Chapter 163: Senior Brother, this sword of yours severs the heart but not the body, it is too ruthless

"Come if you want. Do you think I, as your master, would be afraid of you, my disciple?"

Yan Chixia walked over carelessly:

"If you say your cultivation level is indeed far beyond your master's, but when it comes to drinking capacity, I alone can knock down ten of you."

"As the number one sect leader in the world, my drinking capacity is also the number one in the world. What is there to fear?" Jinguang followed behind.

"If we are talking about drinking, I, the Holy Monarch, have never lost in the Yin Moon Dynasty," Qiye stepped forward with large strides.

The others also joined in the commotion, boasting that their drinking capacity was not inferior to anyone.

Immediately, everyone picked up a bowl of wine and said in unison:

"Cheers!"

After drinking it all in one gulp, they couldn't help but loudly say the words "good wine."

"Naturally, it is good wine. I often boast that my brewing technique is peerless in the world."

Hearing Zhuang Buran say this, Yan Hongye couldn't help but smile:

"Good for you, Zhuge Liuyun. Are you still my Senior Brother? You never said before that you knew how to brew wine."

"Hahaha, Junior Sister, I am truly sorry. Actually, I also know how to cook, but because I am lazy, I let you cook for me for a year."

Yan Hongye was so angry she laughed, and she poured three large bowls of wine:

"I knew you did it on purpose. Three bowls of penalty wine as an apology!"

"Daughter, that's too light. Don't pity this brat," Sima Sanniang said:

"When I heard you were helping him cook, I was so angry. You must punish him with ten bowls of wine!"

Yan Chixia shouted:

"Too little, too little. What is this little bit of wine? For someone with a massive capacity, it's just a drop in the ocean. I say he should be punished with thirty bowls!"

"Master is right."

Zhuang Buran laughed loudly:

"Tonight, whoever drinks me under the table, I will become sworn brothers with him. If anyone gets me drunk, I will marry them!"

"Hongye, did you hear that? Tonight, your father and I will help you, and we will definitely get this brat drunk."

Jinguang, Qiye, and others spoke one after another:

"I will also help Miss Hongye."

"And me!"

I don't know how much time passed, but everyone was lying on the table, dizzy. Only Zhuang Buran and Yan Hongye were still standing.

"Senior Brother, in order not to lose, you couldn't have done something to the wine, could you?"

"Usually in a dream, as long as you don't want to get drunk, you won't get drunk. The reason they got drunk is because I wanted them to get drunk. And the reason you didn't get drunk, Junior Sister, is because I am hungry!"

Zhuang Buran was all smiles:

"I am quite nostalgic for the bowl of noodles you made the day we first met."

"It was just a bowl of plain noodles. I will make it for you," Yan Hongye said, and then she saw a stove appear beside her.

Zhuang Buran smiled brilliantly:

"My Junior Sister is as kind and beautiful as ever."

Before long.

Yan Hongye served a bowl of noodles, and the young man carrying the spear took it and began to eat heartily.

"If you like it so much, don't you want to eat it for a lifetime?" Yan Hongye suddenly asked with a smile.

Zhuang Buran drank the noodle soup in one gulp, shook his head, and smiled:

"Junior Sister, I am just greedy for your skills, but you want me, the whole person. You are simply more ruthless than me."

"To deal with a person like you, one should be more ruthless, otherwise, one will only be eaten up by you," Yan Hongye said angrily.

The young man carrying the spear laughed:

"Junior Sister, I'm afraid you said it backward. It's you who wants to eat me up."

A blush appeared on Yan Hongye's pretty face:

"That bowl of noodles just now would have been better off fed to a dog. You are the same as before, you just like to make me angry."

Zhuang Buran said very innocently:

"From the first moment I saw you, Junior Sister, I knew that the Seven Generations of Marriage, fighting the demonic path, and practicing the 'Xuanxin Profound Mystery' were not things you wanted."

"Therefore, you forced yourself to become cold and heartless, wanting to use this to complete these missions you didn't want to accept."

"Me making you angry is just telling you from the side that the world is vast, but nothing is bigger than oneself. Letting yourself have fun is the most important thing in living in this world."

"So, you read my mind the first time we met," Yan Hongye looked directly into Zhuang Buran's eyes:

"I can also feel that you don't want to destroy the world at all. All that talk about creating a Heavenly Demon prosperous age is just nonsense you made up."

"At this point, you still refuse to tell the truth?"

Zhuang Buran looked thoughtful, his fingertips tapping on the table, and the drunken crowd suddenly woke up. He then said:

"I suppose you all want to know why I want to destroy the world. Then I will give you the truth."

In mid-air, a screen of light fell, seemingly a 'Round Light Technique' that could project scenes from a thousand miles away.

They saw that the first thing to appear on the screen was Qiye and Nie Xiaoqian using Lan Mo's tears as a bet.

Then it was Nie Xiaoqian coming to the human world, accidentally captured by Meiji, and then using her 'Life Essence Pill' as a threat, wanting her to seduce men for her at Lanruo Temple. After that, a scholar named Ning Caichen appeared.

As the screen played the scenes, everyone first saw a completely different Zhuge Liuyun. He was generous, sincere, kind, funny, but somewhat inferior, with low Daoist skills, and from beginning to end, he only liked Yan Hongye.

They also saw an Yan Hongye who didn't like Zhuge Liuyun at all at first, and it was this Yan Hongye who fell into a demonic frenzy because of practicing the 'Xuanxin Profound Mystery'.

They also saw Sect Leader Jinguang, who, in order to eliminate the demonic path, finally fell into a demonic frenzy without knowing it and became a madman.

They also saw Qiye, the Demon Monarch, who was schemed against by the Yue Mo, lost everything, had to become heartless and turn into a demon, wanting to destroy the world.

Among them, Sima Sanniang saw herself killed by Qiye, and Jing Wuyuan saw himself schemed to death by Jinguang.

The Four Xuanxin Generals and the Four Sages of the Demon Palace also saw their own deaths on the screen.

Only Yan Chixia watched until the end in extreme grief. Sometimes, letting people who should die live on is a painful torture.

As the screen gradually dimmed, everyone seemed to understand everything.

"My divination technique is far stronger than my martial arts and Daoist skills. This is the original path of Heavenly Secrets."

Zhuang Buran said happily:

"Now, because of my changes, none of you have died. It seems my dream of being a savior hero has been completed quite well. Now, only the last step remains."

Having said this, the dream that seemed real and illusory shattered. Everyone woke up at the same time. Before they could speak, they saw the blood-red Seven Killings Star and the cyan Heavenly Demon Star intersecting in the void.

In an instant, they stirred up cyan and red light, dropping a pillar of cyan and red light that reached the sky, covering a young man with bare feet, blood-red clothes, and silver hair.

"Not good, midnight has arrived, the Heavenly Demon striking the Seven Killings has arrived!"

Yan Chixia shouted anxiously:

"Quick, follow me to stop Liuyun. He must be wanting to sacrifice himself to save all of us and the common people of the world."

Everyone leaped into the air and swiftly arrived in front of the silver-haired young man covered by the cyan and red pillar of light.

"The Heavenly Demon Star and the Seven Killings Star are clashing. The Heavenly Demon Demonic Light has reached its most violent moment, containing infinite demonic energy and Heavenly Demon resentful souls."

Sima Sanniang warned solemnly:

"We cannot just rush into the Heavenly Demon Demonic Light and pull Liuyun out. Once we are covered by the Heavenly Demon Demonic Light, at best we will be possessed by the Heavenly Demon resentful souls, and at worst we will turn into ashes."

Yan Hongye's aura surged, and she walked forward a few steps, resisting the overwhelming residual demonic energy:

"Senior Brother, we all understand now. You knew Xiaoqian's demon body was not her true body, so you severed her demon body. You knew that reverse-practicing the 'Xuanxin Profound Mystery' could absorb the power of practicing the 'Xuanxin Profound Mystery' normally, so you used this to save me."

"You pity Qiye's fate, but you also hate him for killing your teacher's wife, so you crippled half of his cultivation."

"You didn't want Jinguang to fall into a demonic frenzy, so while crippling half of his cultivation, you also did something to his meridians, making it impossible for him to practice the 'Xuanxin Profound Mystery'."

"Since you want to save everyone, why did you leave yourself out?"

"Liuyun, Hongye is right," Sima Sanniang shouted:

"You arranged everything for everyone perfectly, why do you refuse to let yourself go?"

Yan Chixia also said:

"You saved Hongye, saved Lan Mo, saved Jinguang, saved Qiye, saved your teacher's wife, saved everyone, and even planned to save the common people of the world. How could you forget the one who should be saved the most, yourself!"

Jinguang said in a deep voice:

"Zhuge Liuyun, as the Sect Leader of the Xuanxin Sect, I order you to stop immediately. Even if one must sacrifice their life to protect the Dao, it should be me, the Sect Leader, who goes first. How can a small Xuanxin Sect member be so presumptuous!"

Qiye said very sincerely:

"Brother Liuyun, you removed the demonic energy of the Seven Generations of Resentful Couples for me, helped me point out that the Yue Mo had taken my mother's body, and even prevented my biological mother from suffering the disaster of being smashed to pieces. Such great kindness, Qiye will never forget. Please stop quickly. If you continue, you will not be able to turn back."

"Liuyun, Uncle is begging you on behalf of your mother, do not take the demonic energy and grievances of the Heavenly Demon Star into your body anymore. If you do this, you will truly become a demon," Jing Wuyuan roared in extreme grief:

"Your life will be linked to the Heavenly Demon Star. Either you destroy the human world and become the Lord of the Heavenly Demon, or you will die without a burial place."

Zhuang Buran turned a deaf ear, opened his arms, and all the infinite demonic energy and resentful souls returned to his body. As deep demonic patterns appeared on his forehead, the cyan and red pillar of light gradually faded.

"Hehe, now my life is linked to the Heavenly Demon Star. If I die, the Heavenly Demon Star will be destroyed. From now on, there will be no day when the Heavenly Demon strikes the Seven Killings, and no time when the Heavenly Demon clan will revive and return."

The silver-haired young man laughed softly:

"Junior Sister, now only you, the Mo Xie Sword Master, can kill me with the 'Xuanxin Profound Mystery' that is approaching Great Completion."

He paused and said:

"To save the common people and kill one person, or to save one person and harm the common people. Do you choose the former, or the latter?"

Hearing this, Yan Hongye's hand holding the Mo Xie Precious Sword trembled.

Her eyes narrowed, and her aura surged even more violently. Her black hair turned into a full head of white hair in an instant.

"Senior Brother, I have a third choice: to die with you and save the common people together!"

"Fate plays tricks on people, actually letting you practice the 'Xuanxin Profound Mystery' to the highest realm at this time."

Zhuang Buran had one hand behind his back and the other in a sword finger gesture:

"Then let us each strike one sword to see the other off."

"As you wish!"

Seeing this, the others remained silent. Yan Chixia, his wife, and Jing Wuyuan had red eyes, holding back their tears, hating their own uselessness while also understanding that this was the only way.

"Xuanxin Profound Mystery, Ten Thousand Laws Return to One!"

Around Yan Hongye's body, countless strands of perfect, majestic, and vast Heavenly Righteous Qi appeared, followed by an exceptionally mysterious Heavenly Dao rhythm, all of which poured into the Mo Xie Precious Sword in her hand.

Zhuang Buran's sword finger spat out a fierce, monstrous, ink-green sword light that seemed to pierce the heavens.

The moment their auras collided, the two figures collided instantly.

Only a light 'bang' was heard, as if they could condense the power of their sword moves within an inch without leaking, so it did not harm the surrounding things.

They only saw the Mo Xie Precious Sword pierce through the silver-haired young man's heart, and his whole body began to become illusory.

"Nine Heavens Mysterious Iron forged a cold blade, three-foot green edge severs the flowing clouds. Excellent!"

Zhuang Buran's sword finger tapped lightly on the forehead of the stunned Yan Hongye, and he asked with a smile:

"Junior Sister, this sword of mine is called the Heart Sword. I wonder how it was used?"

After these words, the silver-haired young man's figure dissipated. Above the void, there was a loud noise, and the Heavenly Demon Star turned into dust.

The crowd in the distance saw Yan Hongye's extremely pale face suddenly become rosy, and her aura became increasingly solid.

"Phoenix Nirvana, the heart does not die!"

Yan Hongye's tears dripped down in large drops, and she said softly:

"Senior Brother, this sword of yours... severs the heart but not the body, it is too ruthless, too cruel..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 164 =====