Silence.
A deathly silence!
The plaza was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
All the Righteous People stared at the fallen Priests, unable to rise. The shock on their faces was greater than anything they had ever experienced in their lives.
They had imagined countless scenarios in their minds.
Wang Xiao would fight the Priests and lose, his Martial Arts crippled or his life forfeit.
Wang Xiao would force his way through the Priests’ blockade, only to be slain by Sect Leader Nangong.
But every single one of these imagined scenes was shattered by the sight before them!
The Priests of Celestial Sword Mountain—whose Cultivation ranged from the Refining Acupoints Human Immortal Realm to even the Half-Step Celestial Human Realm—were now all prostrate on the stone steps, unable to rise.
They couldn’t even hold onto the sharp swords in their hands!
If not for the violent aftershocks that stirred the hems of their robes, they would have suspected they were dreaming!
The scene was simply too unreal.
For a mont, no one spoke. Or rather, everyone had forgotten how to, their minds a complete blank.
Among the Priests, the leader, Li Xu, had the highest Cultivation.
He was the first to react, his initial horror giving way to utter disbelief.
His aged body began to tremble uncontrollably, and his voice quivered as he spoke:
"You... you’ve broken through to the Celestial Human Realm?!"
’It can’t be wrong!’
’Only the Celestial Human Realm could exert such imnse spiritual pressure on him, making him unable to even hold his sword steady.’
’But how is this possible?!’
’Soone in this world actually managed to break through to the Celestial Human Realm without the help of the Celestial Sword or the Blood Pool deep in the Wilderness!’
’For five hundred years, countless Human Immortals at the Refining Acupoints stage and Half-Step Celestial Beings have failed at the threshold of the Celestial Human Realm.’
’Yet this chasm had been crossed by the young man before him!’
Faced with sothing so inconceivable, even soone as composed as Li Xu couldn’t help but feel his heart surge, the shock written all over his face.
The other Priests also wore looks of dazed shock.
They were among the most elite Cultivators in this world; naturally, they knew what the Celestial Human Realm represented!
It was their ultimate goal, the Realm they dread of reaching.
However, they knew that without a special Magic Technique, they were fated to never advance beyond the Refining Acupoints Human Immortal Realm.
And yet, this young man before them had just shattered their understanding of the world.
So it was true. Soone really could break through to the Celestial Human Realm without relying on the Celestial Sword or the Blood Pool in the depths of the Wilderness!
Down in the plaza below, hearing Li Xu’s words, the mbers of the Righteous People all snapped back to their senses, shock and excitent written on their faces.
The words "Celestial Human Realm" were simply too impactful!
"The Celestial Human Realm... Wu Chen is a Celestial Human Realm expert! How did he do it?!"
"Could it be? Did he soak in that Blood Pool deep in the Wilderness and beco a Demon Cultivator?!"
"Impossible. A Demon Cultivator wouldn’t look like him. He definitely used so other thod to break through to the Celestial Human Realm!"
"No wonder... No wonder he dared to crash the Celestial Sword Grand Ceremony!"
"No matter the cost, we have to make Wu Chen reveal the thod for this breakthrough!"
These people from the various sects who ca to observe the ceremony were not weak in their Cultivation either.
The weakest among them were Demi-Immortals who were Refining the Five Viscera!
Without exception, a look of intense longing appeared in their eyes.
They would probably abandon everything in an instant if Wang Xiao would just teach them the thod to break through to the Celestial Human Realm!
Wang Xiao looked at the expressions on everyone’s faces and knew he had achieved his goal.
He knew that to make Nangong Shuang and the other leaders of Celestial Sword Mountain give up on having Xu Muying inherit the Celestial Sword and beco the Sword Holder, he had to reveal his Celestial Human Realm strength!
Only by showing them that inheriting the Celestial Sword was not the only path to the Celestial Human Realm would they possibly allow Xu Muying to cultivate his *Celestial Human Temple* technique!
Wang Xiao stood on the stone steps, a faint light glowing between his brows. He looked up at Nangong Shuang and said:
"Sect Leader Nangong, inheriting the Celestial Sword is not the only path to the Celestial Human Realm. Xu Muying has her own choice. Why must you force her to repeat your mistakes?!"
"I have a Technique, called the *Celestial Human Temple*. It can help Xu Muying break through to the Celestial Human Realm. This is the gift I wish to give her!"
He knew that Nangong Shuang’s attitude was the most important factor in getting Xu Muying to give up inheriting the Celestial Sword.
Moreover, he truly didn’t want to clash with Nangong Shuang unless it was absolutely necessary.
It wasn’t that he was afraid of Nangong Shuang, but rather that he planned to face the Demon Lord Linghu Yu at his peak condition!
Right now, the only place in this world he had yet to explore was the Blood Pool deep in the Wilderness.
It contained the Life Essence of the Blood River Race, as well as other important information.
Wang Xiao naturally had to uncover its secrets.
It might give him a deeper understanding of the Life Planets in the Cosmos!
Nangong Shuang stared at Wang Xiao. For the first ti, a change appeared in her emotionless eyes, which were usually as still as an old well.
Within them, confusion and astonishnt gave way to a deep, complex emotion.
She glanced at Xu Muying, whose expression was cold and detached, before finally speaking:
"Even I must admit that you are truly a prodigy of heaven, surpassing everyone in this world. You are destined to be famous for eternity. It is Xu Muying’s good fortune to have a friend like you."
After a pause,
her tone shifted:
"However, are you aware that inheriting the Celestial Sword is not as simple as just breaking through to the Celestial Human Realm?"
"rely breaking through to the Celestial Human Realm is not enough to defeat the Demon Lord and protect the Central State!"
Wang Xiao replied,
"Sect Leader Nangong, what makes you think I am *only* in the Celestial Human Realm?"
He knew what Nangong Shuang was trying to say.
The Celestial Sword contained the Life Essence of the Blood River Race, as well as the Spiritual Will of every Sword Holder through the ages.
Once one mastered the Celestial Sword, the Sword Holder could, for a short ti, break through to the Fourth Layer Spiritual Domain!
Simply breaking through to the Celestial Human Realm and entering the Fog of the First Layer Spiritual Domain was naturally not enough to defeat the Demon Lord.
However, Wang Xiao had painstakingly cultivated the *Celestial Human Temple* for four years. His Spiritual Domain was bound to be higher than that of the Demon Lord and Nangong Shuang.
Nangong Shuang narrowed her eyes, and a sharp sword light blood from between her brows.
"Take one strike from my sword. If you do not die, today’s Celestial Sword Grand Ceremony will be called off!"
A brilliant Buddha’s Light also erupted from between Wang Xiao’s brows as he replied,
"A deal is a deal!"
In the plaza, the leaders of the various sects listened to the exchange between Nangong Shuang and Wang Xiao, their faces etched with deep worry.
They admitted that Wang Xiao was strong.
But Nangong Shuang had been a Celestial Being for nearly a hundred years. How could Wang Xiao possibly be her match?!
If Wang Xiao couldn’t take this strike, wouldn’t the thod to break through to the Celestial Human Realm be lost forever?!
A few of them were about to step forward to persuade them, wanting to stop this duel.
But the Forehead Mud Ball Palace of Nangong Shuang suddenly erupted with light, freezing them all in place.
They felt as if their very souls were shackled, completely unable to speak!
Imdiately after, they saw an illusory, phantom-like projection fly out from between Nangong Shuang’s brows. It resembled a Celestial Sword as it pointed a finger at Wang Xiao!
’The... the Twenty-Third Sword! It’s the ultimate technique of Celestial Sword Mountain’s Sword Holder! That technique severely wounded the Demon Lord back then... It’s over. Wu Chen has only just entered the Celestial Human Realm, how can he possibly block it!’
The Righteous People all showed looks of terror.
However, at that very mont, a projection also flew from Wang Xiao’s Forehead Mud Ball Palace, and it too pointed forward with a finger!
The Twenty-Third Sword versus the Twenty-Third Sword!
The surrounding Space and Ti seed to freeze at that instant!
Only the vast power on the spiritual plane collided with a deafening crash.
BOOM!
The entire mountaintop was suddenly engulfed in a vast expanse of white.
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