"Xuanyuan, make your move. Let your older brother see the Sword-and-Saber Divine Art with which the Evil Emperor Xuantian once dominated the world." After entering the arena, Ye Xuankong spoke for the first time. His gaze burned, and boundless fighting spirit rose within it.
The Asura Emperor had sent him to the Myriad Heavens Battlefield when he was young, and it could be said that Ye Xuankong had spent nearly his entire life fighting. A fierce impulse to fight had taken root in his very bones.
To Ye Xuankong, power and status were nothing but passing clouds. He cared nothing for the Asura Emperor's throne, but he wanted an answer. Why did his imperial father place such importance on Ning Xuanyuan?
Perhaps today's battle would resolve the doubt in his heart.
"Brother, go easy on me. My little body can't take much of a beating, so don't crush me to pieces," Ning Xuanyuan said plaintively.
Though he said that, his body was perfectly honest. He stepped forward, and an intent of divine weapons surged from him, shooting straight into the clouds!
Ning Xuanyuan released his presence without holding anything back. Ye Xuankong was a Saint Realm expert, a full three major realms above him. For Ning Xuanyuan, this battle would push him beyond his limits!
"The late stage of the Soul Sea Realm?" The Asura Emperor's gaze flickered. A little over half a month ago, Ning Xuanyuan had only been at the early stage of the Soul Sea Realm. Such progress was enough to shock the world.
Ning Xuanyuan walked forward, and with each step, the intent of divine weapons emanating from him grew stronger. At that very moment, far from the Ancestral Land, throughout the vast palace grounds, the weapons worn by the many Asura Blood Guards on duty all rang out and trembled violently.
Swords yearned to leave their sheaths, sabers to sweep across the sky!
An astonishing field of force appeared around Ning Xuanyuan. An incomparably mighty pressure of the Great Dao gathered wildly in the heavens. Divine weapons and sharp blades took substance from the void, rapidly assembling into form.
Then the sabers and swords swept about, shrieking ceaselessly in the heavens, seemingly forming a Divine Weapon Diagram!
"This is... the Dao of Weapons, and the Sword and Saber Domain that evolved from it!" The Asura Emperor glanced up, his pupils contracting slightly. The Evil Emperor Xuantian had devoted himself to cultivating the Sword and Saber Dao. It seemed that in his later years, he had comprehended the path of sword and saber to its utmost, allowing it to become the Dao of Weapons!
"Brother, watch out!"
Ning Xuanyuan gave a soft shout and stepped forward. As his foot landed, ten thousand weapons descended from the Divine Weapon Diagram in the sky, striking at Ye Xuankong!
Ye Xuankong remained where he stood, his long robe fluttering gently. He looked unrestrained and otherworldly, like a noble young gentleman untouched by the dust of a turbulent world. But in the next instant, his bearing underwent an earth-shaking transformation.
An air of lethal intent burst from Ye Xuankong like a raging mountain torrent, sweeping across the sky. Boundless blood-red light bloomed overhead, staining the Heaven and Earth Realm!
Within the towering blood-red light around him, nine ancient characters emerged! Though the nine characters took different forms, they were all the same word.
Kill!
End killing with killing, prove the Dao through killing!
The path Ye Xuankong walked was the Dao of Slaughter, and it was from this that his name as a god of slaughter came.
The nine characters for "kill" revolved around Ye Xuankong, and a terrifying killing intent swept across the space in an instant. He raised his arm and struck out with a finger toward the heavens. A ray of slaughtering light shot into the sky.
"Kill!"
Ye Xuankong was like a different person now. All warmth had vanished from his eyes, leaving only a boundless sea of blood that represented slaughter at its utmost!
As the ray of slaughtering light pierced the void, a deep, thunderous sound suddenly rang out in the heavens. The space there seemed to have been imprisoned by an invisible force, and the countless swords and sabers raining down from the sky froze in midair.
How terrifying a sight it was, those countless divine weapons descending from the heavens. Yet a single thrust of Ye Xuankong's finger had imprisoned them. The divine weapons rang out, but could not break free.
"So strong!" The Asura Emperor's expression was calm, but Qin Lang and the other four standing behind him were beside themselves with excitement.
Although they and Ye Xuankong were considered part of the same generation, there was a large gap in their ages. When Ye Xuankong was fighting on the Myriad Heavens Battlefield, they had not yet been born.
By the time they touched upon the martial path and began cultivating, Ye Xuankong had already been deified and become the supreme commander of the Night Watch Army!
To Qin Lang and the others, Ye Xuankong was a legend through and through! The five young kings? Before Ye Xuankong, they were nothing but a joke.
Boom!
Seeing this, Ning Xuanyuan's expression remained calm and cold. His gaze, however, turned icy, and the presence around him grew not only fiercer but also seemed to contain a trace of something sinister.
The Evil Emperor Xuantian took heaven as his name and evil as his imperial title!
Above the Human Emperor was the Emperor Realm!
Across the vast eight regions, only the Evil Emperor Xuantian dared to take the title of emperor!
Thus, legend held that he had touched the threshold of the Emperor Realm.
Ning Xuanyuan had received the Evil Emperor Inheritance, so his presence naturally carried a sinister quality as well! He moved forward, the radiance of the Great Dao flowing over him, and a vast starry sky emerged behind him.
Starry Sky Soul Aspect!
Within the Soul Aspect, a brilliant star shone with dazzling light.
The Soul Aspect appeared, radiant light flowed, and sinister intent filled the sky. The thousands upon thousands of imprisoned divine weapons stirred up a terrible storm once more, becoming a storm of swords and sabers that roared down and tore the ray of slaughtering light to pieces, revealing a power of slaughter without equal.
"Good!"
A brilliant light flared in Ye Xuankong's eyes as he shouted. The nine Slaughter Ancient Characters around him likewise released dazzling light, and boundless killing intent flowed outward to protect him.
Boom!
Ning Xuanyuan closed both hands at once, and a saber and a sword materialized in them. At the same time, the sword and saber storm that shredded everything in its path swept down toward Ye Xuankong.
The divine swords and sabers, formed from a mixture of the power of the Great Dao and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, now seemed sharper than true divine weapons. Dazzling light shone from them, Heaven and Earth Realm resonated with them, and nothing could withstand their edge!
The storm of divine weapons swept in to tear its target apart, countless swords and sabers raining down from it at extreme speed.
Ning Xuanyuan moved as well. The long sword in his hand struck out in an instant, its sharp sword intent cleaving through the void with unstoppable force! That supreme sharpness allowed even Qin Lang and the others in the distance to feel the keenness of weapons.
Three Sword Techniques: One Sword Concealed in the Void!
Ye Xuankong still stood there without moving, the nine Slaughter Ancient Characters circling him. Suddenly, a blood-colored figure appeared behind him.
That was his Soul Aspect, the Blood Asura Soul Aspect!
Not only that, Ye Xuankong's body changed as well. Dense blood-red light poured out wildly and, in an instant, formed layer upon layer of blood-colored scales that covered him. At the same time, a terrifying fluctuation burst from within him!
"Asura Divine Body!" Chu Tian's pupils contracted sharply, and his body trembled violently. What he cultivated was the Asura Blood Body, and the Asura Divine Body was even more powerful than the Asura Blood Body!
It could be said that the Asura Divine Body was the ultimate version of the Asura Blood Body!
Only one character separated their names, but the difference in their power was as vast as that between clouds and mud!