The good news was that the villain, feeling too dominant, had started to slack off.
A group of Dragon Saint-level dragon generals, seeing the Sword Lord about to attack the Eight-Sided Immortal-Prisoning Formation, tried to kill him, but were stopped by Heavenly Venerate Xia.
"Hold! Let him strike! I want to see how a mere Saint-level cultivator can break the combined formation of my eight Dragon Earth Venerables!"
Heavenly Venerable Na smiled seductively.
"Several Earth Venerables, if he breaks your formation single-handedly, won't that be a huge joke, hohoho..."
The eight Earth Venerables naturally sneered and dismissed it, utterly unconcerned.
They were all in their Dragon God state now.
Eight God-level combatants united—how could they fear a Saint-level?
It would be too embarrassing to let that get out!
One Earth Venerable even declared on the spot,
"Let him try! If that broken sword of his can cut through this formation, I'll stand on my head and take a dump!"
The Sword Lord’s eyes swept across the surroundings.
The enemies actually stepped back.
Inside the formation, he watched the great monster Wuxiang endlessly slaughtering, his allies falling batch after batch. The Sword Lord knew he had to break the formation and let everyone escape.
Otherwise, there would truly be total annihilation!
At that moment, the aura around the Sword Lord began to condense, converge, and accumulate.
Though he stood there, it seemed as if no one was present.
He suppressed all his power, like a spring coiling down—extreme compression in exchange for the most forceful rebound!
"Slash!"
There was no earth-shattering clamor, just a low shout and a strike so fast that no one could see it clearly.
"Clang!!"
The Sword Lord’s strike clashed with the formation, sending waves of energy ripples spreading across the heavens and earth.
A trace of blood seeped from the corner of the Sword Lord’s mouth.
The Eight-Sided Immortal-Prisoning Formation remained unmoved!
"Hahaha!! Truly overreaching!"
"By now, he should finally face reality!"
"A tiny ant, a mayfly trying to topple a tree!"
The crowd inside the formation watched the Sword Lord’s efforts from outside.
Long Yang, Li Chengqian, and the others, who had ignored the Sword Lord’s advice, now regretted their folly.
Li Chengqian, that "Former Emperor," even slapped himself repeatedly.
"It’s all my stupidity! If only I had listened to the Sword Lord and waited a few more days, we wouldn’t have trapped the army in this deathly deadlock!"
Long Yang sighed too, his face pale as he watched the terrifying beast slaughtering soldiers nearby.
"It’s too late to say anything now..."
You, too, were struggling, attempting to break the formation from within.
Looking at the wounded Sword Lord, you said,
"Sword Lord, leave."
The Sword Lord shook his head and raised his sword again.
A second strike!
Its power was even greater; those inside the formation felt the earth shake.
Yet the formation remained unharmed!
A third strike!
A fourth!
A fifth!
And then...
The Sword Lord poured everything he had—all his life’s learning, all the treasures in his storage ring.
But he was only one man.
The gap was too vast.
"Sword Lord! Stop trying! Go!"
Li Chengqian and the others shouted to him, hoping he would survive.
You said nothing.
Because you knew the Sword Lord, once decided, would fight to the very end.
The Sword Lord’s hands trembled; blood dripped from the hilt and blade, falling from the air.
All the Dragon Generals were laughing at him.
The several Heavenly Venerables and Earth Venerables were thoroughly amused, treating this as the greatest entertainment they’d had in years after hitting barriers in the human realm.
But—
Suddenly!
The expression of the chief, Heaven Exalt Lin, changed.
"Something’s off..."
Heavenly Venerable Na and Heavenly Venerate Xia didn’t notice.
"What’s wrong?"
"This swordsman has a dangerous aura..."
"Where? He’s just a Saint-level, with some of that so-called human sword dao."
"No, I’ve sensed this aura somewhere before. Why can’t I remember? Damn it! All because of that horse, messing up my soul!"
"Are you serious?"
As they spoke, something was indeed transforming about the Sword Lord.
You clearly saw that his eyes had lost their pupils—completely white—and then quickly shifted into a mysterious, colorless state.
It wasn’t truly colorless; more like the empty void of a universe!
"What’s happened to the Sword Lord?"
Before you could finish, you were astonished to find—
Starting from around the Sword Lord’s body, space was collapsing!
"Crack, crack, crack..."
The world shattered like an unstable mirror!
But the world’s rules limited the damage, repairing the fractured areas with growing force, yet the crumbling space still expanded overall.
Strangely, in these ruined patches, many flickers of light and shadows appeared.
The images formed by those shadows included the Sword Lord’s earlier attacks, and also events yet to happen.
The three Heavenly Venerables, horrified, rushed to act.
But it was too late.
They charged at the Sword Lord but suddenly appeared elsewhere.
There was even a moment with multiple identical Heavenly Venerables!
Heaven Exalt Lin finally remembered.
"Divine Power!! He comprehended divine power in the Void Realm?! He’s at the same Qi-Convergence stage as us—how is this possible?!"
Heavenly Venerate Xia, dripping with sweat, trembled so much his lips quivered.
"The Void Realm can’t withstand the power of divine power! Is he trying to shatter the human realm?!"
Heavenly Venerable Na was speechless.
"Then we’ll all be doomed too!"
At that moment, one of the Earth Venerables forming the Eight-Sided Immortal-Prisoning Formation recalled something.
"Right! It’s him! When we fought at the Qiongxia Range before, I sensed he was a bit off! I didn’t expect him to have grasped divine power!"
Heaven Exalt Lin roared,
"Then why didn’t you say so earlier, you idiot!"
"I... well... it’s like you—I didn’t think of it at the time, I just wanted to laugh at him."
Meanwhile, the Sword Lord spoke in an icy tone, like a proclamation of the laws of heaven and earth.
"Reverse Yin and Yang—"
With the fall of his sword, fragments of space surged like a tide toward the Eight-Sided Immortal-Prisoning Formation.
Under the force of rule-based destruction, the entire formation collapsed.
Four of the eight Earth Venerables were instantly killed by backlash—their physical bodies destroyed, only their souls escaping.
The Sword Lord cleaved open the Eight-Sided Immortal-Prisoning Formation with one strike!
"Success!"
"We can finally escape!"
"Great, we won’t be eaten by that monster!"
The humans alliance was overjoyed.
At that moment, you felt more astonishment than joy.
"Divine Power?"
This term wasn’t unfamiliar to you.
You had seen it in lexicon effects.
It meant that in a stage where he shouldn’t possess divine power, in the Void Realm where cultivators shouldn’t be able to possess it, the Sword Lord had, in dire straits, suddenly comprehended divine power!
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