Wang Hao carefully examined the middle-aged man standing beside Sword Saint Dugu. Upon seeing him, he could roughly guess the man's identity.
After all, when they parted ways at Peerless City last time, Sword Saint Dugu said that he was going to find his old rival Heavenly Sword Wuming. Now that this person is standing beside Sword Saint Dugu, then it must be Heavenly Sword Wuming without a doubt.
"It really is similar to the Righteous Sword of Haoran!"
After carefully sensing the Heavenly Sword Intent within Fan Wuming's body, Wang Hao confirmed his previous guess. He then summoned the two peerless swords sealed in the sword box, pointed them at Dugu Sword Saint and Heavenly Sword Wuming opposite him, and enhanced the swords with his own supreme sword intent, attacking them.
Long before he discovered the unique characteristics of the Peerless Good Sword and the Peerless Fierce Sword, he had already chosen masters for the two swords. Among the people he had met during this time, only the Sword Saint Dugu was compatible with the Peerless Fierce Sword.
Back when he was in Peerless City, he could tell that Sword Saint Dugu's Sword Dao followed the extreme path of ferocity and demonic power. This path Tyrannical Dao and would also cause great harm to himself.
This explains why, despite being Peak Heavenly Dao Realm expert, Sword Saint Dugu's physical body was extremely aged, even showing signs of nearing its end.
This Sword Dao perfectly matched the Peerless Fierce Sword, and he even felt that the Peerless Fierce Sword was created for the Sword Saint Dugu.
While he was at the Sword Worship Manor, he wondered if the Sword Worship Manor had not sealed away the Peerless Fierce Sword but instead forged it, would the Peerless Fierce Sword have flown towards Sword Saint Dugu on its own?
Similarly, the Peerless Good Sword is righteous and awe-inspiring, a true divine sword of the righteous path, perfectly matching the swordsmanship of the Heavenly Sword Wuming Sword Dao.
Of course, although he was quite satisfied with the two, they still had to pass the test of the Twin Peerless Swords.
Upon seeing the peerless Twin Peerless Swords charging towards the sand with supreme Sword Intent, Sword Saint Dugu and Wuming dared not be careless and unleashed their full power to fight against them.
While the Twin Peerless Swords were impressive, they posed little threat to the two of them. However, the supreme Sword Intent attached to them was terrifying, representing the unparalleled power of the Dao Ancestor Realm.
Faced with such supreme Sword Intent, even they would feel extremely suppressed, unable to unleash even half of their full strength.
However, neither of them were fools. After recognizing the special nature of the Twin Peerless Swords and their resonance with their own Sword Dao, they could easily guess Wang Hao's intentions.
He immediately unleashed his full Sword Dao to confront the two Twin Peerless Swords, striving to conquer them as quickly as possible.
Wang Hao glanced at the test and battle here and then stopped paying attention, turning his gaze to the west to the forbidden land, where the last Core Divine Stone was hidden.
This is a tough nut to crack!
"Roar!"
Just then, as if disturbed by the aura of the Twin Peerless Swords, a violent roar came from the forbidden area, and the entire earth began to tremble, as if a colossal creature was rapidly approaching.
At the same time, the Twin Peerless Swords finally recognized the Sword Dao Sword Saint Dugu and Wuming, respectively acknowledging them as their masters, and the two stood side by side looking towards the forbidden land.
" Shenron!"
Before long, a colossal creature that Shrouding the Heavens burst forth from the forbidden land, causing the Battle Devil Sword Saint behind it to cry out in alarm.
"What? You're saying this thing is Shenron?"
Wang Hao stared in astonishment at the enormous Tyrant Dragon that had burst forth from the forbidden land, then looked at the Battle Devil Sword Saint beside him.
You call this thing Shenron?
"That's right, this is the Shenron, the leader of the Great God, and the guardian of the Core Divine Stone back then."
"But the Shenron should have been killed back then, so how come it's been resurrected now?"
The Demon-Slaying Martial Saint offered a brief explanation, his face showing confusion, clearly not understanding why the divine Shenron had already perished, would reappear in the world.
"That's not the Shenron from back then, it's a manifestation of the Dragon Essence!"
At this moment, Wuming had remained silent until now, offered an explanation: the Shenron from back then had indeed perished completely, and its most essential Dragon Essence had been devoured by someone.
Clearly, the person who devoured the Dragon Essence used it as a foundation to evolve the body of Shenron, but this can also be considered a kind of rebirth for the Shenron.
Dragon Essence is, after all, the core essence of Shenron, and it is not so easy to refine. Judging from the current ferocious and violent appearance of the Shenron, it has obviously lost its rationality and only the beastly nature of Shenron remains.
"It's even inside that guy's body. It seems that if we want to obtain the divine stone, we'll have to wake him up first. Who's going to go?"
Wang Hao's gaze swept over Xiongba and the others. The most eager to fight Mad Devil Maniac, was clearly a ruthless and taciturn man. He charged forward directly with the Snow-Drinking Mad Saber in hand.
Not to be outdone, Xiongba, Dugu Jian, and Wuming also rushed forward, and the four of them joined forces to launch a siege on the second-generation Shenron, reminiscent of the Seven Heroes slaying the dragon in the Feng Yun Dragon-Slaying series.
None of the four dared to be negligent in this matter, and they fought with all their might, without holding back in the slightest.
It is important to know that the Core Divine Stone is extremely powerful, enabling the user to unleash combat power comparable to the Peak Heavenly Dao Realm in the current Age Without Dao.
Even though the four of them are all top-tier geniuses, and they even have the aid of divine stones, it is clearly unrealistic for them to take on this second-generation Shenron one-on-one. The only option now is to join forces.
Perhaps due to the mysterious connection between the divine stones, the four Wuming individuals experienced a dramatic increase in their teamwork and displayed increasingly powerful combat strength, quickly inflicting numerous injuries on the second-generation Shenron.
The battle lasted for three months, and finally the Wuming individual severed the head of the second-generation Shenron and extracted the Core Divine Stone and Dragon Essence from its body.
After accepting the Dragon Essence, Wang Hao looked at the Core Divine Stone, sensed it for a moment, and finally used his supreme Sword Intent to divide it into four parts, which were then integrated into the Wuming person's body and merged with the other four divine stones.
"The divine stones have been collected, so how should the Sword Realm be opened?"
Looking up into the deepest part of the forbidden land, Wang Hao asked the Wuming, who had barely recovered some of his energy.
Previously, when the four Wuming individuals fought against the second-generation Shenron with the help of the divine stone, he took the opportunity to sense it and finally faintly sensed the existence of a world deep within that forbidden land.
That world felt very strange to Wang Hao, existing somewhere between reality and illusion, and was quite ethereal and unpredictable.
Although they had pinpointed the general location of the enemy, getting inside was not an easy task.
The Peerless Sword Saint once said in Peerless City that the Heavenly Sword Wuming might know the method to enter the Sword Realm, so now we should ask this Heavenly Sword.
" The Sword Realm is completely sealed off. The only way to enter is through the Sword Heart Hell. To enter the Sword Heart Hell, in addition to locking down the Sword Realm, one must also obtain the peerless weapon, the Great Evil King!"
Having already learned about the crisis in the Three Realms from his old rival, Sword Saint Dugu, Wuming didn't hesitate to reveal the methods he knew, though Wang Hao wanted to complain about them.
"Wow, these two things really exist!"
The name "Sword Heart Hell" may be unfamiliar, but the legendary weapon "Great Evil King" from the Feng Yun series is certainly well-known.
Leaving aside the Great Evil King from the Feng Yun series, he certainly has little to do with the Great Evil King of this Martial Dao Great World, but he must be many times more powerful.
"So where is the Great Evil King?"
Wang Hao suppressed his urge to complain and continued to ask, but the answer he received almost made him want to kick him.
"Have no idea!"
Heavenly Sword Wuming shamelessly stated that he did not know the whereabouts of the Great Evil King, a response that even made Sword Saint Dugu, who was standing beside him, give him a strange look.
Xiongba and the others stared at Wuming with resentment. They had worked themselves to the bone to kill the second-generation Shenron, and they were on the verge of the final step, but he said he didn't know where the key to open the door was.
This is outrageous!
"Looks like I'll have to step in again!"
With a frustrated sigh, Wang Hao entered the depths of the forbidden land. Wuming and the others quickly followed, using their own divine stones to help pinpoint the locations of the Sword Realm and the Sword Heart Hell.
"It's indeed difficult to get in from here, but we can poke a hole through here."
After carefully examining the illusory Sword Realm, Wang Hao decisively abandoned the idea of entering from there and instead turned towards the Sword Heart Hell below.
The Sword Heart Hell is much better than that illusory Sword Realm. At least there is a clear world barrier, although the barrier is very strong, and even a powerful expert at the Great Dao Realm would find it difficult to break through.
If it were anyone else, they would have to find the Great Evil King to open the door, but Wang Hao has the Sword Qi of the End in hand, so he can easily take a shortcut and poke a hole in the Sword Heart Hell barrier.
Just like when he came to the Martial Dao Great World back then, he poked a hole in the barrier that sealed off the passage to that other world.
Having chosen the right spot to drill, the Sword Qi of the End surged forth from within him, transforming into a physical longsword that pierced towards the world's barrier.
The Sword Qi of the End is indeed powerful. Even though the Power of the End Wang Hao has refined is only in its rudimentary form and is far from being comparable to the ultimate version of the Power of the End, it is still something that a Sword Heart Hell cannot withstand.
After a quarter of an hour, Wang Hao's End Sword finally pierced a hole in the world barrier of Sword Heart Hell.
Although the hole was only the size of a thumb, it was big enough for them to pass through.
"If you want to go in and take a look, hurry up! Maintaining this cave is very strenuous!"
While maintaining the small hole he had poked out, Wang Hao urged.
This hole was only temporarily created, and he even deliberately avoided the nodes of the world barrier, so it can be repaired.
He is currently using his boundless sword energy to maintain the existence of this small hole, which naturally consumes a considerable amount of his energy.
Without hesitation, the Wuming Sword Saint Dugu, the Mad Devil Maniac, and the other two shrank their bodies and entered the Sword Heart Hell through the small hole. Xiongba hesitated for a moment, then also shrank his body and rushed inside.
Compared to the potential dangers within, he was more eager to learn the truth about the celestial changes.
Finally, Wang Hao shrunk his size and took his two snake-spirit wives, whom he had stored in his inner space, into the Sword Heart Hell.
" The Great Evil King, so it was in the Sword Heart Hell! No wonder I couldn't find it for ten thousand years!"
Upon entering Sword Heart Hell, the Wuming group immediately looked up at the giant sword at the core of Sword Heart Hell, which was embedded in the earth.
That was truly a giant sword, comparable to Mount Buzhou Devil Mountain in the Primordial Wilderness Devil World.
The giant sword, with its jagged serrations, exuded an extremely malevolent aura that enveloped the entire Sword Heart Hell. It truly lived up to its reputation as the number one ferocious weapon in the Martial Dao Great World, the Great Evil King.
"Shouldn't the Great Evil King be a knife? How did it become a sword?"
Finally, upon entering the Sword Heart Hell, Wang Hao heard Wuming's words and, looking at the jagged giant sword embedded in the core of the Sword Heart Hell, couldn't help but complain.