The Immortal Sword Appeared! Danyang Fell! The Eastern Continent Trembled!
Ye Zichen was speechless. How could a little lackey even bring himself to use an attack like that? Even if Mu Yang kept attacking for a thousand years, he still wouldn't break through Ye Zichen's defenses.
"What! Impossible! How could you withstand a Half-Immortal's strike?!"
Mu Yang looked at Ye Zichen, who didn't have a speck of dust on him, and couldn't help being surprised.
Ye Zichen left his seat and took two steps forward.
"The show is over. It's time to end this farce."
Ye Zichen flicked a finger, and a streak of invisible Sword Qi instantly pierced Mu Yang's body. One moment he was standing in midair; the next, he fell to the ground.
"I... what's happened to me? Where's my cultivation? No, what on earth is going on?!"
Mu Yang, who had suddenly fallen to the ground, was covered in wounds and looked ready to question his entire life.
One moment he had been arrogant and overbearing; the next, he was howling helplessly!
"Let me show you what it means to be a mortal."
Ye Zichen lowered his hand and spoke down to him.
The sight left everyone present feeling suffocated. No one dared make a sound.
"You! It was you! What did you do?!"
He couldn't believe that Ye Zichen, standing on the viewing platform, could do such a thing. He refused to believe it!
"Didn't you want to know how the Tyrant Saber Sect was destroyed?"
Ye Zichen flew over to Mu Yang and looked down at him as he lay on the ground. "I'll show you."
"You were the one who destroyed the Tyrant Saber Sect?" Mu Yang couldn't believe it.
"Today, I will destroy Danyang as a warning to the Eastern Continent."
Ye Zichen's voice echoed throughout the Flawed Light Holy Land once more. Everyone within the Holy Land heard the command, which sounded like an edict from the Heavenly Dao.
"My lord is finally taking action!"
Xiao Feng and some of the others who knew Ye Zichen's strength could finally relax a little.
Ye Zichen focused his mind, and the Emperor Heaven Immortal Sword appeared!
As Ye Zichen's only personal sword, the Emperor Heaven Immortal Sword possessed power so immense that the Weiyang Realm could not bear its weight.
"Why do I feel my heart trembling?"
"What am I suddenly afraid of?"
These were the questions being asked across the Weiyang Realm's other four continents. They hadn't seen the man, yet they felt an immense terror!
Everyone who saw this scene no longer dared to move.
"An imperial weapon? Or something beyond one?"
Xiao Feng couldn't help pondering as he watched.
He had never owned a sword this powerful before, at least. Even the scythe of the Devil Emperor who had once killed him couldn't compare to it in the slightest!
"Looks like I went a little overboard. The lower realm can't even withstand this much pressure. How fragile."
Ye Zichen spoke with disdain.
"Since I've already brought it out, I'll broaden their horizons."
Holding the Emperor Heaven Immortal Sword, Ye Zichen thought for a moment and decided that using 0.1 percent of its power would be enough.
Mu Yang, who was closest to Ye Zichen, was dumbfounded. Seeing a weapon that could never exist in the lower realm, he had not expected that the man before him was actually an immortal who had descended to the lower realm! He was in despair, utter despair!
"My lord, I beg you, spare my Holy Land."
Mu Yang no longer begged for his own life. He only wanted to beg for a way for his Holy Land to survive.
Ye Zichen remained unmoved and delivered his final words: "Today, I will destroy Danyang to console the living beings of the Eastern Continent."
With that, Ye Zichen used 0.1 percent of his power and swung his sword as lightly as he possibly could. A streak of pure golden Sword Qi flew out, directly severing Mu Yang's cycle of reincarnation and all his karmic ties, causing him to dissipate completely.
Immediately afterward, golden light filled the sky. Countless streaks of golden Sword Qi left a scene of unparalleled beauty and splendor in the air before converging into a golden dragon, which bared its fangs and brandished its claws as it swept toward the Danyang Holy Land.
There were no roars and no resistance. The people of the Danyang Holy Land saw only a streak of golden light coming at them. Before they could even be surprised, the sword strike pierced straight through an area extending hundreds of thousands of miles around the Danyang Holy Land.
Then came a boom!
The sound of the explosion echoed throughout the Eastern Continent. Everyone was shaken by the sight, which shook heaven and earth and made ghosts and gods weep!
"I still didn't hold back enough. I should use it less in the future."
Ye Zichen murmured, then put away the immortal sword.
After glancing at Xie Lingyun and Xiao Feng in turn, Ye Zichen spoke with satisfaction. "That was a good show."
Their match could be said to have earned Ye Zichen's approval.
Then he said to Ye Tian and the others, "I'll leave the rest to you."
With that, he vanished from the Flawed Light Holy Land, his destination unknown.
At the scene in the Holy Land,
after Ye Zichen had left,
Lin Feng was the first to speak. He swallowed. "M-my lord has left... Patriarch Ye Tian, shouldn't we restore some order here?"
Hearing this, Ji Yaoguang stepped forward. "When exactly did that senior come to the Eastern Continent? And how did you come to know him?"
Lin Feng and Ye Tian exchanged a glance, then recounted the scene when they had first met that lord...
"An immortal descended to the mortal world... doesn't the Heavenly Dao intervene?"
Ji Yaoguang gazed at the sky and voiced her question.
Heavenly Dao: I wouldn't dare. Really wouldn't dare. Don't @ me.
"That's beyond what we can know... whether it's the Heavenly Dao or that lord, both are already beyond our understanding..." Ye Tian and Lin Feng sighed.
"For now, let's first evacuate the people from the other sects here," Lin Feng instructed.
While they discussed the matter, the voices of the tens of thousands who had yet to flee gradually erupted. How invincible that sword strike had been!
From tens of thousands of miles away, it had destroyed Danyang in an instant, and the earth-shaking explosion had echoed throughout the Eastern Continent! They had all just witnessed that unparalleled sword strike! This would go down in the Eastern Continent's history!
"Everyone, I know you are all very excited. The Danyang Holy Land tried to suppress and kill us, but was slain by that senior. This was truly a great favor to our Eastern Continent. I hope everyone will remember what happened today."
As the host, Xiaguang Holy Lord began calming the crowd.
"Now that the Danyang Holy Land has fallen, the Sword Sect's patriarch has advanced to Tribulation Transcendence, and his disciple Xie Lingyun has won first place among the sects, I hereby declare the Sword Sect the new Holy Land!"
Ji Yaoguang had set aside her alluring manner and made the declaration with a solemn face.
"Long live the Sword Immortal senior!"
"The Sword Sect is truly worthy of being the new Holy Land!"
The square erupted in cheers once more.
After attending to a series of trivial matters, the group finally reached the outermost edge of the devastated area.
"Th-this was just a casual strike from that lord?!"
Looking at the ash stretching endlessly before them, they were all so astonished that their jaws hung open. No words could describe the terror of the sight.
They went farther forward, intending to reach the center of the Holy Land.
"Everyone, we can't go any farther. The Sword Qi is in chaos and has formed a forbidden zone of its own. With our cultivation, we can only go this far."
Lin Feng spoke. If they went farther, they would be attacked by the Sword Qi. Even a Half-Immortal wouldn't make it out!
"In that case, let us first deal with this outer area. We can designate it a restricted zone and forbid anyone from entering. What do you think?" Ji Yaoguang asked the other two.
"What Xiaguang Holy Lord says is sensible. Taiyuan Holy Lord, let's split up now!" Ye Tian agreed.
A few days later, after the people from the various sects returned, news of the incident spread throughout the Eastern Continent.
Everyone knew that a Sword Immortal had appeared in the Eastern Continent, and that a single sword strike from him had shaken the entire continent! Even the distant Central Continent had heard a little about it!
"Have you heard about what happened in the Eastern Continent? What do you think?"
"I'm not sure. It's far too difficult for an immortal to descend to the lower realm. Could it be a clone sent down by one who received them?"
"Forget it. Let's continue with our plan. When the time comes, we won't fear even an immortal!"
Two men whose figures could not be seen clearly were talking in a secret chamber. No one knew what they were plotting.