Seeking the Flying Sword Path

Qin Yun stood on a cloud while Elder Yellowbeard stood by the side with his Dharmic powers sealed. A distance away, a yellow loach was launched into the sky after being caught.

“Transform.” Qin Yun pointed into the distant, causing the loach to turn into Elder Yellowbeard as well.

With a wave of his hand, he put away the Heaven and Earth Myriad Objects Noose.

At that moment, two of Yellowbeard’s avatars had their Dharmic powers sealed. Their Essence Souls were being sealed so it was impossible for them to even commit suicide. Even their limbs were restrained.

“What treasure is that?” Yellowbeard’s eyes burned with greed when he saw Qin Yun put away the Heaven and Earth Myriad Objects Noose. “Although this avatar of mine isn’t considered powerful, with it only having the strength of a pinnacle mighty figure, I was captured before I could even realize it… This must be a Connate Cardinal treasure.”

“Are you still thinking of obtaining treasures at this point in time?” Qin Yun looked at him with a sneer.

“Haha, what’s there for me to be afraid of?” Although the two Yellowbeard avatars had been captured, he remained extremely relaxed. One of them said with a laugh, “I have nine avatars, and including my main body, I have a total of ten bodies! Even if you capture two alive… I still have eight left. What can you do to me? Besides, these two bodies are weak, so I don’t care even if you capture them. As for you, Qin Yun, you should consider your family and those disciples of yours.”

“Are you still threatening me?” Qin Yun stared at him.

“That is the path you chose yourself,” said Yellowbeard indifferently. “If you still remain unrepentant, I’ll give you another chance. Otherwise, your choices today will determine the fate of your Qin family. I will have to have them exterminated! Having lived so long in the Three Realms, mark my words that I’ll do as I say!”

Qin Yun gave him a glance and couldn’t be bothered to speak further.

Meanwhile, he sent a karmic voice transmission. “Master, I have captured two of Elder Yellowbeard’s avatars alive. I plan on killing him now.”

“Alright, let me see what means you have,” replied Numinous Treasure Dao Ancestor from afar.

After informing his master, he immediately sent a voice transmission to Hou Yi.

“Brother Hou Yi, you can come over now,” said Qin Yun via a voice transmission.

“Coming.”

In the time it took to blink a few times, a figure crossed through space and arrived in this Great World where he stood beside Qin Yun.

“Oh?” Yellowbeard, whose two avatars were caught, looked in astonishment at the linen-clothed man. “Hou Yi?”

“Brother Hou Yi, I’ll be troubling you,” said Qin Yun.

“You captured two of his avatars alive. This will make killing him easier.” Hou Yi nodded slightly upon taking in the situation.

When Yellowbeard saw Hou Yi, he had a guess. Upon hearing this, he could not help but scoff. “Are you having Hou Yi kill me? Hou Yi’s arrows are indeed famous in the Three Realms, being said to have the might of the Heavenly Dao realm, but some of my avatars are in the fiendish dominions or the Tenebrous Fiend Abyss… How does Hou Yi plan to kill me? Even an arrow at the Heavenly Dao realm will be greatly reduced after karmic transmission. Would that be able to destroy my perfected Great Dao avatars?”

“Begin.” Hou Yi couldn’t be bothered to speak further with Yellowbeard.

Qin Yun waved his hand and separated the two Yellowbeard avatars, making them float in two different spots.

“Boom!”

Hou Yi turned stern as a terrifying aura erupted from his body.

“Ignition of Essence Soul?” Yellowbeard was alarmed.

“The first arrow.” While burning his Essence Soul, Hou Yi did not hesitate to draw his bow fully and shoot out an arrow straight towards the cosmos!

This arrow’s might was extremely terrifying. It left Yellowbeard’s heart palpitating. Without a doubt, the arrow had reached the might of the Heavenly Dao realm. However, this arrow had flown out the Yellowbeard Great World and into the depths of the interstellar space.

“What’s he doing?” Yellowbeard’s two avatars were somewhat puzzled. “He did not shoot at me and instead shot into space?”

At that moment—

Many mighty figures in the Three Realms were alarmed by this arrow.

When burning his Essence Soul, Hou Yi’s first arrow had the might of the Heavenly Dao realm. He made no effort to conceal it, so when the arrow shot out the Great World and into space, this terrifying fluctuation rapidly garnered the attention of many mighty figures.

“Oh?”

In the Western Paradise’s Mt. Numinous, the Buddhist Ancestor Gautama was preaching the Buddhist Dharma to the various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats sitting below him. But at that moment, he could not help but turn his head to look at the Yellowbeard Great World of the lower realm.

Those Buddhas and Bodhisattvas all followed his gaze to the Yellowbeard Great World.

“The lord of the Yellowbeard Great World has two of his avatars captured?”

“Sword Immortal Qin has the Misty Rain Array protecting the surroundings while Hou Yi is shooting into space?”

“What are they up to?”

…

Even the Grand Supreme Dao Ancestor, Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning, Grand Supreme Dao Ancestor, and Fiend Ancestor Black Lotus were watching. All of them were astonished.

Many ancient existences also noticed this scene.

Some had guesses while others were puzzled.

“Numinous Treasure, what’s your disciple doing?” Grand Supreme Dao Ancestor inquired remotely.

“Haha, killing that loach.” Inside Green Touring Palace, Numinous Treasure chortled with a reply. He understood the situation best as he said, “Primordial Beginning, you had once taken action personally to kill that loach, but you failed. Let’s see how my disciple will fare.”

“This loach isn’t that easily killed.” Primordial Beginning watched from afar.

All of them knew that killing Yellowbeard was difficult.

Even if only two avatars were caught alive, existences at the Dao Ancestor level could deliver blows that transmitted through karma, but Yellowbeard’s avatars were hidden in Great Worlds. The might delivered by the Dao Ancestors would have to pass through the Great Worlds and suffer the obstruction of the Heavenly Dao laws. Their might will be rapidly reduced to a triviality, making it impossible to threaten a perfected Great Dao expert. When Heavenly Dao realm existences attacked, their strength was greatly reduced in Small Worlds and Great Worlds.

Therefore, to kill Yellowbeard, only Hou Yi stood a chance.

“Swoosh!”

Hou Yi drew his bow and aimed into the sky above him, sending his arrow into the cosmos.

The might of the arrows kept increasing.

“Despite burning his Essence Soul, two consecutive arrows have been sent into the cosmos?”

“The second arrow is stronger than the first. Could it be…”

This scene gave many mighty figures guesses.

“Hou Yi is planning to…”

“To shoot nine successive arrows while burning his Essence Soul?”

These ancient existences all knew how powerful Hou Yi’s nine successive arrows were, with each arrow more terrifying than the previous one. However, burning his Essence Soul dealt too much damage to his Essence Soul. Hou Yi had done it once when he was still a pinnacle mighty figure. That time, he ended up falling into a deep slumber. Ever since he reached the half-step Heavenly Dao realm, he had never done it again!

Some ancient existences even believed that to burn his Essence Soul at the half-step Heavenly Dao realm enervated Hou Yi so drastically that he wouldn’t dare do it.

In short, Hou Yi had never repeated this feat in the Three Realms.

However, Qin Yun, Kong Xuan, and Goumang knew very well… Back in the spatial tide, Hou Yi had done so again. To kill Bohan Island Lord’s avatar, he went all out. It made Hou Yi realize that he could withstand the damage dealt to him by the eighth arrow. With the Soul Heart Fruit in hand, he was no longer afraid of spending long periods of time to restore himself.

“Swoosh!”

Hou Yi calmly shot out his third arrow.

This arrow’s might continued increasing.

“The might is even stronger.” Grand Supreme Dao Ancestor pricked up his brows and nodded gently. “The first arrow already has strength at the Heavenly Dao realm, so how powerful would the ninth arrow be?”

This made even the few Heavenly Dao realm existences view this matter with seriousness.

…

“He’s shooting his nine successive arrows. Hou Yi plans to burn his Essence Soul to shoot nine successive arrows.”

In a restaurant in the Changyu Great World, another avatar of Yellowbeard sat at a table. His face wore a look of anxiety and unease. “The first arrow’s strength is already at the Heavenly Dao realm. How much stronger would the ninth arrow be? Even if its strength is greatly reduced by a karmic transmission, it will still be terrifying, right? Will I be able to withstand the blow?”

He had a faint premonition of an approaching death.

“This Hou Yi has only ever given his all back when he was a pinnacle mighty figure. Now that he’s at the half-step Heavenly Dao realm, he’s actually going all out again? To burn his Essence Soul for the shooting of nine successive arrows? How deep does his relationship with Qin Yun go? He’s trying to kill me at the cost of falling into a deep slumber?” Yellowbeard found it unbelievable.

However, he was unaware.

Hou Yi and Qin Yun were indeed good friends, but the former wouldn’t risk falling into a deep slumber to kill an old loach like him.

However, with the Soul Heart Fruits, he had the confidence to burn his Essence Soul! Qin Yun was giving Hou Yi the spatial shields, a Connate Cardinal treasure, so Hou Yi naturally did his best.

For this huge price that Qin Yun paid, killing Yellowbeard was just one aspect of it. Another aspect involved his wish for Hou Yi to protect his family even if he failed to transcend the tribulation.

After Hou Yi burned his Essence Soul to shoot the arrows successively… it would definitely make the ancient existences fear Hou Yi even more.

With Hou Yi doing his best to protect the Qin family, the effects would only become better.

“The fourth arrow.” Yellowbeard’s face turned pale. “No matter where I hide, there’s no way to dodge the karmic transmission. No— There’s still one more place! The spatial tide! I can go to the spatial tide!

“After entering the spatial tide, all karmic connections will be severed. Even my main body will not sense my avatar.

“It’s just that the spatial tide is too dangerous. I once sent avatars in, but all of them died in there.”

Many ancient existences had attempted to probe the spatial tide with their avatars.

But the typical result was—

The death of their avatars!

Few could survive in the spatial tide.

Back then, the Three Pure Ones had joined forces to travel the spatial tide. Qin Yun, Hou Yi, and Kong Xuan had also done so. As for Qin Yun’s first entry into the spatial tide, he encountered the other-universe cultivator, Fate. They were pursued and had to rush back to the Three Realms. They were lucky to obtain the three corpses of Fate’s envoys, but that trip had been perilous.

With Yellowbeard’s strength, he would be in grave danger if he stayed in there.

“I can’t bother with that.” Yellowbeard immediately split his body into two. They immediately traversed through distance space and arrived at two different boundaries of the Three Realms.

He planned on passing through the Three Realms’ membrane and entering the Chaos.

“Obliterate.”

A gigantic finger phantom descended out of the void. It suffused a pure-colored aura swirl.

When Yellowbeard saw this scene, he exclaimed in despair, “Numinous Treasure!”

Pu!

The finger phantom struck Yellowbeard’s avatar, vanquishing his avatar instantly.

On the other side of the Three Realms, Yellowbeard’s avatar had a drastic change in expression. “Numinous Treasure has taken action? With him taking action, even if I rushed to the Chaos spatial rift, the array formation that seals the rift was set up by Goddess Nüwa and the Three Pure Ones. With just a thought, Numinous Treasure will make the array formation stop me, preventing me from entering the spatial tide.”

At that moment, a gigantic finger phantom descended.

Yellowbeard’s avatar looked up and bellowed angrily, “Numinous Treasure, you are being a bully. How shameless!”

“Pfft!”

The finger pressed down, and with that, this avatar of Yellowbeard perished.

Yellowbeard had no hope of escaping to the spatial tide with Numinous Treasure Dao Ancestor present.