Time Travel: I'm a Flower Thief

As soon as he finished speaking, sixteen armored guards surrounded Xie Xiaoyi, their long swords flashing and instantly enveloping him.

Xie Xiaoyi scoffed, "So, you're using numbers to bully the few, huh?"

The lead guard shouted, "You madman, how dare you trespass into the forbidden area of ​​the Imperial Ancestral Temple!"

Having said that, he slashed through the air with his sword, and a burst of sword energy shot out.

The remaining fifteen followed closely behind, simultaneously brandishing their swords, unleashing fifteen sharp sword beams that pierced the air.

Together with the leader, sixteen blades of energy crashed towards Xie Xiaoyi like a tsunami!

Xie Xiaoyi neither dodged nor avoided, and sneered: "Fine, I've been feeling really restless lately. Taking a few blows from the blade's energy will be like a massage."

The sixteen sword guards were all stunned. Using sword energy as a massage? Was this guy an idiot?

Bang bang bang—!

The roars were deafening, and Xie Xiaoyi, as expected, did not dodge, taking the full force of sixteen sword strikes.

A sudden gust of wind exploded, and the shockwave swept in all directions.

A smile appeared on everyone's lips. They were all convinced that even a Vajra Saint Realm expert would be shattered into dust this time.

The next moment, the strong wind slowly dissipated.

Xie Xiaoyi remained standing in the same spot, his clothes perfectly straight, a roguish smile playing on his lips.

The sixteen fierce and unparalleled sword winds didn't even manage to shave a single hair off his head.

The guards' expressions changed drastically, their hearts filled with horror, realizing that they had encountered a top expert today.

"A single arrow pierces the clouds, and a thousand armies rush to meet it!"

Without hesitation, the leader raised his hand and flung a firework into the sky, and the Cloud Piercing Arrow shot out in response.

whoosh-

The fireworks had already shot several meters into the sky and were about to explode when Xie Xiaoyi reached out and grabbed at them from a distance.

"Azure Dragon, Absorbs Water!"

The arrow that pierced the clouds was instantly pulled back to the forbidden area in the backyard of the Imperial Ancestral Temple by a tremendous force.

Xie Xiaoyi threw the object into the air, and a blinding red light exploded directly below the altar of the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

The sixteen guards were terrified when they saw that he had such a skill as capturing arrows from a distance.

The remaining fifteen reacted instantly, each drawing their Cloud-Piercing Arrows and preparing to shoot them into the sky—

They had only one thought in their minds: No matter how strong you are, you can't stop fifteen arrows piercing the clouds in one go!

"It's my turn." A cold glint flashed in Xie Xiaoyi's eyes, and he moved.

What incredible speed!

Before everyone knew it, the fireworks in their hands had all fallen into Xie Xiaoyi's hands.

He snatched one and threw another, and in an instant, a series of fireworks exploded in the forbidden area of ​​the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

The sixteen guards were both shocked and furious. Seeing that there was no hope of getting help, they immediately drew their swords and unleashed a dense barrage of blades at Xie Xiaoyi.

Xie Xiaoyi's lips curled slightly, his two fingers joined together, and his figure transformed into a wisp of smoke, flashing past amidst the flashing blades.

In the blink of an eye, he had circled around all sixteen people, touching each of them with his fingertip.

"Puff, puff, puff—" A series of soft sounds blended together.

The sixteen guards were all stunned. They subconsciously touched themselves all over, but found nothing unusual.

Just as he was about to speak, a domineering sword aura suddenly surged out from within his body, as if it were about to burst out.

Someone exclaimed, "Something's not right! Why do I feel a surge of sword energy coursing through my body?"

Someone responded, "Yeah! It's like it's about to burst out of the body..."

Everyone was shocked. It turned out that the opponent was a legendary cultivator at the Moon Ruins Breaking Dust Realm, who could already condense his qi into a blade without a sword in his hand.

The leader of the sword guards shouted, "Quickly concentrate and calm your mind, use your inner energy to resist that sword energy!"

Without further hesitation, everyone sat cross-legged, channeling their inner energy to frantically suppress the rampant and domineering sword energy within their bodies.

It's like an ant trying to shake a tree; it can't resist at all.

The next moment, a series of loud bangs rang out, and the iron armor on everyone's chests shattered, with the sixteen sword guards falling to the ground.

Xie Xiaoyi stopped talking and leaped up, landing steadily on the altar in the center of the ancestral temple.

In the center of the altar, the legendary Heaven-Opening Great Sword stood silently.

He stepped forward, reached out and grasped the hilt of the sword. The moment his palm touched the blade, he felt a tremendous force emanating from it.

With a slight upward pull, the sword remained completely still.

wrong?

Not only did it not move, but an incomparably fierce ancient sword aura erupted from the sword, rebounding violently along his arm!

Xie Xiaoyi felt a numbness in his hand as a tremendous force threw him back three steps before he regained his balance.

He gazed at the still, immovable Heaven-Opening Heavy Sword, and a vision suddenly appeared in his eyes.

The next moment, the image exploded in my mind—

Amidst the vast expanse of heaven and earth, a fierce wind swept across the land, and dark clouds pressed down upon the city.

A figure in white stood proudly on the cloud, holding in his hand the four-foot-long, 108-pound, jet-black Heaven-Opening Heavy Sword.

The man was elegant and his sword intent was boundless. Although he was just a phantom, Xie Xiaoyi's soul trembled.

He couldn't see the face clearly, but he remembered that domineering sword aura.

Opposite them was an ancestral dragon that stretched across the heavens and the earth, its scales as black as gold, its breath burning mountains and boiling seas, its body so enormous that it blotted out the sun.

Each tail whip could shatter mountains, and no matter how much sword energy struck its body, only shallow marks were left. Its scales were hard and its ferocity was overwhelming.

The man in white neither dodged nor evaded, his feet treading on the void, wielding the Heaven-Opening Heavy Sword, and directly confronted the attack.

One sword, two swords, a hundred swords, a thousand swords...

The sword energy poured down like a celestial river, crashing onto the dragon scales, sparks flying everywhere, and a continuous booming sound.

The Ancestral Dragon was furious. It slashed wildly with its dragon claws, swept its dragon tail, and bit with its dragon teeth, all of which struck the white-robed man, but were all deflected by the innate qi surrounding him.

No matter how much the Ancestral Dragon's mountain-like body charged and tore at the figure in white, it couldn't do anything to him.

The dragon's roar shattered the heavens, and its claws tore through the sky.

A man and a dragon fought from the clouds to the earth, from sunrise to sunset, battling for a full day and night.

The sky and earth changed color, and mountains and rivers collapsed.

Until the very last moment when the First Emperor could no longer hold on and was about to collapse from exhaustion—

The man in white raised the Heaven-Opening Heavy Sword high above his head, pouring all his cultivation into the sword, transforming it into a golden sword light that seemed to open the heavens and create the earth.

"cut!"

The sword fell, *crack*—

The enormous dragon head rolled down from the sky, and the Ancestral Dragon perished on the spot.

"Ugh—!"

Xie Xiaoyi let out a low shout, his soul returning to its place, instantly pulling him out of that illusion, his back already soaked with cold sweat.

He stared intently at the silent, heaven-opening greatsword on the altar, his heart pounding wildly.

Was that just now... was it an illusion, or something that actually happened in the past?

His heart was pounding wildly—

Senior Xie Daoyun once said that the Sword God Prince Jian wielded this Heaven-Opening Heavy Sword and used the supreme sword technique to slay the Ancestral Dragon.

So the white-clad man in the illusion just now should be the Sword God Prince Jian.

It was only through the Ancestral Dragon Essence that I was able to protect my soul and be reborn, and the true energy flowing within my body is that of the Ancestral Dragon.

Understood--

Every time Prince Jian in my hallucination struck the Ancestral Dragon, my mind trembled; it was the Ancestral Dragon's true energy resonating within me.

He muttered to himself, "No wonder the sword bounced off me so hard when I gripped it just now."

"This Heaven-Opening Heavy Sword is actually instinctively resisting the Ancestral Dragon's True Qi within my body?"

Enemy road is narrow!