Chapter 193: The Avici Sword's Joy Lies in Its Master's Hands
Chapter 193: The Avici Sword’s Joy Lies in Its Master’s Hands
“I knew that old fox left a hidden trick on the Avici Sword!”
Lv Yang gripped the Avici Sword, but the Sword Spirit’s familiar presence had vanished. Worse still, the blade’s retaliatory Sword Qi seared his hand like a venomous bite.
There was no doubt—the Divine Essence embedded in this Name-Treasure was the Blood Demon True Man’s secret ace. He’d dared to part with the sword only because he’d planned to betray its new owner all along. Typical of these Holy Sect True Men—every so-called “opportunity” they dangled was a trap.
Luckily, Lv Yang hadn’t come unprepared.
“The Heaven-Deceiving Method still holds. You gifted me the Avici Sword, and I took your Heavenly Punishment in return. Now you want it back? Compensate me for the Karmic Merit Fortune I’ve lost!”
The Heaven-Deceiving Method was no mystery to him. Its principle was simple: tenfold returns for every ounce of investment. But even with such a bargain, the initial cost had to be paid. The profit margin didn’t matter—it was a transaction, pure and simple.
If the Blood Demon True Man had already nullified the Heavenly Punishment and severed the Heaven-Deceiving Method, reclaiming the sword would cost him nothing. But now, with his life still tethered to that very method, he couldn’t flout its rules. To retrieve the Avici Sword, he’d have to reimburse Lv Yang for the Karmic Merit Fortune drained by the Heavenly Punishment. Only then would the debt be settled.
Hmph!
The Blood Demon True Man sensed the shift in Karma and scowled, but he shrugged off his unease. Channeling his Karmic Merit Fortune, he spat, Fine! Take it!
Losing some Merit Fortune was a small price. With Ye Xingfeng storming his stronghold, retrieving the Avici Sword was urgent. Without it, he couldn’t hope to match Ye’s might.
We’ll settle accounts later.
As he seethed, the Blood Demon True Man summoned the sword again.
Lv Yang, however, smirked as the Merit Fortune flowed into his palm. He drew out a wisp of yellow mist—the Celestial Corpse Miasma, no less. Crafted by the Yanluo Patriarch, this was a malevolent geopathic current that would unleash Heavenly Punishment the moment it was disturbed.
In one fluid motion, he wrapped the mist around the Avici Sword like a sheath. If the blade tried to fly free, it would shatter the miasma—and the Blood Demon True Man, as its creator, would bear the Heavenly Punishment.
“There. Take it,” Lv Yang said, loosening his grip and masking the sword’s Karma.
The Avici Sword erupted in a crimson arc, shattering the miasma without hesitation.
Then—
“No!!!”
A bloodcurdling scream tore through Blood Demon Isle as a thunderbolt struck the Blood Demon True Man from the heavens.
The Heavenly Punishment had rebounded, fiercer than before. Combined with the Merit Fortune he’d already surrendered to Lv Yang, his Karmic debt had swelled to catastrophic levels. Reincarnation as livestock across countless lifetimes loomed.
What now?
Fury seethed in his soul, but he acted decisively.
He hurled the Avici Sword back to Lv Yang, channeling part of the Heavenly Punishment’s force into the blade.
This time, however, Lv Yang refused.
“Want me to shoulder your punishment again? Fine. Release the Divine Essence binding the Name-Treasure and give me the Avici Sword outright. Then I’ll help.”
Animal!
The Blood Demon True Man’s instinct was to reject, but he hesitated. Desperation left him no choice. Only Lv Yang could absorb such Karma now.
Others might take the sword, but his exposure left him vulnerable—no cultivator in their right mind would accept a cursed artifact from him. Only Lv Yang, who knew the sword’s secrets, would negotiate.
Thus, the Blood Demon True Man yielded.
The Avici Sword’s crimson glow flickered wildly, then dimmed as its bond to its former master snapped.
Lv Yang laughed triumphantly, reclaiming the blade and flooding it with his divine power. As for the transferred Heavenly Punishment?
He countered it effortlessly. First, he spent the Merit Fortune the Blood Demon True Man had given him like sacrificial coin, burning away most of the Punishment. The remainder he funneled into the Heaven-Deceiving Method, diffusing it to a negligible level—no worse than the residual Karma from his old geopathic exploits.
From this day forth, the Avici Sword was truly his.
“Say farewell to your old master,” he murmured.
The Sword Spirit materialized, nuzzled his cheek, and whispered, “The Avici is happy only with its master.”
The Blood Demon True Man’s fury knew no bounds. To watch his own Name-Treasure snatched away—and by his own hand—was unbearable.
Boom!
A Sword Qi cleaved through the heavens, slicing open the Blood Demon True Man’s hall. Ye Xingfeng emerged, his sword brilliance undimmed.
He scanned the ruins, frowning. “The Soulbound Wraith’s heir… isn’t here?”
“You’re not here to kill me?” The Blood Demon True Man gaped. Ye’s sudden assault had terrified him—surely the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion’s envoy had come to slay him. But now? Perhaps the target had been someone else all along?
His soul quivered.
“Again, you say?”
“Again, I say,” Lv Yang’s voice echoed calmly. He’d used the Differentiate Sameness technique to merge Embrace Mountain and Blood Demon Isle into a single Karmic entity. The Ultimate Heaven Instrument masked his presence here, fooling Ye Xingfeng completely.
Not over yet, Lv Yang mused, his gaze sharpening toward two approaching figures—Ying Tongshou of Jiangdong Dao Court and Elder Lin of the Immortal Alliance, their flickering light burning with urgency.
But unlike the Blood Demon True Man and Ye Xingfeng, these two were in dire straits.
Lv Yang’s Heaven-Deceiving Method had siphoned their Heavenly Punishments relentlessly. Their Merit Fortune had withered, their minds clouded by Calamity Qi. They’d become prisoners of their own obsessions.
Ying Tongshou clutched a golden imperial edict: “Retrieve the Blood Demon True Man’s soul to force Lv Yang’s surrender in Jiangdong!”
Elder Lin brandished the Imperial Decree of Golden Inscription: “Break the Holy Sect True Men’s seals!”
Both men fixated on their targets—Lv Yang or the Blood Demon True Man. But with Lv Yang hidden, their wrath fell on the latter.
“Blood Demon True Man is here! What are you waiting for?”
A voice rang out, followed by a burst of Divine Ability—Resolve Suspicion.
Lv Yang’s Life-Bound technique could lock events into his desired outcome. Normally useless against peers, Ying and Lin’s Karmic depletion made them perfect targets.
They attacked.
Ying Tongshou unfurled the golden edict. Elder Lin raised the Imperial Decree.
(End of Chapter)
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