But the aura of the Holy Ancestor's Sword was completely suppressed by the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword.
How was that possible?
What was the origin of the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword?
The terrifying flashes of thunder seemed to be struggling to break free.
The Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword was growing ever more powerful — so powerful it nearly leapt from his grasp.
"What's happening?" Nie Li gripped the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword tightly, trying to suppress it, when a bolt of horrifying lightning tore straight through his body.
"Agh!"
Nie Li let out a pained growl. This force felt as though it were ripping his body apart.
He could feel that his own power was utterly insufficient to withstand the might of the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword.
"Nie Li, what's wrong?" Yu Yan asked urgently.
"Don't touch me, or the lightning will conduct to you," Nie Li hastily stopped them.
"Then what should we do?" Ye Ziyun's eyes brimmed with tears of distress.
"Nie Li, how can we help you?" Xiao Ning'er managed, slightly more composed but no less anxious.
"My power can't suppress the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword anymore. We need to enter the Map of Ten Thousand Rivers and Mountains — come with me!" Nie Li said in a low voice. He quickly opened the Map of Ten Thousand Rivers and Mountains, and with a series of whooshes, the group turned into streaks of light and vanished from the spot.
Once inside the Map of Ten Thousand Rivers and Mountains, Nie Li immediately felt his strength surge to several times what it had been.
Here was his domain — in this world, everything was under his control.
Yet the power of the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword still raged like a wild horse that had thrown off its reins.
Nie Li couldn't quite understand it. Why had the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword grown so terrifyingly powerful after absorbing the Holy Ancestor's Sword fragment, bearing no resemblance to its usual self?
"What exactly is going on? Could there be some hidden secret within the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword?" Nie Li sent his soul power seeping into the sword, and at once sensed that its interior was like an abyss — impossible to fathom.
It seemed he had always underestimated the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword!
The power of the Holy Ancestor's Sword had fully awakened the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword, drawing out every last shred of its latent potential!
The Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword as it stood now was nothing short of a divine artifact.
Yu Yan closed her eyes and probed the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword with her senses, then abruptly opened them. "I never imagined it could be this powerful — far beyond anything I expected. This shouldn't be something from this world!"
"If not from this world, then where could it have come from?" Nie Li couldn't help but wonder. Although entering the Map of Ten Thousand Rivers and Mountains had eased his pain considerably, he still couldn't bring the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword under control.
Nie Li's soul power kept searching through the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword, feeling out the forces within.
Suddenly, a deep voice resonated through his mind, like the tolling of a massive bell.
"Limitlessness itself has no beginning; without beginning, it is endless." The voice was ancient and hoarse, as though drifting from the very dawn of creation.
Hearing those words, Nie Li's eyes snapped wide open — a phrase he knew all too well.