IOAFD - 1149. The Sword Master of the Limitless Sword Hall (I)

By the time Luo Ming reacted, he was already flying through a spatial tunnel. He knew that regardless of where this led, it would not lead to a good end for him. He immediately erupted with all his strength. His sword intent lashed out in all directions, aiming to destroy the spatial tunnel halfway.

Chen Wentian responded in kind, using his raging blue flames to form a cocoon around Luo Ming, scorching the erupting sword energy into ash. What escaped this encirclement was taken care of by Tiantian.

Luo Ming was very strong. He was at the peak of the Spirit King Realm, past the seventh stage of spiritual strengthening. Even with Chen Wentian and Tiantian working together, a few attacks still lashed against the black space around them. Normally, it would have been enough to collapse the tunnel. Unfortunately for him, his sword strikes simply disappeared into the abyss.

“Impossible!” He shouted and doubled his attacks.

Driven by desperation, he created a sword storm within the black space that threatened to consume everything around him.

If it were an ordinary teleportation array or spatial crack, he would have already ended up back in the real world. But this wasn’t an ordinary spatial tunnel. Tiantian had prepared it for a long time, expending a great deal of spiritual energy. She had strengthened the space all around and even added an extra layer. Trying to collapse it with her present was impossible.

A few seconds later, all three arrived at the destination and appeared in a vast underground cavern. The entire space had been carved out of solid rock. There was no telling how deep they were. There wasn’t even an exit. The only indication that this space had an end was the rings of red flames along faraway walls which cast everything in an eerie glow.

Luo Ming came to a stop in the center of this underground chamber and looked around at the five figures that surrounded him. There was a tense pause as he tried to comprehend what he saw.

“Where is this?” His voice remained firm, but it could not hide the uncertainty he felt, “What do you want?”

Chen Wentian smiled, “Are you scared? Weren’t you full of confidence before? Didn’t you want to kill me?”

Luo Ming stared at Chen Wentian and the raging blue flames that surrounded him. Luo Ming now understood; he could sense it, the profound divine aura that came off the young man in heavy waves. Chen Wentian didn’t just gain a tiny bit of blue dragon flames by chance. His flames were pure dragon flames. He had somehow obtained the complete power of a divine beast. It was inconceivable!

Luo Ming glanced left and right at the two stunning beauties that floated beside Chen Wentian. One had head of pure black hair that cascaded to her feet, while the other’s hair was pure white. They were perfectly in contrast. It was impossible to describe their beauty but their presence made his heart tremble and his mind muddled. They were simply too beautiful. They were divine existences that could not be appraised with human comprehension alone.

Behind him were a pair of ferocious beasts. One was an enormous praying mantis at least five meters tall. It exuded rich vitality and boundless strength. It was a Verdant Mantis Matriarch, a rare species that he had only ever heard about. The other was a fiery toad covered in dripping lava. Its flame aura was not as hot as Chen Wentian’s blue dragon flames but it contained the profundities of the vast earth. Luo Ming recognized it as a lava toad and he finally understood.

“The mantis queen and the toad king… you actually subdued these beast kings?” Luo Ming asked, “Is this how you forced the Beast God Sanctum into an alliance?”

Chen Wentian smiled, “Good guess.”

Luo Ming ignored the comment and nodded toward Jasmine, “And this must be the famous Immortal Royal Moon Jasmine. She was right to always hide her face. Or else, the eastern subcontinent would have fallen into chaos. As for this black-haired beauty, is she related to the Sapphire Mystic Empire? Her space Dao is faintly similar to that of the southern empress. I didn’t expect your influence to have grown so much in a few years.”

Chen Wentian chuckled, “The sword master of the Limitless Sword Hall is quite well informed. What do you think about this surprise I prepared for you today? Do you think I can kill you with it?”

Luo Ming brandished his sword as several layers of sword energy surrounded his body, “Chen Wentian! I admit that I fell for your trap. It will be difficult for me to leave here in a short time. But if you think you can defeat me so easily…”

As he said the last word, his figure blurred as he shot towards the ceiling. This place was a carefully prepared trap. There had to be protective arrays to prevent escape by spatial treasures or block messages by spiritual talismans. His first aim was not to fight Chen Wentian or his allies but to destroy the trap.

His dragon sword slashed at the solid rock above and unleashed his strongest sword, the Limitless Sword Art!

Woosh!

A myriad of sword lights burst out. They were too numerous to count. They were limitless.

However, what this supreme sword art met was not a wall of rock but an array of spatial cracks that appeared and disappeared without pattern or reason.

Tiantian appeared between Luo Ming and the ceiling, with her Chaotic Retribution Domain fully activated. All the sword lights that were swallowed were spat back out at Luo Ming from random directions.

“What! What is this?” Luo Ming shouted indignantly as he was forced to retreat.

He waved his sword wildly, blocking and launching more limitless swords, only for those to come back at him once more.

At the same time, Queen Sundew and King Huo Tu joined the attack, suppressing the sword master with their flying spines and red flames.

Luo Ming let out an angry laugh, “Haha! Is that all? Is that all? Want to kill me? Dream on!”

His figure once again turned into a blur. He forcibly charged through the strange spatial domain, blocking countless sword strikes. He blasted a path through a wall of red flames and knocked away an incoming volley of sharp, poisonous spines.

He was greeted by Chen Wentian’s raging blue flames but he wasn’t afraid. His sword transformed into ten, calling upon the dragon sword art he had partially comprehended. Then, his sword doubled in number to twenty and attacked Chen Wentian together.

“Get out of my way!”

The twenty flashing swords cut apart everything in their way. Even with his dragon flames, Chen Wentian was forced back by the unrelenting assault.

"I am the sword master of the Limitless Sword Hall!"

Finally, there was nothing between Luo Ming and the rocks.

“Limitless Killing!” He bellowed and swung his sword with both hands.

The strongest move of the Limitless Sword Art burst out, slicing a deep gash in the ceiling, so deep that he could faintly sense the surface from so far down. Spiritual energy flashed in all directions from the impact as multiple layers of arrays failed at the same time.

With another shout, Luo Ming launched the prepared messages, throwing out over a hundred flying talismans, flying swords, and cloud arrows. There were even two void traversing daggers mixed in with the crowd. They were the only ones that had any real hope of reaching the outside.

As Luo Ming watched with sharp anticipation, the flying talismans were suddenly obliterated by a blinding beam of white light. All of them were turned into ash in an instant. None reached the gap he had created.

Before he could shout in anger, his breath caught in his throat.

A beautiful beast appeared before him. It had pure white fur, a long narrow snout, pointy ears, and five gloriously fluffy tails.

“No way…”

It was a Nine Tailed Moonlight Fox!

His cry of surprise turned into a gurgle as another beast appeared beside it. It had a pair of dropping ears and shaggy black fur that fell to its four delicate paws. A pink tongue stuck out playfully and licked its button nose while a pair of deep, intelligent eyes stared at him as if he were food.

“No,” Luo Ming slowly backed away, “No way…”

It was actually a Heavenly Dog.

“No more talking,” Tiantian opened her mouth and activated the Heaven Swallowing Grand Law.

“Time to die,” Jasmine said as five balls of moonlight collected on the tip of each tail.

>>

Next Chapter https://www.patreon.com/posts/148807003