The Imperial Gate Divine Saber struck Prince Umbral squarely in the face—timed with exquisite precision, landing at the exact instant Quinn Shepherd’s Soul-Calling Rite tugged at Prince Umbral’s Primordial Spirit.
Prince Umbral was hit head-on; the Imperial Gate Divine Saber nearly split him in two. This terrifying blade is infamous not only for its power to sever Tu Bo’s horn, but also for its ability to devour Primordial Spirits.
Even Tanner Shue, the saber’s master, could be swallowed by its inner world if he let his guard down—trapped for seven or eight million years.
The moment Prince Umbral was struck, the world spun; his Primordial Spirit was helplessly drawn into the Imperial Gate Divine Saber.
“I’ve fallen into the trap!”
Yet he reacted with ruthless decisiveness—at the very moment of realization, he summoned the full power of Nether City to assault the Imperial Gate Divine Saber. Mingdu demonic qi surged forth, flooding madly into the saber.
“Immeasurable Reincarnation!”
Inside the saber’s world, Prince Umbral’s Primordial Spirit instantly unleashed his divine arts: the boundless Nether Sea appeared, and from its depths rose a Mingdu Heaven Gate. Prince Umbral sped toward the gate—before entering, he was a refined scholar; after passing through, he emerged as a delicate young woman.
Another Heaven Gate appeared ahead. The now-female Prince Umbral passed through it again.
His Primordial Spirit’s spellcasting was blindingly fast—his form flickered like light, darting through one Mingdu Heaven Gate after another, too swift for the naked eye to follow.
Each time he passed through a Mingdu Heaven Gate, it was as if he experienced a new reincarnation—his Primordial Spirit transformed entirely. Face, gender, even race, all changed; he became a completely different person each time.
This Immeasurable Reincarnation divine art let him undergo thousands of reincarnations in an instant—so fast that even the Imperial Gate Divine Saber’s internal formation couldn’t keep up.
The Imperial Gate Divine Saber contains a significant flaw, introduced by a gap in Indra King Buddha’s scripture, which left the blade just imperfect enough during forging.
Quinn Shepherd once deduced an escape method from the Indra King Buddha’s scripture, but Prince Umbral’s approach was to cycle through identities at lightning speed via reincarnation.
With every shift in identity, the Imperial Gate Divine Saber had to reconfigure its inner world’s array structure. The First Human Emperor designed the saber’s runes so its formation was never fixed—always adapting to trap whoever entered.
By constantly transforming his identity and race with Immeasurable Reincarnation, Prince Umbral forced the saber to continually recalculate its arrays—eventually outpacing its computational speed and exposing the flaw that had once taken Quinn nearly a year to find.
Prince Umbral’s eyes lit up. As his Primordial Spirit flew from the final gate, he broke free from the saber’s world, regaining his freedom.
Emerging from the gate, his Primordial Spirit returned to its true form—only to find his physical body had already been cleaved in half by Tanner Shue’s saber!
“An Emperor’s-Throne expert—so much for that!”
Tanner Shue roared with laughter, swinging the divine blade at Prince Umbral’s split neck: “Your strength isn’t so much greater than mine, Lingxiao!”