Chaotic Sword God - Chapter 818

Chapter 818

Chapter 718: Saint Ruler Killing Formation

Jian Chen looked at the giant, ten-thousand-meter long earthwyrm below his feet and became extremely solemn . Chaotic Force immediately poured into the Ruler Armament in his hand, causing the hazy glow of the weapon to be suppressed and immediately replaced by a dark light, radiating with the presence and energy of destruction .

The Heavenly Enchantress glanced down at the earthworm below before looking upwards at the huge, scorching sun of terrifying heat . She hoarsely said, “This is a Saint Ruler killing formation, a formation specially prepared to kill Saint Rulers . Once a Saint Ruler falls into it, it’s almost certain death . Even Ninth Heavenly Layer Saint Rulers are not exempted from this . With the corrosion of time, the formation is no longer as powerful as it once was, though it is still extremely powerful . ”

“Let’s use our full strength and burst through this formation,” Jian Chen growled .

“The true danger comes from the sky, not from the earthwyrm below us . You handle the earthwyrm . I’ll break the formation . ” The Heavenly Enchantress’s tone was also rather grim . Shortly afterwards, she sat down cross-legged in the air and placed the Zither of Demonic Cry on her knees . She began to play it both of her hands, ready to burst through the formation with the force of sound .

As the zither was played, sound waves visible with the naked eye shot towards the scorching sun in the sky with lightning speed . The densely-packed waves shook the surrounding space, causing the space in this region to ripple like water . In that very moment, the entire region seemed to have become an extremely huge zither, where the water-like ripples in space functioned as constantly-trembling strings .

Jian Chen raised his head and looked at the sun . His eyes narrowed very slightly, by an undetectable amount . The sun in the sky was not a real sun, but rather a huge killing mechanism . It grew larger and larger as he watched it, as if it was descending with a terrifying speed, falling towards the two of them .

With the descent of the sun, the surrounding temperature shot up abruptly . The region seemed to become a huge oven as even the air was vaporised .

Roar!

The giant earthwyrm, completely made of sand, gave out a great roar from below . Its great, pitch-black and cavernous mouth gave off a stink as it shot into the sky to bite at Jian Chen and the Heavenly Enchantress .

A serious light flashed across Jian Chen’s eyes . He no longer looked at the sky, instead placing all his attention onto the earthwyrm below . Although it was created from the formation, the sand beast was very powerful, equivalent to a Class 7 Magical Beast .

Jian Chen arrived before the earthwyrm with a flash . With the Dragon Slaying Sword in his hand, he stabbed into the head with great speed . Chaotic Force, churning with the aura of destruction, immediately spewed out from the Dragon Slaying Sword, wreaking havoc wildly in the earthwyrm’s head .

As soon as head of sand met the Chaotic Force, it turned to dust from the aura of destruction . The sand immediately began to loosen, turning into large quantities of dust and gushed away .

In the blink of an eye, a huge hole appeared in the great head, like someone had forcefully carved away a portion of flesh .

But the earthwyrm was just like the living dead, just like the warbeast . It felt no pain, no fear—absolutely nothing even from such wounds . It followed up with a growl, and a spike completely condensed from sand emerged from its head, rushing at Jian Chen with lightning speed .

The spike was made of sand, yet it contained a powerful energy . Not only was it extremely fast, it was extremely tough as well .

Jian Chen shot backwards quickly . The Dragon Slaying Sword turned into a black streak of light, lashing out and colliding with the incoming spike .

With a metallic screech, the tough spike cracked immediately, but the powerful collision between the two was still enough to jolt Jian Chen violently . The completely-unremarkable spike was actually as powerful as a strike from a Fifth Heavenly Layer Saint Ruler .

Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish…

Ear-piercing swishes constantly rang out as spikes emerged from the earthwyrm’s body, one after another . It formed a net, encasing Jian Chen, and, at the same time, the earthwyrm raised its huge front leg and quickly stopped down on Jian Chen . It completely locked Jian Chen out of the choice to escape upwards .

Jian Chen became grim . The hundreds of incoming spikes were equivalent to strikes dealt by hundreds of Fifth Heavenly Layer Saint Rulers . He did not have the power to withstand like that with his current strength .

He moved his body slightly, leaving behind a blur where he originally stood . He had already traversed hundreds of meters with extremely great speed, appearing beyond the range of the hundreds of spikes and the giant leg . Here, his abilities as a Saint Ruler were suppressed and any type of spiritual sensing suffered a decrease in effect . He could not use Spatial Force, so all he could do in such a tight position was use the Illusionary Flash, the movement technique he had not used since very long ago .

The Illusionary Flash was an extremely profound battle skill, though, Jian Chen would always use Spatial Force to travel ever since he became a Saint Ruler . As a result, the Illusionary Flash was no longer as useful to him as before, which lead to him slowly forgetting it . Only after being forced into the situation today did Jian Chen use the Illusionary Flash once again .

He moved once again after dodging the attacks from the hundreds of spikes . He immediately appeared on the huge back of the earthwyrm with a trail of countless vague, blurry figures and thrust the Dragon Slaying Sword viciously into it with destructive Chaotic Force . He drew it out immediately afterwards, and with a slight movement of his body, he would reappear hundreds of meters away, stabbing the back of the earthwyrm once again like before .

 Like this, Jian Chen managed to stab the earthwyrm’s huge body hundreds of times very soon . Every strike turned the sand of the earthwyrm’s body into dust, dealing great damage to it . After so many attacks, the earthwyrm had been reduced to several hundred meters in length, while the dust from the sand below had already formed mountainous piles .

 As Jian Chen battled the earthwyrm, the temperature of the surroundings also shot up rapidly, becoming terrifyingly hot . The scorching sun in the sky grew bigger and bigger, falling towards the two of them .

 The Heavenly Enchantress sat cross-legged in the air . Her slender hands slid across the Zither of the Demonic Cry with a rhythm as sound waves shot out from the zither . They collided with the descending sun in the sky, causing the sky to constantly rumble with a deep sound .

 The unadorned yet unique Zither of the Demonic Cry had a total of thirty-six strings . The Heavenly Enchantress only played twenty of them, completely avoiding the other sixteen throughout the whole process .

 Jian Chen raised his head and glanced at the huge sun . He became even grimmer; he knew that the huge sun was the real killing mechanism of the trap . Once the sun collided with the group, even this world would perhaps be destroyed . Even Saint Rulers would struggle to survive .

 “I need to finish this off as fast as possible . ” Jian Chen thought, before appearing before the shrunken earthwyrm . He raised the Dragon Slaying Sword high over his head, poured surging Chaotic Force into it, before striking downwards from the sky .

 An enormous sword ray, completely condensed from Chaotic Force, disappeared into the earthwyrm’s head . It passed through its entire body, exiting at the tail . The earthwyrm was no longer as tough and powerful as before; Jian Chen’s strike had directly cut it in half . Its body was reduced a pile of dust, collapsing onto the ground and forming a heap of sand, akin to a small mountain .

Jian Chen did not stop after dealing with the earthwyrm . He immediately shot into the sky, resisting the unbelieveable temperature to fly towards the sun .

 Jian Chen knew that this was not the time to be conserving his Chaotic Force . His chaotic neidan in his dantian began to pump out Chaotic Force unsparingly even though it had already shruken, all coalescing in the Dragon Slaying Sword . Afterwards, several strands of sword Qi were sent flying at the sun .

 Boom, boom, boom . . .

Consecutive deep booms rang through the sky and the expanding sun began to tremble gently . However, its speed of descent did not decrease at all .

 “Move back . Your energy might be strange, but with the Ruler Armament, it’s only the Fifth Heavenly Layer at most . Attacks with that much power is not enough to break through the killing formation at all . Let me do it . ” The Heavenly Enchantress’s emotionless voice appeared in Jian Chen’s head .

 With that, Jian Chen immediately felt pained . He knew that the Chaotic Force he controlled was an extremely powerful energy, but it still could not be considered as true Chaotic Force . He currently had only reached the first layer of the eighteen layers, possessing strength equivalent to a Third Heavenly Layer Saint Ruler . He could only display a strength of the Fifth Heavenly Layer when he wielded a Ruler Armament .

 Only when he reached the eighteenth layer would the Chaotic Force he controlled be the true Chaotic Force .

 Jian Chen put the Ruler Armament away and slowly descended from the sky . He had secretly made up his mind that after he left the Fantasy Star Ocean, he would definitely find a way to increase his overall strength .

 “Just the first layer of the Chaotic Body is equivalent the strength of a Third Heavenly Layer Saint Ruler . I wonder just what level my strength will reach after I reach the second layer of the Chaotic Body?” Jian Chen anticipated it very much as he thought .

 The Heavenly Enchantress continued to concentrate on playing the zither . Sound waves constantly shot towards the descending sun, producing booms after booms . The explosion of every sound wave would leave behind an odd energy in the surroundings, floating slowly around the huge sun and it lingered .

 This was the power of sound waves from the zither!

 Soon, more and more energy gathered around the sun, before virtually permeating the entire sky .

 At that moment, the Heavenly Enchantress stopped playing . She slowly raised her head at the dazzling sun, and her elegant finger, as white as sheepskin, gently struck the twenty-first string .

Ding! 

A clear, crisp sound rang out when the string was struck . The sound carried an extremely powerful ability for penetration, while the note constantly echoed about despite not being very loud .

 The energy around the scorching sun immediately became violent . Shortly afterwards, it exploded and a deafening boom rang out . The entire world shook violently, as if the world was ending . The sun in the sky had cracked in half from the explosion, before immediately disintegrating into countless pieces, raining down everywhere .

 With the destruction of the sun, the killing formation was also successfully broken . Everything before Jian Chen began to distorted and the sandy world slowly disappeared . He had returned to the Fantasy Star Ocean once again .