Chapter 1558: The Highest Art of the Mortal Realm, the Sword Falls from the Nine Heavens

From ancient times, those of the Outer Tower path were already dragons among men.As for Heavenly Mansion cultivators, they were one in ten thousand, a rarity unseen.Now, two Heavenly Mansion cultivators, having grasped the Dao path early, engage in a deadly duel. Their divine abilities, techniques, cultivation, and battle acumen are all at the pinnacle of this realm.One might say it is a battle of a thousand years, rarely encountered.Witness the brilliance of divine abilities, the surging splendor.The entire field is silent, no one willing to avert their gaze.To witness this battle is a blessing!But for the two engaged in combat, victory and defeat are the sole considerations.In Chong Xuanzun's world, the concept of losing does not exist.As for Jiang Wang, having emerged from the Wuyan Mountain Range and returned east to the Great Qi, he has been undefeated on his journey. Now, he stands shoulder to shoulder with the Four Towers, grasping the Dao path. Naturally, he will not yield even an inch.Victory and defeat are contested in an instant, a full collision of arts, methods, techniques, divine abilities, Dao paths, and will.Any subtle disparity, no matter how slight, will be infinitely magnified in such a confrontation.Finally, Jiang Wang felt the difficulty!The clash of divine abilities was indeed magnificent.The strong under heaven are not exclusive to Chong Xuanzun.But Chong Xuanzun's physical advantage is too evident.As the clash of divine abilities reached its conclusion, it was inevitable that it would test the endurance of both parties. Even if you can precisely block every attack from your opponent, striking at their necessary defenses each time, the backlash from divine abilities and the accumulation of injuries are still unavoidable!In this extreme level of confrontation, Chong Xuanzun's divine soul depletion was slow, but the physical wounds Jiang Wang sustained were clear and tangible!Jiang Wang is resilient enough, and possesses sufficient will to endure pain, but bodily injury will inevitably affect his overall performance in battle.The ever-increasing insight gained through the Divine Ability of Bifurcated Path made him more acute in his struggle against Chong Xuanzun. This could also be considered a form of "getting stronger" in a sense.However, the speed of his strengthening could not keep up with the speed of his weakening.The phrase "skilled and effortless" could describe his "skill," but not his "effortlessness."What's more fatal is...Chong Xuanzun's Stellar Wheel still has six effects unused, allowing him six chances to make a mistake.And Jiang Wang has not a single opportunity to err!Although the battle has progressed to this point without either party making a mistake, Chong Xuanzun's only use of the Stellar Wheel was to gain the upper hand.But Jiang Wang already has a clear understanding—Continuing like this, victory is impossible.He used the clash of divine abilities to salvage the situation.But in the clash of divine abilities, Chong Xuanzun's performance was also flawless, pressing forward step by step.The accumulation of slight disadvantages will ultimately lead to a complete collapse.Jiang Wang realized he had to make a change.But he also understood that this point was a consensus between him and Chong Xuanzun.Chong Xuanzun had finally pushed the battle to this stage with the advantage of striking first, how could he easily let him escape?Therefore...The shimmering, immortal light of red and gold concealed all emotions in Jiang Wang's eyes.His right hand again struck towards Chong Xuanzun's face, the Life-Slaying Nail in his palm chillingly cold.His left hand dissipated the Bi Fang Seal and pressed down from a distance.The human body has the spine as its dragon, capable of drawing upon the Eight Winds as its tiger.Locking the Sky-Piercing Sea, stabilizing the cultivator's body.This is the Dao Art of Dragon and Tiger!But just as Jiang Wang had prepared for this battle for a long time, how could Chong Xuanzun possibly face him unprepared?Back at the River-Viewing Platform, Chong Xuanzun had felt some regret that he could not compete with Jiang Wang in the same realm.This battle today could be considered fulfilling his wish.Of course, he was willing to wait for Jiang Wang's Four Towers to be complete, for Jiang Wang to grasp the Dao path, for a Jiang Qingyang at his strongest state.And at this moment!His Heavenly Mansion physique was as steadfast as a mountain.The sun wheel hung high within the Sky-Piercing Sea.The moon wheel was in the sky above the Five Mansions Sea.The stellar wheel illuminated the world within the Hidden Star Sea.The Sky-Piercing Sea, the Five Mansions Sea, the Hidden Star Sea, all were unshakable!As soon as the so-called Eight Winds appeared on the surface of his body, they were already torn apart by the surging, intricate Chong Xuan power.He advanced almost completely unaffected, suppressing the Dragon and Tiger, while Jiang Wang wasted an opportunity to attack in vain!Just like in a battle between two armies, the time of greatest casualties often occurs when one side is routed.If Jiang Wang wanted to disengage from battle, he had to give him an opportunity.Who would dare to give Chong Xuanzun an opportunity in battle?This was the opportunity for victory or defeat, and he would surely seize it!White robes flew like snow, and the sun wheel in his hand smashed down with force! Without any deflection, without missing, he smashed the Life-Slaying Nail back into a wisp of Unyielding Wind.Such a sharp object, though its killing power is unmatched, fears nothing more than a copper wall and iron barrier, just like a hammer against a nail.Chong Xuanzun was now one step in front of Jiang Wang!At the same time, terrifying Chong Xuan power surged from all directions, as if forming a Chong Xuan prison, iron walls closing in from eight sides!Having removed the Chong Xuan Divine Ability, the Chong Xuan power Chong Xuanzun mobilized at this instant was more than a hundred times that of Chong Xuan Sheng!Jiang Wang's Wu Yu Smoke Armor outside his body was extinguished almost instantly.Ten thousand jun on his shoulders, ten thousand jun on his feet, ten thousand jun on his body!But even burdened by ten thousand jun of weight, Jiang Wang still had... his sword!The Heavenly Mansion physique strongly bore the ten thousand jun, the Wu Yu Smoke Armor extinguished and reignited.Heaven and earth suddenly opened a line, the Sword of the Fated Scholar horizontally struck upon the sun wheel.Just an imperceptible pause... this slight pause of the sun wheel.Chong Xuanzun was met with the most brilliant sword technique storm he had ever witnessed in his life!Limitless sword qi had become threads.The Sword of Acacia of Killing rose high like a bright moon.Only the roar of swords was heard, sword qi soared, and sword light shone in all directions!Acacia of Killing clashed with the sun wheel and moon wheel thousands of times in an instant.Jiang Wang was at the peak of his intention and momentum, focusing everything into his sword techniques, not a single trace of distraction, not even衔接 with magic arts or divine abilities.Because if he paused for even a thousandth of a second, Chong Xuanzun would surely seize the gap and counterattack.The outcome of Dragon and Tiger was bound to be failure, he waited for Chong Xuanzun to fall into his trap, he would not give Chong Xuanzun a gap!Within Jiang Wang's sword momentum and sword intent at the absolute peak of this realm, within the surging and roaring sword technique storm.Chong Xuanzun parried with the sun wheel, or slashed with the moon wheel, always in the nick of time, cutting through falsehoods to reach the truth!But for a time, he could only resist, not counterattack.Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, the continuous sounds of clash were almost like a rising tide.The sword light of Acacia of Killing completely filled this space.Jiang Wang attacked incessantly, horizontally sweeping, vertically lifting, diagonally slashing, and back-thrusting!Thus, the old general's twilight, thus the fated scholar's decline, thus being beyond one's control, thus the arrogance of youth... thus the Character Sword!As this series of sword forms evolved to the extreme, the Character Sword could no longer be obstructed.Finally, one sword lifted open the moon wheel!The Character Sword split heaven and earth, and naturally transformed into the toppling of the absolute peak!Heaven and earth first opened and then closed.Today, with this sword, sever the mortal realm.Such a faint, yet such a crisp sound.One of the dazzling stars floating around Chong Xuanzun shattered again.But at the same time as the stellar wheel shattered—only to see the starlight of the sky cascading down, Chong Xuanzun's Stellar Saint Tower illuminated for a time, competing with Jiang Wang's Northern Dipper Four Towers in brilliant radiance.The stellar power of the Outer Tower, gathered by the light of divine abilities, formed a huge, resplendent fist, smashing down on Jiang Wang's head!The manifestation of the Dao path's killing power.The Fist of Five Divine Abilities driven by starlight!At this moment, Jiang Wang had reached the extreme of his sword momentum and sword intent, reversing the decline and shattering the stellar wheel, which could not be called anything but a peak.But when he displayed the peak of his sword techniques, it was also when he was most unable to defend himself.This punch landed right on his lifeblood!It was as if—Chong Xuanzun precisely wanted to use the shattering of this stellar wheel to secure the final victory!Jiang Wang instantly opened a world of fire, but the world of fire collapsed on the spot.He then pressed out the Flame Flower Burning City, but the Flame Flower Burning City was also blown apart.The faint light pressed out by the Huo Dou Seal, under this terrifying pressure, could not even take shape and had already dispersed.He wanted to change his sword momentum again, but both his sword momentum and sword intent had reached their end.He wanted to withdraw and leave, but Chong Xuanzun's movement technique was not inferior to his.This Fist of Five Divine Abilities was by no means Chong Xuanzun's strongest killing method, but at this moment, it was the most appropriate, the most suitable, the most unavoidable, a blow that reached the very essence!It seemed there was no response.How could he respond?People only saw—Jiang Wang within the collapsing flow of firelight.Rising up, facing this fist!His four Great Saint Towers simultaneously shone, starlight from the edge of the sky cascaded down, bathing his body.Through the Stellar Path method, the stellar power he could instantly mobilize was far greater than Chong Xuanzun's.Chong Xuanzun's starlight was like rain.His starlight was like a waterfall!He rushed from the mortal realm to the high heavens, as if rolling up a river of stars, hanging inverted in the sky.Terrifying stellar power gathered into momentum.His ears glowed with jade light.At this instant.He activated the Hearing Immortal State.He activated the Guan Zizai Ear.Ten thousand sounds come to Guan Zizai!The sound of the wind, the sound of the air, the sound of the fist smashing down... the "sounds" of intertwined divine light that did not exist!The preceding sounds were already a multitude of sounds coming to him, and with the enhancement of the Suspended Temple's top-tier secret technique, the Guan Zizai Ear, they became even more concrete and subtle. The latter "sounds," which were not sounds, were the hearing of the Guan Zizai Ear tracing their origin.The Hearing Immortal State is the control of sound for nineteen breaths.The爆发 of the Guan Zizai Ear is only instantaneous, but it allows him to see the subtle and discern the truth, understanding its foundation.In the instant state of ten thousand sounds coming to Guan Zizai, he had already seen through the essence of this punch,Facing this Fist of Five Divine Abilities driven by starlight, his entire body ignited with blazing crimson flames.This was the Samadhi True Fire!He met the fist with his body, neither dodging nor avoiding!The huge fist of divine light gathered by starlight descended, and while striking his body, it was already infinitely decomposed.It was clearly such a terrifying punch.It was clearly a punch that landed on his lifeblood.Yet it was like a piece of tofu, smashing onto a steel knife!Jiang Wang at this instant was terrifyingly strong.His entire body was enveloped in this giant starlight fist, yet he remained unharmed in the fierce flames, and instead gained freedom through it.In a situation where the overall momentum was already difficult to salvage, he withstood the pressure. In an impossible situation, he created possibility!But beneath that brilliant figure wrapped in blazing crimson flames.There was a figure in white robes, like a shadow accompanying him.With a sudden turn, he soared high into the clouds.Just as Jiang Wang was decomposing the giant starlight fist and suddenly gained freedom.The sun and moon in Chong Xuanzun's hands were crushed.At this moment, with his sleeves billowing, his long and powerful left hand reached into the air, and points of light emerged in his palm.A point of crimson light, the sun wheel.A point of snowy light, the moon wheel.A point of precious light, the stellar wheel.Three points of light arranged side by side.The... sun wheel, moon wheel, stellar wheel that were crushed in his hands and flew around his body.Suddenly appeared in his left hand, connected together, the three lights shining together, extremely brilliant!This was a divine ability saber shaped like three crescent moons joined together. The moment this saber appeared... it seemed to have already injured the eyes of the observers.Heaven and earth were without light, because the radiance was all on the saber body.It only needed to move forward, because the front was where the lifeblood was located, where the foundation lay.Whether it was the ultimate intention of sword techniques, or understanding the Samadhi and then burning it.Jiang Wang had never escaped Chong Xuanzun, never!And at this moment, he had to face Chong Xuanzun's strongest saber.This saber, which had once made the River-Viewing Platform famous, which had forced the almost invincible Dou Zhao into a draw—The Three Wheels of Sun, Moon, and Stars, Saber of Cutting Delusion!How was this just saber technique?This saber was close to the essence of divine abilities, close to the Dao.This saber severed the connections of heaven and earth, breaking the foundation of the human body.Jiang Wang could not block it, Jiang Wang absolutely could not block it.Even someone with the Subtle Perception Divine Ability like Li Longchuan made such a clear judgment.There was a hidden worry in his eyes, hard to dispel for a time.With so many strong individuals present, he was not worried about Jiang Wang's life or death. But as a friend, he was worried that this saber would shatter Jiang Wang's "momentum."Once Lei Zhangan held exclusive sway over the universe, his momentum unmatched, but after repeated setbacks against Jiang Wang and the death of Jiang Wuqi, he declined a thousand miles.Today, in the battle against Xia, he could not even participate.Once Wang YiWu was undefeated among the military, the greatest Sky-Piercing Realm cultivator of all time, and claimed to be undefeated in the same realm in Linzi. But after being defeated by Jiang Wang, his name has rarely been seen by the world.The world knows the first, who knows the defeated opponent of the first?This is momentum, this is hope, this is fame.If Jiang Wang were to lose today, what would happen?Before it happens, no one has the answer. He dare not even think about it!And Jiang Wang himself, facing this saber, how could he not feel its terrifying power that directly strikes the life soul?At the same time he saw this saber, his heart seemed to have been cut open.His person seemed to have already been separated from his body.His body, soul, heart, and will seemed to be torn apart.He seemed to have died first, and then saw this saber.In the immortal crimson-gold light of his eyes, Jiang Wang had absolutely no sense of powerlessness.He saw, he faced.So simple!At this moment, Jiang Wang was at the extreme of his momentum and intention, his sword techniques, magic arts, and divine abilities, all displayed fully in this peak duel.At this moment, he had reached the strongest state of his life thus far.Then, come, sword!Thus the stellar path was opened, thus the starlight flowed, thus in the distant starry sky, connected to the Seven Stars path,貫穿 the path of the Four Towers... everything, everything, gathered in the sword in the hand of Jiang Wang in the mortal realm—The Northern Dipper shook!People saw the Northern Dipper displayed in the distant starry sky, as if it was moving.No, not as if.It was truly moving.Jiang Wang's power of the Dao path, Jiang Wang's path of the true self.This sword of Jiang Wang, integrating the Dao path, seemed to shake the power of the nine heavens, an immortal sword flying from outside the heavens, precisely meeting Chong Xuanzun in the mortal realm in contention!Chong Xuanzun is truly strong, truly too strong!So strong that Jiang Wang had to use this sword that he fundamentally had no certainty of controlling.Those four Stellar Saint Towers standing in the distant starry sky were truly moving!He had exhausted his utmost possibility to prove his words, "Perhaps I can withstand it!"This saber that stole the radiance of the human world and this sword that fell from the nine heavens, even before they officially clashed, had already emptied everything in the space where both sides were located!The terrifying pressure made all observers solemn.Who could have imagined that this was a duel that could occur at the Outer Tower level?Who wins? Who loses?The outcome was once again shrouded in mystery!And at this time.Chong Xuanzun lowered his eyes and said, "I have seen all the scenery along this path."The hint of a smile lingering at the corner of his mouth truly emerged.He really smiled.This smile made heaven and earth lose their color.This smile left the human world without radiance.At this moment, he ascended from the earth to the high heavens, holding the extremely brilliant Three Wheels of Sun, Moon, and Stars, Saber of Cutting Delusion in his left hand. He seemed to possess everything, and everything in the world could not possess him.Person like the moon, clothes like snow.Heaven and earth resonate, the resonance of the Dao!His muscles are mountains and rivers, his blood is rivers.He is a born seed of cultivation, a destined protagonist in life.He was born to grasp himself, born to go his own way.He is an existence of peerless radiance, and today, in front of the army of thousands, he achieved the Divine Arrival!Heaven and earth are trembling!He is so brilliant, as if he is the chosen one.Standing in this world, he is undoubtedly the center of the human sea.And this vast advancement, the congratulatory roar of heaven and earth...Suddenly disappeared.He erupted with brilliance that illuminated the human world in an instant, and in a flash, he withdrew it, transforming into fluttering sleeves.Like a wisp of wind绕袖, so gentle, so peaceful.At the crucial moment of the confrontation between the saber of the human world and the sword falling from the nine heavens, he achieved Divine Arrival just by saying so, achieving it with such ease.This is truly a peerless person!With the Saber of Cutting Delusion in hand, where are the obstacles in cultivation?He was still at low altitude, stepping towards high altitude.He was still in the human world, moving from this place to that place.But the Three Wheels of Sun, Moon, and Stars, Saber of Cutting Delusion in his palm had disappeared.But the radiance on his body had also returned to calm.At this time, why did he need to use a saber?Why did he need to rely on divine abilities?He calmly walked towards Jiang Wang, facing the terrifying sword falling from the nine heavens with empty hands.Everyone was watching, and everyone was anticipating—Anticipating whether a miracle would still happen.Anticipating whether they could still see possibility in the impossible.And Jiang Wang realized the result earlier than everyone else.He instantly dispersed the sky full of stellar waterfalls, concealed the Northern Dipper stellar path, the Four Saint Towers of mutual illumination, extinguished the light of the Heavenly Mansion wheel... and returned his sword to its sheath."I lost," he said seriously.---Additional Notes---Last day,