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Chapter 253 : I Also Possess Origin Power!
Chapter 253: I Also Possess Origin Power!
Everything suddenly made sense.
Jiang Zhi instantly understood why the black banner in the other party’s possession actually contained a Banner Spirit of a cultivator!
If this person truly hailed from the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, then was it really so strange for his Black Banner to house a Divine Soul of a cultivator?
Only, this completely exceeded Jiang Zhi’s understanding.
Why would the Xuanhuang Realm have cultivators?
People from the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven absolutely couldn’t pass through the entrance and exit of the Origin Spirit Realm that led into the Xuanhuang Realm!
More importantly, the cultivation displayed by the other party was at the Nascent Soul Stage!
A Nascent Soul Stage Great Perfection cultivator!
The man wearing a bronze mask fixed his gaze on Jiang Zhi, his eyes carrying a hint of amusement.
“Cultivator, is it?”
“Both yes and no,” he replied.
Then, with a mocking look, he turned toward Jiang Zhi and said, “Weren’t you just complaining about this lord being too noisy and unwilling to chat?”
Perhaps knowing the Little Martial Uncle of the Dao Gate must be filled with questions at this moment, he chose to remain silent and instead once again waved the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
This time, far fewer Banner Spirits appeared—only thirteen in total.
What was terrifying, however, was that each one of them was either at the Eighth Realm or was the Divine Soul of a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator!
And beneath the feet of the Sect Leader of the Black Moon Sect, the great array also began to activate.
A massive black moon imprint emerged on the ground, a crescent-shaped Black Moon.
Endless deathly aura began to spread as gusts of eerie wind howled.
The thirteen Banner Spirits began to solidify further, to the point that their facial features were faintly visible!
What surprised Jiang Zhi even more was that these Banner Spirits were no longer expressionless.
“They actually possess consciousness!”
“Similar to a Nascent Soul!”
The auras of these Banner Spirits began to surge, their strength rapidly escalating within the array!
Each Banner Spirit began unleashing its most powerful divine abilities and techniques.
Jiang Zhi, upon witnessing this, remained unafraid.
Just as the Sect Leader of the Black Moon Sect had said before, he had forcibly suppressed his realm to nurture that one sword strike.
His current strength was indeed weaker than his former peak.
However, below the Ninth Realm, he was invincible!
No matter how many Eighth Realm opponents stood before him, it made no difference.
Because within his body resided a trace of Origin Power.
This was the gap in essence!
A strand of sword qi reappeared at Jiang Zhi’s fingertip.
He looked at the other party and said calmly, “I don’t know your purpose for seeking me out.”
“But based on your strength, I’d say you’re about to die here.”
The amusement in the Sect Leader of the Black Moon Sect’s eyes deepened.
“Oh? Is that so?”
“This lord is beginning to feel a little scared.”
“Jiang Zhi, your greatest trump card right now must be your Origin Power, right?”
“I advise you to summon your Life-bound Sword quickly. Otherwise, with your current Eighth Realm strength, you might not even be able to hurt this lord.”
Clearly, just like Ye Kongxuan, this man regarded himself as a Nascent Soul True Lord, hence the constant self-addressing as “this lord.”
“Then let’s find out!” Jiang Zhi shouted, and the sword qi at his fingertip swelled immensely.
His Origin Power swiftly merged into this one sword strike.
In his vision, the black lines trailing from behind him to the sword qi all snapped in an instant.
Within the mortal purgatory behind him, tens of thousands of wailing ghostly souls recoiled in fear, no longer daring to pull him toward the abyss or entangle his sword.
Origin Power, aligned with the Heavenly Dao, was the primordial force from the birth of the Xuanhuang Realm—how could mere ghosts dare to touch it?
It was as if this slayer of mortals had finally been unshackled!
The killing intent contained within this sword grew even more overwhelming.
On Jiang Zhi’s plain-looking face, an icy aura slowly spread. His gaze exuded boundless indifference, treating lives as mere grass.
The thirteen Banner Spirits arrayed themselves to block this sword.
The Black Banner in the Sect Leader of the Black Moon Sect’s hand flew into the air. He began chanting and forming hand seals rapidly, channeling streams of black energy into the thirteen Banner Spirits, imbuing them with power.
Yet before activating the formation, he gave Jiang Zhi one last amused glance.
Very soon, he poured the final strand of power into the array.
“Boom—!”
Sword qi collided with the Banner Spirit Formation. Jiang Zhi was forced back three zhang; the Sect Leader of the Black Moon Sect was pushed back ten zhang.
However, the thirteen Banner Spirits were not destroyed.
The man wearing a bronze mask was only knocked back and remained completely unharmed.
The root cause lay in that final strand of power.
“Origin Power!” Jiang Zhi’s brow furrowed deeply as he spoke, his heart sinking.
“You actually possess a trace of Origin Power!”
He couldn’t make sense of it.
Logically, if the man was truly a cultivator, the Heavenly Dao Origin of the Xuanhuang Realm should reject him. His power should be suppressed.
And yet this man maintained the full strength of a Nascent Soul Stage Great Perfection, equivalent to the peak of the Eighth Realm!
Even stranger, he could refine a trace of Origin Power!
Perhaps it was precisely because of this that he escaped the suppression of the Heavenly Dao.
How odd. If he truly possessed Origin Power, Jiang Zhi should’ve sensed it and even been able to track it.
“Combined with those Banner Spirits inside his Black Banner...”
All of it together meant that their power gap wasn’t too wide. With Jiang Zhi weakened and unable to summon his Life-bound Sword, he could only barely gain the upper hand.
Killing him would take time.
“You revealed yourself to keep me tied down?” Jiang Zhi raised an eyebrow and spoke coldly.
“Exactly! Well guessed.” The Sect Leader of the Black Moon Sect laughed again.
“But what does guessing it matter?”
“You can’t kill this True Lord in such a short time, can you?”
The killing intent in Jiang Zhi’s eyes surged.
Three Swift Movement Steeds galloped through the dense forest, their hooves shattering the silence.
Chu Huaixu and his group had arrived at a place known as Guanghan Cliff.
An Yin Vein ran beneath this location, emitting a deep cold that lowered the temperature even in summer. As the cliff’s summit offered a great view of the moon, it earned its name.
“According to the intel from the Disciples’ Courtyard, the Evil Cultivators have been spotted in this vicinity.”
“They seem to be searching for the source of the Yin Vein.”
Chu Huaixu dispersed his Divine Sense, spreading it silently like mercury to search for traces of the Evil Cultivators.
Both he and Han Shuangjiang’s Divine Sense had been enhanced within the Dao Ancestor Inheritance Secret Realm. Any ordinary Fourth Realm cultivator—unless exceedingly skilled in concealing presence—would be unable to escape their detection.
Even more so for this large group of Evil Cultivators, which even included some Third Realm small fries. That made them even easier to find.
“To the west!” The Dao Companions spoke in unison.
Xu Ziqing, whose Divine Sense hadn’t been strengthened, stood there dazed, unable to sense a thing.
But it didn’t matter—he’d just follow along.
Near a Cold Pool, a group of Evil Cultivators appeared to be searching for something.
Suddenly, a Fourth Realm Evil Cultivator shouted, “Watch out!”
The next moment, twenty-one strands of sword qi howled down from the sky!
Each strike moved at terrifying speed.
The dozen or so Third Realm Evil Cultivators didn’t even have time to react.
“Pfft—!”
The sword qi instantly pierced blood holes through their chests.
Their eyes filled with endless confusion and shock before collapsing in unison.
The remaining sword qi then struck toward the few Fourth Realm Evil Cultivators.
With higher cultivation, they immediately blocked the attacks using their Life-bound Treasures, then turned to the source of the assault with wary expressions.
“Damn it! That must be a Fourth Realm expert—at least late-stage Fourth Realm!”
“I could even sense Sword Intent within the sword qi!” the Evil Cultivators exclaimed as if facing a formidable foe.
But the attacker hadn’t concealed their aura at all.
Sensing with their Divine Sense, they were all stunned.
Impossible!
How could it be two early-stage Third Realm and one late-stage Third Realm?
What shocked them even more was that the twenty-one sword qi strands had all been identical—in other words, they were all released by one person, and in an instant.
That meant among the three, one Third Realm cultivator had just slaughtered thirteen fellow Third Realm cultivators in a single instant!
Holding a Sword Scabbard, Chu Huaixu heard the pleasant chime of the System Notification in his ear.
“【Ding! You have received 619,121 Experience Points.】”