Chapter 195: Chapter 193: Heaven-Defying Breakthrough

Everyone had thought Jiang Jichen was dead, but who could have expected such a shocking turn of events!

He was actually able to wield the Holy Sword, slaying over a dozen enemies in a single strike and staining the West City Gate with blood.

In that instant, the Spirit Cultivator powerhouses who were about to charge forward froze in their tracks, staring blankly at the scene.

Shock, terror, rage, indignation...

All kinds of emotions rose in their hearts at once, but the strongest among them were disbelief and incredulity.

He survived the Holy Sword Prohibition!

He can wield the Holy Sword and cut down his enemies!

And all this was the work of a trash Junior Cultivator at the Innate Sixth Layer?

’This has to be a joke. We must be seeing things!’

Naturally, almost everyone hoped they were mistaken, that none of this was real.

However, Jiang Jichen’s calm voice shattered their illusions. "This sword is named Wandering Dragon, one of the Ancient Seven Holy Swords. When it is drawn, a dragon roars. Its attacks are peerless, its path unstoppable. Its Sword Intent is like a dragon, wandering the seas and soaring through the skies, free throughout heaven and earth."

"Today, I shall use this sword to take my enemies’ heads. In life or death, I have no regrets, and I shall stand proud before the heavens!"

Wielding the Holy Sword, Jiang Jichen floated in the air before the city gate. His voice was exceptionally clear, echoing between heaven and earth.

As he spoke, the aura around Jiang Jichen’s body erupted, surging straight to the heavens.

It was as if, from the deepest abyss, he had suddenly transformed, soaring into the sky like a furious, roaring dragon.

Or like the most dormant volcano, suddenly erupting with cataclysmic force.

That voice was like an oath, a testament to his resolve.

The Holy Sword’s draconic roar seemed to be a response, a sign of its acknowledgment!

In that instant, sword light interwoven with dragon shadows, Jiang Jichen could no longer suppress his Realm. He began breaking through from the Innate Sixth Layer Perfect Realm, his momentum unstoppable and completely out of control.

Spirit Cultivation: Innate Seventh Layer—Early, Middle, Late, and Perfection Realm!

But it didn’t end there. He continued to break through, truly like a dragon soaring into the sky.

Spirit Cultivation: Innate Eighth Layer—Early, Middle, Late, and Perfection Realm!

Not until... the Innate Ninth Realm Initial Stage did Jiang Jichen’s Spirit Cultivation finally stop breaking through!

Yet, this wasn’t the end. His Body Refining Realm was also undergoing an astonishing breakthrough.

Everyone was utterly stunned by this scene!

’Just how terrifying was the suppression he’d maintained to unleash such a heaven-defying, world-shocking explosive breakthrough?’

"Don’t let him keep breaking through! Attack together and kill him!"

"Once he finishes his breakthrough and wields the Holy Sword, we’ll be in deep trouble!"

The Noble Family Descendants could no longer remain calm, their previous air of superiority completely gone.

They were frantic and furious, panicked and resentful. At the same time, they unleashed their strongest attacks, launching them at Jiang Jichen as he broke through.

At this very moment, Jiang Jichen was undergoing the most astonishing metamorphosis since he had begun to cultivate.

If this metamorphosis succeeded, the world would be his to roam, boundless as the high heavens and wide seas.

The essence of over eight hundred bowls of Treasure Medicine Serpent, which he had long since refined and stored deep within his body, was instantly absorbed, but it was still far from enough.

With a slap to his Storage Bag, one Treasure Medicine after another flew out and was immediately drawn into his mouth.

Spiritual Snake Fruit, Earth Spirit Fruit, Eight Treasure Flower, Blood Lotus Seeds, a Thousand-Year Blood Spirit Aura, a Ten-Thousand-Year-Old He Shou Wu, and countless High-Grade Spirit Condensing Pills—all of it was devoured!

At this moment, a thick, blood-red cloak made of restrictive energy enveloped Jiang Jichen, conveniently blocking the Seven-colored Spiritual Power that was erupting from his breakthrough.

As a result, the crowd didn’t see a seven-colored light. They only saw Jiang Jichen enveloped in a billowing cloud of Blood Qi.

This Blood Qi was the infinite blood essence accumulated over countless years from the continuous sacrifices of those trapped in the Sealed Ancient Land.

Its power was so immense that it surpassed even that of the Treasure Medicine Spirit Pills he had consumed and the eight hundred bowls of Treasure Medicine Serpent he had refined.

Jiang Jichen’s Undying Scripture and Source Character Qi Condensing Technique were already operating at their peak. His Qi Sea and the Great Innate Acupoints in his body had become bottomless pits, devouring and refining the Treasure Medicine Spirit Pills with voracious speed.

However, even with the astonishingly vast amount of Treasure Medicine Spirit Pills he possessed, it was like a drop in the ocean—far from enough for this breakthrough and metamorphosis.

Within his body, the Spiritual Power in his Spirit Veins was continuously liquefying. At this point, his eighth Seven-Colored Spiritual Vein was completely filled with liquid!

The changes within his Spirit Veins were not yet finished. The already liquefied Seven-colored Spiritual Power was now being further compressed and tempered, making the Seven-Colored Spirit Liquid even denser and causing it to faintly shimmer with a seven-colored, crystalline light.

As for his physical body, within the Great Mortal Body Acupoints and Great Innate Acupoints, countless Small Mortal Body Acupoints and Small Innate Acupoints—each one a node—were now completely lit, emitting a faint golden radiance.

This was an undying radiance, a sign that he was evolving toward the Undying Golden Body.

The process only stopped after the eighth such node within the Great Innate Acupoints of his body was lit.

The problem was that whether it was for the physical body tempered by the Undying Scripture or the Seven-Colored Spirit Sea and Spirit Veins cultivated through the Source Character Qi Condensing Technique, the amount of Spiritual Qi required was simply immense.

All the resources Jiang Jichen had previously possessed were not even enough for him to break through from the Innate Sixth Layer Perfect Realm to the Supreme Minor Grandmaster Realm of the Innate Ninth Realm!

Now, his resources were exhausted, but his breakthrough was only half-finished.

The consumption of resources had far exceeded Jiang Jichen’s previous estimates. It turned out that for breakthroughs to higher Realms, the amount of Cultivation Resources needed wasn’t something that could be calculated by simple multiplication.

How arduous was Spirit-Body Dual Cultivation?

Though all of this took a long time to describe, the changes within his body were completed in just a few dozen breaths, and all the while, the others’ attacks had been continuously bombarding Jiang Jichen.

He was now completely engulfed by the attacks and the Blood Qi!

Otherwise, the seven-colored light would have blazed forth, likely shaking the All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds!

Of course, while the breakthrough to the new Realm was complete, replenishing the power it required was far from over. He still needed to absorb a vast amount of Spiritual Power.

Jiang Jichen sealed his Seven-colored Spiritual Power once more. His body was now nothing but skin and bones, emaciated to the extreme, like a dying man without a single shred of Essence Qi.

Fortunately, he was enveloped in Blood Qi, which deflected all the attacks. In this state, he was nearly impervious to any technique. Otherwise, he would have long since been blasted into the Void.

But within the billowing Blood Qi, he could also see countless Resentful Souls. If his Soul Power were not so uniquely formidable, he would have already been eroded by the power of these souls, losing his sense of self and becoming a soulless corpse.

’No power to replenish myself? This sacrificial Blood Qi has been accumulating for countless years... Can’t I absorb it?’

If he didn’t replenish his Spiritual Power soon, Jiang Jichen feared he wouldn’t even need an enemy to strike. He would simply turn into a desiccated corpse and perish.

And so, at that moment, Jiang Jichen grew desperate. He let out a great roar: "All Spirits of the Heavens, blood for my body! Refine, refine, refine!"

His voice shook the heavens. The billowing Blood Qi surged into Jiang Jichen’s skeletal frame. In a mere instant, his body began to grow full and lustrous again.

However, as he absorbed all the Blood Qi into his body, all the accompanying Resentful Souls were drawn into his Divine Soul as well.

BOOM!

In that instant, Jiang Jichen’s eyes turned completely blood-red. A Thought of Slaughter flooded his Sea of Consciousness and soul like a tidal wave!

"Kill!"

At that moment, his power was boundless, his murderous intent like a tidal wave. Wielding the Wandering Dragon Holy Sword, he took the offensive, charging toward the Spirit Cultivators who had been relentlessly attacking him.

Thus, a battle of pure slaughter began!