Published: March 7, 2025
CHAPTER EIGHT: Those Who Follow Me Flourish, Those Who Oppose Me Perish!
Chu Yang's body trembled slightly. He quickly thought about it, especially the four words "take the place of," which kept swirling in his mind.
"Taking advantage of the ambition of the families in the Middle Three Heavens to rush into the Upper Three Heavens..." Chu Yang scoffed, saying, "This is quite unreliable! As it stands, we can already say that the experts we see on the throne of the Middle Three Heavens are quite formidable; the number of imperial level experts among the various families is even more limited! And the one before us has already reached this level, imperial ninth rank! So, how many lord-level saint level experts are there among the nine great clans? With the trivial strength of the Middle Three Heavens noble families, how can they take the place of others?"
"Every generation of major noble families has ambition to rush into the Upper Three Heavens! But they dare not reveal it; do you think these families with thousands of years of heritage have such little foundation?" The Sword Spirit snorted and said, "How many real experts are out there running around? Wouldn't that be asking the ruling families of the Upper Three Heavens to come down and eliminate them?"
"But the Gu Family imprisoned the patriarch's own daughter, Gu Miaoling, because of their failure to break into an imperial level, and it's certain that the Gu Family does not have any imperial level experts." Chu Yang firmly believed Gu Duxing's words because Gu Duxing had no reason to deceive him.
"How long has the Gu Family existed?" The Sword Spirit said disdainfully, "In just a few hundred years or even dozens of years, is it strange that they don't have any imperial level experts?"
"When you truly start to conquer, you will find how great your resistance is!" The Sword Spirit slowly said, "But... you also need to know that the greater the resistance, the greater the momentum!"
"Have the generations of Nine Calamity Sword Masters done this?" Chu Yang frowned.
"Those who follow me flourish; those who oppose me perish!" The Sword Spirit said lightly, "This is the path of the Nine Calamity Sword Master!" After a pause, he continued, "Your temperament is already sufficient, your honing is enough! You have the means and wisdom, the only thing lacking is this kind of dominance of 'those who follow me flourish; those who oppose me perish!'"
"Utilizing the ambitions of the various families..." Chu Yang's eyes flickered as he let out a long breath. Then all his thoughts immersed in those eight words.
Those who follow me flourish! Those who oppose me perish!
Facing the multitude of experts in the Nine Heavens with such a domineering mindset?! What kind of spirit is this?!
Chu Yang sat there, imagining the heroic demeanor of the generations of Nine Calamity Sword Masters who swept through the Nine Heavens with a single sword, the kind of tyrannical aura that seemed to say, "Who else but me in this world," and could not help but feel a surge of pride in his heart!
The Nine Calamity Sword in his dantian seemed to be infected by this atmosphere as it suddenly let out a clang, churning in his dantian, a chilling aura rushing out from the sword tip, like lightning, it poured into Chu Yang's dantian and wrapped around his meridians in an instant!
Chu Yang felt as if his meridians were being torn apart at that moment, fragmented; an extreme pain suddenly triggered a fierce and violent aura, almost causing him to howl at the sky!
Startled, he quickly mobilized his power, running the Nine Heavens Divine Skill at full strength to forcefully suppress the violent aura from the Nine Calamity Sword back into the dantian! With a thought, a clear divine thought fiercely pushed back: I want to conquer! That is my affair! I do not need to be controlled by a sword!
I want to conquer the Nine Heavens with my own strength!
With my own strength... conquer the Nine Heavens! Those who follow me flourish, those who oppose me perish!