"Hmph. So what if you got lucky and dodged it once? I refuse to believe your good fortune will last!"
Alu Tian snorted coldly.
He raised his hands, and the altars, which had been buried ten thousand meters underground, flew out again, hovering above his head.
Alu Tian declared with a confident expression, "Jiang Chen, take another hit from me—Eternal Seal!"
RUMBLE!
The altars flew toward Jiang Chen all at once.
This time, the one hundred and eight altars were faster, their power at its peak.
Apparently, after his previous failure, Alu Tian was no longer holding back. He intended to kill Jiang Chen in a single blow.
Facing the one hundred and eight mighty altars rushing toward him, the corners of Jiang Chen’s mouth lifted into a cold smirk.
The Three Lives Technique was a Secret Technique left to Jiang Chen by his father, the mysterious Jiang Taixu.
But by comprehending Time Freeze and Time Reversal, Jiang Chen had slowly discovered that this Three Lives Technique was no simple Secret Technique!
After all, while some top geniuses on the Qiankun Continent could comprehend the Secrets of Time, Jiang Chen knew their grasp could never achieve something like Time Freeze. In fact, for the vast majority of Martial Artists, the Secrets of Time were utterly useless!
Once it reached Tier Three Advanced, it could not be improved any further!
This was evident from Jiang Chen’s own experience. Among the tens of millions of Emperor-level Primordial Pills he had consumed, nearly ten million of them had contained the Secrets of Time. Yet even these had failed to help his Secrets of Time break through to the Tier Eight level, which just showed how incredibly difficult it was to advance.
Because the Secrets of Time were so difficult to improve and didn’t provide a significant boost to combat strength, even the powerhouses of the Qiankun Continent who comprehended them wouldn’t waste much time trying to master them.
’No matter what the Three Lives Technique truly is, Father would never harm me. Today... I will use the Three Lives Technique he left me to slay you, an Emperor Realm expert!’ Jiang Chen’s gaze was ice-cold, glinting with a sharp edge.
SWISH!
He swept his sword out, unleashing the Five Elements Sword.
A five-colored Sword Aura flashed, and the colossal Sword Aura reappeared, rushing toward the altars that were lined up in a straight row.
A disdainful look crossed Alu Tian’s face. "This move again? I already suppressed it once. Can’t you recognize reality? No matter how strong your Sword Technique is, you can’t possibly block my attack! Holy Sacrifice, suppress!"
With overwhelming might, the one hundred and eight altars moved even faster than before, directly shattering the tip of the five-colored Sword Aura.
Alu Tian burst out laughing. "Jiang Chen, do you see how foolish you are now? Wh-What? This is impossible..."
The triumphant Alu Tian’s eyes flew wide with horror.
He watched as the shattered Sword Aura re-formed, while the altars that had crashed into it stopped their forward momentum and flew backward.
The one hundred and eight altars returned to Alu Tian’s side, while the five-colored Sword Aura continued onward, undiminished, slashing toward him at high speed.
"Th-This is impossible..."
Alu Tian’s face was a mask of disbelief, his features twisting into a savage expression as he roared, "I don’t care what strange trick you used! You will not escape death today!"
"Holy Sacrifice Unity—Eternally Suppress Heaven and Earth!"
Alu Tian spat out a mouthful of Essence Blood.
The Essence Blood transformed into a bloody mist. As Alu Tian slapped out a series of Palm Seals, the mist condensed into blood-red runes.
Shrouded by the blood-red runes, the one hundred and eight altars erupted with a brilliant crimson light.
They fused together completely, forming a colossal altar thousands of meters high, like an Ancient Divine City, that pressed down toward Jiang Chen.
SWISH—
The five pairs of radiant wings on Jiang Chen’s back flashed. In an instant, he had flown several hundred miles away, evading the suppression of the massive altar. Then, with another movement, he reappeared at Alu Tian’s side. A cold arc formed on his lips as he pointed his longsword and declared, "Eternal Rush!"
SWISH!
A golden Sword Aura slashed out.
The Sword Aura wasn’t large, but it was incredibly fast!
"Break!"
Alu Tian didn’t have time to recall the altar. With a cold snort, he reached out his hand, which was covered in crimson scales, and grabbed at the Sword Aura.
CRACK!
The Sword Aura seemed extremely fragile, shattering with a crisp sound as he slapped it.
However, the smile on Alu Tian’s face hadn’t even fully formed before it twisted into a look of utter horror.
The Sword Aura had shattered, but a mysterious power contained within it suddenly burst forth and enveloped him. It was an incomparably terrifying force—indescribable, unfathomable, and unstoppable!
"Ah..."
Alu Tian cried out in alarm.
He watched as the crimson light faded from his strong, powerful hand. The blood-red scales lost the divine brilliance of the Emperor Realm. The hand seemed incredibly weak, its power having dropped a significant notch, as if it had reverted to its state from half a month ago, before he had fully stabilized his Emperor Realm cultivation.
"Impossible! What kind of power is this? Why can it weaken my strength?" Alu Tian stared at Jiang Chen in shock and doubt, letting out a demonic howl.
Jiang Chen sneered. "The power that will kill you!"
’I didn’t expect Eternal Rush to be so terrifying, actually capable of stripping away an opponent’s cultivation.’
In truth, it wasn’t hard to understand...
Time Reversal was not a power mortals were meant to wield!
No matter how powerful an Emperor Realm expert was, they had still advanced from the Human Emperor Realm. By making time flow backward, their cultivation would regress. Right now, one slash of his sword could only weaken the opponent by ten days.
But in the future, as Jiang Chen’s own cultivation increased, a single slash of Eternal Rush could weaken an opponent by a hundred years, or even a thousand years, of cultivation.
Just imagine...
Even for an Emperor Realm expert, how many millennia did they have?
Jiang Chen’s long hair whipped wildly in the air, his fighting spirit soaring as he held his sword aloft.
The Flower of Time within him bloomed with specks of light, which fused into his Swordsmanship.
"One-Origin Sword!"
"Liangyi Sword!"
"Three Talents Sword!"
"Four Symbols Sword!"
"Five Elements Sword..."
Jiang Chen’s Sword Technique unleashed terrifying flashes of light one after another. Alu Tian scrambled to defend himself, but even when the Sword Auras shattered, that strange power still landed on him.
Ten days!
Twenty days!
Thirty days...
In the blink of an eye, Alu Tian’s cultivation had been weakened by more than a month’s worth of time, back to a point before he had even stepped into the Emperor Realm.
Alu Tian was now on the verge of madness, a terrifying cold light surging in his eyes. "Peak of the Human Emperor Realm? How is that possible? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE... My Emperor Realm cultivation, which I worked so hard to achieve, it’s all gone? You brat... It was all you... I’m going to tear you to pieces! ROAR..."
Alu Tian had gone insane!
After untold hardships, after slaughtering countless members of the Kun-eating Race and performing a blood sacrifice to the altars, he had finally broken through to the Emperor Realm.
But now, after just a few of Jiang Chen’s sword strikes, he had been weakened all the way back to the Peak of the Human Emperor Realm. The realization had shattered his mind.
"ROAR!"
Alu Tian roared, charging at Jiang Chen like a crazed beast.
Jiang Chen stood in the air, utterly fearless. He raised the Spirit-Slaying Sword in his hand and spoke calmly, "You have fallen from the Emperor Realm. There is no longer any chance of survival for you. After today, the Kun Realm—will have no more Kun-eating Race!"
SWISH!
An unrivaled beam of sword light shot into the sky and slashed down upon Alu Tian’s head!
BOOM—
Alu Tian’s entire body shuddered, and he was cleaved in two by Jiang Chen’s sword. The terrifying Sword Aura, tens of thousands of meters long, shot straight into the clouds. As it fell from the sky, it even sliced Celestial Blood Peak, the mountain behind Alu Tian, in half from top to bottom. Countless boulders tumbled down, burying Alu Tian’s corpse beneath them.
An endless Sword Intent permeated the sundered Celestial Blood Peak, and it would take thousands of years before this terrifying Sword Intent finally dissipated.
Everyone stared in shock at the youth in the sky, who seemed like both a god and a demon.
With a single, timeless slash, he had felled an Emperor Realm expert!
Who in all the world could now be his rival?