Beast Tamer Ascension-Chapter 57Book 4: : They All Have to Die!
Vol 4 Chapter 57: They All Have to Die!
"Master, why are you awake!"
At this moment, Feng Ning was fighting Emperor with intense ferocity.
The feeling of casually wielding her master’s Sword Dao realm left Cold Moon Sword Immortal completely enthralled.
But before she could truly enjoy the battle, a figure emerged from her sword—who else could it be but the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor?
The moment the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor appeared, Feng Ning instantly lost her power, her combat strength falling back to its original level.
"I told you, when the Sword Nurturing Technique is activated, my injuries recover very quickly."
Dressed in simple hemp robes, the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor called her sword back and nodded as she spoke.
"From here on out, leave it to your Master." The reason it was so fast—was because she hadn’t actually been injured at all.
Her disciple was able to exchange moves with a Dao-Seeking demonic cultivator only because she had been expending great power to assist her, wasting a good deal of strength in the process.
If this continued, it would definitely be disadvantageous to her. But the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor wasn’t too worried—because once the situation turned bad here, she believed those people outside the heavens would make their move.
After all, everyone’s script included luring out these misfit Dao-Seekers and eliminating them one by one.
The Bone Emperor was one of those misfits.
Its master was an old demonic figure from the Immortal Alliance. That old demon had two most outstanding disciples—one was the Corpse Emperor, the other, the Emperor.
When the Immortal Alliance was destroyed, the Corpse Emperor and the Emperor were still unripe, but not long after, they achieved Dao-Seeking and founded the Yin Corpse Sect and the Netherworld Hall respectively.
The top forces on the Tianyuan Continent today had all more or less participated in the war to destroy the Immortal Alliance. While the main force was the First Ancient Emperor, the other sects had also contributed significantly.
Because of this, those with “pre-dynasty ties” like the Corpse Emperor and the Emperor were never able to fully integrate into today’s mainstream cultivation world.
Unlike places like Qingzhou and Martial Emperor City, which, though still in competition with the Ancient Kingdom, could still engage in trade—buying pills from Qingzhou, magical artifacts from Martial Emperor City...
You could say that even demon beast factions were more accepted by righteous sects than these two demonic sects.
After all, the downfall of the former sects of these two Dao-Seeking demonic cultivators was inextricably linked to many of the current top forces.
The First Ancient Emperor had considered exterminating the Corpse Emperor and the Emperor entirely later on—but at that time, the Demonic Sky Sect emerged and was even more rampant, drawing away most of the focus for the righteous path... plus, the Corpse Emperor and the Emperor had countless life-saving techniques, making it nearly impossible to truly erase them.
In fact, the situation with the Gu God Sect was not much different.
The sect’s founder, Duan Zhong, was originally an ordinary mortal, and it was only by chance that he obtained the legacy of the Immortal Alliance, gradually embarking on the path to immortality.
Back then, the Immortal Alliance led by cultivators like Luo Miao with the Creation Immortal Physique, had indeed destroyed the evil Immortal Palace and saved the continent as the righteous leaders. But with time passing and the sages gone, decline became inevitable.
Many wicked forbidden arts related to the human body, like Gu arts, were developed during that stage by some cultivators of the Immortal Alliance who sought power at any cost.
"If they don’t show up soon, something big’s going to happen..." the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor muttered to herself, staring at the Bone Emperor.
Feng Ning might not have sensed it, but she did.
The Celestial Sword of the Heavenly Sword Gate had been activated!
And she didn’t need to guess who it was.
The Holy Son of the Demon Court—Lin Jing!
Right now, just two words: Regret it!
Why did she allow her disciple to teleport Lin Jing and the Artifact Ghost to the Heavenly Sword Gate?
At first, she didn’t take it seriously at all, never even considered the possibility that Lin Jing could control the Artifact Ghost or wield the Celestial Sword.
After all, the Netherworld Hall coveted the Artifact Ghost because it was a spiritual entity, and the Hall was a master of soul manipulation.
A Dao-Seeking stage Emperor being able to control a Peak Void Mystical Stage Artifact Ghost and use it to wield a Celestial Artifact—that, the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor could understand.
That was at least plausible.
But Lin Jing? A Beast Taming Cultivator who only reached the Nascent Soul Transformation Stage by burning his own lifespan—how the h*ll was he controlling a Peak Void Mystical Stage Artifact Ghost?!
Even though she knew Lin Jing probably meant well, trying to use the Celestial Sword to support them, the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor still felt a faint sadness in her heart. The Celestial Sword... the Celestial Sword she had dreamed of for so long, was now being trampled underfoot by a junior like Lin Jing.
"That brat... surely he wouldn’t not return the Celestial Sword, right?" You couldn’t blame the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor for thinking this way—the temptation of a Celestial Artifact was just too strong. And Lin Jing could now wield it with ease!
"Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor..."
With the real Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor now present, the Emperor grew even more silent.
Earlier, when her state was unstable, he could still deal with her. But now that the real one had awakened, it was clearly going to be tough.
Sword cultivators... were just too effective against ghost cultivators.
Ghost cultivators weren’t truly powerful to begin with—they were fundamentally incomplete existences, good only at bullying those who didn’t specialize in soul cultivation.
Their only advantage was longevity.
But every powerful sword cultivator had a soul like a Sword Spirit—sharp and fierce, giving ghost cultivators no edge.
What’s more, a powerful Celestial Sword was already on its way from the Ancient Kingdom.
"So fast!"
Suddenly, the fluctuations of the Celestial Sword were growing stronger and stronger. After a moment’s thought, the Emperor chose to retreat directly, vanishing into the void. Seeing this, the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor didn’t try to stop him.
BOOM!!!
Until the Wen Tian Sword descended from the sky, and Lin Jing atop it looked at her and Feng Ning hovering in midair, then couldn’t help but say: "Senior Sky-Splitting... your injuries... you’ve already fully recovered?"
"Where’s the Bone Emperor??"
"It saw that I had recovered, and with you arriving wielding the Celestial Sword, it ran." said the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor.
"Senior, can you track where it escaped to? We can’t just let it go like that." said Lin Jing—after all, wielding the Celestial Sword like this, he was literally burning his lifespan!
The Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor shook her head. "It’s not really worth it. Even if the two of us catch up, we can’t kill the Bone Emperor. The reason the three major demon sects have survived till now is because each of them has a completely unsolvable escape technique. The Emperor’s soul-splitting secret art lets it divide its soul into countless fragments and attach them to different vessels. Unless all the fragments are destroyed at once, killing just one is meaningless. It can still resurrect from another bone."
"Back then, the Bone Emperor was killed multiple times by His Majesty the Ancient Emperor, but he could never completely eradicate it... so, the Netherworld Hall should be left to that one."
She hinted at the Buddha Lord of the Solar Temple in the Buddhist Sect—he had long been researching how to completely destroy the Bone Emperor.
The Buddhist secret arts were even more effective against undead than the Sword Dao. Compared to them figuring it out, the Buddha Lord surely had already locked onto the exposed Netherworld Hall.
Lin Jing nodded and didn’t push further. Standing atop the Celestial Sword, he then said something that deeply stabbed at the Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor’s heart.
"Alright then, but Senior, let me borrow the Celestial Sword for half a day. I’ll return it when I’m done—I’m heading to deliver two strikes to the Poseidon Palace and Misty Forest!"
Sky-Splitting Sword Ancestor: ...
