The Investiture: Unlimited Blade Works Nezha
Chapter 73 Nezha’s Infinite Sword Domain

Chapter 73: Chapter 73 Nezha’s Infinite Sword Domain

Pan Hu actually felt that he was quite unlucky. Originally, he specialized in refining poison, and not long ago, he had just obtained a very rare poison insect. He immediately used it to refine another poison.

The results were very satisfying—he created an incredibly powerful collectible Gu Worm, Lv Yue.

As for Lv Yue’s past, he was just a twisted shut-in who played with insects in his dim, creepy house. He knew nothing about it.

Lv Yue massacring the Nantang army? Well, in his eyes, that was no big deal. Just killing some people, right? Nothing major.

And yet, today, out of nowhere, two Quasi-Saints showed up at his house to deal with him.

Pan Hu felt terribly wronged, but then Golden Light Saint Mother, with her few but sharp words, struck him on the head with a Ruyi. His violent temper instantly flared up.

"Two juniors dare to act so arrogant in front of me, the ancestor Pan King!"

In the distance, three Quasi-Saints were already locked in battle.

Nezha took a brief glance but quickly withdrew his focus. Restricted by his realm, he couldn’t really understand the combat between the three.

At the same time, Nezha remained secretly on guard—this Lv Yue would likely make his move soon.

Nezha’s guess was spot on. Just as he finished dealing with a wave of Insect People, a green-black monster flew towards him like a missile amidst a loud buzz.

Nezha instantly raised his spear horizontally in front of him. The impact from the monster left his feet scraping deep grooves into the ground.

Finally, Nezha got a clear look at the current Lv Yue.

???

A mutant Cell?

Lv Yue now looked a hundred times more terrifying than Cell from the manga of his past life.

Lv Yue’s insect-like mandibles and clawed arms clamped down fiercely on the Bright Silver Spear. Then, with a sickening squirm under his arms, two mantis-like limbs covered in green slime burst out, slashing directly towards Nezha.

Nezha currently didn’t have his three heads and six arms—not because he couldn’t manifest them, but simply because he didn’t like using them.

He didn’t evade. Instead, he spat out a stream of water that twisted under spatial compression in front of his mouth, forming a deadly Water Blade with immense cutting power that instantly severed the two mantis limbs.

The Water Blade didn’t stop and struck directly at Lv Yue. A metallic clang echoed, yet it failed to penetrate his defenses, only pushing him back slightly.

Lv Yue let out a grotesque screech and then said, "Li Nezha, even Immortals have limits. The current me is horrifyingly powerful!"

With that, his body exploded with green ooze, sprouting four additional insect-like limbs of varying forms before charging again.

Nezha wielded his spear and met him head-on. After exchanging blows for a while, he finally discerned some of Lv Yue’s traits.

The first was his incredibly resilient life force. Regrowing severed fingers was trivial for him; even having his head smashed didn’t stop him from growing a new one. Then there was his venom—his body carried an incredible amount of poison and insect toxins. If Nezha allowed the poison to infiltrate his body, the consequences would be dire.

Lastly, there were the peculiar abilities stemming from his enhanced insect traits—spider-like sensing or ultrasonic attacks dwarfed by the much more formidable Lv Yue standing before Nezha now.

Lv Yue’s individual combat prowess had surged by hundreds of times, turning him from a fragile mage with no counterplay into a powerhouse capable of battling Nezha head-on.

Although Nezha could use the Mountain and River Map to imprison Lv Yue, his goal was to kill him. Who knows when this guy might escape from the Jie Sect and resurface again?

Watching Lv Yue rush at him with a swarm of insects in tow, Nezha decided to unleash the full reserve of mana he had been holding back. The False Dao and Space Dao were both in full operation.

"Refine the false to seek the true, merge the illusory into myriad forms—Sword Domain, activate!"

A space of half-truths and half-illusions unfolded with Nezha at its center, encasing both him and Lv Yue within it.

The surroundings became desolate and barren, with a giant bell engraved with mountains, rivers, sun, and moon floating quietly at the center of the space.

Within this domain, projections of every Magical Treasure Nezha had ever seen or heard of could be spotted.

This was Nezha’s Primordial-inspired, chaos-modified version of Infinite Sword System, aptly named "Infinite Sword Domain 1.8."

The recognized top Supreme Swords of the Primordial World included the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, the Jie Sect’s Qi Fortune treasure Qingping Sword, and Nether River’s killing treasures Yuan Tu and Avici. Other so-called swords in the Primordial World paled vastly in comparison to these seven.

In the original concept for constructing Infinite Sword Domain, due to only having encountered replicas of the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and lacking the Extermination Immortal Formation Map, Nezha was unable to achieve the full potential of their power.

Thus, that version had temporarily been shelved.

After some thought, Nezha expanded the "sword" concept to include any useful treasure, believing that as long as something had value, it could be duplicated.

Subsequently, further iterations were developed. However, after rounds of experimentation, Nezha found the system unnecessarily complex—some treasures even had redundant functions. The original goal of creating this Divine Skill was simply to kill enemies quickly once they were dragged inside.

The Primordial World’s undisputed mightiest treasures were the Heavenly Creation Three Treasures. Conveniently, Nezha held two Chaos Bell Fragments in his possession, had previously seen the Tai Chi Diagram, and Yun Zhongzi’s replica of his mentor’s Pangu Banner carried hints of authentic Dao Qi.

Using the False Dao to craft an illusory space based on his imagination, with the semi-true Chaos Bell to stabilize it, Nezha constructed the current version of Infinite Sword Domain.

Within this space, Nezha’s mastery of the False Dao was no longer constrained by the external mana supply, significantly enhancing its power.

Furthermore, since the space itself radiated False Dao Qi, his spellcasting enjoyed substantial amplification.

As for the erratic, half-conscious Lv Yue, he didn’t care about any of this. With a puff, a massive scorpion tail grew out of his rear. Flapping his wings, he charged once more.

Nezha casually pulled out a scroll. The False Dao principles flowed, and the Tai Chi Diagram’s phantom projection appeared upon it. With a single tug, the missile-like Lv Yue crashed directly into the Fake Tai Chi Diagram.

Within the diagram, Yin Yang began to revolve, the Eight Diagrams rotated rapidly, and as all of Lv Yue’s power was absorbed, two fish—one black, one white—emerged from the diagram. With a thousandfold retaliatory force, they crushed Lv Yue mercilessly.

Lv Yue’s carapace-like body was pulverized under the Yin Yang Fish’s counterattack, reduced to fragments amidst ear-rending noises. Dark green blood and mucus sprayed all over, hissing and smoking upon contact with the ground.

His entire skeleton was shattered, dissolving into a puddle.

Lv Yue became critically wounded in an instant.

The projection of the Tai Chi Diagram in Nezha’s hands dissipated, and the scroll he had painstakingly created with a fortune of treasures shattered immediately under the backlash of the Tai Chi Diagram Dao Qi.

Yet, Lv Yue didn’t die just like that. Instead, he entered his second stage.

First, the puddle of green flesh split open to form a massive, serrated mouth. Then, amidst the incessant crackling of detonations, various insect limbs continuously erupted from within his body.

If his previous form still resembled a humanoid, he had now become a full-fledged grotesque monstrosity.

Nezha wondered if Lv Yue had been tainted by Chaos and transformed into a Chaos Creature.

Despite this lengthy description, Lv Yue’s evolution had taken only a brief moment.

Nezha sighed. He had thought the Fake Tai Chi Diagram would be sufficient to handle him, but it seemed this guy still had a second stage.