. How terrifying would it become when it overlapped and gathered repeatedly?

The countless starry domains shook violently, then shattered, one by one. The accumulated sword intent swept forth like floodwaters bursting through a dam, forcing their way through with unstoppable force.

Kaboom!

A deafening impact boomed throughout heaven and earth, like the rapid beating of a heavenly drum.

In the end, a rain of light scattered ,and the seven stars collapsed.

The starry domains had all been destroyed.

With nothing left to stand in its way, the accumulated sword intent erupted like an avalanche or tidal wave, then shot toward the old Daoist.

The old Daoist finally looked stricken. He flashed through the air and attacked repeatedly.

The Lightning of the Six Harmonies Startles the Ages!

The Five Aggregates Destroy Heaven and Earth!

The Four Beasts Lament the Passage of Time!

All of these divine abilities were endlessly terrifying, and all of them emanated Eternal Dao Light. All were imbued with Eternal truths.

The entire stretch of heaven and earth had been thrown into chaos. The surrounding mountains and rivers collapsed and withered.

The disturbance triggered strange phenomena of heaven and earth throughout the heart of the Barren Mountains of Divine Calamity. Countless experts were alerted and astonished.

In the end, Su Yi’s attack was neutralized.

The old Daoist, meanwhile, had retreated far away. His steely old face was full of utter astonishment.

The way he looked at Su Yi had changed completely!

“Sir...” he said gravely, but he was interrupted before he could finish that thought.

“Again!” Su Yi shouted and swung his palm.

Sword qi arced like a rainbow, cleaving through the curtain of heaven and severing a corner of the sky. The nine heavens and ten earths shook.

The old Daoist dared not be negligent. He poured all of his strength into his attack.

Boom!

A limitless world surged forth, suppressing that streak of sword qi.

Within this world, the blue dome of heaven seemed high and distant, and the earth seemed limitlessly vast. Life appeared in all its facets.

He’d manifested the three severings: the severing of heaven, the severing of earth, and the severing of man.

When this attack appeared, it was like a vast, real world was descending under the old Daoist’s palm.

The Three Severings of All Manifestations of Heaven and Earth!

This was the old Daoist’s last resort, the strongest ability he’d created as a Half-Step Eternal, and the attack he took the most pride in!

Boom!!

Heaven and earth shook violently.

As the surging current of destructive power swept forth, Su Yi’s sword qi shattered, inch by inch.

Su Yi was forced several dozen feet back.

But the world that the old Daoist had condensed shattered too.

“I know who you are!” The old Daoist’s eyes flashed like lightning as he stared at Su Yi. “You’ve got to be the greatest sword cultivator in the God Domain’s history! Who else in the God Domain could possess such lofty attainments in the Dao of the Sword?”

“Less chatter. Again!” Su Yi laughed dryly, his blue robes fluttering around him as unstoppable sword intent shot from his palm.

It was rare to find such a worthy opponent. Su Yi was already immersed in combat. How could he possibly let the old man distract him with idle chatter?

But just as his strike was about to land, the dome of heaven suddenly darkened, and the air stilled.

All of creation seemed startled. An oppressive stillness descended over the world.

That streak of sword qi was like the ink-laden flourish of a painter’s brush!

The old Daoist felt a prickling pain on his skin. Chills coursed down his spine, and he sensed an unprecedented threat.

He dared not be negligent. His hands enclosed the void, his left hand guiding Yin, and his left directing Yang.

A perfectly round wheel of the Grand Dao took shape. Yin and Yang converged in a cycle of purity and filth. The power of life and death alternated within it!

The Yin-Yang Cycle of Life and Death!

When the old Daoist unleashed this divine ability, his aged face paled considerably. He’d instantly drained most of his cultivation base.

Because historically, he’d only resorted to this when his life was at stake.

But something strange happened. Su Yi’s slash cleaved into the Yin-Yang Cycle of Life and Death without causing the slightest disturbance.

It was like snow melting into water. In the blink of an eye, it had vanished.

It seemed like this slash was totally useless; it couldn’t contend with the Yin-Yang Cycle of Life and Death at all. It was destroyed in a flash.

But at the same time, the old Daoist’s expression shifted dramatically. He suddenly pulled back and severed his connection to the Yin-Yang Cycle of Life and Death.

Practically simultaneously, the Yin-Yang Cycle of Life and Death rose into the air, like a volcano erupting beneath the calm surface of a lake.

A moment later——

Boom!!

The Yin-Yang Cycle of Life and Death split into pieces.

When it split, it was as if the firmament had shattered. Terrifying destructive power swept outward, threatening to envelop the entire area.

Off in the distance, the black-robed man and the girl in yellow screamed in fright. They couldn’t sense the details of the battle, but they

could

sense the threat of impending death!

Even further away, countless startled cries arose in Five Lightning Temple’s spacetime forbidden zone. As the aftershock swept outward, it destroyed all of the three thousand miles of territory under their control!

Not even their formations could withstand it!