A Farmer's Journey To Immortality

Varesh’s anger had reached its limit.

He had already given up on preserving the whole of Emerald Cove Island.

As long as his enemy was eradicated in the most brutal way possible to retain his Sword Momentum, he cared about nothing else.

His Sword Mind had already made the decision.

I’ll destroy everything.

The island’s resources.

The Spirit Fields.

The vineyards.

The formation.

All of it could be rebuilt and recovered over time.

But if he allowed Aksai to continue hiding within the formation, who knew what other tricks this native cultivator could pull out?

The assassination attempt had already proven that.

Varesh’s eyes became completely cold. His black Natal Sword trembled violently.

VMMMM!

An ocean of Sword Intent erupted from the blade.

This time, Varesh didn’t suppress it.

The Sword Intent spread through the isolation layer like a storm, instantly causing the surrounding space to tremble.

The Demon Vines that had surged between him and Aksai were shredded.

SHING! SHING! SHING!

The black Sword Blades swept across the battlefield.

The Array Eye assigned to Varesh’s isolation layer immediately began trembling.

Its fluctuations became unstable and cracks appeared in the surrounding formation patterns.

Varesh’s Sword Intent pierced through the defensive mechanisms one after another.

BOOM!

Aksai, who had been retreating, felt the pressure.

His expression became solemn.

This pampered prince-like monster is not holding back anymore.

Aksai didn’t wait anymore and immediately used his next trump card.

Something suddenly appeared in front of Varesh.

It was tiny.

At first, it was only the size of a baby’s fist.

A strange, transparent cube quietly appeared in the air.

Varesh’s Sword Sense immediately detected it.

His eyes narrowed.

"Hmm? This is..."

Before he could react—

Hummm!

The tiny cube suddenly expanded.

Its dimensions increased at an astonishing speed. A hundred metres in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, a gigantic cubic space appeared around Varesh.

Varesh’s expression changed.

The ethereal walls of the cube suddenly became solid.

Then they turned mirror-like.

Before he knew it or could do anything about it, Varesh was trapped inside.

The cube floated in the air and rotated around itself in an axis, enclosing an area roughly one hundred meters across.

Its transparent walls reflected Varesh’s figure from countless angles.

For a brief moment, the late-stage Lord-level cultivator stood motionless as he looked around. He couldn’t believe that he was trapped within a trap within a trap. What kind of paranoid formation master was he dealing with, someone who had so many tricks up his sleeve?

How can one say for sure that this guy is not from the Shinayin Empire? No... wait. Could he be a person from the Eternal Sea?

Being a deep schemer was one thing, but one needed the right tools and foundation to act on those schemes. A smart wife with all the culinary knowledge in the world still wouldn’t be able to cook a meal if the ingredients were absent from the kitchen.

Varesh had countless thoughts spinning inside his head as he found himself in his current predicament. Unfortunately, no one could give him any answers. And it didn’t seem like Aksai was the kind of guy who would spill everything to his enemies after trapping them.

However, Varesh had clearly underestimated Aksai’s decisiveness. Before Varesh could think of anything else, the cube began shrinking.

Slowly at first.

Then faster.

RUMBLE!

The space inside the cube compressed.

A terrifying physical pressure descended upon Varesh from every direction.

Varesh’s robes fluttered violently.

His muscles tightened.

His bones creaked.

His expression finally changed.

"A special space-element artifact that can trap and activate a debuff..."

His eyes became extremely cold.

Then he looked toward Aksai.

Wait. That space-element bow and this... how many space-element artifacts does this madman have?

Varesh couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

The first had been that terrifying space-element bow.

Now there was another space-element artifact.

And this one was even stranger.

Even within the Shinayin Empire, space-element artifacts were extraordinarily rare.

Possessing one was already comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.

Yet this mid-stage Lord from a backwater region had somehow produced two of them.

How?

One had to understand that the reason space-element artifacts were feared even among the Lords of the Shinayin Empire was that they were not greatly affected by Intent-based techniques that were not integrated into them.

The aspect of space was abstract to begin with and did not require a special Intent. Or rather, at the Lord Realm, no cultivator was capable enough of wielding a space-element artifact while simultaneously employing an Intent-based technique.

And even without the enhancement of Intent-based techniques, space-element artifacts displayed their most powerful and fearsome potential among artifacts of their respective tiers.

For example, the space-element bow that Aksai’s Woodland Clone had used against Varesh didn’t require any Intent-based enhancement, yet it had still managed to put his life at risk.

Varesh’s mind raced.

The space-element bow was already dangerous enough.

But this cube artifact was even more mysterious.

It didn’t simply create a spatial barrier. It could trap a target inside and then compress the space itself. If the cube continued shrinking, the pressure would increase exponentially.

Varesh’s eyes became cold as he realized something.

"Such a deep schemer. I guess those three have already been killed by him. There’s no way they could have survived against someone like him."

This brief interaction with Aksai was enough for him to deduce a lot of things. He knew the capabilities of his peers who had come with him on this hunt. If they were the ones who had attracted this much attention from Aksai, they would have already been dead several times over.

Moreover, this single isolation layer could suddenly deploy multiple Array Eyes. It told Varesh that there were no more active intruders within the formation apart from him. Only then could Aksai use the 3rd Order island formation in this way.

Of course, Varesh didn’t really care about his peers. However, their deaths were certainly no good news for him.

He gripped his sword and took a deep breath.

His Sword Body activated.

BOOM!

His physical body suddenly became as firm as a mountain.

The immense pressure bearing down on him was resisted by his strengthened Sword Body. Then he raised his Natal Sword.

SHING!

A black Sword Blade flashed.

It slammed against the mirror-like wall of the cube.

BOOM!

Ripples spread across the transparent surface.

The surrounding space twisted.

For an instant, the outside world became visible through the distorted wall.

Aksai could see Varesh’s figure inside.

Varesh could also see Aksai.

Their eyes met.

Varesh’s gaze was murderous.

Aksai’s expression was solemn.

Then—

SHING! SHING! SHING!

Varesh launched one sword attack after another. The mirror-like walls of the cube rippled continuously.

Space twisted around each impact.

Sometimes, the wall became almost transparent, allowing Aksai to clearly see Varesh inside.

At other times, the entire surface warped like water.

The cube continued shrinking.

A hundred meters.

Ninety meters.

Eighty meters.

Seventy meters.

The pressure inside increased with every reduction in size.

Varesh’s Sword Body trembled slightly.

But he refused to yield.

His black Natal Sword released one Sword Cry after another.

SHING! SHING! SHING!

Massive waves of Sword Blades erupted inside the cube.

They repeatedly slammed into the walls.

The entire artifact shook.

Aksai’s expression became increasingly serious.

Damn. I’ve actually caged a fierce demon beast with his claws and fangs out.

This guy... he alone is stronger than all of the Lords I killed combined. With this kind of power, his status in the Shinayin Empire might be extraordinary.

Kill him and I have to face problems and not killing him also brings me even more problems. fuc*k! What kind of shitty deal is this? I’d have strangled the Green Glory Lord myself if he wasn’t killed earlier.

Even after being trapped inside a space-element artifact, Varesh could still launch attacks powerful enough to affect the artifact’s spatial structure from within.

Some of the sword strikes were so powerful that they distorted the space outside the cube itself.

Aksai could see the distorted battlefield through the rippling walls.

But he wasn’t worried.

Not yet.

Breaking a space-element artifact was never easy.

Especially when the artifact had been designed specifically to isolate and contain a powerful cultivator.

Aksai slowly breathed out and gestured to his subordinates to approach from outside the formation before pointing them to certain spots.

The three Formation Spirits immediately understood what Aksai wanted.

"Take control of your respective Array Eyes."

"Understood."

Jina moved toward one direction.

Naisha moved toward another.

Loken disappeared into the fog.

This was the reason Aksai had eliminated the three imperial Lords before he approached Varesh. With the availability of multiple Array Eyes on the standby, he could put tremendous pressure on Varesh using his subordinates as the controllers and contributors.

The three Array Eyes began functioning simultaneously.

Hummm!

Formation patterns appeared throughout the battlefield.

Three different sections of the Devil’s Den began resonating with one another.

Aksai raised his hand.

"Form a rectangular formation around Varesh."

The three Formation Spirits immediately complied.

The surrounding formation patterns shifted.

The space around Varesh and the cube artifact became isolated from the rest of the battlefield.

The three Array Eyes worked together, creating a rectangular formation that completely enclosed the trapped sword cultivator.

Aksai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

For the moment, Varesh was contained.

But Aksai’s gaze remained cautious. He knew exactly how precious the cube was. Due to its limited-used nature, he refrained from using it wantonly.

However, he was decisive in revealing its existence when dealing with a true late-stage sword cultivator Lord.

This was the same space-element artifact he had used against Saarken during his battle against Kaligoot’s forces.

Back then, Aksai had only understood a portion of its abilities.

He had used the cube to trap Saarken inside and isolate him from the battlefield (Chapter 692).

More importantly, it had provided him with the perfect cover to hide the existence of the Enchanted Everwood Farm’s isolated dimension from the Green Glory Lord, who had been watching the battle from a distance.

Aksai had taken Saarken into the Enchanted Everwood Farm and killed him there.

The cube had merely served as a spatial curtain.

But after that battle, Aksai had thoroughly studied the artifact.

Only then had he discovered its true purpose.

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