Chapter 739: 306. Lei Family’s Flying Swords from Beyond the Skies (Additional Chapter for "1 High Mountain Flowing Water 1" alliance and "Sanskrit Divine Language" alliance)

The legacy of the Great Void Temple, with its Powerful Intent to shatter and annihilate all things, was immensely destructive.

Generally, these black-robed monks engaged in duels of magic primarily at medium to close range.

Of course, for cultivators of Yuanmie’s and Jixiang’s strength, the range they could cover with a casual move was not small.

However, compared to cultivators of the same realm from other Taoist Heritages, the monks of the Great Void Temple still exerted their destructive power more effectively at medium to close range.

There were, however, exceptions. A few supernatural ability methods in the legacy of the Great Void Temple, similar to formations, remained lethally powerful even without the host present within them.

The Reversed Round Mirror Wisdom Array was one of these.

The most skilled practitioner of this divine skill in the past was none other than the former Abbot of the Great Void Temple, Jixiang Fawang, who was Yuanmie’s master.

Since the death of Jixiang Fawang, no one had heard of anyone else in the Great Void Temple mastering this technique.

Yuanmie, a rare top-tier talent in the Great Void Temple for many years, achieved an Eightfold Heaven Cultivation at a young age. He inherited the position from Jixiang Fawang and mastered the profound and powerful School of Dharma of the Great Void Temple.

However, he had not undertaken the cultivation of the Reversed Round Mirror Wisdom Array until then.

Rumors suggested it was not that he lacked the ability to master it, but rather that he personally disliked it.

But after hitting a wall at the Western Region Vajra Temple and suffering the death of his master, Jixiang Fawang, years of seclusion had led Yuanmie to successfully cultivate this School of Dharma of the Great Void Temple. Moreover, he had refined its subtleties, even showing signs of surpassing his predecessors, fully demonstrating his exceptional talent.

He had laid this School of Dharma in ambush on the deserted island specifically to strike at Abbot Miaoxin of the Tianlong Temple; thus, he had arranged it with great care and deliberation.

Although Yuanmie was not personally presiding over it at that moment, the unleashed power silently embodied the vast terror of annihilating everything.

Upon its appearance, the black lotus initially seemed to be in full bloom. However, it soon started to exhibit the reverse growth of its petals, drawing inward.

As the black lotus closed up, it felt as if the very corner of heaven and earth where the deserted island was located was collapsing inward.

Everything and everyone engulfed by the black lotus stepped into oblivion along with it.

The only small problem was that the target was not the one Yuanmie had anticipated.

Elder Chu Taoyuan of the Suzhou Chu Clan stumbled into it and was immediately enveloped by the black lotus.

Elder Chu did not even have the chance to react before the scene before his eyes truly turned black.

This was a trap prepared for Abbot Miaoxin, who was at the Eightfold Heaven Realm.

Abbot Miaoxin himself would not have been destroyed by the Reversed Round Mirror Wisdom Array in such a situation.

While Yuanmie intended to use the array to ambush Abbot Miaoxin, he also planned to personally take action.

But for Chu Taoyuan, at the Seventh Heavenly Layer realm, the situation was entirely different.

If Chu Taoyuan had been in good condition, facing only the Reversed Round Mirror Wisdom Array with no direct attack from Yuanmie, he might have had a chance to escape with his life.

But he had just engaged in a fierce battle with a Heavenly Order Cultivator and bore significant injuries. Tired and worn, now swept up by the black lotus, he truly found himself with no way to heaven and no door to earth.

Especially for this Master Yangchao, the situation was bewildering. Why?! Why did the experts of the Great Void Temple suddenly attack him?

Alongside his shock, Chu Taoyuan felt a surge of anger. Have Yuanmie and the others gone mad? The Great Void Temple’s recuperation overseas could not have happened without covert support from a few prominent noble clans in the Tang Imperial Dynasty. Especially the coastal regions of Qingzhou, Youzhou, and Suzhou had particularly frequent interactions with the Great Void Temple. So why did an expert from the Great Void Temple launch a surprise attack on him, a native of Suzhou?

No one answered Chu Taoyuan’s question.

His wounds flared up, and powerless to break free or ask for help in time, he could only watch, wide-eyed, as the black lotus petals closed around him, encasing him in its heart.

The black lotus then collapsed into itself.

Amidst the surging Sword Qi, melodious tones, like the sound of a qin, seemed to resonate within the black lotus.

Chu Taoyuan struggled desperately and managed to hold on for some time.

But unfortunately, there was no one else around.

Abbot Miaoxin was engaged in a fierce battle with Yuanmie; they had teleported far away from this area.

The disciples of Tianlong Temple who had come with Abbot Miaoxin also cautiously followed their Abbot.

No other Great Tang Cultivator approached the area.

And coincidentally, no other Heavenly Order Cultivator came near this part of the sea either.

Thus, for a time, only Lei Jun, through the Great Celestial Mirror, watched the black lotus collapse bit by bit.

Although it was evident that a force within the black lotus was struggling, hoping to compel the black lotus to unfold again, this resistance was ultimately futile. As time passed, the black lotus continued to close inward, gradually transforming into a small black sphere resembling a Shariputra.

Once the black Shariputra had shrunk to a certain size, it gently shook and then cracked.

But this was not because the person inside had successfully broken out.

Instead, the black Shariputra split on its own and then turned to ash, dissipating over the sea.

Where Chu Taoyuan had been previously, only the roaring sea tides remained, and the small deserted island could no longer be seen on the sea’s surface.

Needless to say, Chu Taoyuan was no longer visible either.

To be fair, this was indeed a misunderstanding. However, Yuanmie was currently locked in battle with Abbot Miaoxin and had no time to attend to this incident.

While Lei Jun did not know the depth of the entanglement between the Suzhou Chu Clan and the Great Void Temple, the three coastal noble families of the Great Tang Dynasty had always been in contact with the Great Void Temple overseas.

Later on, how the Suzhou Chu Clan and the Great Void Temple would discuss this matter would be up to them.

Lei Jun, calm and composed, shifted the perspective of the Great Celestial Mirror.

The mirror’s light flowed, moving to the Void Gateway that connected the Great Tang Realm with the realm of the Heavenly Order.

There, the experts of the Great Tang were beginning to contest the Portal once more.

Ye Yan, the Clan Chief of the Qingzhou Ye Clan, and Chu Yu, representing the Tang Imperial Court, were in charge of related affairs.

Chu Xiuyuan, the elder Clan Chief of the Suzhou Chu Clan, remained on the periphery.

Elder Chu, having been greatly drained by the sacrificial rites used for the ambush earlier, was now recuperating on the outskirts, overseeing other Great Tang Cultivators as they cleared up the remaining fugitive Heavenly Order Cultivators who had scattered in an attempt to flee.