Chapter 57: A Sword Like a Rainbow, Sun Chang Perishes

A False Core cultivator, though possessing strength comparable to a true early-stage Golden Core cultivator, has a fixed realm.

Their cultivation level can never increase for the rest of their lives, and their lifespan is only a hundred years longer than that of a Purple Mansion cultivator.

In fact, when comparing actual combat power, their profound spiritual energy is inferior to that of a true early-stage Golden Core cultivator.

However, a False Core cultivator can still mobilize the primordial power within their False Core to suppress non-Golden Core cultivators.

The reason why those below the Golden Core stage cultivate spiritual energy, while those above cultivate profound energy, lies in this gap in primordial power.

However, Sun Chang's False Core was flawed.

His False Core had originally been more than half destroyed, and he had only managed to repair it using fifty years of incense power.

Even so, it remained defective and was not a flawless Golden Core.

This was also why Sun Chang was reluctant to use his primordial power easily.

Once too much primordial power was consumed and the False Core shattered, his own life would be forfeit.

But currently, Sun Chang had been provoked into an obsession by Jiang Sheng, and his mind was no longer clouded by such hesitations.

The appearance of new cracks in his False Core did not make Sun Chang hesitate; instead, it incited the ferocity of this veteran cultivator.

As Sun Chang mobilized the primordial power within his False Core, the misty water vapor expanded across the sky, as if a vast lake were enveloping the heavens above Dongjun Prefecture.

Immediately following this, as Sun Chang gathered his full spiritual energy, a nimble little fish appeared in his palm.

The moment this little fish appeared, it gave Jiang Sheng an immense sense of threat.

Before Jiang Sheng could act, Sun Chang tossed the little fish into the mist before him, and in the blink of an eye, the fish vanished into the swirling vapors.

In the next moment, accompanied by a distant, ethereal whale song, a massive dark shadow abruptly emerged from within the vast expanse of mist that covered countless miles.

The cultivators and commoners of the prefecture city discovered with horror that it was as if a dark cloud had appeared overhead to blot out the sun.

Looking up, they saw a black fish of a thousand feet in length appearing in the sky above Dongjun.

It was this great fish that obscured the sun, casting a shadow as massive as a mountain range that enveloped the entire prefecture city.

"What is that?!"

The people and cultivators of Dongjun stared in terror at the behemoth in the sky, which looked like both a mountain and an island.

How could such a creature appear in Dongjun?!

"A Kun fish?" Jiang Sheng stared at the black fish, sensing the terrifying fluctuations radiating from it.

"Jiang Sheng, didn't you want to witness the Profound Wave Azure Cloud Scripture? Then witness the divine ability I obtained from it!"

Sun Chang's voice reached Jiang Sheng's ears. Sensing danger, Jiang Sheng rapidly retreated.

In an instant, the thousand-foot black Kun fish leaped from the mist, carrying infinite momentum, crashing toward Jiang Sheng like a falling meteor.

The massive shadow that blotted out the sun enveloped Jiang Sheng. The Kun fish seemed to soar across the sky, whistling toward him with a terrifying pressure that could overturn mountains and seas.

The sheer oppression brought by such a behemoth left the million living beings of the Dongjun prefecture city without any will to resist. Whether mortals or cultivators, they could only watch helplessly as the colossus crashed down toward them, as if Mount Tai itself were descending to annihilate them all.

Under this terrifying pressure, even cultivators felt their spiritual energy freeze, as if their very thoughts had come to a standstill.

The reason divine abilities are called divine abilities is due to their extraordinary nature; they are powerful methods that only beings of the Golden Core realm, possessing profound energy, can execute.

This is the preliminary condensation of one's Dao cultivation after reaching the Golden Core stage and stepping onto the Great Dao, possessing extraordinary power.

Beings below the Golden Core stage, when facing a divine ability, can often only take the blow passively, utterly powerless to resist.

Just like the million living beings in the Dongjun prefecture city, which included several thousand cultivators.

Whether it was these Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment cultivators, or the Purple Mansion cultivator Cha Liangcai, they felt nothing but impotence and despair in the face of Sun Chang's strike—a divine ability capable of shattering mountains and destroying an entire city.

With a motion of his left hand, Jiang Sheng violently drew upon the pure spiritual energy within his body, eventually manifesting a flying sword beside him.

In the next instant, Jiang Sheng propelled the sword.

The flying sword transformed into a