Chapter 424 - 287: Consecutive Slaying of 3 Supreme Grandmasters (Part 3)
There’s a kind of helplessness,
And we realize it all a bit too late.
The rain fell once more,
In the night, the drip-drip of the rain seemed to make the whole world quiet. Amidst the downpour, under the cover of night, everything appeared as if it could be washed away, and tomorrow’s dawn would still arrive as promised.
...
The forest on a rainy night felt unusually oppressive.
The heavy rain crashed down, tap-tapping onto the path between the trees, mud splattering everywhere.
Nie Ghost God encountered the most humiliating moment of his life,
He had been born into a prestigious family, joining Sword King City at the age of two or three. Thanks to his remarkable talent, he easily gained the favor of Sword King City’s upper echelons, maintaining a high status without facing much hardship. Later on, he achieved fame at a young age and, having reached the age of knowing one’s destiny, became a renowned supreme grandmaster of the Martial World.
Never had he been in such a state,
Dragging a severely wounded body, staggering through the forest like a headless fly.
Blood flowed freely from his chest,
Nie Ghost God leaned on his long sword, stumbling as his daoist robe was soaked and muddy, his hair a disheveled mess, and even his face covered in mud, utterly miserable. Finally, he simply could not run anymore, his body went limp, and he fell to the ground.
With great effort, Nie Ghost God barely managed to crawl up from the ground, leaning against the trunk, he lowered his head to look at the blood flowing from the wound in his chest, revealing a weak smile on his face.
"Master Uncle, Master Uncle... perhaps Elder Celestial Master was right, and maybe you were wrong!"
In his mind appeared the image of Qi Baiyu’s sword strike,
He knew well that Qi Baiyu had not intended to kill him. Otherwise, there was no way he could have survived that sword strike,
"What kind of sword was that!"
Nie Ghost God murmured, "Master Uncle, your path might have been misguided. We always believed Martial Arts could not kill a Land Immortal, but that sword could already slay an immortal!
Martial Arts, Martial Arts, supreme grandmaster is not the end of Martial Arts, hahaha, I learned this too late, too late!"
The torrential rain drowned out every sound.
From the darkness ahead,
Nie Ghost God saw a figure. He squinted slightly and took a deep breath, using the tree trunk to struggle up and, looking at the figure, slowly raised his sword in hand salute, taking a deep breath and forcing himself to shout: "Sword King City... Nie Ghost God, requesting Gang Leader Gu... for guidance!"
Gu Zhan’s Horizontal Saber broke through the torrential rain, slicing through the rain curtain.
And in that instant,
Nie Ghost God swiftly drew his sword and thrust forward,
That sword strike was extremely slow, with no fluctuation of True Essence, as if an ordinary person was wielding a sword, performing a very awkward maneuver.
"This sword can slay an immortal!"
Nie Ghost God let out a hysterical roar, yet his breath was weak, and the voice lacked any momentum, not even louder than the sound of the downpour.
The sword strike did not obstruct Gu Zhan in any way,
Gu Zhan’s saber pierced Nie Ghost God’s chest.
"Clang,"
Nie Ghost God’s sword fell to the ground.
Blood dripped from his mouth. Watching Gu Zhan, he parted his lips then slowly raised his head, a complex expression in his eyes, stammering, "Sword King City... Sword King City..."
Gu Zhan withdrew his saber.
Nie Ghost God collapsed to the ground.
[Experience Points +100 million]
...
Gu Zhan lightly flicked his Horizontal Saber, blood washed away by the rain. He glanced at the body on the ground, then turned and left.
As he walked, he summoned the system:
[Use 300 million Experience Points]
[Evolve Cultivation Technique Yellow Court Scripture]
...
[Congratulations to the player for successful technique deduction, please name it.]
Gu Zhan looked at the system page, thought for a moment, and directly named the deduced cultivation technique—Great Yellow Court!
[Naming successful]
[Congratulations to the player for obtaining a three-star cultivation technique Great Yellow Court]
Gu Zhan carefully examined the annotations,
The system grades cultivation techniques by quality into seven levels, corresponding to one to seven stars, and the system’s deduced Great Yellow Court is a three-star technique, capable of cultivating to the peak beyond supreme grandmaster.
However, there’s something strange,
According to what Gu Zhan knows, beyond supreme grandmaster is the Grotto Heaven Realm Land Immortal, yet the system marks the ultimate realm of a three-star technique as unknown.
Gu Zhan thought for a moment, though he had some speculations, he didn’t investigate further. As soon as he had enough Experience Points, he could cultivate and naturally understand.
But what Gu Zhan found poignant was,
he was not mistaken, the legendary Land Immortal is not the end, the path of cultivation is still long.
Involuntarily,
Gu Zhan again recalled the words Mo Jingzhou spoke before dying,
At that time, he couldn’t tell if Mo Jingzhou truly remembered something or if it was a hallucination from the final moments.
But now,
This world is far from as simple as he thought,
Dragons, immortals,
Might truly exist.
Gu Zhan inhaled deeply once more, focusing again on the system:
[Use 10 million Experience Points]
[Same Realm Cultivation Great Yellow Court]
[Great Yellow Court cultivated to the Fifth Floor]
[Current Realm: Third Layer of Divine Thought Realm]
...
In that instant, the True Essence within had transformed,
Amidst Gu Zhan’s astonishment,
he could clearly perceive the True Essence elevating, as if being filtered, becoming increasingly purified,
The True Essence continuously shrinking,
as though a massive iron block, after being forged countless times, is left with just a handful-sized piece. Yet a peculiar thing occurred: its weight hadn’t decreased; hence its density increased.