Chapter 776 - 410: Struggle of the Ko Fight
Shua shua shua!
Hong hong hong!
Green and white sword light dazzling, the vast sword energy soared straight to the skies! The boundless sword energy cut across the Milky Way, and a giant sword of forty zhang slashed down! It bloomed with countless rays of brilliance, falling like stars from the heavens, the swords dropping like rain!
Though it was merely sixty days of tempering, Tie Dan, with his extraordinary talent, wielded the sect leader’s signature, the mountain-steadying skill of Beichen Sword Radiance, already showing signs of divine power!
Only seen was the Green Robed Sword Immortal standing in the boundless clear sky, amidst the fierce gusts of wind, pinching the formula with his hands, a finger drawing out! That giant Qi Sword split mountains and cracked the earth! Like a hot knife cutting through tofu, it cleaved open the mountains, broke apart the forests and deep ponds alike! Breaking even the earth veins! The Spiritual Qi reversed!
At this moment, Tie Dan was half venting fury, half testing the sword, his Thousand-Year Sword Power fully unleashed, it was truly earth-shattering, mountains crumbling and ground splitting! The vast sword light could be seen from afar, naturally immediately attracting the attention of the nearby Heavenly King Rebel Army.
Even though these fierce soldiers were marching from the north, having seen all kinds of scenes, this famous scene of the Sword Immortal going crazy digging up the earth was a first for them, so naturally, no one dared to come up and test their luck.
As such, a group of rebel leaders, along with recruited Left Dao Mixed Cultivators and demons, dared not stand by and watch, irritating the Immortal and being casually killed off. They quickly retreated, banded together efficiently, pulling out camp and formation, heading a hundred miles away to seek refuge.
And as such, when this army moved out, the whole situation shifted, the entire plan changed, momentarily causing ripples throughout the battlefield like a chain reaction reaching the front lines, prematurely triggering the battle!
But these other trivial matters were none of Tie Dan’s concern at the moment, nor did he bother with them, right now he was just focused on digging holes in the ground.
Although Tie Dan currently lacked the computational ability to get involved in high-level affairs, he hung on to his dreams, knowing in advance that sixty years later, this place would be the most crucial ’calamity struggle’!
The one scheming in secret has calculated every move, all to con Master Xuan Du here, absolutely would not let their arrangements be ruined, sooner or later must reveal themselves!
Hmm, calamity, is the usual ’calamity struggle’ the Mystic Sect disciples face, initially a term from Go.
In Go, if both sides repeatedly capture the same position’s stones, the game will stagnate in one place, eventually trapping both sides in an endless cycle, unable to reach an end.
Thus, Go rules that after one side captures, the other cannot immediately recapture the same position, must first play elsewhere on the board, and can only recapture after the opponent responds, this rule of spaced capturing is called "calamity struggle."
This calamity struggle rule was first introduced into sword fighting by the Mystic Sect, later gradually adopted by the Three Great Sects, its core purpose to prevent further internal consumption in the already barely surviving Mystic Sect.
To avoid during struggles for profit or magic, when sword without eyes cause injuries or deaths, leading to one after another family member, master-son-brother-friend rush to exchange lives, condensing a feud from a competition to destroy mountains and sect.
So according to the classical Mystic Sect’s calamity struggle rule in sword duels, every struggle belongs to the same sect’s Daoist inheritance successors’ disciples, if more than three die, it counts as defeat. The winner must not continue chasing, nor repeatedly set calamities, to maintain the basic line and face of same sect members.
Of course for opponents of Mixed Cultivation Demon Path, it doesn’t matter, kill at will. If lost, kill yourself and apologize, to avoid embarrassing the mountain folks.
Due to this, all classical Mystic Sect array arrangements, barrier restrictions would consider the basic scope of array for calamity struggle, to restrain disciples who enter the array for calamity purpose.
All such arrangements emphasize the harmony of heaven, earth, and people, although the heavens are not aligned now, nor people harmonious, but seeing such strangeness earlier, Tie Dan was determined there was something peculiar here! It must be the key to calamity struggle!
Then struggle!
Hardly found a target, who cares about anything else! Right away Tie Dan personally joined, announcing his origin! Directly revealing a hand of Beichen Divine Sword! Horizontal cut three hundred swords, vertical slash three hundred swords, then diagonal sweep three hundred swords!
Nine hundred swords mincing your earth veins into pieces, the entire spiritual core flipped over for you! Stirring the board into chaos! If I’m excluded from the game, no one can play!
Let’s see if you chess holders will show yourselves!
"True Lord of the Mysterious Heaven!"
Here he comes.
Tie Dan heard and looked afar, the skies suddenly darkened, looking up saw from the west a white cloud drifting over, unexpectedly unafraid of his fierce Sword Wind, swinging over in moments, blooming from the clouds with colorful light effects, a flurry of Divine Light manifest, auspicious Qi in thousands of lines, gold foil in pieces, directly covering half of the sky.
Then from the cloud Divinity Transformation and Sanctification, appeared a three-zhang human-form Dharma Manifestation, pulling five-colored neon wrapping himself, cloud breath Daoist energy as clothes, blooming Three Flowers above head, Five Lights behind head, Dao Body evolved into a white-robed old Daoist with crane hair and childish face, bowing, just by this grand display, it’s clear this elder is a Perfected Sage, transformed Mountain Man.
"Taiyi Mountain Taoyuan Zongzhen Sect, Zhong Nanzi, greets Fellow Daoist..."
Before the words were finished, simultaneously from the east a bright strong light lit up! Sword energy chills like meteor Fire Pearl, breaking through space! Splitting the sky screen in two halves! Simultaneously sending thousand-mile sound, distantly exploding like thunder sound, in a blink falling in front!
From within sword light, stepped out a Sword Immortal, also gathering Three Flowers, Five Qi towards source, holding a formidable Divine Sword, killing aura soaring, absolutely not mundane, and most outrageous this guy was also in green robe, hair scattered, if not for a tuft of white hair in front of forehead, from afar it looked like Tie Dan copied styling with him!