One Sword Kill, Venerable Falls

"Ten breaths. I'll give you ten breaths."

Su Changge was in no hurry. Since he had already marked him as a leek, did he think he could leave?

That was impossible.

Luo Yan's face darkened. He had originally come today for the three-year agreement, to wash away his past humiliation, yet he had never expected to encounter such a terrifying young man!

"Do you know who I am?"

"I am the Holy Son of the Returning Unity Sect!"

Su Changge could not help but laugh at that.

Sure enough, the other party had started waving his identity around to threaten him.

But the one thing he feared least was comparing identities!

"Your name is Luo Yan. You joined the Returning Unity Sect five years ago and recently became the newly appointed Eleventh Holy Son."

"So what if you are a Holy Son? You offended this Divine Son, so you must pay the price."

"Oh, and you have three breaths left."

Luo Yan's face went deathly pale. The other party was utterly unafraid of his identity! He even seemed completely unconcerned!

That could only mean the other party had absolute confidence!

"Young brat, since you know of my Returning Unity Sect, aren't you being far too presumptuous?"

At that moment, the void twisted and slowly tore open. An old man gradually stepped out from within.

"Elder Li!" Luo Yan and Luo Qingyu both looked delighted. Elder Li was a late-stage Venerable!

He was considered one of the foremost experts in this world!

"You two useless things, you've disgraced our Returning Unity Sect!"

"I'll deal with you two later!" Elder Li shot them a vicious glare. He was Luo Yan and Luo Qingyu's Dao Protector on this journey.

He had witnessed everything that had just happened. It had truly brought shame upon his sect!

"I haven't even made a move, and the old one has already come out to throw his age around?"

Elder Li's face darkened in fury. "Young brat, I advise you to clean up that mouth of yours!"

"Otherwise, don't blame this old man for teaching you a lesson!"

At that moment.

The terrifying aura of a late-stage Venerable spread from the old man's body. When one's divine treasury transformed into a spirit, one became a Venerable.

The surging spiritual energy behind the old man transformed into an ancient giant bird that screeched behind him.

Teach him a lesson?

As the Divine Son of the Returning Origin Holy Land, his status was on the same generation as the ancestors. If he wished, with the flick of a finger, he could launch a War of Annihilation.

This man was not only provoking him—he was provoking the dignity of the Returning Origin Holy Land!

"Senior, please do not intervene," Su Changge said toward a certain direction in the void.

The moment he had left the North Abyss Dao Domain, he had sensed a powerful aura secretly following him.

The other party bore him no ill intent, so they must have been an expert sent by the Holy Land to protect him in secret.

"Hmph! Giving in now?"

"I'm telling you, if you cannot produce compensation that satisfies me, this old man will certainly teach you a lesson today!"

Elder Li sneered, throwing every word Su Changge had just said right back at him!

He inwardly scoffed. What Divine Son of the Returning Origin Holy Land? Was that all?

Before him, wasn't he still being obedient?

"You people from the Returning Unity Sect really know how to gild your own faces."

"I merely wanted to deal with you personally."

"Xin Yan, take your family members farther away."

Yun Xinyan was exceptionally obedient and immediately led her clansmen away from the area.

She knew that Su Changge was truly angry!

As his words fell.

Boom!!

With Su Changge at the center, a dazzling sword radiance instantly emerged, circling around him.

Hundreds of millions of sword lights seemed to tear the very space apart, and spatial rifts even appeared around Su Changge!

"A mayfly trying to shake a tree—courting death!"

Anger filled Elder Li's face. He was a Venerable, yet a brat in the Sealed Emperor Realm dared to fight him?

This was outright provocation!

Rumble!!

Suddenly.

The void behind him shook violently. Surging spiritual energy and laws churned as they spread toward him from all directions!

Screech!

The ancient giant bird phantom let out an earth-shaking cry!

Its wings, which covered half the heavens, lightly shook the void, unleashing sweeping storms!

Suddenly.

Two violent tornadoes surged through the void, their momentum utterly terrifying!

Whoosh—!!

Immediately after.

Countless wing-blades formed from spiritual energy blanketed the sky!

Their cold gleam was exposed, their edges incomparably sharp.

The immense pressure of spiritual energy even caused the temperature of this region to plummet, making countless people feel as if they had entered the bitter frost of the twelfth lunar month!

"Young brat, I'll give you one last chance. If you remain obstinate."

"Today, I will teach you what it means to respect your elders!" He did not truly dare to injure Su Changge.

After all, he knew the fame of the Returning Origin Holy Land. If it truly went mad, their Returning Unity Sect would be no match at all!

"Ridiculous."

As his words fell, Su Changge formed a sword gesture with his hand. With a lift of his hand, endless sword qi enveloped his surroundings!

As sword qi crisscrossed through the air, it made him resemble a Sword Immortal splitting open heaven and earth. Even that stretch of sky became an ocean of swords beneath the roaming sword qi!

"Sever!"

Whoosh!!

A sword cry rang through the void!

Suddenly, vast sword qi burst forth completely!

In an instant, it transformed into a dazzling sword qi a hundred zhang long!

Boom!!

The sword fell like a star, erupting with sky-piercing brilliance and an unstoppable force that swept through everything in its path!

The roaring storm of spiritual energy shattered the instant it met the sword qi!

It turned into wisps of breeze and scattered between heaven and earth!

At the same time, even the thick sea of clouds in the heavens was torn apart by the sword qi, revealing a massive fissure that spilled forth dense, dazzling light!

"This is the Sealed Emperor Realm?"

The surroundings fell silent.

A Venerable's attack had actually been neutralized so easily?

"With strength like this, you still dare to throw your age around?" Su Changge said with a faint smile.

"You brat!"

Veins bulged on Elder Li's forehead. He had cultivated for over a thousand years before finally achieving the Venerable Realm.

He even possessed considerable prestige within the Returning Unity Sect!

How dare a mere junior act so presumptuously!?

At once.

Violent spiritual energy whirlwinds rose through the void again, their aura far stronger than before!

He intended to erupt with his full power, no longer caring about so much!

"Boy, I'll show you just how foolish it is to anger a Venerable!"

Su Changge smiled faintly, seeming somewhat absentminded. "This Divine Son respects the old and cherishes the young. Come, you first."

"You're courting death!"

Elder Li's last shred of reason was utterly overwhelmed by those words!

He condensed a palm phantom as immense as a divine mountain and sent it crashing directly toward Su Changge!

Rumble!!

Terrifying spiritual energy surged and erupted, making heaven and earth roar!

Under such horrifying power, even Wind Cloud City trembled violently!

The spiritual energy filling the sky nearly froze the Internal Organs of everyone present!

Yet even beneath such overwhelming might, Su Changge's gaze remained indifferent. "Late-stage Venerable. Just right for testing the Dao Severing Art."

Su Changge drew the Azure Heaven Sword from the void and smiled to it. "Azure Heaven, this time we're mainly testing the technique. This old fool is merely being cut down along the way."

"I'll have to trouble you."

The Azure Heaven Sword seemed to respond, letting out a clear sword cry as frosty sword qi runes slowly condensed.

At the same time.

Su Changge slowly closed his eyes, recalling the scenes of his comprehension of the Dao Severing Art over the past few days.

"What is the Dao? Man follows earth, earth follows heaven, heaven follows the Dao, and the Dao follows nature. This is the Dao."

"The great image has no form; all things possess spirit. This is Enlightenment."

"First form of the Dao Severing Art, Enlightenment!"

"Sever!"

With Su Changge's soft murmur.

Whoosh!!

A dazzling sword qi shot into the heavens, illuminating the nine skies!

It was like the moment chaos first opened, illuminating all things and blooming with majestic divine might!

With one sword descending, heaven and earth wailed, while the sun and moon lost their light!

Time in the surroundings seemed to briefly freeze at that instant, as though the entire world had turned into an ink-wash painting.

The sword qi cut through the void, dazzling and resplendent. The old man's body was instantly torn apart by the sword qi, slain in a single strike!

At last, a massive pillar of sword qi shot straight into the nine heavens. Smoke and dust billowed throughout the sky as sword qi crisscrossed and ravaged the land!

As a wisp of white smoke dispersed, that Venerable seemed as though he had never existed.

The surroundings were deathly silent. Everyone stood petrified, watching that terrifying sword strike, their hearts trembling.