Immeasurable Sword Array Traps the Seven Kill Sword

Just as the two were wondering what was going on, Ye Guchen and Sword Douluo's telepathic voices reached them at the same time.

"Don't worry. We're just going to spar over swordsmanship."

At that, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Fengzhi exchanged a glance, shook their heads in unison, and continued discussing the details of their cooperation.

Outside the city, the setting sun was as red as blood, stretching the two figures standing face-to-face into long shadows.

Sword Douluo Chen Xin stood with his hands behind his back. The wild grass beneath his feet had been pressed flat against the ground by an invisible sword aura.

He looked at Ye Guchen opposite him. His gaze held the scrutiny of an elder, but even more than that, it held the fervor unique to swordsmen.

He could sense a sharpness lying dormant within the young man, one that even he had to take seriously.

"Pavilion Master Ye," Chen Xin said slowly, as the Soul Power around him began to recede deliberately, settling back to level sixty-one. "This old man doesn't want to take advantage of you. Today's battle is only to discuss the sword, not to determine a winner. I'll suppress my Soul Power to your level, the sixty-first rank Soul Emperor level, so that we can both fight to our hearts' content. How..."

Before he could finish the word "how," a violent sword intent suddenly erupted between heaven and earth.

A ferocious, domineering sword appeared out of thin air before Ye Guchen.

Its spine was lined with serrated teeth, and a majestic green band of swirling patterns was engraved along its blade. It was none other than the Shark Tooth Sword!

The instant the sword appeared, an all-conquering sword intent that could pierce through anything burst forth like a raging gale and surging ocean. The air within a hundred meters twisted, letting out a piercing hum.

Chen Xin's pupils suddenly contracted. The Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul within him let out an excited cry that pierced the soul—a shudder of recognition at encountering one of its own!

"Senior Sword Douluo," Ye Guchen said, gripping the Shark Tooth Sword as his black hair whipped wildly. His battle intent burned in his eyes, almost tangible, and his voice rang with unshakable resolve.

"Fighting at the same level wouldn't be satisfying enough. Please show me the strength of a seventieth-rank Soul Saint. Only then can we have a truly exhilarating battle!"

Feeling the surging sword intent bearing down on him and seeing the almost arrogant confidence in this junior's eyes, Chen Xin felt no offense. Instead, he threw back his head and laughed, his voice splitting the clouds and shattering stone.

"Hahahaha! Good! What a Shark Tooth Sword! What a Ye Guchen! Very well. Let this old man teach you a thing or two!"

He stopped holding back his aura. It rapidly climbed and settled firmly at the seventieth-rank Soul Saint level.

A layer of condensed, almost tangible platinum sword aura spread from his body, slicing through the surrounding space with a constant hiss.

The Seven Kill Sword appeared in his hand with a ringing clang, its shifting light illuminating heaven and earth.

"Come!"

As the words left his mouth, the two figures vanished from where they stood almost simultaneously.

Ye Guchen moved like a dragon. The Shark Tooth Sword carried the weight of a thousand jun as he thrust out with Long Rainbow Piercing the Sun. His sword aura condensed into a streak of dim light, long and keen, driving straight toward the centerline.

Sword Douluo neither dodged nor evaded. His First Soul Ring lit up, and Long Sword Sharpens surged forth. Platinum light blazed across the Seven Kill Sword, instantly boosting its attack power by thirty percent as he precisely intercepted the Shark Tooth Sword's edge.

"Clang!"

The clash of metal rang out with a piercing explosion, sending a visible shock wave surging through the air.

Ye Guchen shifted his sword's momentum. The Shark Tooth Sword flicked upward at an impossible angle, using the deft force of One Sword Takes Life to knock the Seven Kill Sword aside.

Sword Douluo lowered his wrist, and the Seven Kill Sword held firm as a boulder. At the same time, he instantly released his Second Soul Skill, Spirit Sword Guard. A sword-aura barrier two meters in diameter appeared out of thin air, blocking all of Ye Guchen's ensuing Heaven and Earth Shift thrusts.

"Excellent fundamentals! Again!" Chen Xin praised, his sword technique changing abruptly.

His Third Soul Skill, Flat as Flowing Water, erupted. A vast, half-moon-shaped arc of sword aura expanded fiercely from him across a fan-shaped area ahead, sweeping out like a giant wave that could empty the sky, ready to drive everything back!

Ye Guchen felt an irresistible force slam into him head-on. This was a wide-area knockback skill powerful enough to stun Soul Masters.

Instead of retreating, he surged forward. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes as he used the force of the impact to leap high into the air, like an eagle striking the sky!

Horizontal Sweep!

The Shark Tooth Sword instantly slashed out four distinct streaks of sword light in midair. Each was as swift as lightning, their real and illusory forms interweaving as they struck at four vital points on Sword Douluo's body.

This horizontal-sword killing move was unpredictable, and it was so fast that even its afterimages blurred.

"Nicely done!" Chen Xin's Fourth Soul Ring lit up, and an exquisitely sharp blade of sword aura shot from the tip of the Seven Kill Sword.

Killing Intent Revealed! This single-target attack had peerless penetrating power. It ignored the four sword lights, whose true and false forms were impossible to distinguish, and went straight for the point where the sword technique's power converged.

"Clink!"

The collision rang out even more sharply. Three of the four sword images vanished, leaving only the true blade, which was held fast by the keen sword edge.

Before Ye Guchen could change his move, Sword Douluo's Fifth Soul Skill, Might Shakes All Directions, followed close behind. Countless sword auras spread in every direction without a single blind spot, sweeping out like a storm and striking with both knockback and lethal force!

The immense impact sent Ye Guchen flying backward. Yet in midair, his figure drifted with uncanny lightness, using the footwork principles of Heaven and Earth Shift.

Riding the force of the impact, he changed direction in midair. As he shed the force, he had already adjusted to the perfect angle of attack.

Sunset Banner!

His whole body became a falling meteor of sword light, his speed pushed to its limit. The blade gleamed like the blood-red afterglow of a setting sun, brilliant yet filled with lethal intent, arriving in an instant and without warning!

The speed and suddenness of this strike made even Sword Douluo's brows twitch.

He had no time to think. His Sixth Soul Ring shone brightly.

Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin!

In the void, Soul Power instantly gathered into tens of thousands of gleaming phantoms of the Seven Kill Sword. They didn't shoot out all at once. Instead, they rapidly converged before Chen Xin, forming a colossal Seven Kill Sword condensed to its utmost that charged fiercely to meet the attack!

"Boom!"

The sunset sword light slammed into the giant Seven Kill Sword. The terrifying energy turbulence plowed a trench dozens of meters long through the ground below.

Chen Xin's figure swayed slightly. Ye Guchen flipped through the air and landed in the distance. His breathing was somewhat ragged, but the fire in his eyes burned even brighter.

"Senior, be careful!"

Before Ye Guchen's words had faded, an extreme blend of cold and heat spread out from him, instantly engulfing the sky and earth.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Domain fully unfolded! Within a radius of three hundred meters, the heavens and earth changed color as extreme cold and heat alternated in a relentless cycle, forming a deadly domain.

Sword Douluo, trapped inside the array, immediately felt his Soul Power stutter as it circulated. His strength had been forcibly suppressed to sixty percent, while Ye Guchen's aura surged wildly, doubling his attributes across the board!

"Immeasurable Sword Array, rise!"

With Ye Guchen's low cry, endless intersecting sword auras condensed out of thin air within the domain, densely packed and blotting out the sun!

Every strand of sword aura carried an edge capable of tearing through anything. They weren't lifeless things: if a strike missed, it would vanish into the domain's curtain of light, only to shoot out again from another direction an instant later, cycling endlessly without pause!

Inside the array, Sword Douluo felt killing intent all around him—in front and behind, to the left and right, above and below!

"Fine work, young man! Fifth Soul Skill, Might Shakes All Directions!" He tried to use a wide-area attack to clear some space. But as soon as the sword auras were dispersed, even more surged in like the tide. He had never faced an attack so densely packed.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin!"

Countless sword images shot out and collided with the endless sword auras. Explosions rang out in a continuous roar, and even space began to tremble.

But human strength had its limits, while the sword auras of the Immeasurable Sword Array seemed endless.

Chen Xin's expenditure of Soul Power mounted rapidly, and gaps gradually appeared in his defenses. Several strands of sword aura grazed past him, slicing his robes.

He was at an absolute disadvantage!

At this rate, defeat was inevitable! As the interwoven curtain of ice, fire, and sword aura pressed in layer upon layer, steadily shrinking the space he could move in, a look of astonishment mingled with excitement flashed across Chen Xin's eyes.

"Seventh Soul Skill—Seven Kill True Body!"

An ancient sword cry rang across the sky as Sword Douluo's figure instantly merged with the Seven Kill Sword, man and sword becoming one!

A brilliant, colossal sword image shot into the sky. His attributes, attack speed, and sword intent all reached their peak in an instant!

In his true-body state, he swept out with one sword, clearing every sword aura within dozens of meters before him. He forcibly opened a patch of ground to stand on amid the endless sword curtain, barely steadying his wavering figure.

But he had only managed to steady himself.

The sword auras of the Immeasurable Sword Array were endless. The moment they were cleared, they gathered again, like a colossal millstone steadily grinding away at the power of his true body.

The state of becoming one with his sword consumed an enormous amount of energy, yet he still couldn't break through the merciless encirclement of sword auras.

In every direction, above and below, a deadly net of interwoven swords surrounded him, their chill and heat mingling.

"What an Immeasurable Sword Array! It can actually trap my Seven Kill True Body!"

Sword Douluo truly felt a suffocating pressure he hadn't experienced in years—one that even surpassed the encirclement of Titled Douluo of the same rank.

At the same time, a heavy feeling rapidly settled over him. He might currently have only the Soul Power of a seventieth-rank Soul Saint, but its quality was still that of a ninety-sixth-rank Titled Douluo. Add to that decades of battle experience as a Titled Douluo and the Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul, and even a Soul Douluo would fall to his blade!

Yet now, facing Ye Guchen, who was only at the sixty-first rank, he was being driven back!?

He knew that with the power of a seventieth-rank Soul Saint, he could no longer do anything to Ye Guchen inside the array. Unless...

A helpless yet appreciative sigh came from within the array.

He could no longer worry about his earlier agreement to suppress his Soul Power. He only wanted a battle that would let him fight to his heart's content!

The next moment, a terrifying wave of Soul Power far beyond the Soul Saint level erupted with a roar!

The bottleneck at the seventieth rank that had suppressed him shattered instantly. The vast pressure of a Soul Douluo swept out.

At the eightieth rank, Soul Douluo-level sword intent poured down like a river of stars. A platinum sword beam, condensed to its utmost, slashed from the Seven Kill True Body—not a feint or a display of technique, but pure force overcoming finesse!

"Break!"

At that single word, the sword beam cleaved into the torrent of sword auras. The boundless mass of blades was struck by this overwhelming force and actually stalled for an instant.

That was all the opening Chen Xin needed. Man and sword as one, he transformed into a streak of light that tore through heaven and earth, surging through the gap and breaking beyond the bounds of the Immeasurable Sword Array.

The domain's curtain of light shuddered violently, then slowly dispersed.

Ye Guchen stood with his sword in hand, breathing slightly heavily. As he watched Sword Douluo emerge from the array and return to his normal form, there wasn't the slightest trace of discouragement in his eyes—only the satisfaction of a thoroughly exhilarating battle.

The two stood facing each other in silence, their shadows cast by the setting sun across the ravaged earth.

At that moment, no more words were needed. The two sword cultivators had already reached a meeting of minds.

After a long while, Chen Xin stroked his beard and sighed. When he looked at Ye Guchen, there was no trace of an elder's reserve left in his gaze, only equal respect and amazement.

"Pavilion Master Ye, you've won."