Chapter 273

Chapter 273: Yang Ye, a Coward?

Huaquan Realm forcefully confronts Guanxuan Sword Master!

Under everyone’s gaze, the white-bearded elder slowly raised his right hand. In an instant, everyone felt the world before them grow blurry, and soon they saw countless stars and galaxies flash past their eyes like lightning.

In that moment, everyone seemed to witness the birth of the universe and its destruction.

Everyone was caught within some unknown process of the Great Dao’s transformation, unable to break free, unable to resist, like a speck of dust.

Ye Tianming was also unable to resist at this moment, and moreover, the Great Dao phenomenon before him surpassed his current understanding.

When he saw the white-bearded elder make his move, he truly realized for the first time that the gap between the Chengzu Realm and the Huaquan Realm was not just a little.

It was a massive chasm!

Because against the Chengzu Realm, he could still hold his own, but against this white-bearded elder before him, he clearly couldn’t hold his own at all.

Even with the Sword Ancestor in hand, it wouldn’t work.

Huaquan!

At this moment, the forces of order and law between heaven and earth suddenly converged, gathering like countless stars, point by point, into a brilliant Milky Way that arrived above the white-bearded elder’s head. The white-bearded elder let out a cold laugh and swept his sleeve, and in an instant, the galaxy and universe everyone had seen began to shatter, piece by piece.

In that moment, everyone felt only despair, a despair accompanied by a sense of utter helplessness.

Ants!

Even a peak Chengzu Realm powerhouse felt this way at this moment, truly realizing for the first time the gap between themselves and a Huaquan Realm powerhouse.

The so-called half-step Huaquan was, in truth, nothing but a joke.

Collision of the Great Dao!

Those shattered cosmic rivers erupted with an extremely terrifying force of the Great Dao, and this force instantly engulfed Guanxuan Sword Master’s order and law power, threatening to completely obliterate it.

But the next moment—

Boom!

Under everyone’s perception, the order and law power directly broke through all of the white-bearded elder’s Great Dao force, and then all of the order and law power sank directly into the white-bearded elder’s brow.

Boom!

In an instant, the white-bearded elder’s cultivation was directly suppressed to the Chengzu Realm!

Directly suppressed!

Everything between heaven and earth returned to normal.

Everyone was stunned.

A single strand of order and law power had actually suppressed a Huaquan Realm powerhouse?

The white-bearded elder’s face was also filled with disbelief. “How is this possible…….”

If Guanxuan Sword Master were here in person, he wouldn’t be certain of victory, but the other party had only left behind a single strand of law here….. a single strand of law wanting to suppress the Huaquan Realm?

Sheer fantasy!

But he hadn’t expected that this strand of order and law power would actually truly suppress him.

There are differences even within the Huaquan Realm…… but to be suppressed by a single strand of law meant the gap was not just a little.

“Guanxuan Sword Master!”

In the field, countless people suddenly cheered in unison.

Although this Guanxuan Sword Master had already departed, his prestige in the hearts of Guanxuan Academy’s people was undoubtedly extremely high.

Now, seeing that a single strand of law he had left behind suppressed a Huaquan Realm powerhouse, everyone’s faith in him surged even higher.

“Guanxuan Sword Master!”

Ye Tianming looked up at the white-bearded elder in the void, forcibly suppressed to the Chengzu Realm, and softly murmured those words.

On the other side, the expressions of those powerhouses from Shenlin Territory turned extremely ugly.

First that little boy from the Xiushi Academy, and now this Guanxuan Sword Master — each one more terrifying than the last.

Liusha curiously studied those strands of order and faith power.

In the void above, the white-bearded elder’s gaze fell on the statue of Guanxuan Sword Master below in Guanxuan Academy, his eyes deep and unreadable, as if lost in thought.

After his shock subsided, Ye Tianming took out a pill and swallowed it, then looked toward the white-bearded elder. The other party had only been suppressed to the Chengzu Realm — his cultivation hadn’t disappeared.

The smiles on the faces of the Guanxuan Domain crowd were also gradually fading. Indeed, although the Huaquan Realm powerhouse before them had been suppressed to the Chengzu Realm, that still wasn’t something an ordinary person could match.

“Ha ha!”

Wubian Master suddenly looked at Ye Tianming. “You want to have a go against a Huaquan Realm powerhouse?”

He had seen excitement in Ye Tianming’s eyes.

Ye Tianming made no effort to hide his excitement. For him, if he could exchange blows with a Huaquan Realm powerhouse, the gains would certainly be enormous.

Of course, it would certainly be dangerous too.

After all, the person before him was a genuine Huaquan Realm powerhouse.

As if sensing Ye Tianming’s fighting spirit, the white-bearded elder’s gaze fell on him. “You are not worthy of fighting me.”

His tone was very, very calm, giving the impression that there was no insult intended — he was simply stating a fact.

Ye Tianming didn’t get angry. He smiled and said, “I still want to try.”

The white-bearded elder stared at him. “Then come.”

Ye Tianming nodded. He was still holding the Tianming Sword. In fact, some people had already noticed that the sword in his hand was different, and moreover, this sword was not unfamiliar to them.

After all, Ye Tianming had used this very sword to defeat the Young Master back then.

Many people were now puzzled as to why this sword was in the Young Master’s hands.

At this moment, someone suddenly said, “Has everyone forgotten? This sword was originally called Qingxuan, and it had been with the Young Master before……”

Only then did everyone recall this matter.

So no one dwelled any further on why the sword was in the Young Master’s hands, because they would fill in the logic and the process themselves.

Ye Tianming held the Tianming Sword and slowly walked toward the white-bearded elder. He knew that against a powerhouse of this level, he would only have one chance to strike.

Therefore, he had to give everything he had!

Ye Tianming slowly closed his eyes, and in that instant, the entire world seemed to fall silent.

The next moment, he suddenly transformed into a streak of sword light and shot into the sky.

With this sword strike, the spatial region where the white-bearded elder stood was suddenly enveloped by a sword domain.

Restraining Sword Domain!

And the momentum of Ye Tianming’s sword reached its peak in an instant — not only that, but it was a fusion of three into one.

Aside from not invoking his mortal bloodline and the Law of All Beings, it could be said that this sword strike had exhausted every last card he held.

This was his own pure, personal sword dao power!

This sword strike was powerful!

That was the thought of countless people on the scene at this moment.

However, facing Ye Tianming’s terrifying sword strike, the white-bearded elder’s gaze remained calm as still water. He simply pressed his right hand gently downward.

Boom!

In an instant, Ye Tianming’s Restraining Sword Domain collapsed entirely, and moreover, all the sword dao power behind Ye Tianming’s strike was shattered in a breath and then extinguished.

The terrifying might of the Great Dao also pinned Ye Tianming in place, unable to break free.

Because he wasn’t holding the Sword Ancestor at this moment — if he had been, he could actually have broken through this white-bearded elder’s Great Dao might, since the white-bearded elder’s cultivation was currently suppressed as well.

Instant and total defeat!

Ye Tianming was not discouraged. On the contrary, in the instant he was crushed, he gained a profound understanding of his own shortcomings.

Restraint!

You need absolute strength to be able to restrain!

Without strength, what are you restraining?

Who would be willing to be restrained by you?

In this world, the strong are ultimately supreme.

In this moment, he thought again of what his teacher had once said: Guanxuan Sword Master granted all beings the right to restrain him, but Guanxuan Sword Master did not give all beings the ability to restrain him.

Having the right and having the ability are, in truth, two different things.

If all beings lack the ability, then the “right” in their hands is nothing more than an ornament.

Ye Tianming slowly closed his eyes. His teacher had sacrificed himself to create the Law of All Beings — in truth, it was to open a path for all beings.

In this moment, his “Dao” became even clearer.

He knew now how to walk the road ahead.

Ye Tianming stepped back to Liusha’s side. “Little Martial Uncle, you go.”

Liusha: “…….”

The white-bearded elder’s gaze also fell on Liusha. He looked down at Liusha. “Xiushi Academy.”

The sudden appearance of Xiushi Academy’s people had caught him somewhat off guard, because this faction had been dormant for many, many years. He hadn’t expected that someone from Xiushi Academy would appear here, and moreover, be helping this Guanxuan Universe.

Liusha looked at the white-bearded elder without fear, and asked very earnestly, “Can you wait a moment? I need to call someone.”

Everyone: “…….”

Ye Tianming: “……”

Liusha added, “I’m really not very good at fighting. Let me call someone who is.”

The faces of Xiaozhu Nation and the others from Shenlin Territory instantly turned extremely ugly. You’re not good at fighting? You nearly killed all of us just now.

The white-bearded elder stared at Liusha. “Why has your Xiushi Academy come to help him?”

Liusha smiled. “He’s my little martial nephew!”

The white-bearded elder narrowed his eyes slightly. “The Young Master of Guanxuan Domain — is he from your Xiushi Academy?”

Liusha was about to say something more when Ye Tianming grabbed him. “Little Martial Uncle, can you kill him?”

Liusha shook his head. “Little Martial Nephew, this person is no simple figure. I’m afraid I can’t kill him.”

Ye Tianming said quietly, “Then hurry up and call someone……”

Liusha whispered, “I can’t.”

Ye Tianming froze. “Why not?”

Liusha said earnestly, “I don’t have my martial sisters’ and brothers’ contact information…….”

Ye Tianming stared at him in disbelief. “How do you not have it?”

Liusha said, “I used to follow my teacher everywhere, and I was never beaten up, and I never thought about fighting…… This time I came over, I thought you were just getting into a small scuffle. I never imagined your fights would be this big…… I’m very surprised, little martial nephew!”

Ye Tianming’s expression froze. “Little Martial Uncle, I’m very surprised too! You came alone…… so when you said you’d call someone just now?”

Liusha whispered, “I was bluffing him.”

Ye Tianming: “…….”

In the sky above, the white-bearded elder suddenly said, “Xiushi Academy or whatever, it doesn’t matter…….”

As he spoke, he suddenly swept his gaze over Ye Tianming and the others, and laughed lightly. “Rumor has it that the greatest fighter of the Yang family is that blue-robed Sword Master Yang Ye. How is it that he still hasn’t appeared? Is he going to be a turtle hiding in its shell?”

A moment of silence.

The Sword Ancestor in Ye Tianming’s hand began to tremble faintly.