"Heavenly Escape Killing Sword! It's actually the Heavenly Escape Killing Sword!!"
He Ping abruptly heard the artifact spirit of the Formless Secret Treasury speak, and his heart gave a jolt as well.
He knew that the Taiyi Daoist Prefecture possessed three great treasures that safeguarded its teachings: the "sword," the "brush," and the "mirror," named respectively after Heavenly Escape, Earthly Escape, and Human Escape. The foremost among them was the "Heavenly Escape Killing Sword."
It was said that the Heavenly Escape Sword had been personally refined by Xu Xunyang, the founding patriarch of the Taiyi Daoist Prefecture. Forged from true metal of the west and the essence of Earthfire from the planet's core, this killing sword contained the ultimate mysteries of mutual generation and mutual restraint in the acquired realm. Refined from divine metal of the west, it also harbored the austere, murderous aura of heaven and earth.
The great achievers and great supernatural experts of the Taiyi Daoist Prefecture had repeatedly wielded this killing sword, seeking to replace Heaven's heart with their own and Heaven's Dao with their own. Borrowing this sect-safeguarding flying sword to "carry out Heaven's punishment," they had slain numerous peerless experts regarded by the Daoist Prefecture as formidable enemies.
—The name Killing Sword was no empty show, no undeserved title. It had been earned through one killing tribulation after another, upon countless blood-soaked Asura killing fields!
Crash.
A stretch of void split open, spilling forth a chilling murderous aura.
At that very instant, He Ping's eyes widened. Above the firmament, a streak of sword light came surging toward him, like a strip of Milky Way torn down by a celestial immortal—bottomless and boundless, as though it could contain ten thousand stars.
Yet if one focused one's eyesight and looked carefully, one could see that within