All Heavens and Myriad Realms Are Fated with the Immortal Sect

The Supreme Clarity Flying Sword merged into the void and cleaved down with a single stroke. Jiang Ding's Sea of Consciousness shook without cease, filled with thunderous light.

The blade fell straight upon the Innate Eight Trigrams Chessboard, precisely striking a previous sword scar and cutting deeper, inflicting destruction at the deepest level.

Boom!

Spiritual light exploded, and lightning spread everywhere.

The Innate Eight Trigrams Chessboard flew apart and fell to the earth. Upon it, the phantom of a turtle-and-serpent Black Tortoise faintly emerged.

From its shell spread threads of pitch-black, web-like lines. Countless prayers of Incense Faith echoed through the void, like indescribable creatures lurking and hunting in endless darkness, chilling the heart at the very sight.

This was—

The Seed of the Black Tortoise Divine Court, passed down through countless generations by the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace.

Crack!

A faint sound of something breaking came from the void.

The heavens were still the same heavens, the world was still the same world, and the battlefield was still the battlefield shrouded in smoke and flames. Yet something seemed to have changed. It was as though the world had been stripped of an invisible membrane, becoming more real.

"Greetings, Senior."

Jiang Ding swept out with his divine sense and sword intent, finally locking onto the source of the will that had been transmitting messages to him. He bowed slightly.

The arts of Void Refinement were mysterious and unfathomable.

He did not know what had just happened. He vaguely guessed that it had something to do with the greed within him and his thirst for the Dao Path. It was precisely because of those intense emotions that a faint, imperceptible force had bypassed the protection of the Central Array Spirit Computer and the Starry Sky Great Array, penetrating deep into his