“Your … your sword art just now …” The middle-aged Daoist struggled to look at Yan Zhaoge. The astonishment in his eyes had yet to dissipate.
The shock that Yan Zhaoge’s Fallen Deity Sword had brought him was even greater than all that had happened earlier added together.
That was because it crossed the limit between a Xuan Immortal and a Virtual Immortal.
Apart from the Immortal Execution Formation, there had never been such a powerful existence.
Although the top experts of the Immortal Court had heard of the Immortal Extermination Formation and the Chaos Extinguishing Origin Scripture, they were only legends after all.
Before the emergence of the Immortal Court, the Immortal Extermination Formation and the Chaotic Destruction Formation had long been lost and had never reappeared in the world.
Therefore, to them, they did not have any personal experience or fear.
However, today, Yan Zhaoge’s Fallen Deity Sword had directly defeated a Virtual Immortal Realm opponent.
A Profound Immortal killing a Virtual Immortal!
He wasn’t resisting, suppressing, or capturing and suppressing them. He was actually killing a Virtual Immortal with the Five Qis Unifications at the Mystic Immortal Realm!
Let alone the person involved, even the black dragon that Yan Di was looking after on his behalf felt a chill in his heart as he suffered an unprecedented blow.
If it was the Immortal Extermination Array, or even the Chaotic Destruction Array, it would be fine. At least he would have some mental preparation. But now, he was completely dumbfounded.
Although most of them were not as strong as the experts of the orthodox lineage of the Daoism, the martial practitioners of the Immortal Court still had the confidence to support themselves.
After the Great Calamity, it had been much easier for them to raise their cultivation bases, while their rate of improvement had surpassed that of orthodox Daoism.
A Perfected Immortal suppresses a Martial Sage, a Profound Immortal suppresses a Perfected Immortal, a Virtual Immortal suppresses a Profound Immortal, a Heaven Immortal suppresses a Virtual Immortal.
There would always be a way, and in the end, they still had the upper hand.
Suo Mingzhang shocked the Myriad Heavens. He single-handedly caused the Immortal Court’s decline and the Blessed Lands of the White Lotus to gain the upper hand. This was also because he had unexpectedly ascended to the Grand Heavenly Immortal Realm.
If he had remained at the level of a Grand Virtual Immortal, the Immortal Court would not have fallen into such a predicament, regardless of whether he could have fought his way out of the encirclement or died.
Therefore, although the Immortal Court was vexed, they could only pinch their noses and accept it.
But now, the situation was completely different.
To a certain extent, the bottom line of the psychological safety of many Immortal Court martial artists had been broken.
No matter if it was the middle-aged Daoist or the black dragon, both of them had a complex expression on their faces. As they looked at Yan Zhaoge, a look of fear involuntarily appeared in their eyes.
Daoist Cloud Conquest looked at Yan Di and Long Xingquan regretfully. He sent a voice transmission, “What a pity.”
Yan Di and Long Xingquan both knew why he felt that it was a pity.
Because the Banish Deity Sword was very difficult to popularize.
In order to learn this sword art, one must first cultivate the Heavenly Six Scriptures of Origin, the Four Swords of Numinous Treasure, the Azure Dragon in the Sleeve, the Hill Light Flying Immortal, and so on. Moreover, one must have a certain level of attainment in all of them.
Only then would one be able to cultivate the Slaying Azure Dragon, Slaying Black Tortoise, Slaying White Tiger, and Slaying Vermillion Bird.
Only on this basis would there be hope of achieving the Banish Deity Sword.
The martial arts that were the foundation of the Exiled Deity Sword were boundlessly profound and incomparable to ordinary martial arts. For the vast majority of martial artists, even if they spent their entire lives trying to comprehend one of the absolute arts, they would need to exhaust all their energy.
Even if a martial arts genius with extraordinary talent and comprehension could cultivate a few secret arts, it was still extremely difficult for them to fully grasp all the secret arts.
Everyone had their own specialties. Just because one was proficient in one Absolute Art and could comprehend it quickly did not mean that one would have the same efficiency when studying other Absolute Arts.
The Exiled Deity Sword contained more than a dozen supreme arts, and they covered almost every single domain.
For the time being, even if there was an all-rounder who could accept all kinds of things, cultivating so many absolute arts would still require the accumulation of time.
Who knew how long it would take for him to succeed?
Moreover, even after mastering so many supreme arts, he was only at the beginner level.
In order to cultivate the Exiled Deity Sword, one would have to fuse all of these supreme arts and fuse them into one, allowing one to wield them freely.
This trial was going to stump countless people.
Although the requirements were harsh, the Exiled Deity Sword’s prowess was still enough to make people yearn for it.
The only problem was that it was too difficult.
“Chen Qianhua’s death was nothing to be regretted. However, he was the person closest to learning Zhaoge’s Exiled Deity Sword,” said Yan Di plainly.
After reuniting with Long Xingquan, Yan Di had naturally heard about everything that had happened.
“Actually, you have a chance as well,” said Long Xingquan with a smile.
“I did.” Yan Di was neither humble nor arrogant.
When he cultivated martial arts in his youth, he walked on the path of merging all of them.
However, as his cultivation increased, the Creation Saber became more and more mature. Gradually, it started to specialize in one, while the rest were merely references.
Under such circumstances, it wasn’t impossible to comprehend the Exiled Deity Sword’s sword intent. However, it would only slow down the Creation Saber’s progress.
The Creation Saber would only advance without retreating. By delaying its progress, it would even be detrimental.
While it was good to surpass the Immortal Realm, Yan Di was more suited to advance triumphantly. He would be on equal footing and even look down on his opponents.
If he were to learn the Exiled Deity Sword now, even if he managed to gain something, he would need to invest a lot of time. Hence, it wasn’t suitable.
During this period of time, his cultivation would have already increased.
“I heard that there’s a rising star in your sect. He possesses the Big Dipper Physique and was born with a clear mind. Perhaps, he might be able to cultivate it,” said Daoist Cloud Conquest.
Yan Di nodded, “There’s indeed hope for Longtu. However, he still needs to be polished. Even if he succeeds, he wouldn’t be able to cultivate the Exiled Deity Sword in the Martial Saint Realm like Zhaoge.”
Other than Yan Zhaoge, Ying Longtu was the Broad Creed Mountain’s younger generation’s most knowledgeable martial art practitioner. Moreover, he wasn’t lacking in anything. Instead, he was proficient in everything.
Even Yan Zhaoge had high hopes for Ying Longtu to cultivate the Exiled Deity Sword.
“Compared to Longtu, junior apprentice-niece Yu possesses the Heaven Containing Purified Soul. Her chances are much higher.”
Yan Di said, “Only, unlike Zhaoge and Chen Qianhua, what she learned isn’t as diverse as what Zhaoge and Chen Qianhua learned. She needs more time to establish her foundation. Otherwise, Chen Qianhua’s chances would be much higher.”
“However, now that junior apprentice-niece Yu has learned the Chaos Extinguishing Origin Scripture, there’s no need to consider the Exiled Deity Sword anymore.”
Long Xingquan sighed, “Little Ye, Zhenbei, and Jingshen are still missing. I hope they’re safe.”
Yan Di and Daoist Cloud Conquest nodded, “Let’s continue searching.”
“Indeed, we have to hurry.”
Yan Zhaoge grabbed the Immortal Court Heavenly Monarch and walked over, “Indeed, there’s more than one Virtual Immortal heretic. Other than this bastard, there’s another one.”
Yan Di and the others frowned.
Under normal circumstances, the Immortal Court’s Three Thousand Immortal Territories had seventy-two Virtual Immortal Heavenly Monarchs. Every Heavenly Monarch could enjoy faith power from thirty-six to forty-five territories.
During the war twenty years ago, other than the four Heavenly Lords, many Heavenly Monarchs had perished by Suo Mingzhang’s hands.
After that, the Blessed Lands of the White Lotus kept attacking them. With the Immortal Court’s weakened state, it was hard for them to mobilize their manpower.
Under such circumstances, two Virtual Immortal Realm Heavenly Monarchs were dispatched here. It was definitely not a small matter.
Who knew if more reinforcements would arrive in the future?