Chapter 49

The news that Ye Gucheng, Master of White Cloud City, would duel Ximen Chuixue at the peak of the Forbidden City on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month soon spread throughout the Great Ming martial arts world.

This was a rare, once-in-a-century event for the Great Ming Jianghu.

Every martial artist in the Jianghu was discussing this matter.

Great Ming, Jingcheng.

Lu Xiaofeng, Ximen Chuixue, Chu Liuxiang, and Hua Manlou were sitting at a table drinking.

"I say, you icy fellow, do you have the confidence to defeat Ye Gucheng?"

Lu Xiaofeng asked Ximen Chuixue with a smile.

Ximen Chuixue was just as his name suggested; dressed in white, he exuded an icy, "strangers keep away" aura.

Even while drinking, he kept his sword clutched to his chest.

He was a swordsman; he would never be parted from his sword.

"I believe in the sword in my hand!"

Ximen Chuixue said indifferently; he had always spoken this way.

Even when facing friends, he would never utter an extra, useless word.

Just like the sword in his hand, he was cold, without a trace of worldly warmth.

It was as if, in this world, nothing besides the sword was worth his attention.

"Ye Gucheng, Master of Bai Yun City—it is said his sword art is divine."

"His move, 'Flying Immortal from Beyond the Heavens,' is even more exquisite and peerless."

"No one has seen the true power of this move, nor does anyone know how it is executed."

"Because everyone who has seen it is dead!"

After Chu Liuxiang finished speaking, he drank a cup of wine.

Everything he said was common knowledge in the Great Ming Jianghu.

It wasn't that he was intentionally spouting nonsense, but rather that he knew nothing of Ye Gucheng; he hadn't even had any contact with him.

"Ye Gucheng's realm is already that of a Grandmaster."

"Although he is only at the Late Stage Grandmaster realm, a swordsman's strength cannot be measured by ordinary realms."

"I suspect his true strength could contend with a martial artist at the Perfected Grandmaster realm."

"Brother Ximen, be careful!"

Hua Manlou said.

Ximen Chuixue nodded.

Besides the major events in the Great Ming Jianghu, things were happening in the Jianghu of various nations across the Nine Provinces.

In Great Qin, the Sword Saint Gainie defected from Great Qin with Jing Tianming, the son of Jing Ke, and killed three hundred Great Qin elites; this news also spread throughout the Nine Provinces.

Every nation was waiting to see how Ying Zheng of Great Qin would handle this.

They were all waiting to see Ying Zheng make a fool of himself.

Among the Hundred Schools of Thought, the powerful Yinyang Sect had changed its leader.

This event caused quite a stir in the Great Qin Jianghu.

The Yinyang Sect, under its new leader, no longer hid in the shadows as before, but began acting wantonly, as if searching for someone.

These two events in the Great Qin Jianghu also attracted the eyes of everyone in the Nine Provinces.

In Great Song, Northern Song was suppressing Liang Shan and Fang La in the south.

Guo Jing of Southern Song was also rapidly increasing in strength.

Major events were occurring in every nation of the Nine Provinces.

Time passed, and soon the day of the duel between Ye Gucheng and Ximen Chuixue arrived.

Martial artists of the Great Ming Jianghu had long since gathered in the capital, waiting for this day to come.

They wanted to see with their own eyes which of these two famous Great Ming swordsmen was stronger!

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