Splitting the Heave

The only thing preventing the experts on the outside from observing what was happening within was a thin screen of chaotic space.

In the Abyssal Secret Region, a ball of light shot past Shang Xia. If the situation wasn’t as dire as it was, Shang Xia would have thought that the ball of light was a great opportunity to gain a treasure and pounced at the chance. 

However, he wasn’t exactly in the best state of mind at the moment. He instinctively slashed at the ball of light with his Abyssal Blade. The moment he swung his sword, a wave of regret washed over him. Of the treasures that had emerged, there was probably nothing that could withstand a strike from the Abyssal Blade.

One had to know that Shang Xia used a lot of effort to hunt down the two treasures he obtained earlier. He didn’t dare to use the divine weapon for fear of damaging those treasures.

Indeed… The second the blade came into contact with the ball of light, it popped like a bubble and the treasure within was sliced in two. At the same instant, Shang Xia felt a strong thump in the space between his eyebrows. His Crimson Soul Tablet actually reacted!

Widening his eyes in shock, he realized what was contained within the ball of light. It was a cluster of pure world origin!

That was too close! 

Reaching out to grab both clusters of world origin, Shang Xia used his Crimson Soul Tablet to direct it into his sea of consciousness. They were devoured instantly.

Before Shang Xia could care about the changes to the tablet, several low thuds rang in his mind and spatial tunnels were forcefully connected into the Abyssal Secret Region.

There were at least 3 Martial Extermination Realm experts who barged into the Abyssal Secret Region and their gazes landed on Shang Xia almost instantly.

No… It was more accurate to say that they stared directly at the Abyssal Blade in his hands.

“Hand the divine weapon over!” 

“Hand it over or die!” 

At that point, more than 8 third layer Martial Extermination Realm experts have arrived. They surrounded Shang Xia in all directions.

Looking down, Shang Xia could see traces of the Cloud Water Gorge. Unfortunately, it was flickering unsteadily.

“Don’t bother. You can’t escape. Fellow cultivator, if you’re willing to submit to my Zhongxuan Gate, I, Tao Mosheng promised you before to give you a recommendation to become a guest elder. That promise still stands.”  Tao Mosheng knew that his Zhongxuan Gate wasn’t the only powerful faction on the scene. There were at least 3 of them in the Abyssal Secret Region at the moment, but there was only a single Abyssal Blade! Even if they killed Shang Xia, a bloody battle would break out. As such, getting him to join them was the most logical course of action. The moment he agreed, the divine weapon would belong to them regardless.

Shang Xia didn’t bother with what Tao Mosheng said. However, a frosty sneer came from another direction and it seemed to contain boundless hatred. “Hehe, why would the chief disciple of the Tongyou Institution, the grandson of the Soul Tearing Spear, Shang Bo, ever agree to become a guest elder in your Zhongxuan Gate? Hehe, Young Master Shang, tell me if I’m wrong, but I, from the Zhang Family, don’t think I am.” 

“Zhang Family of the Ji Continent?” Shang Xia recognized which faction the speaker came from instantly.

Close to 1000 feet away, a middle aged man wore a dark expression as he snarled at Shang Xia. “Young Master Shang, your memory is really good alright! Too bad my grandson is useless and lost to you the other time. He managed to stay alive, but his cultivation will never be able to progress! Today, I’m going to take revenge on his behalf!” 

From the looks of it, the person wouldn’t rest till Shang Xia was dead.

Anyone who tried to help Shang Xia at that moment would definitely offend the Zhang Family. Even though the Zhongxuan Gate wasn’t really afraid of the Zhang Family, it didn’t seem too wise to make a strong enemy like that for a piece of broken divine weapon.

The person who spoke earlier was Zhang Shijing of the Zhang Family, and Tao Mosheng understood his intentions the moment he appeared. Even though he wasn’t too happy that Zhang Shijing came out of nowhere to subtly tell his Zhongxuan Gate to fuck off, he could only remain silent at the side.

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Chuckling arrogantly to himself, Zhang Shijing stared at Shang Xia as though he was looking at a dead man. His gaze became one of endless greed when he stared at the Abyssal Blade in the youngster’s hand.

“Tell me. How do you wish to die?” The Zhang Family of the Ji Continent was naturally unable to go against superpowers like the Zhongxuan Gate, but the alliance of the 3 great families of the Ji Continent wasn’t for show. There had to be another great family backing them up if Zhang Shijing could act so arrogantly and Tao Mosheng was sorely aware of that.

Despite his threat, the look of panic that Zhang Shijing expected to see on Shang Xia’s face was nowhere to be seen. Instead, he was greeted with a smirk that caused his blood to boil.

“Kill him!” Zhang Shijingroared and made his move. A three colored extermination light appeared to surround the pike he was holding in his hand.

Shockingly, the Martial Extermination Realm experts of all 3 great families of the Ji Continent were present and they leaped into action immediately.

The experts of the other powers were obviously unwilling to fall behind as they couldn’t let the Ji Continent grab all the benefits.

Facing the combined assault of the various powers, Shang Xia revealed a brilliant smile and yelled, “Since everyone is here for the inheritance of the Abyssal Sect, I’ll take it upon myself to widen your horizons!

Once the words left his lips, his Abyssal Blade drew a perfect arc in front of him. It contained the power of his Four Seasons Extermination Origins, and he didn’t hold back in the slightest. A brilliant ray that could rival the intensity of the sun emerged in a tyrannical fashion. 

Everyone that was flying at Shang Xia turned to flee as far as they could.

When Shang Xia circulated his extermination origins and swung his sword earlier, a name popped into his mind. The second move he developed, Grand Ignite!

Despite their panic, Shang Xia wasn’t aiming for any of them.

“Oh no! He’s going for the Divine Weapon Peak!” Tao Mosheng eventually understood what Shang Xia was trying to do, but it was too late to stop it.

The mountain peak that sat in the center of the Abyssal Secret Region used to contain the giant boulder that sealed the Abyssal Blade. When the resplendent blade light landed on the mountain peak, a massive gash ran through the mountain.

It might seem as though only the mountain peak was barely poking out from the sea of clouds before and Shang Xia and the rest could run around it really quickly. But that was because of their strong cultivation level. The part of the mountain that was peeking above the sea of clouds was hundreds of feet tall, but Shang Xia’s strike managed to carve a deep mark on it.

As the structure that maintained the inheritance of the Abyssal Sect, there were countless restrictions around the Divine Weapon Peak. Even if Martial Extermination Realm experts were to fight around it, the shockwaves of their battle would barely rattle the mountain peak. Even if they attacked it directly, they might not be able to cause much damage.

Despite its toughness, it was easily torn apart in the face of the might of the Abyssal Sword and Shang Xia’s newly created rank four martial art.

Now that the Abyssal Secret Region was about to be revealed to the world, everyone could clearly see the number of mountain peaks it held. There were 13 in total, and the core inheritance was naturally located on the Divine Weapon Peak. At the same time, the Divine Weapon Peak was also the core to maintain the integrity of the secret region. 

It might have lost the protection of the Abyssal Blade earlier, but it still stood strong as the core of the Abyssal Secret Region. It was the sole reason the secret region hadn’t completely descended onto the Azure Origin World.

Now that Shang Xia damaged it severely with a single slash…

Countless rays of light shot into the skies from the core of the Divine Weapon Peak and scattered in every direction the next instant. 

The experts who were ready to attack Shang Xia were naturally unable to sit still with the inheritance of the Abyssal Sect flying through the air. 

With the massive eruption of inheritance treasures, treasures appeared everywhere. There were even several experts who noticed several balls of light around themselves. They were so close that they only needed to reach out slightly…

One had to know that even after Shang Xia obtained the Abyssal Sword, there had been barely more than 10 inheritance light balls that emerged. The last ball of light Shang Xia sliced apart had also been counted into the batch, but now, there was a terrifying number of them that emerged!

There were even several strands of extermination origins rampaging through the Abyssal Secret Region. When that was happening, another concentrated beam of light emerged from the Divine Weapon Peak. Unlike the extermination origins, it tore straight through the Abyssal Secret Region and shot into the Beyond Heavens Pavilion.

At that moment, the experts who had gathered around the Cloud Water Gorge weren’t the only ones paying attention to the Abyssal Secret Region. Those from the Beyond Heavens Pavilion who didn’t know what was going on before also turned to stare at the Taihang Mountains.

“Origin dipper! That was an origin dipper!” 

“If there are origin dippers within the Divine Weapon Peak, there has to be a rank five advancement formula. Origin dippers are far more special than fate dippers.” 

“There might even be sets of rank five advancement medicine contained within!” 

“The Abyssal Sect actually has Martial Dipper Realm inheritances…” 

Chaos… Chaos broke out the moment the origin dipper was revealed. Their thoughts immediately fell into disarray.

Zhang Shijng was flying across the air like many others through the mass of inheritance light balls as he yelled at the top of his lungs, “Kill Shang Xia! Everyone, kill Shang Xia and retrieve the divine weapon!” 

No matter how loud he screamed, no one could be bothered with Shang Xia at the moment. None of them would give up on obtaining the inheritance light balls that were within reach. 

There were so many inheritance light balls that those Martial Extermination Realm experts managed to grab one by just stretching out their arm. Even if they failed to grab one, they just had to fly through the air a little to capture another one.

In some instances, the restrictions on the inheritance light balls managed to push them back, causing a trace of annoyance to rise in their hearts. How could they allow something they were supposed to get their hands on to escape? They would re-engage the ball of light with renewed vigor.

After obtaining the first inheritance light ball, a second one would enter their sights. Were they supposed to let it go?!

The process would repeat for the third, fourth, fifth… and however many inheritance light balls.

If I can’t get my hands on it, what happens if someone else does?!

The experts who had surrounded Shang Xia earlier lost sight of their objective the moment the treasures emerged. The seemingly perfect encirclement that Shang Xia wouldn’t be able to break out of became full of holes.

Zhang Shijing’s cries to kill Shang Xia were blatantly ignored by everyone else.

When he raised his head to look at the youngster, he was greeted with a look of mockery. Shang Xia was flying through the mass of inheritance light balls without anyone to stop him.

Just as he was about to scream for people to kill Shang Xia once again, a ball of light shot past him, blocking his view of Shang Xia. He instinctively reached out to grab it, but because he wasn’t prepared, he failed to catch hold of the ball of light.

Wait a second, grabbing an inheritance light ball doesn’t seem difficult… No wonder everyone…

WAIT!

By the time the ball of light disappeared from his sight, he realized that he had already lost track of Shang Xia.

“Be careful! He’s trying to get away!” Zhang Shijing yelled. It was a shame the echo of his voice was the only thing that replied to him.

Amidst the chaos, Xu Chenkang and the other members of the Divine Capital Sect finally managed to create another spatial tunnel into the Abyssal Secret Region. They were shocked by the sight of the huge amount of inheritance light balls flying through the air.

“What the hell happened here?!” Zuo Changqing muttered to himself.

“What are you waiting for?! Grab them!” Chenming was the first to react. Yelling at the rest, he couldn’t be bothered with them anymore as he flew towards the largest inheritance light ball closest to him.

His actions caused his other two junior brothers to snap awake as they joined in the chaotic hunt for inheritance light balls.

Whatever Xu Chenkang told them earlier about someone wielding the divine weapon and whatnot was immediately thrown to the back of their minds.

There was only one divine weapon. Even if they managed to get it, the Abyssal Blade wouldn’t belong to them.

However, the inheritance light balls were different. Everything they grabbed would belong to themselves!

Chenming, who quickly managed to obtain an inheritance light ball, saw another one flying past him. Just as he was about to reach for it, he discovered someone else who was also eyeing the same light ball. Unfortunately for him, the other person seemed a little closer.

Acting on instinct, he shot out an arrow made with his extermination origin. 

Seeing how someone had attacked him out of nowhere, the other contender for the inheritance light ball countered the arrow with a punch of his own.

The loud explosion that ensued the moment their attacks clashed, signaled the start of a huge brawl to see who would be able to obtain the most treasures.