Chapter 260 - The 109th Saber
During the course of this month, spirit meridians were being continuously blasted out, and cultivators kept joining in. Every time a spirit meridian was extracted, a battle would ensue. During each battle over a spirit meridian, being killed was normal. The relentless, silly Di Jiu would have been forgotten by everybody if he had not been slashing with his saber all this while.
Di Jiu, on the other hand, was feeling that his Saber Dao was at the edge of a breakthrough. It might take only one more move for his Saber Dao to break through to a new realm.
When Di Jiu executed the 108th saber again, the natural restriction shielding the supreme-grade spirit meridian emitted a splitting sound. A sense of realization gushed as Di Jiu executed the 109th saber without a thought.
This saber amalgamated with the preceding 108th saber without any difference or mismatch.
Crack! An even louder splitting sound was heard before an intensely dense Spirit Qi lunged forward. When Di Jiu lifted his hand in a ripping motion, this natural restriction, which he had been blasting for the past month, simply dissipated.
A 1,000-feet long, supreme-grade spirit meridian lay in front of him—complete, pure, with some kind of spirit meridian law…
Di Jiu felt somewhat excited, not just about the supreme-grade spirit meridian, but also because his Saber Dao had once again attained new heights. From this moment on, every subsequent supreme-grade spirit meridian would be his.
Had the natural restriction array been opened? Everybody stopped what they were doing and stared in awe at the supreme-grade spirit meridian in front of Di Jiu. In a split-second, at least 100 cultivators rushed madly towards Di Jiu.
“This spirit meridian is mine! I’ll kill whoever touches it!” said a freezing voice. The cultivators rushing towards Di Jiu stopped unconsciously, as if they had been hit on their acupoints.
When the Heavenly Aqua Saber struck, the space that had been restrained by Ran Bushang simply dispersed.
Ran Bushang’s expression changed. He immediately realized that he had underestimated Di Jiu and concentrated all the rest of his Quintessential Essence on the Divine Fire Mirror.
Di Jiu’s saber wave had just gushed out when it met the Quintessential Essence on the Divine Fire Mirror and raged instantly.
Di Jiu didn’t hold back any of his saber strikes. He blasted out all of them. The Heavenly Aqua Saber looked like any other ordinary saber, yet it consisted of the killing aura of 109 Saber Daos. Each killing aura was stronger than the previous one.
Boom, boom, boom!
As the ferocious Saber Dao killing aura blasted against the Divine Fire Mirror, messy saber flare and Quintessential Essence exploded. Only the never-ending clanging sound from the collision of the saber and the mirror rang out in the whole area.
When he sensed that the saber aura of Di Jiu’s Heavenly Aqua Saber kept growing stronger after each strike, Ran Bushang smirked. Given Di Jiu’s strength, it would already be a miracle if the saber strikes lasted for 81 moves.
The moment Di Jiu’s saber aura weakened, his body would be crushed. He wouldn’t give Di Jiu any chance to catch his breath.
Although 81 saber strikes had blasted against the Divine Fire Mirror, the saber aura hadn’t diminished. The 82nd saber strike followed immediately. Ran Bushang couldn’t escape from the uninterrupted succession of the Saber Dao killing aura.
By the time the 90th saber strike blasted against the Divine Fire Mirror without any reduction in saber intent, Ran Bushang’s expression changed.
Di Jiu, who sensed the change in Ran Bushang’s emotions, smirked. “Just a month ago, a piece of trash named Yue Henghe showed off in my face and I crushed him with a single fist move. He was supposed to be on the Tripod Roll. I didn’t expect that I would kill a piece of trash on the Life Roll just a month later…”
Ran Bushang was shocked. He knew Yue Henghe—he was second on the Tripod Roll. Even he wouldn’t dare move against him, as he possessed sword intent from the Domain Realm. If that sword intent flashed, Ran Bushang would surely die or be left half-dead. However, Young Master Red Embellishment had actually said that Yue Henghe had died in his hands. Ran Bushang didn’t think Yue Henghe would be killed before his sword intent was triggered.
The 108th saber strike blasted against the Divine Fire Mirror. Ran Bushang, who couldn’t take this any longer, spurted out a mouthful of fresh blood. When he sensed a 109th saber strike coming up, he knew that he had to run. Otherwise, this would become his burial ground.
On the surface, the killing aura of the 109th saber intent was only one level up from the 108th strike. However, this wasn’t the case. Two times one equaled two, but two times two equaled four… Thus, the 109th saber strike was not just two times more powerful than the previous one.
After blocking off the Saber Dao killing aura of 108 uninterrupted saber strikes, Ran Bushang had reached his limit. Before he could put away the Divine Fire Mirror, he activated the escape talisman.
If he didn’t run, he could have resisted Di Jiu’s last saber strike. However, after he left, the Divine Fire Mirror could no longer resist the 109th saber strike. A white flare slashed at Ran Bushang’s back, making blood spurt in the air.
By the time the Divine Fire Mirror landed on the ground, Ran Bushang had already disappeared.
Di Jiu knew that Ran Bushang had escaped. He wasn’t really able to kill Ran Bushang in one saber move. However, Ran Bushang had been awestruck by his 109th saber strike.
Di Jiu now had a rough idea of his own strength. If Ran Bushang hadn’t escaped, he would have been able to kill him. He might just have needed to use a saber array. Although Ran Bushang was only at the seventh-stage Life Tribulation Realm, he was one of the best Life Tribulation Realm cultivators and the 37th person on the Life Roll. From the looks of it, he should be able to compete in the True Province Genius Roll after he attained the Life Tribulation Realm.