"No, it’s too strong! Our attacks can’t hurt it at all!"

"The outer Sword Array has been breached; the inner is under violent assault!"

"This is the force of the cosmos, the force of the universe! Our swords can’t stop it!"

"It can crush stars with its bare hands! We can’t hold it, get out of the way! Quick!"

"...We need support, need support!"

Various cries echoed between the sky, along with the gleam of swords. Everywhere was lost, everywhere disadvantaged. The swordsmen of Sun-shooting Pass, facing a celestial entity that blotted out the sky, retreated step by step. No matter how swift the Sword Qi or how profound the Sword Intent, in front of the celestial, all mystery faded, returning to the essence of battle—

A contest of strength.

If the strength is strong enough, it can win. But the strength of the swordsmen at Sun-shooting Pass couldn’t compare to the celestial entity, it was the difference between a firefly and the bright moon.

"The inner Sword Array has fallen! Our battle, completely failed!"

"Retreat, retreat!"

"No, no! We have nowhere to retreat, behind us is the seven million miles of Sword Continent territory! Our home!"

"Retreat, that’s an order, retreat immediately!"

Batch after batch of swordsmen nearly gnashed their teeth to bits. But they had to admit, facing such a celestial, they were indeed too weak. Staying meant certain death.

"Wait, look over there, someone’s still fighting!"

"Who is that? A woman? Looks like a Great Sword Immortal! Has there ever been a female Great Sword Immortal on Sword Continent?"

"I don’t know. But her form is unsteady, the flying sword is wavering, she’s about to reach her limit. Quick, quick, get her out of there!"

Leave?

Voices of counsel from numerous swordsmen rang in Luo Qingyao’s ears.

But she remained expressionless, as if she hadn’t heard, unmoved in the slightest, simultaneously controlling twenty-four differently shaped flying swords. Each sword displayed a completely different aura, representing that she had mastered at least twenty-four kinds of Sword Intent.

This number, even for a Great Sword Immortal, was an unheard-of degree.

Her immense power, and her ultimate use of the sword, shocked everyone.

Everyone couldn’t help but think, this is a Sword Dao genius, one in ten thousand, no, a Sword Dao genius not seen even once in an era! Because even the Great Sword Immortal Li Yuan, at most, controlled only nineteen flying swords at once! If anything happened to her, it would be a tremendous loss for Sword Continent, for the whole world!

"Miss, both the inner and outer Sword Arrays at Sun-shooting Pass have been broken, soon, the celestial power from the universe will engulf this place! Retreat quickly! Don’t take risks!"

Swordsmen kept sending messages with flying swords towards Luo Qingyao, but she turned a deaf ear, completely immersed in her own world.

In her eyes, there were only three things.

One was herself, the second was her sword, and the third was the enemy in front of her.

Everything else was meaningless.

The sword was the most important; she was the one wielding the sword, and the enemy was the one to be slain.

She exuded neither a fierce aura nor madness, no demonic possession. But she stood alone in this sky, without a trace of interaction with anyone.

The Sword Array covering Sun-shooting Pass was utterly shattered. After the high wall, piled up by countless Sword Intents, collapsed, the entire land was instantly cleaved with countless ravines. The celestial power from the deep space of the universe finally descended. The enormous celestial, like looking at ants, gazed at Luo Qingyao suspended in the sky, its eyes shining like a blazing sun, bursting forth with supreme might.

Wherever that might extended, all energy, life, and ordinary Dao were crushed.

The clouds were lifted, and Sun-shooting Pass, a place accustomed to perpetual rain and clouds, was clear for the first time. The azure sky was without a cloud. The swordsmen who had fled beyond the pass looked up at the sky, their expressions filled with utter despair. Not only had Sun-shooting Pass fallen, but also that young genius Great Sword Immortal had vanished from that sky.

This meant she was crushed.

"Damn it! Who let her come fight at Sun-shooting Pass! Who! Didn’t anyone tell her about the terror of the celestial’s power? Didn’t anyone tell her to listen to orders?"

"Damn it!"

"Such a young Great Sword Immortal, what a shame!"

"Wait, look! There’s a... rainbow in the sky!"

The crowd gasped, looking up with trembling shoulders.

In the cloudless sky, a rainbow hung upside down, just piercing through the celestial’s head.

"No!" someone trembled as they spoke, "That’s not a rainbow! It’s... Sword Qi!"

A Sword Qi that pierced through the celestial’s head.

The supreme celestial power vanished in an instant. The celestial’s eyes, bright like the sun, gradually dimmed, as if the sun had extinguished. Ultimately, this being that Sun-shooting Pass could not resist at all just... died.

Its body swiftly lost vitality. But as a celestial, its corpse began to fall towards the universe, soon disappearing from the sky above Sword Continent.

The earlier Sword Qi, like an inverted rainbow, after slaying the celestial, transformed into the second sun in the sky.

Two suns soared.

One was the eternal sun, the other was the sun of the sword.

"What is that?"

"The Great Sun! Soaring! Sword!" an elderly Great Sword Immortal exclaimed excitedly, "It’s the Great Sword Immortal, it’s Li Yuan! This is his signature sword move, Great Sun Soaring Sword! He comprehended it atop the sun!"

"The... the sun! A Great Sword Immortal can even ascend to the sun?"

Many swordsmen discussed everything about the Great Sword Immortal Li Yuan excitedly.

At this moment, though,

The Great Sword Immortal they spoke of was lying on a goat’s back, sound asleep.

A Sword Qi lay before him, bursting out with thunderous sound, startling Li Yuan awake.