Chapter 256

Brother Qian Chen had gifted the Guanghan Guanghan Guanghan Bingpo Dan to Ning Ning Qingchen to lay the groundwork for this very moment. Master Miaokong was deeply proficient in the body of the Interstitial Ghost Mother, and his natal god-demon was skilled in escape techniques. Although Brother Qian Chen could not have necessarily foreseen that Master Miaokong would create a god-demon transformation like the Interstitial Wujian Wujian Molong in such a short time.

Yet, when Brother Qian Chen set the death trap to kill Master Miaokong last night, he had already considered this point.

Among the three, Ning Ning Qingchen, who came from a background of rogue cultivators, was the weakest. Even though Seeing Yan Shu only possessed a seventh-rank core, he was a true disciple of the Shaoqing Sword Sect and a sword cultivator, the most lethal among all cultivators.

Even Master Miaokong dared not underestimate him.

And although Ning Ning Qingchen's aptitude and potential were not inferior to the excellent children of noble families, not to mention compared to someone like Brother Qian Chen, who could be called the person with the best foundation in this realm, even compared to Si Si Qingguo and Seeing Yan Shu—one was the daughter of a Celestial Master and a true disciple of Zhengyi; the other was a Shaoqing sword cultivator—plus Brother Qian Chen, they had gathered true disciples from the lineages of three Daoist Ancestors, which could be called half of the Daoist orthodoxy.

Brother Qian Chen gifted the Guanghan Guanghan Guanghan Bingpo Dan partly because this pill was naturally suitable for female cultivators, and also with the intention of sending Ning Ning Qingchen a stroke of fortune. With this core, as long as Ning Ning Qingchen's background was clean, she might even be able to use this to join the Guanghan Palace. Of course, this was also a stroke of fortune Brother Qian Chen sent out casually; whether it succeeded or not depended more on Ning Ning Qingchen's own fate and intentions.

On the other hand, it was also to give this junior sister a bit of capital for self-defense.

When laying out the plan last night, Ning Ning Qingchen had taken the initiative to propose using herself as bait to set this trap.

That was why Brother Qian Chen had lent out the Heavenly Luo Umbrella, letting down clear light to stagnate the void, forcing Master Miaokong to reveal his true form and creating an opportunity for Ning Ning Qingchen to use the Ice Soul divine light to freeze Master Miaokong's natal god-demon.

This line of the death trap, under Ning Ning Qingchen's meticulous arrangement, did not give Master Miaokong the slightest chance. The Phoenix Master beside Ning Ning Qingchen shot a divine light from its eyes, firmly pinning down all the transformations of the Interstitial Wujian Wujian Molong. The golden needles made of Feng Yangzhen Fire pierced into the demon dragon's eyes, causing its pupils, which were burning with blood flames, to be covered in a layer of gray-white.

The Feng Yangzhen Fire golden needles in the pupils emitted a strong light in Master Miaokong's eyes, completely blinding its vision.

The crystalline beam of light bursting from Ning Ning Qingchen's fingertips, carrying a wisp of Primordial Cold Qi, not only froze the void but even caused Master Miaokong's thoughts to slow down.

Even his formless soul felt as if it had been frozen through.

This familiar feeling almost made Master Miaokong think that Brother Qian Chen, who was trapped on the city gate battlefield, had escaped and returned. This fear caused his thoughts to slow down even more.

As if several moments had passed, Master Miaokong finally slowly turned over a few thoughts: "No, this Ice Soul Cold Light didn't even freeze my demon body; could that brat have used the Ice Soul Cold Light thread to shatter my Heavenly Ghost body?"

"That brat is not here!" At this moment, Master Miaokong seemed to come alive again. He laughed crazily in his heart: "That brat is not here, and you bunch of idiots who haven't even formed a core want to kill me? Without his flying sword, with your magic power, you can't hurt the essence of my Yin Spirit at all!"

"Even without the Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Ghost, relying on the Wujian Wujian Molong transformation, the flood dragon, the qiu, the dragon... demon body, demon soul, and demon bone are three-in-one; I still have three lives. Three lives, can you kill me in a second? This time, you absolutely cannot kill me!"

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"Master Miaokong is not good at anything else, but his ability to save his own life is truly first-rate. In the past, he cultivated the body of the Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Ghost. Although this god-demon technique is cruel and bloody, its life-saving ability is truly top-tier. If it weren't for the fact that I had already realized the method of using demons to control demons, which was too much of a counter to him, and had designed to use his intent to kill me to destroy his Nine-Child Heavenly Ghost, it would have been difficult to force him into such a desperate situation."

"Therefore, Yan Yan Shixiong Yan, do you have the confidence to cut off one of his lives?"

Seeing Yan Shu said solemnly: "When it comes to understanding the demonic path, I am not as good as Qian Shidi. Even if I exhaust all my strength, I estimate I can only cut off one of his lives!"

"One life is enough!" Brother Qian Chen whispered.

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"Hidden in the spirit sword box, gathering causes and containing Daoist sentiment. The sword heart cannot rest, the divine fate is held by inaction. The three-foot sword of justice, banishing evil and stationed in the Imperial Capital!" In Seeing Yan Shu's hand, the My-Persistence blade light turned like a dragon. At this moment, Seeing Yan Shu's body gradually faded. Within his Purple Mansion, the unformed embryonic sword fetus finally left the box.

"Heavenly Escape Sword Art—Destroying the First Peak of Zhongnan!"

Occasionally gambling and flying the divine sword, destroying the first peak of Zhongnan... This was a quatrain left behind by the Shaoqing Xie Xie Zushi, the Lord of Sword Cultivators, Daoist Venerable Donghua, when he founded the Sword Dao in the past, recording the past events of his quest for the sword. Among them was this line, recording the dispute of spirit caused by a playful remark between him and the Supreme Louguan Dao Xie Xie Zushi, True Person Wenshi.

True Person Wenshi once advised Daoist Venerable Donghua that the art of sword cultivation was ultimately an external path of cultivation and should not be used to abandon the Supreme Orthodox Dao. Even if he were addicted to alchemy, he could draw inferences and comprehend a bit of the Golden Core Great Dao. That would be better than practicing the sword. Daoist Venerable Donghua and True Person Wenshi disagreed and began to argue.

In a fit of spirit, Daoist Venerable Donghua bet against True Person Wenshi and destroyed the highest divine peak of Mount Zhongnan with one sword strike.

Afterward, Daoist Venerable Donghua felt a bit of clarity of thought, but also a bit of regret. He named this sword strike after the determination of the natal sword fetus—the foundation of the Dao—breaking out of the flesh before it was fully nurtured, yet also faintly carrying some regret.

This sword strike was even more dangerous than the soul leaving the body to control the sword with the spirit. It was equivalent to tying the Dao foundation, the life-cultivated sword fetus, and even the natal true qi to a single sword strike. If the sword was used to kill treacherous and evil people, it could use the killing intent to hone the sword fetus, washing the natal sword fetus a layer further, moving one step closer to the success of the Core Formation sword fetus.

Of course, the Shaoqing Core Formation method also had many variations, but once this sword was used, one could only walk the path of the natal sword fetus that was closest to the ancient Sword Dao, honing the sword edge through slaughter.

This method of Core Formation was called "Opening the Edge" in Shaoqing!

Killing powerful enemies, questioning the sword in the world, using the blood of demon lords and monsters to open the edge for the sword fetus!

If this sword strike fails...

The sword is released without regret; if it doesn't succeed, it breaks. That is the outcome of the natal sword fetus snapping and the Dao foundation being destroyed in an instant.

Even to avoid the influence of Brother Qian Chen's Sword Dao, Seeing Yan Shu could only choose to use the My-Persistence blade to execute this sword strike.

Seeing Yan Shu's neck thickened, veins bulged on it, his hair stood on end in anger, and he suddenly opened his mouth and roared: "Ya ah—"

His Dao foundation, magic power, qi and blood, and spirit were all condensed into this one sword strike. At this moment, the difference between blade and sword had almost disappeared. This blade... or rather, this sword strike, was absolutely not inferior to Brother Qian Chen's. This was the sword art of the Orthodox Dao, and it was not in the slightest inferior to the Heavenly Demon Blood-Transforming Divine Blade of the Demonic Dao.

We sword cultivators would rather break than bend!

The reason why there are sword cultivators between heaven and earth is that some people tie their own honor, life, love, and hatred to this one sword strike...

One day, you will discover that there are things in this world more important than life, worth you swinging your sword!

Life and death are sought only under the sword!

The long road is winding, with only the sword as a companion...

The various marks engraved on the sect's sword-honing platform surfaced in Seeing Yan Shu's heart. The mottled sword intent, the predecessors who left these inscriptions—some ascended to the heavenly realm, more had their swords broken on the path of the Dao, but across time, they were always telling the descendants what the Sword Dao is!

Master Miaokong trembled because of it. He cursed crazily in a tone of extreme hatred that reached his heart: "Sword maniacs, it's you bunch of sword maniacs again!"

The shadow Brother Qian Chen left on him was just one person, a temporary haze, but the psychological shadow the Shaoqing sword cultivators left on the Demonic Dao was a collective memory, a memory that would not fade.

The sword light tore through the night sky, the My-Persistence blade tore through the horizon with extreme dominance. The blade light broke through everything, carrying the determination to sever everything, and slashed fiercely and peerlessly toward the Interstitial Wujian Wujian Molong in the Ice Soul Cold Light!

The demon dragon, which could change size at will and had infinite transformations, was severed by that blade light in an instant.

Everything about the Demonic Dao, the miracles of the Demonic Dao turning the impossible into the possible, and the incredible power of the Demonic Dao were all severed by the firmness of this Sword Dao. At that moment, under the blockade of the Ice Soul Cold Light, the demon dragon still produced several transformations that transcended common sense, and even the Ice Soul Cold Light could not completely bind it, proving Master Miaokong's attainments in the Demonic Dao.

But the demon cultivators severed by the Shaoqing lineage had long since paved the Southern Mountains and filled the East Sea...

Let alone a mere Master Miaokong?

"If what I held in my hand was a sword, he should already be dead!" Seeing Yan Shu held the My-Persistence blade and sighed slightly. This sword strike, in the end, because of the difference between blade and sword, missed the most critical line and only severed one of Master Miaokong's lives.

"If a sword had been used for this strike, Yan Yan Shixiong would have had a ten percent chance that the sword fetus would have opened its edge instantly, forming a core on the spot..." Ning Ning Qingchen shook her head and said: "But there would have been a ninety percent chance that when this sword strike reached its limit, it would have severed the demon lord, but also snapped the sword edge!"

"So Yan Yan Shixiong Brother Qian must have intentionally let Yan Yan Shixiong Yan use a blade, just for this line of difference, so that Yan Yan Shixiong's Sword Dao could not climb to the limit. If the momentum is not exhausted, the sword will not be broken."

Seeing Yan Shu laughed loudly: "That is indeed Qian Shidi's character. He ultimately has his scruples, thinking of a foolproof plan. If it were up to me, I should have exhausted everything and slashed out this sword strike!"

Ning Ning Qingchen sighed slightly—that is why there are so many sword cultivators on the Shaoqing sword-honing platform whose paths were broken!

After one of the Interstitial Wujian Wujian Molong's lives was severed, it finally underwent a change. The dragon body, which had been broken into two, suddenly had its flesh and blood fade away, turning into white bones. The bone dragon twisted its body and fled outward, holding the Shangqing Pearl in its mouth... At this moment, Master Miaokong chose to flee again...

But at this time, Si Si Qingguo, who had been gathering strength for half a day on the side, finally delivered the fatal blow. The Pingyang Merit Seal in her palm flipped shockingly. At this moment, the core of the Nine Heavens Seal of the Chang'an Great Array—the Celestial Master's Dharma Seal, the Dao-Scripture-Master Treasure—also shockingly turned into a phantom and struck out a seal.

Using the secret method of Zhengyi, Si Si Qingguo, as a true disciple of the Primordial Dao, cooperated with the Chang'an Daoist Sect.

She could also borrow a wisp of spiritual light from the Spiritual Treasure Dao-Scripture-Master Seal to strike with the power of a Primordial Spirit strike.

The Celestial Master's Seal connected with the Chang'an Great Array. Under one seal, it pulled the power of the array. It was almost as if the city of Chang'an had struck a seal at Master Miaokong. The entire city of Chang'an was lifted up and smashed down toward Master Miaokong. The bone Interstitial Wujian Wujian Molong shrank crazily, turning into the size of dust, and fled toward the void.

But in the city of Chang'an, no one could escape this seal.