Chapter 846: The World's Number One: The Sword of Retrospection

Liusheng Piaoxu looked at Yu Liancheng, her pearly teeth biting her lip, a mist rising in her beautiful eyes, and carrying a wisp of fragrant breeze, she couldn't help but throw herself into his arms.

"Piaoxu." Yu Liancheng gently wrapped his arms around Liusheng Piaoxu's soft, moving body, lowered his head, his gaze less than a foot from her cheeks, and seeing her skin as white as if it were transparent, he couldn't tell if it was due to her emotional state or the previous fight, as a faint blush spread across her cheeks and fine beads of sweat dotted her forehead, and he couldn't help but say with pity: "I'm sorry, I'm late."

Liusheng Piaoxu, however, clung tightly to him, shook her head, and did not say a word.

Yu Liancheng lowered his gaze again, pulled over Liusheng Piaoxu's arm, and said in a low voice: "I really did arrive a bit late."

It was because in the previous exchange, the back of Liusheng Piaoxu's hand had been cut by Situ Dong's long sword, leaving a long, narrow wound.

Liusheng Piaoxu leaned against Yu Liancheng's chest, her voice very soft: "It's just a small wound, nothing serious."

Yu Liancheng said softly: "Even a small wound makes my heart ache, and besides, how could such a beautiful hand be allowed to have a scar?" His palm hovered over the wound, gently stroking it.

Liusheng Piaoxu only felt the pain where she was injured vanish, replaced by a tingling, itchy sensation. When Yu Liancheng moved his palm away, the wound had already disappeared, and the back of her hand remained smooth and fair skin; her red lips parted slightly: "This is..."

Yu Liancheng smiled: "Just some minor tricks."

Liusheng Piaoxu had a relatively cold personality; seeing that Yu Liancheng did not elaborate, she did not press him, and cast her gaze toward the cyborg Situ Dong.

Situ Dong stood more than ten paces away, his figure standing like an iron tower, his eyes wide open but devoid of any spirit, and she couldn't help but ask: "What is wrong with him?"

"I used the Soul-Seizing Technique to seal his mind, making him unable to see with his eyes, hear with his ears, or speak with his mouth." Yu Liancheng replied casually, looking at the peerlessly beautiful face before him at close range, at her moist, moving lips, and lowered his head to kiss her.

After a moment, having comforted the pain of lovesickness, Yu Liancheng walked in front of Situ Dong, and a divine light flew out from between his brows, beginning to browse through the man's memories.

Situ Dong was originally just an ordinary office worker; after a car accident, not only did he not die, but he inexplicably arrived at the Main God Hall. He had experienced four reincarnation missions, obtained thousands of Source Points, transformed himself into a cyborg, and even exchanged for martial arts from the Martial Dao side. In this team mission, he was responsible for killing Wuchen Gongzi and Liusheng Piaoxu, but Wuchen Gongzi had escaped...

"Reincarnator, Main God..." Yu Liancheng rubbed his brow, feeling slightly troubled. In his stereotypical impression, the so-called Main God was a massive force encompassing the heavens and myriad worlds, issuing missions and dropping reincarnators into different worlds to plunder, rewarding them with various bloodline talents, divine weapons, and sharp blades... And behind such an organization, there often stood one or even several legendary existences.

With Yu Liancheng's strength, he might not truly be able to contend with such a massive organization that spanned the heavens on his own.

And once targeted by the Main God, he feared that countless troubles would come knocking.

Even if he could flatten the Main God with his own strength, he couldn't even track the opponent's location, which was truly troublesome.

However, the most important thing right now was to resolve the few reincarnators.

Just as Yu Liancheng was frowning in thought, his sleeve was tugged; he turned his head to look and saw Liusheng Piaoxu say: "Let us quickly go find Wuchen Gongzi, and then go with him to stop the upcoming Martial Arts Assembly..."

Yu Liancheng asked: "Has Wuchen contacted you?"

Liusheng Piaoxu nodded: "If Wuchen Gongzi had not sent a message by carrier pigeon to give me an early warning, I fear I would have truly been in grave danger."

This was indeed true; the cyborg's trump card against experts of the Martial Dao side was firearms. Many martial artists did not know the power of firearms, thinking they were some kind of strange weapon, and facing the muzzle directly, they ended up being riddled with holes. But once they were on guard, it was extremely difficult to hit a top expert who possessed high-level light-body techniques and psychological pre-warning.

Given Liusheng Piaoxu's personality, upon seeing the long-barreled firearm, her first reaction was to draw her blade and slash at the opponent, rather than using light-body techniques to dodge and maneuver.

"Hmm, then this matter should indeed be credited to Wuchen." Yu Liancheng learned from the cyborg's memory that Badao was also being hunted by reincarnators: "But now we must first go find Badao; that fellow's situation is worrying, and he may have already met with disaster."

Among those two reincarnators, a thin youth named Ling Yunqing was an expert on the Martial Dao side, skilled in blade techniques, with quite considerable combat power.

The other, a middle-aged man called Jiuxu, was a Daoist who knew Daoist arts. Although he lacked lethal means, he knew many auxiliary Daoist arts. With the two of them joining forces, Badao was in great danger.

Sure enough, when Yu Liancheng and Liusheng Piaoxu arrived at Yunmiaoshan with the speed of lightning, they only saw a collapsed thatched hut and a headless corpse.

Liusheng Piaoxu's pretty face sank slightly, but she did not feel much sorrow, as she had very little interaction with Badao.

"Indeed, I arrived late again..." Yu Liancheng shook his head, stepped forward, and revealed a hint of solemnity: "I hope it is not too late."

While Liusheng Piaoxu was looking at Yu Liancheng in confusion, she saw him join his fingers like a sword and thrust forward. This simple thrust was extremely slow, as if it had become frame-by-frame slow motion, allowing one to clearly see the trajectory and arc of the strike. Yet at this very instant, the surrounding scenery became blurred like a residual image and retreated rapidly; many past scenes were reproduced one by one, only played in reverse.

Only Yu Liancheng and Liusheng Piaoxu remained clear in this blurred scene, existing in the normal flow of time.

After about the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, the blurred scene became clear, which meant that time was approaching the time node Yu Liancheng needed.

Soon, Liusheng Piaoxu saw two figures appear on Yunmiaoshan: a thin youth and a middle-aged Daoist. The thin youth's blade was unsheathed, and the blade was inexplicably covered in bright blood; as the blade edge wiped across Badao's neck, the head that had fallen to the ground flew up out of thin air, and the blood on the ground likewise flew back into the neck...

At the very moment Badao's head and neck reconnected, all the scenes became blurred and then clear again, but this time it was playing forward, and it was accelerated.

A moment later, everything returned to normal, nothing had changed, and the thin youth and middle-aged Daoist had disappeared, as if everything were still as it was when Yu Liancheng and Liusheng Piaoxu arrived.

The only difference was that Badao's head was reattached to his corpse, and his chest was rising and falling slightly.

Liusheng Piaoxu covered her small mouth, her eyes filled with disbelief.

A guy who had his head chopped off, lived?

Yu Liancheng let out a long breath, his expression rarely showing a trace of fatigue.

That sword-finger strike just now was a sword technique he had studied in the world of "Third Young Master's Sword".

—Sword of Retrospection.