Chapter 910: Sword Slashes the Ancient Imperial Dao Treasury

"Spade? Jian Changsheng?"

Bai Ye looked with confusion towards the tallest Monument of Achievements, where he indeed saw a familiar, furtive figure.

"Why is he there..." Bai Ye found it inconceivable.

"He must have been captured by the Emperor's lingering will, just like us?" Sun Bumian and Bai Ye themselves had been captured and confined to a broken bowl, so seeing Jian Changsheng there led them to a natural conclusion.

"Very likely... it seems his luck hasn't improved."

Earlier, when they were being hunted by the Emperor, only Jian Changsheng had been separated from them. They had assumed that after they drew the fire away, he would escape. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, Jian Changsheng had also been caught and brought to "Flying Dragon in the Sky," even being imprisoned on Qin Shi Huang's Monument of Achievements.

The two watched Jian Changsheng from a distance, but being inside the bowl, they were invisible to him. The young man peered around from atop Qin Shi Huang's Monument of Achievements, muttered something, then lay down on the ground, resigned to his fate.

Sun Bumian: ...

As Bai Ye was about to speak, his gaze suddenly sharpened, focusing on the rift that had opened in the sky!

At the same time, hundreds of lingering wills of emperors on other Monuments of Achievements also turned their heads to look. Dense golden figures silently drifted on the mountaintops; the entire "Flying Dragon in the Sky" fell into a deathly silence.

Then, a deafening thunderclap echoed from beyond the rift!

Boom—!!

It was as if a heavy train, traveling at full speed, had crashed head-on into a wall. The already tattered rift was torn completely open, and pressure of the Nine Monarchs level surged in from outside the Imperial Dao Ancient Treasury. A hurricane ripped open a corner of the chaotic sky!

From within the violent particle turbulence, a figure in a white lab coat emerged, hands in pockets, floating suspended in the air.

Golden energy constantly intertwined behind him, at times forming sun-like rings, at others mysterious hexagrams, or nine twinkling stars. From a distance, he resembled a white-clad deity wielding the power of the heavens and earth, descending upon the world!

"That's..." Bai Ye's brows furrowed as he saw the unfamiliar face.

Sun Bumian's eyes, behind his small round sunglasses, narrowed slightly as if he were trying hard to recall something. Then he spoke, somewhat uncertainly, "He should be Monarch Xuanyu... Ji Xuan?"

"How do you know?"

"I'd seen some news reports before... his face was in them, but I don't remember clearly." Sun Bumian paused. "But the scientific authority he wields is easy to remember, and its name is quite imposing."

"What?"

"I don't remember its scientific name, I just remember it's a type of microscopic particle, everyone calls it the 'God Particle'."

"'God Particle'..." Bai Ye stroked his chin. "Higgs boson?"

"You know about that?!" Sun Bumian looked at Bai Ye in shock.

"I sometimes read books and learn things."

"If I'm not mistaken, the Higgs boson is the particle that gives 'mass' to matter," Bai Ye mused. "And according to the mass-energy equivalence equation: E=mc², mass and energy are equivalent. So, in giving mass to matter, he is essentially, to a certain extent, bestowing energy upon all things... This immense power truly merits the name 'God Particle'."

Sun Bumian stared blankly at Bai Ye, his eyes almost bulging out. After a full ten seconds, he voiced the same question as Mo Lian:

"You're a thief, why do you learn so much??"

"I didn't 'learn' them; I just casually looked through a few books." Bai Ye shrugged.

Sun Bumian's expression was utterly bewildered. He looked at Bai Ye, thinking that if this guy had been born a few centuries earlier, he would undoubtedly have been a super scholar. Being a "Thief Sage" here now felt like a waste of his talent.

Monarch Xuanyu, with hands in his pockets, advanced silently through the chaotic sky, his body seemingly supported by an invisible force, without his feet moving.

His gaze swept over the more than four hundred mountaintops stretching to the end of the sky, and the golden figures upon them, his brows slightly furrowed.

He spoke calmly:

"They sought immortality in life and eternal existence after death. Feudalism was abolished centuries ago, yet surprisingly, so many lingering wills remain here, parasitic within the Imperial Dao Ancient Treasury, unwilling to depart...

What? Are you reluctant to give up your grand ambitions, still wishing to resurrect feudal dynasties?"

These words seemed to infuriate the numerous lingering wills of the emperors. Waves of imperial pressure surged skyward from the Monuments of Achievements, like a vast golden tide, pressing down upon Monarch Xuanyu in the high heavens!

Monarch Xuanyu snorted coldly. Countless particles swirled around him, forming an invisible barrier that forcefully tore an opening in the surging imperial might. His white lab coat flapped loudly in the strong winds.

"Even if you were in your prime, not just lingering wills after death, none of you, save for a select few, would be a match for me...

Whether you are furious or resentful... my purpose today is to clear out the Imperial Dao Ancient Treasury."

"I'd like to see who among you can stop me?"

Monarch Xuanyu's tone was exceptionally calm, yet his words were incredibly overbearing. He raised a hand and pointed at the sky, and a cross-shaped longsword, formed by super-high-speed moving particles, condensed into existence!

It was not a physical sword of matter, but a mass of energy compressed to its extreme, like a miniature sun. Due to its unstable internal structure, its reflected spectrum constantly changed, shifting from orange to red, red to purple, and then purple to black... Finally, it resembled a sword-shaped, pitch-black abyss, seemingly capable of devouring everything.

World-destroying pressure emanated from the sword. Monarch Xuanyu formed a sword-chant with his hand and pointed into the air, and the sword flew out as if controlled by a sword-immortal in a wuxia film!

The black longsword cleaved through the surging imperial might, instantly striking down the nearest emperor's lingering will to Monarch Xuanyu. Energy surged forth from the sword's momentum, like a black, scorching tide, engulfing several other nearby lingering wills as well!

A continuous stream of imperial lingering wills rose from their respective Monuments of Achievements, harnessing their "Achievements" to attack Monarch Xuanyu. Over four hundred emperors launched successive attacks with great momentum, yet Monarch Xuanyu, alone with his sword, carved a bloody path through them like a demon god, almost causing the entire "Flying Dragon in the Sky" layer to totter.

"Who is this guy?? Is he that fierce??"

Jian Changsheng, lying on Qin Shi Huang's Monument of Achievements, watched Monarch Xuanyu cut through numerous emperors and slowly approach him, his eyes wide with shock.

Although Monarch Xuanyu was attacking, it would take time for him to cut through so many Monuments of Achievements and reach the depths. Meanwhile, Sun Bumian and Bai Ye, inside the bowl, also witnessed the entire process, their expressions somewhat peculiar.

"Does activating the Higgs boson require all those flashy sword techniques?" Sun Bumian couldn't help but ask.

"...Probably not."

"Then why is he acting like a sword-immortal?"

Bai Ye watched Monarch Xuanyu in the chaotic battle, "wielding a sword with energy," "white robes fluttering," and adopting "the stance of a sword-immortal," and pondered for a moment.

"...For aesthetic purposes?"