Chapter 637: Death Sword

Self-destruction.

Self-injury.

Suicide.

From beginning to end, Mei Qinghe's true heart was filled with this tendency. Going down the mountain alone to seek revenge, slashing her face before exploring the imperial tomb at night, killing a Heaven-Man with Sword Twenty-Three during the Yingzhou chaos... every single thing she had done proved this point.

And the Xuanlan divine ability reflected the holder's true heart.

【Sword Guard】.

This divine ability was extremely special, so special that even Mei Qinghe did not know its function, and Li Miao had issued a rare death order forbidding anyone from telling her the function of 【Sword Guard】... so until today, Mei Qinghe had never used it.

Until she was slashed and lost an arm.

When the long-awaited approach of death began, this divine ability activated on its own.

And Mei Qinghe instantly understood the function of 【Sword Guard】.

She was very frank, just as the foreign swordsman was frank with her.

"Use bone as the guard, use death as the edge"—this was 【Sword Guard】.

The spine is the sword edge, the skull is the sword hilt, and the arm bone is the sword guard.

Flesh and blood are the sword scabbard.

She had to shed the scabbard to fully unleash the divine ability of 【Sword Guard】.

That is to say, she had to die first.

Only then could she draw the sword.

Not near-death, but true death.

This was an extreme divine ability that no one had ever cultivated, so extreme that only a dead person could use it. Shedding limbs, draining blood—only when the flesh-and-blood scabbard attached to the "sword guard" withered and fell away could this sword be drawn.

This sword does not destroy cities, pluck stars, take the moon, or open mountains.

It only kills people.

The four words "Please judge, sir" fell.

The foreign swordsman's hand paused, feeling Mei Qinghe withdraw the force she was using to stalemate with him. His sword then smoothly broke through flesh and blood, cutting Mei Qinghe's throat. However, because he did not react in time, he failed to cut through Mei Qinghe's spine, only burying his blade deep into her neck.

The two looked at each other.

The foreign swordsman was astonished to find that Mei Qinghe was not bleeding.

Her face was as pale as paper, with blue-black veins protruding, her eyes were turbid, her pupils unfocused, and there was not the slightest rise and fall in her chest—she had simply... no, she had truly become a corpse.

A moving corpse.

Clang.

Mei Qinghe released her only remaining right hand, and her sword fell to the ground.

This pale right hand fell to the lower right.

The foreign swordsman frowned. Although he did not detect the slightest danger from Mei Qinghe, he still exerted his force, intending to cut off Mei Qinghe's head.

But before he could make a move.

Mei Qinghe's right hand disappeared.

The foreign swordsman's pupils shrank, his heart filled with alarm. He scanned back and forth, finally finding Mei Qinghe's hand raised obliquely on the right side of his waist at the edge of his vision.

"!!!"

His heart was filled with alarm!

【Instant】 was still running, but he hadn't seen it clearly!

He hadn't seen Mei Qinghe's movement clearly; he didn't know what Mei Qinghe had done just now!

Despite having a higher realm and being in the 【Instant】 state, he had completely failed to capture Mei Qinghe's movement!

Recalling Mei Qinghe's words, "Use bone as the guard, use death as the edge," he finally began to understand.

"A desperate technique!"

"That's it, she can make such a move; that so-called 【Sword Guard】 is likely some kind of desperate technique. Those self-mutilating actions of hers must be the conditions to activate this divine ability!"

With thoughts racing, he withdrew his sword from Mei Qinghe's neck and flashed backward!

At the same time, a cold sneer appeared on his face.

"Heh! Do you think I couldn't guess that!" ===== CHAPTER 638 =====