Chapter 1126

Watching the first scripture talisman shatter, Hearing Cheng Jiao felt a slight trace of surprise.

But he was not the least bit alarmed, after all, on this "path," scripture talismans were beyond counting.

A single scripture talisman — just how many could you, Hearing Gai Nie, possibly shatter?

Hearing Gai Nie paid Hearing Cheng Jiao no heed, once again steeling his sword heart, and charged toward the second scripture talisman.

Boom!

Another tremendous crash.

The moment Hearing Gai Nie's sword heart struck, this second scripture talisman shattered at the sound.

But Hearing Gai Nie's sword heart, at this moment, had also grown somewhat dim and lusterless.

"Hearing Gai Nie, have you gone mad?"

Seeing Hearing Gai Nie shatter yet another scripture talisman, Hearing Cheng Jiao finally could not hold back the change in his expression and said,

"You have toiled at the sword Dao for how many years now; your cultivation was truly hard-won.

If, for the sake of a single bout, you destroy your own future, what meaning is there in that?"

Indeed, Hearing Gai Nie's current bout with Hearing Cheng Jiao was not a fight to the death — why insist on consuming his sword heart like this!

Could defeating him, Hearing Cheng Jiao, really be that important?

Boom!

Boom boom!

Boom boom boom!

Hearing Gai Nie, however, paid no heed to Hearing Cheng Jiao's words, steeled his sword heart, and in one sustained push, shattered three scripture talismans in a row.

After those three scripture talismans were shattered, Hearing Cheng Jiao was already so shocked his mouth hung wide open, utterly speechless.

It turned out Hearing Cheng Jiao had not been speaking falsehoods.

These scripture talismans were indeed laid down by a true great-divine-power being, deep within his heart-spirit.

The purpose was to help Hearing Cheng Jiao resist possible intrusions.

After all, Hearing Cheng Jiao's contest with this great-divine-power being was of extreme importance.

Every scripture talisman was a spiritual imprint of this great-divine-power being!

To shatter even a single spiritual imprint by relying on sword heart or battle heart was already exceedingly difficult.

Even an ordinary supreme expert of the Mythical Realm, shattering just one, would likely already be utterly spent.

Yet Hearing Gai Nie, just now, shattered five in a single breath!

Only, he could shatter only these five!

After shattering the fifth, Hearing Gai Nie's sword heart finally ceased to emit any radiance.

The illusory figure Hearing Gai Nie's sword heart had become was now not only dim and lusterless, but covered all over with cracks.

Clearly on the verge of shattering!

"Hearing Gai Nie, stop!"

Hearing Cheng Jiao was truly getting anxious now — Hearing Gai Nie was, to him, genuinely of some importance.

If Hearing Gai Nie were to fall here, wouldn't that cause his own plans to come to nothing?

Then his own plan to contend for the great-Qin Yuwen Baye — to what time would it have to be postponed?

"If this continues, your sword heart will collapse; I'm afraid afterward you won't even be able to lift a sword, let alone anything else."

Sword heart and battle heart are what a martial artist values most.

What they contain is precisely the martial artist's martial-Dao will and essence-qi-spirit!

Once sword heart and battle heart shatter, no medicine in the world can save them.

I'm afraid by then, Hearing Gai Nie would not even compare to the former Guiguzi Wang Xu!

"No! I must press forward! Forward, forward…"

The illusory figure Hearing Gai Nie's sword heart had become took another resolute step forward.

Not far from it lay the sixth scripture talisman!

But judging by the state of this sword heart, this sixth scripture talisman — no matter what Hearing Gai Nie said, he could not break through it.

"Madman, you truly are a madman!"

Hearing Cheng Jiao was both anxious and helpless.

Although these scripture talismans were within his body, he could not control them in the slightest.

After all, that great-divine-power being had only been protecting him, and had not handed him any power of control.

Therefore, apart from sitting and watching Hearing Gai Nie's sword heart press onward, Hearing Cheng Jiao had not the slightest recourse.

"Forward…"

Hearing Gai Nie murmured, his sword heart once again resolutely pressing forward.

But with this single step, before he could even reach the sixth scripture talisman, the left foot of the illusory figure his sword heart had become actually shattered outright.

"Sigh! Pity a generation's sword-Dao genius should fall and perish right here."

At this moment, Hearing Cheng Jiao let out a sigh, and deep within his heart he actually felt a measure of admiration for Hearing Gai Nie.

At least if it were placed on Hearing Cheng Jiao himself, no matter what he would not dare risk his sword heart.

Let alone shatter five scripture talismans in a row and still not stop.

"No, I cannot stop!"

The left foot shattered; the illusory figure the sword heart had become was on the verge of collapse.

Yet Hearing Gai Nie's heart-spirit remained steadfast, unmoved.

Suddenly, in the left hand of his sword-heart illusory figure, the shadow of a treasured sword actually appeared!

GLOSSARY:

【Wang Xu, Yuwen Baye, Hearing Gai Nie, Hearing Cheng Jiao, Mythical Realm】

"Huh? What is that? What's going on?"

Just as Cheng Jiao was sighing in admiration, feeling that Gai Nie's sword-heart was about to shatter and he would become a cripple,

he happened to catch a glimpse out of the corner of his eye — the shadow of a treasured sword that had appeared in the left hand of the sword-heart's phantom image,

"That's... the Yuan Hong Sword? How could this be!"

A martial artist has a battle-heart and a sword-heart; when using the sword-heart to attack another's battle-heart or sword-heart, at most they can conjure a single phantom image of themselves.

Anything else — not a single phantom image more can be conjured!

Yet in Hearing Gai Nie's about-to-collapse sword-heart, a phantom image of the Yuan Hong Sword had suddenly appeared in his hand!

This violated common sense of the martial Dao!

How could it be possible?

While Cheng Jiao was still astonished, the phantom image of the Yuan Hong Sword actually shattered directly, then transformed into a streak of flowing light that wrapped around Hearing Gai Nie's sword-heart phantom image from head to toe.

Under Cheng Jiao's gaze of incomprehension and astonishment, wherever the flowing light passed, the cracks in Hearing Gai Nie's sword-heart were mended one by one.

By the time even the left foot had reappeared, Hearing Gai Nie's sword-heart phantom image was not only brand-new, its edge and sharpness were even far greater than before!

"Th-this... what exactly happened?"

Watching Hearing Gai Nie's sword-heart undergo such a transformation within his own battle-heart world,

yet Cheng Jiao, as the master of it, knew nothing at all.

"Fight!"

Once the sword-heart phantom image's edge was fully revealed, Hearing Gai Nie gave a great shout, rallied his brand-new sword-heart once more, and lunged toward Cheng Jiao's battle-heart.

This lunge was three-tenths fiercer than his previous attacks.

In just one charge, Hearing Gai Nie's sword-heart directly smashed through three scripture talismans!

When it paused, Hearing Gai Nie's sword-heart bore not the slightest damage — on the contrary, it was even stronger than before!

"What the hell is going on here!"

Cheng Jiao saw this and could not help goggling in astonishment!.

Boom boom boom!

A string of explosive blasts rang out like thunder.

The shocked Cheng Jiao almost thought the scripture talismans laid down by that great divine-power cultivator were all fakes.

Watching Hearing Gai Nie's sword-heart phantom image smash through scripture talisman after scripture talisman, drawing closer and closer to him,

Cheng Jiao panicked for a moment too!

Hearing Gai Nie's sword-heart was so powerful — if he let it attack right before his eyes, his own battle-heart would be no match for it no matter what!