Eternal Life from the Golden Needle Technique

Chapter 324: Chapter 321: Slaying (2)

”This is bad!”

He watched as the White Jade Eight Diagrams Mirror floating before him dimmed entirely, and a faint, hairline crack appeared on its surface.

Zhou Lingyun’s pupils contracted violently at that moment.

Treasure Artifacts weren’t indestructible.

Within an extremely short time, it had been struck three consecutive times by attacks comparable to a Tier Two Perfection Skill, causing the Magical Power and Spirit Charm within the White Jade Eight Diagrams Mirror to be massively consumed and dissipated.

It was now faintly showing signs that it couldn’t hold on any longer!

’There’s no other choice. It’s time!’

In that instant, Zhou Lingyun steeled his heart.

’No matter how good or precious an item is, it can’t be more important than my own life!’

’As long as I’m alive,’

’the future holds infinite possibilities.’

’But if I die,’

’that’s truly the end of everything!’

With a flip of his palm, Zhou Lingyun retrieved a Jade Talisman from his Storage Bag.

The Jade Talisman was about two fingers wide and one finger long, its entire surface engraved with complex and profound runes.

Within the seal of the runes, a ripple of power so terrifying it could make the very void tremble was pulsating!

This Jade Talisman sealed a full-power strike from the patriarch of his direct lineage, an old master at the Divine Travel Peak Realm.

He only needed to activate the Jade Talisman. The power of the Divine Travel Realm Peak within it would erupt instantly, and a mere Soul Emergence Realm First Layer cultivator would be annihilated into dust and ashes before they could even react!

However, before Zhou Lingyun could activate the Jade Talisman,

three more Cyan Wood Sword Lights came rotating toward him, stirring up a terrifying torrent of power that swept everything away!

”You’re courting death!”

He didn’t have time to use his Magical Power to activate the Jade Talisman’s seal.

Zhou Lingyun could only move the White Jade Eight Diagrams Mirror again, positioning it to block the attack.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Amidst the violent collision and explosion, Zhou Lingyun’s body was sent flying backward in a straight line!

He carved a deep trench in his path, stretching for tens of meters!

At the same time, after enduring the bombardment of Cyan Wood Sword Light comparable to Tier Two Magic four times in short succession, the White Jade Eight Diagrams Mirror had reached its limit. The Spirit Charm on its surface dimmed completely, and obvious, visible cracks appeared!

Zhou Lingyun was now left with no defensive measures!

His body was completely exposed!

And yet, at that very moment, though clearly exposed to danger, Zhou Lingyun’s face twisted into a vicious sneer.

He clutched the Jade Talisman, circulating his Magical Power, about to break its seal.

”You’re dead—”

But in that very instant—

HUM!

A strange aura of power enveloped the entire world in a flash!

In that moment, Zhou Lingyun was locked onto by an immense, deadly terror!

His heart froze in an instant!

He couldn’t move a single muscle in his entire body!

Within his senses, it even felt as if time and space had frozen, as if someone had pressed pause on the world!

Divine Skill: Sanqing Forest Sword Array!

In this frozen world, a glint of cyan sharpness appeared within the thick smoke blanketing the area. Then, a beam of sword light pierced through the heavy layers of dust and smoke.

In an instant, an overwhelming flood of cyan sword light bloomed before his eyes!

Shen Changchuan, with his fingers formed into a sword, achieved Sword and Man Unity. Like an infinitely sharp longsword, he crossed a thousand feet of open air in a flash and appeared right before him!

In Zhou Lingyun’s eyes, the entire world before him seemed to blossom into the Myriad Phenomena of the Universe. An ocean of boundless Sword Intent had descended upon the mortal realm!

The world was completely suffused with the influence of that strange power!

And Zhou Lingyun’s consciousness felt as if it had been stripped from his body, unable to move!

”A Divine... Seed?!!”

For a brief moment, Zhou Lingyun was utterly bewildered.

But then, before he could think any further, his consciousness plunged into an endless Dark Abyss.

’Am... I dead...?’

Before he died, this thought in Zhou Lingyun’s mind was like a flickering candle flame, finally extinguishing.

Meanwhile, in the outside world—a reality different from the one Zhou Lingyun had perceived—

a beam of cyan sword light that had dimmed the very sky for a vast expanse and seemed to have pierced through great swaths of space was now gradually fading, leaving behind a straight, phantom line where it had run through Zhou Lingyun’s body.

At the same time, however, the lingering Sword Intent in the air still kept everything in the vicinity frozen in place.

At the end of that line, behind Zhou Lingyun’s fallen corpse, Shen Changchuan’s face was also a little pale.

He slowly raised his hand, his eyes fixed on the two fingers he had previously formed into a sword. The mysterious and profound aura lingering on them was gradually dissipating.

’Divine Seed...’

Shen Changchuan silently repeated the term, a sense of dawning realization filling his mind.

’What is a Divine Seed?’

Before this, Shen Changchuan had once asked his master, Master Wandering Dragon.

At the time, Master Wandering Dragon had simply shaken his head without explaining, only saying, ”You will understand once you have condensed a Divine Seed.”

Shen Changchuan hadn’t understood what he meant back then.

Later, during the Foundation Establishment Stage of his advancement to the Soul Emergence Realm, he had been aided by a state of Celestial-Human Communication and successfully condensed a Divine Seed.

At that time, he had thought a Divine Seed was simply a tool, like an ultimate skill from a game,

something that could be unleashed in an instant to erupt with power far beyond that of Tier Two Magic!

Cultivators of the same realm would be utterly helpless against it unless they also possessed a Divine Seed.

In Shen Changchuan’s eyes back then, a Divine Seed was just a useful tool for fighting enemies.

But now, after this battle, Shen Changchuan had a deeper understanding.

’In the term Divine Seed, the important part isn’t ’Divine,’ but the word ’Seed’ itself!’

’What is a seed?’

’Plant one grain in spring to harvest ten thousand in autumn!’

’It takes root, sprouts, and then grows into a towering tree...’

’It is the hope of all things, the future of all things!’

Understanding dawned in Shen Changchuan’s heart.

His gaze once again fell upon his raised right hand.

Take the strike from just now as an example. The Sanqing Forest Sword Array was supposed to be formed by the interplay and fusion of the sword lights from three Cyan Wood Divine Swords, creating a Sword Array that manifested as the Myriad Phenomena Forest.

But in that last strike, Shen Changchuan had condensed the three into one!

And then, from that single point, he manifested the Myriad Phenomena Forest!

With that one strike, he had slain Zhou Lingyun on the spot!

The power of that strike was both the Sanqing Forest Sword Array and yet not the Sanqing Forest Sword Array!

It was a new sprout, nurtured by the Divine Seed and grown from his own understanding—a step beyond the original!

’Perhaps I should spend some time later to properly contemplate this Divine Seed...’

Shen Changchuan thought to himself.

His figure floated up and drifted toward Zhou Lingyun’s corpse.

Looking at Zhou Lingyun, who now lay in a pool of blood, devoid of all Vitality,

Shen Changchuan bent down.

He carefully took the Jade Talisman from the corpse’s hand, which was faintly emitting a terrifying aura.

’Truly terrifying!’

’I’m glad I didn’t let you activate it. The consequences would have been unimaginable!’

Feeling the power contained within it that made his own heart pound in fear, Shen Changchuan couldn’t help but feel a sense of relief, as if he had just survived a great disaster.