Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 377 Restraint
Seeing the two golden swords in the sky, Yi Qing had a thought, and the black and red sword instantly appeared in her magic space.

When the black and red longsword appeared, a mad, violent, and bloodthirsty intent enveloped the entire Purple Gold Mountain, causing everyone to feel uneasy and disturbed.

Looking at the black and red longsword, Yi Dong sighed inwardly, realizing that this first Yellow Heaven Spiritual Treasure had actually transformed into a supreme treasure.

The first spiritual treasure nurtured by the Yellow Heaven Immortal Vine was indeed extraordinary.

This sword is too strange; it can not only affect the abyss space, but also affect itself through the abyss space.

If it hadn't affected him, this first Yellow Heaven Treasure could have become his primary suppression treasure for his Abyss Dao Foundation. What a pity.

Yi Ling had already seen the Spirit-Slaying Sword and showed no unusual reaction upon seeing it.

Everyone else, including Yi Jun, looked on with surprise when they saw the Spirit Slaughtering Sword.

The power of other True Spirit Swords is restrained, but the appearance of this Spirit Slaughtering Sword reveals boundless ferocity, sending chills down one's spine.

Yi Jun, in particular, felt that the Soul-Slaying Sword seemed to contain billions of sword spirits and countless chaotic souls. He really couldn't understand why the power inside this treasured sword was so mixed.

Looking at the black and red demonic sword not far away, Zhan Mingyue felt alarm bells ringing in her heart, and she had a feeling that she wanted to run away immediately.

Just as she was wondering how the Yi family could possess such a demonic treasure, she suddenly realized that it seemed there was no concept of evil or demonic forces in the immortal kingdom where the Yi family originated. Within the immortal kingdom, there was no distinction between good and evil in terms of power.

Just then, a phantom image of the Milky Way appeared around Yi Qing, and her magic power surged through dense magic power circuits and disappeared into the unknown void.

When the illusory image of the Milky Way appeared, the blade of the Soul-Slaying Sword was covered with black threads, as if river water was flowing through it.

After the magical power surged into the Spirit Slaughtering Sword, Yi Qing gained control of it.

Then, the Soul-Slaying Sword emitted countless black mists, which shot into the sky following Yi Qing's will.

Originally, Yi Qing wanted to control the Spirit Slaughtering Sword in battle.

However, upon seeing the two True Spirit Swords standing ready, the Soul-Slaying Sword immediately broke free from Yi Qing's control and began to act autonomously, drawing energy from an unknown void.

In the sky, the spirit of the Xuanyuan Sword launched the first attack on the Soul-Slaying Sword.

Countless illusory sword lights shot towards the Soul-Slaying Sword like a torrent.

As the black and red mist of the Soul-Slaying Sword churned, countless mechanical legions and a large number of physical swords appeared, meeting the illusory sword light.

However, the illusory sword light was like a phantom, and the mechanical legion's formations and magical sword attacks could not touch it at all.

Just like the illusory sword light and the attack of the Soul-Slaying Sword are not on the same timeline.

The dense array of illusory sword lights only became real the moment they struck the Spirit Slaughtering Sword, unleashing tremendous power that caused the sword to tumble and roll repeatedly.

Dozens of blood-red eyes opened on the blade and hilt of the Soul-Slaying Sword. These eyes exploded after being struck by the sword light, but new eyes immediately grew back.

Before long, those darting eyes seemed to have figured something out, and some mechanical creations also became illusory, entering a special timeline to intercept the sword light of the Xuanyuan Sword.

On the other side, as the black and red mist began to erode the Xuanyuan Sword and the Emperor Sword, a large number of mechanical legions formed an array and began to launch a dense attack on the two swords.

The black and red mist has the ability to corrode and destroy magical treasures. Ordinary magical treasures and spiritual treasures will become useless in a short time if they enter the black and red mist.

Even ordinary spells and supernatural powers will be greatly weakened by the power of the black mist.

However, the Xuanyuan Sword's blade flickered unpredictably, and its aura fluctuated.

It's as if the slightest damage from the attack is immediately restored.

On the other side, the Emperor's Sword was also under attack.

The black mist's attacks were completely ignored by it. Its true form seemed to exist outside of this space-time, and the attacks of the Spirit Slaughtering Sword could not reach its true form for a time.

The Emperor's Sword did not retaliate for the time being.

In the eyes of the Emperor Sword's spirit, it and the Xuanyuan Sword were no weaker than any supreme treasure, so there was no need for them to join forces to deal with a supreme treasure.

However, after fighting for a while, it realized that something was wrong.

The attack trajectories of the Xuanyuan Sword's sword light are all infused with the divine power of time. The attack trajectory of each sword light will jump repeatedly across hundreds or thousands of past timelines. A wave of hundreds of thousands of sword lights will also randomly split into sword lights of the same power on different timelines.

This kind of complex and ever-changing attack is beyond the comprehension of most beings and even the most powerful beings who don't possess time-manipulation abilities. Even if they could see through it, they wouldn't be able to defend against it. The calculations are far too complex, and more importantly, each strike of the Xuanyuan Sword possesses powerful soul-attacking capabilities. In the Emperor Sword's view, only powerful Nascent Soul cultivators who have mastered a portion of the Great Dao of Time can effectively intercept this attack.

If a strong person doesn't find a way to dodge, they can only endure the sword light continuously. If they can't withstand it, the sword light will take their body into countless different times and slowly erode them.

However, that strange treasure clearly did not possess any ability related to time, nor did it have any indestructible characteristics. Yet, the opponent was able to withstand the sword light attacks and even directly see through all the attack trajectories of the Xuanyuan Sword's light.

No matter how the Xuanyuan Sword's time-manipulation ability changes, that treasure can always adapt quickly.

Moreover, apart from its time-manipulation ability being useless, the Xuanyuan Sword's most powerful soul and consciousness attacks also failed to have any effect.

When the sword light struck the creatures in the mist and the large-headed dwarves who controlled the machines, it had no effect whatsoever, as if those creatures did not possess souls.

The Xuanyuan Sword was already being attacked unilaterally. The corrosive power of the black mist seemed to see through the Xuanyuan Sword's time reversal and was corroding the Xuanyuan Sword's body along with the power of time.

For a moment, the sword spirit of the Emperor Sword was somewhat confused.

How could the Soul-Slaying Sword be so effective against the Xuanyuan Sword?

The Heavenly Emperor Sword, having followed Yi Jun, has a broader perspective than the Xuanyuan Sword, which followed Yi Dong. As far as it knows, the research on the Great Dao of Time within the Immortal Kingdom is not yet very profound.

In other words, within the Immortal Kingdom, it might be possible to create some acquired spiritual treasures that can counter the five elements, but it's probably not possible to create an acquired spiritual treasure that can counter time-related abilities.

Furthermore, the Soul-Slaying Sword is a supreme treasure, and it doesn't seem to be the kind of acquired supreme treasure made by the Immortal Kingdom that is as huge as a mountain range. Rather, it is an innate supreme treasure born from heaven and earth.

Treasures born from heaven and earth do indeed have types of mutual generation and mutual restraint, but the Xuanyuan Sword and it are mutually generating. Strictly speaking, they are not innate spiritual treasures, but acquired spiritual treasures born through Yi Jun's divine power.

How could heaven and earth create a supreme treasure that specifically counters a post-natal spiritual treasure like the Xuanyuan Sword? This is completely illogical.

The Heavenly Emperor Sword had no idea that the Spirit-Slaying Sword was a spiritual treasure nurtured by Yi Dong using the Yellow Heaven Immortal Vine, and that it had only later been upgraded to a supreme treasure, so it couldn't figure it out.

Just then, the sword spirit of the Xuanyuan Sword transmitted its voice.
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Before it was upgraded to a supreme treasure, none of my methods worked against it. The only reason it was able to hold out until now was because it was familiarizing itself with my combat style and hadn't launched a real attack. Now that it has figured out my attack pattern, once it attacks with all its might, I will be powerless to fight back.

However, it has an advantage over me, but it knows nothing about your abilities and probably won't develop a way to counter you. From now on, I'll provide support, and you can take the lead in attacking.

The Emperor Sword absorbed most of the essence and power of that unknown divine beast, and in terms of its foundation, it surpassed even the Xuanyuan Sword.

The reason why there isn't a sword like the Xuanyuan Sword that's about to be upgraded to a supreme treasure is because the Emperor Sword has such a strong foundation that its accumulation hasn't reached its limit yet.

The spirit of the Xuanyuan Sword has great confidence in the Emperor Sword.

Even if the Soul-Slaying Sword is a supreme treasure, in a one-on-one fight, the Emperor Sword will not be at a disadvantage.

Now, with its assistance, we will surely be able to test out all the abilities of the Spirit Slaughtering Sword, and even figure out the principle behind how the Spirit Slaughtering Sword counters it.

When the Soul-Slaying Sword was born, the Xuanyuan Sword sensed the threat this spiritual treasure posed to it. If it weren't for the fact that this spiritual treasure was created by Yi Dong, the thirteen True Spirit Swords might have destroyed it at the very beginning of its creation.

Now that the Soul-Slaying Sword has become a supreme treasure, destroying it is no longer a realistic possibility.

Destroying a treasure of this caliber is dozens of times more troublesome than killing a true spirit. It's not something that can be done simply by attacking with great power. Just like the Jade Butterfly of Creation, when it was besieged by the strongest warship of the Immortal Kingdom, it not only recovered completely after a short period of 100,000 years of silence, but even became stronger.

The Soul-Slaying Sword is not as powerful as the Jade Butterfly of Creation, but neither of them possesses the power to rival the National Guardian Warship.

Unable to destroy the Spirit-Slaying Sword, the Xuanyuan Sword sought to find the root cause of the Spirit-Slaying Sword's restraint on it, thereby breaking free from this restraint.

The Emperor Sword did not refuse when it heard the Xuanyuan Sword's telepathic message.

In fact, it had been gathering power since it sensed something was wrong, and now the charged attack had reached its maximum power. Even if the Xuanyuan Sword hadn't said anything, it would have unleashed this charged sword strike.

A magnificent golden sword aura, swift as lightning, cleaved through the black and red mist and shattered the intercepting mechanical army in the blink of an eye. It struck the Spirit Slaughtering Sword, which was fighting against the Xuanyuan Sword, directly. The Spirit Slaughtering Sword seemed completely unaware of the attack from the golden sword aura. It only realized it was being attacked when the sword light landed on its body.

The golden sword light struck the Spirit-Slaying Sword. After a brief stalemate, it severed the Spirit-Slaying Sword in two. The golden sword light, originally vertical, was blocked by the horizontal Spirit-Slaying Sword. It then made a ninety-degree turn and slashed vertically at Purple Gold Mountain, splitting it in two from top to bottom. The sword light then disappeared deep into the earth.

In the sky, the Xuanyuan Sword and the Emperor Sword showed no joy at the sight of the Soul-Slaying Sword being cut in two.

Because Tu Ling's aura had not weakened in the slightest.

On the contrary, the aura of the Soul-Slaying Sword became even more ferocious, as if it had been provoked.

(End of this chapter)