Chapter 1652: Four Sword Traces

Xun Shuang Xianzi cried for a while, then after a long moment gradually calmed down.

She sniffled slightly, rose to her feet, looked at Xiao Feng with a guilty expression, and shook her head slightly, saying: "It's not your fault; this is just fate.... Fellow Daoist, let us part here."

After speaking, she tapped her toe, her slender figure swaying as she rose, about to leave.

"Wait!"

Xiao Feng panicked, quickly flew up and grabbed her hand.

"Where are you going?" he asked.

Xun Shuang Xianzi's eyes held only bewilderment: "I don't know; I'll go wherever I cultivate."

"Come to my cave dwelling! The environment is good and it's safe!" Xiao Feng said, clutching her hand and refusing to let go.

This Fairy Maiden's condition is not right; her spirit has suffered a great blow. If she is let go, she will wander aimlessly, and if she encounters a peak ancestral god or a venerable, she may well meet with disaster!

"No."

Xiao Feng's invitation was rejected by her.

She broke free of Xiao Feng's hand and said: "Half a lifetime, past... severed because of you. I don't want to see you again; let us part amicably and each pursue our own cultivation."

Xiao Feng's mind and spirit were greatly shaken.

"Impossible!"

He surged forward in pursuit, embraced Xun Shuang Xianzi, and said in a low voice: "Didn't we say we would jointly comprehend the Dao and become the strongest? Why have you changed your mind?"

"Yes, I have changed my mind. Let go; I must walk my own path and seek my own Dao." Xun Shuang Xianzi struggled twice and broke free of Xiao Feng.

Seeing her resolute determination to leave, Xiao Feng urged: "Comprehending the Dao has nothing to do with location; couldn't you comprehend the Dao just as well in my cave dwelling? The Myriad Heavens Battlefield is vast and boundless, fraught with danger; if you leave like this, I cannot rest easy!"

Recalling the events of the past few days, he felt some regret.

Seeing the Fairy Maiden seemingly transformed into another person, lacking her former ethereal elegance, with gloom between her brows and low spirits, he wished he could beat himself up.

"Chen Jie, you've caused great harm!"

Xiao Feng felt a dark resentment in his heart, yet there was nothing he could do about the Dao Ancestor.

Xun Shuang Xianzi waved her hand, releasing a strand of immortal power to block Xiao Feng's further approach.

Having already flown to high altitude, hearing Xiao Feng's words, she replied: "Precisely because it is vast and boundless, it is suitable for tempering one's cultivation. Don't follow me; consider this my plea to you."

Her tone grew ever more resolute.

Yet Xiao Feng still could not let go!

Parting from a native of the virtual universe in the Myriad Heavens Battlefield may well be an eternal farewell!

Heaven and earth are so vast, man is so tiny, like a drop of water in the mighty sea, hard to find.

If she leaves, I fear we may never meet again in this lifetime.

Only by becoming a venerable, with boundless divine sense, could one hope to find her.

Xiao Feng caught up and barred Xun Shuang's path; even if struck by immortal power, it didn't matter. He said in a deep voice: "If I let you go today, I will regret it for the rest of my life! Fairy Maiden, if you're not happy, hit me—beat me to death if you wish. If that still doesn't satisfy you, kill me a hundred times; I'll accept it all. I only beg you to stay and give me a chance to make amends."

Upon hearing this, Xun Shuang Xianzi's expression flickered with doubt, and she wavered slightly.

But soon she shook her head again.

"Please step aside."

"No! Unless you stay!"

Xiao Feng refused to let her go under any circumstances.

Xun Shuang Xianzi closed her eyes, sighed helplessly, filled with resignation.

She flipped her right hand, and a long sword appeared.

*Clang—*

The Holy Sword hummed, a thread of sword qi descended, severing Xiao Feng's arms that blocked her path.

A venerable's weapon, the Dao‑Slaying Sword!

"Fairy Maiden?"

Xiao Feng stared in shock.

To him, the severed arms were no serious injury; he could restore them with a single thought.

Yet he never expected Xun Shuang Xianzi to use the Dao‑Slaying Sword to part from him.

She truly had made up her mind to leave and did not wish to see him again.

Xun Shuang Xianzi said nothing, turned and drifted away.

Xiao Feng pursued again; she did not look back and swept her sword downward.

*Clang! *

Sword light stretched three thousand li!

An instant, terrifying aura shattered Xiao Feng's entire body, and even the earth below was torn open into a bottomless abyss, as if the whole land had been split apart.

"Sorry." She flung those words away and instantly vanished into the distance.

Even with damage reduced a thousandfold, Xiao Feng was still killed by that single strike—the damage was horrendous.

This was her true strength; slaying an ancestral god was as easy as child's play.

But at that moment Xiao Feng had no time to look at the damage; he used his title permission to revive instantly, unharmed, and gave chase once more.

Before he could draw near, another blade of sword light came crashing down.

*Boom—*

His body shattered again.

It turned out that Xun Shuang Xianzi, striking with full force, could easily kill him in an instant...

"Frost..."

Xiao Feng revived once more and shouted.

Before his words even faded, a third sword light fell, killing him again.

Xiao Feng revived for the third time.

This time he didn't even have time to speak, and was instantly killed.

After being killed four times in a row, his revival allowance was exhausted, and he could no longer respawn on the spot.

The last time he was killed consecutively, it was still the Hundred Odd.

Who would have thought that this time it was Xun Shuang Xianzi, whom he had just been in close contact with a few days ago……

Xun Shuang Xianzi killed Xiao Feng for the fourth time; seeing he did not rise again, she put away her Dao-Slaying Sword.

She knew Xiao Feng couldn't die, and even his corpse could hear sounds; she said in midair: "If you want to meet again, become a Venerable. When you can defeat me without relying on tricks, I will obey all your arrangements."

Having spoken, she turned into a white light and vanished instantly, never to be pursued again.

Xiao Feng had no corpse; only a name floated in the air.

He Xianzi also returned to her mount space because of his death.

Watching Xun Shuang Xianzi walk farther and farther, turning into a speck on the horizon and finally disappearing, his mood became extremely heavy.

"Why on earth is this……"

He did not understand.

Yet he seemed to grasp something.

Heaven's mandate, anomaly, the Great Dao, human hearts……

All these things intertwined in a brief moment.

While he still thought he had merely copied an Innate Dao Body and accidentally offended Xun Shuang Xianzi, she seemed to have already contemplated something far beyond.

Perhaps this departure of hers contained an element of escape.

But it was also her taking a step forward, beginning to pursue the true Great Dao.

Xiao Feng pondered in silence.

After a long while, he murmured: "The Venerable realm, I will reach it……"

After this incident, he seemed to have understood many things as well.

People must always grow.

Perhaps this time, too, marks the beginning of his journey from youth to maturity.

Opening the map, Xiao Feng silently noted this location.

On the ground were four sword marks, stretching a thousand miles long and bottomless.

He chose to revive at the main base, losing 20% of his current level cultivation.

Inside the main base's Teleportation Array were many people, but he didn't want to see any of them; upon reviving, he immediately flew up to the Nine Heavens, heading aimlessly in a direction.

At the same time, at another location in the distant Myriad Heavens Battlefield.

After distancing herself from Xiao Feng, Xun Shuang Xianzi stopped on a nameless solitary peak.

She gazed into the distance, her eyes filled with bewilderment.

After a short while, she raised her hand and wiped before her, a wisp of white mist rose, covering her peerless appearance.

"Hmm……"

Suddenly, she let out a muffled groan.

From within her body came a strange sensation, as if something was growing.

"This……"

She widened her eyes, sensed her internal state, and wore an expression of disbelief.