In the boundless darkness!
The aura of destruction and death spread, leaving no escape. It engulfed the figure fleeing in a frenzy and made one thing clear to him: he was about to die.
"Fellow Daoist Radiant Thunder!"
Jiang Ding's voice was calm. "This sword is called the Dyson Solar Sword Domain. It has accompanied me since my youth, growing alongside me. It represents the sword dao of my life thus far."
"Please, show me a thing or two!"
As his voice rang out, a speck of light appeared for the first time amid the endless dark.
That speck was warm and destructive, like the singularity at the birth of the universe. It was about to bloom into a flower of terrifying destruction, burying an inheriting disciple of an upper-realm Immortal Order and ending his wild, unfettered life of the sword.
A bone-deep chill enveloped him.
In that moment, the Light-Thunder Heavenly Lord felt as though he had fallen into an ice pit.
His body and soul trembled in the cold. Scenes from his life flashed before his eyes: cutting down powerful foes with his sword, drinking blood and fine wine, the wives and daughters of countless enemies wailing beneath him, the care of the Thunder-Yang Old Guard...
Suddenly, he missed it all terribly. He could not bear to let it go.
"No!"
"I can't die!"
"I still have to become a powerhouse like the old ancestor, to hold up a piece of the sky for the Thunder-Yang Old Guard. I still want to see more of this wondrous world of immortal cultivation..."
The Light-Thunder Heavenly Lord roared in bitter defiance.
In an instant, he burned his vital blood and soul. He even burned his last Pure-Upper Thunderbolt Soul-Nurturing Sword Talisman, pouring every scrap of power into his bonded flying