Chapter 45: Eternal Divine Weapon

At this moment, the Misty Rock Star Lord's momentum was overwhelming.

"Break for me." The gray-white Misty Rock Star Lord swung out streaks of星河 sword light, causing the enormous, slowly rotating nine-petal black lotus to crack and collapse. Yet the Black Lotus God Emperor still stood on the black lotus, letting it all happen, and said softly, "The Misty Rock Destruction Chapter, I hear it's merely a fragment of an ancient technique, and its power is already this formidable. I wonder how powerful the complete ancient technique would be."

Several of Misty Rock Star's ultimate techniques were incomplete.

Like the fragment of the *Mortal World Scroll*.

Like the *Misty Rock Destruction Chapter*, both were fragments, not complete techniques.

Ji Ning's *Nameless Sword Art* was also incomplete.

The reason many techniques were only passed down as fragments was that some techniques were too profound to be fully recorded! For instance, the Three Pure Daoist had to reach a sufficiently high level of insight and spend eons to record the Ninefold Chaos Seals! Note that Ji Ning had already merged the Ninefold Chaos Seals into one.

Techniques like the *Mortal World Scroll* and the *Nameless Sword Art* were ancient techniques that even Dao Lords admired; World Gods simply lacked the ability to record them entirely and could only record parts.

When the Northrest World God encountered the *Nameless Sword Art* through a stroke of luck, given his level of insight at the time, he could only record the first seven stances; he couldn't record the rest.

"Dealing with you is enough." The Misty Rock Star Lord's killing intent surged.

"Overreaching." The Black Lotus God Emperor watched coldly. "I had planned to defeat you with just a few secret arts without using any treasures, but it seems I must use a treasure. It's been a very long time since I last truly fought."

The Black Lotus God Emperor extended his right hand. With a swoosh, a crystalline curved blade, as if carved from ice, appeared. The Black Lotus God Emperor grasped the hilt; the entire curved blade was a full zhang long.

Swoosh!

An inexplicable aura instantly enveloped the entire city, even sweeping beyond it to cover a much larger area.

The entire battlefield fell silent.

Cold!

Every cultivator, whether Ancestral God, World God, or Chaos Immortal, felt a chill in their hearts.

"That is..." All cultivators involuntarily turned their heads to look at the source of their inner chill and fear—the crystalline icy curved blade in the Black Lotus God Emperor's hand. A trace of cyan light flowed across its surface. Just looking at it made every cultivator present tremble.

"This is?" Ji Ning's heart trembled.

"It's an Eternal Divine Weapon." The nearby Void Immortal's face also turned pale. "That is an Eternal Divine Weapon. I've seen the might of an Eternal Divine Weapon before... when you see it, you lose your courage."

"Eternal Divine Weapon." The Black Mist World God, Skyblaze Immortal, and the others also changed expression.

"How can there be an Eternal Divine Weapon?"

"How can the Black Lotus God Emperor be this powerful?"

Everyone was stunned.

An Eternal Divine Weapon was a legend among World-level experts! In the entire Damo Territory, those who possessed an Eternal Divine Weapon could be counted on one's fingers, either through fortune or bestowed by a Dao Lord! Even Dao Lords generally used Eternal Divine Weapons, so having a Dao Lord bestow one was no easy matter.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." An intangible chill spread through every cultivator's heart.

"When I wield an Eternal Divine Weapon, none of the surrounding World-level experts pay it any mind. But as soon as the Black Lotus God Emperor brings out his Eternal Divine Weapon, it intimidates the entire battlefield." Ji Ning sighed inwardly. He knew that his sword realm was insufficient; he could only draw a mere trace of the 'divine sword's origin' power from the Violetjade Sword. It was too insignificant.

If he had the strength of the Northrest World God and could draw thirty to forty percent of the divine sword's origin power...

Just standing there with the sword would be enough to make World-level experts lose their will to fight.

"World God peak—I didn't expect the Black Lotus God Emperor to be this strong." Void Immortal's eyes showed anxiety.

"Black Lotus."

The Misty Rock Star Lord retreated. He slowly backed away, watching the Black Lotus God Emperor.

"Why retreat?" the Black Lotus God Emperor said calmly.

"I concede." The Misty Rock Star Lord said in a low voice. "I am willing to pay a sufficient price to appease your anger, Black Lotus God Emperor."

As a cultivator, one must know when to advance and retreat. When the gap in strength was this vast, blindly charging forward would be suicide.

"Hahaha..." The Black Lotus God Emperor laughed. "Sufficient price? In my eyes, your Misty Rock Star lineage has nothing... Oh, I do like that Misty Rock Star. If you give it to me, I might let you go."

"Impossible, Black Lotus God Emperor. You should know that Misty Rock Star is the inherited treasure of our lineage. Only those of our Misty Rock Star lineage can refine and control it." The Misty Rock Star Lord said.

This was the truth.

Even if the Misty Rock Star lineage were wiped out, some wandering experts of the lineage would usually return to avenge it, retrieve the inherited treasure, and the lineage would continue. For example, the Misty Rock Star Lord's father, the previous Misty Rock Star Lord, had gone wandering.

This was the custom of the Misty Rock Star lineage. When one reached a certain level of strength, they would wander outside. After ten or a hundred chaos cycles, perhaps some expert would return. Thus, the Misty Rock Star lineage had always endured.

And the most important inherited treasure could only be mastered by cultivating certain core techniques. Those core techniques could never be leaked.

"I am willing to offer treasures worth three thousand cubes of chaos nectar." The Misty Rock Star Lord quickly said.

"Do you think I care?" The Black Lotus God Emperor held the curved blade.

The Misty Rock Star Lord's expression grew even uglier.

"I have wandered across many territories and studied under several masters, but I could never take that final step. I have no hope of reaching the 'Dao Lord of Life and Death' realm in this life." The Black Lotus God Emperor said softly. "So I returned to the Damo Territory. It had changed greatly since I left, and when I was born, this place wasn't even called the Damo Territory..."

"I casually established a kingdom and became an emperor, only to have someone come knocking at my door."

"It seems I've been too merciful."

"Actually, when I wandered outside, I had a title: 'Black Lotus Daoist.'" The Black Lotus God Emperor said leisurely.

"Black Lotus Daoist?" Void Immortal quickly sent a message. "Be careful. I know who he is. He's a true demon, fond of slaughter, walking the path of evil. Don't trust him easily. He's unpredictable, and too many World-level experts have died by his hand. He vanished long ago, but now he's built a kingdom in the Damo Territory and become an emperor."

"Black Lotus Daoist?" The other World-level experts, including the Misty Rock Star Lord, didn't know what the name signified.

But the Misty Rock Star Lord and the others understood how to respond.

The Black Lotus God Emperor shook his head. "But today, I'll be merciful once more. I'll give you two choices."

"One: hand over all your treasures, including the Misty Rock Star and all the techniques within it." The Black Lotus God Emperor said. "I'll spare your lives."

"The other: die." The Black Lotus God Emperor's gaze was calm. The Misty Rock Star lineage indeed had a long history; perhaps there were some powerful techniques that could help him. Though he felt breakthrough was hopeless, he still wanted to try.

"Misty Rock Star? All the techniques of Misty Rock Star?" The Misty Rock Star Lord's skin turned gray-white again. He couldn't hand them over because he had sworn a lifeblood oath upon joining the lineage. If he broke it, he would die instantly. He simply couldn't hand them over.

"Kill." The Misty Rock Star Lord's entire body was covered in a layer of gray-white, his eyes full of madness and killing intent.

"Sister Yi's revenge is already settled. Today, let's have a good fight. I want to see just how powerful this Eternal Divine Weapon really is." The Misty Rock Star Lord charged forward madly.

As the Misty Rock Star Lord charged—

"Flee!"

"All of you, flee!"

"I'll hold him off. Flee into the Misty Rock Star. Once inside, the Black Lotus God Emperor won't be able to harm you." The Misty Rock Star Lord's voice echoed simultaneously in the minds of Ji Ning, Void Immortal, Black Mist World God, and even the Ancestral Gods.

Boom~~~

At the same time, the enormous star that had been high above began to descend rapidly.

Ji Ning and the others understood that the Misty Rock Star was their home base, with formations and restrictions far stronger than those of Black Lotus Imperial City. Taking refuge inside would be safe! The Misty Rock Star Lord was the strongest among them, and only he had a chance to hold off the Black Lotus God Emperor.

"Hold me off?" The Black Lotus God Emperor, holding the enormous crystalline curved blade, stepped forward. His voice also echoed in the ears of all cultivators on the Misty Rock Star side. "You truly have a good Star Lord. But unfortunately, he can't hold me off. You will all die."