The Path Toward Heaven Chapter 716 - Temporary Ocean Sprays

Chapter 716: Temporary Ocean Sprays

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The disciples of Green Mountain would have purer and more solid sword wills after they reached the Perfect Preservation State. They could then cut stone and gold with their flying swords within one hundred feet, operate their swords in the distance like they were holding them with their hands, and they could kill people as far as their sights could reach them.
When they were in the Inherited Will State, the sword pills were formed and the flying swords with formidable sword wills could travel back and forth freely within one thousand feet.
The disciples in the Undefeated State could kill their opponents with their flying swords several miles away.
One in the Broken Sea State could wield their flying swords with powerful sword wills over the sea and decapitate a swordsman thirty miles away.
A swordsman like Pei Baifa in the Heavenly Arrival State could send their flying swords to a place several hundred miles away.
However, for someone in the powerful Heavenly Arrival State, it would still take some time for their flying swords to reach the target, and they had to know where their target was.
When Jing Jiu waved his hand, the sword light left his body and headed toward the Fruit Formation Temple one hundred miles away before landing squarely on the Immortal Bai. What kind of Cultivation state and sword work was that?
A few sword lights shot out amid the ocean waves. Jing Jiu struck again as soon as the sword lights disappeared on the seashore.
He reached out his right hand and swept downwards.
A bright sword light appeared in the air.
A straight and white line occurred on the surface of the ocean.
The front end of the white line headed toward the Fruit Formation Temple one hundred miles away at an imaginably fast speed.
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The chanting of the scripts could be heard everywhere.
It was bright in the pagoda forest, which was a stark contrast to the dim sky.
The sword light arrived in the deep part of the sunlight after slicing the temple walls and the pagoda forest, forcing the white figure to present herself.
The Immortal Bai who was about to leave by employing the Escape Method of Heaven and Earth had been stopped midway by the slicing sword.
She looked at the distant East Ocean with an unbothered expression in her eyes, a look that had more of a hint of determination.
Jing Jiu sustained a severe injury, yet how could he still have such a strong prowess?
The sword light could hit her precisely, even after being launched from one hundred miles away.
On the other hand, her magic method and the fairy book didn’t have such a high degree of precision.
What she had to do was to shorten the distance between her and Jing Jiu.
The sunlight in the pagoda forest suddenly brightened and swallowed the figure of hers, heading against the sword lights coming over from the ocean.
She had arrived above the ocean a minute later as her right hand bore down on Jing Jiu bearing endless sunlight.
Jing Jiu swept his hand again with no change of expression on his face.
The sword light broke through the air before it left two clear sword marks on the neck and ankle of the Immortal Bai.
Protected by the fairy book, her body was as strong as gold. Even the All in One Sword couldn’t cut it open straightaway.
Pah!!! Pah!!! Pah!!!
Many thunderous booms broke out. In a short time, thousands of sword lights left Jing Jiu’s hand and traveled about in heaven and earth.
The sword lights tore down the dark clouds, passed through the forests and the sunlight that was blocked by the black mountain, and traveled over the blue-carpet like deep ocean and the ocean near seashore that looked like the snow-white silk blanket.
In an instance, the lights seemed to have turned into countless flying swords before they passed through a spot in the sky.
Standing at the spot, the Immortal Bai lowered her head to look at her body; she couldn’t help but furrow her eyebrows after seeing the tiny holes created by the sword.
The Fairy Lady Bai Ren had done the same back when the replica of hers was destroyed by the Sword Formation of Green Mountain in Zhaoge City.
The Immortal Bai had remembered the scene clearly over the years, but she didn’t expect to see something similar happen to herself many years later.
The fairy book was giving off a bright glow in her hand; however, the sword lights had passed through her body like raindrops before the glow could even reach Jing Jiu’s clothing.
The sword light was not the Sword Formation of Green Mountain itself and yet, because it traveled so fast that it looked as if tens of thousands of sword lights showed up at the same time.
In other words, the sword light could be regarded as a sword formation of Green Mountain.
Jing Jiu materialized as a piece of cloud ten miles away was torn apart.
By the time he turned around and looked at the spot, the Immortal Bai had already fallen down from the sky and was on her way to the ocean.
Pah!!!
The splash was not very noticeable.
She dropped into the seawater like a stone even though she was an important figure capable of changing heaven and earth.
As the sea wind blew slightly, Jing Jiu arrived at this patch of the sea.
His tattered white cloth was soaked by the seawater, looking like a sail torn by the windstorm.
He looked at the Immortal Bai quietly while standing on the surface of the ocean.
The seawater was obviously very deep, but for some reason, it looked quite clean and more like a small stream.
The more amazing part was that the seawater in the area of several square miles seemed to be still at the moment.
The Immortal Bai, drifting in the seawater, looked like she was lying in a heap of crystals.
A large amount of golden fairy energy emerged from her body and merged into the ocean before it vanished without a trace.
She looked at the sun that was blocked by the Dead Dog in the high sky with her eyes opened wide; it was unclear what she was reflecting on.
The fight lasted only a brief moment.
She had been aged a great deal during this brief interval, adding many wrinkles to her face.
Yet, the wrinkles began to disappear as the fairy energy in the fairy book was leaking out. She looked young and pretty again even though the expression in her eyes was as desolate as ever.
“I didn’t expect the Night Howler to be much stronger than I had imagined,” she commented while looking at the black mountain in the sky.
It was rumored in the Cultivation circle that the two divine animals of the Center Sect, the Unicorn and the Old Dragon, were the most powerful ones, and that the Dead Dog among the four Principal Guards of Green Mountain could nearly fend off them.
Unexpectedly, the Dead Dog relied on his own magic to prevent the fairy book from borrowing the original light of the outside world; it was evident that his Cultivation state had surpassed that of the Unicorn a long time ago.
Jing Jiu said, “He has been guarding the Sword Jail over the years, so few people know how powerful he really is. And he has no need to have his prowess known by others.”
The fight was over, and the fairy book had been destroyed, a large amount of fairy energy spilling into the ocean. As a result, the Dead Dog had no need to block the sun any longer.
The black mountain moved away slowly in the sky. The light suddenly shone down the edges of the mountain, looking like flames in broad daylight. Later on, the sky had gradually returned to its normal condition, and the sunlight shone on the ground again.
“I feel like I have seen this scene before, because it looks very familiar,” the Immortal Bai remarked in bewilderment while looking at the remarkable spectacle in the sky.
“I also feel like having seen it somewhere,” said Jing Jiu.
The black mountain was still moving slowly in the sky; it seemed that the Dead Dog had paid a steep price for blocking the primordial light coming from the outside world.
The Immortal Bai pulled back her gaze and said to Jing Jiu, “It’s actually not that important to contend for whose path is the correct one. I just want to live a life as interesting as that of the Immortal Taiping and Lian Sanyue.”
Jing Jiu said, “To live a life like theirs is actually a very sad thing.”
“You’re indeed a boring person,” retorted the Immortal Bai.
Jing Jiu said, “The more interesting a person is, the sadder they will feel about their deaths.”
It was because one realized their lives were near the end, so that they opted to pursue a life that was more interesting and meaningful and regard it as the sole goal in their lives.
The Immortal Bai understood what he meant and inquired in disbelief, “Haven’t you ever thought of your own death? Even once?”
Ascension is not same as longevity, but an episode in the process of pursuing longevity.
The Cultivation practitioners in Chaotian who were capable of ascending were few throughout its history.
Where did Jing Jiu acquire his confidence that he would certainly ascend and his life would never end?
“I thought that I might die back when I was at the Fruit Formation Temple.”
Jing Jiu said, “Hence, I’ve been trying my best to avoid such a choice; in other words, I’ve been trying my hardest to avoid being trapped in such a situation.”
The Immortal remarked, “No one can ensure that they will be able to live forever. You might feel shortchanged if you lived such a boring life and suddenly died.”
Standing on the surface of the ocean and looking at this world, Jing Jiu remembered bathing in the lava and fishing atop the cloud, saying nothing.
The Immortal Bai said, “You still can’t solve the problem: Longevity is impossible to prove.”
“You’re right. This is a question that will never have an answer.”
Jing Jiu continued, “But I’m trying to solve it the entire time, and isn’t that the most interesting thing to do?”
“Oh, that’s why. It indeed makes sense. Unfortunately, you’re the only one who is qualified to enjoy it.”
The Immortal Bai felt satisfied; she was actually satisfied with the explanation. She closed her eyes calmly after letting loose a smile.
The seawater that had been as crisp as crystals and as still as glass began to flow slowly again.
The flowing and twirling seawater produced a small bubble.
In the next moment, more and more bubbles formed under the ocean. Later, they floated to the surface of the ocean to become foams. As more white foams gathered, a spray took place.
Countless sprays formed on the surface of the ocean before they spread in all directions; it was unclear when they would completely dissipate.
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A peculiar phenomenon, be it the spring rain, the morning sunlight, or endless twilight, manifested that an important figure had departed from this world.
Unlike what had happened before, the countless sprays on the ocean were not witnessed by anybody this time.
Still, the departure of the Immortal Bai was sensed by the people in Chaotian.
The black mountain returned to Green Mountain, bringing a great deal of cold air to the peaks there.
As the mountain wind rose slightly, the Dead Dog landed on the spot where Shangde Peak used to be and crouched quietly on the huge black jade plate and began to take a rest after closing his eyes slowly.
A large amount of fresh blood seeped out from his skin, which covered with black hair; some horrific wounds could be vaguely seen on his body.
It wasn’t until now that the people of Green Mountain realized that he had been severely wounded.
A few sword lights flashed; the Immortal Guangyuan, Nan Wang and the others arrived before the Dead Dog. But they had no idea how to treat him.
A dandelion suddenly appeared in the black field.
Ada landed on the Dead Dog and started licking his wounds gingerly.
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Since Nan Wang and the others had gone to the Dead Dog, few people remained on the Sword Peak. They had no need to guard Ping Yongjia nervously any longer now that the situation was under the control.
Ping Yongjia still had his eyes shut tight. He sat in the grotto with a pale face, his fingers still pointing to the East Ocean.
The Green Girl touched his hot forehead with her hand because she worried that this guy’s head might have been overheated after calculating and operating so much.
The moment the Green Girl touched Ping Yongjia’s forehead, many flying swords on the cliff and in the sky suddenly moved and pointed toward her.
She understood why, and had a better comprehension of Zhao Layue’s worry. The Green Girl flew out of the Sword Peak shrouded in the clouds and fog by flapping her transparent wings and arrived in the high sky after grunting crossly. She looked in the direction of the East Ocean and was certain that the bloody sword light had gone afar.
The reason for her unhappiness was complicated. She couldn’t even explain the reason herself.
The person Zhao Layue was worried about most was Ping Yongjia, and whom she had been worried about most over the years was the Immortal Bai.
As such, she should feel relieved after the death of the Immortal Bai; so why did she feel troubled like how she felt when the Immortal Taiping died?
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The ocean waves rolled forward like thousands of piles of snow.
Standing in the midst of the snowy waves, Jing Jiu fell silent for a while. He put on a new cloth and leapt up from the ocean waves, turning into a sword light before going to the deep part of the sea.
It didn’t take long before he arrived above the Huge Whirlpool.
The Giant was busy digging the cliff rocks around the whirlpool; he was soaking wet. He attempted to block the seawater pouring downwards; but his effort seemed to be futile. He looked rather wretched.
Jing Jiu gestured to indicate he’d do it himself.
The Immortal Bai was dead, and the Fairy Book was destroyed. He even sensed Emperor Xiao had turned into yellow leaves all over the field for some unknown reason.
Well, it was time for him to save the world.
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