Supreme Sword God

Chapter 973: Chapter 972: Where You Stand, There Shines the Light

On the battlefield.

Ye Chen swung his sword hacking at Li Chunfeng, hacking away with great relish.

As for that Bai Shize, he had already been chopped into a cripple by Liu Mubai and lay on the ground unable to move.

”Ye Chen, the matter you wanted my help with is done. The Divine Power I owed you is wiped clean!” Liu Mubai shouted loudly.

He felt extremely pleased.

His martial uncle’s face had been preserved.

He had finally finished off his opponent before Ye Chen did.

Ye Chen laughed and said, ”Liu Mubai, there’s nothing left for you to do next. Just stand to the side and watch.”

With that said, his sword moves became even more terrifying.

Li Chunfeng had long since been hacked silly by Ye Chen. As Ye Chen’s moves grew stronger, in just a few blinks of an eye, Li Chunfeng’s fleshly body was chopped to pieces by Ye Chen.

”Ye Chen, just you wait. This time I definitely won’t let you leave Aurora Island alive!”

Li Chunfeng’s soul transformed into an illusory humanoid figure. On the surface of his Divine Soul Body, there was a layer of extremely strong protection—at the very least a protective ward laid down by an old-brand powerhouse of the Emperor Realm.

After leaving those words behind, Li Chunfeng’s Divine Soul Body fled away.

Ye Chen had just tried hacking at that layer of defense several times and couldn’t break it, so he couldn’t be bothered to stop him.

The next instant.

Ye Chen’s figure flickered, and he rushed to the side of Bai Shize, who was lying on the ground covered in blood.

”Ye Chen...” Bai Shize had just called out Ye Chen’s name; the rest of his words hadn’t yet come out.

With a puff.

Ye Chen drove his sword through Bai Shize’s head, nailing it to the ground, then shattered his sea of consciousness and suppressed his soul.

He would not kill him for now.

There was no need to guess; Ye Chen felt that the ones who had used Elder Gui to scheme against him were precisely Bai Shize and Li Chunfeng.

Handing Bai Shize’s soul over to Elder Gui to deal with could also bring them a bit closer.

As for Li Chunfeng who had escaped, he was just a small fry. If Ye Chen couldn’t kill him this time, he’d kill him next time.

The people around were still immersed in a thick sense of shock.

Ye Chen... was too domineering!

Moreover, Ye Chen’s mind was complicated, his temper unpredictable, and he was daring beyond belief...

No wonder he could be lifelong friends with that former Emperor Mutian. Chi Mutian once had the title of ”madman,” which was even louder than his Emperor Mutian title!

Ye Chen didn’t care at all what outsiders thought. He looked at Liu Mubai and said, ”Liu Mubai, your Lingwu Unity isn’t bad. How about sharing it?”

”If you’re also coveting my Lingwu Unity, then you and I are enemies now—enemies to the death!” Liu Mubai put on a stance like he was about to go all out.

Ye Chen said, ”I was just joking. You actually took it seriously? Your Lingwu Unity... is no good.”

Liu Mubai gnashed his teeth.

He felt that the second half of Ye Chen’s sentence was said in all seriousness.

He, a martial uncle, had just been looked down on!

Liu Mubai felt depressed. Back then, it had been him teaching Ye Chen how to achieve Lingwu Unity. In just a few short years... Ye Chen’s Lingwu Unity had already surpassed his.

This junior nephew really wasn’t willing to suffer the slightest loss. He’d just said Ye Chen was a bit narrow-minded, and Ye Chen immediately shot back.

”I’ve no time to bother with you. I’m going to claim the Aurora Sword Dao inheritance.” Ye Chen said, then turned and went back to his original position, continuing to observe the restrictive formation left behind by the Aurora Sword Emperor.

”The Aurora Sword Dao doesn’t suit you. I advise you to give up and don’t fight me for it!” A hint of tension flashed through Liu Mubai’s eyes.

Ye Chen didn’t even turn his head and said, ”If I can’t do it, you’re even less able.”

What was going on?

His martial uncle seemed to have something else in his words?

They were all one family. Whoever obtained the Aurora Sword Dao could always turn around and teach the other.

There was no need to say something like that.

Could it be that his martial uncle had gotten too deep into the act and was still putting on a show for the people around?

Ye Chen probed further, saying, ”You’ve come here so many times and still haven’t succeeded. The one who should give up is you!”

Liu Mubai said, ”Even if my senior brother fights me for it, I won’t be polite!”

Ye Chen’s brows furrowed.

Things seemed more serious than he had imagined!

Liu Mubai’s senior brother was his own teacher, Yang Tianji.

Before his teacher, his martial uncle had never dared speak too loudly.

Now his martial uncle had actually said such a thing; it seemed the Aurora Sword Dao involved many other things!

His martial uncle was still hiding secrets!

Ye Chen stopped speaking.

His martial uncle wanted the Aurora Sword Dao, and very urgently; otherwise he wouldn’t have risked leaving the Martial Alliance Headquarters.

Since that was the case, he would give him a hand.

He’d come so many times and failed. If Ye Chen didn’t help, his martial uncle would probably still fail.

After thinking it through, Ye Chen fully activated his Martial Arts Celestial Eye. As his eye power erupted, the blazing light before him shifted; within the radiance, it was as if countless swords were hidden.

Each sword had a different shape and a distinct aura, yet they shared one common trait: every sword contained endless light.

Ye Chen was deeply versed in Light Sword Intent, but Light Sword Intent at most was a kind of artistic conception. The swords composing this restrictive formation were like light itself!

Ye Chen, whose understanding of cultivation was growing deeper and deeper, knew very clearly what kind of power this was.

It pointed straight to the Great Dao—this was a level even Great Emperors found hard to reach!

The Aurora Sword Emperor might be able to contend with Great Emperors, but in the end he was not one. So why was it that at the place where he left his inheritance, there was actually a power that pointed straight to the Great Dao?

And Martial Uncle Liu Mubai was that nervous...

Just now Ye Chen had only guessed that the Aurora Sword Dao might hide another secret; now he could confirm it!

No wonder the trials the Aurora Sword Emperor set up in the forbidden grounds weren’t actually that difficult. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many Sword Dao prodigies around who could make it this far.

Only his own trial was a bit tougher... That was because Elder Gui had been schemed against and was deliberately making things hard for him.

The early trials had only been a preliminary screening. The hardest part was still here!

Ye Chen held his breath, focused his mind, and used the Martial Arts Celestial Eye to carefully observe the power of this barrier.

A full half a day passed.

A clear understanding had already been born in Ye Chen’s heart.

This barrier was essentially a completely sealed-off formation with no entrance.

If a powerful force tried to break the array by brute strength and shattered the path of brightness, then the inheritance within would be destroyed along with it.

Of course, no expert of that level could get in here anyway.

First of all, Aurora Island’s location was extremely special, intimidating those Great Emperors outside so much that they didn’t dare approach.

Second, there was an old turtle here whose cultivation was above Great Emperor. Even if some fearless Great Emperor tried to sneak in, he’d probably get his head smashed in by that old turtle’s shell.

Having no entrance did not mean you couldn’t enter. In other words, every place was an entrance.

So long as your heart held light and you walked upright and aboveboard, wherever you walked, that place would be the entrance!

Light burst explosively in Ye Chen’s eyes. He stepped out in a single stride, walking into that blazing radiance.

In an instant.

The barrier’s power erupted, completely submerging Ye Chen’s figure.

Outside.

Everyone was once again stunned!

Ye Chen had gone in...

The place that countless Sword Dao prodigies had never managed to enter was cracked open today by Ye Chen, who had come here for the first time!

In just half a day, Ye Chen had activated the Aurora Sword Dao inheritance.

Outside the barrier, Liu Mubai’s mind echoed with the sound transmission Ye Chen had sent as he entered.

”Wherever you stand, that place is light.”

Liu Mubai took a deep breath.

Ye Chen’s single sentence was so simple, yet it was precisely this simple method that had stumped generation after generation of Sword Dao prodigies.

”You little punk, wherever there’s excitement, you’re there. I can’t let you have this Aurora Sword Dao, I can’t let you get dragged into this vortex. This time, even if I have to risk my life, I’m going to stop you!”

Liu Mubai muttered inwardly, then drew in a deep breath, his expression incomparably grave, and immediately flashed into the barrier.

When Liu Mubai’s figure was also swallowed by that boundless light, the people outside were stunned yet again!

Ye Chen went in, and Liu Mubai went in too!

The two of them are going to fight, right...

They definitely will!

Although Ye Chen and Liu Mubai had cooperated twice here, both times it was because their interests aligned.

With an inheritance as enticing as the Aurora Sword Dao, it would be perfectly normal for Liu Mubai and Ye Chen to fight to the death.

Little did they know.

At that very moment, within the boundless light, Ye Chen was staring at Liu Mubai who had chased after him. He cupped his fists and said, ”Martial Uncle, I’ll return those divine power reserves to you now.”

They had just been putting on a show outside. Now that the act was over, he couldn’t really pocket his Martial Uncle’s things.

”They were prepared for you to begin with. Keep them and hurry up and raise your strength. You kid say you want to keep a low profile, but I haven’t seen a single thing you’ve done that’s low profile!” Liu Mubai said irritably.

Ye Chen was moved.

Martial Uncle Liu Mubai was struggling to take a single step in the Martial Alliance, yet he’d actually prepared so much divine power for him.

Ye Chen wasn’t a sentimental person. Since it had been given, he accepted it—he truly needed it—so he said, ”Martial Uncle, about the Aurora Sword Dao...”

Before Ye Chen could finish, Liu Mubai cut him off. ”Listen to my advice—the Aurora Sword Dao isn’t suited for you.”

Ye Chen: ”Martial Uncle, it’s not that I don’t trust you. Honestly, forget one Aurora Sword Dao— even if it were the very top taboo-level inheritance, if you wanted it, I wouldn’t even frown.

But...

The waters of the Celestial Burial Sea run too deep.

You can’t shoulder this alone. If I don’t help you, who else can?

If something happens to you, when I go back to the Eastern Domain, what am I supposed to say to Teacher when he blames me for not taking care of you?”

Liu Mubai: ”I’m your Martial Uncle, I don’t need you taking care of me. If something happens to me, that just means my luck ran bad. But before anything happens to me, I absolutely can’t let anything happen to you.”

Ye Chen: ”So taking the Aurora Sword Dao will lead to trouble, right?”

Liu Mubai didn’t answer. ”Hurry up and leave.”

Ye Chen’s expression turned serious. ”Martial Uncle, there’s something I’m not sure if I should say or not.”

Liu Mubai: ”Say it!”

”Martial Uncle, you can’t beat me anymore.”

Liu Mubai: ”...”