Immortal of the Ages

Chapter 622: Judgment of 10,000 Daos!

The atmosphere was tense on the fighting platform.

"Beyond the Celestial Expanse Realm is the Golden Immortal Realm, marking the state of a Great Golden Immortal. In this realm, the spirit further strengthens, forging the Golden Spirit Body. A spirit with such a body is indestructible, its aura immensely amplified, and its combat prowess greatly heightened."

Jian Chi was in the Golden Immortal Realm!

Jiang Taiping, who was about to be promoted to a Rank 4 Heavenly Officer, was also at this level.

To become a Golden Immortal before 30 years old was a sign of supreme talent bestowed by the Great Dao Celestial Realm!

At this moment, Jian Chi’s icy gaze fixed upon Yun Xiao. He couldn’t be bothered to utter a single word and struck immediately!

BUZZ! His spirit manifested!

Beside him appeared a spirit glowing with golden light, transforming into a celestial warrior clad in golden armor sparkling with starlight!

This celestial warrior bore the north star upon his armor, followed by six other stars to form a dipper.

The battle hadn't even begun. Yet, he had manifested his ancestral spirit

In the Celestial Court, such a display was an ironclad testament to generational might. Even in unfamiliar territories, the mere revelation of such a spirit could force many to their knees!

This fighting platform was one of the most solemn stages in the Great Dao Celestial Realm. Surrounded by high-ranking Immortals, the atmosphere was eerily silent and grave, devoid of cheers or clamor.

However, when Jian Chi unveiled a never-before-seen Twin Sword Soul, it still caused a subtle stir.

For some, it was their first time seeing it!

Yun Xiao had not seen it either.

There stood Jian Chi, in his right hand a blazing golden Sword Soul, and between the fingers of his left, a Flying Sword shimmering with a cold silver light!

“From the Immortal Sword Court comes a heaven-blessed talent born with Twin Sword Souls. One is named Radiant Dawn, and the other Lunar Depth. Both are equally divine!”

Even among the folks of the Celestial Court, there were songs in praise of Jian Chi.

With the Radiant Dawn Sword Soul in his right hand, he executed moves grand and sweeping—the supreme master of the Palm Sword!

In his left hand, the Lunar Depth Sword Soul was a sovereign among the Flying Swords, striking unseen and deadly.

Young as Jian Chi was, the quality of both his Sword Souls was said to have reached the Divine Heaven grade, rivaling that of his elders. Few in the entire Celestial Court could claim possession of Divine Heaven grade Sword Souls.

From the very naming of the Divine Gateway, one could discern that this Divine Heaven grade was a human-defined pinnacle, surpassing the Dao Heaven grade of the Nine Heavens Celestial Grades. It was a level that, once reached, allowed one to stand unrivaled in the Heavenly Palace.

Setting aside other considerations, the fact that each of these Twin Sword Souls harbored ten Sword Prisons was astonishing enough.

On the Radiant Dawn Sword Soul, these ten Sword Prisons blazed like ten fierce suns, circling the sword like suns around a pillar, rolling with fiery fervor.

On the Lunar Depth Sword Soul, ten chilling Sword Prisons shone like ten bright moons, casting a mesmerizing, cold glow!

At this moment, Jian Chi, his eyes wildly fixated, wielded both swords. The Northstar Golden Spirit shone brilliantly above, and his mastery of the sword was indeed far superior to any opponent Yun Xiao had previously encountered.

Take, for example, the Bai siblings with their mere Celestial Expanse Realm combat prowess and Vast Heaven grade Sword Souls—they were not even fit to carry the shoes of this Golden Immortal Realm young master of the Immortal Sword Court.

"No wonder they say that the pinnacle of swordsmanship in the Celestial Court is only in the Sword Celestial Court..." Yun Xiao’s pupils constricted! It was not fear or reverence that gripped him, but rather, a surge of excitement.

This excitement, Jian Chi saw clearly.

"Poor fool." He had no interest in witnessing any of Yun Xiao's techniques.

With his spirit and Sword Souls manifesting, Jian Chi wasted no time, directly harnessing the celestial power of a Golden Immortal, leaping across the Arena of Immortals, and launching a deadly assault on Yun Xiao!

Both swords struck simultaneously!

His left hand's Lunar Depth Sword Soul, unleashed with the might of a Flying Sword, spun like thousands of crescent moons, forming a silver sword rain swirling towards Yun Xiao’s back, aiming for his nape!

Meanwhile, his right hand's Radiant Dawn Sword Soul took ten consecutive steps forward, each step swinging the sword in an arc. After ten steps, the sword burst forth like a colossal sun, emitting blinding light, chopping directly towards Yun Xiao’s head!

And between these two swords, the Northstar Golden Spirit mingled, its starlight bolstering the swordsmanship.

"Excellent!"

Jian Chi's dual strike elicited murmurs of approval from some of the elders.

"Upper Supreme Heaven grade, Pursuing Sun Sword Canon and Northstar Spiral Sword..." the Moon Sword Goddess murmured.

She hadn’t expected that this swordsmanship prodigy, not yet 30 years old, had already evolved these two strongest sword techniques below the Dao Heaven grade to such an extent.

From ancient times, those who could wield Upper Supreme Heaven grade techniques in the Immortal Tournament were few!

"Jian Chi's temperament is commendable, striking with full force regardless of the opponent's level—this is the greatest respect one can show an enemy," the Longevity Immortal praised, smiling beside Empress Zhao.

In the flash of lightning, the twin swords struck with a force that seemed to seize heaven and earth!

How would Yun Xiao respond? Could he even respond?

In the hearts of many Immortals, this opportunist was about to be exposed as a fraud, having finally met his match.

Within the storm wrought by the circling sun and moon, there stood a lone youth, clad in Rank 9 Arbiter armor, his eyes calm as a tranquil lake.

His opponent’s twin swords appeared to dominate the cosmos.

KLANG! Yun Xiao gripped his Heaven Burial Sword Soul, the blade pointing skyward, a verdant streak against the azure.

With only four Sword Prisons to his name, he was acknowledged as a sword prodigy, yet humbly so before the might of 20 combined Sword Prisons.

"The Arbiter must wield the force of 1,000 thunders, to judge on behalf of heaven, to adhere to celestial decrees, to possess a righteous heart, to patrol the cosmos, and to protect the path of all beings!"

These were not Yun Xiao’s own thoughts, but the creed from the Thunder Department’s Ten Great Dao Heaven Arts!

This was the mission of the Thunder Department, and indeed, their belief!

And where had that belief gone now?

Yun Xiao didn’t buy into the brainwashing, the self-deception that he could achieve an unobstructed path of enlightenment like Liu Chaochao merely by belief alone!

If he truly had reached enlightenment, how could he live up to the scripture written in these secret arts?

This moment, this battle in the Immortal Tournament, belonged to the guardians of celestial order, an arena of honor, not a stepping stone for celestial scions seeking bureaucratic ascent!

To wield the might of thunder, one must first summon rage!

Yun Xiao, holding the Heaven Burial Sword, was a whirlwind of fury. Thunder crackled around him, his hair wild in the tempest!

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE! Thunder from heaven and earth swarmed, exploding overhead, coalescing into tens of thousands of thunder dragons, swirling down in convergence. In an instant, the ferocity of his single strike surpassed the twin swords of Jian Chi!

"Thunder Department’s Dao Heaven Art, Judgment of 10,000 Daos?"

In a setting that should have remained unshaken, at least a score of Immortals straightened their spines, eyes wide with disbelief, watching the youth surrounded by a maelstrom of wrathful dragons!

Among the onlookers, the most astounded were Yun Yin and Gu Suwan, recalling the scene when Yun Xiao had merely observed Ten Great Dao Heaven Arts. Their minds went blank!

Within the tempest of thunder, they witnessed a true Arbiter!

Fierce! Righteous! Dutiful! Furious!

A single sword declared the judgment of 10,000 daos!

Yun Xiao's eyes, surging with thunder, suddenly fixed upon Jian Chi. With one slash, a convergence of 10,000 dragons within a thunderous storm, the sword swallowed the divine light of sun and moon, engulfing the entire fighting platform in a deafening roar!

One sword shattered the arena!

"Dao Heaven Art?!" All that Jian Chi had yearned for and believed in was overwhelmed in an instant, like a dam bursting!

His eyes widened!

In the midst of the thunderous roar, Yun Xiao's azure sword, swirling with 10,000 dragons, not only crushed the Northstar Spiral Sword attack of the Lunar Depth Sword Soul. But also, with the majestic might of thunder, he cleaved through the Radiant Dawn Sword Soul. The direct assault exploded forward, striking Jian Chi squarely in the forehead!

One sword, one defeat!

Jian Chi's prized Twin Sword Souls, one scattered and the other beaten back—his eyes suddenly ruptured with tears of blood and pain.

His Northstar Golden Spirit shattered!

The more obsessed, the harder the fall!

THUD! Before the death strike could land, Jian Chi collapsed to his knees!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Yun Xiao's sword tip halted an inch from his brow, yet the thunderous sword intent of the Judgment of 10,000 Daos surged from Jian Chi's sides, roaring out a thousand meters. Wherever it passed, thunder surged!

In that moment, with the sword point at his brow, the victor was clear!

Even the stage fell into a hush.

"Kill me!" Jian Chi suddenly grasped Yun Xiao's sword, his voice hoarse, tears and blood streaming.

With a snicker, Yun Xiao withdrew the Heaven Burial Sword Soul from his grip and stepped down from the fighting platform.

Truth be told, he had wanted to kill Jian Chi.

But just now, his sword couldn't advance even half an inch.

There were too many powerful beings in the Celestial Court!

The painstakingly nurtured scions of others weren’t so easily slain.

Yet Yun Xiao knew, with Jian Chi's defeat and his spirit damaged, it made no difference if he was dead or not.

Living would be more painful!

And he, stepping over this top sword prodigy, turned to meet the stunned, speechless stares!

The Moon Sword Goddess, Gu Suwan, and Yun Yin… their mouths hung open, wordless.

And before him, Wuqing, Nine Kites, and others, their pretty faces slightly moved…

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