Chapter 361: Executed

Seeing Pei Ye had wanted to see an enemy for a very, very long time.

After waking up in the small courtyard in Bowang, these black-robed figures who made him grit his teeth seemed to have truly turned into shadows, merging into the deep darkness, never to be seen again.

Inspector Wu Chou said he would find their location through the Heart Amber, but there was still no news. He came to Kongdong intending to catch their murderous hands, but ripples of suspicion arose everywhere in this strange water.

But he finally walked this line to the current node. When he saw Ji Feng's "different pupils," he realized that the target of the Huan Si Lou might not be Yan Caiyue.

It wasn't until he saw the small "Feng" character on the sword hilt that he saw the line of the Huan Si Lou's strike in the "Blood Case Under the Pine."

Zhang Meiqing had clearly mentioned in his notes that this sword was finally returned to the Law Enforcement Hall for storage, waiting for it to be returned to its owner after the time limit, and from then on, no one knew it was a living sword that could act on its own.

But two years ago, it had already reached Zhang Jingbi's hands.

Half a year after stepping into the Eighth Life, Jiang Yitong was listed in the Fu Ranking. For such a rare and excellent Eighth Life to use his life to hold this sword for a moment, it didn't seem impossible.

Seeing Pei Ye held the sword hilt expressionlessly: "To practice a sword to this point is already a disgrace to Kongdong."

And Xi Tianji's dazzling sword strike was already approaching the youth's throat.

Those days, the boy kept secretly rejoicing that his father seemed to have forgotten his existence, until one day after waking up, that figure could no longer be seen in this world.

A child who had been mischievous and playful since childhood, the night before, he was still deliberately eating his meal very slowly, pretending to be in a hurry to finish his unfinished homework, just to find ways to avoid the call of that strict figure.

This was, of course, an absolute victory in sword technique strategy. The youth didn't even use much true Qi, and in a mystery that no one could see, he had already leaned behind Xi Tianji, with only his toes touching the ground.

The pale mist on the cliff terrace was gray and cold. Xi Tianji stared at the youth walking slowly out of the cave. The murderous aura just coming out of the blood color was rushing over vividly. The man pursed his lips and didn't move, his face as cold as ice.

Xi Tianji had entered the Seventh Life for more than a year. Among this generation of the Kongdong Sword Gate, he had always been the undisputed number one.

This sword was perhaps a tool for some kind of "copying" sword technique. It could silently record the sword techniques practiced by the swordsman and transmit them to a certain place. In the meeting recorded on the sound-writing paper, Qu Zhu called it "taking years," and also couldn't solve the problem of "having bones but no flesh," which was why he brought out the faster and more dangerous Soul-Snatching Bead.

After Seeing Pei Ye realized this, he understood the general ins and outs of this matter.

The standing youth raised a sword almost reflexively.

Thus, the remaining forms of the Huan Si Lou surfaced—they were also stretched thin. When Ming Qitian kept the Lianxin Pavilion and other high-level officials, no Mystic Gate could rush over tonight.

At a speed that was almost impossible to react to, more than ten years of sword path cultivation were cast into a single sword strike here. When the mist surged abruptly, the girl and boy in the corner finally reacted to what had happened.

When walking outside, many Seventh Lives couldn't take a single move under his sword, and if he really wanted to kill someone with full power, those who seemed able to exchange a few moves would often die in one strike.

After his father left, only this Zhang Shixiong would come to care about his progress in sword techniques and point out his doubts... So when facing such strict questioning after the incident, he didn't reveal the origin of this sword.

The youth fell on him powerlessly. Seeing Pei Ye first settled him down before turning to walk toward the two in the corner.

As if turning into a soft leaf, a piece of light silk, or even just a wisp in the mist, when the strong wind hit, it drifted and traced the current, reaching the edge or even behind in an instant.

This wasn't a compliant process, but no one cared much about a case from a few years ago, so someone took it out and brought it to Zhang Jingbi.

The sword light was like snow shadows, and the chaotic colliding true Qi cleared the clouds and mist of the entire cliff terrace. No one knew how the youth survived such a close-range fight with a Seventh Life. The dodging figure and the flexible sword light looked at for a long time, even revealing a sense of composure.

That divine sword was still firmly fixed in Jiang Yitong's chest, as if the man had completely controlled it, but only Jiang Yitong himself knew... It had never been mobilized at all.

And a moment was often enough.

So they designed this Blood Case Under the Pine. No one knew that Ji Feng had already been soul-snatched years ago. When the Law Enforcement Hall's gaze gathered on Yan Caiyue, the "perpetrator" was actually in a place with no one watching.

Not to mention this was the most trusted Zhang Shixiong, who violated regulations to take it out for him from the Law Enforcement Hall.

Seeing Pei Ye first pressed on Kong Lanting's shoulder to check, finding that they only had chaotic true Qi in their bodies. Seeing Pei Ye sent in true Qi to help him clear it, and the boy was finally able to make a sound, squeezing out a hoarse voice while looking up: "Brother Seeing Pei Ye..."

He would, of course, always hold this sword, practice, fight in the ring, use "Feng Shan Ming"... Every bit was full of meaning.

And the next moment, this light sword-raising was smashed by everything 【Crane Hanging Heaven】, swept away like a wild wind rolling leaves, and thus Seeing Pei Ye's body was also swept away.

Xi Tianji lowered his eyebrows and slowly held his sword horizontally: "I have never disgraced Kongdong."

Even though it was extremely dangerous, he and the woman were now on the same mountain, no more than twenty li apart. He dodged and moved in the siege, and there was almost no one who could take a single strike before the Zhanxin Liuli.

Zhang Jingbi, of course, received this sword with immense gratitude and care.

The sudden reversal of life and death was about to succeed. The frozen youth should have reacted by now, but of course, it was too late to dodge—as long as Jiang Yitong could delay the Zhanxin Liuli for a moment, this sword would pierce his throat first.

The youth in the stone prison raised his head abruptly even in his dying moments. After being indifferently pierced through the chest by Xi Tianji's own hand, he was like dead, until he heard news of his father for the first time now.

When he began to grow up, when he began to hold a sword, the scenes he hadn't cared about in his childhood would often suddenly slam into his mind—outside the building under the tree in summer, the man holding the sword manual with a gentle smile, talking for an entire afternoon with a somewhat shy big brother. If he dared to pass by this scene, the man would definitely call him out with sharp eyes, ignoring the pouting mouth, and settle him aside to listen to those dry explanations.

After several sword strikes, the battle entered the stage of exchanging blood. At the very first moment of entering this situation, the youth suddenly erupted with devilish lethality. Exchanging swords in two moves, he traded a bloodstain on his cheek for a sword strike that pierced Xi Tianji's shoulder socket.

Seeing Pei Ye didn't care about him anymore, raised his sword, and turned to walk toward the stone prison. Zhang Jingbi was already pale-faced and purple-lipped. At this moment, he tried hard to raise his head and look at him tremblingly.

"Don't be afraid." Seeing Pei Ye said in a low voice, patted his shoulder, first unlocked the magical tool that suppressed his true Qi, and then slowly sent true Qi into his body. After watching this face recover some blood color bit by bit, he grasped the iron rod in front of his chest and pulled it out.

This was, of course, the surplus outside their twenty-four sword flows. However, unfortunately, the intrusion of the Tunri Society destroyed the harvest in Xilong, and on the other side, even the "Yellow Jade" that served as a guarantee encountered an accident... Just at this time, Zhang Jingbi surprisingly learned "Feng Shan Ming."

"Yellow Jade" · 【Immovable Dangerous Wind】.

He killed his way here all the way.

Of course, he failed.

This sword strike was fast to the point of being outrageous, and strong to the point of being outrageous. The mist of the entire cliff terrace rolled toward the youth into a huge sharp cone. Neither of them could see how this sword strike could be avoided with the power and speed of a Sixth Life.

Now holding this sword in his hand, every time he studied and overcame a difficulty on the sword path, the lonely youth felt that he had caught up with them again, merging into the two shadows of that lazy summer day.

On the cliff terrace, with his forehead hair flying, Seeing Pei Ye was solemn with full focus, letting Xi Tianji turn around and erupt again. Seeing Pei Ye held his long sword horizontally, and the cold night of ice and snow descended on this isolated cliff.

The situation was irreversibly growing and waning. Anyone could see Xi Tianji's dangerous eyes, fully devoted. Every sword he struck was also absolutely with all his strength, but under the youth's endless spiritual swords, he lost his sword and drank hatred in unbelievable places time and time again. When the third penetrating wound appeared on the man's chest, the stalemate completely collapsed.

Such a floating sword strike that looked forward and backward was called 【Shell Shedding】.

Clean and neat killing was something he practiced repeatedly after he started doing these things.

Xi Tianji had long seen that this was Kongdong's standard long sword, but at this moment, under the youth's emphasis, he recognized with a slight shock that this was exactly the sword he had given to Zhang Jingbi.

The magnificent true Qi circled around his body like a floating ribbon, and Xi Tianji was even faster than his true Qi. A sword strike broke through the cloud flow, and a clear, shrill cry rang out on the cliff terrace.

But just at this moment.

And now, the person in front of him was just a Sixth Life with an unstable foundation who had walked within four zhang of him.

He of course knew that he was a rare genius, able to listen to teachings beside the Young Master of Yunlang... But who wasn't?

Xi Tianji knew he only had one chance for a sword strike.

Seeing Pei Ye didn't hide his intention to break into the rear cliff at all. He used this as a pole to stir up this water area with all his strength, wanting to make the hidden turtles and crocodiles appear... But not a single master appeared before him.

In the face of such power, the youth of course had the qualification to press forward step by step, taking his life at any moment. The look he cast seemed to be just a farewell before death.

However, the expected Zhanxin Liuli piercing the throat didn't come.

Borrowing this sword strike, the youth left a penetrating wound with blood splashing on Xi Tianji's left waist, and then this sword fight entered a fierce and dangerous fight to the death.

"You have been harming your fellow disciples since you were fourteen." Seeing Pei Ye pressed forward, staring at him and saying in a low voice, "Zhang Jingbi's father died because of this, and now you are going to attack his orphan... I know what the Huan Si Lou is for, but you are the current number one of Kongdong, enjoying the respect and love of countless peers... Why can you be such a completely inhumane dog for them?"

But the youth didn't even dodge.

On the cliff wall, Jiang Yitong's dying body erupted abruptly. He roared silently with his beard and hair all standing up, his hands clutching the sword body in front of his chest, and the true Qi condensed from melted blood and bones formed a solid cage that was almost visible to the naked eye.

They of course couldn't wait another year for that slow copying. Even if they took a risk, they could only use the Soul-Snatching Bead to complete all this.

The moment Xi Tianji moved his gaze back to Seeing Pei Ye, the awe-inspiring murderous intent erupted abruptly.

Only Sixth, Seventh, Eighth Lives... The pulse-realm play-ghosts hidden in Kongdong almost came out in full force, desperately trying to keep this youth outside Pillar Jia-Nine.

And didn't expect that those "cares" were just watering and fertilizing, just to make him bear fruit that could be harvested sooner.

In such an unexpected assassination, only it could manage to raise a defense in time.

And they had never seen him strike with such full strength.

For the first time, a look of almost humiliation appeared on Xi Tianji's cold face. The Zhanxin Liuli swept over at this moment—the cage cast by Jiang Yitong with his life couldn't stop it for a moment. It pierced into Xi Tianji's dantian with one sword strike. In the man's ferocious and painful expression, the meridian trees shattered piece by piece, and the true Qi exploded and dissipated.

This was the second step to board the "Flying Feather Immortal," cast by 【Immovable Dangerous Wind】 and 【Shell Shedding】, hiding the body and guarding life, extremely flexible: 【Floating Returning Wind】.

Yellow Oriole and Jade Cicada were both spirits of controlling the wind. The changes of rapid sweeping and floating were integrated into the two sword techniques from beginning to end. The swordsman must realize this ultimate meaning—no matter how strong the attacking sword was, it couldn't hit the light wind that drifted with the blade.

"Yuanwu Cliff Sword" · 【Crane Hanging Heaven】

Xi Tianji breathed rapidly and stared at him dead. Seeing Pei Ye lowered his head, slowly loosened his hand, and showed the sword hilt in his hand to him.

Another person vetoed the use of the Soul-Snatching Bead in Kongdong, so after that, they still tried to copy "Feng Shan Ming" with this sword, which led to Xi Tianji's care for Zhang Jingbi.

He moved his eyes slightly to look at the cliff wall. There, the ice-clear sword body was like a nail. Jiang Yitong was pierced through the chest and nailed to the wall. This powerful previous generation's Sword Head was holding the sword body with trembling hands, and it was clear there was no way to survive.

One move had passed.

Because he would rather believe that he was possessed by demons, and never thought that it was this sword that framed him.

The next moment, clouds and mist accompanied the long sword, and the Qi hit like a dragon. The three people who had just reacted all felt their hearts and lungs tighten. Only Xi Tianji saw with a sinking heart that the pair of black pupils were so agile that they didn't look real, and they had already turned along with his sword strike the moment he raised it.

Just right, they had long been core disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall.

Between Six and Seven, there had always been a chasm.

The difference in strength was widened sword by sword. Only five breaths later, Xi Tianji was already in a state of embarrassment. The youth knocked away his long sword with one strike, and the sword tip pressed forward like a spirit snake. He could only lean back and fall. Seeing Pei Ye took a step forward, forced him to lie on the ground, and pressed the sword tip against his throat.

If the sword hilt was opened, there would be a small "Feng" character carved clumsily on the invisible sword strip below.

Compared to Jiang Yitong, who was listed in the Fu Ranking according to rumors, this Zhang Shixiong who lived together day and night was truly powerful enough to make them feel the same. Every time they sparred, that bottomless sword path foundation made people sigh helplessly with a bitter smile.

Standing still and facing this cloud explosion, he of course couldn't keep up with such speed, nor could he catch such power. When facing such a full-strength eruption of a Seventh Life at such a distance, a Sixth Life originally had no chance.

"Hmm, it's fine now." Seeing Pei Ye held his cold hand, turned his head, and put his hand on Guan Qianyan's shoulder. With Kong Lanting's experience, the girl's Qi pulse was cleared within two breaths. She raised her head, and her eye sockets were actually red, with tears wetting a large area around her.

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned, felt his body front and back, and took out a piece of cloth that wasn't too stained with blood and handed it to her.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 362 =====