Chapter 625 - Locking Sight on the Ancestral Land, A Trip To Sword Tribe, Pay For What
After finding out some information about affirming Dao through strength, Chu Kuangren was already calculating how best to approach this method.
Looking back at those people who affirmed their Dao through strength in the past, almost all of them had an insane amount of foundation and were unrivaled among their counterparts.
Chu Kuangren’s current foundation was already very strong. With nine strands of Emperor qi and Invincible Dao, almost no Sovereign could overpower him right now.
However, he was just not sure if his current capabilities were strong enough to affirm Dao through strength.
He intended to continue accumulating more power.
To gather more power, what he needed were resources.
“Right now, there aren’t any great Opportunities of Fortune on Emperor Road. I must find more resources quickly, and it won’t be an easy task.”
Chu Kuangren scanned through the Yin and Yang Ring with his mind power once. Prior to this, he had killed a bunch of Sovereigns, and he reckoned that he must have looted quite a number of valuable resources.
Yet, he still regarded this amount as too little.
He still had not visited the Forbidden Barren Wastelands himself.
Forbidden Barren Wastelands?
Did he need to make a trip to the Forbidden Barren Wastelands?
However, besides the most core areas, the rest of the zones at that place did not seem to have any great opportunities of fortune to scour.
“Is waiting for the Emperor Mountain to open and then become an Emperor there my only option?”
Chu Kuangren thought to himself.
Affirming Dao through strength is a way to have the strongest combat strength after becoming an Emperor.
Nonetheless, if he could not succeed in this, he would not dwell on it for long. Becoming an Emperor on Emperor Mountain was an alternative.
The only difference was that he had one more option than the other people.
Still, the Emperor Mountain was not open yet, so he thought of attempting to affirm his Dao through strength and try if he could succeed.
“Resources, resources, there we have it…”
Chu Kuangren suddenly remembered the Ancestral Land Foundation that he had obtained when raiding the Holy Ancestral Land previously.
That Ancestral Land Foundation was by no means lesser in quality compared to the Primeval Daoist Gem and equivalent treasures. That should be a make-ready resource that he had access to.
Sword Tribe, Wang clan, Bai clan, the Demonic Tribes…
These forces plotted to assassinate him, yet he could not pretend like they never happened. Otherwise, he would not be called Chu Kuangren.
“It’s rude to not return the favor. It seems like it’s about time I settle the score with the Sword Tribe, Demonic Tribe, Bai clan, and the Wang clan…”
The edge of Chu Kuangren’s lip raised slightly.
Beside him, Lan Yu saw Chu Kuangren’s grin and sighed helplessly… The fates of these forces were inevitably sealed.
However, she did not express any sympathy for them.
This was the consequence they deserved after offending Master!
“Oh, right, Lan Yu, these are something I got from the Holy Light Chief Sovereign. There are some Light-attribute treasures in there, and some insights that the old man had gained from Holy Light Dao. There’s also an Emperor Weapon, which should be of some help to you.” Chu Kuangren took out a Yin and Yang Ring and handed it to Lan Yu.
Lan Yu accepted it gratefully. “Thank you, Master.”
“You’re welcome. I’ve also given you a piece of the Holy Ancestral Land’s Foundation back then, right? Your cultivation is nearing a bottleneck, and I myself would suffice to beat down Sword Tribe those rascals, so you stay here and be in closed-door meditation for the time being.”
“Sounds good.”
After that, Lan Yu bid a temporary goodbye to Chu Kuangren before heading to the place where Nangong Huang and the others were meditating. Over there, she also began her own meditation to improve her own strength.
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Sword Tribe.
After catching wind of the events that unfolded at Seven Emotions Sect, Sword Tribe Leader instantly lost all hopes and courage he had of battling Chu Kuangren. He slumped into a depressed state for quite some time.
He could not wrap his head around how there could possibly be a sky-pride as terrifying as Chu Kuangren in this world.
“He’s an outlier, an absolute outlier!”
The Sword Tribe Leader groaned at the sky.
He was sitting at the edge of a cliff, where he gazed down at the vast Sword Tribe territories below the canyon. There were numerous exquisite talents in these lands, and sword qi could be seen soaring intensely.
However, he did not feel happy at all.
The Sword Tribe had lost their outlawed sky-pride, their most elite sky-pride of them all. This could be regarded as losing the qualification of competing for the Emperor’s Throne in this era.
“It seems like the Emperor’s Throne of this era would surely end up in the hands of this person and nobody else. Still, after you’ve become Emperor, can you really rest assured that you won’t be met with any harm?”
“The true value of our Sword Tribe lies within our Emperors!!”
“The Emperors can’t interfere in matters that concern beings below the Emperor’s level. But once you become one, do you really think that the Sword Tribe’s Emperor and the Wang clan’s Emperor would let you off the hook that easily?” the Sword Tribe Leader muttered.
He had forgotten his intentions of being enemies with Chu Kuangren, but that did not mean that his hatred for him was gone. Conversely, he hated him to the very core!
Yet, he had already run out of means to exact revenge on him.
He could only leave this matter to the Emperors now.
“Chu Kuangren, I shall see how long you can keep your head up for.”
The Sword Tribe Leader scoffed loudly and prepared to leave the canyon.
Just when he turned around, the longsword at his waist suddenly began to tremble uncontrollably.
“What’s this?” The Sword Tribe Leader’s expression changed abruptly.
Very soon, he realized that not only him, but the swords of all the swordsmen in Sword Tribe started to quiver against their wishes as well.
“What’s going on? Why is my sword shaking?”
“These swords seem to be… fearing something?!”
“Gosh, what the hell does this phenomenon symbolize?!”
In a moment, pandemonium reigned over the entire sword tribe. Everybody was plunged into a state of panic.
Just then, a swordsman seemed to have noticed something. He stared into the distance and his eyes squinted in fear.
A figure was seen slowly approaching the Sword Tribe’s lands. That man was wearing a white robe and had jet-black hair. He looked exquisitely handsome, and his movement almost looked divine.
The more shocking thing for the Sword Tribe people was that the closer this man got to the Sword Tribe lands, the more violent the swords in their hands shuddered.
An uncontrollable terror started to spread in every swordsman’s hearts because they already had a rough idea of this man, who was fast approaching them!
“In this world, only the Exquisite Nine Orifices Sword Heart could make countless sword weapons resonate. After our Daoist is dead, there is only one Exquisite Nine Orifices Sword Heart remaining, which is… Chu Kuangren!!”
“Such an appalling sword Dao ability has to be Chu Kuangren. What is this guy doing at the Sword Tribe?!”
“Boohoo… he can’t be here to join as a swordsman, right?”
“Stop standing there stunned like that. Quick, activate the Sword Tribe Mega Formation!!”
One of the Sword Tribe elders yelled.
The bad blood that Chu Kuangren had with the Sword Tribe was already common knowledge amongst everyone on Emperor Road. Now that he had come to the Sword Tribe, everyone knew that he was not just here to visit.
Adding to the fact that their swords were now emitting a tremendous sense of fear. This had to indicate that he came here to exact revenge.
None of them dared to have any lapse of concentration when facing Chu Kuangren!
They had an intuition.
An intuition that doom was about to descend upon the Sword Tribe!!
Swish…
A sword ray swooped down from the canyon above, landing right in the middle of the crowd. The figure fixed a dead stare on Chu Kuangren, who was walking toward them at a leisurely pace.
“Everyone, brace yourselves!!”
The Sword Tribe Leader growled in command.
At this moment, the Sword Tribe Defensive Mega Formation was already activated.
Streaks of sword qi lashed out from the Sword Tribe territories, interweaving with each other in the sky above them. Then, they turned into a giant bowl-like structure that cupped down onto the Sword Tribe’s lands, shielding them.
The plants and trees were all reduced to charred debris when met with this mega formation.
Chu Kuangren kept his cool even after seeing this.
He did not slow down his pace. Instead, he continued to take his sweet time as he walked toward them, as though he was here as a tourist. There was no hint of hostility or grimness in his expression.
As he edged closer to the Sword Tribe lands, each Sword Tribe swordsman could feel an incredibly horrifying pressure shrouding onto them.
It was not just affecting their bodies, but their minds too.
When he reached in front of the mega formation, Chu Kuangren stopped in his tracks and glanced at the Sword Tribe Leader, who was inside the formation. He greeted him calmly, “Sword Tribe Leader, we finally meet in person.”
“What do you want from us this time?!”
Sword Tribe Leader stared at Chu Kuangren with hostility and questioned him.
“Simple. I want you to pay for what you’ve done.”
Chapter 626 - Master Tribe Leader, I’d Suggest You Choose Your Words Carefully, I’m Taking Your Ancestral Land Foundation
“It’s simple. Apologize and make amends to me.”
Chu Kuangren said casually.
The Sword Tribe Leader looked grim when he heard that. “Are you kidding me? Because of you, the Sword Tribe’s Daoist is dead while Swordsman Mei and Jian Changfeng have betrayed us. We’ve also lost our right to fight for a spot on the Emperor’s Throne. Even the Tempest Sword Sovereign is dead. Despite all of this, you want us to apologize to you?”
The last few sentences were uttered with a grunt.
The Sword Tribe had suffered too great of a loss because of Chu Kuangren.
They had lost their outlawed sky-pride and also a few of their top-notched sky-prides. Even their strongest Sword Sovereign died at the hands of Chu Kuangren.
Yet, Chu Kuangren still came to the Sword Tribe and demanded that they make amends to him?!
As an archaic ancient orthodoxy, no one had ever dared to provoke the Sword Tribe since ancient times, so they had never suffered such humiliation before.
“Was I the one who asked the Sword Tribe to provoke me? You’re clearly in the wrong, yet you have the guts to be so confident. Hmph, what a joke.”
Chu Kuangren’s gaze turned cold.
With a clang, his Descendant Self Sword from his waist immediately unsheathed itself.
A purple sword ray shot into the sky and landed on the Sword Tribe’s defensive formation.
The mega formation composed of sword qi started to tremble violently under the might of that attack. After a while, it shattered into pieces!
The Sword Tribe’s mega formation was destroyed!
With the mega formation’s destruction, a barrage of sword qi swept out in all directions, and the whole of Sword Tribe’s territory was torn into pieces.
An incomparably terrifying surge of Sword-based Daoist Rhyme instantly swept through the entire Sword Tribe’s territory. The swords of every sword cultivator started trembling as if they were trying to tell their masters of the fear and horror they felt.
“Now, I shall teach you what it means to admit your wrongdoings and accept your punishment!” Chu Kuangren snorted before his figure disappeared in a flash. The moment he reappeared before the Sword Tribe Leader, Chu Kuangren’s Descendant Self Sword was held against the Sword Tribe Leader’s neck.
The Sword Tribe Leader could not retaliate at all as his Sword Dao had been completely suppressed by Chu Kuangren!
With his Ultimate Dao and the Exquisite Nine Orifices Sword Heart, no sword cultivators in the whole Emperor Road would dare hold their sword against the likes of Chu Kuangren.
This included the Sword Tribe that specialized in Sword Dao!
Gulp…
The Sword Tribe Leader could not help but gulp.
With the Descendant Self Sword held against his neck, its extremely chilling and sharp sword qi shot out a sword ray, and blood started to trickle.
“How do you want us to make amends?!”
The Sword Tribe Leader asked with gritted teeth.
Chu Kuangren was currently too strong, so there was no way the Sword Tribe could go against him. The Sword Tribe Leader had no choice but to submit.
“How to make amends, you say? It’s actually quite simple. I’ve been a little short on resources recently, so I want your Sword Tribe’s Ancestral Land Foundation.”
Chu Kuangren said lightly.
The Sword Tribe Leader’s eyes widened upon hearing that. “Impossible!”
With a slash, the Sword Tribe Leader heard the sound of a sword cutting through flesh. He felt a chill on his neck as if something was flowing out, gradually wetting his robes…
It was his blood.
“Master Tribe Leader, I’d suggest you choose your words carefully!”
Chu Kuangren looked at the Sword Tribe Leader and warned in a serious tone.
The Sword Tribe cultivators around were red with anger. Their Tribe Leader was threatened with a sword to his neck, yet there was nothing they could do about it. All they could do was stand by and watch.
They did not even dare to speak out against this.
After all, they were afraid!
At this thought, everyone felt furious yet ashamed.
“The Sword Tribe’s Ancestral Land is a resting place for many of our tribe’s Sovereigns. If I give you the Ancestral Land Foundation, where else can the Sovereigns go?!”
“Heh, it’s just a change of location for them to sleep.”
Chu Kuangren chuckled.
Upon hearing this, the Sword Tribe Leader almost vomited blood.
A change in location for them to sleep?
When was it ever that simple?!
Due to the restrictions imposed in the Emperor Road, the Sovereigns could not take action easily. Only in their ancestral land could they exert their full power.
Other than acting as a place of slumber for the Sovereigns, the ancestral land was also a place of refuge should the Sword Tribe ever fall into danger. Besides, the Sword Tribe’s Ancestral Land contained several important places as well.
Places with Opportunities of Fortune, such as the Sword Tomb and Sword Pond.
Handing over the Ancestral Land Foundation to Chu Kuangren would be no different from destroying the whole Ancestral Land. It would mark the end of the Opportunities of Fortune that the Sword Tribe had inherited for thousands of years!
Chu Kuangren was not only tearing apart their orthodoxy!
He was going to destroy the Sword Tribe’s foundation too!
“I can give you everything else in the Sword Tribe but this. The Sword Tribe’s Ancestral Land Foundation is just too important…”
“I have no need for any other resources. The only thing I want from you is the Ancestral Land Foundation!”
Chu Kuangren interrupted the Sword Tribe Leader’s sentence.
“Chu Kuangren, do you really have to go this far?”
“Hmph. Compared to you people coming after my life, all I ask for is the Sword Tribe’s foundation, which is quite a generous demand if I say so myself. It’s alright if you don’t want to give it. After all, wiping out the whole Sword Tribe isn’t that hard for me.”
Chu Kuangren said with a grin, yet his gaze was as cold as ice. If he wanted to be cruel and unreasonable, wiping out the Sword Tribe was not impossible for him to do.
“Alright, then. I’ll take you to the Ancestral Land!”
The Sword Tribe Leader replied shamefully.
After that, he brought Chu Kuangren to the Sword Tribe’s Ancestral Land.
Within the depths of a mountain range, there was a huge mountain that looked like a sword stuck into the ground, and it was surrounded by countless streaks of sword qi.
With his keen senses, Chu Kuangren could feel the spatial fluctuation in that mountain peak. There was another realm hidden within it.
“Let me go. I need to open the secret realm.”
The Sword Tribe Leader said frustratingly.
“Don’t bother. Once I’ve taken the Ancestral Land Foundation, this area will be gone anyway. I’ll just open it with my sword.”
Chu Kuangren raised his hand and unleashed a magnificent streak of sword qi.
Along with a terrifying surge of spatial fluctuations, which caused the whole mountain peak to tremble violently, a huge black opening was torn open in the void.
Ignoring the Sword Tribe Leader, Chu Kuangren’s figure disappeared into a flash as he took a step forward into the Sword Tribe’s Ancestral Land.
The Sword Tribe Leader was left alone, slumped to the ground. He could not care less about tending to the cut on his neck as he yelled into the sky, “Calamity has descended upon this land!”
Inside the Sword Tribe’s Ancestral Land.
Following a loud explosion, all the Sovereigns in the Sword Tribe were awoken with shock. Everyone looked at the pitch-black tear in the void with a grim expression on their faces.
“W-who has broken into the ancestral land?”
“Who would dare do such a thing?!”
A black-haired figure in white robes soon stepped into the ancestral land.
Chu Kuangren’s gaze swept across the Sword Sovereigns present. Then, he tried to locate the Ancestral Land Foundation using his spiritual thoughts.
It did not take long for him to find it, and he dashed into the depths of the ancestral land to obtain the Ancestral Land’s Foundation.
“You imbecile. Do you think we’ll allow you to act as you wish around here?!”
One of the Sword Sovereigns snorted coldly.
As such, he turned into a sword ray to chase after Chu Kuangren. However, before he could get near to the latter, Chu Kuangren had raised his hand and unleashed a surge of sword qi towards him.
That razor-sharp sword qi shot through the sky. In an instant, the sword qi tore through the Sovereign, who exploded into a mist of blood in midair.
“D*mn it. How dare you commit such atrocities inside our Sword Tribe’s Ancestral Land! ”
“Speak out now. Who the hell are you?!”
The group of Sword Sovereigns was furious.
“My name’s Chu Kuangren. I’m here to retrieve your Sword Tribe’s Ancestral Land Foundation!” Chu Kuangren said lightly before disappearing using the Spatial Conveyor Skill.
The expressions of the remaining Sword Sovereigns changed drastically upon hearing Chu Kuangren’s name. No one was a stranger to that name.
Everyone had learned of Chu Kuangren’s name from the Sword Tribe Leader when the Tempest Sword Sovereign was killed.
However, they did not expect that after killing the Tempest Sword Sovereign, Chu Kuangren also wanted their Ancestral Land Foundation. This meant that the Sword Tribe’s foundation would be destroyed!
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