Chapter 1566 - Greater and Lesser Island Lords
The immortal rune Liu Wuxie inscribed carried the laws of the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm. The instant it fused into the Heretic Blade, the blade seemed to draw breath, inhaling and exhaling like a whale as it swiftly devoured the surrounding spiritual energy.
Nine thunderbolts gathered in the sky and crashed down together, blotting out the heavens and sealing off the entire island. The cultivators who had rushed over couldn't even approach, and the sheer might of those thunderbolts had already surpassed ordinary worldly limits. Only a cultivator at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm could hope to contend with it head-on.
Laws of the Heaven Gaze Realm surged outward like a titanic tide, and nine massive thunder dragons answered the call. The thunder dragons coiled around the Heretic Blade, locked it in place, and tried to strip the immortal rune from its core, refusing to allow it to exist in the world.
In that same instant, a thick immortal rune Liu Wuxie had used to fortify the Heretic Blade erupted with razor sharpness. Laws of the celestial realm were born from it, forcing the nine thunder dragons to recoil and retreat.
Liu Wuxie shouted, "Fuse everything!"
The Heretic Blade devoured the nine thunder dragons as they tried to withdraw, and they vanished without a trace. With that, all forty-nine thunderbolts disappeared as well.
The sky cleared again, leaving only the crimson blade ray behind as a reminder of the thunderstorm. That blade aura stretched farther and farther, as though it reached into the depths of the universe itself.
Then a crisp dragon cry rang through heaven and earth, and the crimson blade ray slowly faded in the sky. One by one, the immortal runes coiling around the Heretic Blade sank inward, taking their posts to guard the blade's core.
The Heretic Blade's internal space began expanding, and one day it would evolve into a world of its own. The blade spiraled once and fell before Liu Wuxie. He reached out and gently held it. The moment his fingers closed around the hilt, bloodline resonance surged through him, and the urge to roar struck him hard.
With a casual swing, Liu Wuxie tore open a fissure in space that widened as it spread. Moments later, the ocean burst apart, a long passage opened, and the island split straight down the middle.
"What a sharp blade!" a cultivator hovering far off in the sky exclaimed. Two cultivators had witnessed the Heretic Blade's ascension firsthand.
"The terrifying part isn't that blade, but the hundred immortal runes within. Give it another year at most, and this blade can ascend into an immortal artifact," another cultivator said, greed flashing in his eyes.