Chapter 954: The Origin of the Sword King

The Sword King’s frigid aura of murder intensified, as if an anger suppressed for countless millennia was also growing alongside his murderous qi.

Boom!

The King of Swords raised his hand into the void, and a long sword appeared in his grasp.

With this slash of his sword, the blade’s light split the sky, cutting into the distant crowd.

This sword strike was even sharper and more powerful than the one from Lu Yu.

Innumerable divine servants ignited their divine power, causing golden light shields to emerge around their bodies, protecting them like armor.

However, the Sword King’s blade of light could not be stopped. It sliced through the luminous shield, cutting from the heavens to the earth, and left a gaping gash in the city wall.

Lu Yu and the Sword King made their move, igniting the fighting spirit of everyone present in an instant.

Everyone held nothing back; they unleashed their strongest skills right away.

The divine servants had assumed that Lu Yu and his group would wait until the siege battle began to take action. No one had anticipated that Lu Yu and his companions would strike ahead of schedule.

Although they had already been prepared, they still fell into chaos due to the sudden attack.

Because no one has ever launched a sudden, premature attack on the City of the Divine!

As Lu Yu and the Sword King’s attack had just ended, the attacks from the others arrived.

One attack slaughtered more than 100,000 divine servants, and many people were turned into blood rain.

“Defense, defense!”

Within the sacred city, numerous divine servants cried out in chaos, their voices rising and falling in a tumultuous cacophony.

They were caught off guard by the sudden attack.

At this moment, Lu Yu’s second sword strike was unleashed.

“Crack!”

A crack several inches long appeared on the Starlight Sword.

This move pushed the Starlight Sword’s power to its absolute limit and peak state, while also consuming a significant amount of energy within the sword.

The sword light unleashed by Lu Yu did not resemble ordinary sword light; it was as if ten mountains, each tens of thousands of feet high, had suddenly collapsed and crashed into the divine city.

Wherever the sword light passed, divine servants were shattered into ashes, and city walls were split and collapsed.

The divine servants were well-prepared in advance. As the siege was about to begin, they each activated their defensive shields.

A vast expanse of golden light surged into the sky, colliding with another beam of golden light, and quickly dissipated.

However, the piercing sword intent and the impact force from the blade still penetrated the sword light, shattering countless divine servants into bloodied pulp.

Boom—boom—boom—

Sections of the city wall collapsed one after another, blood stained the earth red, and severed limbs were scattered everywhere.

The air was filled with screams of anguish, and countless divine servants were also shouting curses at Lu Yu and the others.

This is war, it’s too cruel!

The city wall had been blasted open for thousands of zhang, creating a massive breach. Behind the wall, the area was packed with people—more than a million, even exceeding ten million.

The kings’ scalps tingled as they looked at those people, just like seeing a swarm of locusts!

Phil was already shocked, his blood turned cold, almost frozen.

This, is this Lu Yu’s true strength?

Even a hundred of him combined could not withstand this single sword strike.

The divine servants within the city finally regained their composure from the chaos and managed to block Huo Wu and others’ second wave of attacks.

Innumerable skills and golden lights collided midair, bursting forth like fireworks!

The Sword King moved. In a single step, he had already reached beneath the city wall, his eyes flashing with cold, menacing light. He burst into a hearty laugh and said, “Everyone, don’t you remember me? Today’s battle will settle all the scores from the past.”

Above the Sword King’s head, the void twisted, forming a vortex that opened with a diameter of hundreds of feet.

In the darkness, numerous star-forged weapons emerged, each entwined with the Milky Way.

Thousands, ten thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, millions of them.

These star artifacts transformed into a torrential rain, descending upon the city. In an instant, even the divine city lost its radiance, and the golden light grew dim.

Star artifact?

That’s right, each one is a Star Artifact!

Although some of the star artifacts had already developed cracks, others were broken.

But these were indeed star artifacts—countless, innumerable star artifacts emerged from the void, slashing into the city.

At least a million star-forged weapons fell into the city, while more than a hundred thousand divine servants screamed.

They were pierced and dismembered.

Even Lu Yu was astonished.

So many star artifacts—just who exactly is this person?

Within the limited time of one’s life, is it possible to acquire so many star artifacts?

People in the holy city screamed in terror. They looked at the Sword King, suddenly as if seeing a ghost.

“The Sword King, it’s the Sword King!”

Someone screamed, “He, it’s him, the first, the first King! He’s gone mad. He had already left the battlefield, so why has he come back?”

“He joined the war, which means he’s no longer under protection. Does he want to die?”

The divine servants were terrified, shrieking in alarm, and their gazes toward the Sword King were filled with more horror than when facing a demon.

“You traitors, why don’t you kneel before your king!” Sword King stepped forward, crossing the boundary of the city wall in a single stride, truly resembling an emperor arriving in full majesty, his aura exuding unparalleled dominance.

Some divine servants trembled all over, and upon hearing the Sword King’s shout, they couldn’t help but involuntarily step backward.

The Sword King snarled, “My family, my friends, my warriors, everything I’ve lost—this time, I’ll make you pay back a thousandfold!”

The Sword King knew the four-armed man.

Everyone was astonished.

This refers to the era of the four-armed people, the time when the first king appeared.

From the words of the Sword King, they all understood. In the past, the Sword King had once been the emperor of the Four-Armed People.

And now, this is the Sword King’s revenge!

The First King!

Hailong said that the first king had not yet appeared, or perhaps would never appear at all.

Lu Yu looked at the retreating figure of the Sword King with astonishment, his blood boiling.

The progenitor of all kings, this is a true king who has lived through the rise and fall of countless civilizations, witnessing the collapse of one era after another.

The King of Swords stepped into the city, his blade stained with blood, and a trail of countless fallen bodies behind him.

He shouted fiercely, “Dilong, come out! I, the King, have endured for so many years; today, I will repay you for the grievances of the past!”

The Sword King roared, his blade slicing through the void, cutting rows of gods’ servants before him into two halves.

The first king, having traversed one civilization after another, has arrived at the present. Years upon years of waiting, and years upon years of accumulation.

He could be considered the strongest king, so powerful that even the divine servants could not rival him.

At this moment—Lu Yu’s armor retracted, transforming back into its original form, two meters tall.

But as he stepped into the city with one foot, the ground trembled and shook violently.

Hundreds of thousands of divine servants were swooping down from the sky.

Hum.

A blinding white light descended from the sky, enveloping the hundreds of thousands of divine servants within.

The white light rapidly contracted, and tens of thousands of divine servants crowded together in midair, unable to move.

“Kill!”

Ten phantom shadows emerged from the body of the Demon-Slaying Elder, then quickly vanished back into him.

The armor obtained from the Domain of Unity instantly enhanced the Demon-Slaying Elder’s power elevenfold.

Billions of long swords slashed into the enemy ranks as well.

Xue Ji made her move, Xiao Xiao did as well, and Huo Wu…

Three thousand kings launched several rounds of bombardment, leaving thousands of feet of broken city walls and bloodshed everywhere nearby.

Pieces of flesh were writhing and gradually regaining human form.

“Roar!”

Millions of beasts outside the city surged forward, charging toward the sacred city!

Millions of divine servants retreated, each with a trembling expression.

They couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

“How can there be so many powerful individuals in this era!”

Many divine servants questioned.

The Sword King has lost all fear of death, even forsaking divine protection—could it be that he’s come seeking revenge?

Many divine servants had survived from that era; how could they not know about the overbearing and fierce nature of the Sword King?

However, they knew all too well that a person in this era was even more terrifying.

The twelve divine cities, along with over a hundred million divine servants, were all slaughtered by him and his group.

That’s a demon too!

Boom!

Another wave of attacks from Lu Yu and the others arrived, coming together with the冲击 of puppets and poison creatures.

However, the priests have now regained their footing and launched a counterattack.

Golden light transformed into an ocean, and the combined strike of thousands of divine servants blocked the attacks from Lu Yu and the others. The sword king’s star artifacts were also completely knocked backward.

Millions of puppet beasts exploded halfway, and Lu Yu and the others were also sent staggering backward by the shock.

A trembling voice said, “Is this the power of the Divine City? This is only ten million divine servants!”

Xue Ji scolded softly, “What are you thinking? If you don’t want to die, attack!”

Thousands of black-robed divine servants stood in a dense crowd, stretching from the ground straight up into the sky, as if they were about to pierce through the heavens.

They even blocked out the light, as if night had fallen.

Hum.

Thousands of divine servants unleashed their power in unison, their combined force shattering the void and obliterating countless puppet beasts.

Even the kings of humanity are dying.

Kings were astonished.

Because this is only the beginning, millions of puppet beasts have already been subdued and killed.

After ten days of hard work, a quarter of their achievements vanished.

Moreover, nearly a hundred kings have died.

Ten million divine servants, this is merely ten million divine servants, yet they are already this terrifying.

When these divine servants saw a large number of enemies dying in agony, they couldn’t help but laugh wildly and said, “Humans, you may be arrogant in your own world, but here you have no right to be.”

“Go die, all of you.”

The divine servant roared and launched another round of attack.

The golden ocean crushed hundreds of thousands of puppet beasts, leaving over a hundred of them cracked from head to toe.

Hum.

Suddenly, faint streaks of white light were released between the heavens and the earth.

These beams of white light fell upon every person, every puppet beast, and every poisoned individual.

When the golden ocean surged against Lu Yu and the others, it emitted heavy “thud, thud, thud” sounds upon impact, then shattered into pieces.

Lou Xiaoyu stood at the back, her three cross-shaped shields, each two meters tall, continuously rotating around her.

And those white lights were exactly coming from the cross-shaped shield.

“Haha!”

The Sword King laughed loudly and said, “Protected by the Radiant Moon, my defense is invincible. Come on, this battle is just beginning now.”

Millions of star weapons circled around him, transforming into a long dragon that swept outward.

Where the divine artifact passed, rows of divine servants were cut in half at the waist.

Roar.

Beasts roared into the sky as the white light formed a protective shield fending off the attacks from the divine servants.

They knocked down one divine servant after another, tearing and biting into their flesh.

The poison-wielding individuals joined forces to launch an assault, their immense power poisoning one divine servant after another.

The number of divine servants around him increased again, growing from ten million to fifteen million, and the count was still rising.

A puppet beast pounced onto a divine servant, but in an instant, it was overwhelmed by thousands of divine servants working together. The white light shield was shattered, and its physical body was completely obliterated.

Some divine servants were dragged into the herd by the puppet beasts and were bitten down to nothing but bones.

Boom!

Lu Yu’s heavy armor expanded in size as his Starlight Sword slashed, sending ten beams of sword light hurtling toward the human wall.

A surge of golden light surged forward to meet the attack, shattering the might of the starlight sword.

Bang!

Behind, the heavily armored figure transformed into a massive fist, crashing forward like a mountain collapsing.

A fist dozens of zhang wide swept through the crowd like a small mountain, blasting groups of divine servants into pieces.

Lu Yu’s heavy armor was continuously developing small cracks, yet he fought like an invincible war god. Wherever his fists struck, blood splattered like rain, and his Starlight Sword cut through countless limbs.

The divine servants recoiled; they had never seen such a person before.

This is their city; can’t millions of divine servants suppress just a few thousand of them?

Hoo!

The horn echoed through the city, urgent and shrill.

All the divine servants’ expressions froze. Then, golden light surged from their bodies as they recklessly charged forward to counterattack.

This is not the city’s horn; this is the wrath of the gods. It is the first time the horn has sounded since the city’s construction.

Throughout the entire Shenzhixing, it had only sounded three times.

This means that even the Lord of Liancheng must hurry over here and personally intervene!