Chapter 1583: Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring

“Why did you do this?” The Chief Libationist wasn’t expecting Emperor Jing Run to commit suicide. He wanted to stop him, but he was too late.

Or maybe he wasn’t planning to stop him in the first place.

“Cough... I didn’t know you were so hypocritical, teacher!” Emperor Jing Run taunted between coughs. “You were hoping that I would die, weren’t you?” The Chief Libationist didn’t say anything, and that in itself was an admission.

“I don’t need to borrow your hands for this. I can do it myself.”

Emperor Jing Run’s vitality was weakening, and his voice was growing deeper. However, a strange smile appeared on his face as he said, “I’m afraid I’m going to have to disappoint you though.”

The Chief Libationist frowned. For some reason, he suddenly felt uneasy. “What do you mean?”

“No one will sit on this throne even after I’m dead.”

Emperor Jing Run continued to smile eerily. “This seat is mine. No one can take it away from me unless I give it away willingly. Not the heavens, not the earth, and not even you, teacher.”

It was at this moment the Chief Libationist noticed that the yin qi surrounding Emperor Jing Run was growing stronger at the same rate as he was losing his vitality.

Not only that, his blood wasn’t spreading on the white jadeite floor. Instead, it seeped through the stone and into the ground, leaving not a single trace behind. It was quite bizarre.

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

The Chief Libationist did not dare to dilly dally. He stomped the floor, and his force washed out like a tidal wave. The floor instantly cracked and crumpled like sand.

The next moment, the Chief Libationist saw a sword. The sword had a human head for a tail, a bone for a handle, and a dragon’s mouth for the jaw. It was dark yellow in color. A coiling nine-headed dragon formed its edge. It looked evil, but it also looked resplendent. It was exquisite, but it was also regal.

Right now, the human head at the tail end of the sword was opening its mouth. Emperor Jing Run’s blood was flowing into it.

As the human head consumed Emperor Jing Run’s blood, its ashen flesh visibly became healthier, and a dark glow appeared in its eyes. The yin dragon coiled around the sword were also squirming slowly as if it had come alive. Its scales were opening and revealing countless vertical dark yellow pupils. At the same time, it was leaking an evil, corrupted, dignified aura that felt like a god or a demon’s.

“The Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring?!”

The Chief Libationist’s eyes widened in shock when he saw the sword.

“You are truly knowledgeable, teacher. That is correct!” Emperor Jing Run declared.

By now, Emperor Jing Run was on the brink of death. His vitality was almost completely gone, and his yin qi had grown to a terrifying extent.

The moment the Chief Libationist saw the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring, his unease also spiked to the peak.

So, he immediately made a grab for the sword.

However, right before his fingers would touch the sword, the nine-headed yin dragon coiled around it abruptly let out a roar. The vertical pupils blinked open, and corrupted, dark yellow light and tears dripped and converged into a river. At the same time, an unimaginably evil, brutal and corrupt energy poured out like a waterfall.

The nine-headed yin dragon was not an ordinary Stranger. It was the legendary Stranger of ultimate evil, yin, and corruption whose body was said to have become the Yellow Spring itself.

Legend had it that in ancient times, the Bronze Like Tree and King Taishan were born from the Nether. They created the Underworld and Fengdu to act as a soul’s resting place or hub of reincarnation after a living being died.

However, at the beginning of the creation of Fengdu, A spawn of evil and death, corruption and darkness were born as well. Wherever it went, the realm was flooded and corrupted by the Yellow Spring, the souls and ghosts were consumed, and Fengdu was thrown into chaos. It was a Stranger called the Yin Dragon of Yellow Spring.

To combat this, King Taishan appointed a Yin Son of Heaven to command the ghosts of Fengdu and waged war against the Yin Dragon of Yellow Spring. They were ultimately successful in slaying it. After the Yin Dragon of Yellow Spring died, its body rotted and turned into the Yellow Spring, whereas its soul was refined into the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring by King Taishan. He then bestowed it to his Yin Son of Heaven as his symbol of rule over Fengdu.

Therefore, the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring was a weapon forged from the soul of the Yin Dragon of Yellow Spring and tempered with the waters of the Yellow Spring. It naturally possessed immense power, and its retaliation resembled a wave crashing into a rock—explosive.

Rumble!

The Chief Libationist retreated a hundred steps in an instant. Shockwaves mixed with brutal, evil energies were spreading everywhere, killing or corrupting everything.

In fact, just witnessing the shockwaves was enough to rot some people’s bodies, warp their consciousness, and turn them into evil ghosts.

Because Emperor Jing Run committed “suicide”, no one was maintaining the Five Dragons Grabbing Suns Profound Restriction. Therefore, the array had already stopped functioning. This meant that the shockwaves were able to pass through the inner palace and spread toward the rest of the imperial capital without resistance.

If the shockwaves were allowed to spread uncontrollably, the entire imperial capital could be destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people might suffer terrible, inhuman deaths.

The Chief Libationist wasn’t going to allow this to happen, of course. He pushed his hands down and caused mountains to rise from around the imperial palace. Rivers were flowing among the mountains as well.

The shockwaves were bounced back after they crashed into the mountains and rivers. This kicked up even greater storms of destruction, but not a single wisp managed to leak outside.

Knowing that it wasn’t over yet, the Chief Libationist bent his finger and held it in front of himself like a ruler. Mountains towered, rivers flowed, and sun and moon orbited the sky. It was an eternal seal.

The Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring was the ancient Yin Son of Heaven’s symbol of rule and token of authority over the ghosts of Fengdu. However, after the ancient Fengdu perished, and the Yin Son of Heaven died, the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring also went missing.

Although the Chief Libationist did not know how Emperor Jing Run was able to acquire the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring, it was clear that he was trying to awaken the weapon.

The Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring was an ancient divine artifact on the same level as the Clear Sky Mirror, Xuanyuan Sword, and Earthly Sovereign Bell in terms of mystique and power.

Therefore, this was going to be a very troublesome affair if the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring were to awaken.

Of course, the Chief Libationist wasn’t afraid of the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring. Yes, it was going to be troublesome, but it was ultimately just a Strange Artifact. He could handle it with just a bit more effort.

However, he had a feeling that Emperor Jing Run wasn’t just planning on resurrecting the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring. He must be concocting a bigger conspiracy.

After all, Emperor Jing Run had never been an easy man to deal with.

In any case, he must stop the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring from resurrecting.

Buzz!

Meanwhile, a terrible aura emanated from the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring once more. The Yin Dragon of Yellow Spring appeared, and its nine heads roared at the same time. It sounded like the wails of countless living or the screams of a million ghosts. It kicked up a terrible storm that warped the sky, the celestial bodies, and the realm.

“Suppress!”

The Chief Libationist laid his left hand on his right index finger and middle finger. At the same time, his feet sank a meter into the ground. As if the sky itself had fallen a meter, the Yin Dragon of Yellow Spring exploded at the same time and grew transparent.

Clearly, not even the Yin Dragon of Yellow Spring was able to withstand the Chief Libationist’s sky collapsing palm strike.

The Chief Libationist did not relent. He continued to push down with his fingers and palm, squeezing the dark clouds and shrinking the Yin Dragon of Yellow Spring.

Shiing!

Right before the Yin Dragon of Yellow Spring would be crushed and suppressed by the Chief Libationist, the ringing of a sword suddenly cut through the noise. Then, the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring slowly flew into the air and landed in Emperor Jing Run’s hand.

By now, Emperor Jing Run was completely dead. Not a speck of life force was left in his body.