The Burial Ground of Divine Swords, the Vicious Sword Purgatory Blood Slaughter

Northern Nether Dao Domain.

Gu Clan.

Inside Dao Evolution Hall.

Half a month later.

Gu Xuanjin had broken through another two minor realms.

Including the minor realm Gu Xuanjin had broken through in the Myriad Demon Divine Court.

Gu Xuanjin had now reached the eighth level of the Heaven-Reaching Realm.

As for mastery of the Law of the Sword Dao, progress had slowed after reaching 80%.

It had now only barely reached 82%.

Gu Xuanjin had gained nothing from wiping out the five major Demon Race factions of the Heavenly Demon Dao Domain this time.

Dugu Yunyan, however, had gained a great deal.

Not only had the Human Emperor Banner risen to the rank of an imperial weapon.

His own cultivation.

With the aid of the Haotian Creation Art.

Had also absorbed considerable power across the five battlefields, including the Myriad Demon Divine Court and Divine Firmament Mountain.

He had advanced by leaps and bounds, breaking through to the fifth level of the Heaven-Reaching Realm.

He was hot on the heels of his true self, Gu Xuanjin!

If his body had been able to withstand more power, he could have advanced even further.

Even Lü Yifei had only just cultivated to the fourth level of the Dao Integration Realm.

And as they parted.

Dugu Yunyan had also given Gu Xuanjin an unexpected surprise.

He had given Gu Xuanjin a fragment with a Great Emperor's Dao resonance flowing around it.

He said he had obtained it from the Quasi-Emperor's legacy in the Youxuan Dao Domain last time.

And as for that fragment.

Gu Xuanjin had a similar one.

It had dropped when Gu Xuanjin dealt with the first protagonist, Xiao Han, in the Great Li Imperial Dynasty.

As long as all five fragments of this kind were gathered.

A hidden treasure left behind by a Great Emperor could be opened.

Hidden treasures were much like legacies; both contained many good things.

The difference was that one was usually a place where a powerful figure had deliberately left an inheritance.

The other was generally a place where a powerful figure had buried themselves.

And now Gu Xuanjin had obtained two of the fragments, leaving only three more to find.

Stepping out of Dao Evolution Hall.

Gu Xuanjin turned into a streak of silvery-white sword light and headed straight for the sword tomb in the back mountains.

Gu Xuanjin's current weapon, Moxie, was only a supreme-grade profound weapon.

It could no longer fully bear Gu Xuanjin's power.

So.

Gu Xuanjin planned to go to the sword tomb first and find a suitable divine sword.

Then go to Edge Refining Hall.

And have the ancestor melt the Primordial Chaos Sword Embryo into it.

To reforge it into a suitable sword for Gu Xuanjin to carry.

In less than ten breaths.

Gu Xuanjin arrived at the foot of a primeval mountain.

A distant, ancient presence permeated the air, and a vast, formidable barrier shrouded the place.

Gu Xuanjin had heard the ancestor mention.

The origins of this sword tomb.

Seemed to reach back to the Eternal Ancient Era, before the Desolate Ancient Era.

It had been created in the middle of the Eternal Ancient Era.

By a peerless prodigy of the Gu Clan who had become an immortal through the Sword Dao.

Apparently, the immortal weapon that person had wielded was also left here.

As Gu Xuanjin arrived.

Two young men in their twenties immediately emerged from the void.

Their presences were deep and powerful. They were actually Supreme Realm experts.

These two were the Gu Clan members currently responsible for guarding the sword tomb.

Sensing the heart-shaking sharpness emanating from Gu Xuanjin, both men were startled.

The two bowed respectfully. "Gu Ping and Gu An greet the divine child!"

Gu Xuanjin nodded slightly. "Open the barrier. I wish to go inside."

Hearing this, Gu An and Gu Ping took out formation tokens and opened a wide gateway in the barrier.

Gu Xuanjin then stepped straight inside.

Once Gu Xuanjin's figure had completely vanished.

The lingering shock had yet to fade from Gu Ping's face.

He said with a bitter smile:

"The sharpness around the divine child is overwhelming.

His mastery of the Law of the Sword Dao is probably no less than that of those Quasi-Emperor great experts, is it?"

The other man nodded as well.

He said in astonishment and admiration:

"The divine child slew two Supreme Realm experts of the Demon Race with a single sword strike in the Heavenly Demon Dao Domain.

His strength is probably already comparable to a Quasi-Emperor's!"

Inside the sword tomb.

Laws of the Sword Dao of every kind hummed and trembled.

Fierce sword intent surged and roiled.

The place was filled with boundless sharpness and ferocity.

This was a world of swords.

Gu Xuanjin strolled through the void, sword intent soaring to the heavens, sharpness unleashed to its utmost!

The entire sword tomb could only submit, as though Gu Xuanjin were a sovereign among swords.

Below lay mountain ridges wreathed in immortal mist.

However.

Unlike ordinary mountains covered in ancient trees and brimming with life.

Here.

There were only towering swords, like mountain peaks, reaching from earth to sky.

And three-foot swords casually thrust into the ground, untouched by the corrosion of time.

They were everywhere.

Some shone with divine light and radiated powerful sword intent.

Others manifested captivating, exquisitely beautiful sword spirits, hoping to attract Gu Xuanjin.

Gu Xuanjin swept out divine sense, searching for a sword to Gu Xuanjin's liking.

The farther Gu Xuanjin traveled toward the summit of this great mountain formed of sharp swords.

The higher the rank of the swords became.

Gu Xuanjin searched all the way up but found no suitable sword.

When Gu Xuanjin reached the summit.

There were dozens of swords at the imperial weapon level.

Standing quietly in the ground or scattered around the summit.

The pressure emanating from them was immensely heavy.

As though Great Emperors stood upon the summit.

And at the very center.

Three swords at the immortal weapon level floated in the air.

Supreme and exalted, noble and transcendent.

Like three immortal kings receiving the worship of the countless swords in the sword tomb.

If an ordinary Heaven-Reaching Realm cultivator came here.

That boundless, vast pressure would crush their body and annihilate their soul in an instant.

But Gu Xuanjin remained calm, entirely unaffected.

Gu Xuanjin paid no attention to the other swords, whether they were imperial weapons or even extreme Dao imperial weapons.

Gu Xuanjin's gaze was drawn to the three immortal weapons.

The immortal sword on the far left was named Purgatory Blood Slaughter!

Dried blood still stained it, the blood of countless powerful figures.

Its shape was distinctive, sinister and domineering.

It was about three and a half feet long and dark red.

Moreover, it was steeped in an immensely heavy, murderous balefulness.

It could easily stir a person's urge to kill, reducing them to a machine that knew only slaughter.

A thoughtful look appeared in Gu Xuanjin's eyes.

Gu Xuanjin was no great saint.

Although Gu Xuanjin killed people too.

It was not merely killing for the sake of killing, but to accomplish a purpose.

A sword born for slaughter had too strong a thirst for killing; Gu Xuanjin did not like it.

This Purgatory Blood Slaughter Sword was well suited to Dugu Yunyan, though.

Dugu Yunyan had been formed from Gu Xuanjin's evil thoughts in the first place.

And he was unaffected by soul-based control.

That made him completely immune to the sword's side effects.

However.

Although Dugu Yunyan had no particular requirements for a weapon and thought anything that could kill would do.

He seemed to prefer using a saber.

Gu Xuanjin's gaze flickered.

It was no great problem. After leaving this time, Gu Xuanjin could simply have the ancestor turn the sword into a saber.

Gu Xuanjin then reached out a hand, intending to take the sword.

Hum-

A piercing clang suddenly erupted.

The sword struggled violently, unwilling to be taken by Gu Xuanjin, who was only at the Heaven-Reaching Realm!

Vast immortal might rippled outward in an instant.

Blood-red Sword Qi filled the sky, turning the place into a boundless sea of blood!

Gu Xuanjin stared impassively at Purgatory Blood Slaughter.

The next moment.

The boundless silvery-white Law of the Sword Dao emerged, easily suppressing it until it could not move.

Purgatory Blood Slaughter refused to submit and continued to struggle.

It had once followed its master on the road to immortality and drunk the blood of immortals.

Now it was being made to submit to a greenhorn barely in his teens.

To it, this was an immense humiliation!

Just then.

Gu Xuanjin forcibly seized the dark red sword, which was full of resentment and hatred.

The sword spirit within immediately tried to stir the urge to slaughter in Gu Xuanjin's heart.

But no matter what means it used, it could not affect Gu Xuanjin.