Chapter 503 - 498: Great Brightness

As Li Fan conceived the thought, an immeasurably vast Buddhist Great Hand Seal from the sky reached out to grab him, making Li Fan appear small like an ant under the giant hand seal.

"This is not the previous Kongchen."

Li Fan thought to himself, as Sword Aura roared, the broken sword transformed into the Star Giant Sword and soared into the sky.

The giant hand seal instantly smashed onto the Star Divine Sword, this time, the sword couldn’t break the attack, the Sword Aura dispersed, the Star Giant Sword turned back into a broken sword and was shattered, instantly fracturing the Sword Intent.

Li Fan felt the world become much darker, as the big hand seal approached to close, covering the sky and the sun, about to envelop him within.

"Boom..."

The violent blood energy erupted from Li Fan’s body, the physical power released to the extreme, with the addition of Sword Dao, forcibly breaking the confinement, his body swiftly fled outward.

His speed was incredibly fast, just about to escape the range of the big hand seal, but before him, a myriad of Buddha’s light appeared, a towering Ancient Buddha blocked the way like a wall, looking up it was too high to see the top.

The Ancient Buddha clasped its palms towards Li Fan, sealing off all escape routes, leaving nowhere to run.

"What is that?"

A voice cursed, the speaker was Shi Dao Ren, after Zuo Canglan appeared, this battlefield instantly became the absolute core, everyone understood that the battle between Zuo Canglan and Li Fan was the one that could decide the course of the battle, hence the intensity of other battles was not as fierce.

Just now everyone’s attention was still on Zuo Canglan, but the moment Kongchen made a move, it attracted many eyes, especially after seeing Kongchen’s techniques.

This was no Buddha Son of the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, even the first seat of the Precepts Institute Ku Chan probably didn’t have such divine skills.

Shi Dao Ren’s body transformed into a stream of light and moved forward.

"Amitabha Buddha."

The Buddhist chant was haunting, as Big Ear Monk Shi Chan Monk appeared in front of him, blocking his path.

In other directions, there were also people wanting to support, but all were intercepted.

The direction of Yun Meng City, countless people watched the shocking scene on the battlefield, Li Fan seemed to have entered a desperate situation, buried in the Buddhist Palm Seal, his figure was no longer visible.

Lu Yuan and others held their breath, their hearts pounding violently, wishing to rush to the battlefield, but such a high-level battle, they couldn’t even approach, they could only watch as the hand seal closed.

"Buzz." Sword Aura in the sky, Lu Yuan unexpectedly rushed towards the battlefield, but was obstructed by an invisible force, she looked back at Qu Qingfeng and said, "Mr. Qu..."

"Mr. Zuo has the ability to support, but he is not in a hurry, there should be a variable, going there would be meaningless." Qu Qingfeng said, if he could intervene, he wouldn’t be standing here watching.

At this moment, Lu Yuan had no mind to look at Zuo Canglan’s battlefield side, the giant hand seal was about to close, even she felt suffocated, not to mention Li Fan.

The Buddhist Great Hand Seal finally closed, countless people held their breath, their eyes fixed on that side, would Li Fan die under this hand seal?

"It hasn’t closed, nor is there any sound..."

Someone noticed that the big hand seal that was supposed to close had stalled and hadn’t fully closed.

"What is that!"

Dazzling sword light flowed out from the gap of the Buddhist Great Hand Seal, terrifying aura swept across the world.

"Sword Intent."

Countless gazes were fixed there, as countless cracks appeared on the immense Buddhist Great Hand Seal, these cracks continuously expanded, looking like great road fissures on the hand seal, brilliantly dazzling sword light burst forth from the cracks, piercing the eyes.

Boom...

The Buddhist Palm Seal exploded with a thunderous roar, revealing extremely brilliant sword light.

"It’s broken."

Li Fan’s figure reappeared in sight, on his body, strands of sword light shot straight to the Nine Heavens, clouds roared and rolled in the sky, and many fissures appeared in the firmament, sword light from the Nine Heavens fell, turning into infinite ancient sword talismans.

In his hand, he held another sword, the sword’s blade shimmered with Dao patterns, seemingly cast by the Great Dao, an extremely ancient aura emanated from the sword, and many other battlefields involuntarily stopped their fights, looking at the sword in Li Fan’s hand.

"It has appeared."

The court had one purpose for visiting Li Mountain back then, wanting to find the sword of Li Mountain, Master Taihao had also said not long ago, since Li Fan inherited Li Mountain, he might have a sword on him.

Now, that sword has appeared.

At this moment, Li Fan closed his eyes, he perceived the ancient existence above the sky, that Sword Dao God seemed to hover over his head.

Above Li Fan’s head appeared ancient sword dao roads, transforming into a Dao Sword River, resplendent like the starry sky.

Countless sword dao characters flowed from the Sword River onto Li Fan, he seemed to be muttering, reciting the ancient Sword Scripture, similar to the Great Dao Buddhist Mantra echoing in the world, gradually resonating with the heavens and the earth.

Even people from a thousand miles away now heard in their minds the great dao sword sound, the boundless vast land, all swords trembled, and the sky filled with sword light flew towards Li Fan’s body.

"Boom..."

An enormous and ancient Sword God’s figure condensed and merged with Li Fan’s body, becoming one, that ancient Sword God figure was precisely in Li Fan’s likeness, resembling Fatian Xiangdi, or like a Dao Divine Body.

This Taoist Body, formed by the Great Dao, had the Path of Sword flowing on its body.

The Nine Heavens Mysterious Sword Scripture’s Great Dao personally arrived, the heavens transformed into dao; the Heavenly Essence Sword Scripture’s Immortal Sword form.

Combined as one.

At this moment, the aura on Li Fan’s body was no longer in the Initial Realm of the Seven Realms but has directly reached the peak of the Seven Realms.

Back then, Li Fan used this Divine Sword to communicate with the Nine Heavens, obtaining the Nine Heavens Mysterious Sword Scripture, now with the Divine Sword in hand, he seemed one with the Great Dao.

He had used the Divine Sword before, but couldn’t unleash its power, even fainting once after, but now, he had entered the Seven Realms, comprehending the Great Dao, and bonded with the Divine Sword.

He had never felt so powerful.

"Boom..."

The void trembled, a gigantic Buddha statue extended its Buddhist hand once again to repress Li Fan.

Li Fan raised his hand, the Divine Sword slashed out, and great road fissures appeared on the huge Buddhist hand print, instantly collapsing and shattering.

He then looked at the Buddha, Li Fan’s body, like that of an Immortal God, moved forward, and due to his huge figure, it seemed with just one step he reached the giant Buddha, the Divine Sword in his hand slashed across, beams of great Dao sword light cleaved open space, the giant Buddha’s body lit up with countless Buddha characters, but they all shattered under the slash of the Divine Sword.

The Divine Sword struck the giant Buddha’s head, with a great boom, the giant Buddha’s head was shattered, and the massive body also disintegrated accordingly.

After Li Fan shattered the Buddha’s head, he looked towards Kongchen, the Dao flowed around him, his Taoist Body was like that of a Sword God incarnate.

At this moment, likewise, the sky was filled with the Buddhist Mantra resounding between heaven and earth, as the Buddhist mantra played, Kongchen’s body turned into an Ancient Buddha, not only that, several Buddha figures emerged above the heavens, appearing in the clouds, overlooking the multitude.

The crowd looked up at the sky, feeling incredibly insignificant.

The battle between the two seemed like a duel between the Sword God and the Buddha.

"Om Mani Padme Hum."

"Om Mani Padme Hum..."

The Buddhist True Words echoed through the heavens and the earth, as the Buddha, who was one with the heavens and the earth, simultaneously reached out his palm, the Thousand Buddha Hand Seal attacking towards Li Fan at the center.

The moment the Hand Seal appeared, a storm of destruction swept down upon the figure of the Sword God, seemingly ignoring time and space.

"Boom..."

The storm swept down heavily, the Thousand Buddha Hand Seal engulfed the heavens and the earth, the crowd could only see countless layers of Buddhist Seals, wave after wave, sweeping down, yet when they landed on the Sword God’s body, they instantly shattered.

Thus, an extremely shocking scene appeared in the vision of the cultivators— the continual assault of the destructive Thousand Buddha Hand Seals on Li Fan, continuously shattering.

"It seems you still haven’t escaped the shackles of cultivation." Li Fan spoke, with the power of the Divine Sword he had transformed, no longer a body of flesh and blood.

His body was formed by the Great Dao, covered in the Silent Extinction Sword Dao, any attack would be destroyed upon landing.

Unless, the power of the Dao attacking him was stronger than his Dao body.

Regardless of whether Kongchen was the reincarnation of a Buddha, he borrowed external power rather than his own cultivation, thus he could not escape the shackles of his realm, previously able to crush him, but now facing him as the Sword God with the Divine Sword, it was difficult to shake.

"Today, I shall cut you down once more."

As Li Fan’s words fell, he stepped forward, his figure disappearing from its original place.

Above the sky, in front of the All Heavens Buddha, the Sword Immortal unsheathed his sword, a series of Destruction Sword Rivers appeared in the sky, leaving cracks in the sky, it was the river of destruction, the All Heavens Buddha’s body was cleaved, and the Buddha shadow formed by Kongchen was also shattered, his true self disappearing instantly, fleeing high into the sky.

Li Fan raised his eyes and glanced at the fleeing figure, his pupils emanating sword light.

"Where are you going?"

A loud shout, his body soared into the sky, appearing beneath Kongchen in an instant, but at that moment, he saw a smile still in Kongchen’s eyes, billions of Buddha lights pouring over the sky, a boundless mighty force descending from beyond the heavens.

Li Fan swung his sword.

"Clang..."

A loud crash, a giant golden hand covered the heavens and the earth, an immense power descended, suppressing the sword that Li Fan had swung, the immense force bore down, forcefully shaking Li Fan’s body back.

Endless Buddhist Mantras resonated between the heavens and the earth, ringing in everyone’s ears.

All the battles stopped, everyone looked up at the sky, the entire sky transformed into a face, a Buddha.

This Buddha seemed to have transformed into the Great Dao itself, overlooking all beings.

The head of the Precepts Institute at the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, Ku Chan, folded his hands together, bowing slightly, reciting the Buddha’s voice softly.

Master Taihao also bowed his head, not daring to gaze directly.

"A Saint?"

Li Fan felt the boundless power still pressing down overhead, this was beyond the Seven Realms, it was the power of a Saint.

His face instantly turned extremely grim, had a Buddhist Sect Saint made a move?

Then, even with the Divine Sword in hand, he could hardly resist.

"It’s over."

A thought arose in everyone’s minds.

For some reason, at this moment, the people of Yun Meng City felt a sense of sorrow arise in their hearts, Li Fan and his companions were strong enough, but with a Saint’s arrival, how could they resist?

Recalling that year, the Eternal Sword Saint entered the Imperial City with his sword, leaving a sword in the Capital.

Now, the Buddhist Sect is oppressing Li Mountain, lacking a Saint.

No one would doubt the power of a Saint, even if it wasn’t the Saint’s true body coming, back then the Eternal Sword Saint entered the Imperial City, similarly, only his sword went.

In the dead silent space, no one was fighting, no one speaking.

It seemed as if the end of this battle had been decided.

Time seemed frozen.

Yet, in this seemingly frozen time, there was someone moving.

Therefore, this single moving figure instantly became the absolute focal point.

All eyes fell upon him.

That old man, the blind old man, the genius sword cultivator taken away when the Eternal Sword Saint entered the Imperial City years ago, Zuo Canglan.

Just like how the Eternal Sword Saint took him away back then.

Now, he was standing above his disciple, blocking the Saint.

All of this seemed like a cycle.

"Teacher, you’ve aged, let me do this myself." Li Fan whispered.

"I’m old, not dead." Zuo Canglan whispered back, "After all these years, I’ve comprehended only two swords, you’ve already seen the first one, this second one, will possibly be my only sword left, watch it closely."

"Only one sword?" Li Fan’s heart trembled, "If it’s only one sword, can’t you save it for yourself to leave, after all, they’re after me."

"What are you thinking, brat?" the Old Blind Man said, "There’s only one sword because perhaps in this lifetime I have only one chance to unleash such a sword, so watch it closely."

"This sword will be very strong!"

The Old Blind Man shouted loudly, as his words fell, he opened his eyes.

The blind man opened his eyes.

At that moment, heaven and earth erupted in light.

"This sword, Great Brightness!"