Chapter 514: Long Hatred: Human Hearts Are Not Like Stone

Mixed Origin Sword Realm.

The sound of collision was like thunder, the force spreading in ripples, and the entire sword realm trembled!

Li Fei and Benefactor Bai Chen traded a blow, blade and sword crossing, both rushing to one side.

But in reality, the Ghost-Slaying Blade didn't truly make contact with the other party's sword, but slashed into a layer of crystalline light.

Benefactor Bai Chen, along with the sword in his hand, was enveloped in such a layer of crystalline light; the space around this light was distorted, seemingly carrying unimaginable heavy power!

When Li Fei approached this light, all six divine abilities within his Dao foundation were suppressed.

"Lidao Realm?"

Li Fei stopped his steps and turned to look at Benefactor Bai Chen.

A Lidao Realm Grandmaster could highly compress and condense their Martial Dao domain, attaching it to the surface of their body.

In this way, the power of the Martial Dao domain was multiplied, and when fighting others, it could also suppress the divine abilities of Martial Dao Masters.

Not only that, when fighting Grandmasters below the Lidao Realm, the highly condensed Martial Dao domain could not only ignore the counter-clash influence brought by the other party's Martial Dao domain, but also cause strong damage to others' Martial Dao domains!

So the Lidao Realm was a critical threshold.

Perhaps some Grandmasters of the Shengji Realm with more divine abilities and who had mastered creation-level Dao power could defeat Grandmasters of the Shenyan Realm across realms.

For example, Benefactor Bai Chen himself had won against many Shenyan Realm Grandmasters when he was in the Shengji Realm.

But very few Shenyan Realm Grandmasters could defeat Lidao Realm Grandmasters across realms.

Li Fei had already killed Benefactor Bai Chen twice, and facing this Hook-Deep Sword Master, he had almost no psychological pressure.

When his 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 could truly rival a Martial Dao domain, Grandmasters were no different from Martial Dao Masters to him.

But after just one exchange, his expression became serious.

With the 【Sword Sacrifice】 divine ability, Li Fei's combat power had already improved by a grade.

And having broken through to the Lidao Realm, Benefactor Bai Chen's combat power had also improved by a grade!

The power attached to that sword just now, even in a head-on clash, could suppress Li Fei, who had the addition of Dragon Elephant power.

In the previous two times he killed Benefactor Bai Chen, Li Fei had many helpers by his side.

But this time, he had to face Benefactor Bai Chen alone.

"【Sword Sacrifice】..."

Benefactor Bai Chen didn't rush to attack Li Fei; his expression looked a bit strange, as if that first exchange was just to confirm something:

"Did Zhang Yuanhong give it to you?"

Less than half a month had passed since their last fight, and Li Fei had gone from five divine abilities to six.

Normally incorporating implants and refining divine abilities, it was impossible to have such speed!

Either he used demonic means.

Or he refined a divine ability seed.

Li Fei didn't answer him, instantly disappearing from where he stood, then appearing behind Benefactor Bai Chen, slashing out with his blade.

Benefactor Bai Chen, as if he had foreknowledge, had already turned around the moment Li Fei disappeared, holding his sword horizontally in front of him, blocking Li Fei's slash in time.

The addition of Dragon Elephant power had reached 4x, nearly 50,000 jin of terrifying explosive power plus force and heaven and earth origin energy, all condensed on the blade edge!

But this slash still failed to break through that layer of crystalline light.

Li Fei felt as if he had slashed open rivers and lakes, mountain peaks, as if he had slashed into an entire world.

Creation Sword Technique—《Great Thousand》!

After breaking through to the Lidao Realm, Benefactor Bai Chen's sword technique was also a step higher; the heaven and earth power of 《Great Thousand》 perfectly merged with his highly condensed Martial Dao domain, all converging on the three-foot green blade.

Benefactor Bai Chen's long sword swung, shaking off the Ghost-Slaying Blade, and he countered by stabbing at Li Fei, but it stabbed into empty air.

Although Li Fei didn't answer his question, he already had the answer in his heart.

Fierce killing intent flashed in his eyes, the crystalline light on the surface of his body suddenly became dazzling, and the sword Qi within the sword realm was like a tide attracted by gravity, fluctuating accordingly.

Benefactor Bai Chen turned around and swept horizontally with his sword in a light, airy manner.

A white mark appeared in the sword realm, instantly spreading to both sides, as if cutting the entire sword realm in two.

The altar in the distance, the sun and moon in the sky, all had a sword mark!

This sword's final landing point was exactly where Li Fei's 【No Distance】 would appear; he had just walked out of the space layer, and a dazzling sword light came toward his face.

Li Fei held up his Ghost-Slaying Blade to block this sword, and was swept back by the majestic power.

He wasn't injured, but the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 suffered heavy damage!

The sword Qi forming the sword realm rioted, the heaven and earth origin energy went out of control, and the Yin-Yang balance was about to be broken.

"【Sword Heart】, huh..."

Li Fei's thoughts turned rapidly.

He had learned in detail from Zhang Yuanhong about Benefactor Bai Chen's various divine abilities, knowing that the other party had a 【Sword Heart】 divine ability.

With this divine ability, all sword moves were as desired, and all sword moves could be broken!

Li Fei's 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 was built with sword Qi, sword intent, and sword momentum as the framework.

Various divine abilities merged into it, all inseparable from the connection with "sword."

So when Li Fei executed 【No Distance】 in the sword realm, he was seen through by Benefactor Bai Chen with 【Sword Heart】, able to have foreknowledge every time and accurately predict Li Fei's landing point.

Benefactor Bai Chen even viewed the entire sword realm as a sword move, then cracked it with 【Sword Heart】, so every move could cause great damage to the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】!

In previous two exchanges, under the counter-clash of Martial Dao domains, Benefactor Bai Chen's 【Sword Heart】 was weakened a lot, and there were other experts interfering on the side.

So Li Fei didn't feel such strong targeting.

Now that he and Benefactor Bai Chen were one-on-one, and the other party had reached the Lidao Realm, he truly felt the suppression of the 【Sword Heart】 divine ability against him.

Li Fei immediately activated 【Mixed Heaven Golden Palace】 and 【Refining Objects】, refining origin energy, adjusting Yin-Yang, and stabilizing the sword realm.

Benefactor Bai Chen had already attacked with his sword; just a simple straight stab, and Li Fei suddenly felt as if he had been lifted into the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Around him were magnificent palaces, thousands of towers. White jade bridges, golden lotus flowers in the pool, cranes flying together...

Creation Sword Technique—【Heavenly Palaces】!

Benefactor Bai Chen's sword directly used creation Dao power combined with his Martial Dao domain, cutting off the surrounding space layers, making Li Fei unable to use 【No Distance】 to dodge.

Li Fei held his blade with both hands, stepped forward and slashed, a scorching blade aura erupted from the Ghost-Slaying Blade, a massive fireball rose in the immortal realm and exploded—

The fireball enveloped the entire immortal realm, also enveloping Benefactor Bai Chen who was rushing over, then the fireball was cut open, everything cut in two by a single blade.

Heaven and Earth Single Blade!

The flames dissipated, the immortal palace was incomplete, the Jade Pool was burned, broken bridges everywhere...

But Benefactor Bai Chen still took Li Fei's blade completely, the sword tip stabbing into Li Fei's chest, piercing through the golden light on his body and the Golden-Thread Jade Scale Armor.

Before Benefactor Bai Chen could continue to activate sword Qi to give more damage, Li Fei disappeared again.

Although 【Heaven and Earth Single Blade】 didn't injure Benefactor Bai Chen, it at least broke the sealed space.

Li Fei appeared a hundred meters away and decisively executed 【Sword Sacrifice】 again, consuming another 1,000 Blood Souls.

The unstable 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 stabilized again, and the sword Qi, sword intent, and sword momentum also doubled!

A flash of strange color crossed Benefactor Bai Chen's eyes.

This young man clearly didn't practice the sword, but the sword Qi and sword intent erupting at this moment were so strong that few sword Grandmasters in the world could rival them!

If you say Li Fei had no technique, the conception of this sword realm was so exquisite and the means so high-level that even Benefactor Bai Chen, the Hook-Deep Sword Master, had to admire it.

But if you say Li Fei's sword Dao attainments were very high, he was holding a blade and hacking at Benefactor Bai Chen, and he hadn't practiced a single proper set of sword techniques...

The 【Sword Heart】 divine ability was profound, but if the opponent's "sword" was strong enough, especially since Li Fei was strong in numbers, not technique,

then the difficulty of cracking it was very high.

Li Fei activated 【No Distance】 again, instantly appearing in front of Benefactor Bai Chen, slashing down.

Benefactor Bai Chen used the 《Great Thousand》 sword technique to gather heaven and earth power on the sword, the sword tip pointing at the middle section of the blade.

Hum—

A muffled thunderous explosion.

The crystalline light condensed on the sword tip distorted, Benefactor Bai Chen shook his wrist, skillfully unloading the force, but his momentum also stalled.

The power on the blade was stronger!

The 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 was composed of divine abilities; the more divine abilities, the stronger, and the sword realm naturally became stronger.

Conversely, when the sword realm was strengthened, it could also feed back into the divine abilities.

Li Fei strengthened the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 with 【Sword Sacrifice】, and the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 in turn strengthened his other divine abilities!

So the addition speed of Dragon Elephant power increased by a notch, and he went from a 4x multiplier to a 6x multiplier!

Not giving Benefactor Bai Chen a chance to continue executing sword moves, Li Fei decisively used 【No Distance】 to swap positions.

He kept flashing around Benefactor Bai Chen, blade and sword colliding once each time, then separating.

Every time they collided, the ripple-like force aftermath spread to the surroundings, and the entire sword realm trembled violently.

The central altar had more and more cracks.

The sun and moon in the sky had dimmer and dimmer light...

But every time the blade and sword collided, the vibration amplitude of the three-foot green blade in Benefactor Bai Chen's hand became larger and larger, and the time he needed to unload the force became longer and longer.

Li Fei knew that compared to moves, he certainly couldn't compare to Benefactor Bai Chen, so he used 【No Distance】 once for every move.

Even if Benefactor Bai Chen could predict his movement, the execution of sword moves was inevitably not coherent enough.

Li Fei wanted to force Benefactor Bai Chen to be unable to fully execute his sword technique.

With 【Mixed Heaven Golden Palace】 continuously absorbing heaven and earth origin energy, continuously "recharging," he simply used 【No Distance】 as footwork, flashing once every step!

For a time, dozens of Li Feis appeared around Benefactor Bai Chen, slashing.

This was because the flashing frequency was too high.

Gradually, Li Fei's power began to approach a 7x multiplier.

This had already exceeded his limit when he fought Benefactor Bai Chen before!

Benefactor Bai Chen's face changed slightly.

He found that he seemed to have never truly seen this Marquis of Jing'an clearly.

Every time he thought this was Li Fei's limit, Li Fei could always constantly refresh this limit!

Only until this moment did Benefactor Bai Chen truly view Li Fei as an opponent of the same level as himself, not a target he was bound to kill.

His expression was solemn, and his sword technique changed again.

The crystalline light on his body suddenly expanded, and he took the initiative to unfold his Martial Dao domain, forming a counter-clash with the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】.

Immediately after, lotus flowers bloomed, forming another realm within the sword realm, enveloping the two.

Creation Sword Technique—《Green Lotus》!

In the Green Lotus world, all of Li Fei's divine abilities were suppressed again, and the majestic Dragon Elephant power added to him was also severed, his power falling sharply.

The previous two times, Li Fei was outside the Green Lotus world.

This time, it was his turn to personally experience Benefactor Bai Chen's killing move.

After the Lidao Realm, the 《Green Lotus》 sword technique was a step higher, the Green Lotus world becoming more stable and powerful; even if several Grandmasters came to destroy it from the outside now, it could hold on for a while.

Benefactor Bai Chen was confident that he could kill Li Fei, who couldn't execute divine abilities, during this time!

Green lotuses danced, sword Qi crisscrossed, and the biting sword intent fell on Li Fei's brow.

Benefactor Bai Chen stabbed with his sword, sword giving birth to green lotuses, evolving thousands of sword moves, finally all returning to one sword!

Li Fei's expression was calm; as early as when he learned that Benefactor Bai Chen was not dead and he might face this person again, he had already prepared to face this killing move.

His intent shifted, and outside the Green Lotus world, the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 that was counter-clashing with Benefactor Bai Chen's Martial Dao domain suddenly actively disintegrated.

Countless sword Qi bloomed from his body again, six groups of light lit up in his Dantian, and in an instant, a new 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 was formed within this Green Lotus world.

It was also a realm within a realm!

"Hmm?"

Benefactor Bai Chen's eyes widened, completely not expecting this situation.

He had already viewed Li Fei as an opponent of the same level, but subconsciously ignored one point—

Li Fei was not yet a Grandmaster, just a Martial Dao Master.

Becoming a Grandmaster required fusing all divine abilities in the Dao foundation together, like throwing several pieces together into a furnace and melting them completely, turning them into a whole.

This whole was the Martial Dao domain.

So a Grandmaster's Martial Dao domain could be retracted and released at will, but not gathered and scattered at will.

After divine abilities aggregated into a Martial Dao domain, forcibly separating them would mean falling in realm!

However, Li Fei's 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】, although comparable to a Martial Dao domain, and even after being strengthened twice with 【Sword Sacrifice】, was already comparable to the Martial Dao domains of many Shenyan Realm Grandmasters.

But the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 was not a real Martial Dao domain.

Li Fei could gather and scatter at will.

Benefactor Bai Chen's 《Green Lotus》 sword technique combined with the derivative changes of divine abilities created the "realm within a realm."

This Green Lotus world could block the small world that was a whole from the outside, but couldn't block the power of divine abilities after they were dispersed.

Just like a large net could catch big fish, but couldn't catch small shrimp.

Facing Benefactor Bai Chen's killing move, Li Fei only needed to actively dissolve the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 outside the Green Lotus world, withdraw the divine ability power, and could immediately form a new sword realm within the Green Lotus world!

Benefactor Bai Chen didn't understand the profundity of Li Fei's Dharma-Martial integration, naturally viewing the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 as a real Martial Dao domain.

Caught off guard, he was covered by the new 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】.

Li Fei calmly dodged Benefactor Bai Chen's stab with 【No Distance】.

"Oh no!"

Benefactor Bai Chen's face changed.

Li Fei could immediately disperse the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 outside, withdrawing the divine ability power, but he couldn't!

The outermost Martial Dao domain, although without the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 counter-clash, couldn't directly "pass through" the Green Lotus world.

Now he was covered by Li Fei's 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】, instead having two more layers of separation from his own Martial Dao domain.

Now, he became the person trapped by the "realm within a realm"!

And this predicament was caused by himself; Li Fei originally didn't have such means.

His own strongest killing move, which he was proud of, became Li Fei's strongest killing move against him!

To break this predicament, Benefactor Bai Chen needed to first dissolve the Green Lotus world, then control his own Martial Dao domain to form a counter-clash with the new 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】.

But the Green Lotus world wasn't a real Martial Dao domain after all; Benefactor Bai Chen's control over it was not as smooth as a Martial Dao domain, and now that it was suddenly isolated by Li Fei's 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】, his control was even weaker.

He needed a little time.

But Li Fei wouldn't give him time!

With a flash, Li Fei appeared behind Benefactor Bai Chen, slashing vertically with his blade.

Dissolving the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 was indeed a stroke of genius, but the 2,000 Blood Souls consumed by 【Sword Sacrifice】 earlier were wasted.

The Dragon Elephant power that had been added was also severed, needing to start from scratch.

Li Fei didn't execute 【Dragon Elephant】 again, because there was no time.

Now Benefactor Bai Chen was the one whose divine abilities were all suppressed, the weakest moment!

But as long as the other party was given a few seconds to dissolve the Green Lotus world, the other party's "weak period" would immediately pass.

So Li Fei needed to finish the battle quickly!

Once this opportunity was missed, with the Blood Souls already running low, he would have no chance to defeat Benefactor Bai Chen again.

The next few seconds would decide the life and death of the two!

Li Fei decisively consumed 500 Blood Souls to execute 【Blood Might】, then activated the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to consume 1,000 Blood Souls and convert them into heart-mind power.

A move of 【Blood Might God】 bombarded Benefactor Bai Chen's heart-mind!

The surging blood sea swallowed Benefactor Bai Chen's heart lake.

Without divine ability addition, without Martial Dao domain protection, this 【Blood Might God】 immediately caused Benefactor Bai Chen to lose his heart-mind defense.

Li Fei slashed open the other party's protective sword Qi and slashed down from the head.

When the blade edge broke through Benefactor Bai Chen's skull, that fated palpitating feeling emerged in Li Fei's heart again.

The Dao foundation in his Dantian suddenly vibrated violently, a light group shining with light.

【Sword Sacrifice】 divine ability!

Following the traction of this divine ability, a sword light suddenly erupted from Benefactor Bai Chen's body, rushing out from the top of his head, colliding with Li Fei's Ghost-Slaying Blade!

"Zhang Yuanhong..."

Li Fei's expression was complex.

Actually, when he saw Benefactor Bai Chen and felt that fated attraction, he realized that when Zhang Yuanhong took the initiative to sacrifice himself and let him refine the divine ability seed, the purpose was not that simple.

Zhang Yuanhong did inform Li Fei of all the information he knew, but he hid one point—

Benefactor Bai Chen's "slashing his own body to attain the Dao" required establishing a causal connection with the target.

Li Fei had killed Benefactor Bai Chen twice, and the causality between the two had actually been established.

It was just that it wasn't Li Fei alone who killed Benefactor Bai Chen, so it needed to be strengthened a bit more.

Zhang Yuanhong had also practiced the Hook-Deep Sword Sect's 《Slashing Karma》 sword technique, just not to the creation realm.

Taking the initiative to sacrifice himself, letting Li Fei refine the divine ability seed, using 《Slashing Karma》 sword technique as a guide, plus his status as the Sect Master of the Hook-Deep Sword Sect.

Zhang Yuanhong connected the last line for the causality between Benefactor Bai Chen and Li Fei!

He took the initiative to expose extremely important intelligence, instead making Li Fei ignore this thorn buried in the dark.

His hatred was so real, how could one doubt it?

Precisely because of this causal connection, Benefactor Bai Chen would abandon his opponent, specifically run over to find Li Fei, and want to kill him with his own hands.

At this moment, the "thorn" buried by Zhang Yuanhong himself was finally revealed!

At the moment of life and death, no heart-mind control was needed, only causal traction, and the sword light was born autonomously.

The stronger the causality, the more flourishing the sword intent.

This was the Creation Sword Technique—《Slashing Karma》!

This suddenly erupted sword light connected the heart-minds of Li Fei and Benefactor Bai Chen in a profound way.

In a trance, a picture appeared in the consciousness of both: it was the last moment before Zhang Yuanhong died:

This Sect Master of the Hook-Deep Sword Sect had his bones and flesh dissolved, meridians severed, acupuncture points destroyed, enduring extreme pain far beyond imagination!

He slowly closed his eyes, two lines of blood tears flowing down.

"Any last words?"

"Grandmaster..."

"Yuanhong, dare not hate!"

Following this last heart-voice, Li Fei and Benefactor Bai Chen both came back to their senses.

Benefactor Bai Chen didn't immediately dissolve the Green Lotus world, but controlled this world and the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】 to form a counter-clash, thereby allowing himself to at least recover a portion of his divine abilities.

Li Fei didn't hesitate to convert all 2,000 Blood Souls in the Blood Spring into Blood Rage power!

At this moment, his Blood Soul count was below 30%, and he could enter the "Blood Demon Extreme State."

And in the "Blood Demon Extreme State," all active Blood Soul skills no longer had restrictions.

【Blood Rage】 would no longer cause any burden to the body; as long as there were enough Blood Souls, Li Fei could execute Blood Rage power without an upper limit!

Less than ten minutes, the previous Blood Rage power hadn't dissipated, plus 2,000 Blood Rage power, doubling it was equivalent to 7,000 Blood Rage power!

This power, although not as good as the power after the 【Dragon Elephant】 divine ability addition just now, was already peerless for Benefactor Bai Chen, who was not in his peak state at this time.

The sword light erupted from 《Slashing Karma》 was slashed open by Li Fei, and the Ghost-Slaying Blade continued to slash down along the wound just slashed!

A blood mark appeared on Benefactor Bai Chen's brow, spreading downward:

The skull was slashed open, the brain destroyed, the heart slashed to pieces, the Dao foundation in the Dantian shattered by terrifying power...

The Grandmaster's powerful vitality meant Benefactor Bai Chen didn't die immediately, and many memories surged from the bottom of his heart like flowers on horseback:

Zhang Yuanhong had excellent talent; his master was worried he couldn't teach him well, so he sent him to Benefactor Bai Chen, letting this Hook-Deep Sword Master cultivate him personally.

Although they were a generation apart, they were actually more like master and disciple.

After Zhang Yuanhong became Sect Master, he learned of Benefactor Bai Chen's adventurous idea; at first, he was firmly opposed, but Benefactor Bai Chen didn't listen to the advice.

Later, to practice clones, Benefactor Bai Chen wasted many resources of the sect.

He actually wanted to leave a portion of resources for Zhang Yuanhong, not wanting to delay the other party's cultivation.

But Zhang Yuanhong said:

"Since Grandmaster has already gone his own way, he should leave no room, and fight with all his might. My aptitude and sword technique are far inferior to Grandmaster's; what meaning does breaking through a day early or a day late have for my Hook-Deep Sword Sect? I only hope Grandmaster can succeed in the end!"

So he told Benefactor Bai Chen not to care about him and to practice clones with all his might.

"Yuanhong..."

Benefactor Bai Chen's eyes were full of grief.

His original target was the Martial Saint Wen Ren Zheng, but Li Fei was the first genius in history, bearing great luck.

If the target of the causal connection was changed to Li Fei, and the karma was slashed successfully, Benefactor Bai Chen might still have a glimmer of opportunity to impact the Martial Saint realm, just not as good as the original plan.

As long as Benefactor Bai Chen could become a Martial Saint, the Hook-Deep Sword Sect could still make a comeback!

Since it had reached this point, it was better to fight one last time, leaving no room!

This was Zhang Yuanhong's calculation, and Benefactor Bai Chen understood the other party's intention immediately.

He watched the other party grow up; he knew the other party was always such a person.

No matter how much hatred or reluctance he had, since it was reality, Zhang Yuanhong could grit his teeth and accept this reality, then pursue the best result with all his might.

"Anyway, I am bound to die; I only ask that if you can kill Benefactor Bai Chen again in the future, you must tell him personally..."

Under the causal connection, Benefactor Bai Chen also "heard" this sentence Zhang Yuanhong said to Li Fei back then, feeling the deep hatred within.

Long hatred: human hearts are not like stone!

"... this sword was stabbed by me, Zhang Yuanhong, the Sect Master of the Hook-Deep Sword Sect, representing the Hook-Deep Sword Sect!"

Benefactor Bai Chen finally looked at the light symbolizing the 【Sword Sacrifice】 divine ability at Li Fei's Dantian and closed his eyes:

"Benefactor Bai Chen receives the sword."

Swish—

Scorching light slashed past.

There was no more Hook-Deep Sword Master in the world.

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