Immortal Sword Master

Chapter 490: Chapter 486: The Might of the Stone Tablet, Li Wenchuan

BOOM!

When Golden Cicada’s power flowed into the black stone stele, the entire monument seemed to activate in an instant.

Everyone felt as if the stele was a colossal beast awakening from a long slumber.

Terrifying fluctuations, as vast as an ocean, surged out from the stele, blanketing everything. The four Five-Stars Kings and Bai Yuyun, who were in the middle of a fierce battle, immediately stopped fighting.

Everyone stared at the stele in astonishment. The power was too terrifying. They felt a suppressive pressure, and their hearts began to pound uncontrollably.

”What kind of Magical Treasure is this?”

The eyes of Huang Xiangyun and the others were filled with shock. In terms of sheer might, this power was perhaps not on par with the Eight-Stars Kings from their Other Shore.

But it possessed an aura that surpassed everything else.

It was as if in the presence of this power, all other powers, no matter how strong, were mere subjects, while this power was the king, reigning supreme over all living things.

As more power surged in, the dense, tadpole-like script on the stele seemed to come alive, bursting with light.

The next moment, a voice echoed from within the stele:

”Immortal...”

When that word rang out, the entire space was enveloped in a powerful aura.

All the tadpole-like characters surged rapidly, lifting off the stele before gradually condensing and merging together.

It was a hand!

The hand was shrouded in a vast radiance. It was as flawless and white as jade, its skin etched with incredibly mysterious patterns. Like the Hand of the Heavens, it emanated an immortal and inextinguishable aura.

’Heaven and earth may decay, but I am immortal! All things may perish, but I will not be extinguished!’

Before everyone’s shocked eyes, the hand reached for the Thunder Prison Pearl.

RUMBLE.

The Array Spirit roared in fury, commanding a sea of thunderbolts to descend.

The thunderbolts were immensely thick, each one capable of severely injuring a Celestial Martial Realm King.

But as the thunderbolts came within three inches of the hand, they were all annihilated, unable to get any closer. Seeing this, the Array Spirit stepped forward and threw a roaring punch.

BANG!

But before the white jade hand, the Array Spirit’s power was useless.

With a single slap, the Array Spirit’s body was instantly obliterated. Then, the white jade hand seized the Thunder Prison Pearl and squeezed gently.

CRACK.

The Thunder Prison Pearl shattered.

”How is that possible? Even a Six-Stars King attacking with their full power would need half an hour to break the Thunder Prison Pearl!”

Huang Xiangyun and the others’ pupils contracted violently, their faces filled with horror.

”The plan has failed! We have to go, now!”

With the Thunder Prison Array broken, the four of them understood perfectly that if they remained, they would face an extremely grim situation.

They still had a chance to escape before the Undying Celestial King noticed them. Otherwise, if he discovered them, death would be their only way out.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH—

The four were extremely decisive, immediately executing their Escape Techniques to flee at full speed. In the blink of an eye, they were dozens of miles away.

When Five-Stars Kings fled with all their might, even a Six-Stars King would find it difficult to stop them.

”Immortal...”

The voice echoed from the stele once more.

The white jade hand pressed down gently in the direction the four had fled.

”Aaargh!”

The four felt an immense power descend upon them. They let out bloodcurdling screams and coughed up blood. That single press caused cracks to spiderweb across their bodies, which threatened to tear them apart.

However, after that one strike, the white jade hand slowly faded away, and the stele gradually returned to its tranquil state.

”My power is limited, so I can’t activate it for long. But this treasure is truly incredible. Its current display of power is probably only about ten percent of its full potential.”

Golden Cicada’s astonished voice reached Ning Jiang’s ears.

He was merely a remnant soul with limited power. If he were at his peak, he might have been able to unleash the item’s full might.

”Hmph. They were lucky to get away so fast.”

Bai Yuyun snorted coldly and didn’t give chase. With her strength, she wouldn’t have been able to stop four Five-Stars Kings anyway.

At that moment, her gaze shifted to Ning Jiang, a hint of confusion in her beautiful eyes. ’Just now... Did I feel a familiar aura?’

As she stood there, puzzled and uncertain, a voice rang out. ”Xiaoyun, it’s been a long time.”

Hearing that voice, Bai Yuyun’s eyes flew wide open. She stared intently at Ning Jiang without blinking.

Before her shocked gaze, a phantom-like figure slowly emerged from Ning Jiang’s body.

Bai Yuyun was stunned. ”It’s you...”

...

The Flying Cloud Ship shot through the sea of clouds, speeding toward the Chaotic Sea Region.

After the ambush from the Other Shore, the rest of the journey was smooth. They soon left the Meteor Sea Region and entered the territory of the Chaotic Sea Region.

As far as the eye could see, the skies over the Chaotic Sea Region were relatively gloomy.

And at that very moment, aboard the Flying Cloud Ship, a man and a woman seemed to be lost in memories, as if dreaming of a time a thousand years ago.

”Brother Li, do you remember when we first met a thousand years ago? I was just an ordinary girl back then. My family had offended someone important and was being hunted down. It was you who saved me.”

”You said it was your first time leaving the Six Eastern Provinces to enter the East Sea, and you ran into me right away. You said it was fate. You accompanied me and protected me for thousands of miles, fending off countless powerful enemies along the way. If it weren’t for you, I would have died long ago.”

As Bai Yuyun reminisced about the past, a smile couldn’t help but grace her lips.

”It was during that long journey that your name began to spread, earning you a spot on the Hidden Dragon List and placing you at the pinnacle of the East Sea’s younger generation. Back then, you were as dazzling as the bright moon. Compared to you, I was like a firefly, utterly insignificant...”

”You were the one who encouraged me. ’A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. A nine-story tower rises from a handful of earth.’ You told me that if I held on to my dreams, I would one day become a King. I’ve done it now, but... you disappeared...”

”Do you remember the first time we met the Undying Celestial King? I was scared to death. He was the number one figure in the East Sea, the legendary Nine Thousand Years Old. He said you were special and wanted to take you as his disciple, but you just laughed and refused, saying that one day you would stand as his equal and ascend to the rank of Celestial King.”

”Do you have any idea how terrified I was? I was so afraid the Undying Celestial King would kill us both with a single slap of his hand in a fit of anger. But who would have thought the Celestial King would be so magnanimous? Not only did he not hold it against you, he even treated you as a peer.”

”And you actually did it. Within a few hundred years, you became a Celestial King of your generation, looking down on all of heaven and earth. In the entire Great Thousand Realms, who didn’t know your name?”

”But then you left, and there was never another word from you. For a whole thousand years...”

Bai Yuyun’s emotions suddenly flared. She looked at Golden Cicada and said, word by word, ”Li Wenchuan, you said you would come out of the Ancient Forbidden Land alive! What about your promise?! As the legend of the Six Eastern Provinces, as a Celestial King of your generation, what about your promise!?”

By the time she finished, Bai Yuyun’s lovely face was already covered in tears.