Chapter 196: Chapter 194: Broke the Legend

"This is bad! Jiang Jichen actually absorbed the Blood Qi that has accumulated on the Holy Sword’s Restriction over countless years!"

"That Blood Qi contains countless Resentful Souls! He’s now completely controlled by the Thought of Slaughter, with no self-awareness. He’ll inevitably become a bloodthirsty Demon and die in a mad frenzy."

"He... He’s coming to kill us!"

"Don’t be afraid! Before, he was protected by that Blood Qi, so we couldn’t hurt him. Now that the Blood Qi defense is gone, he’s just a bloodthirsty Junior Cultivator at the Innate Ninth Realm. We can kill him and seize the Holy Sword!"

The various cultivators cried out in alarm, their voices a chorus of different reactions.

At this moment, although they were terrified of the bloodthirsty Jiang Jichen, they knew that without the protection of the Blood Qi, he was still only at the Innate Ninth Realm of Cultivation, no matter how crazed and demonic he became.

The temptation of the Holy Sword was enough to make anyone risk their life. Therefore, at this very moment, the Noble Family Descendants did not retreat. Instead, they charged forward, rushing toward the Jiang Jichen who no longer had any Blood Qi for defense.

However, the leaders of the Noble Family Descendants—Cang Lengshan, Cang Lengyun, Guo Qishan, and others—retreated to the rear, letting their subordinates act as the vanguard.

Their expressions no longer held any high and mighty arrogance. Instead, they were replaced by looks of extreme gravity—and even terror!

Jiang Jichen had actually achieved a heaven-defying breakthrough, advancing directly from the Innate Sixth Layer to the Innate Ninth Realm.

That would have been one thing, but the most terrifying part was that Jiang Jichen had shattered the world’s shackles and reopened the Body Refining Dao. With Spirit-Body Dual Cultivation, he had reached the Innate Ninth Realm in both disciplines at the same time.

But what truly shocked them and sent a chill into their hearts was the amount of Spiritual Power Jiang Jichen had consumed!

They had personally witnessed Jiang Jichen consume a shocking quantity of Treasure Medicines and Spirit Pills. Even breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm shouldn’t require such a vast amount of Spiritual Power.

And when even that wasn’t enough, he had devoured all the Blood Qi accumulated on the Holy Sword’s Restriction in a single breath.

The sight made their scalps tingle. The amount of Treasure Medicines and Spirit Pills Jiang Jichen had absorbed and refined was enough to make their bodies explode many times over, to say nothing of the Blood Qi that had built up for countless years.

Yet, even after absorbing such immense Spiritual Power and Blood Qi, Jiang Jichen seemed to suffer no ill effects, aside from entering a demonic, bloodthirsty state.

Legend said that the more Spiritual Power required for a breakthrough, the greater one’s potential on the Path of Longevity. And Jiang Jichen... he seemed to have broken the legend itself.

’He must have created a new legend!’

"This kid is far more dangerous than we ever imagined," Guo Qishan said, his expression grim. "He must not be allowed to live, or the consequences will be endless!"

"We didn’t even know that the Holy Sword was called the Wandering Dragon Sword. How could he?"

"And he’s looked completely confident from the moment he appeared. Clearly, he knows the Holy Sword’s origins and, more importantly, how to unleash the Wandering Dragon Holy Sword’s power," Cang Lengyun added thoughtfully.

As soon as she finished speaking, the faces of Nangong Jinjie, Cang Lengshan, and the others changed drastically. They weren’t sure even they could withstand the full power of the Holy Sword.

At the same time, the sounds of flesh being torn asunder echoed from the front lines, mingled with the desperate, terrified screams of the dying Spirit Cultivators.

Up ahead, Jiang Jichen brandished the Wandering Dragon Holy Sword, suspended in mid-air. A torrential, murderous Demonic Qi billowed around him as he looked down upon the world with disdain.

His eyes were blood-red and crazed, with Killing Intent roiling around him. He killed on sight, driven into a deeper frenzy by the sight of blood, completely lost in a state of madness.

At this moment, Jiang Jichen’s body was filled with infinite power. He felt a strength he had never known.

Undying Power coursed through his entire body, making his flesh as tough as steel. Even a Grandmaster would struggle to move him in the slightest, and it would be no simple matter for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator to destroy his physical form.

On top of that, eight Spirit Veins of liquefied Spiritual Power made the Spiritual Power in his body surge as if it were inexhaustible.

However, Jiang Jichen’s own consciousness could not control this immense power. Right now, his soul was desperately fighting back against the countless Resentful Souls.

His physical body was completely under the control of the Thought of Slaughter, cutting a swath of destruction in all directions.

PFFT!

Spirit Cultivators at the Grandmaster Realm were no match for a single one of Jiang Jichen’s sword strikes. Wielding the Wandering Dragon Holy Sword, even by exerting only a fraction of its power, he easily sliced them in half. With a slight tremor of the blade, their corpses would then dissolve into a blood mist, which was absorbed by the One Corner of the Sky Killing Array within his body.

However, his enemies were also powerful, and their numbers were great. The Grandmasters were merely the weakest among them.

To kill those at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage and above while being besieged, even Jiang Jichen had to pay a heavy price.

Wounds began to multiply across his body. Fortunately, he had already reached the Body Refining Innate Ninth Realm, and his Undying Scripture had advanced to the Second Turn Perfect Realm. The Dao of Undying it manifested was terrifyingly potent, allowing his physical body to remain intact.

Otherwise, he would have been blasted to smithereens countless times by now!

In his bloodthirsty state, Jiang Jichen was even more frenzied, completely unafraid of death.

With the Wandering Dragon Holy Sword in hand, the Sword Dao that Jiang Jichen unleashed was enough to chill one to the bone.

"Eight-direction Wind and Rain! Earth and Heaven Shaking!"

"Starry Night!"

"Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams!"

...

Facing the deadly siege of the Noble Family experts, Jiang Jichen fought on pure combat instinct, his battle sense seeming even more terrifying than usual.

Combined with his current Realm and power, Jiang Jichen’s Group Attack Sword Techniques could finally be unleashed in a continuous, fluid stream, erupting with terrifying killing power under the might of the Wandering Dragon Holy Sword.

PFFT! PFFT!

In that single round of bloody slaughter, more than thirty Spirit Cultivators, ranging from Grandmasters to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage, were hacked into a blood mist. All of it was absorbed by the One Corner of the Sky Killing Array, making that piece of Celestial Desolate Beast Hide grow even more lustrous.

Of course, Jiang Jichen had paid a terrible price for it. His body was covered in wounds, and he coughed up blood continuously.

Ordinarily, even with his formidable physique, the Undying Scripture, and the Source Character Qi Condensing Technique, such injuries would have long since been fatal.

But now, the Blood Qi from his Body Immortal physique was too abundant; it was a nearly inexhaustible, endless stream.

Therefore, no matter how grievous his injuries, he simply couldn’t die. His wounds were regenerating at an incredibly astonishing speed.

"What do we do? The kid’s Blood Qi is too abundant! We can’t kill him!"

Someone had finally realized the problem!

"We have to kill him before his Divine Soul fully recovers! Otherwise, the moment his Divine Soul regains control of his body, he’ll immediately try to escape. I’m afraid no one will be able to stop him then!"

At that moment, Guo Qishan charged forward, wielding a Secret Artifact. The other Noble Family Leaders no longer hesitated, unleashing their full power.

At this moment, even with the Wandering Dragon Holy Sword in hand, Jiang Jichen faced too many powerful enemies. The power he could exert in his current state and Realm might not be enough to turn the tide.

Evidently sensing the danger by instinct, Jiang Jichen brandished the Wandering Dragon Holy Sword once more, this time recklessly unleashing its power.