Chapter 1519: The Death of the Immortal Butterfly
The dream-like world fell into stagnation.
After the ghostly blue sword-light shone in, at a certain moment, a corner of the dream world collapsed into streams of spiritual light, dissipating into nothingness.
This corner quickly spread throughout the entire world, to all places of the dream world, and to all living things within it; all puppet phantoms vanished completely.
In the end, only dozens of afterimages and replicas remained to escape.
"Here!"
Immortal Butterfly's face showed an unwilling expression.
This was the opponent's main battleground, yet it was also a completely absolute spirit world, suppressing her tremendously, many spells' powers were splattered with blood, unable to unleash their full potential.
Her body was dimly, and then, unexpectedly, it collapsed and disappeared entirely, leaving no trace behind, even the Sun Material Sword Soul could not lock onto her.
Appearing and disappearing with no trace!
Jiang Ding felt a chill, staring intently at his Sea of Consciousness, watching the figure that had suddenly vanished.
Powerful.
Just a single replica, yet so strong.
The strength of the Upper Realm Immortal Sect Disciples far exceeded that of the Inheritance Disciples, completely beyond her expectations.
Even at this moment, when she was already overpowered, she could still easily escape, like a ghost, completely unable to be captured, her survival ability was too strong.
"What a pity..."
Jiang Ding said flatly.
If it were in any place in the Immortal Dao Universe, she could definitely have escaped, certainly, Jiang Ding had no means to capture him, his power was severely lacking.
The Sword Embryo was only quasi-eighth-order, the swordsmanship had not yet broken through the Heavenly Sword Realm, in every aspect inferior to the opponent.
However, what kind of place is this now?
Jiang Ding's heart was very calm, just watching the surroundings coldly.
Before long, only a breath later, miles away in the pitch-black space, a dreamlike butterfly-winged woman appeared.
"This is not an ordinary Land of Absolute Spirits!"
"Completely different!"
"Completely different, essentially, not even Heavenly Dao Laws exist here..."
Immortal Butterfly looked around in horror.
All that happened, completely overturned her worldview, many things she considered as fundamental laws were shaken at this moment.
Her Divine Soul, after leaving Jiang Ding's Divine Soul, indeed caused Jiang Ding to lose his Divine Soul main field advantage.
But at the same time, it also plunged her into an even faster Divine Soul decline, becoming weaker with every passing second, this universe simply does not have such a thing as a Divine Soul, everything was falling into a low entropy state.
"Come back."
"Fellow Daoist, fight to the death with me."
Jiang Ding said calmly: "My lord's homeland has many things to commend, but the most memorable is still this distant endless distance."
"No intelligent creature has ever found the edge of the universe, there is even the big bang theory suggesting the universe will become increasingly larger over time, without limit."
"It's a pity this isn't your true self."
"If it were your true self, I would gain more, far surpassing now."
"However, it's enough, I am simply a lowly person, being able to take Fellow Daoist's head at this moment is enough, the only pity is, we should have fought to the death in the Ancient Divine Domain, which I longed for."
"But you, too despicable."
"You never come out, I can't find you either, and finally can only do this."
Clang!
Jiang Ding drew his sword, transforming into a meteor rushing toward the distance, murderous intent chilling.
He was unwilling for this Upper Realm creature to perish naturally, hoping instead she would die magnificently at his own hands, giving him something he truly wanted.
"Jiang Ding, you seek death!"
Immortal Butterfly said calmly.
At such a moment of certain death, her heart was more peaceful than ever, no longer trying to flee, but planning to extinguish with all her might the rising Sword Dao genius of the Human Race, not letting him threaten the survival of the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Butterfly Clan.
Yes, she foresaw something ominous.
The Human Race Sword Cultivator can grow, if they keep slaying powerful opponents, provided their talent is sufficient, the Human Race Sword Cultivator will have a fundamental breakthrough, unlike bloodline beings completely reliant on bloodline transformation, the breakthrough can be achieved after birth.
This is a Human Immortal Sect Sword Son, getting closer and closer to her true self!
Buzz!
The two dreamlike antennae on the forehead of the butterfly-winged girl flickered, the aura of illusion spreading in all directions.
In this instant, the Divine Souls of all sentient beings within tens of thousands of kilometers plunged into dream, completely losing control over their bodies.
Heavenly Illusion Immortal Butterfly Clan's innate divine ability, the Dream Touch!
Legend says, in the hands of that Butterfly Mistress, even Near Immortal level experts would sink into the dream for hundreds of years, unable to emerge, trapped in an endless Divine Soul Maze, unable to transcend.
Jiang Ding only felt his vision blur.
When he reopened his eyes, he found himself on a bustling street, a small river running alongside the road, people passing by constantly, everything was familiar, it was the streets of Rongcheng City.
No one knows him.
Jiang Ding walks and walks here, on and on.
He cannot find a way out; even his Divine Soul begins to sink, gradually forgetting everything outside, starting to believe this is his native land, the world he has lived in all his life, giving birth to the thought of living here forever.
It's nothing.
Generation after generation has lived this way, being born, going to elementary school, middle school, university, getting married and having children, middle age, old age, a grave behind the mountain. Countless ancestors have been like this.
"But I,"
"am different from the ancestors. If youngsters don't surpass the ancestors, wouldn't all these years have been in vain?"
Jiang Ding murmured.
Clang!
At this moment, his Sword Soul emits a ringing sound.
Material Sun Sword Soul!
The Material Sun Sword Soul shines with endless brilliance, dazzling like the sun. Under this bright light of the Sun Divine Soul, the surrounding city streets start to melt, begin to collapse, and the continuously cycling Divine Soul Maze starts to show a void.
The moment the void appears, the brightness of the Material Sun Sword Soul becomes even more dazzling!
A dark, twisted line descends from the sky, emerging upon this Divine Soul Maze without reason or warning, just appearing.
On this line, all the spiritual material instantly collapses, disintegrates, becoming mundane.
The power of the Material Sun Sword Soul, materialism!
"No!"
"What kind of Sword Soul is this..."
In the void comes a scream of terror.
Immortal Butterfly desperately tries to rid herself of the twisted black line that appeared on her, trying to restore the blocked meridians and Divine Soul structure, but to no avail. At least in a very short time, the imposed twisted black line cannot be gotten rid of; all the Immortal Dao spiritual materials on the line are entirely sealed, like wood and stone.
Clang!
The sound of the Material Sun Sword Soul merging perfectly with the unsheathing of the Taiqing Flying Sword.
"Truly a pity, Fellow Daoist Immortal Butterfly."
Jiang Ding slowly unsheathes his sword.
"If it were outside, if you were willing to fight to the death with me, I could still kill you, although grievously injured, although narrowly surviving, although most of my body and Divine Soul would shatter, but the ultimate victory would undoubtedly be mine, and I would achieve yet another breakthrough in the Sword Heart."
"But here, you are much weaker."
"The battle holds no suspense, diminishing much expectation from this fight."
"I hope when I see your true form in the future, you won't disappoint me again."
Clang!
The sword is unsheathed!
The sun collapses and condenses into a point, forming the origin Rule of Five Elements Gold between heaven and earth, shaping into the early fruit of the earliest Immortal Technique, the most mature sword strike.
Yuan Magnetic Rule·Gold Destruction Sword!
The combustion-style propulsion of the Material Sun Sword Soul, the explosive outburst of all Mana and Divine Sense, all power infused into it, the twisted golden original sword-light accelerated through six World Rings, then reversed, then sped through six World Rings again.
Repeating thrice, accelerated through a total of eighteen World Rings, the speed reaches its peak, even surpassing the transmission speed of Rule Power in this starry sky.
"Such a mere ant..."
"You deserve to die!!"
Immortal Butterfly sensed great terror.
She burns her Divine Soul origin, burns everything, her forehead's dreamlike antennae bloom with dark blue glow, quickly restoring the damaged world of the Divine Soul Maze, and the dark blue ribbon disintegrates into a sky full of starry light, falling on the maze, creating beings one after another, intensifying the realism of the Divine Soul Maze, even transforming into self-thinking entities.
All these make the Divine Soul Maze nearly become a real world!
In this world, Harmonization cultivators would instantly succumb, and Upper Realm Immortal Sect Sword Sons would be blocked, unable to escape immediately.
However, none of these changes the dark, twisted line flowing and shifting on the maze at all times. Materialism makes all spiritual materials on the line collapse, becoming fragile mundane things.
Whoosh!
The terrifyingly fast original sword-light, after speeding through eighteen worlds, reaches the pinnacle of Rule Power's spread, and flashes across the delineated twisted material black line.
Immortal Butterfly and her Dream World freeze.
The next moment, the Dream World collapses. On the foreheads of Immortal Butterfly and her dozens of vivid clones appears a dark thin line, along which all of them are sliced in half, slowly separating to two sides, life's warmth quickly plunging into cold silence.
"Jiang Ding,"
"truly unwilling."
The body split in two, Immortal Butterfly lamented sorrowfully, "If it were outside, in any place with spirituality, I could never die, much less lose."
"I hope... to see you next time in the Perishing Immortal Realm."
Bang!
Her body, split in two, collapses into a stream of light, completely dying.
Left only on the spot are two pairs of ice-crystal-like blue butterfly wings, shining brightly in the zero-gravity starry sky, dazzlingly captivating, impossible to look away from.