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Chapter 210: Bullying the Weaklings is Still More Fun
Chapter 210: Bullying the Weaklings is Still More Fun
At this moment, meeting Lv Yang’s smiling gaze, Treasure-Child’s sense of peril surged violently—he seemed to glimpse his own impending doom.
Yet the first emotion that surged within him wasn’t fear.
It was scorn.
You? Think you can kill me?
A Foundation-Building-Mid-Stage True Man wasn’t so easily slain. Even if Treasure-Child had emerged from a minor sect, he was still an inheritor of authentic cultivation techniques.
Ordinary Free Cultivators, lacking orthodox teachings, clung fiercely to fragmented legacies. They refined themselves relentlessly, regardless of flaws, resulting in Life-Bound Divine Abilities and innate Divine Abilities that might be formidable in specialized fields but riddled with exploitable weaknesses. Once those gaps were found, death or spiritual dissolution often followed.
Wu Cang was a classic example.
Once a Foundation-Building cultivator’s path was set, there was no turning back. Thus, while Free Cultivators might dominate briefly, they could never rival the great sects. After all, who could afford to start over?
But Treasure-Child was different.
As a direct disciple of the Treasure-Dividing Precipice and a current Sect Patriarch, his refined Divine Abilities were nothing like the haphazard techniques of Free Cultivators.
In the next breath, Treasure-Child twisted his body.
“Sky Traversal!”
This innate Divine Ability, classified under Radiant Yang in the Celestial Pole Position, was a Gui-Water-elemental evasion technique allowing concealment via earth and wood energies.
As Treasure-Child activated it, he prepared to vanish—
But suddenly, his motion seized. A momentary illusion revealed a colossal mountain crushing down, his Divine Ability’s radiance rapidly fading.
Embrace Mountain!
An unconditional suppression technique sealing the mysteries of innate or Life-Bound Divine Abilities, it instantly plunged Treasure-Child into greater peril.
At Lv Yang’s brow, a luminous mark shimmered.
Star Veil!
Wait—Star River Sword Core!
This relic was another bequeathed by Pavilion Master Ye Xingfeng. Severely damaged, with only the Pierce Obstruction essence remaining among its three Divine Essences, it was still peerlessly sharp.
Under its swordlight, Treasure-Child instinctively narrowed his eyes. Tears streamed from the glare’s searing sting, his skin prickling as if pierced by needles. This was merely the effect of staring at the Star River Sword Core—should Lv Yang actually strike, he’d certainly perish!
In an instant, Treasure-Child could think of only one option.
The next moment, a blood-red sword materialized in his hand, radiating brilliance to counter the incoming blade.
Avici Sword!
“Hah! Demon beast, even a schemer like you can’t outwit heaven!” Treasure-Child’s heart swelled with triumph. “You never expected the Spirit Treasure meant to entrap me would save my life instead, did you?”
With a Spirit Sword in hand, what was there to fear?
Even if Lv Yang struck, he’d simply parry. At worst, he’d lose the duel but survive—unlike being beheaded outright.
With this thought, Treasure-Child channeled his spiritual energy fiercely into the blade.
The Avici Sword, like a gold-devouring beast, greedily absorbed his energy, its radiance swelling into a grander, more imposing swordlight.
All this unfolded in a heartbeat.
The next moment, the Five-Element True Man reactivated the Primordial Five-Element Umbrella to counter Yinshan Mountains’ group, while others rushed to aid Treasure-Child.
“Kill him!”
In an instant, six True Men joined forces again. A cataclysmic blaze of light consumed all, shattering divine consciousnesses, plunging the surroundings into darkness once more.
Yet when clarity returned, the group stood frozen.
Lv Yang had vanished.
Then, Cloudreach Sect’s Cloud Lotus Fairy, her beautiful eyes wide with shock, stared at Treasure-Child. “Treasure, why didn’t you strike when we attacked together?”
The others looked closer, realizing that while they’d launched a synchronized assault, Treasure-Child—the one most obligated to act—had merely stood motionless. His Avici Sword blazed brilliantly, yet remained frozen in his grip.
“No… I… I can’t control it!”
Sweat drenched Treasure-Child’s face as he struggled against the Avici Sword, helplessly watching a third divine mystery manifest upon it:
Name-Treasure.
From the start, the Avici Sword’s ownership had never left Lv Yang’s grasp. No matter how thoroughly one refined it, without the master’s abandonment, it was all futile.
Treasure-Child finally understood.
The Avici Sword had only been toying with him—all along, it obeyed its true master’s command.
“…You damned beast!” Treasure-Child roared in fury. Yet half his spiritual energy had already poured into the sword, leaving him powerless to resist.
In the next breath, the Avici Sword reversed its edge.
—Pointing directly at the Dragon-Hooking Elder.
“…Huh?”
In that moment, Dragon-Hooking Elder’s instincts and mind clashed violently. Logically, a blade aimed at him meant death—but his intuition screamed otherwise, insisting he was safe, that this was all a hallucination…
Until the sword pierced his crown.
“Pfft!”
Silently, the blade pierced his celestial gate, slicing downward through his brow, nose, lips, neck, torso, and legs.
Simultaneously, the Avici Sword unsheathed itself.
A crimson flash vanished as swiftly as it appeared, becoming the final straw. Dragon-Hooking Elder hadn’t even time to summon his Spirit Treasures or activate Divine Abilities!
At this moment, a single thought consumed him:
Why me?!
I was cautious enough! I wasn’t the first to chase him, nor the one hurling threats. I stayed the most low-key throughout!
Yet you strike only me!
Why?!
I refuse to accept this!
A flood of resentment and hatred surged within Dragon-Hooking Elder, only to be severed instantly. Lv Yang’s figure emerged, radiant with Divine Ability energy.
It was an unfamiliar Divine Ability.
Even Yinshan, a True Man, revealed astonishment, staring in disbelief at the smiling Lv Yang.
“A second innate Divine Ability?”
Star Veil!
More precisely, one simulated via the Imperial Decree of Golden Inscription. Yet at a critical moment, it became Lv Yang’s killing move!
Star Veil emerged when Yang-Fire ascended and Yin-Flame receded, when dawn eclipsed stars. A karmic curse might blaze brightly, yet its light couldn’t compare—concealing karma, aura, and blinding a Foundation-Building True Man’s danger senses. Hence Treasure-Child sensed the threat, while Dragon-Hooking Elder remained oblivious.
From the start, Dragon-Hooking Elder had been the target.
Dragon-Hooking Elder himself was baffled, but to Lv Yang, it was a simple choice: among the group, only he was a Free Cultivator.
Free Cultivators were the easiest to kill. So why not him?
Still, Lv Yang hadn’t taken chances—he activated the Imperial Decree of Golden Inscription, temporarily elevating his cultivation to Foundation-Building Mid-Stage perfection.
Simultaneously, he’d triggered his Avici Sword’s hidden contingency.
Seemingly at ease, he’d actually unleashed his full power in tandem, slaying Dragon-Hooking Elder before countless witnesses.
The next moment, a thunderous explosion rang out.
“Boom!”
Dragon-Hooking Elder’s spiritual body shattered, flesh torn apart by swordlight, his Dao Foundation devoured entirely by the Avici Sword. Every scrap of his being was used.
Bathed in the radiant aftermath of this annihilation, Lv Yang’s eyes narrowed in satisfaction.
“Hmph. Bullying the weaklings is more fun after all.”
Without Star Veil’s obscuring veil, he might not have slain Dragon-Hooking Elder. But with it, victory flowed naturally.
In the end, it was the Imperial Decree of Golden Inscription’s enhancement that elevated his realm.
Overwhelming the inferior—naturally unstoppable!
Outranking his foe—unquestionably invincible!
(End of Chapter)
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