System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

192: Ripples of annihilation, sword cries in despairThe gray ripple was silent. Wherever it passed, it was not destruction, but a more thorough ”erasure.”

In front of the flying boat, a patch of the Void Realm that was originally empty felt even more ”hollow” after the ripple passed, as if the very Concept of ”nothingness” had been diluted and forced to return to silence.

This was a power that transcended conventional energy attacks, pointing directly to the end of the Origin of all things!

”Block it! You must block it!” Iron Battle’s eyes were bloodshot as he roared, pouring all the flying boat’s reserve energy into the protective shield without regard for the cost. The shield, which had been flickering, suddenly flared with intense light, becoming as solid as substance.

The crew members also knew they had reached a life-or-death moment. They sat cross-legged one after another, pouring their own Protective Aura without reservation into the flying boat’s core Formation, attempting to survive this calamity together.

However, everyone knew deep down that facing this power of Nirvana originating from the Guixu Origin, the flying boat’s shield would likely not be able to hold for even a single breath.

At the critical moment, Ye Chen moved.

He did not retreat; instead, he took a step forward, actively meeting the gray ripple spreading toward them.

He contracted his Chaos Domain to within three zhang of his body. It was incredibly condensed, with gray air currents swirling as if to recreate the world.

But facing that Nirvana ripple, even the Chaos Domain let out a wail. Its edges began to blur and dim, showing a tendency to be assimilated and return to silence!

This power of Nirvana was of an extremely high level!

Ye Chen’s eyes were as sharp as a sword. He knew that simple defense and energy confrontation were meaningless at this moment.

This Nirvana ripple was more like an embodiment of a rule, a spreading of the Concept of ”ending.”

”Only by using rules can one oppose rules!”

Inspiration struck him. In his mind, the Dao pattern on the ancient corpse’s forehead flashed, as did the pure Nirvana Sword Intent lingering on the broken sword.

Although he did not fully understand it, that fleeting insight, under the pressure of life and death, resonated strangely with his Guixu Sword Intent!

Guixu was also a form of ending!

He abandoned the approach of using Chaos to contain and assimilate. Instead, he poured all his heart, will, and understanding of ”ending” and ”Nirvana” into the guixu sword in his hand.

”Hum—!”

The guixu sword let out an unprecedented tremor. On the blade, the originally circulating Chaos air currents suddenly retracted, while that sliver of ”severing” black light became unprecedentedly intense and expanded!

A Sword Intent that was equally desolate, deathly silent, and seemingly capable of leading all things to their end rose from the blade!

This was not an imitation, but rather, on the Foundation of the chaos ancestral talisman, it had fused his own insights with that fleeting true meaning of Nirvana, giving birth to a prototype of Nirvana Sword Intent that belonged solely to Ye Chen!

”Guixu... Nirvana!”

Ye Chen exhaled and spoke, his voice hoarse and low, as if carrying the aura of the end of time.

He gripped the sword with both hands. He did not slash; instead, he thrust the tip of the sword straight forward!

This strike had no grand momentum, no brilliant light. There was only a thin, extremely condensed gray line, with a color deeper than the surrounding darkness, emerging from the sword tip to meet the gray Nirvana ripple!

”Sss...”

It was like a red-hot branding iron plunged into ice water, or two completely opposite Dao rules eroding and annihilating each other.

The tiny gray line of Sword Intent collided with the vast Nirvana ripple and did not immediately collapse.

It persisted stubbornly, like a reef standing firm in a raging storm. The true meaning of ”Nirvana” it contained actually produced a certain degree of ”resonance” and ”cancellation” with the power in the ripple!

The momentum of the gray ripple was forcibly stalled for an instant!

This was the instant!

Ye Chen groaned, his face instantly turning pale as paper, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

He had forcibly opposed the Nirvana rules emitted by the bronze giant gate using the nascent prototype of his Nirvana Sword Intent. Even stalling it for an instant caused a violent backlash, his Divine Soul feeling as if it were being pierced by thousands of steel needles!

But the instant he had gained was enough!

”Now! Hard left rudder, full power, charge through!” Ye Chen endured the intense pain in his Divine Soul and shouted sharply.

Iron Battle reacted almost the same moment Ye Chen spoke. He steered the flying boat, narrowly skimming the edge of the stalled ripple, pushing the speed to the limit as it charged toward a relatively safe ”blind spot” area below the side of the bronze giant gate!

”Boom!”

The flying boat shook violently. The shield at its edge grazed the aftermath of the Nirvana ripple, instantly annihilating a large section, and the hull emitted a teeth-gritting sound of twisting metal.

But it had finally broken through, escaping the main coverage area of the ripple.

The flying boat stopped narrowly not far from the golden skeleton sitting cross-legged. The hull was severely damaged, and its energy was almost exhausted, but it had managed to preserve a glimmer of life.

The crew members slumped to the ground, gasping for air, as if they had just returned from the gates of hell. The looks they directed at Ye Chen were filled with endless gratitude and lingering fear.

Ye Chen retracted the guixu sword. The deep gray on the blade had faded, returning to its original state. However, he could feel that after the collision in that life-or-death moment, the trace of Nirvana true meaning fused into his Sword Intent had become clearer and more solid.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and quickly took a few Medicinal Pills to restore his Divine Sense and Protective Aura, but his gaze remained fixed on the bronze giant gate.

The patterns on the door panels slowly returned to their normal circulation, as if the terrifying Nirvana ripple from a moment ago was just a casual ”breath.”

But Ye Chen knew that this door possessed an unimaginable autonomous defense mechanism and would never allow outsiders to approach easily.

He had to find the correct method; trying to force his way through was tantamount to courting death.

His gaze swept over the ancient remains and broken artifacts beneath the door.

Had these Senior experts also tried to force their way in like him, only to exhaust themselves and die, becoming exhibits here?

His Divine Sense cautiously probed toward the nearest golden skeleton.

The skeleton was withered and lifeless, but the faint Buddha light still stubbornly lingered, as if guarding a final obsession. When Ye Chen’s Divine Sense touched the Buddha light, an extremely weak and fragmented thought, like a candle in the wind, was transmitted:

”...The door is not a door... The road is not a road... Let the heart reflect the Guixu... Only then will the true path be seen...”

The vague thought ceased abruptly, the remaining Buddha light dissipated completely, and the golden skeleton seemed to become a bit dimmer.

”Let the heart reflect the Guixu... Only then will the true path be seen?” Ye Chen silently repeated it in his heart, deep in thought.

He cast his gaze again toward the broken sword stuck in the ice.

The broken sword was silent, but that wisp of pure Nirvana Sword Intent faintly echoed with the bronze giant gate.

Could it be...

A bold thought rose in Ye Chen’s heart.

Perhaps this bronze giant gate was not a ”physical door” that needed to be pushed open with force, but rather more like the manifestation of a ”Concept,” a mechanism to test ”qualifications”?

Attacking by force would only invite more violent backlash. Only by demonstrating a certain degree of understanding and compatibility with ultimate rules like ”Guixu” and ”Nirvana” was it possible to gain ”recognition” and find the path to enter?

He recalled his experience of stalling the ripple with the prototype of his Nirvana Sword Intent just now. Although dangerous, it had indeed been effective and did not trigger further attacks.

This might be proof.

Then, perhaps these remains and artifacts here were not merely losers. The traces they left behind might themselves be a kind of ”hint” or, in other words... fragments of a ”key”?

Ye Chen’s gaze swept over the broken jade ruyi, the cracked ancient mirror, the dilapidated black boat... Finally, it settled on the broken sword lingering with Nirvana Sword Intent, and the patterns on the bronze giant gate itself, which depicted the birth and death of stars.

He sat cross-legged and instructed Iron Battle: ”I need to meditate here. You all should hurry to repair the flying boat and stay vigilant of the surroundings, but do not act rashly, and certainly do not approach the giant gate.”

Iron Battle quickly bowed and agreed. At this moment, he was completely obedient to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen closed his eyes. His Divine Sense no longer tried to probe forcefully but instead, like mercury spilling over the ground, gently covered the surroundings, carefully sensing the Nirvana Sword Intent of the broken sword, the Dao rhythm circulating in the gate’s patterns, and the deep Guixu Concept that was ubiquitous in this Void Realm.

The chaos ancestral talisman rotated slowly in his Qi Sea, emitting a hazy light, as if it were also helping him analyze and understand the ultimate mysteries contained in this place.

Time seemed to have lost its meaning in this deathly silent Void Realm.

It is unknown how much time had passed. When Ye Chen’s mind was completely immersed, as if he himself had become a part of this Guixu, resonating at the same frequency as that Nirvana—

”Zheng!”

A slight but incredibly clear sword cry did not come from the guixu sword in his hand, but from... the broken sword stuck in the ground!