Your Talent is Mine-Chapter 1075: A Wooden Sword

TL: Etude

“Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend, you can’t escape!” The Dark God Palace Master roared furiously.

He felt frustrated. The Fiend Beast Forbidden Zone lay in a remote area, barren of any great opportunities. Why would a Dao Ancestor come here? He knew a bit about Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend—a Third Heaven Dao Ancestor who specialized in cultivating fiendish energy. Yet, Chaos contained countless places teeming with fiendish energy, so it made no sense for him to come to this isolated forbidden zone! If he’d known that Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend had recently created a new fiendish energy cultivation technique that required the very pinnacle of fiendish energy, he wouldn’t have been surprised!

“I have to kill him!” The Dark God Palace Master muttered to himself.

In the past, True Ancestors occasionally entered the Fiend Beast Forbidden Zone, but once they were discovered, a Dao Ancestor would immediately strike them down.

However, killing a Third Heaven Dao Ancestor wasn’t so easy. If Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend managed to escape, he knew the consequences.

“Die!”

The Dark God Palace Master unleashed a powerful Dao technique—the Great Dark Celestial Spear! The almost-completed spear technique pierced forward, its terrifying might directly penetrating Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend’s body. However, that one strike alone was not enough to kill him.

Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend then activated a wondrous object meant for fleeing.

In an instant, he escaped the Fiend Beast Forbidden Zone, and the Dark God Palace’s Dao Ancestors, who had pursued him, activated their own wondrous objects to give chase.

Thus, both sides continued their pursuit across the void of chaos.

For the Dark God Palace, the only piece of good news was that Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend couldn’t send messages to anyone.

In the void of chaos, to transmit a message over such a vast distance required long preparation and a stable space.

But under the relentless pursuit of the Dark God Palace, the void was unstable, making any stable signal transmission impossible.

This was why, when someone was being hunted down, no one else would know; sending a message was almost impossible.

If they were in the same world, even an unstable void might allow for a short-range message.

However, in the void of chaos, even a small distance was the equivalent of an entire Profound Ancient Realm.

…

Three hours later.

Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend’s injuries had worsened. The Dark God Palace Master, determined to kill him, had used numerous trump cards and powerful treasures, and the other leaders of the Dark God Palace pursued him with mad ferocity.

He knew why they were so desperate to kill him: if the Dark God Palace’s headquarters were exposed, the Void Sky lineage would undoubtedly attack.

And if the Realm Beast corpse was exposed, it wouldn’t only be the Void Sky lineage; other forces would also come hunting.

Surrounded by so many forces, the Dark God Palace would stand no chance of survival unless they abandoned the Realm Beast corpse. However, if they abandoned it, hiding would become difficult, and they’d be easily tracked down. In the end, they would still be hunted down and killed by Dao Ancestor Void Sky.

If the news got out, the Dark God Palace would inevitably face extinction.

“Dark God Palace Master, I won’t reveal your headquarters’ location, nor will I expose the Realm Beast. Could you spare me?” Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend transmitted his plea.

“Stop, and we can talk things over slowly.” The Dark God Palace Master responded.

But Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend wasn’t foolish; he knew that if he stopped, the Dark God Palace Master would undoubtedly trap him first, then spare no effort to kill him.

Stopping wasn’t an option! He kept running, and the Dark God Palace Master relentlessly pursued him, attacking with his most powerful techniques.

Thus, neither side trusted the other, making any further communication impossible.

“It seems I have to use this treasure!”

Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend took out a wooden sword, a pained expression appearing on his face.

He had obtained this Supreme Treasure by chance from a remnant ruin that drifted out of the Dark Forbidden Domain.

After extensive study, he finally understood the wooden sword’s purpose.

In short, it could help him escape.

Once activated, the wooden sword could tear through any restriction, rip through space, cross vast distances, and even sever causality and tracking techniques.

In other words, with the wooden sword, he was guaranteed an escape.

But if he used it, he’d lose it, and with it, one of his trump cards.

“Forget it, just use it!” Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend activated the wooden sword.

In the next moment, the wooden sword transformed into a sword light, enveloping Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend, slicing through the void of chaos, and vanishing instantly.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The Dark God Palace Master and several other Dao Ancestors halted abruptly, losing all trace of Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend. Not even the secret techniques placed on him could detect his presence.

This meant Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend had escaped to a distant location.

“Damn it!” The Dark God Palace Master was furious, his rage so intense that the other Dao Ancestors recoiled.

Everyone understood that a calamity had now befallen the Dark God Palace.

“Palace Master, what should we do?” A Second Heaven Dao Ancestor asked.

“Contact the Glazed Glass Sect and see if their Dao Ancestors can emerge ahead of time to protect us,” commanded the Dark God Palace Master.

The other Dao Ancestors remained silent, skeptical. It was highly unlikely that the Glazed Glass Sect would forcefully awaken their Dao Ancestors! Moreover, these Dao Ancestors were in a deep slumber in the Profound Ancient Realm; if awakened, the realm’s laws would suppress them immediately. While they could theoretically break out of the Profound Ancient Realm, the cost would be enormous, and they wouldn’t be able to return for an incalculably long time.

Nevertheless, since it was the Palace Master’s order, they dared not disobey.

…

Glazed Glass Sect

True Ancestor Xuangang received the message from the Dark God Palace.

“The Realm Beast exposed—such incompetence from the Dark God Palace!” True Ancestor Xuangang muttered coldly.

He consulted the Dao Ancestors who had partially awakened, only to receive a firm refusal.

Rescue was out of the question! True Ancestor Xuangang had anticipated this answer. The Glazed Glass Sect had already moved all the Realm Stones from the world within the Realm Beast’s body to their own sect. Although the Realm Beast continued to produce Realm Stones, it took an immense amount of time.

As long as the Realm Beast remained undiscovered, they would continue supporting the Dark God Palace.

But now that it was exposed, they had no intention of foolishly defending the Dark God Palace, nor could they at the moment.

“Recall the True Ancestors stationed in the Dark God Domain!” True Ancestor Xuangang ordered.

This decision signaled that the Glazed Glass Sect had completely abandoned the Dark God Palace. In the end, the sect hadn’t suffered much loss; in fact, they’d profited.

Though they’d lost one of their strongest True Ancestors, they’d gained a wealth of Realm Stones—a deal worth the price.

…

On the other side, having narrowly escaped with his life, Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend now wore a look of fury.

He felt aggrieved; he’d merely entered a forbidden zone to seek out fiendish energy, yet the Dark God Palace had relentlessly hunted him down. Had he not used his precious wooden sword, he likely wouldn’t have survived.

Thinking about the loss of the wooden sword pained him deeply.

“Dark God Palace, you made me lose a Supreme Treasure; I’ll make sure your palace faces despair!”

Without hesitation, Dao Ancestor Nether Fiend began sending messages, exposing the Dark God Palace’s headquarters in the Fiend Beast Forbidden Zone and revealing the existence of the Realm Beast.

News quickly spread from one faction to another.

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Void Sky Domain

Dao Ancestor Void Sky soon received word that the Dark God Palace’s headquarters was located within the Fiend Beast Forbidden Zone, hidden inside a Realm Beast corpse.

“So, a Realm Beast. No wonder I couldn’t find a trace of the Dark God Palace’s headquarters, not even a sliver through divination!” Dao Ancestor Void Sky finally understood.

At the same time, his heart stirred with excitement.

A Realm Beast corpse! The value of such a thing was immense! Rumor had it that the inner world of a Realm Beast could nurture prodigies. If living beings were cultivated within that world, countless geniuses could be produced.

Now, he also understood why the Dark God Palace never recruited talented individuals openly yet managed to produce so many powerful figures.

Previously, he had thought the Dark God Palace secretly captured geniuses.

Now he understood! Captured geniuses could never compare to those cultivated personally; after all, captured talents lacked loyalty, whereas those cultivated from within had loyalty ingrained.

With a Realm Beast, acquiring geniuses was effortless, allowing the Dark God Palace to grow strong enough to rank just below the four transcendent forces.

“Let’s go to the Fiend Beast Forbidden Zone!”

Dao Ancestor Void Sky commanded, leading 200 Dao Ancestors as they tore through the void toward the forbidden zone.

…

Dao Mountain

Upon hearing of the Realm Beast corpse, Dao Mountain’s leader, Dao Master, promptly exited seclusion.

The birth of the Profound Ancient Realm hadn’t drawn him out, but a Realm Beast corpse did.

After all, he couldn’t enter the Profound Ancient Realm anyway, so there was no point. He could only observe from afar.

But a Realm Beast corpse was different—a tangible opportunity. With his strength as a Fifth Heaven Dao Ancestor, he felt confident in his ability to contend for it.

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The Forbidden Palace

The Forbidden Palace Master also emerged from seclusion after hearing about the Realm Beast corpse, leading a group of Dao Ancestors toward the Fiend Beast Forbidden Zone.

Meanwhile, two other transcendent powers—the Chaos Lifeform Alliance and the Starhorn Beast Clan—also dispatched numerous Dao Ancestors to the forbidden zone.

In an instant, the five transcendent forces and numerous top-tier powers all mobilized, setting their sights on the Realm Beast corpse.