Chapter 514: Long hatred for the human heart not being as good as stone

Hunyuan Sword Realm.

The collision sound was like thunder, the force spread in ripples, and the entire sword realm shook because of it!

Li Fei and Bai Chen traded a move, blade and sword crossed, and both rushed to one side.

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

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

When Li Fei approached this light, the six supernatural powers within his Dao foundation were all suppressed.

"Standing-Dao Realm?"

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

A Standing-Dao-Realm Grandmaster could highly compress and condense the martial Dao domain, attaching it to the surface of the body.

In this way, the power of the martial Dao domain multiplied, and when fighting others, it could also suppress the supernatural powers of Martial Dao Masters.

Not only that, when fighting Grandmasters below the Standing-Dao 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 very strong damage to others' martial Dao domains!

So the Standing-Dao Realm was a key threshold.

Perhaps some Peak-Realm Grandmasters with more supernatural powers and who had mastered Dao strengths at the creation level could defeat Divine-Derivation-Realm Grandmasters across realms.

For example, Bai Chen himself had won against many Divine-Derivation-Realm Grandmasters when he was in the Peak Realm.

But there were very few Divine-Derivation-Realm Grandmasters who could defeat Standing-Dao-Realm Grandmasters across realms.

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

When his 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 could truly rival a martial Dao domain, a Grandmaster was no different from a Martial Dao Master to him.

But after trading just one move, his expression became serious.

After possessing the 【Sword Sacrifice】 supernatural power, Li Fei's combat power had already improved by a level.

And after breaking through to the Standing-Dao Realm, Bai Chen's combat power had also improved by a level!

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

In the previous two slashes of Bai Chen, Li Fei had many helpers by his side.

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

"【Sword Sacrifice】..."

Bai Chen didn't rush to attack Li Fei; his expression looked a bit strange; the move they traded just now seemed to be just to confirm something:

"Did Zhang Zhang Yuanhong give it to you?"

Less than half a month since they traded blows, Li Fei had gone from five supernatural powers to six.

Normally incorporating implants and refining supernatural powers, it was impossible to have such speed!

Either, he used demonic means.

Or, he refined a supernatural power seed.

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

Bai Chen seemed to know beforehand, turning around just as Li Fei disappeared, holding his sword horizontally in front of his body, timely blocking the blade Li Fei slashed over.

The blessing of Dragon Elephant power had reached four times, approaching a terrifying explosive power of fifty thousand tons, plus the force and heaven and earth origin Qi, all condensed on the blade edge!

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

Li Fei felt as if he had slashed open rivers and lakes, high mountains, as if he had slashed into an entire heaven and earth.

Creation Sword Art—《Great Thousand》!

After breaking through to the Standing-Dao Realm, Bai Chen's sword art was also a level 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.

Bai Chen swung the long sword in his hand, shaking away the Ghost-Slaying Blade, and counter-thrust toward Li Fei, but it pierced 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, and the crystalline light on the surface of his body suddenly became dazzling; the sword Qi within the sword realm was like a tide attracted by gravity, fluctuating accordingly.

Bai Chen turned around, lightly sweeping with one sword.

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

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

This sword's final landing point happened to be where Li Fei appeared with 【No Distance】; he had just walked out of the space interlayer when dazzling sword light came toward his face.

Li Fei raised the Ghost-Slaying Blade to block this sword and was swept back by the vast power.

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

The sword Qi forming the sword realm rioted, heaven and earth origin Qi went out of control, and the balance of yin and yang was about to be broken.

"【Sword Heart】..."

Li Fei's thoughts turned rapidly.

He had learned in detail about Bai Chen's various supernatural powers from Zhang Zhang Yuanhong's mouth, knowing that the other party had a 【Sword Heart】 supernatural power.

With this supernatural power, all sword moves were as desired, and all sword moves could be broken!

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

Various supernatural powers merged into it, all inseparable from the connection with "sword."

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

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

In the previous two trades, under the situation of martial Dao domain counter-clash, Bai Chen's 【Sword Heart】 was weakened a lot, and there were other powerhouses on the side to contain and interfere.

So Li Fei didn't feel such strong targeting.

Now that he and Bai Chen were one-on-one, and the other party had reached the Standing-Dao Realm, he truly felt the restraint of the 【Sword Heart】 supernatural power on himself.

Li Fei immediately activated 【Hunyuan Golden Palace】 and 【Refining Objects】, refining origin Qi, adjusting yin and yang, and stabilizing the sword realm.

Bai Chen had already attacked holding his sword; just a simple straight thrust, and Li Fei suddenly felt as if he had been lifted into the thirty-three heavens of the immortal realm.

All around were magnificent palaces, thousands of pavilions. White jade long bridges, flower ponds with golden lotuses, immortal cranes flying together...

Creation Sword Art—【Heavenly Palace】!

Bai Chen used this sword directly with creation Dao strength combined with his martial Dao domain, cutting off the surrounding space interlayer, making Li Fei unable to use 【No Distance】 to dodge.

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

The fireball enveloped the entire immortal realm, also enveloping Bai Chen who rushed over, then the fireball was cut open, and everything was cut in two with one blade.

Heaven and Earth One Blade!

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

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

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

Although 【Heaven and Earth One Blade】 failed to injure Bai Chen, it at least broke the sealed space.

Li Fei appeared a hundred meters away and decisively cast 【Sword Sacrifice】 again, consuming another 1000 Blood Souls.

The already unstable 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 stabilized again, and the sword Qi, sword intent, and sword momentum also doubled accordingly!

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

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

If you say Li Fei had no technique, the conception of this sword realm was so exquisite, the means so high, that even Bai Chen, this 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 to hack at Bai Chen, and he hadn't practiced a single proper set of sword techniques...

【Sword Heart】 supernatural power was indeed mysterious, but if the opponent's "sword" was strong enough, especially if Li Fei was strong in numerical value, not technique,

then the difficulty of breaking it was very high.

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

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

Buzz—

A muffled thunder-like explosion.

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

The power on the blade was stronger!

The 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 was composed of supernatural powers; the more supernatural powers, the stronger, and the sword realm naturally became stronger.

Conversely, when the sword realm was strengthened, it could also feed back the supernatural powers.

Li Fei strengthened the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 with 【Sword Sacrifice】, and the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 in turn strengthened all his other supernatural powers!

So the blessing speed of the Dragon Elephant power increased by a section, and he increased from a four-fold increase in power to a six-fold increase!

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

He kept flashing around Bai Chen, blade and sword only collided once each time, then separated.

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

The altar in the center had more and more cracks.

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

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

Li Fei knew that in terms of moves, he definitely couldn't compare to Bai Chen, so he used 【No Distance】 once for every move.

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

Li Fei just wanted to force Bai Chen to be unable to fully execute his sword techniques.

With 【Hunyuan Golden Palace】 continuously absorbing heaven and earth origin Qi, continuously "recovering mana," he simply used 【No Distance】 as footwork, flashing once every step!

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

This was caused by the flashing frequency being too high.

Gradually, Li Fei's power began to approach a seven-fold increase.

This had already exceeded his extreme power when he traded blows with Bai Chen before!

Bai Chen's face changed slightly.

He discovered 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 continuously refresh this limit!

Only until this moment did Bai Chen truly view Li Fei as an opponent of the same level as himself, rather than a target he was bound to kill.

His expression was solemn, and there were changes in the sword techniques in his hand again.

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

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

Creation Sword Art—《Green Lotus》!

In the Green Lotus heaven and earth, all of Li Fei's supernatural powers were suppressed again, and the vast Dragon Elephant power blessed on him was also severed; his power fell by a large margin.

The previous two times, Li Fei was outside the Green Lotus heaven and earth.

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

After reaching the Standing-Dao Realm, the 《Green Lotus》 sword art was a level higher; the Green Lotus heaven and earth became more stable and powerful, even if several Grandmasters came to destroy it from the outside now, it could hold on for a while.

Bai Chen was confident that he could slash and kill Li Fei, who couldn't cast supernatural powers, during this time!

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

Bai Chen thrust with one sword, sword gave 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 Bai Chen was not dead and he might face this person again, he had already prepared to face this killing move.

His mind moved, and outside the Green Lotus heaven and earth, the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 that was counter-clashing with Bai Chen's martial Dao domain suddenly actively disintegrated.

Countless sword Qi bloomed from within his body again, six light clusters lit up in his dantian, and in an instant, a new 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 was formed in this Green Lotus heaven and earth.

It was also a realm within a realm!

"Hmm?"

Bai Chen widened his eyes, 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.

To become a Grandmaster, one needed to fuse all supernatural powers within the Dao foundation together, as if throwing several pieces together after piecing them together into a furnace and melting them thoroughly, turning them into a whole.

This whole was the martial Dao domain.

So a Grandmaster's martial Dao domain could be retracted and released as desired, but couldn't be gathered and dispersed as desired.

After supernatural powers aggregated into a martial Dao domain, forcibly separating them again would mean falling in realm!

However, Li Fei's 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】, although rivaling a martial Dao domain, and even after being strengthened twice with 【Sword Sacrifice】, already rivaled the martial Dao domains of many Divine-Derivation-Realm Grandmasters.

But the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 was not a true martial Dao domain.

Li Fei could retract and release as desired, and could also gather and disperse as he wished.

Bai Chen's 《Green Lotus》 sword art, combined with the derivative changes of supernatural powers, created the "realm within a realm."

This Green Lotus heaven and earth could block the small heaven and earth as a whole on the outside, but couldn't block the supernatural power force that was dispersed.

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

Facing Bai Chen's killing move, Li Fei only needed to actively disperse the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 outside the Green Lotus heaven and earth, withdraw the supernatural power, and could immediately form a new sword realm within the Green Lotus heaven and earth!

Bai Chen didn't understand the mystery of Li Fei's law-martial integration, naturally viewing the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 as a true martial Dao domain.

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

Li Fei calmly used 【No Distance】 to dodge the sword Bai Chen thrust over.

"Oh no!"

Bai Chen's face changed.

Li Fei could immediately disperse the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 on the outside and withdraw the supernatural power, but he couldn't!

The martial Dao domain on the very outside, although without the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 counter-clash, couldn't directly "pass through" the Green Lotus heaven and earth.

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

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

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

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

To break this predicament, Bai Chen needed to first release the Green Lotus heaven and earth, then control his own martial Dao domain to form a counter-clash with the new 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】.

But the Green Lotus heaven and earth was not a true martial Dao domain after all; 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 using the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】, his control was even weaker by a notch.

He needed a little time.

But Li Fei wouldn't give him time!

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

Releasing the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 was indeed a divine stroke, but the 2000 Blood Souls previously consumed using 【Sword Sacrifice】 were wasted.

The Dragon Elephant power that had been blessed was also severed, needing to start from the beginning.

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

Now Bai Chen was instead the person whose supernatural powers were all suppressed, the weakest moment!

But as long as he gave the other party a few seconds to release the Green Lotus heaven and earth, the other party's "weak period" would immediately pass.

So Li Fei needed to win quickly!

Once this opportunity was missed, and in the situation where Blood Souls were already running low, he would never have another chance to defeat Bai Chen.

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

Li Fei decisively consumed 500 Blood Souls to cast 【Blood Might】, then activated the 【Refining Objects】 supernatural power to consume 1000 Blood Souls and convert them into heart and mind power.

A move of 【Blood Might God】 blasted onto Bai Chen's heart and mind!

The monstrous blood sea swallowed Bai Chen's heart lake.

Without supernatural power blessing, without martial Dao domain protection, this 【Blood Might God】 immediately caused Bai Chen to lose his heart and mind.

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

When the blade edge broke through Bai Chen's skull, that kind of fateful palpitation feeling surged in Li Fei's heart again.

The Dao foundation in his dantian suddenly vibrated violently, and a light cluster shone with radiance.

【Sword Sacrifice】 supernatural power!

Following the traction of this supernatural power, a sword light suddenly erupted from within Bai Chen's body, rushing out from the top of his head and crashing into Li Fei's Ghost-Slaying Blade!

"Zhang Zhang Yuanhong..."

Li Fei's expression was complex.

Actually, when he saw Bai Chen and produced that kind of fateful attraction, he realized that Zhang Zhang Yuanhong's active sacrifice of himself back then to let him refine the supernatural power seed had a purpose that wasn't so simple.

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

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

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

It was just that it wasn't Li Fei alone who slashed and killed Bai Chen, so it still needed to be strengthened.

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

Actively sacrificing himself, letting Li Fei refine the supernatural power seed, using 《Slashing Karma》 sword art as a guide, plus his status as Sect Master of the Hook-Deep Sword Sect.

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

He actively exposed extremely important intelligence, instead making Li Fei ignore this thorn buried in the dark.

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

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

At this moment, the "thorn" finally buried by Zhang Zhang Yuanhong's own hands was finally revealed!

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

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

This is the creation sword art—《Slashing Karma》!

This suddenly erupted sword light connected the heart and mind of Li Fei and Bai Chen in a mysterious way.

In a trance, a scene appeared in both of their consciousnesses; it was the last moment before Zhang Zhang Yuanhong died:

This Hook-Deep Sword Sect Sect Master's bones and flesh dissolved, meridians snapped, acupuncture points destroyed, enduring extreme pain far beyond imagination!

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

"Any last words?"

"Grandmaster..."

"Zhang Yuanhong, dare not hate!"

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

Bai Chen didn't immediately release the Green Lotus heaven and earth, but controlled this heaven and earth to form a counter-clash with the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】, thereby allowing himself to at least recover a portion of his supernatural powers.

Li Fei didn't hesitate to convert all 2000 Blood Souls in the Blood Spring into Blood Rage power!

At this moment, his Blood Soul count was lower than 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 cast Blood Rage power without an upper limit!

Time was less than ten minutes; the previous Blood Rage power hadn't dissipated, plus 2000 Blood Rage power, doubling it was equivalent to 7000 Blood Rage power!

This power, although not as good as the power after the blessing of the 【Dragon Elephant】 supernatural power just now, was already invincible to Bai Chen, who was not in his peak state.

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 Bai Chen's brow, spreading downward:

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

The strong vitality of a Grandmaster meant Bai Chen didn't die immediately; many memories surged from the bottom of his heart like flowers in a horse-viewing:

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

Although there was a generation gap between the two, they were actually more like master and apprentice.

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

Later, to practice clones, Bai Chen consumed many of the sect's resources.

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

But Zhang Zhang Yuanhong said:

"Since Grandmaster has already acted arbitrarily, you should not leave any room, and fight with all your might. My aptitude and sword art are far inferior to Grandmaster's; breaking through a day early or a day late, what meaning does it have for my Hook-Deep Sword Sect? I only hope Grandmaster can succeed in the end!"

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

"Zhang Yuanhong..."

Bai Chen's eyes were pained.

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

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

As long as Bai Chen could become a Martial Saint, the Hook-Deep Sword Sect could still rise again!

Since it had already reached this point, it was better to fight one last time, without leaving any room!

This was Zhang Zhang Yuanhong's calculation; Bai Chen understood the other party's intention at once.

He watched the other party grow up from childhood, knowing that the other party had always been such a person.

Even if there was more hatred in his heart, more unwillingness, but since it was already reality, Zhang Zhang Yuanhong could grit his teeth and accept this reality, then fight with all his might for the best result.

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

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

Long hatred for the human heart not being as good as stone!

"... this sword, it is I, Zhang Zhang Yuanhong, Sect Master of the Hook-Deep Sword Sect, representing the Hook-Deep Sword Sect, thrusting it!"

Bai Chen finally looked at the light symbolizing the 【Sword Sacrifice】 supernatural power at Li Fei's dantian and closed his eyes:

"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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