Chapter 685: Three Strikes to Determine Victory and Defeat

It was as if an eternal night had befallen the world.

Everyone’s field of view was affected.

Those who were relatively weak were effectively blinded, and their hearts filled with terror.

Even those with relatively powerful cultivations could only use their divine sense to perceive their surroundings. When they did, they were astonished to discover that the darkness-shrouded landscape had effectively been imprisoned; it was trapped in a strange silence.

Terrifying!

Everyone’s expressions changed.

When the power of the night became a cultivator’s power, everything it touched was suppressed and confined.

Beneath the dome of heaven.

The now tall and stalwart Dongguo Feng attacked, sword swinging. The aura of the night swept forth like the tide, blanketing heaven and earth.

It corroded the air, stripping it of all light. It suppressed and restricted all other powers!

A terrifying and strange projection appeared over Dongguo Feng’s Sword, Heart Killer.

A horse’s body, a human face, a tiger’s stripes, and a bird’s wings.

The heavenly yao, the Yingzhao!

This projection was bathed within the darkness, as if it were the ruler of the eternal night. Its presence was icy and terrifying.

Su Yi’s gaze turned slightly more serious.

He felt a faint, prickling sensation on his skin, and where he stood, the skies blackened as if stained with ink, as a strange, impenetrable darkness took hold.

Everywhere he looked, he saw constricted, deathly-silent darkness.

It was as if he were confined within a cage of darkness!

Without light, he naturally couldn’t see anything at all.

Even the power of his divine sense had been restricted. It was as if he’d become completely blind.

“Now this is interesting…” sighed Su Yi.

“Cut!”

Dongguo Feng’s?bellow?rang out, and he attacked.

The air currents were in disarray. The heavy sword’s edge was silent and invisible as it descended with the power of the night.

It was just one attack, but it was significantly stronger than those before it!

Before the slash even landed, a terrifying pressure spread out around it.

The night was like a curtain, blocking off everyone’s field of view. They couldn’t see how sharp or terrifying that sword was.

Su Yi shut his eyes.

His divine sense transformed, and suddenly, a pair of illusory “eyes of god” appeared. They circulated in a mysterious fashion, and soon, every detail of the landscape blanketed in darkness appeared in Su Yi’s sea of consciousness.

This was a secret soul technique——Heaven’s Mirror!

Heaven’s Mirror was an ancient secret art among soul cultivators. Once activated, the divine sense was like a mirror formed of the heavens, reflecting all of creation. It could see through all fabrications and discern the truth therein.

Like a deity from the nine heavens gazing down upon the human world!

In that moment, the aura, momentum, changes, and all other secrets of Dongguo Feng’s descending strike were on full display in Su Yi’s sea of consciousness.

His attack was powerful indeed!

Its murderous aura fused perfectly into the night. When Dongguo Feng unleashed it through the power of his talent and the full extent of his cultivation base, it was strong enough to slaughter Spiritual Incarnation Realm cultivators like Gu Shandu and Meng Jinghai with ease!

Even Su Yi no longer held anything back. He called upon his full power.

Weng!

His fingers formed seals, the Dao Charm of the Five Elements condensed. He suddenly fired radiant, sharp light projections.

The Little Five Elements Sword Seal!

Bang!

When the sword imprint clashed with Dongguo Feng’s streak of sword qi, the impact reverberated throughout heaven and earth.

The entire area seemed to collapse. Radiant light swept outward with a boom.

Like fireworks exploding in the night sky!

It was only dimly discernible, but that projection of a heavenly yao dissipated amidst the current of radiant light.

And Dongguo Feng’s slash shattered, inch by inch, right in front of Su Yi!

At the same time, Su Yi’s sword imprint was like a single, solitary light illuminating the darkness as it descended ruthlessly upon Dongguo Feng.

It actually seems like the power of the night isn’t effective on him??Dongguo Feng was startled. His heart was as firm as a boulder, but now, this shocked even him.

After all, he’d just used his strongest killer move, something he only used when he fought with his life on the line.

In the Dongguo Family, even Spiritual Incarnation Realm old-timers wouldn’t dare clash with him when he used this power!

Yet now, it seemed unable to restrict Su Yi at all!

Throughout all his years of cultivation, Dongguo Feng had never found himself in this situation before.

He had no time to ponder, so he immediately changed tactics.

Heart Killer whirled, then slammed downward.

Bang!!!

The power of Su Yi’s sword imprint burst into fragments.

However, Dongguo Feng was forced backward, his energy churning. HIs expression turned even graver than before.

After all this fighting, how could Dongguo Feng fail to realize that based on their respective cultivations, he’d actually already lost?

After all, Su Yi was in the early-stage Spiritual Manifestation Realm, while he was in the late stage.

There were two small realms between them!

Furthermore, from beginning to end, Su Yi had yet to call upon his sword or fight without regard for his life. He hadn’t used his true ultimate killer moves, either.

When he compared the two of them, it was obvious who was superior.

However, this wasn’t a “discussion of the Dao” fought atop a stage. Dongguo Feng naturally wouldn’t relent.

It was just as he’d told Wen Xinzhao earlier. He’d never been afraid of death!

It was precisely because he didn’t fear death that he’d managed to temper a sword heart as firm as a boulder.

“Rise!” Dongguo Feng suddenly took a deep breath, and his eyes shone with unearthly, intimidating golden luster. Heart Killer howled like the wind and boomed like thunder as he struck without reservation.

However, Su Yi laughed. “I’ve roughly got a sense for your abilities. Within three strikes, we can determine victory and defeat.”

He’d only just said this when——

Su Yi suddenly took a step forward, and the night-shrouded landscape suddenly rumbled, as if unable to bear his power.

In the battle thus far, Su Yi only responded to his opponent’s attacks. He’d yet to launch a counterattack.

His goal was to gradually force Dongguo Feng to reveal his strongest abilities. Worthy opponents were rare, and he wanted to test this genius of the Dao of the Sword and see just what level his swordsmanship had reached.

Now, as Dongguo Feng started fighting with no regard for his own life, Su Yi could already gauge the extent of his opponent’s proficiency with the sword.

He naturally wasn’t willing to fritter away any more time.

“The first strike!”

As Su Yi’s calm voice rang out, he raised his right arm, pressed his fingers into a sword, and slashed through the air.

A roughly ten-foot streak of sword qi soared into the air like a bolt of cloth, then descended like the river of stars pouring onto the world below!

The Dao Charm of the Five Elements revolved within the streak of sword qi, circulating in an endless cycle.

The power of this strike seemed perfect, with no weaknesses to exploit.

Meanwhile, Dongguo Feng swung his sword and attacked.

Two starkly different Daos of the Sword clashed, and the surrounding ten thousand feet of sky rumbled and boomed. The ground shook, and the mountains swayed.

Cloudsky Divine Mountain was the closest to their duel, and it shook violently due to the aftershock of this terrifying clash.

Boom!

The curtain-like power of the night suddenly split.

The radiance of the heavens returned.

The onlookers felt a prickling pain in their eyes, and they felt utterly astonished. One moment, they’d been immersed in the darkness of a seemingly eternal night. A moment later, it was as intensely bright as midday.

When they looked up, they saw Dongguo Feng’s stalwart, mountainous figure take several sudden steps backward. He was forced more than a hundred feet back.

When he stabilized himself, the ground exploded beneath his feet.

There was no doubt about it. In this most recent clash, Dongguo Feng suffered a terrifying impact, forcing him backward. He had no choice but to circulate his cultivation base to rid himself of the terrifying power bearing down on him. This was what resulted in the shocking scene of the skies crumbling beneath his feet.

Dongguo Feng’s hair was disheveled, his face was pallid, and Heart Killer buzzed and shook in his grip, as if wailing!

The entire area fell deathly silent. Everyone was shaken.

Even when he fought with no regard for his life, Dongguo Feng couldn’t get ahead. No, he’d been forced back!

Yu Jiuzhen was so alarmed that he broke out in cold sweats. Inwardly, he was shaken, but he was also celebrating.

Celebrating that they’d already improved their mountain’s defensive formations. If they hadn’t, Cloudsky Divine Palace would already be riddled with holes…

“Dammit!”

“How is this possible…..”

“Su Yi?is actually?this strong?”

The various Dongguo Family experts were all visibly thrown off kilter. Their expressions alternated between rage and surprise; they couldn’t quite believe what they were seeing.

Hah~!

Beneath the dome of heaven, Dongguo Feng took a deep breath, his gaze as firm as iron. When his angular face looked at Su Yi, his expression was utterly grave.

He’d never looked down on Su Yi.

Still, he wouldn’t have guessed he’d be this strong!

Su Yi wasn’t overly vocal about his feelings. When he saw Dongguo Feng block his first strike, he merely nodded, then attacked once more.

“The second strike.”

He waved his sleeves and tapped the air.

He was like a celestial immortal waving his brush, seeing the mortal world as his canvas. His “brush strokes” were loose and free.

Boom!

A streak of sword qi appeared out of nowhere, fusing the power of the sun and moon. It was a manifestation of the coexistence of filth and purity.

Clear qi rose into the heavens.

Turbid qi sank down to earth.

When this slash descended, it seemed as if heaven and earth had swapped positions, as if Yin and Yang were in chaos!

Dongguo Feng’s expression finally changed.

As a sword cultivator himself, how could he fail to realize this sword’s terrifying power?

It fused the force of heaven and earth into one slash. The boundless landscape and everything in it seemed to submit before this attack.

Opposing it was like opposing heaven, earth, the mountains and rivers, and everything in them. It was as if he’d been exiled from all of creation, and he felt helpless and abandoned.

This was unquestionably far too terrifying!

However, Dongguo Feng didn’t retreat.

His eyes shone with determination, and his cultivation base circulated to its fullest extent. He didn’t just not retreat; on the contrary, he met this strike head on.

“Cut!”

Heart Killer seemed to sense Dongguo Feng’s staunch, unshakable Dao Heart. It burst with unmatched power as he attacked with full force.

He fought without regard for life and death, with no reservations or other concerns.

The onlookers felt a shock they couldn’t put into words.

They asked themselves, were they in Dongguo Feng’s shoes, could they have attacked with no regard for their own lives?

Boom!

Heaven and earth shook, and the moon and stars lost their light.

Upon impact with this sheer destructive power, Dongguo Feng was like a mantis trying to block a chariot. He was sent flying backward.

Those who fought willing to die fought without fear.

But fighting without fear didn’t necessarily mean they could turn things around!

In the face of absolute power, their efforts were ultimately meaningless.

Bang!

By the time Dongguo Feng steadied himself, his hair was disheveled, and he repeatedly coughed up blood.

He was as pale as a sheet of paper, and there were numerous minute cuts all over his body. Blood gushed from his wounds.

In the blink of an eye, he was completely covered in blood.

Everyone could tell that, although Dongguo Feng managed to block that strike, he was already severely injured!

The onlookers couldn’t help but feel dazed and astonished.

The power of Su Yi’s Dao of the Sword made it seem as if he were seizing fortune from the heavens. It was unimaginably powerful!

“Young master!”

The Dongguo Family experts could no longer hold back. They cried out in alarm, visibly overcome with worry. All of them were frantic.