Chu Mo's voice seemed to come from the dawn of heaven and earth. Six sword radiances of different attributes merged upon the broken sword: the azure of the Azure Ripple Jade Pendant, the violet of the Primal Beginning Jade Pendant, the crimson of the Heart Burning Jade Pendant, the blue of the Azure Ripple Jade Pendant, the silver of the Extreme Frost Ice Pendant, and the black of the Chaos Sword Body. Together, they condensed into a seven-colored sword beam capable of tearing apart space.
Xiao Yixiao's pupils abruptly contracted. At last, he understood why his grandfather, Xiao Zhantian, had lost to Chu Muxue—the youth before him was recreating, through his strength alone, the world-shaking strike with which the Chaos Sword Master had once faced seven Divine Venerables head-on.
Boom—
The sword beam fell, and the Heaven Defying Fate Altering Array shattered like paper mache. Xiao Yixiao's war halberd snapped in two; the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi was ground into dust by the Chaos Sword Qi. He himself was flung away by the aftershock, crashing against a stone stele in the ancestral shrine. The blood he coughed up traced sword markings upon the stele identical to those of the Azure Ripple Jade Pendant.
"Do you know..." Chu Mo slowly approached, the tip of his broken sword resting against Xiao Yixiao's throat. "When your grandfather cut off my mother's arm, the one she held in her arms was me, barely a hundred days old."
Xiao Yixiao stared in terror at the surging currents of chaos within Chu Mo's eyes. Reflected within them was the scene of his grandfather Xiao Zhantian having his arm severed by Chu Muxue—so the Azure Ripple Jade Pendant was not merely a key, but a crystallized memory his mother, Chu Muxue, had sealed away with her life.
"Spare... spare me..." Xiao Yixiao trembled as he pulled out his final jade fragment. "I have... the coordinates of the Demon God Core..."
"No need." Chu Mo coldly cut him off, and the broken sword gave a slight tremble. "I will investigate the Demon God's whereabouts myself. As for the blood debt your Mysterious Yellow Divine Dynasty owes my mother, you will repay it today."
The sword beam flashed, and Xiao Yixiao's figure completely dissipated. Chu Mo turned and saw Yun Che and Su Hanxue standing before the phantom shadow of his mother's sword intent. Tears filled the former's eyes, while the latter held the Dao Protecting Jade Slip taken from the skeleton's hand.
"Brother Chu Mo, the jade slip records the true cause of death of the seven Divine Venerables." Yun Che's voice choked. "They did not die from internal strife. After being corrupted by the Demon God, they deliberately split the sword domain apart, all to buy time for the Sword Masters of later generations to gather the keys..."
Su Hanxue nodded. The silver light of the World Suppressing Seal swept across the jade slip. "No wonder the Grand Profound Sect's records say that the Heaven Suppressing Saintess and the Chaos Sword Master reincarnate every ten thousand years. So this was a game laid out by the seven Divine Venerables with their lives—through the growth of the Twin Sword Masters, they would ultimately purify the Demon God Source."
The ground of the ancestral shrine suddenly shook. Six key fragments arranged themselves in the air, projecting the coordinates of the Uncertain Divine Sea in the God Realm. Gazing at the star map in the void, Chu Mo finally understood what his mother had meant before her death when she told him to "find the sword that belongs to you"—that sword had never been the broken sword itself, but the mission of restarting primordial chaos and purifying chaos.
"Next, we go to the God Realm." Chu Mo tightly held Yun Che's and Su Hanxue's hands. Chaos Sword Qi condensed into an inter-realm teleportation array at the center of the ancestral shrine. "The key to the Uncertain Divine Sea should be connected to the boundary-guarding sword stele left behind by the seven Divine Venerables."
Su Hanxue suddenly frowned as the World Suppressing Seal grew scorching hot in her palm. "Wait. The jade slip's final passage says that the day the three seals unite will be the day the World Suppressing Seal returns to its origin... Chu Mo, Yun Che, perhaps I..."
"Don't say it." Yun Che interrupted her, placing the Heaven Suppressing Seal and World Suppressing Seal together in Chu Mo's palm. "From the moment I saw your past life in the Extreme Cold Ice Abyss, I knew that the fates of the three of us had long been bound together. Rather than the keys needing us, it would be more accurate to say that the myriad realms need us to fight side by side."
The teleportation array lit up. The instant the three vanished, new sword markings suddenly emerged upon the stone stele of the Ye family ancestral shrine—a pattern formed from the intertwining powers of chaos, heaven suppression, and world suppression. It was the final key to restarting the Primordial Sword Domain.
God Realm, Uncertain Divine Sea. Beneath surging gray clouds, seven inverted sword steles floated above the sea. Each bore different law patterns, while upon the central main stele, the seventh key—the Uncertain Jade Pendant—emitted a faint glow.
"Brother Chu Mo, the sword marks on the steles..." Yun Che's Eyes of Reversed Time captured scenes from the past. "They are inheritance sword intents left behind by each of the seven Divine Venerables!"
Chu Mo nodded. The broken sword flew out of its own accord, sweeping past the seven sword steles in turn. The moment the Chaos Sword Qi resonated with them, vast amounts of information flooded into his Sea of Consciousness: the waters of the Uncertain Divine Sea could strip away all laws, and only the Chaos Sword Body could absorb them; beneath the central main stele slept the Primordial Chaos Battle Armor left behind by the Divine Venerables, which could only be awakened by all seven keys.
"Watch out!" Su Hanxue suddenly shoved Chu Mo aside, and the World Suppressing Seal condensed into a shield above her head. A gray sword beam shot from the depths of the sea, piercing straight through the shield and leaving a wound on her shoulder so deep that bone showed—it was the Uncertain Divine Sea's unique Law Stripping Sword, capable of forcibly severing a cultivator's connection to laws.
"They're Divine Ship Guards!" Yun Che cried out. She had seen such beings within the memories of the Heaven Suppressing Seal. "They were sword cultivators under the Divine Venerables back then, but now they have been corrupted by the Demon God and turned into Tomb Keepers of the Uncertain Divine Sea!"
Seven figures rose from the seabed. Each suit of armor was carved with patterns identical to those upon the sword steles. They simultaneously raised their longswords, and the waters of the Uncertain Divine Sea suddenly boiled, transforming into countless Law Swords that enveloped Chu Mo and the other two.
"Yun Che, use the Eyes of Reversed Time to lock onto the main stele!" Chu Mo repeatedly swung his broken sword, guiding the Law Stripping Sword's power into the sword domain. "Su Hanxue, stabilize the space with the World Suppressing Seal! I'll sever their connection to the sword steles!"
Three-colored light erupted in the heart of the Uncertain Divine Sea. Chaos Sword Qi stripped away the power of corruption, the Heaven Suppressing Seal reversed the trajectories of the Law Swords, and the World Suppressing Seal stabilized the spatial coordinates. When Chu Mo's broken sword slashed down upon the Demon God's claw mark on the main stele, the seventh key—the Uncertain Jade Pendant—finally fell into his palm.
Ding—
All seven sword steles rang out in clear unison. The central main stele slowly sank, revealing a passage leading into the depths of the God Realm. Looking at the seven keys in his hand, Chu Mo suddenly sensed an intense summons from the Primordial Sword Domain—a nearly boiling resonance more urgent than ever before.
"Brother Chu Mo, your sword..." Yun Che pointed at the broken sword. It had now completely restored itself. The seven key fragments upon its blade had formed the arrangement of the Big Dipper, while the Primordial Chaos Sword Seal upon its hilt echoed the light at the end of the passage from afar.
Su Hanxue wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and revealed a relieved smile. "With all seven keys gathered, the remaining two should be in the Heart Burning Demon Abyss of the Demon Realm and the Myriad Monsters Blood Pool of the Monster Realm."
Chu Mo nodded, his gaze fixed upon the depths of the passage. Stronger storms of laws, more mysterious God Realm sword cultivators, and the Demon God sleeping within the Primordial Chaos Core were all waiting for them there. Yet at this moment, as he looked at the two companions beside him, his heart held only resolve—
The road his mother had paved for him with her life, the game the seven Divine Venerables had laid out through their fall, and the bond Yun Che and Su Hanxue had defended with their blood all made him understand that the mission of the Chaos Sword Master had never been a lonely journey.
The winds and waves of the Uncertain Divine Sea gradually subsided as the three stepped onto the stairs leading into the depths of the God Realm. The sword cry of the broken sword, the thunderous chant of the Heaven Suppressing Seal, and the clear howl of the World Suppressing Seal together formed a battle song belonging to the myriad realms. Their figures strode toward the Primordial Sword Domain, taking the crucial step that would decide the fate of all worlds.
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