Cloud Platform Tournament: The End

So what if it's broken! Just recast it! It's no big deal!

Li Fan wished he could say that, but he couldn't.

Among the five arts of Xuanmen, weapon crafting is an extremely ridiculous pay-to-win system, and sword crafting is even more ridiculous. The reforging and upgrading of flying swords is ridiculously ridiculous!

The saying "Alchemy ruins three generations, sword forging destroys a lifetime" is no exaggeration! Even though the Tai Sha Sword Forging Scripture of Xuan Tian can forge swords using the Void Jade of the Tai Su Realm, it is clearly not enough to just use one or two materials. Moreover, the development of materials science is a deep pit that depends heavily on luck, like a lottery. Without one or two hundred years of experimental accumulation, it is impossible to achieve anything.

Moreover, for a sword master, the sword body is the Dao body. Once the sword shatters, it is equivalent to the destruction of the Dao body. If it were a human, they would have to disintegrate! It is even worse for a sword. This means that not only will the accumulated cultivation over the years be lost in one move, but even the spirit of the sword exists in the sword seal and talisman! If the broken sword fragments cannot be found, even the sword spirit and sword intent may suffer irreparable damage!

Therefore, as powerful as the flying sword is, it is actually at its peak as soon as it is forged. Every wear and tear, every major damage, and every reforging in the future may cause the sword spirit to be seriously injured and fall into a slumber, or even disappear completely!

So don't be fooled by the fact that the Sword Ancestor Xuantian has a large number of sword companions at Yuntai Peak, and that it looks like a palace after he opened his flying swords. He's not a womanizer at all. It's just that the Sword Ancestor has killed so many people that even these divine weapons and famous swords can't withstand constant use. So, he usually keeps a batch of flying swords as his constant companions, a batch as a mountain guardian, a batch as a replacement, a batch for maintenance, a batch for repair, a batch for upgrades, and a batch for reforging. He rotates through a large number of flying swords.

Of course, only the Sword Ancestor of Nine Yin Mountain has such a grand display; for others, even a single flying sword could be passed down for three generations...

In short, Chun Jun Sword Lord, as the favorite sword of Sword Ancestor Xuantian, has indeed not been used on the battlefield for a long time, and its preservation to this day has a strong symbolic significance for the Sword Sect.

With the Chun Jun Sword shattered, Li Fan dared not linger and fight back. He quickly seized the Chun Jun Sword fragment while the Seven Star Sword Formation was temporarily disrupted by his Tai Sha Po Xing attack, leaping away to avoid the range of the Starflow Sword Array Formation.

The sect leaders couldn't even break through the Star Realm Array, so naturally they couldn't keep up with Li Fan's high-dimensional escape technique, allowing him to escape in an instant. However, the Starflow Sword Array Formation continued its momentum, and the seven of them didn't even try to pursue and encircle him. After pausing for a moment, they regrouped and formed the Seven Star Sword Rainbow Formation, which slammed down on the Mecha Celestial Devil Emperor, who couldn't dodge in time!

That's right! If we don't kill 'him', no one will get out!

Since we can't kill Li Fan, let's fight the Heavenly Demon! In the end, it's all because of that damned Celestial Devil Emperor's tribulation that he caused so much trouble! Whether it's the Celestial Devil or the Primordial Heavenly Demon, one of them has to die! Once one of them dies, this tribulation will be over!

The Celestial Devil Emperor, of course, would not simply submit to slaughter! The Kaiyuan Slash was no joke!

"Seven Stars Subdue Demons!"

"Opening up the heavens and destroying the Dao!"

It's broken! The Seven Star Sword Formation has been shattered by the Heaven-Opening Slash!!

This is actually quite reasonable, because the Celestial Devil Emperor can use the newly comprehended Heaven-Opening Slash of the Enlightenment Stage within Li Fan's Star Realm. However, the other Xuanmen sect leaders and those who comprehended Cultivation Method in the Taiji Realm cannot use them and can only rely on the methods of the Beichen Sword Sect to fight, unable to unleash even 30% of their full potential. Just now, it was broken once again by Li Fan's Seven Star Sword Break, its power not being fully utilized, and it was actually completely shattered in one strike!!

The seven Purple Void clones that had just defeated Li Fan were instantly obliterated by the blade light! Purple Void Dao Lord was once again forced back into his celestial body!

The Celestial Devil Emperor also received a heavy blow from the Seven Star Sword Force! Coupled with the chaotic attacks from Li Fan earlier, his entire armor exploded, revealing the Celestial Devil Emperor's humanoid body hidden within the mecha!

At this moment, the young Celestial Devil Emperor had a full head of black hair that fluttered in the wind, purple flames shooting from his eyes, and his pale body resembled that of a demonic corpse!

The enormous sword wound from the Seven Star Sword Force nearly dismembered the Celestial Devil Emperor! But from the Celestial Devil Emperor's chest, back, torso, and arms, the faces of demon gods with tightly closed eyes grew out!

These steamed bun-like ghost faces, some were killed by Li Fan's thrusts, others were wounded by his sword force, but each death would give way to a new face, and they would all open their eyes, making the Heavenly Celestial Devil Emperor's power even stronger! Clearly, the demon generals who had been merged into the Celestial Devil Emperor's body were also awakened to fighting spirit by this fierce battle amidst this calamity!

Seeing this, Li Fan was astonished to find that the Celestial Devil Emperor's combat power had actually increased again.

Good heavens, he was wondering why his attacks were useless, turns out the guy was protected by the Ten Thousand Demons General! Tens of thousands of health points! Damn, a Seven Starflow Sword Array almost killed him, and this guy only managed to get through to the second phase? Damn, I only have 1200 points per life, less than 200 lives at most, and this guy is trading away almost half of them with every hit! That old dog Demon Emperor could at least fight all night! What was he pretending for? So despicable! Pah!

Fortunately, he is not the only one fighting the Demon Emperor now. Although Purple Void Dao Lord was defeated again and his strength was greatly reduced, he transformed into a purple phoenix even faster this time. He hovered in the star realm, dodging the indestructible sword intent that blocked the star realm with the Heavenly Slash, and circled around the Celestial Devil Emperor again, attacking with purple fire!

The leaders of the other six major sects, having exchanged so many blows and borrowed the clone of Purple Void Dao Lord, have now grasped some of the rules of the Star Realm. Those who can become Daoist leaders are at least first or second-rank Daoists. Having just witnessed Purple Void Dao Lord and Li Fan display their abilities, they seized the opportunity while Purple Void Dao Lord was preoccupied with the Celestial Devil Emperor and Li Fan was still recovering from his ordeal, to begin simulating and deducing the Tai Su Dao Laws of the Star Realm, and to use their projection transformation technique!

Almost without the slightest delay! The leaders of the six mountains —Mao Mountain, Hotong Mountain, Wangwu Mountain, Danxia Mountain, Magu Mountain, and Xieluo Mountain —transformed! Amidst a cloud of colorful clouds and flashing divine light, a group of old beasts appeared before Li Fan! (No disrespect intended, but they certainly didn't become human...)

There is a beast that looks like a sheep, with nine tails and four ears, and its eyes are on its back.

There is a beast that looks like an ape, but has a white head and red feet.

There is a beast that looks like a white deer but has four horns.

There is a beast that looks like an ox, with a blue body and no horns, one foot, and its light shines like the sun and moon, and its voice is like thunder.

There is a beast that looks like an ox, but has a red body, a human face, and horse hooves.

There is a beast, with the body of an ox and the tail of a dragon, a monster of water and fire, with nine heads like a snake, and a cry like that of an infant.

The six monsters revealed themselves. Li Fan, blind, glanced at them, scanned them with his Divine Sense, and checked them with his chip; he could roughly recognize them all.

The Bo, Zhu Yan Fuzhu, Zhu Kui Niu Yay, Jiuying... these are all genuine ancient, no, primordial divine Divine Beast, ancient creatures that have long since disappeared from the Taiji Realm, rare treasures even among the generations of immortals.

Aside from Li Fan, who could memorize the Ink Mountain Moon Book, he could barely recognize these strange beasts that had not yet become extinct in other Tai Su planes from the notes of Ink Mountain disciples who had wandered around Tai Su Heaven.

Only the Dao Lords Sect Leader of the Nine Great Xuan Sects, these immortal beings, possess extensive knowledge and strong memory. Relying on their sect's true teachings and secret treasures, they can see and recall the appearances of these Divine Beasts and even transform into Dao bodies!

This technique of projecting an ancient divine Divine Beast into the Tai Sha Star Realm, while different from directly transforming in the Taiji Realm, already has a hint of the Forty-Nine Transformations of the Mo Shan Tai Su. After all, even the fools of Ink Bamboo Mountain can learn the Tai Su Transformations and Tai Chi Transformations, so it's impossible for a serious Xuanmen scholar not to learn them.

There's no need to worry about plagiarism, who came first, or who got the title. All paths lead to the same destination.

After all, the Three Great Sects also knew that the cycle of the False Moon in the Sky and the Primordial Chaos had occurred in the distant past, so they could understand it. Since the current human body could not withstand the evil energy environment of the Tai Su Realm Chaos Realm, they would naturally think of using the transformation of the Dao body to emulate the life forms that once existed on the surface of the earth, just like Mo Shan Dao.

The Taiji Realm is about Qi Refinement Stage, the Tai Su Realm is about transformation, and people must adapt to their environment and change accordingly. This is called following the Way of Heaven!

However, these Xuanmen Dao Masters so easily grasped the methods that Mo Chanzi's disciples had painstakingly deduced over generations. They merely glanced at them and did some calculations. These people truly possessed extraordinary talent; it's astonishing...

Thus, the seven leaders of the seven great sects transformed into seven ancient divine Divine Beast, and the seven Gobila began to gang up on the Mecha Celestial Devil Emperor!

The Celestial Devil Emperor was also protected by tens of thousands of ancient Immortal Palace demon generals! Every move he made was a powerful and sweeping Ancient Immortal Palace style of martial arts, specifically designed to counter Gobila's moves!

Before Li Fan's eyes, the two sides were exchanging blows with brutal force! The fierce battle was in full swing! It was as if time had reversed, space and time had turned back, and the scene of the ancient era had been revived. The vengeful spirits of the monster hunters of the Immortal Palace throughout the ages had merged with the Celestial Devil Emperor and were fighting against the countless reincarnations of demons and gods who had been wiped out by the Immortal Venerable!

The False Moon in the sky, and the Spirit Race prospers...

Li Fan frowned. Could it be that the so-called future flourishing Spirit Race Demon Race are actually...?

Now is not the time to let his mind wander. Li Fan rested for a while on the sidelines, having suppressed and expelled the Seven Star Sword Power within his body, and had caught his breath.

Li Fan carefully examined the Chun Jun Sword and found it shattered into eight pieces, truly beyond repair. Meanwhile, these Dao-enlightened beings, transformed into giant monsters, while still unable to use Tai Chi techniques, could now draw upon their primordial Dao power to strengthen their physical bodies, infinitely enhancing their monster forms' physical attributes. Their vitality was particularly absurd; even after being struck by the Heaven-Opening Slash, they could instantly regenerate, likely unafraid of the Celestial Devil Emperor with ten thousand lives.

As they fought and battled in a chaotic melee, Li Fan, observing from the sidelines, knew that he had already missed his best opportunity to strike. Even if he could rush in now and join the fray, relying on the Tai Sha Sword Technique to deal damage, these Dao Lords had all mastered the Tai Su Transformation Method, and they wouldn't be killed until their primordial power was exhausted.

Moreover, these people were different from the 'trash' Li Fan had encountered before. They had solid foundations, profound skills, and exceptionally high comprehension. Even when ambushed by the new method, they remained calm and composed, immediately studying ways to counter it and constantly improving in battle. From Oldest One being unable to control their own power, they were now able to form a formation to gang up on the Celestial Devil Emperor, demonstrating their capabilities.

That was a strategic mistake. He was too greedy, thinking he'd start by eliminating the strongest, leaving no one behind. In the end, he took none. He should have seized the opportunity to start with the weakest...

It's never too late to mend the fence after the sheep are lost!

Therefore, Li Fan decisively changed tactics, using both hands to write in running script, drawing countless talismans across the sky, and using the Blood Talisman God Sect's Dream Invasion Technique! He immediately attacked, stealthily moving towards the weakest target, the Jiuying, the Divine Transformation from the Xie Xieluo Mountain Sect Leader! Almost instantly, he unleashed a hundred palm strikes, slapping a hundred blood talismans onto the Jiuying!

The sect leader of Xieluo Mountain was pulled into a deep dream by Li Fan using the divine method! The Jiuying Beast also lost its ability to move and was seized by the Celestial Devil Emperor with a single slash! Eight and a half of its nine heads were cut off!

Good heavens, these people's combat intelligence is truly astounding. They don't even need to exchange glances to understand each other. The moment Li Fan made his move, the Celestial Devil Emperor seized the opportunity, broke out of the encirclement, and launched a coordinated attack, aiming straight for the Jiuying!

What's even more remarkable is that even after he had already slashed with his sword, he could still see through Li Fan's new tactics. He left half of the head intact, crippling Jiuying without killing it, thus creating an opportunity for Li Fan to seal the Xieluo Mountain Sect Leader. He even took the initiative to block the siege of other sect leaders for him!

Since the Celestial Devil Emperor was cooperating so readily, Li Fan seized the opportunity and used his "Slap-on-the-Head Divine Skill" to slap the last talisman onto the remaining half of the Jiuying's head, which was still attached to its neck! This invaded the divine court of Xieluo Mountain, pulling his primordial spirit into a deep Void Abyss of slumber!

Upon entering the Void Abyss Spirit, Li Fan skillfully led a dense swarm of Heavenly Book Magic Puppet, which he had programmed and nurtured, to pounce on them! They completely surrounded Xieluo Mountain, the sect leader, who was still in a daze and hadn't reacted yet!

These Heavenly Book Magic Puppet were all the size of infants, dark and without light, faceless and eyeless, with only a mouth, its tongue covered with the Empty Star. They pounced on the puppets and licked them indiscriminately, imprinting the Heavenly Books into the primordial spirit.

If it were the primordial spirit of a Divine Lord in the Divine Transformation Realm, a single demonic puppet would be enough to possess and entangle him. Although Xieluo Mountain was a new force, he was still the sect leader and Dao Lord. To be on the safe side, Li Fan took the initiative to conjure up thousands of demonic hands to entangle his body, making it easier for a large number of Heavenly Book Demonic Infants to enter the Dao Lord's body through his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, navel, lungs, and internal organs.

Xieluo Mountain was also greatly alarmed and opened his mouth to unleash a burst of light to counterattack with his primordial spirit technique. However, the light only scratched Li Fan's body, causing no pain or itch whatsoever.

Invaded by these demonic puppets and bombarded with their demonic sounds, even these Dao Lords could not withstand it. Their primordial spirits were shattered by the celestial script characters, their divine light flickering like candles in the wind! Their bodies were slowly covered by the black demonic puppets, which then melted like wax, coating the Dao Lords' primordial spirits like petroleum asphalt. Finally, their primordial spirits were completely melted and covered, and their bodies transformed into a dark shadow, exactly like Li Fan's —the shadow of the Thousand-Faced Immortal!

Li Fan nodded to the 'Thousand-Faced Immortal' in front of him, and the 'Thousand-Faced Immortal' also nodded with a smile, seemingly possessing self-awareness just like his clone.

If it were an ordinary Divine Transformation, Li Fan could use the magic puppet to control them and turn them into his puppets to aid him in battle. However, this was the first time he had ever used a puppet to infiltrate Wu Dao's realm. Although it seemed to have been successful, he wasn't entirely sure. He wasn't sure if the Heavenly Book Magic Puppet truly had an effect on Wu Dao, or if Wu Dao was simply injured by the Celestial Devil Emperor's chopping off of eight and a half heads. But just in case, sealing one opponent like this would be enough for now; he could deal with the others one by one later!

When they returned to the Tai Sha Star Realm, only a second had passed. Xieluo Mountain's Jiuying seemed to be dead, motionless, drifting in the Star Realm!

So Li Fan resorted to his old trick again! He unleashed a barrage of talismans, heading straight for Yay!

The group of Xuanmen Daojun were once again greatly alarmed!

They truly hadn't expected that this Tai Su Daoist would be so difficult to defeat. Not only was he a mere Transformation Realm cultivator repeatedly suppressing and chasing them, but he also actually possessed secret techniques that could subdue those at the Enlightenment Stage level!

The beasts scattered immediately! They stopped fighting the Celestial Devil Emperor and switched from offense to defense, supporting each other and preventing Li Fan's talismans from sticking to their heads.

Li Fan was also a little helpless. He didn't even need to try; he knew that simply throwing the Heavenly Book Magic Puppet over to possess someone would definitely not be enough to control someone in the Enlightenment Stage.

At the very least, one would need to use Lou Guan's head-patting technique in conjunction with the Divine Sect's Primordial Spirit Technique to break the opponent's divine court's prohibition and pull the Dao Lord's primordial spirit into his subconscious before having a chance to seal the demon puppet.

This tactic is indeed effective, capable of taking down any company celestial emperor or mystical sect Daoist, but the prerequisite of actually touching someone's forehead is a bit of a hassle. Wouldn't it be better to just slash them with a sword instead...?

Moreover, that bastard Celestial Devil Emperor is quite annoying, and he was frightened again.

Originally, this guy probably wanted to join forces with Li Fan to eliminate a few members of the Xuanmen sect, taking care of whoever they could. Who would have thought Li Fan would be so powerful, sealing a Dao Lord with a single blow! Now he's in real danger!

So the Celestial Devil Emperor stopped helping and focused on restoring his fighting strength, reassembling the shattered Demon Emperor mecha to cover the faces of the Demon God Generals around him.

Just as the situation reached a stalemate and Li Fan couldn't catch anyone, a sudden change occurred! A beam of light shone into the star realm from nowhere, projecting a figure!

At this moment, someone actually deliberately entered into the calamity!

Upon seeing that figure, Purple Void Dao Lord was overjoyed, exclaiming, "Xiangmo, come quickly to my aid!"

Li Fan was overjoyed upon seeing this, "Moon Soul, cut off her head!"

The dragon that Purple Void Dao Lord had transformed into instantly realized what was happening and tried to turn around and leave, but it was too late!

In the blink of an eye! The False Moon spirit left only a humanoid phantom before transforming into a flash of purple lightning. The lightning struck, severing the head from the body! With a swift, sharp stroke, the purple light was about to decapitate the baby!

Li Fan rushed forward, snatched it from his hand, and began to seal it with random slapping and rubbing.

Unfortunately, Purple Void Dao Lord was still on guard. Her primordial spirit in the Divine Court grew countless limbs, crouched down with her head in her hands, and shrunk into a flower bud. Li Fan couldn't break through it for the time being, so he had to let the puppets turn into mud to bury this human-headed flower first.

When Li Fan opened his eyes again, he found himself on the severed neck of the Jiuying Serpent, his right hand holding the head of the Purple Void Dao Lord, his left hand forming a hand seal to control his sword, and a bright, False Moon shining above his head.

"Now you've seen what I'm capable of, haven't you?"

Everyone fell silent.

Even Purple Void Dao Lord was defeated...

The Celestial Devil Emperor, holding Zi Xu's head atop his sword, stared at the scene for a while before suddenly turning and roaring at the remaining five old beasts.

"He's won two games now!"

Huh? What does that mean?

Li Fan didn't react immediately, but some others did.

The Yay, which was transformed from the Daoist Master of Magu Mountain, suddenly turned its head and smashed the chest cavity of the Kui Niu beside it!

Caught off guard, the Kui Niu let out a miserable cry, but before it could escape, the Bo, Zhu, Yan, Zhu Yan Fuzhu joined forces to launch a series of attacks, shattering the minced beef into countless pieces!

The Celestial Devil Emperor roared, instantly rushing forward, grabbing the bull's leg with both hands, and shouting, "Heaven-Splitting Slash!"

He then used the ox as a knife and swung it straight at Li Fan!

Li Fan couldn't understand what these people were up to, but he wouldn't hold back. He made a hand seal, took the False Moon Soul in his palm, pointed his sword, and shouted, "False Moon Taiyin! Bright Light Sword Technique!"

Instantly, empowered by the combined Dao power of False Moon and Li Fan, a bolt of purplish-black lightning shot out! Its power was in no way inferior to the previous Hengshan Void Heaven Exploding Dragon, and with a single strike, it blasted the Kui Niu into ashes! Truly worthy of the False Moon Taiyin Haoguang Exploding Niu Technique...

So Li Fan casually removed the charred bull's head and sealed it with the magic puppet.

The Celestial Devil Emperor roared, "I've lost! You are the true master of the Cloud Platform Sword!"

The group of beastly sect leaders roared in unison, "I lost! You are the true Cloud Platform Sword Master!" *5

The next instant, they were suddenly enveloped in a dazzling light and disappeared from Li Fan's Tai Sha Star Realm.

Li Fan was dumbfounded.

Moon Soul: "Yay! Senior Brother Sect Leader, you won the Cloud Platform Competition!"

Li Fan: "... Moon Soul, weren't you in North Mang Mountain? How did you get in?"

"The two elders of Mount Song brought me in. By the way, they said that if you don't stop soon, Senior Brother, Nine Yin Mountain will be gone."

Li Fan: "Tsk, what a beastly bastard..."