Immortal Sword Master

Chapter 301: Chapter 297: Complete Annihilation

RUMBLE...

The sky trembled violently as a colossal palm pressed down, seemingly slow yet deceptively fast.

This palm strike was like the very heavens crashing down, an unstoppable force that threatened to crush all in its path.

”I will die!”

The Sect Leader of the Withered Blade Sect uttered those three words. It was his judgment that if he were the one to face this attack, he would be utterly annihilated.

”That figure... it looks so much like Ning Jiang.”

Many others voiced their confusion. The tall figure behind Ning Jiang was blurry and its face indistinct, but upon closer inspection, one could see it bore a striking resemblance to Ning Jiang. Their builds were virtually identical.

In truth, the towering figure behind Ning Jiang was none other than himself.

Like the Three Flowers Dao, the Heaven-Flipping Seal was a Martial Technique of Ning Jiang’s own creation.

One hundred thousand years ago, he had employed the Three Flowers Dao to fight a Saint while at the Celestial Martial Realm. Back then, the decisive blow that had settled the conflict was this very Heaven-Flipping Seal!

Although this strike was a far cry from the one he had unleashed a hundred millennia ago, its power still instilled a deep, visceral fear in everyone present.

”Why?! Why can he still launch such a tyrannical attack?”

Lady Blood Crow shrieked in disbelief. Facing the palm strike head-on, she could feel its terrifying might far more acutely than anyone else.

The palm contained a boundless, heavenly might that seemed poised to shatter every beautiful thing deep within one’s soul, plunging them into endless despair.

”Die!”

Lady Blood Crow roared, commanding the giant skull to smash into the attack.

”BOOM!”

The instant the two forces collided with a tremendous bang, everyone present, save for the few Earth Martial Realm experts, was deafened.

This was followed by a light of ultimate brilliance, which erupted from the point of impact and shot ten thousand feet into the sky.

”This is bad.”

The expressions of the three Earth Martial Realm experts changed drastically. They watched as the light spread, instantly annihilating the surrounding rain!

That’s right—annihilated, not scattered.

Their previous battles, though fierce, had merely blown the rain away with gales. But this was an annihilation, a complete erasure.

On the ground below, several mountains hundreds of feet tall, being the closest to the blast, vanished into nothingness the moment the light touched them, like snow doused with boiling water.

”Together now!”

The three Earth Martial Realm experts let out a long cry, each activating their Domain Power to resist the expanding light.

If they allowed this power to spread, the surrounding Martial Artists would face certain death.

”BOOM!”

The light crashed against their combined Domain Power. The three experts’ bodies shook violently, their Domains nearly shattering under the force of the blast.

But they were Sect Leaders, after all, each possessing formidable techniques. They dared not hold anything back and unleashed their full power.

In the end, they successfully blocked the blast wave.

The crowd looked on in shock.

The sky, once covered in thunderclouds, now had a massive hole torn in it above the battlefield, ten li in diameter. Within that ten-li circle, all the clouds had been utterly annihilated by the light.

”Hiss...”

People’s scalps tingled as they drew in sharp, cold breaths.

’Isn’t this kind of power a bit too exaggerated?’

”Who won?”

All eyes were fixed on the scene, unblinking. The brilliant light gradually dissipated, shrinking bit by bit.

When everything returned to normal, the figures of the combatants reappeared in the air.

Ning Jiang stood tall and proud, his white robes and long hair fluttering in the wind, his upright figure like a Divine Sword looking down on the world.

Opposite him were Lady Blood Crow and her two companions.

Lady Blood Crow and the other two appeared unchanged, with no visible signs of injury.

”Huh? After such a violent clash, was it a draw?”

”It seems so.”

”Alas, the Evil Spirit Sect has lost.” Suddenly, a sigh cut through everyone’s speculation. The Sect Leader of the Withered Blade Sect shook his head.

”Lady Blood Crow was a terror her whole life; she even killed other Earth Martial Realm experts of the same level. To think such a fearsome figure would fall just like that,” the Sect Leader of Earth Gate added.

”A legend born from a single battle.” The Sect Leader of the Beast Taming Sect was a man of few words, but his gaze toward Ning Jiang now held a trace of reverence.

Following their comments, the Immortal Realm experts present also noticed something was amiss, and looks of realization dawned on their faces.

WHOOSH.

Just then, a gentle breeze swept past, rustling Ning Jiang’s long hair before slowly drifting over to Lady Blood Crow and her two companions.

Their bodies disintegrated bit by bit, like dust in the wind.

The world fell deathly silent.

Three Earth Martial Realm experts, wiped from existence without a trace.

This outcome deeply shocked everyone present. One had to remember that Lady Blood Crow’s final move was performed after she had activated her Blood Crow Technique and combined her strength with two other Earth Martial Realm experts.

Such an earth-shattering attack had still been defeated by Ning Jiang. Just what kind of terrifying technique was that palm strike?

”We... lost?”

The tens of thousands of soldiers from the Evil Spirit Sect army stared blankly, their faces pale.

Even their three Earth Martial Realm experts had been defeated. What chance did they have?

”Let’s... run.”

An Immortal Realm expert’s mind trembled, his courage shattered by Ning Jiang’s palm strike.

”Look! The flower on his head disappeared!”

Someone cried out in alarm. They saw the last flower above Ning Jiang’s head dissolve into a rain of light and gradually vanish.

And his aura dropped from the Earth Martial Realm back to the Primordial Spirit Realm.

”The Array Power is gone! Kill him and avenge Lady Blood Crow!”

An Immortal Realm expert roared.

”Kill!”

The many disciples of the Evil Spirit Sect erupted, a terrifying killing intent soaring into the sky.

”Whoever kills him will be a great hero to the Evil Spirit Sect! A huge reward will be waiting for you when we return!”

With Ning Jiang’s Cultivation having plummeted, he no longer seemed a threat in the eyes of the ten-thousand-strong army.

”This is bad.”

”Could it be that after all this, Ning Jiang is still going to lose?”

No one had expected the situation to take so many twists and turns.

”Courting death.”

Ning Jiang’s eyes were indifferent. With a grasp of his hand, he summoned a Long Banner crackling with brilliant Thunderbolt.

”CRACKLE!”

Holding the Celestial Thunder Banner, Ning Jiang gave it a light wave. Several massive bolts of lightning shot out and landed among the crowd. Before a single scream could be heard, hundreds of Evil Spirit Sect disciples were blasted to dust.

”Run!”

At last, terror completely overwhelmed the Evil Spirit Sect. Ning Jiang was like a Demon God, his trump cards endless from start to finish.

”I told you. Not one of you is getting away.”

Showing no mercy, Ning Jiang unleashed the full power of the Celestial Thunder Banner.

A figure wreathed in lightning emerged from the Celestial Thunder Banner and began to hunt down the Evil Spirit Sect’s army.

This was the Thunder Spirit War General that Ning Jiang had refined after killing the Blood Demon King. Its strength was comparable to an Earth Martial Realm expert.

”The Evil Spirit Sect is finished.”

Watching the one-sided battle, the crowd couldn’t help but marvel at Ning Jiang’s ruthlessness. From the very beginning, he had never intended to let a single person go.

With the Heaven and Earth Wind and Cloud Array active, there was no escape for the people of the Evil Spirit Sect—no path to the heavens and no gate into the earth.

「The time it takes to drink a cup of tea later.」

The battle was over.

The Evil Spirit Sect was completely annihilated!