Chapter 189

"After this, I won't enter enlightenment again for a month."

Su Fan sighed.

Too many enlightenments had this downside—like getting sick of eating the same thing.

A month later, when he raised his realm again, he could enter enlightenment once more.

From now on, when cultivating forbidden arts, he could only rely entirely on his own talent.

He could not keep entering enlightenment. It was getting too tiresome.

"They say one moment of enlightenment brings one moment of bliss, and constant enlightenment brings constant bliss. But too much bliss can become tiresome too."

Su Fan sighed.

"Next, it's time to break through."

Su Fan took a deep breath.

This time, he would break directly into the Void Sword Realm.

Once he broke through to the Void Sword Realm, with the power of his forbidden arts, he could kill Emperor Realm experts!

After the Void Sword Realm, the Emperor Sword Realm would not be far away.

Once he reached the Emperor Sword Realm, he could descend the mountain.

"It is said that the Heaven Realm has now been severed from this world, and no one can break through into it. I wonder whether I will face the same restriction?"

Su Fan fell into thought.

The Heaven Realm had been severed, and the God Realm had vanished.

It seemed some restriction had appeared between heaven and earth.

Su Fan raised his realm through forbidden arts, through the Fate-Defying Heavenly Ladder.

In theory, he should have no restrictions.

Heaven and earth should not be able to prevent his breakthrough.

But!

Su Fan felt that if he forced a breakthrough, he might trigger some upheaval in heaven and earth.

"The Heaven Realm was severed, the God Realm disappeared, and Sword God Mountain seems to have begun declining from that time as well."

"What exactly happened back then?"

Su Fan felt that only when he became powerful enough would he be able to uncover these secrets of heaven and earth.

"Could Sword Abyss be hiding some secret?"

Su Fan decided that after breaking through to the Emperor Sword Realm, he would go beneath Sword Abyss and investigate.

"It's time to break through!"

Su Fan took a deep breath as his lifespan began to burn.

The Spirit Sword gradually faded, eventually turning into nothingness.

Yet it was not truly nothingness.

It had merely become formless.

Boom!

The Fate-Defying Heavenly Ladder appeared.

The improved Fate-Defying Heavenly Ladder looked even more profound and unfathomable.

The golden heavenly ladder stretched toward an unknown place.

The steps began to solidify.

Su Fan stepped onto the heavenly ladder.

Boom!

His aura surged wildly!

Mid-stage Spirit Sword Realm.

He stepped onto another stair.

Late-stage Spirit Sword Realm.

Then came the peak of the Spirit Sword Realm.

The new stair became larger, broader, and sturdier.

It was solidifying more slowly.

The sword that had turned formless emerged again.

Then it became formless once more, repeating over and over.

Su Fan carefully sensed the changes in the Spirit Sword.

At a certain moment.

The stair solidified.

Su Fan raised his foot and stepped onto it.

At that instant, he felt as though a massive boulder had been placed upon him.

It pressed him down until he could barely lift his foot.

Boom!

No one knew how much time passed.

Su Fan laboriously lifted his foot and finally stepped onto the stair.

Boom!

At that moment, his aura became vast and surging, rising without end.

The sword completely transformed into something formless.

It seemed to merge into the void.

It became illusory.

Boom!

Su Fan frantically burned his lifespan. His gaze was unwavering as he raised a hand.

A grayish-white sword appeared.

The Life-Ending Sword of No Life!

"Merge!"

Su Fan shouted inwardly, merging the Life-Ending Sword of No Life into the refined Void Sword.

He wanted to amplify the Void Sword he had refined himself.

Boom!

At that moment, in addition to the Heaven-Shattering Sword Intent concealed within it, the Void Sword gained an extra strand of Life-Ending Sword Intent!

His lifespan burned madly.

Even Su Fan did not know how much lifespan this had consumed.

A new stair gradually emerged upon the Fate-Defying Heavenly Ladder.

Su Fan gritted his teeth and persevered.

He continued burning his lifespan frantically until the new stair finally solidified.

He lifted his foot and stepped onto it.

One foot had already landed on the stair, while the other rose.

But at this moment, Su Fan's entire body seemed to be crushed forward by invisible gravity, forcing him to bend at the waist.

That foot rose with difficulty. Every inch it lifted consumed his lifespan at a frantic rate.

Even his bones creaked, as though they could no longer bear the burden.

Even his consciousness began to sway!

Su Fan's gaze was resolute as he said coldly in his heart, "No one can stop me from breaking through. Not even heaven!"

A furious roar erupted within his consciousness!

Boom!

He raised his foot and stepped onto the stair.

His body straightened.

Mid-stage Void Sword Realm!

Rumble!

At that moment, the Fate-Defying Heavenly Ladder seemed unable to bear the burden any longer.

It could no longer maintain itself.

It began to scatter apart.

Finally, it vanished.

A sword circled around Su Fan.

The sword was like an illusion, appearing at times and hiding in formlessness at others.

Void Sword Realm!

The sword darted about like a swimming fish, swift and soundless.

"I've broken through. At my current realm, if I use the Heaven-Shattering Sword, killing Emperor Realm experts should not be a problem."

Su Fan was thrilled.

"In one month, breaking through to the Emperor Sword Realm should no longer be a problem."

"Senior Sister Ling probably hasn't broken through yet, right?"

The corners of Su Fan's lips curled upward.

Breaking through to the Emperor Sword Realm was not something that could be done overnight.

Ling Rushuang had not been in seclusion for long. Even at the quickest, it would take her two or three months, would it not?

Su Fan was confident that he could break through to the Emperor Sword Realm before Ling Rushuang.

"Once I break through to the Emperor Sword Realm, even Heaven Realm experts can be killed!"

He had cultivated so many powerful forbidden arts. Killing enemies across a major realm would not be too difficult.

"I wonder whether Bai Shaokong has uncovered anything."

"The man in black probably hasn't given up, has he? I'd like to see who else he sends to kill me. He won't rest until I'm dead, is that it?"

Su Fan sneered.

Just wait.

One month from now, he would come knocking personally.

"Next, I should continue improving my forbidden arts and increase the rate at which I burn my lifespan."

As usual, after breaking through, Su Fan continued improving the forbidden arts he was proficient in.

In particular, he improved the speed of lifespan burning and the upper limit of lifespan consumption.

These determined the strength of his forbidden arts.

Outside Sword God Mountain, within a small town.

The man in black wore a grim expression.

The Yan Kingdom Imperial Family and the Devil Palace had actually retreated in defeat!

Sword God Mountain had actually concealed such reserves!

Besides Chen Cang, there was another Emperor Sword Realm expert.

And that expert was so powerful that a sword strike from afar had severely injured Sword Maniac!

Sword Maniac of the Devil Palace was a renowned expert of the sword path.

Yet he could not even block a single strike!

Sword God Mountain was known as the orthodox lineage of swordsmanship beneath heaven.

Though it had declined, sword cultivators throughout the world still held it in reverence.

They would not do anything to humiliate Sword God Mountain.

Sword Maniac belonged to the Devil Palace.

He was naturally not among them.

Among the top powers of the world today, none wished to see Sword God Mountain return to its peak.

The Sword God Mountain of old had commanded all sword cultivators beneath heaven!

It had been the sacred ground in every sword cultivator's heart!

There were no lack of powerful sword cultivators in the world today. Once Sword God Mountain regained the might to command all sword cultivators beneath heaven, no top power would dare meet its edge head-on.

"Damn it, why is one piece of trash so hard to kill?"

The man in black burned with rage.

To kill Su Fan, he had already paid no small price.

"I refuse to believe everyone in Sword God Mountain is the sort who takes money and does nothing!"

The man in black thought bitterly.

Cliff of Reflection was in the rear mountain of Sword God Mountain. Other than Sword God Mountain's own people, outsiders who wished to enter had to pass through Sword God Mountain.

Unless they forced their way in, no one could cross Sword God Mountain, infiltrate Cliff of Reflection, and kill someone there.

Then kill that person and still leave safely.

No matter how far Sword God Mountain had declined, it still had powerful experts and methods for guarding against infiltrators!

For that very reason, if he wanted to kill Su Fan on Cliff of Reflection, he could only bribe someone within Sword God Mountain to do it!