Chapter 19

In the ghostly blue and dark space, a blade and a sword confronted each other.

Wu Wu Zai Gu felt like a leopard meeting a poisonous snake. He could clearly tear it to pieces with one claw, but he couldn't guarantee that he could dodge its bite before it died.

And that poison was so intense.

He kept probing, and the two had exchanged five or six moves in an instant, but the blade and sword had not clashed once—in fact, as long as they clashed, Seeing Pei Ye's defeat would be certain. It was precisely because Wu Wu Zai Gu couldn't catch his sword that he didn't dare to risk his life to attack.

If Wu Wu Zai Gu only felt it was tricky at this time, Seeing Pei Ye was simply walking on thin ice. Facing such an opponent, it wasn't just "full concentration" that could describe it. In fact, his spirit had been stretched to the limit, but he still failed to react several times, relying entirely on instinctive reactions to draw his sword to force the enemy back.

The other party was still too fast.

Seeing Pei Ye knew that he didn't have much time, because of his physical strength, because of his spirit, and because he was inferior to the enemy in every aspect. He couldn't hold on forever. As long as he failed to react once, he would be beheaded.

Compared to the other party, he was more eager to break the situation.

Wu Wu Zai Gu made a move again, and this time the attack direction he tried was directly above.

But just as he was about to leap up, Seeing Pei Ye suddenly erupted, his sword light killing like flying snow, accurately stuck at the uncomfortable point of being about to rise but not yet rising.

However, such a node was as useless as ever for someone full of True Qi. Wu Wu Zai Gu changed his posture calmly, but he still had no way to deal with this sword, so he had to dodge again.

But this time Seeing Pei Ye was unforgiving, and he became the attacking party. The next sword caught up faster, followed by the third sword, the fourth sword. His physical strength was being consumed rapidly, but Seeing Pei Ye attacked more and more fiercely.

Seeing Pei Ye was learning, and he felt that he was about to learn this sword move.

Seeing Pei Ye had always known that the sword technique he relied on to force Wu Wu Zai Gu back was actually just a form without substance.

For the 【Snow Night Flying Goose Sword Style】 taught by Grandpa Yue, he had practiced for two years, and his swordsmanship had been improving, but he had never truly learned even one style.

Ever since he had the feeling that "he hadn't learned it," every time he practiced sword, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to truly learning it, but he always had the feeling of "looking at a mountain and running a horse to death."

Until today, when he rose and drew his sword within a hair's breadth, forcing back that unstoppable blade, the feeling of death approaching his throat and then brushing past made him sweat profusely. At the same time, his understanding of this sword technique was leaping constantly, and he actually had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

He drew his sword without stopping, constantly chasing that glimmer of light, and also chasing that line of survival.

If he could learn this sword move, he could truly pierce the other party's throat!

This was a gamble, to see if he could capture the sword move right in front of his eyes first, or if the other party could think of a way to deal with him sooner.

The two moved about in the cellar. As time passed, the situation began to slide in a direction unfavorable to Seeing Pei Ye. He kept drawing his sword, but that glimmer of light could never be captured, while his physical strength and spirit were being consumed in reality.

Wu Wu Zai Gu also keenly realized that Seeing Pei Ye's sword drawing was getting slower and slower. Finally, after avoiding another sword, the True Qi under his feet vibrated, and he suddenly leaped forward, slashing out a blade unexpectedly. Seeing Pei Ye couldn't connect the next sword, so he had to jump backward in a hurry to dodge it.

Seeing Pei Ye's heart sank.

When the other party tried to slash and didn't feel enough deterrence, he lost the means to check the other party.

Now he could only defend and not attack.

Seeing Pei Ye fell into a predicament, but Wu Wu Zai Gu suddenly thought of a way to crush the poisonous snake in front of him in one fell swoop.

Wu Wu Zai Gu glanced at the burning ghostly blue flame, gave Seeing Pei Ye a strange smile, lifted a fold of his lower garment, and raised his blade to cut it down.

A foreboding feeling welled up in Seeing Pei Ye's heart, but before he could figure out what he was going to do, a strange roar suddenly sounded in the cellar, interrupting the confrontation between the two.

Seeing Pei Ye turned his head to look and saw a scene he would never forget in his life.

Old Xiangzi had crawled to the sacrificial table at some point.

The bronze cup containing the "Immortal Water" rolled to the ground. In the ghostly blue light and shadow, a monster was constantly twisting, changing, and growing.

That was Old Xiangzi. His torso was elongated, almost reaching the ceiling, and ghostly blue scales were constantly growing on his body, looking like withered yellow skin being swallowed by shadows. His clothes were torn by black, hard bone spurs, blood flowed to the ground constantly, and his hands and feet evolved into powerful claws.

He raised a painful face to look at the two, his pupils gradually stained with gold.

Sure enough, it was more than a zhang tall, sure enough, it was clad in armor, sure enough, it was majestic.

Seeing Pei Ye finally knew where the so-called "monster" that came and went without a trace came from.

Uncle Lin, it turned out, was bitten to death by his beloved daughter.

"Little... Brother Pei, don't be afraid... I am about to become an immortal... I am coming... to help... you..." He finished speaking in a strange tone, let out a terrifying roar, and pounced on Wu Wu Zai Gu.

And Wu Wu Zai Gu was already prepared. At the first moment he saw this mutation, he turned the blade without hesitation. Facing Old Xiangzi at this time, that blade that had never been able to land on Seeing Pei Ye finally showed its true power.

Old Xiangzi's forearm was cut off directly like a wooden pole, the blade's momentum did not diminish, it slashed into his chest, and slashed him out more than a zhang away.

Seeing Pei Ye looked at the broken forearm on the ground. The flesh and blood inside were still human red, but the bones had already been stained ghostly blue. Seeing Pei Ye suspected that if the bone quality had completely changed, this blade might not have had such an outstanding effect.

But Old Xiangzi's chest was not split in two, and the bones inside were still ghostly blue. Seeing Pei Ye took one look and saw that the human skin on the other parts of Old Xiangzi was still preserved, but the throat was already covered with scales.

... He even knew to protect his vital points first.

Although various thoughts flashed through Seeing Pei Ye's mind in shock, his body could not give up such an opportunity, and he immediately shook his sword and attacked Wu Wu Zai Gu from the side.

At this time, Wu Wu Zai Gu slashed Old Xiangzi back with one blade. He did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but turned to go toward the table. The sound of wind on his side tightened suddenly, and he couldn't help but be shocked. He didn't expect Seeing Pei Ye to attack at this time, so he hurriedly dodged to the side and said angrily: "Looking for death!"

But Old Xiangzi pounced again immediately. Despite losing an arm, he seemed even more valiant. Wu Wu Zai Gu couldn't dodge in time, so he had to block horizontally with his blade, which made his arm slightly numb. On the other side, Seeing Pei Ye was equally relentless, one sword faster than the other, frantically squeezing his physical strength, striving not to give Wu Wu Zai Gu any chance to catch his breath.

Wu Wu Zai Gu was attacked from both sides, and for a moment he was stretched thin, facing danger at every turn. He immediately made a choice—rather suffer ten claws from the Frost Ghost than half a sword from Seeing Pei Ye.

He flipped to dodge Seeing Pei Ye's sword, and facing the sharp claws of Old Xiangzi that came with the wind, he raised his already injured left arm and took this blow hard.

At the same time as the flesh and blood were cut by the sharp claws, Wu Wu Zai Gu's right hand, holding the long blade, was filled with True Qi. With a deep shout, he drew a half-arc in the air that could break gold and jade.

The fierce and hideous ghostly black body was almost destroyed by this blade, hitting the wall, and then collapsing, from the right shoulder to the left waist, almost entirely broken and collapsed.

Old Xiangzi fell to the ground, but he didn't roar again. His right eye pupil had almost completely turned into gold, while his left eye was still human-like, bulging due to pain, full of madness. But soon the scales grew over, burying the twitching human flesh and blood, and staining this eye gold as well.

Thus, his expression became indifferent and calm. He raised his broken arm to look at it, and the flesh and blood at the broken end actually began to grow slowly.

Seeing Pei Ye finally realized that the terrifying roar from before did not come from this monster, but from Old Xiangzi. And now, the Old Xiangzi who knew he wanted to help and would roar because of pain had been completely swallowed by it.

It tried to stand up, but the almost paralyzed upper body could not provide any support for the time being.

'This monster... is not as strong as imagined, or is it because Old Xiangzi was weak to begin with?'

Wu Wu Zai Gu ignored it, slowly turned around to look at Seeing Pei Ye, shook the long blade in his hand, and said coldly: "Now, it's time to end the battle between the two of us."