CHAPTER 359: CHAPTER 56: COMMANDING THE IMMORTAL SWORD

"This feeling is truly marvelous."

Lin Jing felt incredulous. His own foundational realm was only Core Formation.

But through the Celestial Demon Body, his temporary realm reached Divinity Transformation!

The Divine Techniques and the Art of Divine Control consume life force to enhance the Dao mastery level. The combination allowed him to temporarily master the weakened Ghost Mother of the Xuan level.

And this Ghost Mother is a special case. Although her realm isn’t high, she is a war instrument spirit created by the Immortal Palace using Immortal Technique, specifically designed to restrain artifacts.

High-grade artifacts, supreme-grade artifacts, quasi-Immortal Artifacts... none of them are worth mentioning in her eyes.

Her most formidable feature is that even Immortal Artifacts without an Artifact Spirit can have her temporarily serve as their Artifact Spirit to control them.

This progressive overlay allowed Lin Jing to touch the pinnacle of power, as if questioning the Dao.

"Return!"

"Go!"

In the next instant, Lin Jing formed seals with one hand, and under his control, countless treasured swords in the Celestial Sword Sect returned to their owners. Immediately following, to the astonishment of many cultivators of the Celestial Sword Sect, the Ghost Mother under Lin Jing’s control... directly flew into the sect’s Immortal Sword, the "Heaven-Questioning" sword.

"Borrow the sword for a moment."

"Return it shortly!"

Lin Jing spoke.

At once, the long-dormant Heaven-Questioning Sword, lost of spirituality after the ancient battle, burst into brilliant radiance and sword hums. At this moment, regardless of their cultivation level or age, every disciple of the Celestial Sword Sect opened their mouths wide with disbelief.

"Immortal Sword, the Immortal Sword..." One elder after another had eyes glazed over.

The Immortal Sword... was vibrating.

Beyond just the Celestial Sword Sect, the Celestial Sword Sect Leader, who had quickly reached the Celestial Essence Ancient City, suddenly threw aside Gao Sheng, looking in shock toward the direction of the sect, toward the sword light soaring into the sky.

"Is that... the light of the Immortal Sword???"

"What’s happening within the sect..."

"Damn, Brother Lin is awesome." Gao Sheng, in a fall, exclaimed, summoned his flying dragon horse to ride, and also looked toward the Celestial Sword Sect. Did it really happen?

Whoosh!

At the same time, the Prince Gu walked out of the palace, looking gravely toward the Celestial Sword Sect, not understanding what had transpired.

"Could it be that someone in the Celestial Sword Sect can finally draw the Immortal Sword... is it Heaven-Sundering Sword Ancestor?" he murmured.

At this moment, within the Ancient Country, any strong cultivator above the Xuan realm sensed the movements from the Celestial Sword Sect and felt the awakening of the Heaven-Questioning Sword’s aura.

Not just the Celestial Sword Sect, the revival of an Immortal Artifact was bound to astound the heavens. Outside the sky, a group attracted by the battle between Emperor Haili and the Heaven-Sundering Sword Ancestor’s sword soul furrowed their brows again, looking toward the Ancient Country.

Despite the distance, coupled with the Celestial Sword Sect’s national fate and arrays, they couldn’t clearly spy but could sense an Immortal Sword power rising from there.

"Unbelievable, is it the Heaven-Questioning Immortal Sword of the Celestial Sword Sect???"

The City Lord of Martial Emperor City, the Martial Emperor, exclaimed in amazement. His ability to control the Immortal Artifact was because the spirit of Martial Emperor City’s artifact also guided him along his path, and he repaired the broken city using the artifact refining techniques imparted by the spirit, a rare symbiosis.

However, as far as he knew, aside from Martial Emperor City, most ancient Immortal Artifacts had lost their spirits, with Martial Emperor City being an exception; most required corresponding Immortal Techniques to activate, a condition the lower realm couldn’t meet. What then was happening with the Celestial Sword Sect’s Immortal Artifact?

"No wonder that hag dared to fight the Emperor Haili alongside a disciple; she can now wield the Immortal Sword! Unbelievable," the Whale Emperor of the Sea God Palace remarked.

"Indeed, even the ancient clan hasn’t been able to activate their ancient clan Immortal Artifacts," the Witch God of the Witch God Hall chuckled, looking at the Second Ancient Emperor, implying the Ancient Country potentially birthed an uncontrollable powerhouse.

Despite Heaven-Sundering Sword Ancestor’s extraordinary talents, he still wasn’t sufficient to establish an independent sect against a deeply rooted giant like the Ancient Country, but if he could wield an Immortal Sword, it would be different, granting him eligibility for entry into the ranks of the strongest!

"What’s going on..." Now, the Second Ancient Emperor’s expression shifted, until the Heaven-Questioning Sword shot from the Celestial Sword Sect into the skies, flying toward the western desert, finally clearing everyone’s suspicion.

Yet this revelation left the Dao Seekers utterly astonished.

It wasn’t the Heaven-Sundering Sword Ancestor summoning the Immortal Sword from afar; another person was driving the Immortal Sword toward the western desert with intimidating aura.

That person was a young man with a squirrel perched on his shoulder, long hair flying, seated atop the Immortal Sword’s blade.

His gaze was filled with sharpness, looking into the distance.

"Longevity Body Lin Jing?"

"Demon Court Saint Child?"

"How can it be him."

"Why is he able to wield the Immortal Sword?!"

This scene astonished the Dao Seekers greatly, entirely unprepared for such an occurrence.

Even the Dao Seekers were so shocked, and within the Celestial Sword Sect, every elder and disciple was beyond flabbergasted, speechless with fright as they watched the afterimage of the celestial sword fly away, sitting dumbly on the ground, not knowing what to say.

"Lord of the Demon Court, give me an explanation." Seeing this, the Second Ancient Emperor glared angrily at the Demon Emperor. Although he didn’t know what happened, the scene presently reflected enough of a problem.

A zenith Immortal Artifact of the Ancient Country’s sect had been taken away by the Demon Court Saint Child!

This was something the Second Ancient Emperor could absolutely not accept.

"I don’t know either," the tiger-headed Demon Emperor pressed both hands to the sides of his head, as baffled as the other Dao Seekers. She truly didn’t know what was happening.

"Lin Jing is now your Demon Court Saint Child. You didn’t know what he was doing?"

"I truly didn’t know!" The Demon Emperor spoke irritably, "I also want to know what this is all about!"

The ability to wield an Immortal Artifact by the Saint Child, where did he learn it from?

She originally planned to give Lin Jing a quasi-Immortal Artifact level Emperor’s Weapon for protection.

But before she could offer it, he could already wield an Immortal Artifact?

What kind of joke is this.

She, the Demon Emperor, with extraordinary talents throughout her life, had only two issues troubling her: unable to transform and unable to wield the Immortal Artifact left by the Demon Court.

Now, Lin Jing had solved the transformation issue.

Does she now have to learn from the Saint Child how to use an Immortal Artifact???

Absurd.

"The direction of the Immortal Sword... Martial Emperor City, western desert... is this guy intending to wield the Immortal Sword to support Heaven-Sundering Sword Soul?" The Martial Emperor’s eyes flickered.

"It seems so," the Sun Buddha Master sighed slightly, noting that the Demon Court Saint Child was truly the child of destiny in this realm, given his humble origins and reaching this stage was far more challenging than for those born in high positions.

The Nether Hall’s master, Emperor Haili... was also a powerful Dao Seeker.

What the other Dao Seekers could sense, he too could sense.

The Artifact Spirit escaped, and the enraged Emperor Haili had formulated another plan, which was to capture the Heaven-Sundering Sword Ancestor’s sword soul as compensation.

Yet, unexpectedly, shortly after the Heaven-Sundering Sword Ancestor transmitted Lin Jing and the Artifact Spirit away, a wave of stunning sword light permeated from within the Ancient Country, piercing forth aimed to pierce him!

"Evil Beast Taming Little Ghost!!!" Had Emperor Haili eyes, they would be bloodshot at this moment. The opportunity to control the Immortal Artifact should’ve belonged to the Nether Hall, why this Beast Taming Little Ghost!