Start from a baby to become a Taoist

Chapter 429 Ants!

Could it be that this Sword Tomb is not merely for sealing away this forbidden existence?
Or is it to nurture or summon this sword of annihilation?!

To use it to finally end this taboo?!

At this moment, the outline of the "Sword of Annihilation" slowly pointed at "Xu Ran"!
A terrifying killing intent, locking down eternity! An intent to annihilate all life! An intent to sever all cause and effect, descended in an instant!

The ancient will, its entire body radiating golden light, contracted violently!

It's like meeting your nemesis!
His power, his "Tao"

Before this sword
It looked so pale! So powerless!
"No!"

He let out a furious roar of resentment!

"I finally escaped!"

"I will never perish here!"

"Ants!"

He suddenly looked down at Xu Ran's soul imprint!

A glint of madness flashed in his eyes!
"Since you want 'my control'!"

"Then I will grant your wish!"

"Use your 'life'!"

"Come and take this sword!"

boom!
He actually gave up absolute control over his body!

The terrifying killing intent of the "Sword of Annihilation" that was about to fall.

and partial control of the body
It was forcibly pushed onto that soul imprint, which was like a candle flickering in the wind!

This is a frame-up!

This is sacrificing a pawn to save the king!

He wants to use Xu Ran as a chess piece.

He dared to confront the peerless, deadly sword that was capable of annihilating him!

"you!"

Xu Ran's soul imprint roared in anger!

He sensed a terrifying killing intent that could freeze one's soul!
That was pure "annihilation"!
Irresistible!

There was no way to dodge it!

However, at that critical moment when life and death hung in the balance and despair descended.

Xu Ran's soul imprint instead burst forth with unprecedented brilliance!
In that light.

I'm angry!
I'm not willing to give up!
There's an even more insane kind of madness—a willingness to fight to the death!

"You want me to die in your place?!"

"dream!"

"my life!"

Even if it means destruction!

"It must be in my own hands!"

hum!
The eighth sword shadow, embodying the will of the "Sword that Severs Fate".

Tremble suddenly!
They actually went to meet the killing intent of the "Sword of Annihilation" head-on!
at the same time!

Xu Ran's will was like a flood breaking through a dam!
They surged frantically toward the temporarily vacant control of the body!
"my body!"

"Get out!"

A battle that takes place in the blink of an eye, inside the body, yet is a struggle for the life and death of two wills!

Erupted!
Outside, Yu Kong has become completely numb.

He stared at the dark, menacing sword that had materialized.

Slowly, it slashed down!

They also looked at "Xu Ran".

Sometimes it gleams with intense golden light, and at other times it exudes a resolute, cutting edge!

Two completely different auras are intertwining and colliding wildly!
finally……

puff!
A mouthful of golden blood, mixed with a hint of scarlet.

It burst out of Xu Ran's mouth!

His eyes were filled with frantic struggle!

Sometimes it is the coldness and rage of an ancient will!
At times, it was Xu Ran's original clarity and decisiveness!

"Sword of Annihilation"

It's already upon us!

That darkness that annihilates everything
It's about to devour everything!
life and death……

In an instant!

It was an indescribable desolation!

It is not the disappearance of sound, nor the dimming of light, but rather... the stripping away of existence itself!

In the trajectory of the Sword of Annihilation falling, time seemed to be emptied, and space was torn apart like a scroll, revealing the terrifying and absolute "nothingness" behind it!
Yu Kong's eyes widened, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints! He couldn't even feel fear anymore, because even fear seemed to have lost its right to exist in the face of that "nothingness"! He could only watch helplessly as the dark sword that defined "the end" slashed towards the figure struggling madly between golden light and sharpness!

At this moment, Xu Ran's body had become a battlefield of the most brutal nature!

"You ant! How dare you!!!"

The ancient will roared, shaking the very soul! It sensed it! It sensed Xu Ran's insane actions!
This lowly being, this ant that He could crush with a flick of His wrist, actually didn't choose to use the eighth sword shadow to directly confront the Sword of Annihilation. Instead... He used the sharpness of that sword shadow, along with His own will, like steel nails, to fiercely drive it into the connection point between Him and this body! What horrified Him even more was that Xu Ran wasn't just vying for control; he was... guiding!
With his small yet incredibly tenacious will, he was drawing upon the killing intent of the Sword of Annihilation, forcibly distributing it evenly across every corner of his body! Including the core areas firmly protected by His golden light!
"You want to die together with me?!" The ancient will instantly understood Xu Ran's intention, and it felt an unprecedented chill!
This ant would rather perish together with the immortals than become His scapegoat!

"My life, my choice!" Xu Ran's soul imprint roared, an almost instinctive cry containing the deepest dignity and unyielding spirit of life! "You want to use my life to shield me from disaster? Then let's... perish together!!!"

boom! ! ! !

There was no earth-shattering roar, only a kind of... ultimate "annihilation" sound, resounding in the hearts of every living being who could perceive this scene!

The sword that annihilates the Dao has finally fallen!
It encountered no decent resistance.

Whether it was the seemingly indestructible golden light of the ancient will, or Xu Ran's eighth sword shadow sharpness that shattered the will to sever destiny...

In the face of absolute "annihilation", everything is like a dream or a bubble, which will collapse at the slightest touch!
scoff!

The golden light, like gold splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid, instantly melted and disintegrated, emitting a silent scream! The ancient will residing within it suffered an unprecedented blow! It was an obliteration originating from the level of "Tao"!

At the same time, Xu Ran's resolute eighth sword shadow shattered completely the moment it made contact! It turned into the purest fragments of will, like a candle flickering in the wind, about to be extinguished!
And the body that bears all of this... is Xu Ran's physical body!

puff!puff!puff!

It was as if it had been detonated from within by an invisible force!
Deep, bone-revealing cracks instantly covered his entire body!
Those weren't knife wounds, nor sword marks, but rather... the marks of "existence" being erased!
Flesh and blood, veins, bones... all tangible matter, under the trajectory of that dark sword, headed towards nothingness!
Golden blood mixed with scarlet blood, gushing out of the cracks like a fountain, but upon contact with the outside air, it mysteriously turned into ashes and vanished without a trace!
“Ahhhhhh——!!!”

Two completely different screams of pain emanated simultaneously from that mangled body!

The sound was the resentment and rage of an ancient will, which felt its very essence being eroded and obliterated by that terrifying power of destruction! This feeling was even more painful than being sealed away for endless years!
The other sound was a scream from the depths of Xu Ran's soul. His soul imprint seemed to have been thrown into a furnace, undergoing unimaginable tearing and burning! The collapse of the eighth sword shadow made his will tremble violently, almost collapsing!
Yu Kong stared blankly at the scene before him.

He saw that "Xu Ran's" body was "disappearing" at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Not death, not decomposition, but truly... being wiped off this world!

Arms, legs, torso... all vanished into nothingness in the trajectory left by that dark sword!
In the blink of an eye, what was once a complete person was reduced to a broken chest cavity and a heart that was still beating stubbornly but was also full of cracks, as if it would stop completely at any moment!

Above that heart, golden light and fragments of resolute sword intent, like two dying venomous snakes, were still frantically tearing at and entangled with each other!
The phantom of the Sword of Annihilation did not immediately dissipate after completing the attack.

That ultimate dark silhouette still hovered in mid-air, the sword tip slightly lowered, pointing at the remaining wreckage below, as if examining, confirming... confirming whether the "taboo" that caused it to appear had been completely ended.

A deathly silence enveloped the entire Sword Tomb space.

Time seems to freeze at this moment.

Yu Kong even held his breath, unsure of what would happen next.

Was it the complete annihilation of that ancient will? Or the annihilation of Xu Ran's soul imprint? Or perhaps... both perished together, leaving only this wreckage heading towards utter nothingness?

However, just then!

A sudden change occurred!

Om-! ! !
A humming sound, seemingly from the very beginning of time, did not emanate from the Sword of Annihilation, nor from the ancient will or the burning will, but rather… it came from the entire Sword Tomb space! From the depths of the earth! From the endless void!

With that buzzing sound, the entire sword mound began to tremble violently!

The earth cracked, and the sky twisted!
Countless giant swords, broken swords, and fragmented swords that originally stood in various places in the Sword Tomb, each with a different shape and exuding ancient sword intent, seemed to be summoned by something and began to tremble all at once!

Sonorous! Sonorous! Sonorous!

The dense cries of swords swept across the area like a tidal wave!
A torrent of powerful, vast, desolate, and ancient sword intent converged from all directions, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, surging towards the center of the sword that had struck down! Surging towards the only remaining, cracked heart!

"This...this is?!" Yu Kong looked up abruptly, his eyes filled with horror!
He saw it!

He saw that the sword intents flying from all over the Sword Tomb were not chaotic!

They intertwined and merged in the air, vaguely forming a... colossal ancient rune!
The runes were vast and ancient, filled with indescribable mystery and majesty, as if they carried some kind of "foundation" of this world!
And at the core of this rune is none other than that heart that is heading towards annihilation!
"The Sword Tomb Formation?! No... no! This isn't a simple sealing formation!" Yu Kong's mind reeled violently. "This is... a guide?! Or... a sacrifice?!"

He recalled another, even older legend about the Sword Tomb.

Legend has it that this place is not merely a graveyard for the defeated, but also... a "dojo" of some supreme being! It is the place where He evolved and developed His own "sword way"!

And these swords buried here, the sword intent of these losers, are all... His "resources"!
Could it be... that the appearance of this Sword of Annihilation is not merely for the purpose of annihilating that forbidden being?

Furthermore... it activated some kind of mechanism within this "dojo"?!
Boom! ! !
Just as Yu Kong was filled with doubt and uncertainty, the ancient runes formed by the convergence of endless sword intent suddenly shrank inward!
Like a giant whirlpool!

It was frantically pulling at everything around it!
The first thing to be affected was the phantom of the Sword of Annihilation floating in mid-air!

That extreme darkness, that power representing "end" and "nothingness," was forcibly captured and pulled by this ancient rune!
The phantom of the Sword of Annihilation trembled violently, as if trying to break free!
An even more terrifying aura of annihilation emanated from it, attempting to destroy the runes that dared to bind it!

However, the rune was incredibly tough!

It seemed to be connected to the entire Sword Tomb space, or even to some deeper existence!
No matter how the Sword of Annihilation struck, it could not be completely destroyed!

Instead, under the pull of the runes, the phantom of the Sword of Annihilation was actually dragged bit by bit towards the broken heart below!

"Do not!!!"

A faint yet terrified scream emanated from the depths of that heart, from the golden light of an ancient will!
He sensed a deadly crisis!

The Sword Tomb Formation (or "Dojo") has been activated, and its target is not only the Sword of Annihilation, but also... Him!

Or rather, it is a "hybrid" of Him, Xu Ran, and the remaining power of the Sword of Annihilation intertwined together!
This grand formation seems poised to... completely melt everything down?!

"What...what are they going to do?!" Xu Ran's faint soul imprint trembled as well.

He could feel an irresistible "melting" force surging in from all directions, intent on completely crushing and fusing the fragments of his will, the remnants of his ancient will, and the annihilating power that had invaded his body!

This is an experience more terrifying than death!

It's as if it wants to completely dismantle you and then, according to some unknown will, reshape you into... something entirely new!

"Get out of my way! Get out of my way!!!" The ancient will went mad! It used its last strength to try to break free from the runes' shackles and to break free from the heart that was about to be melted!

It flashed with golden light, but like ice and snow thrown into a furnace, it melted away quickly!
"No... I can't... just like this..." Xu Ran's will was also fluctuating violently. The remaining fragment of the eighth sword shadow burst out with its last sharpness, slashing towards the invisible melting power!
However, everything is in vain!
Faced with the power of the entire Sword Tomb "Dojo," both the struggle of the ancient will and Xu Ran's indomitable spirit seemed so insignificant!

laugh--!
Finally, the ancient runes formed from endless sword intent, along with the dark phantom of the Sword of Annihilation, were branded onto the cracked heart like a giant mark!

Buzz! ! ! !

My heart skipped a beat!
At this moment, all the cracks, instead of widening, began to heal in a strange way!

But this kind of healing is even more chilling!
Because, in those healed traces, what flows is no longer simply golden blood, nor is it scarlet blood!

Rather, it is a... chaotic color that is a mixture of extreme darkness, ancient golden light, and a wisp of sharpness that can cut through everything!
as if……

Something entirely new is at the end of this destruction...

(End of this chapter)