Like a Frog at the Bottom of a Well Gazing at the Moon, a Mayfly Beholding the Azure Sky

Beigong Yan looked down over the entire Jade Pool Holy Land.

His smile held a hint of wickedness, as though he were searching for something.

After sensing the sharp, fierce presence inside the Jade Pool Grand Hall that made his heart tremble,

Beigong Yan abruptly vanished.

He appeared in the void outside the grand hall.

"Divine Son of the Gu Clan, do you dare fight me?"

Beigong Yan's voice rang with provocation.

It was not very loud, yet it carried throughout the Jade Pool Grand Hall.

The assembled prodigies and outstanding young talents all turned their gazes toward him.

They knew that this young supreme of the forbidden zone was powerful.

But challenging the Divine Son of the Gu Clan was the greatest mistake of his life.

In all the days of the gathering of prodigies,

apart from the Dao Child of the Supreme Purity Palace, who had barely managed to withstand one of the Divine Son of the Gu Clan's sword strikes,

scarcely any of the other prodigies and monstrous talents had even been worthy of making the Divine Son of the Gu Clan act.

The Divine Son of the Gu Clan, his sharp edge on full display, seemed to have become synonymous with invincibility.

Lü Yifei said gravely in a low voice, "Divine Son, should I test him first?"

The pressure this young supreme of the forbidden zone exerted on him

was even stronger than that of the Primordial Holy Son and the others.

Gu Xuanjin said calmly, "There's no need. You're no match for him."

Then Gu Xuanjin turned into a streak of sword light

that tore through the void and arrived outside the grand hall in an instant.

The youth walked with a sword on his back, untainted by the mundane world.

Sharp Sword Qi surged around Gu Xuanjin like a vast ocean, fierce and violent.

Ethereal, mysterious sword intent shot straight into the clouds, and an immense, powerful presence bore down on all.

That ultimate sharpness seemed to stand above the world itself, carving sword marks through the void.

Beigong Yan's playful expression turned serious in an instant.

What crushing pressure!

He felt that he was not facing a youth,

but a true sword immortal!

Even so, Beigong Yan was supremely confident in his own strength.

"They all say the Divine Son of the Gu Clan is a young sword immortal.

So I came

to see just how strong a sword immortal like you is!"

Just as Beigong Yan was about to make his move,

another aloof voice suddenly rang out.

"In my own era, I, Ye, was once called the young sword god.

I would also like to see just how strong the Divine Son of the Gu Clan, the young sword immortal of this age, is.

Let's see whether the Divine Son truly deserves that title!"

Everyone looked in surprise toward the distant sky, where a youth was approaching on a sword.

The youth wore a long, snow-white robe and a white jade-beaded crown.

He was noble and extraordinary, looking down upon the world.

His face was as handsome as an immortal's.

Cold stars seemed to flicker in his eyes, and his face was fair and clean as white jade.

Sword Qi rampaged around him.

The vast, supreme laws of the sword dao made heaven and earth ring and howl in answer.

An aura of ultimate sharpness rippled through the void.

He moved neither slowly nor quickly.

He was like an emperor returning to his palace, or a god descending from the heavens into the mortal world.

He was another young supreme whose mastery of the sword dao had reached its pinnacle!

Inside the grand hall,

the Primordial Holy Son stared at the newcomer.

Only after a long while did he reveal a look of surprise and identify him.

"This person...

is Ye Chenzhou, the ancient freak of the ancient Ye Family from the overseas immortal islands!

He was once known as the young sword god during the immemorial era!"

The young master of the Extreme Dao Demon God Palace also looked with interest at the three figures in the void.

"How interesting!

To think we'd get to see

the grand spectacle of the ancient young sword god facing off against the young sword immortal of this age today!"

The Imperial Son Baili and the others were also filled with emotion.

"The young supreme of the forbidden zone and the ancient freak of the Ye Family have both come to the Jade Pool Holy Land.

But I'm afraid they still aren't qualified to make the Divine Son of the Gu Clan draw his sword!"

As everyone continued to marvel and exclaim,

high in the void,

Gu Xuanjin stopped restraining Gu Xuanjin's presence.

An even more immense and boundless true intent of the sword dao surged forth.

The laws threw heaven and earth into chaos, and the void roiled, raising ripples of law.

For a moment,

all of heaven and earth became a vast ocean of Sword Qi.

Everyone in the Jade Pool Holy Land felt as though they had entered a world filled with sharp sword intent.

The slightest careless movement would grind them to pieces!

Supremely profound, endlessly sharp!

Its might towered to the heavens, its dominance unmatched!

At that moment, Gu Xuanjin seemed to stand at the pinnacle of the sword dao, the ruler of all sword dao under heaven!

Above all things, high and exalted!

Gu Xuanjin gazed calmly at Ye Chenzhou.

"Young sword god?"

"If you did not practice the sword, seeing me would be like a frog at the bottom of a well gazing at the moon."

"But since you practice the sword, seeing me is like a mayfly beholding the azure sky!"

As soon as those words came out,

the expressions of both the young supreme of the forbidden zone and the ancient freak of the Ye Family changed.

Too arrogant!

But before they could rebuke Gu Xuanjin, Gu Xuanjin spoke again.

"You two, come at me together. I don't want to waste my strength."

"Arrogant!"

The young supreme of the forbidden zone, Beigong Yan, shouted in fury, unable to suppress the anger in his heart any longer.

In an instant,

the vast magical power within him surged, and profound laws stirred around him.

Though he was in the Divine Bridge Realm, the powerful presence he unleashed now far surpassed even the Divine Ability Realm!

All those powers condensed into an incomparably sinister black hole, its bloody light soaring into the sky.

It appeared before Beigong Yan in an instant.

A dense power of refinement rippled around it, as though it could refine this entire world!

Its oppressive pressure gave rise to one phenomenon after another between heaven and earth.

A thunderous explosion shook heaven and earth.

It was terrifying enough to make hearts tremble.

In the blink of an eye,

the blood-lit black hole had become unimaginably huge.

Unrivaled power flowed within it!

The void trembled violently, and a faint wail could be heard.

It was like a great calamity sent down by an ancient god to destroy the world!

Crushing all things, refining the world!

Yet

faced with such a breathtakingly powerful divine ability,

Gu Xuanjin showed not the slightest trace of concern.

"Arrogant? I'm merely stating a fact."

Seeing that Gu Xuanjin paid them no regard whatsoever,

Ye Chenzhou gave a cold snort.

He no longer held back for courtesy's sake and attacked with Beigong Yan.

"Since the Divine Son looks down on us so much, I, Ye, can only accept rather than stand on ceremony!"

As his words fell,

the divine sword in his hand unleashed vast might.

The boundless Sword Qi rampaging around him boiled and surged violently in an instant.

His vast, ethereal sword intent was sharp and forceful, shaking all directions!

Sword light shone across the sky.

The endless, snow-white Sword Qi

gathered into an immortal maiden of ultimate purity, spotless and flawless as a bright white cloud.

The peerlessly graceful immortal maiden danced with her sword.

It was an inviolable sanctity, a beauty that drew people into its spell.

The immortal maiden danced with her sword, and her intent was to kill!

The immortal sword in the maiden's hand slashed toward Gu Xuanjin.

This sword strike

was incomparably swift, moving as it pleased, brilliant and dazzling, both supremely hard and supremely soft, yet chilling to the bone.

Its constancy overcame all changes!

Supreme, incomparably sharp, without equal under heaven!

It was a flawless, top-tier divine ability!

Of these two supreme divine abilities unleashed in anger by peerless prodigies,

one was vast in its might, destruction brought to its utmost.

The other seemed sacred and captivating, yet overflowed with killing intent!

The assembled prodigies in the Jade Pool Holy Land

watched the two great forbidden divine abilities that dimmed the sun and moon and made heaven and earth submit.

The terrifying pressure, as though the world itself were being destroyed,

made their scalps tingle and their hearts pound.

Even the Primordial Holy Son and the others felt an immense weight.

Had they been the ones facing those attacks, they feared they could only have left the field in defeat, gravely injured.

"Can even divine abilities with this kind of power not make the Divine Son of the Gu Clan draw his sword?"

"Among the three thousand Dao Domains under heaven,

aside from that mysterious Dao Child of the Supreme Purity Palace,

who else could possibly have a chance of making the Divine Son of the Gu Clan draw his sword...?"